Groups that Played The Market

• Cream     10-16/09/1967
• Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company    2/23-24/1968
• Greatful Dead 12/29+30/1967
• Moody Blues    11/1+2/1968
• Frank Zappa    11/24-25/1967    5/67and 3/1968
• Donna Summer in a group called Crow.
• The Electric Flag10/31- 11/13, 1967
• Procol Harum
• Moby GrapeJan 1968
• The Fugs
• Tangerine Zoo Click for POSTER

Wonderful page with pictures and memories.........http://www.angelfire.com/ca/oldtimers/KenMelville.html

Some of the same pictures with some more comments........http://www.thetrickismusic.com/?p=3941#more-3941

Some real info here with a line up of groups that played the club.. ......... http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/search/label/Boston

At the same address now is a biomedical research building owned by Boston Univerisity...........Wikipedia has info and a picture.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_Center_for_Science_and_Engineering

Ramparts magazine in 8/1968 reported a problem with Janis's date at the club.....Albert B. Grossman, the group’s manager, just how surprised you feel when you wake up in the morning on a sunny Boston day and find $5,000 worth of equipment was heisted the night before from the Psychedelic Supermarket and there’s two sets to play that night and a concert tomorrow afternoon and you can’t even get into the club because there’s a symposium on the "Boston Sound" going on.

   I came across this in The Tech a MIT paper....."Big Brother and The Holding Company follows Cream, The Electric Flag, The Mothers, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, the Fugs and Procol Harum in their appearance at the Psychedelic Supermarket. According to Miss Terry Towne, a secretary behind the scenes there, a general facelifting is in store for the place, with a new elevated ceiling ( which will allow for an improved light show) and a brick floor over the present concrete. The floor will continue to be empty of chairs, as is the setup at both the Fillmore and the Avalon in SF, to encourage people to dance.

11/13/2005 Boston Globe interview of Billy Squire:
The Psychedelic Supermarket was the first nightclub you played regularly in the '60s. What was that like?
   It was just outside Kenmore Square, down an alley, no windows, not particularly high ceilings. Not a magic place like the [Boston] Tea Party, just a very industrial place. But I had a lot of great times there. We'd open for the Grateful Dead, the Moody Blues, Steve Miller. I spent six nights at [Eric] Clapton's feet when Cream came there.

11/14/67 The Harvard Crimson spotlights a Chuck Berry gig there. of all things... It is the Psychedelic Supermarket, a damp basement garage just off Kenmore Square. No more than a dozen people sit at tables near the stage -- mostly teeny bopper couples with happy-colored beads and sad faces. Two workmen in cover-alls are folding up unused tables and chairs and dragging them past the three men.
   The sound system screams psychedelic music. "I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad." He stares at his feet, trying not to notice the workmen. "I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad."
   Album covers line the near wall. The Electric Prunes, Surrealistic Pillow, Fresh Cream, The Grateful Dead--all call out in glaring psychedelic script. Yet there was something in that ancient face of 36 years, smiling weakly in the shadows, that recalls a younger, simpler time.

   One of the times I went there my classmate Chris Martin was playing in his group Morgan. He was always good and had bands into the 90's. The other band always was a vivid memory for me. They played long meandering pieces that became one big opus. I just sank into the music that night. They also had an all time great name: The Third World Raspberry.

   I kept an article that talks about the club and the gig that night. I don't know the paper. The year was 1968.