03-15 Jerry Pompili worked at Fillmore East/West, Winterland and many others under "Bill Graham Presents". He talks about his times with the Stones, Who, ELP, Hendrix and more rock icons.
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This episode is with Jerry Pompili. Jerry worked at the Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Winterland and many other venues under famous concert promoter Bill Graham in San Francisco. For years Jerry hosted shows with The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, Emerson Lake & Palmer and many more. He also went on tour with the Stones in 1970. He talks about the concert business in San Francisco during his career along with many antidotes about the business and his experiences and stories with the bands.
SHOW NOTES
Anderson Theatre in New York:
Opened in 1926 as the Public Theatre and designed for stage plays, this theatre was the brainchild of two candy vendors from the former People’s Theatre on the Bowery. Over the years it focused on Jewish acts including Yiddish Vaudeville as well as the showing of Yiddish films.
By 1953 it was full-time Spanish language cinema called the Antillas Theatre, and booked by Harris Theatrical Enterprises. That policy continued until 1957.
In late-1957 it reopened as the Anderson Theatre, named after the recently deceased play agent Phyllis Anderson who was also the wife of author Robert Anderson ("Tea and Sympathy"). The Anderson Theatre continued to run Yiddish programs until at least the mid-1960’s.
In 1977 it was taken over by CBGB and renamed the CBGB Second Avenue Theatre, booking punk rock acts such as the Talking Heads and Patti Smith but by 1979 it was no longer being used. In 1990 the theatre was partially demolished and in 1997 the remaining portions were turned into apartments.
Fillmore East:
The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City. It was open from March 8, 1968, to June 27, 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time. The Fillmore East was a companion to Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, and its successor, the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, Graham's home base.
Sandy Pearlman: Samuel Clarke "Sandy" Pearlman (August 5, 1943 – July 26, 2016) was an American music producer, artist manager, music journalist and critic, professor, poet, songwriter, and record company executive. He was best known for founding, writing for, producing, or co-producing many LPs by Blue Öyster Cult, as well as producing notable albums by The Clash, The Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, and Dream Syndicate; he was also the founding Vice President of eMusic.com. He was the Schulich Distinguished Professor Chair at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, and from August 2014 held a Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship at the Coach House Institute (CHI) of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information as part of the CHI's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.
Bill Graham Book:
Amalie Rothchild – Live at the Fillmore East - photo book – is out of print, but can be found at used book stores.
Jimi Hendrix Live At Berkeley trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2R5PUiWQk
Jerry talks a lot about Chip Monck – check out his Wikipedia page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Monck
Wolfgangs Vault – This is basically the Bill Graham Presents achieves that were sold after Bill Graham passed away. Most of it is now for sale. Check out some of the great merchandise here: https://www.wolfgangs.com/
Jerry’s video version of The Last Waltz featuring The Band and so many other great bands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbEL--AMBUk
Eddie Money and guitarist Jimmy Lyons perform Two Tickets to Paradise on the Midnight Special 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCacbNlrqYk
Eddie Money live at Winterland in 1977 – Wanna Be A Rock n Roll Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMGcmMFgbM
The Paul Collins Beat – Rock N Roll Girl from 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEvEUKN4Fw
Paul Collins Beat live in `1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGzMKqwMkQ
Day on the Green concerts used to take place over the summer months in the Bay Area. Take a look at some of the incredible shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_on_the_Green
(Jerry’s Mug shot photo)