>>some requests as i go thru my cd collection: crabby appleton-not listed anywhere in wv. did they play live? maybe michael fennelly-guitarist from crabby went solo after.<<

Crabby Appleton--now there's an obscure one. As far as I know, they only played the Whisky A-Go-Go in Hollywood, around 1969. According to an interview with Michael Fennelly, they hung out there all the time and had to perform once in a while to work off their bar tab.

In a broader sense, even  obscure bands have followings and are worth hearings, and I think the "Friday B-Side" concept would be better served by intriguing opening acts who weren't neccesarily famous. I have a list of every BGP-produced show, and just randomly looking at Spring 1971, I see such acts as

The Grease Band (opened for Savoy Brown at Berkeley, with Faces opening 3/11/71)
    The Grease Band without Cocker was a terrific group
Fourth Way (opened for Santana at Winterland 3/26-28/71)
    cutting edge jazz rock fusion
Fanny (opened for Van Morrison at Fillmore West, 4/15-17/71)
    an "all-chick" (as they used to say) band, much trivialized as a result
Swamp Dogg (opened for Humble Pie 5/13-16/71)
    crazy soul man, another legendary

This is true of every month of BGP, more or less--Wednesdays are for The Dead, Santana and Dire Straits...let's have a little fun on Friday

corry