Live Albums Recorded At The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California is one of the most famous music venues in the late 1960s and 1970s and one of the most popular sources for live albums. It was owned by Bill Graham and he routinely used to record the acts who performed at the venue. These have been part of the source for the Wolfgang Vaults recordings.
Live albums recorded at the Winterland include:
The Band The Last Waltz 1976
Paul Butterfield and Better Days Live at Winterland Ballroom 1973
Cream Wheels Of Fire 1968
Cream Live Cream 1968
Grateful Dead Steal Your Face 1974
Grateful Dead Closing of Winterland: December 31 1978
Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland 1968
Humble Pie In Concert aka Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour 1973
Jefferson Airplane Thirty Seconds Over Winterland 1972
Janis Joplin Live at Winterland ’68
Lynyrd Skynyrd Authorized Bootleg Live – Winterland 1976
Bruce Springsteen Winterland Night 1978
Examples of recordings from Wolfgang Vaults recorded at the Winterland include:
Live At Winterland Valentine’s Day 1976
Van Morrison at the Winterland Feb 2, 1974
Sex Pistols Live at Winterland is a live recording of the famous British punk rockers.
It was recorded in San Francisco on 14 January 1978 within three months of the release of their debut studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
Steal Your Face is a live album by the Grateful Dead.
It was recorded during their farewell tour at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco between October 16 and October 20, 1974.
The band had been pioneering a new sound system (known as the wall of sound) but it made touring harder than before because of the more complicated set-up when they changed venues.
These concerts also provided the source for The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack which has been much better received.
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In Concert or Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour is a live album by Humble Pie.
It was recorded at the Winterland Theatre in San Francisco on 6/5/1973 and will have been broadcast on the radio.
By this time Clem Clempson had replaced Peter Frampton on guitar.
This live recording has also been released as:
The songs may have changed slightly or they are in a different order but it is the same basic recording.
1. Up Your Sleeves
2. 4 Day Creep
3. C’mon Everybody
4. Honky Tonk Woman
5. Blues I Believe To My Soul
6. 30 Days In The Hole
7. Road Runner
8. Hallelujah, I Love You So
9. I Don’t Need No Doctor
10. Hot N’ Nasty
Playing on the album are:
Steve Marriott – vocals, guitar
Clem Clempson – guitar
Greg Ridley – bass
Jerry Shirley – drums
Backing vocals were provided by Billie Barnum, Blackberries, Clydie King and Venetta Fields
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Winterland Night 1978: The Classic San Francisco Broadcast is a live album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
It was recorded in San Francisco on 15th December 1978.
This is another radio broadcast that creeps through the European copyright laws. There are several different versions of this concert but this one is on the Left Field Media label.
This is not an official Springsteen approved release… we are still waiting for those.
Thirty Seconds Over Winterland is a live album by Jefferson Airplane.
Despite its title, it was recorded at two venues:
It was released in 1973 as a seven track single album. Since it has been issued on CD, another five tracks have been added.
The concerts at the Winterland turned out to be the last live performances by Jefferson Airplan until they reunited in 1989.
By this stage, Jefferson Airplane had moved away from their psychedelic rock of the late 1960s to a more commercial sound, paving the way for the transition into Jefferson Starship.
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Authorized Bootleg: Live – Winterland 1976 is an archive live album from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
It was recorded in San Francisco on March 7, 1976.
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Live at Winterland Ballroom is a live album by Paul Butterfield and Better Days.
It was recorded in San Francisco in 1973 and has only been released before in Japan.
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Live at Winterland ’68 is a live album by Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company.
As the album title suggests, it was recorded at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco on April 12, 1968, and April 13, 1968 but not released until 1998.
Joplin left Big Brother in after concerts in December 1968 and performing with the Kozmic Blues Band and the Full Tilt Boogie Band, she died on October 4, 1970. She was just 27 years old.
Van Morrison at the Winterland Feb 2, 1974 isn’t a live album but a live recording you can hear through Wolfgang’s Vault of Van Morrison performing in San Francisco in 1974.
At the moment you can only listen rather than download. I hope Van Morrison gives permission for the rights to be extended because this is a lovely performance.
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Closing of Winterland: December 31 1978 is a live album by the Grateful Dead. This was the last rock concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Arena and was released in 2003.
The venue had been the band’s spiritual home after the closure of the smaller Fillmore West and it was fitting that the Dead were the last band to play at the venue which was home to The Last Waltz.
The gig went on for so long that breakfast was served to the crowd at dawn.
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