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Liquid-Lighting MISCELLANY
ABBREVIATIONS Used Herein:
- AOR = the book The Art of Rock by Paul Grushkin
- BG = the Bill Graham Presents numbered poster series
- FD = The Family Dog numbered poster series
PHOTOGRAPHS of Liquid Lighting:
- 1) In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album by Iron Butterfly: front album cover
- 2) untitled [Santana III] album by Santana: front & back album cover
- 3) Sunfighter album by Paul Kantner & Grace Slick: inner "gate-fold sleeve" photo (photography by Joan Chase & Mary Ann Mayer)
- 4) Thirty Seconds Over Winterland album by Jefferson Airplane (1973): inner "gate-fold sleeve" photo
- 5) poster of 12/5&6/71 Santana w/ Buddy Miles also Country Joe & Heavy Water [Lightshow?] (features picture(s) of liquid lighting; at Honolulu International Center Arena, Oahu, Hawaii; artwork by San Andreas Fault; "http://perso.wanadoo.fr/santanamigos/1971.htm")
- 6) AOR 4.59 poster (reprinted in The Art of Rock by Paul Grushkin)
- 7) Fly by Jefferson Airplane [probably a DVD]: cover
- [8) POSSIBLY AOR 3.139 poster (reprinted in The Art of Rock by Paul Grushkin)]
- [9) AND MANY OTHERS...]
1960's VENUES (re. psychedelia: music, poster art, & lighting):
- MAJOR:
- 1a) The Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco) [also see "Bill Graham Presents"]
- 1b) The Fillmore West (San Francisco) [also see "Bill Graham Presents"]
- 1c) The Fillmore East (New York City) [also see "Bill Graham Presents"]
- 2) The Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco) [also see "Family Dog Productions"]
- 3) The Matrix (San Francisco) [also see "Neon Rose"]
- LESSER:
- The Aquarius Theater (Hollywood, California)
- The Ark (Sausalito [,California?])
- The Armadillo (Austin, Texas)
- The Berkeley Community Theatre (Berkeley, California)
- The California Hall
- The Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco, California)
- The Continental Ballroom
- The Crystal Ballroom (Portland, Oregon; operated by The Family Dog)
- The Denver Dog (Denver, Colorado; operated by The Family Dog)
- Eagles Auditorium (Seattle, Washington)
- The Electric Grandmother (became, after a couple shows, "The Vulcan...")
- Experience, Thee: see "Thee Experience" under "T"
- The Finnish Brotherhood Ballroom
- The Firehouse
- The Hippodrome (San Diego, California; managed by Trans Love Airways Productions)
- The Kaleidoscope
- Longshoremans/Longshoremen's [?] Hall (San Francisco, California; re. the 1966 Trips Festival, etc.)
- the LSD [Light, Sound, Dimension] Theater (a venue, and probably a lightshow company as well)
- Nektar's Liquid Light and Sound Theatre [?] [see "lightshows" under "N"]
- The Pauley Ballroom
- the Red Dog Saloon (Virginia City, Nevada)
- [The Retina/Retinal Circus (?? - probably just a lightshow company and not a venue also)]
- Thee Experience (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- The Trip (Los Angeles, California)
- UFO club (London, England)
- The University of San Francisco (San Francisco, California)
- the Vulcan Gas Company/ The Electric Grandmother (Austin, Texas)
- The Western Front
- The Winterland [also see "Bill Graham Presents"]
- the World (Garden City, Long Island, New York; had the most advanced [psychedelic?] lightshow of its time)
- The Zap Palace
- and many others
BEST & WORST Liquid-Lighting Poster BILLINGS:
- Smallest/Worst Billings:
- FD 7 (5/6-7/66; Bill Ham; very tiny lettering)
- BG 273
- FD 9 (5/20-22/66; Bill Ham; quite small lettering, but not as small as FD 7)
- BG 124 (small lettering)
- BG 120
- BG 126
- [BG 125 = too abstract to read well]
- Best/Largest Billings:
- AOR 3.55
- AOR 2.313 (even better than AOR 2.314-2.316)
- AOR 2.314, 2.315, & 2.316
- BG 261 ("LIGHTS BY ORB" lettering is larger & brighter than the lettering of the dates!)
