BG-133 · Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin
San Francisco
It's a Beautiful Day
Albert Collins
Creedence Clearwater Revival (BG-133)
Friday, August 16, 1968 is the San Francisco ballroom scene's rival-twins pattern in its purest form. Across town from each other, the two great rooms opened weekend stands the same night. At Fillmore West, the second bracket of BG-133 began: Creedence Clearwater Revival — months from "Proud Mary," still a Bay Area band on the cusp — over It's a Beautiful Day and the Texas blues of Albert Collins (the bill order per…
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BG-78 — Fillmore Auditorium
Wednesday, August 16, 1967 was the second night of the BG-78 week at the Fillmore Auditorium — Chuck Berry, Count Basie and his orchestra, the Charles Lloyd Quartet and the Young Rascals across a seven-night run, August 15 through 21. See the August 17 entry for the poster and the bill.
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FD-133 — Avalon Ballroom
Friday, August 16, 1968, the Avalon Ballroom opened a three-night stand that reads like a deliberate argument about where rock and roll came from. Chet Helms booked Bill Haley and the Comets — the man who had put "Rock Around the Clock" into the world fourteen years earlier, when most of the Avalon'…
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