Sacramento Rock & Radio Museum
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  • 50s
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  • 70s
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    • KZAP
    • Roger Shepherd
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  • 80s
    • Bill Graham Presents
    • Clubs
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  • 90s
    • Bill Graham Presents
    • Even More Tower Records
  • 2000+
    • Marysville Amphitheater
    • Jackie Greene
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    • Laura Edmiston (artist)
    • Jason Malmberg (artist)
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Crabshaw-Oasis hosts hundreds of amazing acts over 13 years

Al Skinner and Bob Fenbury took an old Stop 'n' Shop market on "I"
Street in Midtown Sacramento and made it the center of hip music.  
Touring Blues legends, Bay Area Rock sensations, up-and-coming
local bands, even Henny Youngman came to Crabshaw Corner
beginning in Fall 1972.  Roger Shepherd provided most of the ad art.
(The club was christened after Elvin Bishop who was nicknamed 
Pigboy Crabshaw while in the Paul Butterfield Band.)

By 1975, Fenbury had bowed out and the club was "classed up" and
renamed the Oasis Ballroom, after Maria Muldaur's big hit "Midnight
at the Oasis."  Jerry Garcia, Van Morrison, Pat Metheney and many 
more filled the club until pressure from the neighbors forced its closure 
in 1985.
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