Opened by Willie Murphy.

Don’t know what happened to Crabby Appleton. Maybe they had to “Go Back” to Los Angeles. August 30, 1970: Mason Proffit, opened by Willie Murphy. This was a last-minute substitution for Crabby Appleton, which had been advertised just four days beforehand. Reviewer Dodd Lamberton referred to Mason Proffit as the group that “saved” the Iron Butterfly concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium a few months back. Here at the Depot, “they really turned on the crowds with their smooth, country-western sound.” Unique aspects of the group were that they tuned their instruments one-half step higher than normal, and they used a dobro as a kind of fourth voice. Lamberton also commented on the opening act:

Willie Murphy and his band made up for their disorganized appearance at the Guthrie two weeks ago with two acceptable sets of mostly original songs. Of these the best was Murphy’s “Eyes of Temptation.” The group’s sound resembled that of the original Electric Flag on the blues tunes.

And as for the Depot’s light show, Lamberton thought it was “as imaginative and as effective as any local show seen recently.”