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The Fifties concert/show with Paul Anka or Fats Domino would include half a dozen groups or singles each doing two or three songs (concluding with their hit) and then the star doing about an hour.īut earlier, in the Swing Era of the Thirties and Forties, the big bands drew crowds of thousands to dances with only the one group, themselves, on each show. A light show was standard right from the beginning. At the Fillmore, the concert was three groups: a lightweight, middleweight and a heavy, each playing about an hour and the show generally repeated twice an evening.
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The old original Fillmore dance concerts and the all-star touring show/ concerts of the Fifties. The standard rock show of today has evolved from two sources. It is possible for a lot of groups and it should be noted and considered by the whole rock & roll world. However, what they did was not the kind of thing which is possible only for one special group.
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All you had to do was to look around backstage and see the women, babies and dogs and it couldn't have been anyone but the Dead. Of course the Dead are unique and the affair would have been obvious as a Grateful Dead tribal stomp even to a deaf man. The band played straight through each night with only a half-hour intermission long about mid-evening. John Lennon? John Lennon is at Madison Square Garden Saturday night.") went down without heckling or antagonism.
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Even the usual Bill Graham Quiz, in which he stands on stage and answers questions ("When is the Airplane coming? September 15 and 16 at Winterland. Night after night the audiences were warm, friendly, appreciative and enthusiastic. There are only regular auditorium/ theater seats and it was a reserved seat affair with numbered tickets and prices ranging from $3.50 to $5.50. There is no flat, wide area on which to dance or crash. The Berkeley Community Theater is not a dance hall. The theater is part of a high school campus, and it is against various rules and regulations of the local and State Departments of Education to run after midnight. No other group appeared with the Dead on the show and the music began early every night, at seven o'clock, and went on until 11 or 11:30 PM. There was no special advertising campaign, just the usual announcements in the standard Bill Graham ads.
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The entire series of four performances - 14,000 tickets - was sold out by the end of the second day the tickets went on sale. Let me know if I left you out.Įxtended stand in Berkeley should be a model for toursĪ short time ago the Grateful Dead played a four-night engagement at the Berkeley Community Theater, a hall that seats 3500 when the orchestra pit is used. Here is a list of most or all of team working this. Thanks Kathy for the fun phone call, and thanks ion advance for all the great tapes to come. At show time, they still got kicked out and had to get tickets. One time in Chicago, she and her friends didn't have tickets so they snuck in and hide in a closet all day. She was always trying ways to get her equipment into shows like using a wheelchair to hide mics etc. She started going to shows circa June 1976 at the Tower and/or Cap. I recommend to always find the highest quality audience for shows you went to, you won't regret it. Since I went to more than half of the shows that Kathy has released so far, I can't believe what memories rush back from her recordings. She didn't like having to deal with trading tapes so since she had a good job she got great equipment, found the best spot and ta-da, you can now here what she did today. Kathy is simply a great lady who did not realize the value of those tapes in the Attics for years. So we can expect a healthy bounty in 2020 with the team of Aloha Ted Mattes, Charlie Miller and Scott Clugston. She said she equally loved the Jerry Garcia Band and the Grateful Dead. She wishes Merry Christmas to us all and let's it known that she has about 300 tapes. I spoke with the wonderful Kathy Sublette today.