San Francisco Nights

For their 25th Anniversary, Hells Honkie‘s Tape Club put together a DAT Tree retrospective of some of the best and most influential bands from the San Francisco live music scene in the late 60‘s.
The source were a number of reel-to-reel tapes of incomplete shows and other notable content. The quality is definitely analog, and definitely very nice.

These are the bands that drove the next two generations of live acts, including most of what we listen to today.

 

Disk 1

01 Gov. Ronald Reagan Intro [1966]

Jefferson Airplane – Fillmore Aud. [2-4-67]
02 Somebody to Love
03 Get Together
04 Let Me In
05 This is my Life
06 White Rabbit
07 Plastic Fantastic Lover
08 She Has Funny Cars
09 Instrumental
10 3/5th‘s of a Mile in 10 seconds
11 Fat Angel

 

Disk 2

Country Joe and the Fish – Avalon Ballroom [1967]
01 Thought Dream
Big Brother and the Holding Company – Avalon Ballroom [1968]
02 Ball & Chain
03 Bye Bye Baby
04 Woman is the Loser
05 All is Lonliness
06 Call on Me
13th Floor Elevators – Avalon Ballroom [6-67]
07 Roller Coaster
Captain Beefhart and his Magic Band – Avalon Ballroom [Fall-1967]
08 Woe-is-Uh-Me-Bop
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fillmore West [Summer-1968]
09 Suzie-Q

 

Disk 3

Mother Earth – Winterland [9-67]
01 Stranger In My Own Hometown
02 Without Love
03 Help Me Jesus
Oxford Circle
– Studio [1966]

04 Foolish Woman
05 Mind Destruction
The Sons of Adam – Studio [1966]
06 Feathered Fish
07 Electric Prunes commercial
The Great Society – The Matrix [1966]
08 Downhome Girl
09 Long Lost Lover
10 Like a Raven
11 Somebody to Love
12 Sure Lovin‘ Man
13 The Man in Black
14 Father Bruce

 

Disk 4

The Charlatans

01 When I Go Sailing By – Red Dog Saloon [6-65]
02 Alabama Bound – Avalon Ballroom [1967]
03 Codeine Blues – Studio [1967]
04 32-20
05 I Saw Her
06 The Shadow Knows
07 Long Comma Viper
08 By Hook or by Crook
09 Sidetrack (with Lynn Hughes)
10 Devil (with Lynn Hughes)
The Grateful Dead – Winterland [10 –7-66]
11 Creampuff War
12 Schoolgirl
13 Stealin‘
Cream – Fillmore Aud. [8-67]
14 N.S.U.

 

Disk 5

Moby Grape – Avalon Ballroom [12-31-67]
01 Hey Grandma
02 Murder In My Heart > Jam > Aunt Jessie
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Fillmore West [11-68]
03 Jam/Babe
04 I‘m Gonna Leave You
05 Smokestack Lightning
06 Mona > Maiden of the Cancer Moon > Calvary

 

Disk 6

Steve Miller Blues Band – The Matrix [1-27-67]
01 Mercury Blues
02 Superbird
03 Instrumental (short)
04 Your Old Lady
05 Instrumental (long)

 

Disk 7

The Daily Flash – Avalon Ballroom [1966]
01 Instrumental
02 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Country Joe & The Fish with J. Casady, M. Hart, & D. Getz – Fillmore West [1968]
03 Flying High
04 Jam
The Sons of Champlin – Avalon Ballroom [3-30-69]
05 Blueberry Hill intro
06 Fat City
07 Jesus Is Coming
08 Get High

 

Disk 8

Santana – Avalon Ballroom [3-69]
01 intro
02 inst
03 instr
04 In the Way
It‘s a Beautiful Day – Fillmore West [1970]

06 Wasted Union Blues (prob. D8t04, ed.)