The Avalon Ballroom is open for music again for the first time since 1968. Young Steve Smiley wasn't even born when Big Brother and the Holding Co., Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service ...

The reissue’s bonus disc will boast live music recorded January 24th to 26th, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California (the recordings were among the first live performances ...

The Avalon Ballroom hosted bands like Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Steve Miller Band, 13th Floor Elevators, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Live at the Avalon Ballroom unearths two of the Burritos' opening stints for the Grateful Dead from tapes lying dormant in the Dead's sizable vault until earlier this year.

The poster for the Grateful Dead’s Feb. 27, 1969, concert at the Fillmore West Ballroom in San Francisco. Lee Conklin and Herb Greene/Wolfgang's ...

When the Grateful Dead celebrated its 50 th anniversary in 2015, the band hardly downplayed the moment: The surviving members congregated for a series of Fare Thee Well shows and released a 50 ...

The Grateful Dead are the most thoroughly documented band, in performance, in rock & roll history. They recorded virtually every note they played on stage for 30 years — and have officially ...

Many of the biggest acts from the 1960’s played at Avalon including The Doors, Steve Miller Band and The Grateful Dead. And of course, the Holding Company on numerous occasions.

The Burritos sound confident delivering lines such as “We’ve got our recruits/And our green mohair suits” to a crowd waiting to see headliners the Grateful Dead, and the demo of “$1000 ...