Although I had seen a few shows when I was 14 and 15 the bulk of my teenage experience of live music when I was 16 to 18 year old during the years 1968 to 1970. I went to a lot of shows in 1968 and 1969 but 1970 was more spotty because I was in the Navy at that point. However, from May 1970 until the end of the year I was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center outside of Chicago and I regularly took the train into the city to attend shows at places like the Aragon Ballroom and the many outdoor concerts in the park along the lake.
The places I saw most of the shows in Philadelphia in 1968 and 1969 were the Electric Factory, Trauma and the 2nd Fret downtown. The Kaleidoscope in Roxborough, out at the Main Point, the Be-Ins in Fairmount Park, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the shows down at the old Convention Center and of course that long weekend at the Atlantic City Pop Festival.
I had already made a somewhat complete A to Z list of shows I've seen throughout my life that I previously posted here but for this list I picked out the shows from that 16 to 18 time period.
- Allman Brothers Band
- Amboy Dukes
- Eric Anderson
- American Dream
- The Association
- The Animals
- The Band
- The Byrds
- James Brown
- Big Brother & The Holding Company
- Blue Cheer
- Tim Buckley
- Blood, Sweat & Tears
- Chuck Berry
- The Bee Gees
- Booker T & The MG's
- Blues Project
- Buffalo Springfield
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Eric Clapton
- Chicago
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Joe Cocker
- Judy Collins
- James Cotton
- The Chocolate Watch Band
- Canned Heat
- Cactus
- Crazy Horse
- Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- Country Joe and the Fish
- The Doors
- Miles Davis
- Bob Dylan
- Dr. John
- The Dells
- The Delfonics
- The Dovells
- Edison Electric
- The Four Tops
- The Four Seasons
- Aretha Franklin
- Frijid Pink
- The Hollies
- Richie Havens
- Gong
- Gentle Giant
- Grateful Dead
- Marvin Gaye
- Iron Butterfly
- Ian & Sylvia
- The Incredible String Band
- Howin' Wolf
- Tim Hardin
- Janis Joplin
- Jefferson Airplane
- Tommy James & The Shondells
- The Kinks
- Albert King
- B. B. King
- The Kit Kats
- Al Kooper
- Joni Mitchell
- The Moody Blues
- Buddy Miles
- Moby Grape
- Hugh Masekela
- Wes Montgomery
- Martha & The Vandallas
- The Marvelettes
- Mother Earth
- The Mamas and The Papas
- Nazz
- Phil Ochs
- The Orlons
- Odetta
- Wilson Pickett
- Peter, Paul & Mary
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Tom Paxton
- The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
- Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Paul Revere and the Raiders
- The Rascals
- Tom Rush
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- Santana
- Steppenwolf
- Shocking Blue
- Simon & Garfunkel
- The Supremes
- Steeleye Span
- Pete Seegar
- Sly & The Family Stone
- Soul Suvivors
- Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs
- The Seeds
- Steve Miller Band
- The Temptations
- Three Dog Night
- Ten Years After
- The Troggs
- Traffic
- Ultimate Spinach
- The Velvet Underground
- Dave Van Ronk
- The Ventures
- Vanilla Fudge
- Johnny Winter
- Stevie Wonder
- Muddy Waters
- Wendy & Bonnie
- Jr Walker & The Allstars
- Neil Young
- The Youngbloods
- Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
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