Band: Geronimo Black [London: filming 200 Motels Movie]
[Note: Background Colors = blue: rehearsing/recording; = pink: bad event; = lilac: good event] |
Sept. 1969-1973 | * mentioned by JCB | |||
Date | JCB* | City | Venue | Comments / Sources |
Sept 1969 | ||||
Geronimo Black Band: | Formed in Sept. | |||
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| 3 rehearsals before 1st gig [JCB] |
Sept/Oct | √ | Pasadena | Church venue | |
Oct? |
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| Recording for Nolan Porter album |
Late '69 | Topanga Canyon | Topanga Corral | House band for around 6 months, 4 nights a week [JCB] | |
1970 |
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| Original GB band breaks up after 3 months and JCB keeps gig going using pick-up guys [JCB] |
Jan? | Move to Chatworth, 10 miles north of Woodland Hills | |||
√ | Janis Joplin "sang a song with" Geronimo Black at Topanga Corral a few weeks before she dies (Oct 4) [JCB] | |||
Feb 9 | Burnt Weeny Sandwich released | |||
Aug 10 | Weasels Ripped My Flesh released | |||
1971 | ||||
200 Motels | Fly to London 2nd week of Jan [JCB Memoirs] | |||
3rd & 4th weeks Jan |
| London / Windsor |
| 2 weeks rehearsal |
Feb 1 |
| Windsor |
| 3rd day of filming [JCB] |
Feb 6 |
| Windsor |
| last day of filming [JCB] |
Feb 9 |
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| earthquake! |
Fires! | ||||
Move to Reseda | ||||
Geronimo Black Band: | ||||
early summer | GB reformed | |||
2 weeks |
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| Devonshire Studios | Recorded 5 songs for demo tape |
FZ & MOI: | ||||
Aug 07 | √ | LA | UCLA, Pauley Pavilion | Sings ‘Lonesome Cowboy Burt’ at partial showing of 200 Motels |
Oct 4 | 200 Motels released | |||
Geronimo Black Band: | ||||
Dec 10 |
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| Sign Contract with MCA - $50,000 up front |
1972 | ||||
Geronimo Black Band: | ||||
Jan for 5 weeks |
| LA | Sound City Studios | Recording Geronimo Black |
May |
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| Geronimo Black released |
√ | Seattle | 2-week residency including a TV show | ||
√ | LA | Trini Lopez's Place in Hollywood [JCB] | ||
1973 | ||||
Geronimo Black Band: | Last gigs - early '73 | |||
April |
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| recorded 3 songs [JCB] |
April? | √ | San Miguel, NM | 2 night concert | |
May | Moved back to El Paso | |||
(Unaccounted for | "We played in LA a few times at The Santa Monica Civic Centre" (Geronimo Black?) | |||
I met Jimmy back in the 70's at the Brass Ring in Encino, Ca. when Geronimo Black was playing there. [Steve Fischler] |