Northern California Folk Rock Festival - 1968-05-18/19 - San Jose, CA (AUD/LAC)

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Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose CA
May 18-19 1968

STEVE MILLER MAY 19.1968
1-Living in the U.S.A.
2-Steppin' Stone
3-I Just Want A Little Bit
4-Fanny Mae
5-?
6-Blues With A Feeling
7-?

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ELECTRIC FLAG MAY 19,1968
1-Sould Searchin'
2-Groovin' Is Easy
3-Hey Joe
4-Sweet Home Chicago
5-Killin' Floor
6-Texas
7-Another Country
8-Wine

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YOUNGBLOODS MAY 18,1968
1-Intro
2-Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
3-Rain Song
4-Beautiful
5-Reason To Believe
6-On Sir Francis Drake
7-Four in the Morning
8-Wine Song
9-Darkness,Darkness
10-Too Much Monkey Business
11-Get Togther

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JANIS JOPLIN AND BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING CO. MAY 18,1968
1-Brownsville
2-Roadblock
3-Summertime
4-Coo Coo
5-Combination of the Two
6-Farewell Song
7-Piece of my Heart

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COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH MAY 19,1968
1-Rock And Soul Music >
2-Love
3-Masked Marauder
4-Flying High
5-Superbird/

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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
May 18 1968 ( Day )
Northern California Folk-Rock Festival,
Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose CA
1-White Rabbit
2-Plastic Fantastic Lover
3-Watch Her Ride
4-Today
5-Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
6-Greasy Heart ( Track changes sources at the beginning )
7-Fat Angel
8-Star Track
9-Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon
10-Somebody to Love
11-Taper's Comments

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Electric Flag w/ Erma Franklin - 1968-04-xx - San Francisco, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

April 19,20 Or 21,1968 
Carousel Ballroom, 
S.F.,Ca. 

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Erma Franklin - vocals 
Mike Bloomfield - lead guitar 
Terry Clements - tenor sax 
Virgil Gonsalves - baritone sax, flute 
Stemsy Hunter - alto sax 
Marcus Doubleday - trumpet 
Herbie Rich - organ (possibly some baritone sax on 5) 
Harvey Brooks - bass 
Buddy Miles - drums, lead vocals (tracks 1,2,3) 
Nick Gravenites - lead vocals (tracks 6,7) 

Disc 1 
01. Uptight 
02. Day Tripper 
03. Drivin’ Wheel 
04. Drivin’ Wheel continued 
05. The Theme [Electric Flag’s solo instrumental is a cover of Miles Davis’ The Theme] 
06. Goin’ Down Slow 
07. Big Boss Man 

Disc 2 
01. Dr. Feelgood 
02. I Heard It Through The Grapevine/Mercy/Tell Mama/Chain of Fools 
03. Piece of my Heart 
04. Hold On I’m Coming 

Encore 
05. Everyday I Have The Blues 
06. Killing Floor


Erma Franklin is sister to the well-known Aretha. Erma’s career for Shout! Records resulted in several single releases in 1967 including Big Boss Man and her take of Piece Of My Heart, which Janis Joplin defined as her stomping ground. 

This recording was made when Erma took the stage at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco for three nights in April from the 19th to the 21st in 1968. Backing her was Mike Bloomfield’s Electric Flag, a blues rock group. 

Much of the research done in identifying the date, venue and personnel was by Dave M of the westcoastacidandpsychedelia Yahoo group. Says Dave: “The week before at the Carousel (April 14, 1968), there had been an unscheduled Sunday show and jam session featuring Quicksilver Messenger Service and numerous other musicians. The tape circulates, and since Gary Duncan jokes about Easter Sunday, it makes it easy to reliably date the show. All this points to another Sunday jam session, so if I had to guess I would pick Sunday, April 21 for the date of this show. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” 

Dave also makes some conclusions about just who was playing what. You can read it all here http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=299581 

This is a typical San Francisco show for its variety of styles and its close knit community of musicians. Franklin’s repertoire covered The Beatles to Stevie Wonder and even down to Elvis with Big Boss Man. The Electric Flag surprise with a Miles Davis cover. She was an R’n'B singer who was not averse to pop or rock. 

Erma Franklin’s best known recording was the original version of Piece of My Heart she recorded with Bert Berns. At this concert, she gives a shout of support to a younger Janis Joplin for “making it all happen with this song”. She left the music business in the ’70s. Erma Franklin died in 2002 at age 64.