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KALEIDOSCOPE - 04/11/1968

HOLLYWOOD, CA - U.S.A.

Venue Address: 6230 Sunset Blvd. - Hollywood, CA
Promotion: John Hartman/Skip Taylor/Gary Essert/KRLA
Event: Superball at the Kaleidoscope

Also Performing:
Traffic
Love
Canned Heat
Bo Diddley
Pacific Gas & Electric
The Collectors
The Committee
Kaleidoscope
Holy Modal Rounders

Setlist:
The Celebration Of The Lizard
(Incomplete)

Recordings / Film:
Unavailable

Reviews / Info:
-This venue is previously known as the Hullabaloo and becomes the Aquarius Theater later in 1968.
-Proprietor Gary Essert is a former colleague of Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison at UCLA.
-50 employees of KMPX-FM and KPPC have been on strike since March 18th, including disc jockey Tom Donahue.
-San Francisco hosts a series of benefits for KMPX including shows at the Avalon Ballroom and Winterland.
-KPPC's studio is housed in the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
-The first benefit show for KPPC takes place at this venue on March 23rd and does not feature The Doors.
-This is a second benefit show for striking employees of KPPC Radio.
-7:00pm scheduled start time.
-The Doors give the earliest known live performance of The Celebration Of The Lizard at this event.
-KPPC's studio is moved to the newly opened Cinematheque 16 in late April.
-Picket lines continue into May.
-A theatre in San Francisco hosts a showing of films to benefit the KMPX-KPPC strikers in mid-May.
-The KMPX-KPPC strike is resolved by the end of May.

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STRIKE ARTICLE:

Newspaper: San Bernardino County Sun
Author: Unknown
Publish Date: March 19th - 1968
Copyright © San Bernardino County Sun
KPPC Strike 1968 - Article