The Mellotron Group

Under the heading of   "Is somebody copying all this down?"

At the Aragon the spring after the fire at the Electric Theater, I worked back 
stage at a "Festival" show that featured
The Litter
Bob Seeger System
Pacific Gas and Electric
Flying Burrito Brothers
The Stooges
Rotary Connection
Alice Cooper
The MC5
and several more bads that memory has dimmed...................(remember it was 
just after the 60's)
This show was filmed. I remember speaking backstage with a fellow on the film 
crew. Bushy hair and full beard with a strong Scottish accent. He said he had 
been on the Woodstock film crew. So somewhere the film of this show is stored 
waiting to be seen again.



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From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 12:07:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] mkII

  


On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:00 PM, william Beith wrote:

That was the Electric Theater AKA The Kinetic Playground,  owned by Aaron Russo, 
who later was Bette Midlers manager. This was the old Michael Todd theater. The 
seats were taken out, floor leveled, and theater screens were placed from 
ceiling to 8 feet off the floor creating a circular room. A projection booth 
called the eye was installed in the center of the ceiling (accessed from the 
floor above) which projected a Filmore type lightshow around the entire room. 
The stage sat against one wall. Nefarious activity as the cause of the fire was 
the rumor at the time.
>
>I hung out there...saw all sorts of shows....Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart singing, 
>Jefferson Airplane, Zep (first Chicago performance) , Iron Butterfly, T Rex on 
>and on and on.........
>
>When it burned all the activity moved two blocks east to the Aragon Ballroom 
>where I worked for a year.  

And thanks to you, William!

Is somebody copying all this down?

;)