THE INCREDIBLE
STRING BAND
Concerts 1964-1974
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Dates and
venues with
blue letter I judge as confirmed, those with white letters have only
one source and are uncertain for me.
In
(
) are the sources. Beglad = Be Glad website, msi and ms = marmelade
skies website, relics = Relics of the ISB website,
IT
=
International Times magazine, billboard = Billboard magazine, mm = Melody Maker, ad =
newspaper or magazine advert, prog = tour
or
concert
programme, po = poster, hb = handbill, ti = ticket,
bootleg = a bootleg of the concert is available, w. = with,
??? = have doubts about this concert
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1964 |
12/09/64
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Cannongate Tolbooth Museum, Edinburgh, 'Robin
Williamson & Clive Palmer' (also some dates before this) (hb)
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??/11/64 |
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St. Andrews Folk Club, 'Robin & Clive'
(beglad) |
1965 |
12/10/65
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Monkland House Hotel, Airdrie (Sunday Mail, 03/10/65) |
29/10/65
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Crieff Folk Song Club, Crieff (ad)
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10/12/65 |
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Topic Folk Club, Bradford, 'Robin
Williamson and his Incredible String Band'
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1966
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30/03/66 |
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Dundee
Folk
Club at
Woodlands Hotel (source: DFC archive)
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22/05/66 |
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Les Cousins (mm)
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12/06/66 |
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MacLellan Galleries, Glasgow (BeGlad)
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21/10/66
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Folk Concert in Scotland (only MH and RW)
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04/11/66 |
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Albert
Hall, London
supporting Tom Paxton and Judy Collins (prog) |
05/11/66 |
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Free
Trade
Hall,
Manchester supporting
Tom Paxton
and Judy Collins (prog)
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08/11/66 |
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Ulster
Hall, Belfast supporting
Tom Paxton
and Judy Collins (prog)
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12/11/66 |
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Birmingham
Town Hall supporting
Tom Paxton
and Judy Collins (prog, Birmingham Music Archive)
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30/11/66 |
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Dundee
Folk
Club at Woodlands Hotel (as Mike Heron & Robin Williamson) (DFC
diary)
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??/??/66 |
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The
Temperance Cafe, Falkirk (beglad)
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1967
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17/01/67 |
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Kinema
Ballroom,
Dumfernline (source: KinemaGigz)
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03/02/67 |
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Les
Cousins (with Noel Murphy)(ad)
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04/02/67 |
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St
Pancras
Town Hall
(with Alex Campbell and others)
(beglad: 4.3., IT) |
10/02/67
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Les Cousins (w. Wizz Jones, Pete Stanley)(mm)
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21/02/67
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3 City 4
Folk Club, Hampstead (ad) |
04/03/67 |
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Troubadour
Club,
Bristol (ad) |
10/03/67 |
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Les
Cousins
(with Noel Murphy)(mm)
(beglad, RH gig list: w. Roy Harper) |
15/03/67
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Sheffield University, w. Bert Jansch and John
Renbourn (IT)
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02/04/67 |
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Folk Centre, Glasgow (Evening Times) |
23/04/67 |
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Folk Centre, Glasgow (newsp., Evening Times) |
03/05/67 |
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Folk Club Italiano, Torino (w. Al Stewart)(ad, IT) |
10/05/67
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The Holy Ground Folk Club, Kensington, London (mm)
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12/05/67 |
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Les Cousins (w. Al Stewart)(ms/mm) |
20/05/67 |
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Les
Cousins
(with John Koerner)
(beglad, RH gig list, ms)(mm: w. Spider John Koerner)
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22/05/67 |
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Royal
Festival Hall, Folk Benefit by C. Tawney (w. S. & D. Collins,
Al Stewart, J. Felix, Watersons, S. Denny, etc.)(ad) |
17/07/67 |
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Newport
Folk Festival
(RW
in an interview, Joe Boyd, NY Times, billboard) |
01/08/67 |
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Corries
Folk Festival, Edinburgh (bootleg) (relics)
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12/08/67 |
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Les
Cousins
(w. Alexis Korner) (beglad: w. Al
Stewart and Stefan Grossman)(mm: w. Alexis Korner)
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18/08/67 |
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UFO Club London w/ Arthur Brown (beglad, UFO club
billings
list, ad, po)
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??/08/67 |
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The
Phrontisery Folk Club, The Bull, Romford
(source: Roy Harper giglist) |
01/10/67 |
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Sunday
at
the Saville
Theatre (with Pink Floyd,
Tomorrow, Tim Rose, Fairport Conv.)(po, Pink Floyd pro, msi, review)
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01/10/67 |
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Speakeasy,
