Events Calendar · July 2024
Big Brother & The Holding Company at Sweetwater Music Hall
Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
Time: Doors Open at 8:00pm and Show Starts at 9:00pm
Big Brother & The Holding Company – along with bands like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service – is considered one of the original, first wave of great psychedelic bands that came out of San Francisco in the summer of 1965.
The embryo that was to become Big Brother and the Holding Company began when Peter Albin, a 21 year old, aspiring Folk Blues guitarist, who had been a part of South Bay Roots’ music scene that also gave us Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter and the Grateful Dead, met Sam Andrew, a 23 year old guitarist who’d been in bands since his teens in Okinawa and had studied languages and philosophy at University of SF and the Sorbonne. Sam and Peter began jamming together in the basement/ballroom of an old Victorian mansion in the Haight –Ashbury district. With the help of their friend, future manager and concert promoter Chet Helms (The Family Dog, Avalon Ballroom), Big Brother and The Holding Company was born.
Big Brother as a four man ensemble was a featured band at some of the first acid-fueled, dance-concerts like the Trips Festival and the Tribal Stomp and though they already had many fans and were headlining they wanted something else to complete their sound: a strong female lead singer. Enter Janis Joplin, and the rest, as they say, is rock-n-roll history. Now, some 50 years later, BBHC continues to play the songs that made them famous with the passion that made them legends. A recognized and honored part of the great American psychedelic songbook, this is a legacy that is not yet finished.
General Admission Tickets are $33.00 per person in advance and $38.00 on day of show. All tickets can be purchased in the above website link.
