I was there and it was a blast! I remember hearing just like Woodstock..."The New York State Through Way is Closed Man! I never saw SO manny people or cars. I was right against the stage. I missed Woodstock but wasn't missing this one. I took pictures of the Band and The Dead. If i remember correctly the Alman Brothers finished the show and their oncore song was Wipping Post. I'm glad I was a part of history. I can't believe how many year's have gone since the show. Thanks for all your efforts guys! The show was AMAZING! 👍😎👍❤👏👏👏
Bob Dylan upon Jerry’s passing: “There's no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. I don't think eulogizing will do him justice. He was that great - much more than a superb musician with an uncanny ear and dexterity. He is the very spirit personified of whatever is muddy river country at its core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal. To me he wasn't only a musician and friend, he was more like a big brother who taught and showed me more than he'll ever know. There are a lot of spaces and advances between the Carter family, Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without being a member of any school. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and subtle. There's no way to convey the loss. It just digs down really deep.”
It still hurts me today Oct.25/2024 because I’m still inlove with a man that’s gone but will b with him when I die ! ❤️🐇🐰💀☠️⚡️🎸🪽🕊️👻😢😥🥲☝🏼🌎all over the world they were the most loved band ever ! 🩵💜💙❤️🙏🏻🫂🛏️I’m in bed now !
@@Bunbeck-pf9iw yeah I am really bummed tonight. Sad to think I’ll never see Phil again on stage. These guys are my best friends that I never met. Total gut punch today.
I took my kids in 95 to Jerry's last show in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania the rain show it was their very first concert an it had to be the Grateful dead it was an experience for them lol that's for sure .loved it . Rest easy, Jerry ,Pigpen,an Phil . An I bid you goodnite, goodnite ,goodnite.
We were there, the night was just magical. The ABB debuted their recently released “Brother’s & Sisters “ album & were joined by the other band musicians. What a memory.
I was nine years old when this happened. I lived in Towanda, Pennsylvania (which is an hour and a half ride to Watkins Glen) My house was a half a block from the the stretch of highway where US6 and US220 intersect, and there was a total hippie traffic jam going on in our little town...for the second time! When the Woodstock traffic jam happened, that was the first time I was introduced to hippies! I remember both times being like...WOW!!! HIPPIES!!!
@@jimmyhawke I’m still an old hippie plus I met Phil 1 st then Bobby ! Ramrod put a sticker on my back , when I took my jeans off jacket off it was of course a Gratefuldead sticker that I still have plus all my backstage passes but I gave my niece 1️⃣that Bob Weir signed + when she showed it to her friends they offered her 500$ for it because it was never used or opened !
I was there! 18 just outta HS. College in a month. Went down to the front of the stage for the sound check. Woke up by Bill Graham's "asshole pole". Spent the show right in front of Jerry. Left 3 days after the show, you were right couldn't go anyway. Lost the folks I came 200 miles with, and turned around mid-Dead set and OMFG!!! My best pal from High School. It was such a trippy 4 days!
Great heads up about the pounded brass wire, to make cymbals. This little tid bit of real life knowledge, is why I love to listen to your stories of this now legendary, event, and the GratefulDead. Truly, you never tell a story without teaching those attentive emough to soak up all the gems and goodies, which are part and parcel to this history. Thank you again, Big Steve, Backstage Pass makes my day, every time.Peace and tons of love, bro. Keep on keepin' on !
I was there! 16 yrs old drove my VW beetle from Mass. with my 2 older brothers and 2 cousins, parked at a convenience store in W. G. And walked several miles to get there as traffic was stopped, I have a photo of my beetle parked at the store there.
RIP Phil Was there with my husband who has passed and is so missed. The soundcheck on Friday was THE BEST!!! EVER... stands to this day....The music, the people.....💔
2 memories of that weekend. 1. We got there Wednesday- along with maybe another… 100 people. It got much larger as the days went on…even the days between got crowded. 2. FRIDAY nights Warf Rat. Phils bass-,made the ground tremble. Ty Steve, the boys, Macintosh, JBL - and a start night. Ps. Got my shirt!!
