Full schedule of opening year 1974---how sweet it was -- FEB 11 1974 Pre-opening night party - La BELLE FEB 12-17 1974 DR. JOHN GARY FARR FEB 12, 1974 OPENING NIGHT * Highlight of the evening: Jam Session with Dr. John, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Winter in front of an audience that included Mick Jagger, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Charles Mingus, Janis Ian, Billy Cobham, Don Kirshner, James Darren, Rip Torn, Geraldine Page and Bobby Charles. FEB 20 -22, 1974 ERIC ANDERSEN STEVE GOODMAN * The original show booked for Feb 20 -24 was Eric Andersen and Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. Fairport canceled a couple of weeks before the club opened. They appeared some years later, but without Sandy Denny. Fairport was replaced for three days with Steve Goodman and for the remaining two days with The Johnstons. FEB 23-24,1974 ERIC ANDERSEN THE JOHNSTONS FEB 25-26,1974 THE DILLARDS JOHN HAMMOND FEB 27 - MAR 3, 1974 La BELLE CHICO HAMILTON * The original show that was booked was LaBelle and Ahmad Jamal, but Jamal had a fit the afternoon of the sound check because our piano was a 52 baby grand instead of 7 that he demanded. When it was pointed out that La Belles equipment could not comfortably fit on the stage with the 7 piano and therefore would impact on her performance, he threw up his hands and split, leaving us with three hours to fill the support act slot for the week. (Who said this was going to be fun!) MAR 6 -11, 1974 ERIC WEISBURG BREAKFAST SPECIAL MAR 10, 1974 only CHARLIE DANIELS BAND BREAKFAST SPECIAL Mar 12 -17, 1974 YUSEF LATEEF SONNY STITT MAR 19 -24, 1974 THE COMMITTEE * which included HOWARD HESSEMAN, who went on to star in the TV series, WKRP in Cincinatti. MAR 26 -28, 1974 THE STRAWBS THE JOHNSTONS MAR 29 -30,1974 RICK NELSON THE JOHNSTONS MAR 31 - APRIL 1, 1974 MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD and Friends * AL KOOPER and JOHN HAMMOND were some of the friends that jammed with Bloomfield on the first night of the gig. APR 2, 1974 Press party for TANYA TUCKER, who at the time was a teenager. The only time a record release party was held at the Bottom Line when the bars were kept closed. APR 3 - 4, 1974 ALAN PRICE APR 5 - 6, 1974 LARRY CORYELL AL STEWART APR 8 - 9, 1974 LEO SAYER APR 10 - 14, 1974 BILLY COBHAM THE CREDIBILITY GAP * This engagement was one of the first times Billy Cobham functioned as the leader of his own band. It was also very special because this club date was being used to promote his first album as a leader. So Cobham wanted everything to be perfect. The stage was completely covered with equipment and there was little room for movement. And in the spotlight, center stage, was Billys enormous drum set. The Credibility Gap, the comedy group that was opening the show, asked Billys road crew if they could move the drums just a few inches so they would have a little bit more room to work. Neither Billy nor his drums were moved by their request. So the Credibility Gap had to perform down stage in one small area. Harry Shearer, one of the members of this comedy trio, got off an ad lib that still makes us laugh. Harry, apparently distracted by all the equipment on stage behind him, looked at the audience in exasperation and quipped, I feel like I m performing in the window of a music store! APRIL 16 - 18, 1974 NRBQ APR 19 - 20, 1974 DON McLEAN COUNTRY GAZETTE * Highlight of this engagement for the employees of the Bottom Line: Don was so taken with the professionalism of the club, that he wanted his entire salary to be