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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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June 25
BG-69

BG-69 · Clifford Charles Seeley

Catalog Number
BG-69
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
Date
June 25, 1967
Nickname
Hendrix Closes the Fillmore Run
Performers
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Gabor Szabo
Jimi Hendrix Experience

Hendrix Closes the Fillmore Run

By the time the Jimi Hendrix Experience reached the last night of its Fillmore Auditorium stand on Sunday, June 25, 1967, the bill on the poster had stopped describing the show. Clifford Charles Seeley's BG-69 had been printed before the run even opened - before the Experience set fire to a guitar, and to its own American reputation, at Monterey on June 18 - and it named Jefferson Airplane on top, with Gabor Szabo…

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