Bill Graham's vault opened...

Fuck Bill Graham, fuck his family and fuck his company.

Steve Shasta
Fucking Fucked

I never knew!

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He sure got around, that Bill Graham.

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oh man

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what he said x1000

Tim tore Bill a new one.

"Fuck Bill Graham, fuck his family and fuck his company. what he said x1000" x1000 more. And this is from a guy who LIVED at Winterland when he was a kid.

The best thing about him was the shows started on time.

And the posters were cool too.

I'm most excited about the possibilities of what Led Zeppelin stuff—especially from 1969—might be in the collection. Hopefully it's all still in good condition!

um, you do know that he's dead and has been for years, right? and it WASN'T an astronomical sum. not for what it's potentially worth. I'm assuming someone told some of the zillion bands that played that they were being taped. and i never said he wasn't an asshole. I said MOST promoters are assholes, but most of them only see the immediate money grab and don't think to tape, like, 25 years of performances! seriously, he had EVERYTHING taped. And taped very well. That shit sounds unreal. So, he was an asshole and people didn't make any money from decades old gigs that they played. But people can listen to the stuff. and a lot of it is good stuff. guy had an eye for a killer bill.

I am very happy that the stuff was taped.
I am sure he spent the money to do it right.
I have no doubt he loved the music he was into.
He was a good promoter, maybe a great one.

Some of the killer gigs I saw due to him were (off the top of my head, really) so I may screw it up a bit.

- Albert King (my only only time @ Filmore West)
- Pink Floyd Dark Side & the tour before that
- Clifton Chenier/Muddy Waters/Hot Tuna (left during the Hot Tuna set)
- ELP/Mahavishnu (Inner Mounting Flame tour, also saw the Birds of Fire tour)
- Wild Turkey/Yes/Black Sabbath (1973) passed out during the Sabbath set
- Beefheart/Foghat/Frank Zappa (Waka Jawaka tour) a bunch of us stood at the front of the stage during the whole thing (no seats) and have pix of the Beefheart set, yelled "Hogfat" during the entire Foghat set, pissed Zappa off by yelling at him to turn down during his whole set.
- Traffic (Low Spark tour)
- Allman Bros (once w/Duane, once after)
- Taj Mahal about 100 times (he was a cheap opener), Elvin Bishop 500, Tower of Power 1000, Grateful Dead 1,000,000... sign of the times, sorry.
- John Fahey (Berkeley Square w/Cheech and Chong, I think that was a Graham deal and if it was, then that overblown McLaughlin/Santana gig)
- and I think that Gun Club gig @ Wolfgangs... where they did an atrocious cover of Genius of Love. I should have a Walkman tape of that one somewhere with my friends yelling "you can't sing" through the whole set.

(mind goes justifiably blank)

Time for my nap

that is a phat friggin' bill, dude. you are a lucky duck. even if you did nod out.

Also those Berkeley gigs were @ Berkeley Community Theatre...

jaw

drops

tothefloor

there really are no words to respond to this lineup.

In 1954, Sullivan took over the lease on a dilapidated dance hall and roller rink named the Majestic Ballroom and christened it the Fillmore Auditorium, hosting integrated dances and booking the biggest names in Black music."[4]

In 1954, Charles Sullivan, one of the most successful African-American businessmen in San Francisco at the time, started booking bands and renamed the venue The Fillmore Auditorium. He was the first to allow black attendees there. Charles became the most successful concert promoter on the west coast introducing the biggest black acts to the San Francisco concert scene, such as James Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, and more.[5] In December 1965, Sullivan let Bill Graham use his dance hall permit to book a benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. After that Graham continued to book shows there on dates Sullivan wasn’t using the space.[1] In their contract agreement it was stated that Graham would take over the Fillmore if anything unforeseen happened to Sullivan. Sullivan was found shot to death in the early morning hours of 2 August 1966, at the age of 57,[6] the case was never solved even after Senator Diane Feinstein’s attempt to reopen the investigation.[7]