Ten Years After / Terry Reid / Bar-Kays
BG-189 · David Singer
San Francisco
Terry Reid
Bar-Kays
Ten Years After with Terry Reid and the Bar-Kays at the Fillmore West, on the front half of David Singer's BG-189.
The Bar-Kays are the name that stops you. The original band had been Otis Redding's backing group and were killed with him in the Wisconsin plane crash of December 1967 — only two members survived, and they rebuilt the band. Twenty months later they were playing San Francisco under a British blues-rock group. Terry Reid, in the middle, had turned down the singer's job in Led Zeppelin the previous year and recommended Robert Plant instead.
Verification Notes
ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. Front half of the BG-189 split sheet. The POSTER ART prints both halves explicitly: 'TEN YEARS AFTER / TERRY REID - BARKAYS / TUES-WED-THURS AUGUST 26-27-28' and 'SPIRIT / SAVOY BROWN - WOMB / FRI-SAT-SUN AUGUST 29-30-31', plus 'LITTLE PRINCESS 109' and 'BROTHERHOOD OF LIGHT' as the two halves' light shows, and '(C) BILL GRAHAM 1969 #189'. start/end bound the TEN YEARS AFTER leg only. COAU Fillmore West listings (Hannan/Arnold), 27 August 1969. Front half of the BG-189 split sheet, which prints both halves explicitly: 'TEN YEARS AFTER / TERRY REID - BARKAYS / TUES-WED-THURS AUGUST 26-27-28'.
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