My brother & I were there ❗️We camped under the stars, center, mid stage, near the front. We got there after abandoning my over heated car, Friday. What a weekend we had, I love the ABB, Dead & Band to this day☮️😃
It was memorable. Was lucky to have enough money to get my car back which was towed because the state troopers shut down the road into the venue. Walked several miles and then a pick-up truck which somehow was inside the police barricades picked us up and drove us the rest of the way to Watkins Glen. Just like Steve said the fences were down and no one was there to take my ticket. Found a good location to watch the show. Not to far from the Port-O-Potties and next to a large cache of sealed water bottles. I'll never forget going there. When it was announced and I saw the line-up I knew there was no way I was going to miss it.
These are the episodes I look forward to. Stories from the tours, cool details from your perspective from those years, and just watching and listening to you go back to those places for all of us to see. What a pleasure it is to hear your stories, and you are one of the best storytellers out there. Id rather watch these episodes than ANY OTHER PODCAST OR VIDEO ON THE INTERNET. You make it so fun and interesting. You paint a wonderful picture of everything that was happening. Thanks Steve. We love you!
Love the story of the genesis of The Wall Of Sound. Thank You McIntosh Amps for providing the POWER for the Watkin Glen show. The massive crowd would not have heard the music otherwise. The picture of The Dead doing the sound check with the beginnings of The WOS is incredible, you can see where it was going to go, and grow. Thanks Big Steve.
Good lord what a huge event - like a second Woodstock! Was Bill involved with the promotion? He had to have been I’m assuming. These stories are absolutely priceless, by the way. Thank you Steve. I subscribed!
Thankyou, I remember it well a time when everything was there to discover, what have we all done. We need to support another psychedelic awakening. By the by you were always kind to those of us who followed the boys from Fillmore East on. Thankyou
Yep! The Watkins Glen Grand Prix road course is still here and coolin' as ever. Life long Watkins Glen native, here. My family land is 70 acres and actually shares a border with the Grand Prix grounds. That place is literally my back yard. After Summer Jam, the local town government put a complete stop to any type of concert or festival in the Watkins Glen area for years and years, because of all the destruction and everyone was more than a little gun-shy from the effects of everything that the town was simply not prepared for. They eventually loosened up about it though because in 2011, Phish held their Superball 9 festival at the race course. Then again in 2015. Great show today, Steve.
Thanks you Steve That's some great accounts of the Glen it went down in my neck O' the woods, just before my concert going days, I was extremely jealous of my older friends who attended. Thanks again
Loving this Big Steve stuff. My friend BMT heard about this show two days before it happened. He was in Katmandu Nepal with $.025 in his pockets. He managed to get to the venue just as the Grateful Dead hit the stage. The soundcheck the night before was awesome. Have you got any Calico stories?
Cool Fender Rhodes speaker cabinet fire story. Big Steve would know, yet in my old biz, running theatres, the standard fuses would get bypassed altogether. hence they listened for any sign of rattling speakers before they became Fire! ;-) Back in the day the Crown DC 300's without a fuse would drive into a direct shorted speaker like a mutha. You could probably arc weld with them! Dangerous yet workhorse reliable at that time.
First of all I want to apologize for posting a subject off topic, but I don't know any other way to reach you. Since this is the latest video, I thought this would be the first place you would look. Anyway, I truly want to offer my deepest condolences on the passing of Phil Lesh. I am a proud, unabashed Phil-Head, and your autobiography, Home Before Daylight put Phil n a very favorable light that justified all of my reasons for being a die-hard Phil-Head. The stories you told about him told the story about a person who truly, deeply, and genuinely cared about people, especially good friends, and those in his employ. Two stories that stick out are the one where he invited you to come back and work for The Grateful Dead after you got fed up with Dino Valenti in Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the time your truck jack knifed on a highway during a mud slide. From what I have been told, and the stories I have read, it appears Phil was like this with everybody he ever knew or met. Millions of people around the world are very upset at the news of Phil's passing. In fact, I feel like I'm going to cry as I write this. I am forever grateful for all the times I saw The Grateful Dead, and especially all the times I saw Phil solo, either with Phil Lesh and Friends, or The Terrapin Family Band. Your stories about Phil put him in a very positive light. Again, I am deeply sorry for the loss of a good friend who proved that he cared, and was there for you when you least expected it and needed it the most. I think I will skim through your book again, and read all the Phil stories, and try to remember all the good times I had watching him on stage.