London (supported by Joni
Mitchell)(source: JM webpage, msi)
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02/10/67 |
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Broadcast of Dutch TV show with "October Song" and
Interview
(AVRO-TV: "Vjoew")
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04/10/67 |
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Queen
Elizabeth Hall (with Shirley & Dolly
Collins) (po)
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05/10/67 |
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Parr Hall, Warrington (w. The Minor Birds, The
Hogs-Eye Men) (ti, po, ad) |
10/10/67 |
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Recording
for Top Gear (Painting Box/Mercy
I Cry City/ Chinese White/Nightfall) (broadcast 15/10/67) (relics)
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13/10/67
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Concert Hall, Glasgow (po)
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20/10/67
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"Popular Folk", Town Hall Wembley (w. Ian Campbell Folk Group)(ad)
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28/10/67 |
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Middle
Earth, "ISB with Mimi & Mouse" (with Fairport Convention, Blues
Communion, Jeff
Dexter)(msi, ad, IT) |
06/11/67
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Crayford Town Hall (w. The Perfumed Garden, John Peel) (ad)
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11/11/67 |
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Free
Trade
Hall Manchester
(with Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Al Stewart / s:
Manchester Beat) (ti)
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18/11/67 |
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Leeds University, (w. Mimi & Mouse,
support: The Timebox, Ainsley Dunbar Retaliation)(ad) |
19/11/67 |
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Union
Chamber, Cambridge (w. The Pineapple Truck) (msi, ad) |
24/11/67 |
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Flight To Lowlands Paradise Festival, Magriethal,
Utrecht (po, Utrechts Nieuwsblad)(24-25.11.67) |
21/12/67
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Roundhouse, London, Vietnam
Solidarity Campaign w. Country Joe, Pentangle, Al Stewart, Picadilly
Line (CJ show list)
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??/11/67 |
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Edinburgh ??? |
??/??/67 |
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Folk
Club, University of
Essex, Colchester (supporting Paul McNeill) (source:
BBC folk club
memories)
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1968
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January 1968
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05/01/68
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Klubb Bongo, Malmö, Sweden
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12/01/68
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Cue Club, Göteborg, Sweden
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13/01/68
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Bröndby Pop Club,
Denmark (source: Brondby Archive, DVM: 160168) |
14/01/68 |
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Hit House Frederiksberg, Kobenhavn, Denmark
(source:
Teenmakers Spilleplan, ad)
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14/01/68 |
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Beat-Hall, Fjordvilla Roskilde, Denmark (with
Ebonies, Rhythm & Blues Section) (source: www.beathouse.dk, ad) |
15/01/68 |
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Stora Salen, Lund,
Sweden (source:
Archiv of Academic Society Lund, Studentafton Lund)
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17/01/68 |
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McMordie Hall, Belfast (8 pm), Regency Hotel, Belfast (10 pm) (ad)
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18/01/68 |
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Liberty Hall, Dublin w/ Sweeney's Men, Dr
Strangely Strange
(po)
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26/01/68 |
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Southampton
University
(with Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex)
(Pink Floyd
giglist, IT-ad: only ISB) |
27/01/68 |
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Lake Hall, Birmingham (IT-ad)
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February 1968 |
03/02/68 |
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BBC
television « Once
More
with Felix » (also: Ronnie Barker; missing show)
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09/02/68 |
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Free Trade Hall, Manchester (probably not)
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10/02/68 |
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Royal Albert
Hall, London, "Folk Festival
'68" (Watersons
Farewell Concerts, the ISB are
billed but didn't play)(msi)(ad)
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11/02/68
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"Folk Festival 68", City Hall, Newcastle w/ Watersons + Bert Jansch, Hedy West (Pentangle: A History ...)(readysteadygone)
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13/02/68 |
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DeMontfort Hall, Leicester University w/ The Scaffold, Ron Geesin
(mm, msi, www.newhistorylab.org)
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17/02/68 |
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Ansom Room, Bristol (w. Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger,
Young
Tradition) (IT-ad)
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March 1968 |
01/03/68 |
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Glasgow
Concert Hall
(poster, different hb: "A Mystical Pantomime") |
02/03/68 |
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Manchester
Free Trade
Hall (poster) |
04/03/68 |
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Recording
for John
Peel's Nightride (Bid You Goodnight/Won't You Come See/You Get
Brighter/All Too Much for Me)
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08/03/68 |
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Brighton Dome w. Pentangle (IT, ad)
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09/03/68 |
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Philharmonic
Hall
Liverpool
(poster, ticket)(hb: "A
Mystical Pantomime") |
16/03/68 |
