Guess Who BB King Fritz w Stevie Nicks Original Handbill Earth Day Cal Expo 1970

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Earth Day 1970 Guess Who BB King Fritz w Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, Crabby Appleton Original Handbill Cal Expo 1970
Performers: Guess Who, BB King, Fritz w/Stevie Nicks, Southwind, Crabby Appleton
Illustrator: Unknown
Year: 1970
Date: May 24, 1970
Venue: Cal Expo
City: Sacramento
State: CA Country: USA Size: 5.25 x 7.25
Printing Method: Offset Product ID: CX001
Condition: MINT On thin blue paper. A very rare handbill featuring The Guess Who, BB King, Fritz (Featuring Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, early in their careers), Southwind and Crabby Appleton at Cal Expo Amphitheater in 1970.
This very nice handbill is one of very few pieces from this stage in the careers of Nicks and Buckingham, just two months after Fritz played its first major gig with Leon Russell in Santa Monica. This was directly prior to recording the album Buckingham/Nicks. Leading up to that, the two performed together in Fritz, after meeting while they were both attending Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, south of San Francisco.
At the time, Nicks was a senior in high school and Buckingham was a junior. According to Nicks, they first met at a casual after-school gathering in 1966. Nicks and Buckingham found themselves harmonizing to what some accounts claim was a Beach Boys song, although Nicks herself claims they sang "California Dreamin'," The Mamas and The Papas hit, in an interview she gave with The Source in 1981. Nevertheless, Nicks and Buckingham did not collaborate again for another two years. In 1968, Buckingham invited Nicks to sing in Fritz, a band he was playing bass guitar for with some of his high school friends. ''
Nicks talks about joining Fritz in an interview with Us Magazine from 1988: "I met Lindsey when I was a senior in high school and he was a junior, and we sang a song together at some after-school function. Two years later, in 1968, he called me and asked me if I wanted to be in a rock & roll band. I had been playing guitar and singing pretty much totally folk-oriented stuff. So I joined the band, and within a couple of weeks we were opening for really big shows: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin. All of a sudden I was in rock & roll."
Although Nicks and Buckingham never performed their own, original music while in Fritz, the band provided them with the opportunity to gain experience on stage, performing in front of crowds while opening for wildly successful rock and roll acts. Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin of Big Brother Company and the Holding Company and Jimi Hendrix, whom Fritz also opened for, would all prove influential on Nicks and her developing stage persona. The band manager, David Forrester, worked hard to secure a record deal for Fritz, although their sound was not exactly fitting with the harder, psychedelic music of their more popular contemporaries.
The pair continued to perform with Fritz for three years until the band finally dissolved in 1971. Having developed a romantic relationship in addition to their working partnership, Nicks and Buckingham decided soon afterwards to move to Los Angeles from San Francisco to pursue their dreams of being signed.
While still performing with Fritz, Nicks had attended San Jose State University, studying Speech Communication. Buckingham joined her at college, also managing to balance school and music.
Upon their decision to move to Los Angeles, however, the pair decided to drop out. Nicks worked several jobs as a waitress and as a cleaning lady so as to support herself and Buckingham: they had decided that it would be best for him not to work and to instead focus on honing his guitar technique. Though they scraped by, living in poverty, Nicks and Buckingham managed to write enough original material for a full-length record. It was not long before Nicks and Buckingham met engineer Keith Olsen as well as the casual entrepreneurs Ted Feigan and Lee LaSeffe. The pair played some of their music for them and all were impressed with what they heard. Soon after that, LaSeffe was able to secure a distribution deal with Polydor. (Lightly edited from Wikipedia)
Extremely rare
Probably the earliest example of Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham collectible art
In Flawless, Mint Condition
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