The Loading Zone - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 2-10-1968

A few days ago (writing in late February 2026), I posted a 1968 concert by the fairly obscure band the Loading Zone. I was pleasantly surprised by the positive response that got. One commenter noted there is another concert bootleg by this band that took place just two days later. Turns out that is correct, so here it is.

For the basics about the Loading Zone, please check out my write-up for the other concert I've posted by them. Thanks to commenter johncream who pointed me to this recording. It only seems to exist as an audio recording on YouTube until now, so I converted that to audio format and chopped it into mp3s.

What's nice is that although this concert only took place two days after the other one I've posted, the set list is entirely different. Also, there isn't much overlap with their self-titled 1968 studio album. Only three songs from that were performed here: "Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead," "No More Tears," and "Shop Around." 

The only original song written by band members is "No More Tears." That also was a single they released. (It flopped.) The rest of the songs are generally classic hits. The band leans more into soul music here. Note they were a mostly white band but their lead singer, Linda Tillery, was a Black woman, which was rare for the San Francisco scene they were a part of. (She can be seen on the far left in the cover image.)

The album is 50 minutes long. This appears to be the full performance. They played a relatively short set because they were an opening act that night.

01 Got My Mojo Working (Loading Zone)
02 talk (Loading Zone)
03 Summertime (Loading Zone)
04 Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead (Loading Zone)
05 No More Tears (Loading Zone)
06 talk (Loading Zone)
07 Shop Around - 96 Tears (Loading Zone)
08 talk (Loading Zone)
09 Cold Sweat (Loading Zone)
10 talk (Loading Zone)
11 Try a Little Tenderness (Loading Zone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qi1w2bcn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MVWu06AA2ewhv5o/file

I had a hard time coming up with a cover for this album. It seems there are only two even halfway decent photos of the band on the Internet, and I used up the best one for the first album I posted by this band. I ended up using the second one for this cover, but with a twist: I found a version of it the band used for the cover to their single "No More Tears." I kept that for the middle section, with its tinted colors and everything exactly the same. But I got rid of all of the text above and below, and replaced it with my own text (but still with the same font and background colors).