The Keystone, also known as Keystone Berkeley, was a small music club at 2119 University Avenue in

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, which operated in the 1970s and 1980s. Numerous nationally known groups performed there, including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ray Charles, Talking Heads, The Ramones, Metallica and B.B King, Blondie, and Greg Kihn among many others and the club was a regular venue for the

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. ''Keystone Berkeley'', run by Freddie Herrera and Bobby Corona, was linked to ''The Stone'' and ''Keystone Palo Alto''.

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's Freddie Herrera opened ''Keystone Berkeley'', a larger venue, then sold the

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The Keystone Berkeley closed in 1984.

Keystone Palo Alto

Keystone Palo Alto, at 260 California Avenue, opened 20 January 1977. The Keystone Palo Alto closed in 1986. The club became the Vortex in the mid-1980s, then The Edge in 1989, and closed in April 2000. It was remade into a restaurant, finally as ''Illusions'', a restaurant and nightclub. The building was at various times during the last 50 years, a Purity Market, a Natural food store, a German restaurant, called the Zinzanatti Oom Pah Pah Lounge, a club called ''Sophies'', it then was demolished in October 2013.

The Stone

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at 3138 Fillmore Street closed in early 1971. Peter Abram, along with John Barsotti and Dave Martin, re-opened the club at 412 Broadway (previously ''Mr D's'') in late summer 1973 but it was unsuccessful, only lasting three months. The

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played September 4–6.

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played October 29–30. Legend has it that on Halloween of 1973,

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and Sugardaddy played a wild show here, but this show seems to have actually taken place in January 1974 at another venue. 412 Broadway, San Francisco, then hosted the play ''

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'' and from 1980 to 1990 it was ''The Stone''; later it was the home of ''Broadway Showgirls Cabaret''.

Albums recorded at Keystone

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Live at Keystone ''Live at Keystone'' is an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on July 10 and 11, 1973, and released later that year as a two-disc vinyl LP. It was re-rel ...

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Keystone Encores ''Keystone Encores'' is an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California, on July 10 and 11, 1973, and released on CD by Fantasy Records in 1988. It was also releas ...

'' *'' Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings'' *'' Let It Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 2'' *'' Garcia Live Volume 5 * Kill 'Em All (Deluxe Edition 2016)

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