August
13, 1965
The
Matrix, San Francisco’s first folk night club, opened at 3138 Fillmore
in the Marina District. New band called “The Jefferson Airplane“ performed.
September
2, 1965
Beatles
concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City. Pandemonium broke out as fans rushed
the stage.
September
21, 1965
The
Jefferson Airplane opened for Lightnin’ Hopkins at the Matrix on Fillmore
St. Norm Mayell backed Hopkins on drums.
October
15, 1965
The
Great Society performed at the opening of the Coffee Gallery. Band members
included Darby, Jerry and Grace
Slick. San Francisco State College Vietnam Day Committee Teach-In.
Country
Joe and the Fish entertained.
October
16, 1965
Family
Dog collective dance and concert, a tribute to Dr. Strange, at Longshoremen’s
Hall with
The Jefferson Airplane and the
Charlatans, and the Great Society. Russ “The Moose” Syracuse of KYA
was master of ceremonies.
October
24, 1965
Family
Dog collective dance and concert at Longshoremen’s Hall with the Lovin’
Spoonful.
November
6, 1965
San
Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal party at Bill Graham’s Calliope Ballroom,
924 Howard Street. The Jefferson Airplane entertained
December
10, 1965
Warlocks
become “The Grateful Dead,” and debut with the new name at the Fillmore
Auditorium for the second San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal Party. The Jefferson
Airplane, The Great Society, the John Handy Quintet, the Mystery Trend,
and Sam Thomas also appeared.
January
8, 1966
KYA
Super Harlow A Go-Go dance and show at Longshoremen’s Hall with the Vejtables
and the Baytovens. “Super” Harlow Meyers was Russ “The Moose” Syracuse’s
radio engineer on KYA’s “All-Night Flight,” and a former disc jockey.
January
21, 1966
Three-day
Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall, 400 North Point St. featured the
Grateful Dead, Big Brother
and the Holding Company, The Loading Zone, Chinese New Years’ Lion
Dancers and Drum and Bugle Corps, Stroboscopic Trampoline, and Ken Kesey
and His Merry Pranksters.
February
4, 1966
Bill
Graham presented The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1805
Geary Street.
February
12, 1966
Rock
For Peace at the Fillmore Auditorium with the The Great Society, Quicksilver
Messenger Service, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Benefit
for Democratic congressional candidates and the Viet Nam Study Group.
Lincoln’s
Birthday Party with Sopwith
Camel at the Firehouse, former quarters of Engine Co. 26 and Truck
Co. 10, 3767 Sacramento St. The Charlatans also appeared.
February
19, 1966
Family
Dog and Bill Graham presented The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Wildflower and Sopwith Camel at the Fire House.
March
4, 1966
The
Charlatans and the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at Soko Hall, 739
Page St.
March
12, 1966
The
Alligator Clip, the Charlatans, Sopwith Camel, and Duncan Blue Boy and
his Cosmic Yo-Yo, at the Firehouse on Sacramento Street.
March
15, 1966
Thomas
C. Lynch, Attorney General of the State of California, condemned the use
of LSD and other drugs in a statement to the State Senate Judiciary Committee
in Sacramento.
March
19, 1966
Big
Brother and the Holding Company appeared at the Fire House. Sgt. Barry
Sadler, who was to entertain, could not attend.
March
22, 1966
Sopwith
Camel appears at the Matrix in the Marina District
March
25, 1966
Paul
Butterfield Blues Band and Quicksilver
Messenger Service opened at Fillmore Auditorium.
April
7, 1966
City
Lights Books sponsored the appearance of Russian poet Andri Vozneskensy
at the Fillmore. Lawrence
Ferlinghetti read translations and The Airplane performed.
April
8, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane opened at California Hall on Polk Street.
April
9, 1966
Week
of Angry Arts Vietnam Mobilization fund raiser at Longshoremen’s Hall,
400 North Point St.
April
15, 1966
Fifth-Annual
San Francisco State College Folk Festival with Malvina Reynolds, Mark Spoelstra,
and Dick and Mimi Fariñia.
April
16, 1966
Charlatans,
Mystery Trend, Wanda and Her Birds and the Haight St. Jazz Band appeared
at California Hall.
April
30, 1966
Jefferson
Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore Auditorium.
May
6, 1966
Jefferson
Airplane, and the Jaywalkers at the Fillmore Auditorium
May
18, 1966
PH
Phactor Jug Band opened at 40 Cedar Street, also known as Cedar Alley,
near Polk and Geary.
May
20, 1966
Capt.
Beefheart and His Magic Band opened at the Avalon Ballroom, Sutter
and Van Ness.
