Bill Graham Introductions

27 songs / 100:41

By: Concert Vault

Playlist Description

This coming Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Graham's death (10/25/1991). If you enjoy this website, you know how appreciative we are of everything 'Wolfgang' Grajonca has done, but he'll be in our thoughts even more than usual over the next week. As part of our celebrations of his memory, we've compiled this playlist with some of our favorite examples of Bill's inimitably humorous and respectful style of introducing bands on stage. Listen to Bill Graham in action, then stick around for the jams by the Allman Brothers, Miles Davis, the Grateful Dead, Traffic, Bruce Springsteen and more - it's just a small sampling of the legends he presented in concert over the years.

1 The Allman Brothers Band / Bill Graham Introduction 0:55
2 The Allman Brothers Band / Statesboro Blues 4:13
3 Grateful Dead / Bill Graham Introduction 0:53
4 Grateful Dead / Bertha 6:01
5 Jefferson Airplane / Other Side Of This Life 6:48
6 Traffic / Bill Graham Introduction 0:46
7 Traffic / Medicated Goo 3:56
8 Bruce Springsteen / Badlands 5:06
9 B.B. King / Every Day I Have The Blues 5:00
10 J. Geils Band / Bill Graham Introduction 0:10
11 J. Geils Band / Sno-Cone 3:21
12 Tower of Power / Bill Graham Introduction 1:04
13 Tower of Power / Let A Man be A Man 10:14
14 Chicago / Introduction 6:44
15 Santana / Batuka / Se A Cabo 7:56
16 Miles Davis / Bill Graham Intro 0:12
17 Miles Davis / Directions 9:31
18 The New Riders of the Purple Sage / Bill Graham Intr… 0:21
19 The New Riders of the Purple Sage / Workin' Man Blues 3:49
20 The Sons of Champlin / Bill Graham Introduction / Wh… 6:07
21 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers / Surrender 3:10
22 Aretha Franklin / Respect 3:36
23 Grateful Dead / Bill Graham Introduction 1:14
24 Grateful Dead / Don't Ease Me In 3:30
25 Grateful Dead / Bill Graham 1:42
26 Bob Dylan & The Band / Bob Dylan Gets Bill Graham On… 0:58
27 Bob Dylan & The Band / Blowin' In The Wind 3:24