Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-1-1971, Part 2: Grootna

Here's the second set from the second 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 Grootna.

The previous set I posted in this series was the obscure band Lamb. But this band is even more obscure, as shown by the fact that they don't even have a Wikipedia page (as I write this in January 2026). So I had to do some digging to come up with some information about them. They were only in existence for a short time, releasing a single album in 1971. It was produced by Marty Balin, a former member of Jefferson Airplane. He liked them so much that he poached two band members, including them in his next musical project, Bodacious DF. That seems to have ended Grootna.

The band was most noted for the lead vocals of Anna Rizzo. Here's a quick summary of the musical style I found in a rateyourmusic.com review: "Fairly tight, semi-commercial rock with some mild rural/ West Coast-y moves, and soul-ish female vocals, as well as good guitar and some honky tonk piano."

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 That's What You Get (Grootna)
02 Road Fever (Grootna)
03 talk (Grootna)
04 I'm Funky (Grootna)
05 talk (Grootna)
06 Crazy 'bout You Baby (Grootna)
07 talk (Grootna)
08 Full Time Woman (Grootna)
09 talk (Grootna)
10 You're Drivin' Me Crazy (Grootna)
11 I Can't Get No Nookie (Grootna)
12 Tend to Your Business (Grootna)
13 Live a Life of Joy (Grootna) 

https://bestfile.io/en/BJYwp8DjF52F8Zj/file

Somehow or another, I forget how, I found a low-res, black and white image of Grootna lead singer Anna Rizzo in concert. I colorized the image with the help of the Kolorize program, and I added detail with the help of the Krea AI program.