May
27, 1966
Artist
Andy
Warhol and his Plastic Inevitable, Velvet Underground and Nico, plus
the Mothers, at Fillmore Auditorium.
May
30, 1966
Benefit
for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization (HALO) at Winterland. The Jefferson
Airplane performed.
June
4, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane appear in Exposition Auditorium at Civic Center.
June
6, 1966
The
Turtles, and Oxford Circle at the Fillmore Auditorium.
June
22, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane at the Avalon Ballroom.
June
24, 1966
Lenny
Bruce and the Mothers of Invention appeared in concert at Fillmore Auditorium.
KFRC
Presents the Beach Boys Summer Spectacular at the Cow Palace. Other acts
included the Jefferson Airplane, Lovin' Spoonful, Chad and Jeremy, Percy
Sledge, The Byrds, and Sir Douglas Quintet,
June
26, 1966
Sopwith
Camel opened for the Rolling Stones in performance at the Cow Palace. Jefferson
Airplane also performed.
July
1, 1966
Quicksilver
Messenger Service, Big Brother, and Jaywalkers at the Fillmore Auditorium.
July
2, 1966
Great
Society, Sopwith Camel and the Charlatans at the Fillmore Auditorium.
July
3, 1966
Love,
Grateful Dead and Group B at the Fillmore Auditorium.
July
10, 1966
United
Farm Workers’ benefit at the Fillmore with Quicksilver and the Messenger
Service and the San Andreas Fault Finders.
July
17, 1966
Allen
Ginsberg read poetry and Sopwith Camel performed in concert at the Fillmore,
to benefit A.R.T.S. Gary Goodrow of The Committee emceed.
July
22, 1966
The
Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sopwith Camel, and Grassroots
at the Fillmore Auditorium.
July
26, 1966
The
Temptations’ dance and show at the Fillmore Auditorium.
August
6, 1966
Vietnam
War peace march up Market Street.
August
7, 1966
Third-Annual
South-of-Market and North Beach Children’s Adventure Day Camp benefit with
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and
The Grateful Dead held at Fillmore Auditorium. Gary Goodrow of The Committee
was master of ceremonies.
August
10, 1966
Sam
the Sham and the Pharaohs at the Fillmore Auditorium.
August
17, 1966
Psychedelic
fashion show and tarot reading at the Fillmore. The Airplane and Mimi Fariñia
entertained.
August
25, 1966
Yardbirds
performed at the Carousel Ballroom. The Carousel was the former El Patio
Ballroom on the second floor of the car dealership on the southwest corner
of Market and Van Ness.
August
26, 1966
Grace
Slick and the Great Society, Country Joe and the Fish, and Sopwith Camel
at the Fillmore Auditorium. It is Country Joe and the Fish's first performance
at the Fillmore - they filled in for 13th Floor Elevator.
August
29, 1966
Beatlemania
swept San Francisco as the “Fab Four” performed in
concert at Candlestick Park. It was the Beatle’s
last public appearance together. Also appearing were The Cyrkle, The Ronettes,
and the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No.
1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco.
September
5, 1966
Labor
Day opening of Martha and The Vandellas at the Fillmore Auditorium.
September
6, 1966
The
Blues Project opened at the Matrix.
September
11, 1966
Benefit
for BOTH/AND jazz club at the Fillmore with “Big
Mama” Thornton, The Airplane, Elvin Jones, Jon Hendricks Trio and the
Joe
Henderson Quartet.
September
16, 1966
Grateful
Dead at the Avalon Ballroom
September
23, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane opened at Winterland.
September
27, 1966
The
Four Tops, with Johnny Talbot and De Thanks opened at Fillmore Auditorium.
September
30, 1966
Three-day
Acid Test opened at San Francisco State College Commons. The test was to
peak on the evening of Oct. 1. The Grateful Dead performed.
October
6, 1966
Love
Pagent in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park. Big Brother, Wildflower, The
Dead and the Electric Chamber Orkustra entertained. California Legislature
outlaws sale and possession of LSD.
October
7, 1966
Jim
Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother, and Electric Train at the Avalon Ballroom.
October
15, 1966
Artists’
Liberation Front Free Fair in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
The
Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.
October
21, 1966
Grateful
Dead, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Loading Zone at the Fillmore, with dancing
and strobe light show.
October
23, 1966
The
Yardbirds, and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore.
October
27, 1966
New
“alternative” weekly newspaper, “The Guardian,”
debuted. Edited and published by Bruce Brugman. Editors at the Chronicle,
Examiner and News Call-Bulletin give it little chance for survival.
