Dan Brusseau

The reality for war survivors is that it rewires you in very fundamental ways. Whatever your expectations were going in bear little relation to the way you feel about yourself and the world around you when you get out. If…

Sometime in the summer of '67 we landed at the Fillmore following an afternoon of well-lubricated, chemically-enhanced fun at a seemingly unknown beach in Santa Cruz. We were going to see The Who, a show I'd been eagerly anticipating for…

Although Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, did a stint in the U.S. Army and toured extensively in the U.S. as a back-up musician in the early to mid 60's, I consider him as much a part of the British…

Oct. 23, 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium was billed "One Sunday Afternoon - The Yardbirds". Jeff Beck, fully recovered from the tonsillitis that put him on the shelf for the August Carousel Ballroom show would appear along with along with…

There are no real clear records, audio or visual, of The Beatles at Candlestick Park. My memory of that night is no better. I think this is mainly because the meager (considering the venue) sound system was no match for…

For me, 1966 was the year of the Yardbirds. Two albums, "Rave Up", "Over Under Sideways Down" and two shows - one at the Carousel Ballroom in August and one at the Fillmore in October.

The Beatles changed how rock…

1965 - Randy Helsing bought all his fashion statement clothing at Town Squire in San Francisco. He was a mile ahead of me in that department. I could never get a handle on fashion and never will. It was some…

1964 - My live rock concert journey began not at the Fillmore, but at the Cow Palace, Berkeley Community Theatre and San Francisco Civic Auditorium. The KYA (1260 AM) "Boss of the Bay" concerts at the Cow Palace were extravaganzas…

When I picked up the acoustic guitar 4 years ago, I had no idea how much it would change the way I thought about and wrote music. The results of these changes in perception are now in with "Squatterville Empire."