🎫️ Benefit Concert @ The Foster Park Bowl, Ventura

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📅 Date	Sun 20 May 1973
☑️ Present	In Concret
📜 Event flyer slogan	Benefit Concert For The Ventura Hot-Line
📣 Active	🟢 Band played or will play
🏟️ Venue	Foster Park Bowl, USA
📍 Address	Foster Park, 37 Casitas Vista Road, Ventura, CA 93001 ❓

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Benefit Concert For The Ventura Hot-Line.

Mr. Skin (“five musicians play”). Mr. Skin is possibly not the same as Mr. Skin (Spirit band), so maybe a different band.
Cirith Ungol (“a three-member group”) is most likely Garven, Lindstrom and Fogle.
Upstart, Up-Start or Up Start (“six-member group”)
Gary Mandell performing with Ted Green(e).
Fat Back or Fatback (“Fat Back is a five-member group which has played professionally in San Francisco and Monterey. The group has recorded several numbers and is engaged currently at Oxnard’s King Arthur“). Fat Back is possibly not the same as Fat Back, so maybe a different band.
Ted Green or Ted Greene (26 Sep 1946 – 23 Jul 2005) performing with Gary Mandell. Is Ted Green (without -e) on this gig is Ted Greene (with -e). Ted Greene with his Chord Chemistry (or reissue).
Utopia (“four musicians who have recorded”) is possibly not the same as Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, so maybe a different band. Possibly Utopia from southern California, later and became Growl.

VENTURA • HOT-LINE PRESENTS IN CONCERT • AT THE FOSTER PARL BOWL

CIRITH UNGOL MAY 20th • SUNDAY • NOON • PLUS • SUPPORTING • SHOW • OF • SIX • OTHER • BANDS •

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: SALZERS – DISC RECORDS • MUSIC BOX – CLYDE HECK • $1.00 APPEARING THROUGH COURTESY OF LIQUID FLAME PRODUCTIONS

Tickets: $1.00
Salzer’s
Disc Records

In 1973, when this concert was held, Salzer’s (Disc Records) was originally located on Saviers Road in neighboring Oxnard. The store was located in a small strip mall right behind a flower shop. Shortly after, they moved the store to Gonzalez Road in Oxnard.

Music Box

The Music Box (managed by Clyde Heck) was a local music and record shop located in downtown Ventura. The Music Box served as the primary ticket outlet right in Ventura. Clyde Heck was a well-known local music figure and musician in the Ventura and Ojai Valley music scene. 413 East Main Street, Ventura.

Henson’s

Henson’s Music Center was located in downtown Oxnard, at 301 South A Street (on the corner of 3rd Street and A Street).

Clyde Heck

572 East Main Street, Ventura

Another gig (flyer attached) was a benefit for the Ventura Hotline, a phone service for at-risk youth to ring up for drug, alcohol and mental problems (suicide prevention, etc.). Kinda ironic for guys who were always blazin’ up some weed before rehearsals in the 1970s. 😛 – Perry Grayson

What is the setlist for all of the bands? What are the members then? Do you have photos, music or video that we can see or hear? Any more fun facts at that time? What is the short story around the scene, or what is the link to Upstart and Gary Mandell?

: Foster Park Bowl

: (Art work by David A. / probably David Anderson)

: Camarillo Daily News (Fri 18 May 1973)

: CONCERT TO BENEFIT HOTLINE
A concert Sunday at noon in Foster Park, Oak View, Ventura, will benefit the Ventura County Hotline. Tickets are $1 and are available at the door. Local and Los Angeles musicians who will perform including Fatback, Ted Green, Gary Mandell, Mr. Skin, Upstart, Cirith Ungol and Utopia. Barbeque sandwiches, soul food and soft drinks will be sold at the park.

: Ventura County – Star*Free Press (Sun 20 May 1973)

: Foster Park rock concert today
Fat Back, Mr. Skin, Utopia, Up-Start, Cirith Ungol and guitarists Ted Green and Gary Mandell are the musical units which will play today for a folk and rock concert at Foster Bowl, in Foster Memorial Park. The concert beginning at noon and ending at dusk is a benefit for Ventura HOTLINE. Tickets cost $1 and may be purchased at the gate. This is the second benefit concert of this type to be held for HOTLINE at Foster Park, said director Betty (Mrs. Robert) Elder, Ventura. Food, prepared by Miss Kitty’s Oxnard Barbecue Kitchen, will be sold at “low, low prices,” said Mrs. Elder, and will include beef sandwiches, “soul” food and cold drinks. The benefit actually has a two-fold purpose to raise funds for the continuation of the listening-service called HOT-LINE, and to provide Sunday afternoon entertainment for young people who have request ed an “encore” of the first concert, said Mrs. Elder. Green, who is author of a book named “Chord Chemistry,” and Mandell will combine their efforts for the concert, Fat Back is a five-member group which has played professionally in San Francisco and Monterey, The group has recorded several numbers and is engaged currently at Oxnard’s King Arthur, Cirith Ungol is a three-member group; Utopia is four musicians who have recorded, Up- Start is a six-member group, and five musicians play as Mr. Skin. Assisting concert chairman Cheryl Meyer with arrangements are Mrs. Gudrun Anderson, Laurie Leonard, Mike Gwinn, Sam Meyer, David Anderson, Lenore Olson, Sal Lucido, Mark Thomson, Kent Elder, Jim Chappel, Linda Smith, Dana Lovell, Kathey Meyer, and Sue Hoctor. HOTLINE is funded partially by the City of Ventura, and by private contribution. In its fifth year of operation, it receives about 250 calls a month from people, young and old, who need someone with whom to discuss their problems. All callers and answerers remain anonymous. The telephone numbers are 648-HELP and 643-HELP Foster Park may be reached from the Ventura area by the Ojai Freeway, exiting on the Casitas Vistas offramp. Signs will point the way from there.