Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
record store scene frequently hosts free in-store performances by local and touring artists at both locations. See p.324 & p.260. aa The Fillmore, San Francisco Classic ballroom auditorium from the 1960s that’s still a terrific place to catch upand-comers and longtime favorites alike. See p.220. aa Great American Music
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole · 17 Mar 2006 · 255pp · 90,456 words
simultaneously. Modern rock is the main attraction, but rockabilly, funk, acid jazz, gospel, and the spoken word are also on the bill. The Fillmore Auditorium has been synonymous with San Francisco’s rock scene since Bill Graham put on his first psychedelic concert there in 1965. Shuttered for years, the Fillmore reopened in the
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
was a series of dress rehearsals for the Trips Festival in December and early January. Bill Graham had organized a benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe at the Fillmore Auditorium in December, the night before the Pranksters held the second public Acid Test at Muir Beach. Then the Pranksters held an even larger
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
and performed at a benefit concert for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group that supports access to technology. The concert took place at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, which had been made famous by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Jimi Hendrix. She sang Tracy Chapman’s anthem “Talkin’ bout a Revolution
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder · 1 Sep 2008 · 1,336pp · 415,037 words
any band she liked. Susie Jr. chose her favorite, Quicksilver Messenger Service, a psychedelic rock band that had been among the groups launched at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium in the 1960s. Its members looked like any normal rock band. As the group of twenty-something men with white-boy afros and nipple-length
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words
Vietnam War and artificial intelligence and robotics were heavily funded by the military, but the SAIL ethos was closer to the countercultural style of the San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium than it was to the Pentagon on the Potomac. Hans Moravec, an eccentric young graduate student, was camping in the attic of SAIL, while
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
. In the spring of 1966, Warhol’s performance-art extravaganza /troupe of speed freaks, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, accepted an invitation to play the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, a legendary hippie venue. The result was a collision of drug cultures, reports Martin Torgoff in his book Can’t Find My Way Home: America
Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole · 6 Dec 2006 · 769pp · 397,677 words
& Vineyard (Los Olivos), 427 Festival of Arts/Pageant of the Masters (Laguna Beach), 21 Fiesta Village (Knott’s Berry Farm), 614 Filbert Street Steps (San Francisco), 125 Fillmore Street (San Francisco), shopping, 128 Firehouse Number 1 Museum (Nevada City), 336 First Crush (San Francisco), 133 Fisherman’s Festival (Bodega Bay), 204 Fisherman’s Wharf