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Birmingham
Town Hall (po,
hb, BMA: "A
Mystical
Pantomime")
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19/03/68
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Albert Hall, London (charity concert with Donovan & an Arabic Orchestra)
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21/03/68 |
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Albert Hall, London (with Donovan, Tyrannosaurus
Rex)(felix, newspaper) |
23/03/68 |
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BBC
Television “Once more
with Felix” (also: Patrick Wymark, missing show)
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30/03/68 |
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Royal
Festival Hall, London, "A
Mystical Pantomime" (support: Tim
Buckley resp. guest appearance)(hb, IT-ad, msi) |
31/03/68 |
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Royal
Festival Hall, London
(Beglad: Showcase gig for Hangman's
Beautiful Daughter)
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April 1968 |
06/04/68
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North Cheshire Collage, Altrincham (ad)
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26/04/68
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Village Theatre, New York (mm, record world)
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27/04/68
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Village Theatre, New York (mm, record world) |
May 1968 |
03/05/68
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Boston (mm)
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04/05/68 |
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Gym
S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook
University, w. Grateful Dead (source: www.jamvideos.com/deadsetlists,
ad)
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00/05/68
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1. European International Pop Festival, Rome (4. -
10.5.)(IT: Negotiation, Between American Tour Engagements)
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09/05/68
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Fillmore East (mm, rw)
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10/05/68
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Fillmore East (mm, rw) |
11/05/68
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Fillmore East (mm, rw) |
12/05/68 |
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Lee Hall, Oswego, NY w. Tim Buckley (Oswego
Palladium Times) |
13/05/68 |
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WBAI Radio Studio, NY
(beglad)(bootleg)(sleeve
notes "Tricks of the Senses")
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16/05/68 |
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Fillmore
Auditorium
(West), San Francisco, with Country Joe and the Fish, Albert Collins
(poster) |
17/05/68 |
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Fillmore
Auditorium
(West), San
Francisco, with Country Joe and the Fish, Albert Collins
(poster) |
18/05/68 |
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Fillmore
Auditorium
(West), San
Francisco, with Country Joe and the Fish, Albert Collins
(poster) |
24/05/68 |
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Kaleidoscope,
Hollywood
(with Them,
Sons of Champlin) (poster) (date: Wolfgang's Vault)
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25/05/68 |
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Kaleidoscope,
Hollywood
(with Them,
Sons of Champlin) (poster) (date:
Wolfgang's Vault) |
29/05/68 |
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Troubadour,
Los Angeles w. Tim Buckley (ad)
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30/05/68 |
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Troubadour,
Los Angeles w.
Tim Buckley (ad)
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31/05/68 |
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Troubadour,
Los Angeles w.
Tim Buckley (ad)
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June 1968 |
01/06/68 |
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Troubadour,
Los Angeles w. Tim Buckley (ad)
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02/06/68 |
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Western Recorders, Hollywood (recording
session)(Live 1968 booklet) |
05/06/68 |
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WBAI
Benefit Concert,
Fillmore East, New York (po) (bootleg) (broadcast 23/03/69)
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19/06/68
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Town Hall Reading (Evening Post)
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21/06/68 |
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First Holiness
Kitschgarden For the Liberation Of Love And Peace In Colours, Houtrust Den
Haag (po,hb) (maybe
22/06)
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23/06/68 |
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Warwick University Arts Festival (IT-ad)
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29/06/68 |
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Royal
Albert
Hall, London, "On a Summer Evening" (newspaper ad, Times, IT) |
July 1968 |
05/07/68 |
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Queen's
Hall, Barnstaple (beglad, IT)
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19/07/68 |
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Central Hall, Westminster (Folkfestival w. David
Campbell,
Doris Henderson, Stephen Delft) (IT)
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22/07/68 |
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International
Pop and Jazz Festival
Mallorca, Spain (22 - 27/06/68)(canceled because of finan.
problems)
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August 1968 |
08/08/68
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Recording of some songs for the TV show "Puntje Puntje Puntje" in NL-TV (Cashbox 08-10-68)
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09/08/68
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Recording of some songs for the TV show "Puntje Puntje Puntje" in NL-TV (Casghox 08-10-68) |
11/08/68 |
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8th
National Jazz Blues
& Pop Festival, Sunbury
(With Herd, Jethro
Tull, Fairport Convention, Traffic etc)(poster) |
24/08/68 |
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Magical
Mystery Tour
(Middle Earth Club, London) (part
of a 48
hour “freak out”) (poster, ad) (cancelled !)
