by Antion | Jul 16, 2019 | 1967, Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, London, Music History, Vic Briggs
29th August, 1967 Only two days later, we were slated to appear on one of the UK’s hottest TV shows. Simon Dee was originally a pirate radio DJ on Radio Caroline. In 1967, BBC 1 gave him his own TV show, the first chat show on Brit TV, called Dee Time. It proved to be...
by Antion | Jul 16, 2019 | 1967, Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Music History, Vic Briggs
August 11th, 1967 I had returned from California to London to find the Brit version of the “Summer of Love” in full swing. On August 11th, we played the Friday night session of the national Jazz and Blues Festival. I had played this festival in 1965 with Steampacket...
by Antion | Jul 15, 2019 | 1967, Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs
24th July, 1967 I returned to London with a swagger in my step. After all, I was 22 years old and I had played not only the first rock music festival in history, but also two legendary venues in California. I would like to think I was not full of myself, but I...
by Antion | Jul 15, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs
July 10th, 1967 After the gig at the Whiskey, we were free. The tour was over and we had two weeks before our next commitment. Bill Kreutzman, Phil Lesh and their ladies had very graciously invited me to come back to San Francisco and spend some more time with them....
by Antion | Jul 13, 2019 | Antion Meredith, LA Recording, Music History, San Francisco, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
July 6th, 2019 David Meltzer was a poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Some of his contemporaries were Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who described David as “one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San...
by Antion | Jul 10, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Music History, San Francisco, Vic Briggs, Whiskey a Gogo
July 6th, 1967 After finishing at the Fillmore, we flew back to LA to play a few days at the Whiskey a Gogo. The Whiskey – that’s all we, and everybody else ever called it – is located on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, very close to Beverly Hills, in an area...
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