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...
by Antion | Jun 22, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, LA Recording, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
June 17th of this year represents the 50th anniversary of the second day (Saturday) of the fabled Monterey Pop Festival. Here’s how I spent that day. Because we were through with our performance on Friday night, we were able to kick back for the rest of the festival....
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