Los Angeles -> San Fransisco -> Hawaii -> Freak Out! Tour -> New York
[Note: Background Colors = blue: rehearsing/recording; = pink: bad event; = lilac: good event] |
Date | JCB* | City | Venue | Comments / Sources |
1965-66 | Band changed their name to The Mothers when they returned to the Broadside [FZappa] - that is, May 9th 1965 | |||
Soul Giants: | ||||
Feb - April | √ | Pomona | Broadside | 6 nites a week for 3 months [JCB] |
Mothers: | ||||
June - Sept | √ | Red Flame | Go Go joint [JCB] | |
√ | Fontana CA | The Shack | Go Go joint [JCB] | |
√ | Tom Cat a go go | For one month -5@ 45min sets per nite, 6 nites per week, $90 per week [JCB] | ||
√ | LA | Brave New World | Alice Stuart [JCB] | |
√ | Culver City | Broadside | Not mentioned other than by JCB | |
Sept 9 | √ | Yardbirds play at Bob Markley house party, MOI joined after finishing a gig | ||
Oct 65 | √ | LA | The Action | Oct 1 - Herb Cohen becomes manager, arranges one month gig, 6 nites a week [JCB]; John Wayne visits Oct 31 |
Nov - Mar 66 | √ | LA | Whisky a Go Go | 22 weeks [JCB] |
Nov 6 | √ | San Francisco | Longshoremens Hall | with Charlatans headlining; ticket |
1966 | ||||
Jan 31-Feb 2 | √ | LA | The Trip | |
Late Jan-Feb |
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| Rehearsing in Seward Street Hollywood studio of Tim Sullivan who owed FZ money [JCB] | |
March |
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| Recording FreakOut! at TTG studios | |
April 7-16 | √ | Hawaii | Da Swamp | Hawaii Residency 1966 (JCB says "whole month" from April 1st) |
May 3-5 | √ | LA | The Trip | with Velvet Underground |
May 6-26 | √ | Hayward | Frenchys | with Neil Diamond; around the 12 to 26 [JCB] |
May 27-29 | √ | San Francisco | Fillmore West | with Andy Warhol's Plastic Inevitable + Velvet Underground + Nico; poster |
June 3-4 | √ | San Francisco | Fillmore West | with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead |
June 24-25 | √ | San Francisco | Fillmore West | with Lenny Bruce; June 27 - FreakOut! released; [poster] |
Mothers of Invention: | ||||
Freakout! Promo Tour | ||||
July | √ | Washington | TV Show - Freakout! Promo Tour | |
July | √ | Detroit | TV Show - Freakout! Promo Tour | |
July 12 | √ | Windsor, Ontario | Swinging Time | TV Show - Freakout! Promo Tour |
July | √ | Dallas TX | TV Show - Freakout! Promo Tour | |
Back in LA | ||||
July 23 | √ | LA | Danish Centre | GUAMBO (Great Underground Arts Masked Ball & Orgy); with The Factory, Sound Machine |
Aug 13 | LA | Shrine Exposition Hall | with The Factory | |
Aug |
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| Rehearsing at Lindy Opera House when Billy Mundi joined [JCB] | |
Aug- (3 nites) | √ | San Francisco | Avalon Ballroom | Elliot fired on 2nd nite [JCB]' with Family Dog |
Sept 9 | San Francisco | Fillmore West | with Oxford Circle; poster | |
Sept 10 | San Francisco | Scottish Rites Temple | Moved from Fillmore; with Oxford Circle | |
Sept 17 | √ | LA | Shrine Exposition Hall | with Little Gary Ferguson, The Factory, Count V, West Coast Pop Experimental Band; poster |
Sept 27-Oct 2 | LA | Whisky a Go Go | with The Factory | |
Oct-Nov |
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| Rehearsing for Absolutely Free: Little rehearsal room by Santa Monica Boulevard [JCB]; 'Big Leg Emma' recorded [JCB] | |
Oct 29 | √ | Santa Barbara | Earl Warren Showgrounds | with The Factory; poster |
Nov (15-18) |
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| Recording Absolutely Free | |
The East Coast Nov 23 - Jan 21 '67 | ||||
Nov 23-26 | √ | New York | The Balloon Farm | |
Nov (23-26) | √ | New York | Village Theatre | "with the Fugs"; "Later, the Village Theatre was renamed the Fillmore East" [JCB] (See Dec 4 '67) |
Nov (23-26) | √ | Long Island NY | The Beach House | with the Pigeons, later renamed Vanilla Fudge [JCB] |
Nov (23-26) |
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| Mayfair Studio: Overdub Recordings for Absolutely Free | |
Dec 2-3 | New York | The Balloon Farm | ? with The Strangers and Clear Light (Dallas Taylor) [JCB] | |
Dec 4 | Island Park New York | Action House | with Velvet Underground, Fugs, Ronettes, Shangri-Las, Left Banke, Brian Hyland, Terry Knight + The Pack, et al. | |
Dec 9 | East Lansing MI | Michigan Union | ||
Dec 16-17 | √ | New York | The Balloon Farm | ? with The Strangers and Clear Light (Dallas Taylor) [JCB] |
Dec 23-31 | √ | New York | The Balloon Farm | with T. Buckley |
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Not accounted for: |
| Phoenix, AZ | Circle Star Theatre | I saw the original Mothers with Jimmy in Phoenix, AZ at the Circle Star Theatre shortly after "Freak Out" was released [Keith C, bellingham, WA] |
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