Bill Graham's Music Stuff

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:58 pm

Has anybody checked the collection of his that's being dug out of a warehouse in San Francisco?
It's on wolfgangsvault.com.

I know. I know. It's a commercial site.
It's also the biggest freaking museum of music stuff I've ever heard of.

I salute Bill Graham for saving so much art and music.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:59 pm

I saw a special on that, WOW. Amazing.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:14 pm

I can't believe that, living in the Bayarrhea, this is the first I've heard of that site. THANK YOU for posting the link!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:23 pm

How many times do you think you walked right by that warehouse?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:44 pm

I tiled Bill's Gym a few month before he died. The pilot was his friend and had the nickname of 'killer', I kid you not.

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:03 pm

i saw the "sunday morning" piece on it, i am gald someone had the presence of mind to save it all.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:56 pm

cowboyangel wrote:The pilot was his friend and had the nickname of 'killer', I kid you not.

I remember that...I bought Bill Graham Presents shortly after it was published and have read it several times since then. (For my most recent re-read, I followed it with a reading of Phil Lesh's Searching for the Sound; it was highly enjoyable to watch their POVs dovetail on various events both were involved in.)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:05 pm

Bill was a slob, always wearing the same sweatpants/shirt day after day..looking groggy too. But, he was friendly with the workers, liked our music choices. I wonder if the new owner tore down the gym? That would be too bad. I think they did tear down Bill's house and build something new there, but the gym was detached......weird sometimes how things go. I've seen that a bunch of times in my career already. Glad they saved all that old stuff. Killer's wife was pretty, we all felt real sad for her..