San Franciscan Nights

San Franciscan Nights         Volume 1/2    8CDR


1 Gov. Ronald Reagan [1966]
Jefferson Airplane -Fillmore Aud. [2-4-67]
2 Somebody to Love
3 Get Together,
4 Let Me In
5 This is my Life
6 White Rabbit
7 Plastic Fantastic Lover
8 She has Funny Cars
9 Instrumental
10 3/5th's of a Mile in 10 seconds
11  Fat Angel

Country Joe and the Fish -Avalon Ballroom [1967]
1 Thought Dream
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Avalon Ballroom [1968]
2 Ball & Chain, Bye
3 Bye Baby
4 Woman is the Loser
5 All is Lonliness
6 Call on Me
13th Floor Elevators - Avalon Ballroom [6-67]
7 Roller Coaster
Captain Beefhart and his Magic Band 
 				Avalon Ballroom [Fall-1967]
8 Woe-is-Uh-Me-Bop
Creedence Clearwater Revival 
Fillmore West [Summer-1968]
9 SuzieQ

San Franciscan Nights         Volume 1/2    8CDR

San Franciscan Nights        Volume 3/4     8CDR

Mother Earth -Winterland [9-67] 
1 Stranger In My Own Hometown
2 Without love
3 Help me Jesus
Oxford Circle - Studio [1966] 
4 Foolish Woman
5 Mind Destruction
The Sons of Adam -Studio [1966]
6 Feathered Fish;
7 Electric Prunes commercial
The Great Society -The Matrix [1966]
8 Downhome Girl
9 Long Lost Lover
10 Like a Raven
11 Somebody to Love
12 Sure Lovin' Man
13 The Man in Black
14 Father Bruce

The Charlatans
1 When I Go Sailing By --Red Dog Saloon [6-65]
2 Alabama Bound--Avalon Ballroom [1967]
3 Codine Blues --Studio [1967]
4 32-20
5 I Saw Her
6 The Shadow Knows
7 Long Comma Viper
8 By Hook or by Crook
9 Sidetrack (with Lynn Hughes)
10 Devil (with Lynn Hughes)
The Grateful Dead -Winterland [10/7/66]
11 Cream Puff War
12 Schoolgirl
13 Stealin' 
Cream -Fillmore Aud. [8-67] 
14 N.S.U.

San Franciscan Nights        Volume 3/4     8CDR


San Franciscan Nights        Volume 5/6     8CDR


Moby Grape -Avalon Ballroom [12-31-67]
1 Hey Grandma
2 Murder In My Heart/Jam/Aunt Jessie
Quicksilver Messenger Service 
Fillmore West [11-68] 
3 Jam/Babe
4 I'm Gonna Leave You
5 Smokestack Lightning
6 Mona/Maiden of the Cancer Moon/Calvary

The original order is for the segment on this cdr to be played between the two bands above
Steve Miller Blues Band -The Matrix [1-27-67]
1 Mercury Blues
2 Superbird
3 Instrumental (short)
4 Your Old Lady
5 Instrumental (long)

Notes on the Bands:
For those of you who are new to this music, here are some facts on the bands that you might or might not be familiar with:
13th Floor Elevators: a band from Texas with a big Bay Area following. Rocky Erikson was their leader and has achieved cult status these days.
Captain Beefhart: Ry Cooder had already left the band by the time this tape was made.
Mother Earth: their female singer was Tracy Nelson who still can belt out the blues these days. Check out her new CD.
Oxford Circle: don't know much about them except that they were on a lot of early posters including the "Skull and Roses" poster.
The Sons of Adam: an LA band on many early Avalon posters.

San Franciscan Nights        Volume 5/6     8CDR

San Franciscan Nights        Volume 7/8     8CDR

The Daily Flash -Avalon Ballroom [1966]
1 Instrumental,
2 It Takes A Lot To Laugh... 
Country Joe & The Fish w/J. Casady, M. Hart, & D. Getz -Fillmore West [1968] 
3 Flying High 
4 Jam 
The Sons of Champlin - Avalon Ballroom [3-30-69]
5 Blueberry Hill intro 
6 Fat City
7 Jesus Is Coming
8 Get High

Santana -Avalon Ballroom [3-69]
1 intro 
2 inst 
3 instr 
4 In the Way 
It's a Beautiful Day -Fillmore West [1970]
5 Wasted Union Blues

Notes on the Bands: (continued)
The Great Society: Grace Slick's original band.
The Charlatans: one of the most important bands of that era, but forgotten by history.
Cream: we included them because they influenced so many bands after their Fillmore appearances.
Steve Miller Blues Band: this is the original band with Boz Scaggs.
Quicksilver: this is the 4 man band not the original band with Jim Murray.
The Daily Flash: another L.A. band that appeared on many early Avalon posters.
Country Joe & The Fish Jam: check Out Bill Graham talking to the crowd.


San Franciscan Nights        Volume 7/8     8CDR


This letter is to accompany the tapes that make up the tree called San Franciscan Nights. Its purpose is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hell's Honkie's Tape Club. Please copy this letter so it accompany the tapes for people further down the tree. It is our expressed desire to share this music with everybody, and it is our hope you will SHARE
this with other people. That means don't trade it or ask for any 2 for 1's trades that some people think is ethical. Just share it!

The other important thing is that at least for the first time you hear the tapes go in the order of the tape number rather than skipping around. We spent a lot of time figuring out what band should go after what band, so at least for the first time listen to it in order. After that you're on your own. Oh yes, the most important thing of all: PLAY IT LOUD!!
The bands played loud and that's the way it should be heard.

Hell's Honkie's Tape Club's 25th 
"8 hours of my favorite tape filler from that golden period of San Francisco music: 1966-1970;This music is not around in complete sets and I have no idea what generation the tapes are.  It's simply wonderful filler from some of my old reels.  The quality is generally very good and this is a long overdue representation of the old ballroom scene"