Jefferson Airplane / PH Factor Jug Band / Andrew Staples
BG-26 · Wes Wilson
San Francisco
Quicksilver Messenger Service
PH Factor Jug Band
Grateful Dead
Andrew Staples
Country Joe and the Fish
Jefferson Airplane with the PH Factor Jug Band and Andrew Staples at the Fillmore Auditorium, on Wes Wilson's BG-26.
The Airplane in September 1966 were between singers and about to become famous. Signe Anderson had left after the birth of her daughter; Grace Slick had joined from the Great Society weeks earlier, bringing "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" with her from her old band's repertoire. *Surrealistic Pillow* was recorded that autumn.
BG-26 is one sheet over four nights with three different headliners — the Airplane on the 2nd and 3rd, the Grateful Dead on the 4th, Martha & the Vandellas on the 5th — and the chronicle tells each separately.
Verification Notes
ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. COAU Fillmore Auditorium, 02 September 1966: 'Jefferson Airplane, Ph Factor Jug Band, Andrew Staples'. Wes Wilson. ENRICHES pre-seed row 71 in place. HEDGE KEPT: the BG-26 sheet advertises a longer run, and its Sep 4 date is sometimes called the Dead's first Fillmore headline -- that is hedged in the narrative (sole-headline billing is more reliably placed at Dec 9-11 1966). VERIFIED AND PROMOTED TO A CENTREPIECE: on Sep 2 1966 the Grateful Dead were NOT at the Fillmore at all -- they played a private debutante ball for sisters Ayn and Lyn Mattei at La Dolphine, Manor Drive, Hillsborough, on a platform in the formal garden while Al Trobbe's orchestra played indoors for the adults, and were moved inside after noise complaints. Source: Corry Arnold's Lost Live Dead (dedicated post), corroborated by deaddisc.com and jerrygarcia.com. COAU Fillmore Auditorium listings (Hannan/Arnold), 2 September 1966: 'Jefferson Airplane, Ph Factor Jug Band, Andrew Staples'. BG-26, Wes Wilson, covering Sep 2-5 with rotating bills.
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