- FD 16 (Bill Ham; "Lights By Bill Ham" written inside Smokey the Bear's guitar - very noticeable placement)
- AOR 2.195 ("THE WORLD'S GREATEST LIGHT SHOW" in letters as large as The Doors' name (!), but it doesn't mention who did the lightshow)
- AOR 2.90 (re. Joshua Light Show)
- AOR 2.91 (re. Joshua Light Show)
Liquid-Lightshow DATES, esp. EARLIEST:
- 1965:
- AOR 2.4, 2.5, & 2.6 (1965 Palo Alto, CA "Acid Test")
- 1966:
- In Chronological Order:
- BG 1 (2/4-6/66; "with Sights and Sounds of the Trips Festival !")
- possibly BG 2 (3/18-20/66; re. Trips Festival)
- AOR 2.211 (event dated 3/19/66 re. Elias Romero, etc.)
- FD 4 (4/8-[possibly "&"]9/66; "The Light Sights By Tony Martin")
- FD 5 (4/22-23/66; "Lights And Stuff By Tony Martin")
- FD 7 (5/6-7/66; Bill Ham; very tiny lettering)
- FD 8 (5/13-14/66; Bill Ham; "Lights By Bill Ham")
- FD 9 (5/20-22/66; Bill Ham; quite small lettering, but not as small as FD 7)
- BG 8 (5/27-29/66; Pop-Op Rock with "Andy Warhol and his Plastic Inevitable" & others)
- FD 13 (6/17-18/66; Bill Ham; possibly says "BILL HAM In Color & Bk & White")
- FD 14 (6/24-25/66; Bill Ham; "lights by BILL HAM")
- FD 15 (7/1&3/66; Bill Ham; "Lights by Bill Ham")
- FD 16 (7/8-10/66; Bill Ham; "Lights By Bill Ham" written inside Smokey the Bear's guitar - very noticeable placement)
- FD 17A (7/15-16/66; Bill Ham; "LIGHTS BY BILL HAM")
- FD 17 (7/22-23/66; Bill Ham; "Lights By Bill Ham & Co.")
- FD 18 (7/28-30/66; Bill Ham; "LIGHTS by BILL HAM")
- FD 19 (8/05-06/66; Bill Ham; "LIGHTS by BILL HAM")
- FD 20 ("LIGHTS by BILL HAM & co.")
- FD 21 ("Lights By BILL HAM")
- FD 22 ("LIGHTS by BILL HAM")
- [FD 23-28 mention no lighting at all]
- Other 1966 psychedelic-lighting gigs:
- AOR 2.7 (1966 "Acid Test")
- AOR 2.15 (circa 1966 event)
- AOR 2.16 (1966 event; "LIGHTS BY REGINALD & A MINOR SCENE BY BLACK ARTS WEST")
- AOR 2.40, 2.41, & 2.43 (1966 "Trips Festival")
- [AOR 2.42 is from the same event as #s 2.40, 2.41 & 2.43, but doesn't mention lighting at all]
- Unchecked (not pictured in The Art of Rock):
- FD 11
- FD 24
- FD 34
- FD 36-38
- FD 40
- January-April 1967:
- BG 49 (2/10-12/67; "On Sat. Lights By Head Lights")
- Unchecked (not pictured in The Art of Rock):
- FD 42
- FD 44
- FD 46-51
- FD 53
- FD 55
- FD 57
- FD 59
- [PEAK ("Golden Era"): circa 1967 to circa 1970-1971]
- END-OF-THE-PEAK Liquid Lightshows:
- AOR 4.13 = 1971
- and several others
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