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📕 Tales From Your Record Collection: SF Bay Area

   Perfect gift for music lovers and vinyl heads!
👉 #RecordStoreDay November 27, 2026 👈

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   This guidebook documents the important studios, venues, and recordings in the evolution of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 

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Highlights: Current and former Bay Area recording studios, music venues, record stores, and curated album lists & articles featuring interviews and commentary from key players of the period.

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Grateful Dead Live and Carousel Ballroom San Francisco California

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   🥀 Grateful Dead ❤️ Valentine's Day 1968 🎶 
LIVE @ Carousel Ballroom 

  Excerpt from 📙 Tales From Your #RecordCollection P.81 

    In the early part of 1968 the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother & The Holding Company operated the swing ballroom at Market & Van Ness Street known as Carousel Ballroom. Famed concert promoter #BillGraham would take over the lease in July 1968 renaming the venue #Fillmore West. The site hosted countless performances by top artists of the day before closing in the early 1970s. Get your copy of 📙 "Tales..." ‪@AmazonBooks‬ and Select #BayArea #RecordStores 🔥

30 Albums In 30 Days

1960s & 70s Albums Released in September

  Discover iconic 1960s & 1970s albums released in September—classic rock, Motown, soul, and folk records that defined the golden era of vinyl. 

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