BG-178 · David Singer
Catalog Number
BG-178
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
June 18, 1969
Artists
Nickname
The Who perform Tommy
Performers
The Who
Woody Herman
A.B. Skhy
Woody Herman
A.B. Skhy
The Who perform Tommy
On the night of Wednesday, June 18, 1969, The Who were at the middle of a three-night Fillmore West stand (June 17-19) - and they were doing something almost no American audience had yet seen: performing most of Tommy, their just-released rock opera, in a live touring version that ran close to an hour. The album had come out the previous month (May 1969), and the Fillmore West nights fell early in the tour that…
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