October
31, 1966
Bob
McKendrick presented “Dance of Death” costume ball at California Hall.
The Dead, and Mimi Fariñia entertained.
November
6, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.
November
8, 1966
Movie
and TV actor Ronald
Reagan defeated incumbent Gov. Edmund G. Brown by almost one million
votes.
November
12, 1966
Hells
Angels’ motorcycle gang dance at Sokol Hall, 739 Page St. Grateful Dead
performed.
November
13, 1966
The
Dead, Quicksilver, and Big Brother and the Holding Company Zenefit at the
Avalon Ballroom for the Zen Mountain Center.
November
19, 1966
Righteous
Brothers, with April Stevens and Nino Tempo, appeared at the USF Gymnasium.
Beau Brummels at the Carousel Ballroom. Grateful Dead and James Cotton
at the Fillmore.
November
20, 1966
Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fundraiser at the Fillmore with
the James Cotton Chicago Blues Band. Stokely
Carmichael and his staff were there. Jon Hendricks was master of ceremonies.
November
29, 1966
District
Attorney John J. Ferdon dropped charges against members of The
Diggers, who staged a Halloween puppet show at Haight and Ashbury streets.
Released from custody were Emmett Grogen, Peter Berg, Brooks Bucher, Peter
Minnault and Robert Morticello.
December
1, 1966
Print
Mint store in the Haight-Ashbury opened at 1542
Haight St.
December
17, 1966
Benefit
for Legalization of Marijuana (LEMAR) at California Hall. Country Joe and
the Fish entertained.
December
20, 1966
Otis
Redding Show opened at the Fillmore Auditorium.
January
5, 1967
Inaugural
message of Ronald Reagan, California’s 33rd governor, delivered during
ceremonies in the Rotunda of the State Capitol at midnight. Just before
the swearing in, the new governor turned to U.S. Senator George Murphy
— a former movie song-and-dance man — and said “Well George, here we are
on the late show again.” The new governor placed his hand on Father Serra’s
bible as he was sworn in by State Supreme Court Justice Marshall F. McComb.
January
6, 1967
Young
Rascals, Sopwith Camel, and the Doors at the Fillmore Auditorium.
January
13, 1967
The
Dead, Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors at the Fillmore Auditorium.
January
14, 1967
Human
Be-In at the Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park. Speakers included Jerry
Rubin, Allen
Ginsberg, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Timothy
Leary. Participants were urged to bring food to share, flowers, beads,
costumes, feathers, bells, cymbals and flags. The Jefferson Airplane entertained.
The Be-In was produced by Michael Bowen.
Ike
and Tina Turner Revue with the Ike-Ettes at California Hall.
January
17, 1967
Big
Brother and the Holding Company appeared at the Matrix.
February
3, 1967
Big
Brother and the Holding Company entertained at the Hells Angels’ dance
at California Hall.
Jefferson
Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore Auditorium.
February
10, 1967
“Tribute
to J. Edgar Hoover” at California Hall. Music by the Jook Savages, Blue
Cheer and the Mojo Men.
John
H. Myers Blues Project, Jimmy Reed and John Lee Hooker at the Fillmore
Auditorium.
February
12, 1967
Benefit
at the Fillmore for the Council for Civic Unity. Moby Grape, and Sly and
the Family Stone performed.
February
14, 1967
Jim
Morrison and The Doors performed at Whisky A-Go-Go, 568 Sacramento
St.
February
19, 1967
Port
Chicago Vigil Benefit at California Hall.
March
3, 1967
First
Love Circus at Winterland, music by Moby Grape and lights by the Commune.
Jim Morrison and The Doors at the Avalon Ballroom
March
5, 1967
Warren
Hinckle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine, hosted a “rockdance-environment
happening” benefit in honor of the CIA (Citizens for Interplanetary Activity)
at California Hall. Participants included the S.F. League for Sexual Freedom,
the Diggers and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
March
7, 1967
Jim
Morrison and The Doors performed at the Matrix.
March
21, 1967
Eric
Burdon and the Animals appeared at the Civic Auditorium.
March
24, 1967
Political
satire as The W.C. Fields Memorial Orphanage presented the Pitschel Players
at 120 Julian St. near 15th and Valencia.
March
31, 1967
Mime
Troupe appeared at Fluxfest at Longshoremen’s Hall.
April
7, 1967
Canned
Heat opened at the Avalon Ballroom.
April
11, 1967
Buffalo
Springfield, and the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at the Rock
Garden, 4742 Mission near Ocean.
