Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 2: Cold Blood

Here's the second set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Cold Blood.

Generally speaking, I haven't posted as much music as I have ready for posting due to the hassles of making the cover art and/or writing the write-ups. For instance, I've had these Fillmore West albums ready to go for a year or two, but never got around to actually posting them until now. The cover art needs to happen regardless, but to help things along, I'm going to try to keep the write-ups to a minimum. Instead, I'll lean heavily on information from Wikipedia.

Here's how Wikipedia introduces this band: "Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968, and was originally based in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band has also performed and recorded under the name Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, due to the popularity of their lead singer, Lydia Pense." 

Here's the rest of their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more: 

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia 

The music here is unreleased. However, all the sets from the five final days of concert at the Fillmore West were broadcast on local radio stations. (Specifically, KSAN, KSFX, and KMET.) As a result, they all have been bootlegged, with excellent sound quality.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 You Got Me Hummin' (Cold Blood)
02 talk (Cold Blood)
03 Too Many People (Cold Blood)
04 talk (Cold Blood)
05 Lo and Behold (Cold Blood)
06 talk (Cold Blood)
07 Let Me Down Easy (Cold Blood)
08 talk (Cold Blood)
09 Monkey on My Back (Cold Blood)
10 talk (Cold Blood)
11 Real Good Thing (Cold Blood with the Stanton Brothers)
12 Watch Your Step (Cold Blood)
13 talk (Cold Blood)
14 Shop Talk [Instrumental] (Cold Blood)
15 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Cold Blood)
16 Understanding (Cold Blood)
17 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Cold Blood)
18 I'm a Good Woman (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ei9CNDgV 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ZOM9affn3Lizpgs/file

The cover image shows Lydia Pense, the lead singer of Cold Blood. I believe it comes from this exact concert, but I could be wrong. (It's been a long time since I made the cover art for all the albums in this series.)

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