East Village, Manhattan St. Marks Place. On June 27, 1967, the Electric Circus opened in the same space with a benefit for the Children's Recreation Foundation whose chairman was Bobby Kennedy. The Grateful Dead, The Chambers Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, and the Allman Brothers Band were among the many rock bands that performed there before it closed in 1971. On March 8, 1968, Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in what had been a Yiddish Theatre on Second Avenue at East 6th Street in the Yiddish Theater District. The venue quickly became known as "The Church of Rock and Roll", with
Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert is a live album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-sixth album overall, released in 1999. Their second live album to be released in the US, it was Chicago's first of the sort since 1971's "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" and 1972's "Live in Japan", though the band had released commercial VHS tapes of two concerts in the early 1990s. Featuring the band's latter day line-up, "Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert" is composed mostly of their wealth of hits, with three brand new studio recordings ending the album, one of which,