BG-30A · Bonnie MacLean
Catalog Number
BG-30A
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
October 9, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Sunday 2nd Show
Performers
Butterfield Blues Band
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Sunday 2nd Show
The poster says Winterland. The show happened at the Fillmore. That gap is the whole story of BG-30A. In early October 1966 Bill Graham had begun renting Winterland — a cavernous former ice rink on Post Street — for bills too big for the Fillmore Auditorium's roughly 1,200 capacity. The Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead were booked there for Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8. Wes…
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