April
12, 1967
Benefit
at the Fillmore Auditorium for arrested members of the San Francisco Mime
Troupe. The Airplane, the Dead, and Moby Grape appeared.
April
14, 1967
Country
Joe and the Fish performed in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park on the
eve of the peace march.
April
15, 1967
Vietnam
War protest as 100,000 people marched from Second and Market to Kezar Stadium
at Golden Gate Park. Vietnam veteran David Duncan gave the keynote speech.
April
20, 1967
Howlin’
Wolf opened at the Matrix.
May
5, 1967 Grateful Dead, and the Paupers at Fillmore Auditorium.
May
11, 1967
Vanguard
Records party at Fillmore Auditorium for Country Joe and the Fish.
May
26, 1967 The Charlatans, The Salvation Army Banned, and Blue Cheer at the
Avalon Ballroom.
May
30, 1967
Benefit
for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization at Winterland. The Jefferson
Airplane performed.
June
2, 1967
KFRC
Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival at Mt. Tamalpais to benefit
the Hunters Point Child Care Center. “Trans-Love Buslines” carried participants
from the parking area to the festival.
June
10, 1967
Festival
in Hunters Point to honor the fighter Muhammad Ali.
June
16, 1967
First
and last Monterey International Pop Festival. Janis
Joplin, The Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, Big Brother and other San
Francisco artists performed.
June
20, 1966
The
Jefferson Airplane appears with the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Fillmore
Auditorium.
July
14, 1967
Steve
Miller Blues Band and the Sunshine Company concert at California Hall.
July
17, 1967
Moore
Galley exhibition at 535 Sutter St. of the works by Rock poster artists
Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin and Alton
Kelley.
July
21, 1967
The
Youngbloods and Wildflower performed at California
Hall.
Grand
opening of the Straight
Theatre at Haight and Cole. It was the former Haight Theatre, but was
now a hippie-run alternative to the commercially successful Fillmore Auditorium
and Avalon Ballroom.
July
23, 1967
Beatster
Neal Cassady in performance with “Straight Theatre Rap” at the Straight
Theatre.
August
5, 1967
Flamin’
Groovies opened at the Matrix.
August
9, 1967
Peace
torch arrived from Hiroshima.
August
15, 1967
Count
Basie and his Orchestra and Chuck Berry at the Fillmore Auditorium.
August
27, 1967
Peace
torch began its journey to Washington, D.C. for a demonstration against
the Vietnam War.
September
17, 1967
Little
Richard with an all-soul revue opened at the Straight Theatre.
September
23, 1967
The
Airplane and Muddy Waters at Winterland, Post and Steiner streets.
September
25, 1967
Paul
Butterfield Blues Band at the Fillmore.
September
30, 1967
13th
Floor Elevators; Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Avalon Ballroom,
presented by the Family Dog collective.
October
2, 1967
San
Francisco police raid the Grateful Dead’s Haight-Ashbury house.
October
6, 1967
Hippies
blocked the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets to celebrate the
“Death of Hip.”
October
11, 1967
Benefit
for the Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic at the Fillmore Auditorium.
October
13, 1967
Morning
Glory and Indian Head Band opened at the Western Front Dance Academy club
at Polk and O’Farrell.
October
19, 1967
The
Jefferson Airplane perform at Loews Warfield Theatre on Market Street.
October
30, 1967
Benefit
at the Fillmore for KPFA radio station.
Pink Floyd and the Sopwith Camel performed.
November
19, 1967
Purple
Onion Two, a hipper version of the original Club, opened at 435 Broadway.
December
1, 1967
Mad
River and the Santana Blues Band appeared at the Straight Theatre.
December
16, 1967
Second-annual
Grope for Peace at the Straight Theatre.
January
7, 1968
Stop
the Draft Week defense fund concert dance at the Fillmore with Phil
Ochs, Loading Zone and The Committee.
February
1, 1968
Jimi
Hendrix Experience, with John
Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, at the Fillmore Auditorium.
February
14, 1968
The
Airplane opens at the Carousel Ballroom, Van Ness Ave. and Market Street.
March
3, 1968
Grateful
Dead leaves the Haight with a farewell concert before relocating to Marin
County.
March
8, 1968
Cream,
James Cotton Blues Band, Jeremy Satyrs, and Blood Sweat and Tears at the
Fillmore Auditorium. Love, Congress of Wonders, and Sons of Champlin at
the Avalon Ballroom.
March
15, 1968
Blood,
Sweat and Tears opened at the Avalon Ballroom.
March
22, 1968
President’s
daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson, ordered off cable car for eating ice cream
cone.
