BG-15 · Wes Wilson, Heinrich Kley
Catalog Number
BG-15
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
July 6, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Turtles
Performers
Oxford Circle
Turtles
Turtles
Turtles
Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in the summer of 1966 was not yet the temple of the San Francisco Sound that hindsight has made of it. It was a working dancehall at Fillmore and Geary that Graham was booking week to week, and his instinct in that first year was catholic to the point of contradiction: the emerging local psychedelic bands shared his calendar with soul revues, bluesmen, and -- as here -- clean-cut…
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