BG-16 · Wes Wilson
Catalog Number
BG-16
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
July 8, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Mindbenders
Performers
Mindbenders
Chocolate Watchband
Chocolate Watchband
Mindbenders
Close behind the Turtles in the catalog sequence comes BG-16 and another import from outside the San Francisco scene: the Mindbenders. The group had been Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders when "The Game of Love" topped the American charts in 1965; after Fontana left for a solo career, the remaining Mindbenders scored again on their own with "A Groovy Kind of Love" in 1966. A British-Invasion pop act, in other words,…
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