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Pink Floyd performing One Of These Days, a BBC Radio Session recorded on 30 Sept. '71.

Thanks, @Mutt Daeng. My daughter seriously wants to go to the UK but I'm a bit concerned about how she will be received there. She looks Thai, speaks American English, and was raised from birth by a German. She doesn't know what the capital city is, the name of the river which runs through London, what exactly makes up the United Kingdom, or who the King is. She does, though, know of Queen Elizabeth. Harry and Megan . . . never heard of them. So not all terrible. A close and dear friend of ours who currently lives in Blighty is cleaning out his garage as a starter for her as I write (but I must provide the bedding) and promises to teach her the Queen's English and some of Britain's fabulous history. I now refer to her as farang and she's been instructed to refer to french fries as chips going forward. Now to wrap it all up I need to find a great British restaurant in Bangkok where we can celebrate this momentous event and where I can savour a pale ale and introduce my daughter to some of the UK's finest delectables . . . such as Yorkshire pudding (yum). Some examples of what I would like to see on the menu (my sincere apologies for wetting your appetite, especially if there is naught you can do about it ).

The final follow-up to share the excellent news that my daughter's UK passport is available to be picked up. Seven weeks from the interview date, so not so terribly bad. Now we have to find a good UK restaurant in Bangkok to go celebrate. Suggestions anyone?

Perhaps Sha Na Na was the first '50's retro band. Back in the States in the late '60s there were a number of "oldie" stations. "Oldie" being a mere 10~15 years old. Greaser music. A Teenager In Love off of their debut '69 Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay! album.

Derek & The Dominos performing Tell The Truth at the Fillmore East on Oct. 23-24, '70. Found on the Derek & The Dominos: Live At The Fillmore released in '94.

Perhaps they're best know for a true '60's classic, the title track of their '67 Let's Live For Today LP. This is the uncensored version so use discretion before hitting "play."

As with so many artists I can't find any '70 Fillmore East recordings of Pacific Gas & Electric but I did come across this excellent performance of Motor City's Burning recorded live at the Federal Drug Rehab Center in Lexington, KY, in Aug. '70.

The Elvin Bishop Group performing Crazy 'Bout You Baby at the Fillmore East on Sept. 23, '70.

Ten Years After performing I'm Going Home at Fillmore East recorded on February 27–28, '70, off of their Live At The Fillmore East 1970 LP released in 2001.

The New Riders Of The Purple Sage performing Henry at Fillmore East on May 15, '70.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse featuring guitarist Danny Whitten performing Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere at Fillmore East on Mar. 6, '70. Off of the Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Live At The Fillmore East CD, released in 2006

I find the audio quality in the above concert performance lacking. So here's a BBC recording circa '70-'71 of this beautiful number. Found on their 2017 release, The Early Years 1971 Reverber/ation

Pink Floyd performing their Atom Heart Mother classic Fat Old Sun at Fillmore East on Sept. 27, '70.

Johnny Winter performing And - Rollin' And Tumblin' at Fillmore East on Oct. 3, '70.

Van Morrison performing These Dreams Of You at Fillmore East on Sept. 23, '70.

Sly & The Family Stone performing Dance To The Music at Fillmore East on Oct. 4-5, '70.

The Grateful Dead performing Casey Jones at Fillmore East on Feb. 13-14, '70.

Albert King performing Oh Pretty Woman at the Fillmore East on Sept. 23, '70.

Renaissance performing The Wanderer at the Fillmore East on Feb. 20-21, '70.

Laura Nyro performing Gibsom Street at the Fillmore East on Dec. 23-24, '70 and appears on her The Nights Before Christmas (New York Broadcast 1970) 2020 release.

A splendid bit of rock 'n' roll history. Apropos that Hendrix' dedication song was Machine Gun. Excellent audio quality, which wasn't always the case for Fillmore concerts. Tune in and drop out with Jimi Hendrix live at Fillmore East 1970 | Requiem for Fred Hampton and Mark Clark | Full Concert A musical and video interpretation of the December 4th, 1969 shooting of Illinois Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and by members of the Chicago Police and agents the office of state attorney Edward Hanrahan, an event that proved seminal in postwar American race relations social history. It is recounted through interwoven sound and film footage of the January 1st, 1970 concert performance by Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, and Billy Cox (under the impromptu name, "A Band of Gypsys") at the Fillmore East theater in New York City's East Village and archival video of the Vietnam era. The short film features a vivid split-screen montage (evocative of Canadian director Norman Jewison's 1968 "The Thomas Crown Affair') of the turmoil, violence and pyrotechnical chaos that engulfed U.S. domestic and international politics in that epoch.

Can't think of what to play next? Need some inspiration? Here's a gold mine for folks. Bill Graham Show Archive When Bill Graham decided to close the doors to the Fillmore West for the final time in 1971, he knew there was only one band worthy of accomplishing the task of headlining the final show: Santana. The group was long a pet-project of Graham’s — he got them onto the bill at Woodstock before they even had a record out — and Carlos Santana himself viewed the promoter’s various venues as sonic laboratories. “We learned to create different experiments with sounds and rhythms and songs and moods at the Fillmore West,” he once told Rock Cellar. Other folks noticed too. “After a while I realized even Jimi Hendrix was listening to us,” Santana added. “All of a sudden Jimi Hendrix has congas and timbales too.” Despite the fact that the band was embroiled in personal conflicts, they played a hot set that night, filled with tracks from their soon-to-be-No. 1 album Santana III. The fact they had to go on after Creedence Clearwater Revival combined with the overwhelming sense of finality in the air certainly helped spur them to give it their best. The show finally ended in the wee hours of the morning with a lengthy jam on the song that helped make them stars “Soul Sacrifice.” As send-offs go, it doesn’t get much more impassioned or emotional as that.

The Grass Roots were probably best known for their '68 single, Midnight Confessions. Another pop band that featured brass, and another AM radio standard in '68. Found on their '68 Golden Grass: Their Greatest Hits LP.

The American Breed were a one hit wonder pop band, but a good tune with a great beat. This song was a standard on AM radio in '67 and '68. A must for your 45 RPM record collection back in the day.

Johnny Winter performing It's My Own Fault at the Fillmore East on Oct. 2-3, '70.