THE BOOGIE/RHYTHM DUKES FAMILY TREE – PERFORMANCE LIST
by
Bruno Ceriotti
BOOGIE #1 (EARLY 1968 – MAY 2, 1969)
1) John Barrett vocals,
bass
2) Barry Bastian vocals,
guitar
3) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine vocals, drums
Saturday, April 6 - Sunday, April 7, 1968: outside The
Ark, Gate 6, Sausalito, CA with Quicksilver
Messenger Service, Ace of Cups, Freedom Highway, Phoenix, Pacific Flash,
Morning Glory, The Smoke, Dino Valenti, Clover, Gail
Garnett and Gentle Rain and many more “A
Benefit”
Sunday, June 16, 1968: Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, 2601 East Lake Avenue, Watsonville,
CA with Chambers Brothers, Hourglass, Buddah “Summer Thing”
Tuesday, July 2 -
Tuesday July 23 - Thursday, July 25, 1968: Avalon
Ballroom, 1268 Sutter Street at Van Ness Street, Polk Gulch, San Francisco, CA
with Country Joe and The Fish, Pacific Gas & Electric
Saturday,
August 31 - Monday, September 2, 1968: Betty Nelson's Organic Raspberry Farm,
Sultan, WA with All Men Joy, Buddha (MC), Congress of Wonders, Easy Chair,
Freedom Highway, Gale Garnett, It’s A Beautiful Day, Muddy Waters, New Lost
City Ramblers, Pink Floyd, Billy Roberts, San Francisco Mime Troupe Marching
Band, Alice Stuart Thomas, Youngbloods, Country
Weather, John Fahey, Marvin Gardens, Dr. Humbead’s
New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show, Mother
Tucker’s Yellow Duck, Mystic Knights of The Sea, Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Richard Pryor, Santana, Steppenwolf, Buffy St. Marie, Cleanliness and Godliness
Skiffle Band, Black Snake, Sandy Bull, Country Joe
and The Fish, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mitch
Greenhill, Kaleidoscope, My Indole Ring, Nina and Kotana, Phoenix, Salvation, Sons of Champlin, Blues
Feedback, Cleveland Wrecking Company, The Grateful Dead, Hank Bradley “1st Annual Sky River Rock Festival And
Lighter Than Air Fair”
Thursday, October 31 - Saturday, November 2, 1968: The
Ark, Gate 6, Sausalito, CA with Initial Shock, Devil’s Kitchen, White Lightning
“Ball”
unknown date, 1968:
Tuesday,
January 7, 1969: Fillmore West, 10 South Van Ness Avenue at 1545 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA with All Men Joy, Clover “Tuesday
Night Audition”
Friday, February 28 -
April 2?,
1969: unknown old movie theatre, South San Francisco, CA
BOOGIE #2 (MAY 3, 1969)
1) John Barrett
2) Barry Bastian
3) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
4) Henry ‘Rick’ Garcia tenor sax
Boogie’s last gig before broke up. The show was recorded.
THE RHYTHM DUKES #1 (JUNE 1969 - AUGUST 1969)
1) John Barrett vocals,
bass
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine vocals, drums
3) Jerry Miller vocals,
lead guitar
4) Don Stevenson vocals,
rhythm guitar
THE RHYTHM DUKES #2 (aka MOBY GRAPE #5)
(AUGUST 1969 - DECEMBER 1969)
1) John Barrett
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
3) Jerry Miller
Monday,
August 25, 1969: Teen Pavilion, C.N.E. (Canadian National Exhibition) Coliseum, 100 Princes' Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada
The band was billed as ‘Moby Grape’ on the poster. By the way, The Rhythm Dukes never went to Canada, so this show was cancelled or maybe these were a “fake” Moby Grape.
Saturday,
August 30 - Monday, September 1, 1969: Rainier Hereford Ranch, near Tenino,
south of Olympia, WA with Anonymous
Artists of America, Black Snake, Blue Bird, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Collectors, Congress of Wonders, James
Cotton, Country Weather, Country Joe and The Fish, Crome
Syrcus, Crow, Dovetail, Floating Bridge, Flying
Burrito Brothers, Frumious Bandersnatch,
Grapefruit, Guitar Shorty, Buddy Guy, Dan Hicks and
His Hot Licks, Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility
String Band and Medicine Show, Juggernaut, Kaleidoscope, Los Flamencos de Santa
Lucia, Fred McDowell, Steve Miller Band, New Lost City Ramblers, Pacific Gas
and Electric, Peter, Terry Reid, Mike Russo, Sons of Champlin, Mark Spoelstra, Alice Stuart, Yellowstone, Youngbloods, Dino Valenti, Elyse Weinberg “2nd Annual Sky River Rock
Festival And Lighter Than Air
Fair”
The
festival was filmed.
Friday, September 5, 1969: Horse Show Arena, Monterey
County Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairgrounds Road, Monterey, CA with Fields, Bycycle, Lights by Deadly Nightshade
The band
was billed as ‘Moby Grape’ on the poster.
Friday, September 26 - Sunday, September 28, 1969:
Family Dog On The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA with
Floating Bridge, Rainbow Jam
Sunday, October 19, 1969: De Laveaga
Park, 850 Branciforte Drive, Santa Cruz, CA with
Silver Chalke, Brothers Day, Snail, Paw, 25th
Century Ensemble, Field Machine and many more “The Happy Day Festival”
The festival got shut down by the cops.
