Well, this sure is an interesting find:
Fillmore East, February 27, 1970
Looks like the bill was Ten Years After, Doug Kershaw, Zephyr, and maybe John Hammond Jr
This is from the same evening that much of Ten Years After's "Live at the Fillmore East" album comes from.
Wow, Jim, thank you for this. Remarkable footage. Great rare look at Candy Givens. I hope the whole show will surface. Thanks also for the Leland Sklar link. I saw Cobham with Leland, Gary Husband and Dean Brown at BB Kings, a Spectrum anniversary tour. Tommy Bolin was such a great and underrated guitarist/musician.
I hope to see you down the road again at the Ridgefield Playhouse wearing your Teaser T-shirt.
WOW!!! I'm pretty sure this was my first FE show!!! I'd love to see more film!!
[Edited on 5/10/2020 by PeachNutt]
Bomb - love it when this stuff pops up - didn’t know Zephyr had a female singer, she was cool!
Don’t know anywhere near-enough of Tommy’s stuff
Just that he was a monster talent
Further evidence in-deed, thx for posting
Someday I’ll come across Live At Ebbets Field 😉
There was a Bolin Archives album called "Zephyr: Live at Art's Bar and Grill." While it is "good bootleg quality" audio, the show is stunning. At that point, I think Zephyr sounded like the ABB + Janis. It's my favorite live Bolin.
"Live at Ebbets Field 1974" is his most guitar heroic recording. The studio album "Teaser" and Cobham's "Spectrum" are studio must-haves.
Peachnutt, you need to tell the story of that concert!!!
mscott, I am looking forward to live music like you would not believe. Well, yeah, you would believe.
Wish I could say I remembered more - it's only 50years ago - LOL
Ten Years After was the reason we attended the show. I saw John Hammond numerous times and always loved it - lots of open chord slide songs. It's impossible to forget Doug Kershaw because he was so different musically- but he was great. Zephyr was loud rocking music but I really can't recall anything specific. My bad. Ten Years After was great - I remember somewhere in the show everyone rushed the stage when they started I'm Goin' Home", didn't know you could that 
I have to go listen to TYA cd again
[Edited on 5/12/2020 by PeachNutt]
Well, Peachnutt, the fact that you caught that show is amazing, and it's also very cool that you'd get access to recordings of two of the bands from that night! What are the odds?!
Ah yes, that evening at the Fillmore.
I recall years back, before I think it was even an official release, Captain Skipper had gotten a copy of the Ten Years After portion which he had remastered. Either from a board reel or a pre-fm broadcast source I'd have to look it up.
Knowing Zephyr played that night I pleaded with him to check his source and see if that person might have the Zephyr.
Nope.
However, one of my great "unintentional" in person concert experiences was hearing Tommy with The James Gang! Either December of '73 or January '74 as it was on a semester break during my college years. Never knew then how fortunate I had been to actually see him play.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
You lead a charmed life!!
It is sad that there is no great bootleg I know of from the Bolin era James Gang. The Kirshner show is good audio / video but is short and not their best. The other live recordings I’ve heard are all pretty poor audio quality, though the Schaefer fest one seems like a good show. It has “Stratus”!
I neglected to mention that the headlining performer that I went to hear was Johnny Winter And. The James Gang played before Johnny and the opening band out of Chicago was Conqueror Worm, still the most god awful band I've had the misfortune to be present for.
(Conqueror Worm is an Edgar Allen Poe writing)
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
OK I am one of those guys that when you say - "For God's Sake's Man - Don't Listen!" then I am intrigued. LOL
Not sure but I think this is about the right time line. Not as bad as I would have thought but then again playing live + drugs = LOL
Just for you Oldcoot - No flashback intended but if I had to experience it then you better too.
Conqueror Worm
OK I am one of those guys that when you say - "For God's Sake's Man - Don't Listen!" then I am intrigued. LOL
Not sure but I think this is about the right time line. Not as bad as I would have thought but then again playing live + drugs = LOL
Just for you Oldcoot - No flashback intended but if I had to experience it then you better too.
Conqueror Worm
CM you dirty dog, trying to lure me back to hearing fingernails on a chalkboard "singing" again?
Aint gonna do it! Broke out in a cold sweat as the mouse hovered over the link. As I remember it it was like an untalented Robert Plant, only an octave or two higher, screaming like Plant has just punched through a plate glass window and severed a main artery in his arm.
And that's how I will fondly remember it without another listen. 😉
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
C'mon just one hit.
You won't get hooked.
😛
I never saw Candy Givens and she never really became big outside Colorado and New York. Didn't she get high and drown in her bathtub?
Tommy Bolin was a hot technically advanced guitarist. Les Paul man. I heard he last played with Jeff Beck and Jeff said take care of yourself and Tommy said " Don't worry about me...I'll be around a long, long time". Went to his room and snorted some blow, shot up some smack and laid down and died at age 25.
Whichever was his number one Les Paul at his death is one of several hundred guitars owned by Joe Bonamassa now. According to what I read awile back.