divided among the staff. His instructions were that the tech crew was to get the largest piece of the pie, and that no one be left out except Allan and Stanley. Don takes the addage, ãDonât forget to tip your waitressä to new heights. APR 21, 1974 SUZIE QUATRO NEW YORK DOLLS * The New York Dolls trash their dressing room. Allan and Stanley, outraged, vow that the Dolls or any member of that band will never play the club again. Twenty-six years later, David Johansen has paraded every one of his artistic personalities across that stage including: The David Johansen Band, Buster Poindexter and the Banshees of Blue, Buster Poindexter and the Spanish Rocket Ship Band, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths as well as participating as a soloist in the Downtown Messiah. * Syl Sylvain played with his own band June 9, 1981. APR 22, 1974 Press Party - BUFFY SAINT MARIE APR 22 - 28, 1974 BUFFY SAINT MARIE APR 29 - MAY 4, 1974 GROVER WASHINGTON, Jr. MAY 5 - 6, 1974 ARTIE KAPLAN ISIS MAY 7 - 12, 1974 BARRY MANILOW BARNABY BYE MAY 13, 1974 ãSING OUT FOLK FESTIVALä Benefit for SING OUT Magazine with PETE SEEGER Happy and ARTIE TRAUM, MIKE COONEY and others MAY 15 - 16, 1974 RY COODER LEON REDBONE * Late Show May 16 - audience gets a special treat when NEIL YOUNG, who is at the show to see COODER, becomes so inspired that he does a special one hour acousitic guest set after COODER. (LEON REDBONE, RY COODER, and NEIL YOUNG, not bad for $3.50.) When the club first opened, ticket prices were $3.00 during the week and $4.00 Friday and Saturday. Allan and Stanley agonized for weeks whether $4.00 on the weekend was too much to charge. MAY 17 - 19, 1974 TOWER of POWER JAE MASON * On the last night of the engagement, BERNARD PURDIE, RANDY BRECKER and PAPA JOHN CREACH jammed with Tower. MAY 20 - 23, 1974 GATO BARBIERI GEORGE MELLY MAY 24 - 26, 1974 LIVINGSTON TAYLOR ORPHAN MAY 28 - 29, 1974 LES VARIATIONS THE PERSUASIONS MAY 30 - JUNE 2, 1974 ASHFORD AND SIMPSON ROBIN KENYATTA JUNE 4 - 8, 1974 LES McCANN BETTY DAVIS JUNE 10, 1974 Press Party for HARRIET SCHOCK JUNE 11 - 13, 1974 ISIS LAURIE BOGIN JUNE 14 -16, 1974 ISIS RALPH GRAHAM JUNE 18 - 23, 1974 MELVIN VAN PEEBLES GEORGE BENSON JUNE 24 - 26, 1974 CANNED HEAT KANSAS * KANSAS was so loud that by the end of the engagement we had blown out two speakers. Thank God the next engagement was... JUNE 27 - 30, 1974 DOC WATSON BRYAN BOWERS JULY 1, 1974 Press Party for WILD MAGNOLIAS JULY 2-3-4, 1974 Early Shows: STEELEYE SPAN POUSETTE DART BAND Late Shows: MERLE SAUNDERS and friends with JERRY GARCIA * MARIA MULDAUR and ELEN CARNEY sit in with Garcia and Saunders on the July 2 shows. JULY 5 -6, 1974 JOE FARRELL QUARTET CHRIS CONNER JULY 7, 1974 Press Party for MINNIE RIPPERTON JULY 7 - 8, 1974 WEATHER REPORT SLEEPY JOHN ESTES with Hammie Nixon JULY 9 - 11, 1974 CHRIS JAGGER IF JULY 12 - 14, 1974 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JEFFREY COMANOR * At this point in his career Bruce was a local phenomena - not the superstar he was destined to become. If you and one hundred of your friends were to come to the Friday or Sunday show, Allan or Stanley could have gotten you the best seats in the house. JULY 16 -17, 1974 COLD BLOOD BALL INâ JACK JULY 18 - 19, 1974 NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND * sitting in JULY 18 WENDY WALDMAN and LINDA RONDSTAT opening act July 18 - KEYES AND LIPPA opening act July 19 - RICHARD TORRANCE JULY 20 -21, 1974 DAVE VAN RONK RICHARD TORRANCE JULY 24, 1974 JOBRIATH JULY 25 -28, 1974 IAN MATTHEWS MARTHA VELEZ * LESLIE WEST sits in