by Antion | Jul 6, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Mount Tamalpais Ampitheater, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs
July 2nd, 1967 On the Sunday, when we were due to finish at the Fillmore, Eric asked us to play for a benefit at the natural ampitheater Susula had shown me, up on Mount Tamalpais. The benefit was for a children’s school known as The Six Day School, certainly a...
by Antion | Jul 2, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Fillmore Auditorium, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs
June 27th, 1967. Meanwhile, in spite of my euphoric discovery of Northern California, there was a gig to be played. We opened at the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday June 27th 1967, and would play 6 nights, until the following Sunday. We were second on the bill after...
by Antion | Jun 30, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Fillmore Auditorium, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs
June 27th, 1967 I barely had time to recover from my UCLA Med Center experience, when we were on the plane to SFO to play the Fillmore Auditorium. We would be there from June 27th, 1967 to July 2nd. I had renewed my friendship with Bill Kreutzman, the Dead’s...
by Antion | Jun 29, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Vic Briggs
June 24th, 1967. We were in LA, having played the Monterey Pop Festival the previous weekend and staying in a hotel on the fabled Sunset Strip. The trip to Monterey had been hurriedly arranged. The Festival had been a charity gig, a freebee – although we got...
by Antion | Jun 28, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Vic Briggs
That evening I ingested some of the purple-colored LSD that Augustus Owsley Stanley had brought to Monterey. Obviously this had a strong effect on my perception of the evening’s events. I couldn’t handle being out in the crowd so I stayed in the clubroom behind...
by Antion | Jun 23, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Indian Music, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Vic Briggs
I returned from my drive down into Big Sur at about the time I needed to get to the Fairgrounds for Ravi Shankar’s performance on Sunday afternoon, June 18th, 1967. About an hour before the performance, I made my way into the enclosure in front of the stage with prime...
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