Once again a thunder and lightning storm and a hard rain wrecked this wonderful day. This was during about halfway through THE BAND'S SET. We got soaked badly, left before Allmans set😢
@@grouffa I have a personal thing against Steve ! He threatened to kick me out of any show if he saw me coming in the backstage area ! Very jealous of Jerry being with anyone ! Me especially because he knew we both were inlove with eachother ! ♥️🐇🐰🌹🐦🔥🐉☮️🥹☺️🥲😥😰🥵🥶
My "get on the bus" experience. We headed up from NYC on a midnight Adirondack Trailways bus at midnight from Port Authority at midnight Weds/Thurs. After changing buses in Elmira, we got to Watkins Glen and started walking up the hill with backpacks full of canned food. Heavy backpacks, but we were 15-year-old kids used to camping/hiking. Was a brutal walk up the hill in the heat, we ended up riding some of the way on the hood of a car, as some of the folks in the photo. We camped outside the venue grounds but within the Speedway Thurs. night. We had tickets, and actually the doors opened, and we came in on Friday afternoon. The Allman Bros were sound checking before the GD soundcheck. That soundcheck is a legend, of course, and was my first live GD experience. Got up to the stage, but it was so high that couldn't see much without straining my neck, and it sounded better by the sound booth. A lesson learned from the beginning. Don't remember when the fencing fell... I do remember that after the soundcheck on Friday night we had plenty of space around us. We had built a fort out of water boxes left for the crowd the next day. LOL, by morning we were woken by the crowds taking the water... GD opened the show on Saturday, followed by the Band, and then the Allmans. The photo of Jerry w/Dickey Betts was from the Midnight Jam encore following the Allman Brothers' sets. Missed the '73 Roosevelt show. Caught the '74 and '76 ones, though. And so many more. And thank you, for a real good time.
ps Was also my first experience with a certain class of chemicals. Had only smoked weed previously and well. I remember quite well, I remember quite well....
I camped out at Watkins Glen for a couple of nights in 1982 or so for the return of the Grand Prix...at that time I only heard stories from my dad about things that happened there in the past, but had no idea the Dead had played there even though I got on the bus 2 years earlier at one of the Radio City Shows..in fact that show was 10/29/80 so tomorrow makes it 44 years ago!
My Uncle was at Watkins Glen. He rold me a stoey about how between bands, during downtime, in the crowd theyd have a "biggest Hippie Earth Mama Bush Contest". He said the winner had several squirrels and small birds of some type living in the enormous, overgrown, musty muff that he said easily extended outwards about 6 inches in a puffy crotch afro. I didnt have the heart to ask my Uncle why he still married my Aunt anyway, after seeing that...."oddity". So, yeah. Watkins Glen.
Jerry Garcia, when asked his favorite song of his: "I can't. 'Cause often, the ones that get me don't get anybody but me (laughs),” but which song was his most loved? “I really loved 'Row Jimmy Row'."
Thx, Parrish! I met you with Moonalice in Jackson Hole. I also grew up an hour from WG in the Catskills. I was too young to go, but I fully remember the traffic on Rte. 17 where I grew up. Love the stories! Thx!
I was there and it was a blast! I remember hearing just like Woodstock..."The New York State Through Way is Closed Man! I never saw SO manny people or cars. I was right against the stage. I missed Woodstock but wasn't missing this one. I took pictures of the Band and The Dead. If i remember correctly the Alman Brothers finished the show and their oncore song was Wipping Post. I'm glad I was a part of history. I can't believe how many year's have gone since the show. Thanks for all your efforts guys! The show was AMAZING! 👍😎👍❤👏👏👏
Bob Dylan upon Jerry’s passing: “There's no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. I don't think eulogizing will do him justice. He was that great - much more than a superb musician with an uncanny ear and dexterity. He is the very spirit personified of whatever is muddy river country at its core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal. To me he wasn't only a musician and friend, he was more like a big brother who taught and showed me more than he'll ever know. There are a lot of spaces and advances between the Carter family, Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without being a member of any school. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and subtle. There's no way to convey the loss. It just digs down really deep.”
