Tillery to mark 60th birthday with pair of shows
“It’s been an endurance test,” Linda Tillery says of her 40 years of ups and downs in the Bay Area music business.
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Born in San Francisco 60 years ago Tuesday, Tillery was once a queen of the San Francisco rock scene. As lead singer of the Loading Zone, a psychedelic soul-rock band from the East Bay, she recorded an album for RCA Victor and frequently appeared at the Fillmore Auditorium on bills with the likes of Cream, the Grateful Dead, Albert King, B.B. King and the Who. She was one of four big-voiced women fronting bands on the local rock circuit, the others being Tracy Nelson with Mother Earth, Lydia Pense with Cold Blood and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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