with Ian Matthews on the July 28 show JULY 29 - AUG 1, 1974 VOICES Of EAST HARLEM RAY BRYANT TRIO AUG 2 - 4, 1974 WAYLON JENNINGS LINDA HARGROVE AUG 4, 1974 Live recording of Broadway Show Album ãGood Eveningä starring PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE in front of an invited audience during the afternoon * Album went on to win a grammy AUG 5, 1974 Showcase for Coffee House Circuit AUG 6 - 11, 1974 JAMES COTTON BAND opening acts 6-8-CHERLY DILCHER 9-10 -LARRY RASPBERRY 11- DIVIDED WE STAND * LENNY BAKER of the group SHA NA NA and ELVIN BISHOP jam with James Cotton on the evening of Aug 8. AUG 12, 1974 Press Party for the BARKAYS AUG 13 - 14, 1974 BONNIE RAITT ROOM FULL of BLUES * highlight - STEVEN STILLS jams with BONNIE RAITT and HELEN HUMES sits in with Room Full of Blues. AUG 15 - 18, 1974 OSCAR BROWN, Jr. JESSICA HARPER AUG 19, 1974 Press Party for THE GOOD RATS AUG 20-24, 1974 TRACEY NELSON LARRY JOHNSON AND THE SCATS AUG 23 only MARK ROSS instead of Larry Johnson and the Scats AUG 26 - 29, 1974 THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND HUDSON FORD AUG 30 - SEPT 1, 1974 LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III BRYAN BOWERS * Columbia Records captures Loudons live show for the album, Unrequited. SEPT 2-3, 1974 ERIC ANDERSEN MARTIN MULL SEPT 4 - 7, 1974 ELECTRIC FLAG KING BISCUIT BOY SEPT 8 - 10, 1974 ELVIN BISHOP AVERAGE WHITE BAND * PAUL BUTTERFIELD jams with Elvin Bishop on the evening of Sept 9 SEPT 11 - 12, 1974 MAYNARD FERGUSON DIVIDED WE STAND SEPT 13 - 16, 1974 MARTHA REEVES FRANKLYN AJAYE SEPT 17 - 18, 1974 LITTLE FEAT THE DEADLY NIGHTSHADE * DAVID BROMBERG sits in with Deadly Nightshade SEPT 19 - 22, 1974 MOSE ALLISON SYREETA SEPT 23 - 24, 1974 ROGER McGUINN HAPPY and ARTIE TRAUM SEPT 27 - 29, 1974 TOM RUSH DIANA MARCOVITZ SEPT 30 - OCT 2, 1974 ESTHER PHILIPS NEW YORK CITY OCT 3 - 6, 1974 PAT MARTINO JOE FARRELL QUARTET OCT 7 - 10, 1974 GEORGE BENSON NORMAN CONNORS OCT 12 - 13, 1974 BUDDY GUY AND JUNIOR WELLS JAMES MONTGOMERY BAND OCT 16 - 19, 1974 TAJ MAHAL RON DOUGLAS * STEVIE WONDER jams with TAJ (10-16) * BOB MARLEY jams with TAJ (10 -17) OCT 21 - 22, 1974 McKENDREE SPRING CLAIRE HAMILL OCT 23 - 24, 1974 KENNY RANKIN CAROLYN HESTER OCT 25 - 27, 1974 NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS MARTIN, BOGIN AND ARMSTRONG OCT 29 - 31, 1974 THE COMMITTEE * AVERY SCHREIBER improvises with The Committee on the evening of Oct 30. NOV 1 - 2, 1974 JERRY REED LINDA HARGROVE NOV 3 - 4, 1974 MILES DAVIS NOV 5 -7, 1974 JERRY GARCIA, MERLE SAUNDERS and friends NOV 8 - 9, 1974 JOHN HAMMOND ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL NOV 12 -16, 1974 FREDDIE HUBBARD JOHN KLEMMER * ART BLAKEY sits in with Freddie Hubbard Nov 16 NOV 18, 1974 MILES DAVIS NOV 19 - 21, 1974 ORLEANS TOM WAITS NOV 22 - 24, 1974 CASHMAN and WEST AL KOOPER * JAMES COTTON and FRED LIPSUS sit in with Al Kooper on Nov 23 NOV 25, 1974 FREDDIE KING CANDI STATON NOV 26 - 28, 1974 JOHNNY NASH CORNELL DUPREE and friends featuring: RICHARD TEE, GORDON EDWARDS CHARLIE BROWN and BERNARD PURDIE NOV 29 - DEC 1, 1974 An evening with LEONARD COHEN DEC 2 - 4, 1974 JOHNATHAN EDWARDS THE DILLARDS DEC 5 - 8, 1974 SONNY TERRY AND BROWNIE McGHEE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY DEC 9 -11, 1974 BRIAN AUGER STARDRIVE DEC 12 - 15, 1974 THE RASPBERRIES ED BEGLEY, JR. DEC 16 - 17, 1974 ELEPHANTâS MEMORY TRUTH DEC 18, 1974 ANOTHER PRETTY FACE DEC 20 - 23, 1974 BILLY COBHAM RON DOUGLAS DEC 27 - 31, 1974 BARRY MANILOW RON DOUGLAS
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