Woody Herman at the Fillmore East

[Randy Twizzle]

Until I read this May 1969 NY Times review I never knew that the Woody Herman band played at the Fillmore on the same bill as Led Zeppelin. Apparently things didn't go too well.

[marcello]

In Bill Graham's autobiography, Bill Graham Presents, there are nice sections where he describes Buddy Rich and Rahsaan playing at the Fillmore West.

In general, the book is very good until he reaches the point when he closed the Fillmores.

[BillF]

Fascinating to read this. I recently read William D. Clancy's Woody Herman: Chronicles of the Herds which dwells on the tensions/problems of Woody's "rock period".

[marcello]

These are from the Fillmore East:

12 April 1968 Butterfield Blues Band, Charles Lloyd, Tom Rush

01 June 1968 Moby Grape, Fugs, Gary Burton Quartet

02 June 1968 Bill Cosby, Janice Nian, Frankie Dunlop & Maletta, Jazz Pantomime

08 November 1968 Steppenwolf, Buddy Rich, Children Of God

04 December 1968 Duke Ellington, New York R 'N R Ensemble

17 January 1969 Buddy Rich, Grass Roots, Spirit.

29 May 1969 Led Zeppelin, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, Delaney & Bonnie

09 January 1970 Ike & Tina Turner, Mongo Santamaria, Fats Domino

06 March 1970 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Steve Miller Blues Band, Miles Davis

17 June 1970 Laura Nyro, Miles Davis Quintet

01 April 1971 Santana, Tower Of Power, Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Vibration Society

Buddy Rich:

Fillmore West :

26 July 1968 Charles Lloyd, Herd, James Cotton

05 August 1968 Ornette Coleman,Chambers Brothers, Charlatans, Queen Lily Soap

14 November 1968 Ten Years After, Country Weather, Sun Ra

04 May 1969 Mongo Santamaria, Cold Blood, Elvin Bishop

17 June 1969 Who, Woody Herman, A.B. Skhy

04 September 1969 Santana, Sea Train, Yusef Lateef

12 March 1970 Ten Years After, Buddy Rich, Sea Train, Kimberley

16 April 1970 John Mayall, Larry Coryell, Argent

27 August 1970 John Mayall, Elvin Bishop, Herbie Hancock,

15 October 1970 Leon Russell, Miles Davis, Sea Train

06 May 1971 Miles Davis, Elvin Bishop, Mandrill

Edited December 23, 2007 by marcello

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i would of taken so much acid at that!!

[Spontooneous]

The Coleman Hawkins bio by John Chilton mentions a Fillmore East appearance by Hawk and Roy. (A friend claims to have been there.)

[marcello]

Graham would at times, rent out the Fillmores to other promoters.

Maybe this one?: Art Blakey - Fillmore East, NYC (March 9, 1969) [db 3/20/69 pp.14, 52]

Edited December 23, 2007 by marcello

[Larry Kart]

I remember catching the Buddy Rich Band at the dark (lots of black-light stuff going on -- other stuff going on in the dark too), cavernous Electric Playground in Chicago (a very Fillmore East-type place) in 1969, on the same bill as the Rotary Connection (with lead vocalist Minnie Ripperton) and other groups as well -- maybe Canned Heat. Went there with my Down Beat boss Dan Morgenstern -- the idea being that for Rich to appear at such a venue was newsworthy. Encountering Rich backstage with Dan was quite an experience; the man (i.e. Rich) was like an electric whippet, while Dan's normally mellow, laidback manner seemed if anything to become even more that way in response to how "up" Buddy was. It seemed an effective way to deal with Traps, the Drum Wonder.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

was he riding the white hippo?