Fall 1969: Valley View Young Adults Club, Champaign, IL (four days shows)
Fall 1969: unknown venue, St. Louis, MO
The band
was billed as ‘Moby Grape’.
Sunday, November 9, 1969: The Poppyrock,
135 University Avenue at High Street, Palo Alto, CA
Thursday, December 4, 1969: The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore
Street, Marina District, San Francisco, CA with Axulder
Vault
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller’ on the poster.
THE RHYTHM DUKES #3 (aka MOBY GRAPE #5)
(DECEMBER 1969 - JANUARY ?, 1970)
1) John Barrett
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
3) Jerry Miller
4) Ned Torney electric piano, rhythm guitar
5) Henry ‘Rick’ Garcia (aka
Rick Henry) tenor sax
Friday, December 12 - Sunday, December 14, 1969:
Family Dog On The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA with
Canned Heat, Bob McPharlin
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller’ on the poster. The shows were
recorded.
Friday, December 20 - Saturday, December 21, 1969: New
Old Fillmore, 1805 Geary Boulevard at Fillmore Street, Fillmore District, San
Francisco, CA with Grateful Dead, Osceola, Lightyear,
Jef Jaisun
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes (Moby Grape)’ on the poster.
Tuesday, December 30 - Wednesday, December 31, 1969:
The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore Street, Marina District, San Francisco, CA with John
Hammond
THE RHYTHM DUKES #4 (JANUARY ?, 1970 - JUNE
1970)
1) John Barrett
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
3) Jerry Miller
4) Bill Champlin vocals,
rhythm guitar, organ Hammond B-3
Wednesday, January 7, 1970: The Matrix, 3138 Fillmore
Street, Marina District, San Francisco, CA
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
Friday, February 20 - Saturday, 21, 1970: Family Dog
On The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA with Big Brother and
The Holding Company with Nick Gravenites
The Rhythm
Dukes were billed on the poster (as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill
Champlin’) but were later replaced by Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys.
Friday, March 6 -
Friday, March 20 -
The band was
billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
March or April ?, 1970: rock quarry, University of
California campus, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Friday, April 10 - Sunday, April 12, 1970: Family Dog
On The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA with Albert Collins,
A.B. Skhy
Thursday, April 23 -
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
Friday, May 22 -
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
Friday, June 12 - Saturday, June 13, 1970: The Matrix,
3138 Fillmore Street, Marina District, San Francisco, CA with Vince Guaraldi
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
Friday, June 19 - Sunday, June 21, 1970: Family Dog On
The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA with Flying Burrito
Brothers, Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys
The band
was billed as ‘Rhythm Dukes with Jerry Miller and Bill Champlin’ on the poster.
unknown date, 1970: The Catalyst,
unknown date, 1970: River West,
unknown date, 1970:
In the
middle of the show Bill Champlin got up from the organ to play guitar, and
their seventeen years old friend Dale Ockerman jumped
up on stage and sat-in at the organ to play the cover of Tommy Tucker’s ‘High
Heel Sneakers’.
THE RHYTHM DUKES #5 (aka #2) (JULY 1970 -
SEPTEMBER 1970)
1) John Barrett
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
3) Jerry Miller
Friday, August 28 - Sunday, August 30 and Friday, September 4 - Sunday,
September 6, 1970: Edwin Tate’s 160 acres farm, end of Keep Road, off Lehr
Road, north of Washougal, Clark County, WA with The Youngbloods,
Fox, Child, Gabriel, Good Clean Fun, Big Brother and The Holding Company
(cancelled), Barry Melton & The Fish, Joy of Cooking, Music Projection
Quartet, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Kwane and the
Kwan-Ditos, O.K. Rhythem
Kings, Smith Bros., Wayne Silversonics, Boz Scaggs, A.B. Skye, Beggars
Opera, Mike Atwood, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Aum, Red Bone, Luther Allison, Crystal Axe, 31st Street
Blues Band, S.F. Mime Troupe, S.F. Mime Troupe Rock Band, Dry Creek Road, One
Hand Clapping, Snail, Factory, Peece, Bluebird,
Cannon Ball, Jeff Jaisun, Grizzly, Corky Segal's
Happy Ear Band, High Voltage and many more. Light Shows: Retena
Circus, Doctor Zarkov “3rd
The band
was mispelled as ‘Rhythem
Dukes’ on the poster. The festival was filmed.
THE RHYTHM DUKES #6 (SEPTEMBER 1970 - FALL 1971)
1) John Barrett
2) ‘Fuzzy John’ Oxendine
3) Jerry Miller
4) Russell Dahneke (aka Russell Leon) rhythm
guitar
Friday, September 25, 1970*: Agriculture Building,
Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairgrounds Road, Monterey, CA with Good
Clean Fun, Fred Peterson Quartet “Boogie
Golden Seal Award”
*Note: The poster has a date but no day of the week, leading to some confusion
about the exact year of this show. By the way, the touring schedule of The
Rhythm Dukes suggests that the year was 1970.
Thursday, October 1, 1970: New Orleans House, 1505 San
Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA with One Hand Clapping
Fall 1970: Chateau Liberte,
22700 Old Santa Cruz Highway, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
The show
was filmed.
unknown date, 1970 and/or 1971: The
Catalyst,
The band
was mispelled as ‘Rythmn
Dukes’ on the poster.