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On May 27, 28, and 29, 1966, The Velvet Underground and Nico played the Fillmore Auditorium as part of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable avant-garde multimedia show. Their light show engineer Danny Williams, who pioneered many of today's standard practices in rock music light shows, built a light system at the Fillmore that included ...
P.N.E. Garden Auditorium: January 30, 1966 [245] Olympia, WA United States Evergreen Ballroom February 2, 1966 [246] San Francisco, CA Fillmore Auditorium February 6–10, 1966 West Hollywood, CA Gazzarri's Hollywood a Go-Go: Supported by Pat & Lolly Vegas [247] February 13, 1966 [248] Los Angeles, CA Lazy X February 14, 1966 [249] El Monte, CA ...
Fillmore Auditorium: 1805 Geary Blvd. Fillmore District 1,315 music venue with standing room Gateway Theatre: 215 Jackson Street Embarcadero venue for the 42nd Street Moon, and frequent venue for Theatre Rhinoceros; [18] formerly the Eureka Theatre Geary Theater: 415 Geary Street Tenderloin venue for the American Conservatory Theater: Golden ...
Graham later secured a contract from Sullivan for the open dates at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1966. Graham credits Sullivan with giving him his break in the music concert hall business. The Fillmore trademark and franchise has defined music promotion in the United States for the last 50 years.
Little Princess 109 worked for Graham longer than any other of the West coast light show groups, and performed more concert nights than any show for the entire Fillmore/Fillmore West/Winterland period. [11] Abercrombe Lights were formed in 1966 and did many shows at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium. The man behind it all is George Holden, who ...
They played their first concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco on 16 June. [29] Two days later, they played their first major performance in the country at the Monterey Pop Festival. The Who argued backstage with Hendrix about the running order, before agreeing to go on first following a coin toss.
Starting on September 23, 1966, with a double bill of Jefferson Airplane and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bill Graham began to occasionally rent the venue, which had an audience capacity of 5,400, for larger concerts that his nearby Fillmore Auditorium could not properly accommodate.
Anderson's last live performances with Jefferson Airplane were two sets on October 15, 1966, at The Fillmore. [5] Both performances were recorded (as were most Fillmore shows) and have surfaced on some bootleg albums. At what seemed to be the end of the second set, Marty Balin announced that Anderson was leaving the group. Her farewell to the ...