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Cream began their first tour of America on August 22, at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium.
Three dollars
was enough to buy a ticket, and the place was packed to the rafters. The Fillmore was sold out for
five straight nights, after which Bill Graham gave each member of the band a gold watch.
The band's stay was then extended from August 29 to September 3.
(In July of 1968, Bill Graham abandoned the Fillmore Auditorium and bought the nearby Carousel Ballroom.
The Carousel was subsequently renamed the Fillmore West, in order to differentiate it from Graham's
Fillmore East in New York City's East Village. Both venues were closed in July of 1971).
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