[Note: Background Colors = blue: rehearsing/recording; = pink: bad event; = lilac: good event]

Date

JCB*

City

Venue

Comments / Sources

1969

Mothers of Invention:

Jan 17-18

San Francisco

Winterland

with Sir Douglas Quintet, PG&E: poster

Jan 24-5

√

LA

Shrine Exhibition Hall

with Fleetwood Mac, Sir Douglas Quintet

Jan 31

√

Boston

War Memorial Auditorium

with Roland Kirk, D. Brubeck

Feb 7-8

√

Miami

Thee Image

Recording at Criteria Studios on 16-Track for about 4 days [JCB]

You Can't Do That On Stage Tour

"...built up around a 200 miles radius of NY City" [JCB]

Feb 11-12

√

Philadelphia

Electric Factory

Feb 13

√

New Haven CT

Yale Univ.

Woolsey Hall [Report in Yale Daily New Feb 19 1969]

Feb 14

New York

Columbia Univ.

Macmillan Theatre - 2 shows

Feb 15

Madison NJ

Drew Univ.

Feb 16

Stratford CT

Ballroom

2 shows

Feb 21-22

√

New York

Fillmore East

with Buddy Miles, Chicago; 2 shows each nite

Feb 23

Toronto

Rockpile

2 shows; poster

Feb 28

√

The Bronx NY

The Factory

Recalled by JCB; Also ref. globalia.net/donlope/fz/chronology/1965-1969

Mar 2

Philadelphia

Arena

with Vanilla Fudge, Soul Survivors

West Coast - Spring

Mar 15

Fullerton

Cal State Univ.

Mar 24 - Mothermania released; with Alice Cooper

Mar 31

√

LA

Aquarius

with Beefheart, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Buddy Miles, L. Ronstadt; [Lowell George in band and probably Buzz Gardner - JCB]

April 12

San Diego

Community Concourse

with Country Joe

April 18

Vancouver

Agrodome

Alice Cooper

April 19

Seattle

Eagles Auditorium

April 21 - Uncle Meat released; with Alice Cooper

North-East Tour Spring

April 25

New York

Queens College

April 26

√

Allentown PA

Memorial Hall

with Turtles

April 27

√

Baltimore

Civic Centre

with Buddy Miles, Country Joe, 10 Yrs After

May 2

Buffalo NY

Clark Gymnasium

2 Weeks Holiday

Northern Tour Spring

May 17

√

Detroit MI

Ford Auditorium

May 19

√

Toronto

Massey Hall

May 23

√

Appleton WI

Lawrence Univ.

May 24

√

Toronto

Rockpile

2 shows

European Tour #3

May 30

√

Birmingham UK

Town Hall

2 shows [See: afka.net/Articles/1969-06_Melody_Maker_2.htm]

May 31

√

Newcastle

City Hall

2 shows

June 1

√

Manchester

Palace Theatre

2 shows

June 3

√

Bristol

Colston Hall

2 shows

June 5

√

Portsmouth

Guildhall

2 shows

June 6

√

London

Royal Albert Hall

CD Live Copy of this concert (Part?)

June 7

√

Paris

Olympia

2 shows [JCB]

Back in NY

June 13-14

New York

Fillmore East

2 shows each nite, with Chicago, Youngbloods

2 Weeks Holiday

Summer Tour

June 27

√

Denver CO

Mile High Stadium

with J. Hendrix, CCR, J. Winter, Iron Butterfly, 3 Dog Night, T. Buckley, J. Cocker et al

June 28

√

Charlotte NC

Coliseum

with Duke Ellington, Hugh Masekela et al

June 29

√

Miami FL

Jai Alai Fronton

with Roland Kirk, Duke Ellington, Gary Burton, Hugh Masekela

July 3

√

Houston

Catacombs

July 5

√

Newport RI

Festival Field

with Gary Burton, Miles Davis, J. Mayall

July 8

√

Boston

The Ark

was Boston Tea Party; with Wild Things

July 11

√

Philadelphia

Spectrum Theatre

with J. Beck, Sly & Family Stone, Ten Years After, Savoy Brown

July 12

√

Laurel MD

Laurel Race Track

with J. Beck, Sly & Family Stone, Ten Years After, Savoy Brown

July 13

√

Minneapolis MN

Tyrone Guthrie Theatre

with Alice Cooper

July (18-30)

Recording at TTG with Sugarcane Harris [JCB]

North-East Tour Summer

Aug 1

Chicago

Aragon

with Howlin' Wolf & Chuck Berry, and with Lowell George [JCB]

Aug 2

New York

Wollman Rink, Central Park

Schaefer Beer Festival with Buddy Guy; 2 shows

Aug 3

Atlantic City NJ

Race Track

with Janis J, J. Airplane, CCR, Santana, Joni M, J. Cocker, T. Buckley, Art. Brown [Canned Heat & Little Richard headlining - JCB]

Aug 6

√

Highland Park IL

Ravinia

Aug 8

Framington MA

Carousel

Aug 9

Fontana WI

Majestic Hills Ski Resort

with Grim Reapers

Aug 10

Warrensville Heights OH

Music Carnival

Canadian Tour 1969

Aug 13

√

London Ontario

Wonderland

with Alice Cooper

Aug 15

√

Ottowa

National Arts Centre

2 shows

Aug 16-18

√

Montreal

International Band Show Expo

2 shows on 16 & 17th

Aug 19

√

Ottowa

CJOH - TV show

Aug 20 or Sept?

FZ disbands MOI; JCB says they were back in California before the band found out