Marc Rubinstein's Pig Light Show Handbills consist of JPEG image files of handbills from Fillmore East concerts that used the Pig Light Show during 1970 and 1971. Artists featured include Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Blodwyn Pig, Bloodrock, the Byrds, Chicago, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fleetwood Mac, Flying Burrito Brothers, Free, Glass Harp, Grand Funk Railroad, Hot Tuna, Humble Pie, J. Geils Band, Jethro Tull, Albert King, Manhattan Transfer, Lee Michaels, Mott the Hoople, Pacific Gas & Electric, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, Leon Russell, Santana, Savoy Brown, Sha-Na-Na, the Small Faces, Ten Years After, Edgar Winter, the Youngbloods, and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Joe's Lights is also featured and indicated at the item level. The files are listed in alphabetical order by the name of the headlining artist.
Biography / Administrative History
Not long after his eighteenth birthday--after already performing with most of the bands who appeared at Woodstock--Marc Rubinstein did a Tuesday night "audition" show at Bill Graham's Fillmore East. By night's end the whole backstage crew, including members of the Joshua Light Show, were calling him and his light show "Josh Jr.," much to the embarrassment of Marc and the obvious pleasure of his mentor, Joshua White. Six months later, Rubinstein's Pig Light Show became White's hand-picked replacement for the Fillmore East house light shows. Rubinstein's work was lauded in, among others, the New York Times, the New York Post, and Playboy's prestigious "Jazz and Music" reviews. The Fillmore East closed just before the beginning of July in 1971, and Pig Light Show went on to become the house light show for the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. Forty-five years later--many television performances, hundreds of concert performances, and years of teaching lighting in colleges--Rubinstein is still at it but with a number of modern twists.
Notes
Acquisition Note: Marc Rubinstein's Pig Light Show Handbills were received by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. as a gift from Rubinstein on September 6, 2011.
Citation: [Identification of Item], Marc Rubinstein's Pig Light Show Handbills, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Processing Information: Processed by Jennie Thomas, Head Archivist. Completed October 28, 2014. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual.
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