by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 30, 2026 | Reviews
A long circulating and important glimpse of the formative Grateful Dead will receive a widespread official release on its 60-year anniversary date. Grateful Dead, Fillmore Auditorium 1966, was first included in the huge 2015 career spanning box set 30 Trips Around the...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 30, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
One day removed from one of the most famed Grateful Dead performances in history, December 30, 1977 contains a mysterious grace all of its own. The Grateful Dead were known for legendary New Year’s runs throughout their history and the year 1977 was one of the...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 6, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
On May 10, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience played two shows at New York City’s famed 2,600 seat Fillmore East. Hendrix was in town working diligently on his upcoming record yet to be named, Electric Ladyland. It worked out perfectly that while Jimi was recording in...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 3, 2016 | Reviews
Today the first of only four concert appearances by the Grateful Dead in 1975 is grooving in the ‘rock room’. For those versed in the history of the band, in October of 1974 the band played their ‘retirement’ shows at the Winterland arena, the concerts...
by talkfromtherockroom | Sep 15, 2013 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
There are blues on the ceiling of the rock room this morning emanating from a early live performance by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Shuffling like a sexy street walker from my stereo speakers, the band struts it stuff. Hailing from the Fillmore Auditorium on...