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25/08/68 |
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Magical
Mystery Tour (Middle Earth Club, London) (part
of a 48
hour “freak out”) (poster, ad) (cancelled !) |
30/08/68 |
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ABC Regal, Edinburgh (ad, rev in The Scotsman) |
31/08/68
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Middle Earth at the New Roundhouse, London (ad)
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September
1968 |
30/09/68
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Sheep Meadow, Central Park NY, w. Jefferson
Airplane, Ten
Years After, Country Joe (Schenectady Gazette)
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October 1968 |
09/10/68 |
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Sheffield
City Hall (ticket, IT, sheffieldhistory.co.uk)
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13/10/68 |
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Glasgow Concert Hall, "A Mystical Pantomime" (po)
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18/10/68 |
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Manchester
Free Trade Hall. (ticket, pro) (Concert Prog. Database, Manchester Beat)
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25/10/68 |
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Town
Hall, Birmingham (ticket, BMA)
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26/10/68 |
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Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall (ticket, ad)
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27/10/68 |
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Newcastle
City Hall (ms, beglad)
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30/10/68 |
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Albert Hall Nottingham
(beglad, hb)
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November
1968 |
01/11/68 |
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Brighton
Dome (ticket,program, ad) |
02/11/68 |
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Royal
Albert Hall, London (ad, msi, Times)
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09/11/68 |
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Free
Trade
Hall Manchester (supported by Pentangle) (beglad) (Concert Prog.
Database mentions
only Pentangle)
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26/11/68 |
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Live
broadcast from WBAI studios in New York (WBAI Archive)
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27/11/68 |
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Fillmore
East, New York. (hb, elektra promo po, fme showlist) (bootleg)
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29/11/68 |
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Lincoln
Center´s Philharmonic Hall, New York. (hb, billboard) |
30/11/68
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Jordan
Hall / (Boston
Tea
Party),
Boston (Time mag, 13/12/68:
"last week") (po) (last concert of east coast tour) |
December
1968 |
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1969
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February
1969 |
05/02/69 |
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Recording
of
BBC Session (Studio S1, Broadcasting House) |
15/02/69 |
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BBC
Television “Once more
with Felix” (also: Pedro Soler, missing show)
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19/02/69 |
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Whitla Hall, Belfast (ad, Belfast Telegraph)
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March 1969 |
01/03/69 |
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Colston
Hall, Bristol (IT ad, nme)
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02/03/69 |
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Fairfield
Hall, Croydon
(program, ad, IT ad)
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05/03/69 |
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Lanchester
Polytechnic,
Coventry (IT)
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05/03/69 |
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Nightride
BBC Session
(All Writ Down, Dust Be Diamonds,
Theta, Fine Fingered Hand) (see:
05/02/69) |
08/03/69 |
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Town
Hall,
Leeds (ti, IT ad, nme)
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09/03/69 |
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Rex
Theatre, Cambridge (IT ad, nme)
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16/03/69 |
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City
Hall,
Newcastle (ti, IT ad)
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23/03/69 |
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De
Montfort
Hall, Leicester (IT ad)
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April 1969 |
27/04/69 |
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Fillmore
East, New York (pro) (bootleg)
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May 1969 |
02/05/69 |
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New
England
Life Hall,
Boston (poster, flyer)(presented
by the Boston
Tea Party and WBCN Radio) |
03/05/69 |
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Alexander
Hall, Princeton,
New Jersey
(Bucks County Courier Times) |
04/05/69 |
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Academy of Music, Philadelphia (ad) |
06/05/69
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Memorial Chapel at Wesleyan University, Middletown
(The
Hartford Courant)
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11/05/69 |
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Fillmore
East, New York (fme-pro, hb) (given date for "Waltz of the New
Moon"-bootleg)
|
16/05/69 |
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Ford Auditorium, Detroit (ad) |
24/05/69 |
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Fillmore
West, San
Francisco (poster) |
26/05/69 |
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Aquarius
Theatre, Los Angeles (poster) [Counterculture Timeline: LA Troubadour,
?]
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June 1969
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??/06/69 |
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Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival (po) 8 - 11 June
|
July 1969 |
02/07/69 |
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“Pop
Proms”, Royal Albert Hall (with Family, Fairport
Convention, John Peel) (poster, flyer, ad) |
12/07/69 |
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York
University (review in Rolling Stone, exact date not confirmed)
|
19/07/69
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Newport
Folk Festival (The Cowl, Newport Daily News, Boston Globe)(16.-20.7.)
