Notes:
"Summer Jam" - final/last "Mountain Jam": 11-06-70b [223] - billing: GD; Allman Brothers Band; The Band
Set List:
BerthaBeat it on Down the Line
Brown Eyed Women
Mexicali Blues
Box of Rain
Here Comes Sunshine
Looks Like Rain
Row Jimmy
Jack Straw
Deal
Playing in the Band
Around and Around
Loose Lucy
Big River
He's Gone
Truckin'
Nobody's Jam
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Stella Blue
Eyes of the World
Sugar Magnolia
Sing Me Back Home
Not Fade Away
Mountain Jam
Johnny B. Goode
Comments
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Keep That LoveLight Shinin'!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep That LoveLight
Keep That LoveLight Shinin'!!!!!!!!!!!!
First DEAD Show
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watkins Glen
We were actually dry throughout the show(s).
Friday afternoon, I talked my way inside the fence with my friend's VW bus. We parked down by the first row of speaker towers (the clinic tents, sheriffs trailer and next row of towers behind us) and the soundboard slightly down towards the stage and to our left).
Dry sleeping bags, food, ice, drinks and a hella good view from the roof. We also ended up being a shelter, resource and recovery stop for many in our area.
Will post more memories as they filter back from the depths.
For sale: Mechanic's dream......
Glad to be back on the long road home.
For sale: Mechanic's dream......
Glad to be back on the long road home.
1972 Vega wagon and we were off to New York. Bought two tics at a dept. store. ($10.00 each) and headed north.
An unbelievable life altering experience. The wall of sound was swaying.
How does Bob Weir play that guitar with just one arm? Is he a cowboy or rock star?
Just the best thing that has ever "come up on me".
Thank you for a real good time.
first grateful dead show
peace through music
I was too young to go to woodstock and was pysched to go to Watkins Glen. I went to see the Allman Bros. The New York State thruway was closed with four lanes of cars,we made two extra out of the breakdown lanes. Some guys got on top of their cars and hollered for us to leave our cars there and just walk. So, we did!! I remember walking at dawn and for miles you could just see a sea of people walking, it was sooo beautiful like an exodus. I was back-packing my 2 yr. old son and a volkswagon bus (that you could hear coming for miles) stopped when it got in front of us and asked us if we wanted to hop in, yeah! When we got to the center of Watkins Glen we got out and a local elderly lady said she had some lunch for us and gave us lemonade and fried chicken. I never forgot all the kindness I experienced on that trip, or the huge blisters on my feet! Thank heaven for the cool soothing mud which healed them!
Oh, yeah the music....when we finally got up the mountain you could hear the notes drifting down but there were so many people it wasn't feasible for a young mom and 2 yr. old to get near the stage, but a good time was had by a lot of good people. And the music was magical.
What a time!
Fresh out of high school w/the parents' Dodge Dart and a carful of other crazed friends. A cararvan of three or four cars from NJ up to a few miles from the Glen -- and then a six-hour traffic jam.
Got there Friday...thought the Dead's soundcheck that night beat their set the next day. The Band ruled on Saturday and the Allman Brothers also tore it up. The campfires dotting the muddy hillside gave it that post-war vibe.
The Dead would really show off their stuff a few days later at Roosevelt Stadium...and we'd be there too....
Watkins Glen '73
Back in the days of my '65 impala SS. Was only my second or third show, don't really remember, don't have stubs. Missed the soundcheck the night b4, tho' had friends who had gone Wednesday who saw it all.
Not gunna glorify a very apprehensive situation. Way-Way more people than promoters expected, shortage of alot of things. Sludge around port-a-johns was above ankle deep after the thunderstorm.
BIG DIFFERENCE---- It was well into the Freak era that immediately followed the hippies. By this time the media had labled us "freaks of society", we kinda looked upon ourselves as "Volunteers" prolly partial thanks to the Airplane. Thank God it was when it was. Everyone was focused on the party and watching out for their neighbor. Had it been in the times to come, could have easily been "Woodstock 99" b4 it's time.
Had to park somewhere along Seneca Lake and walk clear to the village, thru it, and up the mountain to the raceway.
It took years (alot of them) before we started to admit to other groups of folks we knew that after the Dead played Saturday we bailed out and headed for home. It was simulcast on FM so we didn't really miss much except shoulder to shoulder people. (not even room enuf to lay down) Realize some folks didn't have the same experience. But feel the younger deadheads deserve a glimpse of the other side of the truth about it all.
BUT---I have never regretted going and the show was great!
Watkins Glen
It was SOOOOOOOO hot and we were three football fields away from the stage, but we could hear. We heard a six hour set by the Dead if memory still serves me at all? Never met up with who planned to, but met up with lots of folks we knew, but did not know were going. It took hours to get home to Poughkeepsie where I then lived with all the cars leaving. However, I still remember being there and after this much time and smoke that is enough.