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mikerofone


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I saw him at the Share sometime around 73 or 74 when his band was the Caledonia Soul Express. No exaggerating, there were only about 20 people there and my singular memory of the evening was that a fight broke out among two of those ten people!

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Never saw Janis there but saw just about every other Marin band/musician: Garcia, Van Morrison, Jesse Colin Young, Huey Lewis and John McFee when they were with Clover; Sons of Champlin, Commander Cody. I was there the night it closed down for good; all night party/jam.

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Good links on Van the Man....thanks



as for the Lion's Share building I read somewhere it houses a company that makes medical or optical instruments....of course in the late seventies it was the location of Campolindo health foods.

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Not sure about a Janis Joplin recording at Lion's share, but Van Morrison played there in 1973. At that time he could sell out basketball arenas, but a sudden onslaught of stage fright almost ruined his confidence in performing live. It was a double-bill performance at the Lion's Share that helped his career.



His 1973 Lion's Share show was broadcast on radio and is available for download here:

http://croz.fm/pages/ontheair_files/van_morrison_san_anselmo_1973.html



A Rolling Stone article on Van Morrison talks about that show in depth:

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/vanmorrison/articles/story/5939314/van_morrison





It's too bad more pictures and recordings don't exist considering the legendary artists and bands that performed there. Today, thousands of cars pass that location on Miracle Mile, not knowing the history of it. Is there anything in that building today?



http://www.rockandrollroadmap.com/lions_share.html

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I remember seeing Vince Guaraldi there but not Janis although who knows....

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Back in 1970,Janis Joplin's former band Big Brother and the Holding Company,were almost the house band at the Lions Share in San Anselmo.



A couple of times Janis joined the band onstage,and sang a few songs with them.(this is confirmed by BBHC guitarist James Gurley)



Did anybody ever see this?......photograph this?......or even better,record this?.....

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