Its been the home of PTs for a long time now but the building at 1601 Evans actually has some pretty colorful history. Before being turned into a strip club It used to be a showclub called The Family Dog. Thanks to Barry Fey a lot of famous acts like Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix played there in 1967 and 1968. I havent been able to verify it but this pic is supposedly of The Doors playing there. When The Bird closed Fey saw an opportunity and talked a rock concert production/promotion collective in San Francisco called The Family Dog into expanding to Denver and using that building, hence the name. Later when the SF collective pulled out Fey took over. If anyones interested heres a list of bands that played The Family Dog in 67 and 68 that I copied from The Colorado Music Page. Note: I edited some info out, Google The Colorado Music Page if you want to know more. It doesnt have near as much info about other venues but theres a lot of good stuff about The Family Dog in particular. The Family Dog, 1601 West Evans, Denver -------------------- 1967 Concerts -------------------- September 8 & 9 Friday, Saturday: The Eighth Penny Matter/Blue Cheer/Big Brother & The Holding Company ---------- September 15 & 16 Friday, Saturday: Superband/The Charlatans/Quicksilver Messenger Service ---------- September 22 & 23 Friday, Saturday: Mother Earth/The Grateful Dead ---------- September 29 Friday: Captain Beefheart/Lothar and the Hand People ---------- September 30 Saturday: The Crystal Palace Guard/Captain Beefheart/The Doors ---------- October 6 & 7 Friday, Saturday: The Eighth Penny Matter/Buffalo Springfield ---------- October 13 & 14 Friday, Saturday: The Daily Flash/Van Morrison Note: during this show, the street in front of club was blocked off in some sort of checkpoint fashion, leading patrons to the conclusion that the club was either raided or closed. ---------- October 20 Friday: Allmen Joy/Canned Heat October 21 Saturday: American Standard/plus other local bands All playing in place of the recently arrested Canned Heat. --------- October 27 & 28 Friday, Saturday: Allmen Joy/Lothar & The Hand People ---------- November 3 & 4 Friday, Saturday: The Superfine Dandelion/Blue Cheer ---------- November 7 & 8 Tuesday, Wednesday: The Other Half/The Jefferson Airplane ---------- November 10 & 11 Friday, Saturday: The Other Half/The Sons Of Champlin --------- November 17 & 18 Friday, Saturday: The New World Blues Dictionary/The Sons Of Champlin/ Chuck Berry (backing by the New World Blues Dictionary) ---------- December 1 & 2 Friday, Saturday: Solid Muldoon/The Jim Kweskin Jug Band --------- December 8 & 9 Friday, Saturday: The Siegal Schwall Band/Canned Heat --------- December 15 & 16 Friday, Saturday: Jimmerfield Legend/Soul Survivors/The Box Tops ----------- December 21 Thurday: A Benefit Concert for injured college student Sharie Duncan (from the University of Colorado). Performing were Allmen Joy/Eighth Penny Matter/Leopold Fuchs/Jimmerfield Legend and American Standard. --------- December 22 & 23 Friday, Saturday: The Amercian Standard/Otis Redding This Concert was canceled when Otis Redding died in Wisconsin on December 10, the Family Dog staff was shaken, and the dates are left open. --------- December 29, 30 & 31 Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Gingerbred Blu/Jimmerfield Legend/Allmen Joy/The Doors note: This series of concerts appears to end the involvement of the San Francisco Family Dog in Denver. According to Marc Richardson they went broke and some things, like his light show equipment just vanished. This was in spite of the fact that the Doors played for free to assist the Club. ------------------- 1968 Concerts -------------------- The shows held at the club in 1968 were booked by Barry Fey, who intended to call his new company Feline Productions as to resemble the Family Dog, but the ad man at KIMN radio made the false assumption that the ad copy was misspelled, so they made the commercial using the phrase Feyline Productions. ---------- January 12 & 13 Friday, Saturday: Beggars Opera Company/American Standard/The Eighth Penny Matter ---------- January 19 & 20 Friday, Saturday: The Eighth Penny Matter/October Country --------- January 26 & 27 Friday, Saturday: Last Fridays Fire/The New World Blues Dictionary --------- February 2 & 3 Friday, Saturday: Leopold Fuchs Hate Band/The Fugs --------- February 9 & 10 Friday, Saturday: American Standard/Leopold Fuchs H. Bomb -------- February 14, Wednesday: Jimi Hendrix stops by to jam after his show at the Regis College Field house that night. Members of the Eighth Penny Matter describe Jimi as playing on their equipment, most likely set up for the upcoming Friday show. Leslie Haseman has stated that it was a private situation. -------- March 5 & 6 Tuesday, Wednesday: Blue Cheer ------- March 8 & 9 Friday, Saturday: The Siegal Schwall Blues Band --------- March 15 & 16 Friday, Saturday: Climax Note: shortly after this gig, the band (with the exception of member Brandenburg), become the Electric Prunes after Rich Fifield suggests them to Capitol record executives in LA. ---------- March 19, Tuesday: Magic Mice/Black Pearl Although Cream is booked, Jack Bruce is detained while attempting to return to the US from Tijuana, Mexico. Barry calls in the Magic Mice at the last moment. ----------- March 20, Wednesday: Black Pearl, Cream Note: Cream return to Southern California the next day, and Eric and most the Buffalo Springfield get busted in a local canyon house (a girlfriend of Stills). Stills himself flees the police via a bathroom window, but not the rest of group and Eric. This event effectively ends the band and they stop gigging within weeks. --------- March 27, Wednesday: Canned Heat The concert flyer mentions the song My Crime, a reference to Bob Hites song written after the October 1967 Denver arrest. ------- April 6, Saturday: The Fugs --------April/May? A Matthew Katz show, including Moby Grape, Its A Beautiful Day and two lesser known Bay Area acts: Black Swan and Indian Pudding and Pipe. ----- April ? Wednesday (Ladies Night), Friday and Saturday: Winter and The Conqueroo. The original Texas power trio with Johnny Winter, Uncle John Turner and Tommy Shannon. Shannon would later perform with Stevie Ray Vaughan. --------- May 3, Friday: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention ------- May ? The Electric Flag possibly with Howlin Wolf ------ June 8, Saturday: The Byrds This in one of their final appearances with Gram Parsons. They appear wearing matching soft leather jackets. Electrical Power has to be restored to the club via a makeshift attachment to a power line, made possible by one of the Byrds crew. --------- June 14 & 15 Friday, Saturday: Josh White/Fever Tree --------- June 28 & 29 Friday, Saturday: Big Brother and the Holding Company --------- July 19th, Friday: Blue Cheer ---------------------------------------------------- End of info from the Colorado Music Page. --------------------------------------------------- I believe this about the time Barry Fey moved his shows to other larger venues like The Denver Coliseum and The Mammoth (now The Fillmore.) I know Fey booked Hendrix, The Who, Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull and others at the Fillmore in 1968.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:34:06 +0000
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