Big Tent
Bill Graham
Though he’s no longer with us and didn’t live or keep an office here, Bill Graham’s imprint remains to this day. Building what many artists regard as the finest outdoor facility of its class on the national touring circuit, Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View put the valley on the concert stage, from which geography-challenged bands scream “San Francisco” less frequently these days. For many years the home base of the Grateful Dead, Shoreline has brought top performers together for Neil Young’s Bridge Show for two magical decades, and the facility became an anchor of the industrial campus cluster that’s now home to Google.