March
29, 1968
Grateful
Dead and Chuck Berry opened at the Carousel Ballroom.
April
5, 1968
Mayor
Alioto issued a proclamation condemning the assassination of the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Thousands of people gathered at Civic Center in memory
of the civil rights leader. City flags lowered to half staff.
April
12, 1968
Moby
Grape opened at the Carousel Ballroom.
April
19, 1968
Santana
Blues Band and Frumious Bandersnatch at the Carousel Ballroom.
April
27, 1968
Peace
march and rally.
May
3, 1968
Thelonious
Monk and Dr. John the Night Tripper at the Carousel Ballroom.
May
8, 1968
Benefit
for poster artist Alton Kelley at the Carousel Ballroom.
May
24, 1968
Charlie
Musselwhite and Dan
Hicks and his Hot Licks appeared at the Straight Theatre.
May
31, 1968
Works
of Robert Edward Duncan exhibited by the San Francisco Museum of Art as
part of its celebration of San Francisco underground art 1945-1968.
June
4, 1968
San
Francisco voters defeated a $5.7 million measure to acquire the Cliff House
and Sutro Baths for a park. Ballot counting came to a standstill at City
Hall when the assassination
of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles was broadcast
live on television.
June
7, 1968
Grateful
Dead and The Airplane at the Carousel Ballroom.
June
19, 1968
“Soul
Scene” benefit dance for the Blackman’s Free Store, held at the Carousel
Ballroom.
June
23, 1968
Big
Brother and the Holding Company at the Carousel Ballroom.
July
1, 1968
KSAN
Stereo Radio 95 Family Freakout at the Avalon Ballroom. Music by Creedence
Clearwater Revival.
July
14, 1968
Bill
Graham left the Fillmore Auditorium to take over the Carousel Ballroom.
Electric Flag and Blue Cheer closed out performances at the Fillmore at
Geary and Fillmore streets.
July
16, 1968
Big
Brother and the Holding Company, and Sly and the Family Stone opened the
new Fillmore West, the former Carousel and El Patio ballroom.
August
5, 1968
Ornette
Coleman in concert at Bill Graham’s new Fillmore West.
August
9, 1968
Steppenwolf
opened at the Avalon Ballroom.
August
29, 1968
Cream
and Electric Flag opened at Fillmore West.
September
25, 1968
Five-day
Radical Theatre Festival at San Francisco State College featured Bread
and Puppet Theatre, Teatro Campesino, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
October
12, 1968
GI’s
and Vets marched for peace from Golden Gate Park to Civic Center.
October
14, 1968
27
soldiers protesting the Viet Nam War charged with mutiny at the Presidio
of San Francisco.
October
24, 1968
The
Airplane opened at the Fillmore West ballroom.
November
6, 1968
First
day of San Francisco State College strike.
November
26, 1968
Robert
R. Smith, President of San Francisco State College, resigned.
November
26, 1968
S.I.
Hayakawa named acting president, San Francisco State College.
March
20, 1969
Janis
Joplin and Her Band opened at Winterland.
March
21, 1969
San
Francisco State College strike ended.
March
27, 1969
Bo
Diddley opened at Winterland.
May
7, 1969
Grateful
Dead and the Airplane perform at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park.
May
24, 1969
Haight-Ashbury
Festival in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
May
28, 1969
People’s
Park Bail Ball benefit held at Winterland. Creedance Clearwater Revival
and the Airplane entertained.
June
13, 1969
Jefferson
Airplane with Grace Slick at the Family Dog Ballroom at the Great Highway.
The show was broadcast by KSAN.
June
17, 1969
Woody
Herman and His Orchestra at the Fillmore West.
June
25, 1968
The
Doors, Lonnie Mack, Elvin
Bishop Group at the Cow Palace.
July
19, 1969
The
Who appeared at Fillmore West.
August
22, 1969
Three-day
Wild West Festival at Kezar Stadium with Janis Joplin, Turk
Murphy, Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, Country Joe, Santana, Sly and
the Family Stone, and the Youngbloods.
October
9, 1969
Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young opened at Fillmore West.
October
21, 1969
Beat-era
author Jack Keroac dies
November
13, 1969 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Cold
Blood, Joy of Cooking, and Lamb at Winterland.
November
15, 1969
Thousands
of people participated in a peace march.
November
20, 1969
American
Indians seized and occupied Alcatraz Island.
December
6, 1969
Rolling
Stones appeared at the Altamont Speedway near Livermore after they
were denied use of Golden Gate Park. One person was murdered during the
show. Marked the end of the San Francisco Rock era.
