This site is no longer accessible on the web, so while I will quote from it liberally, any information on links to his material would be very welcome. The one really interesting source on the late 1960s Florida rock scene was a multi-page site by one GL Sullivan, full of fascinatingly detailed information including detailed line drawings. They briefly backed Burdon and went on to some success with the hit single "Ride Captain Ride" in 1970. Visiting bands were impressed with the Blues Image, but Frank Zappa suggested that they would have to go to New York or Los Angeles to make it, and Eric Burdon invited them to Los Angeles, so in Spring 1969 they closed Thee Image and moved to Los Angeles. The club seems to be remembered fondly by performers and fans, but there is very little in the way of photographs or live tapes, and only a few posters circulate. The club had three stages and multiple rooms, along with a wall of Ampeg speakers, so it wasn't just a converted building. Thee Image opened on Mawith The Mothers of Invention, and the last gig that I can find was Apwith Ten Years After. Besides helping operate the club, they were the house band and apparently played just about every weekend there, whether or not they appeared on the bill. Blues Image were reputedly hip Florida's best live band, with twin drummers and a funky, swinging sound. It was principally operated by a band from Tampa, FL, originally called The Motions, who had changed their name to Blues Image in an homage to The Blues Project. It was located in a former 32-lane bowling alley at 18330 Collins Avenue, just North of Miami in Sunny Isles Beach.
Thee Image was Miami's biggest and best known psychedelic rock club, even though it was only open for about 13 months. I am attempting to rectify the gap with this post. The recent discovery of some "lost" Grateful Dead gigs at Thee Image in Miami on April 12-13-14, 1968, springing from an AP Wire Service story about an Easter Sunday "Love-In" at Greynolds Park in North Miami Beach (right, from the Colorado Springs Gazette of April 15, 1968), pointed out the paucity of prosopographical analysis of Thee Image and the psychedelic rock scene in Miami in the late 1960s.
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