Wow! 🥲👍👍🌈✨💫
Dylan really has a way of summing things up, my favorite quote on Jerry's passing!!
It still hurts me today Oct.25/2024 because I’m still inlove with a man that’s gone but will b with him when I die ! ❤️🐇🐰💀☠️⚡️🎸🪽🕊️👻😢😥🥲☝🏼🌎all over the world they were the most loved band ever ! 🩵💜💙❤️🙏🏻🫂🛏️I’m in bed now !
@@Bunbeck-pf9iw yeah I am really bummed tonight. Sad to think I’ll never see Phil again on stage. These guys are my best friends that I never met. Total gut punch today.
I took my kids in 95 to Jerry's last show in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania the rain show it was their very first concert an it had to be the Grateful dead it was an experience for them lol that's for sure .loved it . Rest easy, Jerry ,Pigpen,an Phil . An I bid you goodnite, goodnite ,goodnite.
RIP PHIL
I got too see the shows at Roosevelt stadium in Jersey city .Great time to be alive .
Yes, I did also…What a wonderful summer that was!
Oh man! What a great story. I’m just learning about this channel. Big fan of The Dead & Steve. Thank you for your service
Will miss you Phil!
We were there, the night was just magical. The ABB debuted their recently released “Brother’s & Sisters “ album & were joined by the other band musicians. What a memory.
I was nine years old when this happened. I lived in Towanda, Pennsylvania (which is an hour and a half ride to Watkins Glen) My house was a half a block from the the stretch of highway where US6 and US220 intersect, and there was a total hippie traffic jam going on in our little town...for the second time! When the Woodstock traffic jam happened, that was the first time I was introduced to hippies! I remember both times being like...WOW!!! HIPPIES!!!
@@jimmyhawke I’m still an old hippie plus I met Phil 1 st then Bobby ! Ramrod put a sticker on my back , when I took my jeans off jacket off it was of course a Gratefuldead sticker that I still have plus all my backstage passes but I gave my niece 1️⃣that Bob Weir signed + when she showed it to her friends they offered her 500$ for it because it was never used or opened !
@@jimmyhawke my niece kept it because of me giving her something so precious but I told her she could sell it if she wanted too !
Love it beautiful hippies😂😂😂😂
I was there! 18 just outta HS. College in a month. Went down to the front of the stage for the sound check. Woke up by Bill Graham's "asshole pole". Spent the show right in front of Jerry. Left 3 days after the show, you were right couldn't go anyway. Lost the folks I came 200 miles with, and turned around mid-Dead set and OMFG!!! My best pal from High School. It was such a trippy 4 days!
Thanks for sharing.
Great heads up about the pounded brass wire, to make cymbals.
This little tid bit of real life knowledge, is why I love to listen to your stories of this now legendary, event, and the GratefulDead.
Truly, you never tell a story without teaching those attentive emough to soak up all the gems and goodies, which are part and parcel to this history.
Thank you again, Big Steve, Backstage Pass makes my day, every time.Peace and tons of love, bro. Keep on keepin' on !
Thank you Lawrence. Appreciate the nice words.
I was there! 16 yrs old drove my VW beetle from Mass. with my 2 older brothers and 2 cousins, parked at a convenience store in W. G. And walked several miles to get there as traffic was stopped, I have a photo of my beetle parked at the store there.
RIP Phil Was there with my husband who has passed and is so missed. The soundcheck on Friday was THE BEST!!! EVER... stands to this day....The music, the people.....💔
2 memories of that weekend.
1. We got there Wednesday- along with maybe another… 100 people. It got much larger as the days went on…even the days between got crowded.