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August 1969 |
05/08/69 |
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Recording of Peel Session, Maida Vale 4 (Letter,
This
Moment, Gather Round, Waiting For You, BJD)(TX:
24/08/69) |
13/08/69 |
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Carnegie
Hall, New York
(Mike Heron in an interview, The Times) |
16/08/69 |
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Woodstock
(po etc)
|
16/08/69 |
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Singer
Bowl Folk Festival,
Flushing Meadow Park,
NY. (w/ Ian & Sylvia, Sea Train, Odetta, Tim Hardin,
Tom Paxton) (ad) |
21/08/69
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Merryweather Post Pavilion, Columbia (Washington
Post)
|
23/08/69 |
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Philadelphia
Folk
Festival (poster) (bootleg)
|
24/08/69 |
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Philadelphia
Folk
Festival (poster)
(bootleg)
|
27/08/69 |
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Electric
Factory,
Philadelphia
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31/08/69 |
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Texas
International Pop
Festival, Dallas (poster) (bootleg)
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September
1969 |
03/09/69 |
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The Electric Factory, Philadelphia (Philadelphia
Evening
Bulletin) |
04/09/69 |
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Fillmore
East, New York
(hb, pro, fme showlist) |
05/09/69 |
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New
England
Life
Hall, Boston (po)
|
07/09/69 |
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Music
Hall,
Houston
(flyer) |
08/09/69 |
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Aquarius
Theatre, LA
(ad, posterscene)
|
10/09/69 |
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Fillmore
West, San
Francisco (poster)
|
13/09/69
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6.
Annual
Big Sur
Festival (afternoon)(Rolling Stone, SF Examiner, po) |
14/09/69 |
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Fillmore
East, New York
(hb, pro, fme showlist) |
October 1969 |
17/10/69 |
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Regal
Cinema,
Cambridge (hb)
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18/10/69
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Concertgebouw Amsterdam, support: Fairport Conv.
(Leidsche Courant, R. Thompson setlists ) (1st concert in NL?)
|
19/10/69 |
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City
Hall,
Sheffield
(ticket)
|
24/10/69 |
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Town
Hall,
Birmingham
(msi, Birmingham Music Archive)
|
25/10/69 |
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Philharmonic,
Liverpool
(ticket) |
26/10/69 |
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City
Hall,
Newcastle, "ISB and Friends" (po,
msi, readysteadygone.co.uk) (newcastlestuff.com: 25.10.69)
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31/10/69 |
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Free
Trade
Hall,
Manchester (poster, ticket, pro) (CP Database)
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November
1969 |
01/11/69 |
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Usher
Hall,
Edinburgh
(po) |
02/11/69 |
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New
City
Hall, Glasgow
(msi)
|
07/11/69 |
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Fairfield
Hall, Croydon
(msi, IT)
|
08/11/69 |
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Dome,
Brighton.
(poster,ti) |
15/11/69 |
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Royal
Festival Hall,
London (program, po, IT, Times) |
22/11/69 |
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University
of Maryland,
Baltimore
(po, ti)
|
23/11/69 |
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Boston
Tea
Party
(poster/www.theamericanrevolution.fm) |
25/11/69 |
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Place
des
Arts, Montreal (Montreal Star, Gesser Fonds)
|
28/11/69
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Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati
(citybeat.com)
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29/11/69
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Ludlow
Garage, Cincinnati
(citybeat.com) |
30/11/69 |
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Guthrie
Theatre, Minneapolis ('Connie's Insider', hb, Minneapolis Star: Review) |
December
1969 |
03/12/69
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Union Ballroom, University of Wisconsin-Madison (ad)
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04/12/69 |
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University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (newsp.) |
05/12/69 |
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Powell Symphony Hall, St.Louis w. Sun (St.Louis Post, Current, ad)(Review in St.Louis Post 6-12-69)
|
07/12/69 |
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Jordan Hall, Boston Tea Party
(www.theamericanrevolution.fm/complete BTP schedule)(po)
|
10/12/69
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Fillmore
West, San
Francisco (poster) |
12/12/69 |
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Public
Hall, Cleveland,
with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (ad)
|
14/12/69
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Fillmore
East, New York (pro, fme showlist) (bootleg video)
|
31/12/69 |
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Berkeley
Community
Theatre, San Francisco (bootleg) (relics,sk)
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