Sly Stone was a successful DJ before founding Sly & the Family Stone, spinning under the name “Sly the King of Soul,” at KSOL in San Francisco.Read more
On New Year’s Eve 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, The Blues Brothers Show Band and Revue were opening for New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Grateful Dead when someone laced the entire band’s drinks with acid just before the set.Read more
Legendary concert promoter Bill Graham founded The Fillmore East (NYC), The Fillmore West, and the Winterland Ballroom (both San Francisco), which were the most influential venues in the country in the 1960s & 1970s.Read more
The Grateful Dead played the final show at San Francisco’s famous Winterland Ballroom with an eight hour jam on New Year’s Eve, 1978. They had a hot breakfast buffet at dawn.Read more
The hit song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” was released to promote Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.Read more
On Thanksgiving Day In 1976, The Band had a farewell concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco called “The Last Waltz”. Martin Scorsese filmed it as a documentary.Read more
