BG-180 · David Singer
San Francisco
Johnny Winter at the Fillmore West
On the night of July 2, 1969, Johnny Winter stood at the exact hinge of his career on the Fillmore West stage, the middle night of a three-night run (July 1-3) with Lonnie Mack and Rockin' Foo, lit by the Brotherhood of Light. Five months earlier the cross-eyed albino blues guitarist from Beaumont, Texas had signed to Columbia Records in a deal whose reported advance -- figures range around $600,000, described at…
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Nippon Budokan
On July 2, 1966, the Beatles played the fourth and fifth of their five Nippon Budokan concerts in Tokyo -- a 2:00 PM matinee and a 6:30 PM evening show, their last performances in Japan. They were the first rock band ever to play the Budokan, a hall built for the 1964 Olympics and reserved for marti…
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Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
The same night the Beatles closed out Tokyo, the Rolling Stones opened the 1966 Forest Hills Music Festival at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with the McCoys and the Standells -- a marquee summer series kickoff during the Stones' Aftermath American tour. A small accident of the…
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On Sunday, July 2, 1967, Brian Epstein's Saville Theatre in London hosted one of the most extraordinary concentrations of guitar and rock talent ever assembled on a single bill, in two houses as part of Epstein's "Sundays at the Saville." Cream headlined -- Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker at …
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