Best New Bands » Fillmore http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Delta Spirit Leads A Spiritual Revival In San Francisco http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/delta-spirit-leads-a-spiritual-revival-in-san-francisco/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/delta-spirit-leads-a-spiritual-revival-in-san-francisco/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:45:15 +0000 The floor was shaking, hands were raised to the sky and the man on the microphone was pontificating emphatically as sweat rolled down his furrowed brow. Was I in the Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrating a revival? I might as well have been, but instead, I was at the Delta Spirit show at the Fillmore in San

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/delta-spirit-leads-a-spiritual-revival-in-san-francisco/feed/ 1 Blitzen Trapper and Dawes Rock The Fillmore http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/blitzen-trapper-and-dawes-rock-the-fillmore/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/blitzen-trapper-and-dawes-rock-the-fillmore/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:10:19 +0000 I arrived at the Fillmore for the Blitzen Trapper/Dawes show around 7:55 for an 8:00 show stoned out of my mind. There is no greater high than that of being on a cloud when music hits you. As I stood admiring the empty stage, the collective masses of San Francisco streamed into the iconic Fillmore.

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