AOR-2.1 · George Hunter, Michael Ferguson
Virginia City
The Seed (Red Dog opening)
June 21, 1965 is the night the music actually started. The Charlatans had been billed at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada since the first of the month — but the opening was pushed back nearly three weeks, and it wasn't until this Monday that the band finally took the stage in the restored Old West room a hundred miles from San Francisco. (The famous poster that announced the residency — "The Seed," the…
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AOR-2.113 — Matrix
A year to the day after the Charlatans opened the Red Dog, the scene they'd seeded was thriving back home - and on June 21, 1966, one of its most important early bands was midway through a stand at the Matrix, the small Fillmore Street club Marty Balin had opened in 1965 as Jefferson Airplane's home…
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On the summer solstice - Wednesday, June 21, 1967, the first full week of what the press had already christened the Summer of Love - the Grateful Dead played a free afternoon set on the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park, part of a loose, Diggers-flavored solstice 'Do-In.' It was a sprawling, multi-band…
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