The Mellotron Group

This is all amazingly great stuff. I think we should seriously think about  
a gathering.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 7/27/2010 2:34:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wbeith@sbcglobal.net writes:

 
 
 
 
Under the heading of   "Is somebody copying all this  down?"
 
At the Aragon the spring after the fire at the Electric Theater, I worked  
back stage at a "Festival" show that featured
The Litter
Bob Seeger System
Pacific Gas and Electric
Flying Burrito Brothers
The Stooges
Rotary Connection
Alice Cooper
The MC5
and several more bads that memory has  dimmed......memory hamemory has  
dimmed......<WBR>.........
This show was filmed. I remember speaking backstage with a fellow on the  
film crew. Bushy hair and full beard with a strong Scottish accent. He said 
he  had been on the Woodstock film crew. So somewhere the film of this show 
is  stored waiting to be seen again.

 
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 From: Rick Blechta  <rick@rickblechta.ric>
To:  newmellotrongroup@  newmell  
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 12:07:58  PM
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] mkII




On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:00 PM, william Beith wrote:


That was the Electric Theater AKA The Kinetic Playground,  owned  by Aaron 
Russo, who later was Bette Midlers manager. This was the old  Michael Todd 
theater. The seats were taken out, floor leveled, and theater  screens were 
placed from ceiling to 8 feet off the floor creating a circular  room. A 
projection booth called the eye was installed in the center of the  ceiling 
(accessed from the floor above) which projected a Filmore type  lightshow around 
the entire room. The stage sat against one wall. Nefarious  activity as the 
cause of the fire was the rumor at the time.
 
I hung out there...saw all sorts of shows....Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart  
singing, Jefferson Airplane, Zep (first Chicago performance) , Iron  
Butterfly, T Rex on and on and on.........
 
When it burned all the activity moved two blocks east to the Aragon  
Ballroom where I worked for a year.  



And thanks to you, William!


Is somebody copying all this down?


;)