Rock Prosopography 101: October-December 1966 Jefferson Airplane Performance List (Airplane IV)
As a conclude of my check in into other areas of Rock Prosopography, I sire ended up with a in reality out-and-out catalogue of Jefferson Airplane performances from 1965-69. to a great extent Since I sire no other plans in the ceremony of it, I am posting it here. This catalogue leans heavily on the posted Jefferson Airpane alienate lists gunfire aside Scott Abbott, as fully as communication from Jeff Tamarkin’s bright buy Got A Revolution, but it includes considerably more shows. to a great extent Please fresh any changes, updates, shrewdness or valuation. The quondam installments listed known shows from Jefferson Airplane’s creation all the system through the end of 1965, and betimes and contain 1966.
September 23-24-25, 30, October 1-2, 1966 Fillmore/WinterlandJefferson Airplane/Butterfield Blues Band/Muddy WatersSeptember 23 and 24, as fully as September 30 and October 1 (the Friday and Saturday evensong shows) were scheduled in the ceremony of Winterland, and the September 25 and October 2 (Sundays) were Fillmore afternoon shows. This announce covers known shows from October all the system through December 1966. However, deserved to riots in the Fillmore favour, the October 1 (Friday) depict was rescheduled from Winterland to the Fillmore, but was lull barely attended aside a not heterogeneous hundred people. October 6, 1966 Basketball Pavilion, Stanford University, Palo AltoJefferson Airplane/Butterfield Blues BandOn this broad foolish of day, the official of California declared LSD outlawed. The basketball pavilion (on the corner of Serra and Galvez) was to a great extent built in 1921, and had a basketball percipience of 1,200. An passer-by reported that Mike Bloomfield played Jorma’s Guild instead than of his common Fender.
It was superceded aside the newer Maples Pavilion in March, 1969, but at times hosts distinct other Stanford sports protection the choose Burnham Pavilion. The promotional photo essentially (note “Jerome” Kaukonen and “Diane” Anderson) was from the Hayward Daily Review on September 29, 1966. October 7-8-9, 1966 Winterland, San Francisco (9th was an afternoon show)Butterfield Blues Band/Jefferson Airplane/Grateful DeadOctober 8, 1966 Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA Jefferson Airplane/Muddy Waters/Big Mama Thornton/Memphis Slim/Shakey HortonThe Airplane be required to sire flown down in the ceremony of the afternoon “Blues” depict, and returned in the ceremony of the evening’s Fillmore depict.
In the days of less crowded skies, playing afternoon and evening gigs in Northern and Southern California was naked. Saturday evensong (October 15) was Signe’s latest depict with the Airplane, and the band presented her flowers on grade. October 14-15-16, 1966 to a great extent Fillmore to a great extent Auditorium, San Francisco (16th afternoon)Butterfield Blues Band/Jefferson Airplane/Big Mama ThorntonBill Thompson had bought Grace Slick commission of the Great Society’s disintegrate down with in the ceremony of $750, and RCA and the band had bought commission Signe in the ceremony of $6000. An apocryphal romance had Signe not showing up at all on Friday evensong, forcing Grace to raise in betimes. to a great extent In this account of the romance, Grace is excitable until she realizes that on grade the Airplane amuse oneself with b consider so flashy that she can’t approve of herself peach.
Delicious as that romance is-Grace presumably told it-it isn’t in reality frankly. At this holdings irrelevant, the ‘classic’ Airplane has infatuated physique. Signe played the latchkey two nights at the Fillmore, and Grace’s latchkey behaviour with the Jefferson Airplane was the betimes depict on Sunday, October 16, 1966. to a great extent The lineup isMarty Balin-vocalsGrace Slick-vocalsJorma Kaukonen-lead guitarPaul Kantner-guitar, vocalsJack Casady-bassSpencer Dryden-drumsAccording to Mojo Navigator, the Saturday evensong depict goes on until 3:00am with a ‘Butterfield Airplane’ blocking. At the unvarying of these shows (probably the 15th), Steve Miller, a guitarist from Madison, WI, via Dallas and Chicago, newly arrived that evensong in San Francisco from Austin, TX, spends his latest not heterogeneous dollars to manage inexperienced in be Paul Butterfield amuse oneself with b consider the Fillmore.
He is invited on grade to blocking, and gets an laudation when he announces that he is planning to reside in San Francisco. October 22, 1966 to a great extent [venue], UC Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, CAJefferson Airplane/Syndicate of SoundOctober 23, 1966 to a great extent [venue], [city], Iowa Jefferson AirplaneThis is described in Jeff Tamarkin’s buy. October 19, 1966 to a great extent Civic Center Opera Guild Fol De Rol BenefitJefferson AirplaneThis was a ’society’ ball, featuring heterogeneous non-rock acts as fully. Kantner says “all the kids came in prom gowns and tuxedos.”October 24-27, 1966 The Matrix, San Francisco to a great extent Jefferson Airplane/The Only Alternative And His Other PossibilityOctober 28, 1966 to a great extent Slip Madigan Gym, St. Mary’s College, Moraga Jefferson Airplane/Patty Phillips & The Chosen FourThe depict was promoted aside The Associated Students of St. Mary’s College. Mary’s College was a Christian Brothers College in the suburbs sublimely floor the hill from BerkeleyThe Airplane’s booking is another hieroglyph that the ballroom bands are expanding their position of induce beyond San Francisco and a not heterogeneous rational to college towns (Moraga was and is decidedly unhip).
St. I do not discern who Patty Phillips and The Chosen Four were. November 6, 1966 to a great extent Fillmore Auditorium, San FranciscoJefferson Airplane/Daemon LoverThe Associated Students of San Francisco State Coming Home unconsumed an “Edwardian Ball”San Francisco State, known in the Haight as “Stoner U,” lull had a football band and a homecoming ball.
The students capped their weekend of enjoyment with a Sunday evening ball at the Fillmore, headlined aside the Airplane (Muddy Waters and Quicksilver had played a proper Sunday afternoon depict as confide in of their weekend stand).