Gravity / Transatlantic Railroad / Devil's Kitchen (local bands night)
San Francisco
Transatlantic Railroad
Devil's Kitchen
S.F. Radical Lab's Moog Synthesizer
A local-bands night at the Family Dog on the Great Highway: Gravity, Transatlantic Railroad, Devil's Kitchen and the S.F. Radical Lab's Moog Synthesizer.
This is recorded deliberately and at length, because the catalog number invites an error. FD-690829 covers this night AND the two Grateful Dead nights before it — August 29 and 30. The Dead did not play on the 31st. Anyone reading the poster's catalog as a description of the run would put them on stage on a night they were not there.
What was there is interesting on its own terms: three Bay Area bands nobody outside the region had heard of, and a Moog synthesizer billed as an act, which in 1969 was still novel enough to be a draw. The Family Dog on the Great Highway put on nights like this constantly — it was a neighbourhood hall at the edge of the city as much as a venue on a national circuit.
Verification Notes
ANTAGONIST-CHECKED -- daymap antagonist flag #7, VERIFIED. COAU FD index: 'August 31, 1969 / Family Dog on the Great Highway / Gravity, Transatlantic Railroad, Devil's Kitchen, S. F. Radical Lab's Moog Synthesizer / FD-690829 / Unknown'. This is the SAME date-coded catalog as the Dead's Aug 29-30 run but a DIFFERENT, non-Dead bill -- the Grateful Dead did NOT play the Great Highway on Aug 31 1969. Recorded explicitly so the poster's catalog cannot be read as putting the Dead on stage that night. Single-night bill: start/end deliberately NULL. COAU Family Dog index: 'August 31, 1969 / Family Dog on the Great Highway / Gravity, Transatlantic Railroad, Devil's Kitchen, S. F. Radical Lab's Moog Synthesizer / FD-690829 / Unknown'. SAME catalog as the Aug 29-30 Dead nights, DIFFERENT bill — the Grateful Dead did NOT play this night.
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