↓[32] ‡ Mensah Wali: The way we opened up was a New Year’s Eve party with ‡ Leon Thomas, New Year’s Eve ’69 going into ’70. Then we opened up the weekend series of music around the end of January 1970. The first act was ‡ Eddie Gale, and the second one was ‡ Gary Bartz and the ‡Ntu Troop.