2. FRIDAY nights Warf Rat. Phils bass-,made the ground tremble.
Ty Steve, the boys, Macintosh, JBL - and a start night.
Ps. Got my shirt!!
There are tapes out there of the Dead's soundcheck at this show. They played a mindblowing jam called, oddly enough, "soundcheck jam".
Both nights are well known epic bootlegs
That jam has a couple minute Fire on the Mountain hint. Years before the actual song. Check it out
Thank you Big Steve for all of the juicey detail;s about Watkins Glen always hoped the Dead would release a full length rockumentary bout it
Right On Susie!
You are welcome Susie.
My brother & I were there ❗️We camped under the stars, center, mid stage, near the front. We got there after abandoning my over heated car, Friday. What a weekend we had, I love the ABB, Dead & Band to this day☮️😃
It was memorable. Was lucky to have enough money to get my car back which was towed because the state troopers shut down the road into the venue. Walked several miles and then a pick-up truck which somehow was inside the police barricades picked us up and drove us the rest of the way to Watkins Glen. Just like Steve said the fences were down and no one was there to take my ticket. Found a good location to watch the show. Not to far from the Port-O-Potties and next to a large cache of sealed water bottles. I'll never forget going there. When it was announced and I saw the line-up I knew there was no way I was going to miss it.
These are the episodes I look forward to. Stories from the tours, cool details from your perspective from those years, and just watching and listening to you go back to those places for all of us to see. What a pleasure it is to hear your stories, and you are one of the best storytellers out there. Id rather watch these episodes than ANY OTHER PODCAST OR VIDEO ON THE INTERNET. You make it so fun and interesting. You paint a wonderful picture of everything that was happening. Thanks Steve. We love you!
Thanks for the kind words Zack. Plenty more to come.
Love the story of the genesis of The Wall Of Sound. Thank You McIntosh Amps for providing the POWER for the Watkin Glen show. The massive crowd would not have heard the music otherwise. The picture of The Dead doing the sound check with the beginnings of The WOS is incredible, you can see where it was going to go, and grow. Thanks Big Steve.
Thanks for watching Bob!
Good lord what a huge event - like a second Woodstock! Was Bill involved with the promotion? He had to have been I’m assuming. These stories are absolutely priceless, by the way. Thank you Steve. I subscribed!
Thankyou, I remember it well a time when everything was there to discover, what have we all done. We need to support another psychedelic awakening. By the by you were always kind to those of us who followed the boys from Fillmore East on. Thankyou
Yep! The Watkins Glen Grand Prix road course is still here and coolin' as ever.
Life long Watkins Glen native, here. My family land is 70 acres and actually shares a border with the Grand Prix grounds. That place is literally my back yard.
After Summer Jam, the local town government put a complete stop to any type of concert or festival in the Watkins Glen area for years and years, because of all the destruction and everyone was more than a little gun-shy from the effects of everything that the town was simply not prepared for.
They eventually loosened up about it though because in 2011, Phish held their Superball 9 festival at the race course. Then again in 2015.
Great show today, Steve.
Thanks for checking it out.
Love the stories keep em coming
Will do!
Thanks!
Very kind. Thank you.
The whole sound system thing, with the delay towers, is revolutionary, legend! Great podcast Steve, thank you!
Thank you for tuning in!
I can't imagine being on the way to Watkins Glen and seeing the Dead hitch hiking on the way and picking them up. What a cool story to have.
Thanks you Steve
That's some great accounts of the Glen it went down in my neck O' the woods, just before my concert going days, I was extremely jealous of my older friends who attended. Thanks again
Thanks for checking it out Patrick.
@@BigStevesBackstagePass I love Phil. Thanks for being his friend
Loving this Big Steve stuff. My friend BMT heard about this show two days before it happened. He was in Katmandu Nepal with $.025 in his pockets. He managed to get to the venue just as the Grateful Dead hit the stage. The soundcheck the night before was awesome.
Have you got any Calico stories?
RIP Phil Lesh. The GREATEST EVER!!! Really gonna miss you man.
