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San Francisco 1960s overview
During the 1950s San Francisco supported several folk clubs including the hungry i, where the Kingston Trio recorded a best-selling live album in 1958. But the city was a backwater of the national music industry until 1966, when promoters such as Bill Graham began booking local bands such as the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Fillmore Auditorium and other large dance venues. The conventions of live performance were redefined: guitarists played solos lasting for several minutes, light shows and bare-breasted dancers provided distractions, and members of the audience dressed as spectacularly ...(100 of 240 words)