#23652 by Craig Maxim
Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:46 am
Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:46 am
Wolfgang's Vault:
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/
This site has FREE recordings of historic performances and concerts from artists like The Doors, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Genesis, and dozens if not hundreds more!
About Wolgang's Vault
Wolfgang's Vault is the world's largest collection of live concert recordings and music memorabilia and home to the archive of promoter Bill Graham. Visitors can find and purchase poster art, vintage t-shirts, rock photography, old concert tickets, and other rock music memorabilia while they listen to rare recordings of live concerts featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and many others. Wolfgang’s Vault is housed in a 27,000 square foot, state-of the art facility in San Francisco.
Who Is Wolfgang?
Wolfgang was Bill Graham (promoter), the man whose genius for bringing performer and audience together shaped the rock concert as we have come to know it. Born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin in 1931, he escaped Nazi Germany to grow up in a foster home in the Bronx and anglicized his name at the age of 18.
Graham moved from New York to San Francisco in the early 1960s to be closer to his sister, Rita. Through his long standing interest in theater, Graham was introduced to and became manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, an avant-garde performance group. Members of the group were arrested for an outdoor production deemed "too risqué" by the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Commission.
Graham staged a benefit for the group's legal defense fund with a line-up that included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jefferson Airplane, the Fugs, and John Handy on November 6, 1965. Bill later said, "I didn't know that night was the beginning of anything, but I knew it was the most exciting experience of my life." The Mime Troupe benefit featured rock, jazz, and poetry. Graham had hit upon an eclectic mix and not only was it popular, it made money. The people who came took their rock music in a casual atmosphere made spectacular through an LSD filter; the psychedelic ‘60s had arrived.
Graham's showcased elements of America's now legendary counterculture of the time, such as Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish, and the Grateful Dead. His successes and popularity enabled him to become the top concert promoter in rock music. He operated the famous venues The Fillmore and Winterland (both in San Francisco) and the Fillmore East (in New York City), where the best up-and-coming acts would come to play.
Graham's creative vision led him to commission true works of art to promote his shows and, fortunately for the modern collector, his entrepreneurial instincts led him to preserve the exceptional art, photography and recordings that came from these shows. For over 30 years, his company, Bill Graham Presents, accumulated and stored this material in newly minted condition. Until Wolfgang's Vault was launched, it was incredibly difficult to find a Bill Graham poster in anything approaching mint condition because it was usually torn from a wall or telephone pole as a concert souvenir.
Graham also channeled his work in other direction, helping to raise millions of dollars for a myriad of causes. He produced the U.S. half of the 1985 Live Aid show, the 1986 Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope tour, the American-Soviet Peace Concert for Nuclear Disarmament in Moscow, In-Concert Against AIDS and benefits for the United Farm Workers, Lighthouse for the Blind, the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco's Earthquake Relief and countless other organizations.
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/
This site has FREE recordings of historic performances and concerts from artists like The Doors, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Genesis, and dozens if not hundreds more!
About Wolgang's Vault
Wolfgang's Vault is the world's largest collection of live concert recordings and music memorabilia and home to the archive of promoter Bill Graham. Visitors can find and purchase poster art, vintage t-shirts, rock photography, old concert tickets, and other rock music memorabilia while they listen to rare recordings of live concerts featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and many others. Wolfgang’s Vault is housed in a 27,000 square foot, state-of the art facility in San Francisco.
Who Is Wolfgang?
Wolfgang was Bill Graham (promoter), the man whose genius for bringing performer and audience together shaped the rock concert as we have come to know it. Born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin in 1931, he escaped Nazi Germany to grow up in a foster home in the Bronx and anglicized his name at the age of 18.
Graham moved from New York to San Francisco in the early 1960s to be closer to his sister, Rita. Through his long standing interest in theater, Graham was introduced to and became manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, an avant-garde performance group. Members of the group were arrested for an outdoor production deemed "too risqué" by the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Commission.
Graham staged a benefit for the group's legal defense fund with a line-up that included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jefferson Airplane, the Fugs, and John Handy on November 6, 1965. Bill later said, "I didn't know that night was the beginning of anything, but I knew it was the most exciting experience of my life." The Mime Troupe benefit featured rock, jazz, and poetry. Graham had hit upon an eclectic mix and not only was it popular, it made money. The people who came took their rock music in a casual atmosphere made spectacular through an LSD filter; the psychedelic ‘60s had arrived.
Graham's showcased elements of America's now legendary counterculture of the time, such as Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish, and the Grateful Dead. His successes and popularity enabled him to become the top concert promoter in rock music. He operated the famous venues The Fillmore and Winterland (both in San Francisco) and the Fillmore East (in New York City), where the best up-and-coming acts would come to play.
Graham's creative vision led him to commission true works of art to promote his shows and, fortunately for the modern collector, his entrepreneurial instincts led him to preserve the exceptional art, photography and recordings that came from these shows. For over 30 years, his company, Bill Graham Presents, accumulated and stored this material in newly minted condition. Until Wolfgang's Vault was launched, it was incredibly difficult to find a Bill Graham poster in anything approaching mint condition because it was usually torn from a wall or telephone pole as a concert souvenir.
Graham also channeled his work in other direction, helping to raise millions of dollars for a myriad of causes. He produced the U.S. half of the 1985 Live Aid show, the 1986 Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope tour, the American-Soviet Peace Concert for Nuclear Disarmament in Moscow, In-Concert Against AIDS and benefits for the United Farm Workers, Lighthouse for the Blind, the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco's Earthquake Relief and countless other organizations.
Last edited by Craig Maxim on Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
