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Helms left the concert business in 1970, [37] [38] except for managing a few later events: Tribal Stomp [39] at Berkeley's Greek Theater (1978), Tribal Stomp II at the Monterey County Fairgrounds (1979), a concert series at San Francisco's Maritime Hall in 1995 under the Family Dog name, and a 30th Anniversary celebration [27] of the Summer of ...
The Family Dog Denver (also known as The Family Dog or simply The Dog) was a concert dance hall located at 1601 West Evans Avenue in Denver, Colorado.Opened from September 1967 to July 1968, it is regarded as a seminal music venue [1] that launched Denver on its trajectory to its current status as a major concert destination by introducing never-before-seen acts like The Doors, Van Morrison ...
The venue was also known initially as the Family Dog, in tribute to an earlier production company and hippie commune of that name run by Chet Helms, former owner of the Avalon Ballroom. Over the next six years the company, renamed 2b1 Productions, produced 721 shows at the Maritime Hall, featuring many major current acts for heavy metal ...
In the 1960s, Robert E. Cohen, impresario Chet Helms and his music production company, Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness, frequently booked bands to perform at the Avalon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The Tale of the Dog is a documentary film produced and directed by Dan Obarski and Scott Montgomery. The film unearths the story of the Family Dog Denver, a music venue opened in 1967 by Chet Helms' San Francisco-based Family Dog Productions and Barry Fey.
Chet's, or #177, was built in 1931 by the former Worcester Lunch Car Co., making it older than some of the area's most well-known diners, including Miss Worcester (1948) and the Boulevard Diner ...
Graham began promoting more concerts with Chet Helms and Family Dog projects, which provided a vital function of the 1960s, promoting concerts that provided a social meeting place to network, where many ideologies were given a forum, sometimes even on stage, such as peace movements, civil rights, farm workers and others.
Patricia Turner holds her dog, Chet, at her home in Hutto Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Turner said she shot and killed a stray pit bull that invaded her home and attacked her dog on Jan. 11.