9 Big Names Who Played on the Farm Before They Were Famous

July 1, 2016

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60s

Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter (later of the Grateful Dead) and Janis Joplin jammed at house parties in Wilbur.


70s

Small-time San Francisco phenom Journey opened a Dave Mason concert at Maples Pavilion in 1975.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were on the brink of their breakout when they rocked MemAud in 1978.


80s 

Singer Anthony Kiedis spit rhymes and a mysterious fluid at the few brave souls who showed up to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in MemAud back in ’86.

Also that year, up-and-coming comic Ellen DeGeneres joked around at the CoHo.

For one house party in the late ’80s, EBF brought in a Berkeley-based rock outfit called Green Day.


00s

Partygoers at Chi Theta Chi witnessed mashup master Girl Talk when he played in their backyard in the late 2000s.


 

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