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Condition: Very Fine, minor creasing age discoloration, 6 pages folded, Concerts Promotion Mailer.
Size: 7" x 11",
Concerts: 1974 July 31 thru August 31
Venue: The Inn of the Beginning, Cotai, CA
Performers:The Tubes, Bob Ward, Stoneage Elegance, Clifton Chenier, J.R. Weitz, Synergy, Bola Sete, Skunk Cabbage, Billy Faier, Stoneground, David LaFlamme and more...
[courtesy of checkenonunicycle] The Inn of The Beginning was founded in 1968 as a coffee shop and bar that provided both a watering hole and a venue for local groups. The opening night band on September 28, 1968 was Bronze Hog, featuring guitarist Frank Hayhurst. Hayhurst, at one point, became co-operator of the Inn, and now owns a music store in Cotati. The Bronze Hog played The Inn Of The Beginning in all its incarnations for decades, and the band still plays around the city periodically, and that sums up Cotati in a nutshell. Cotati’s friendly atmosphere and convenient location of The Inn made it an attractive place for the many world-class musicians who lived in Marin to use the Inn of The Beginning as a venue to work on new material or try out a new line up. Over the decades, the likes of Van Morrison and Jerry Garcia played there, often with very little publicity. Ironically, this has led to an expansion of the legend beyond its actual width; the New Riders of The Purple Sage played there in 1969, but this has led to the unsustainable story that the Grateful Dead used to play there “every Tuesday.” Janis Joplin is reputed to have joined Big Brother there one night in 1970, and it is impossible to say whether she did for certain.