Love 💚 your stories Big Steve. You ARE the Grateful Dead historical society Maestro! I only wish that there was good footage of this monumental event.
Cool Fender Rhodes speaker cabinet fire story. Big Steve would know, yet in my old biz, running theatres, the standard fuses would get bypassed altogether. hence they listened for any sign of rattling speakers before they became Fire! ;-) Back in the day the Crown DC 300's without a fuse would drive into a direct shorted speaker like a mutha. You could probably arc weld with them! Dangerous yet workhorse reliable at that time.
First of all I want to apologize for posting a subject off topic, but I don't know any other way to reach you. Since this is the latest video, I thought this would be the first place you would look.
Anyway, I truly want to offer my deepest condolences on the passing of Phil Lesh. I am a proud, unabashed Phil-Head, and your autobiography, Home Before Daylight put Phil n a very favorable light that justified all of my reasons for being a die-hard Phil-Head. The stories you told about him told the story about a person who truly, deeply, and genuinely cared about people, especially good friends, and those in his employ. Two stories that stick out are the one where he invited you to come back and work for The Grateful Dead after you got fed up with Dino Valenti in Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the time your truck jack knifed on a highway during a mud slide. From what I have been told, and the stories I have read, it appears Phil was like this with everybody he ever knew or met. Millions of people around the world are very upset at the news of Phil's passing. In fact, I feel like I'm going to cry as I write this. I am forever grateful for all the times I saw The Grateful Dead, and especially all the times I saw Phil solo, either with Phil Lesh and Friends, or The Terrapin Family Band. Your stories about Phil put him in a very positive light. Again, I am deeply sorry for the loss of a good friend who proved that he cared, and was there for you when you least expected it and needed it the most. I think I will skim through your book again, and read all the Phil stories, and try to remember all the good times I had watching him on stage.
Jerry was good to everyone ! What a man he was ! I’ll never get over him until I’m gone so I can b with him , I know I will b ! ❤️🐇🐰
Great stories Steve, I work in my department with a man that went to Watkins glen. I’ll have to turn him on to this video
Thanks Chase.
Once again a thunder and lightning storm and a hard rain wrecked this wonderful day. This was during about halfway through THE BAND'S SET. We got soaked badly, left before Allmans set😢
Wish I could get my hands to one of those old cabs!
Absolutely love your show…I could listen to you tell stories every night…Keep up the great work, Big Steve !!!
🌈☮️🌈
Appreciate the kind words.
@@grouffa I have a personal thing against Steve ! He threatened to kick me out of any show if he saw me coming in the backstage area ! Very jealous of Jerry being with anyone ! Me especially because he knew we both were inlove with eachother ! ♥️🐇🐰🌹🐦🔥🐉☮️🥹☺️🥲😥😰🥵🥶
Please accept my sympathy on the passing of Phil.
Thanks Steve, you’re a good brother. Much love ✌️❤
Much Love!
My "get on the bus" experience. We headed up from NYC on a midnight Adirondack Trailways bus at midnight from Port Authority at midnight Weds/Thurs. After changing buses in Elmira, we got to Watkins Glen and started walking up the hill with backpacks full of canned food. Heavy backpacks, but we were 15-year-old kids used to camping/hiking. Was a brutal walk up the hill in the heat, we ended up riding some of the way on the hood of a car, as some of the folks in the photo. We camped outside the venue grounds but within the Speedway Thurs. night.
We had tickets, and actually the doors opened, and we came in on Friday afternoon. The Allman Bros were sound checking before the GD soundcheck. That soundcheck is a legend, of course, and was my first live GD experience. Got up to the stage, but it was so high that couldn't see much without straining my neck, and it sounded better by the sound booth. A lesson learned from the beginning.
Don't remember when the fencing fell... I do remember that after the soundcheck on Friday night we had plenty of space around us. We had built a fort out of water boxes left for the crowd the next day. LOL, by morning we were woken by the crowds taking the water...
GD opened the show on Saturday, followed by the Band, and then the Allmans. The photo of Jerry w/Dickey Betts was from the Midnight Jam encore following the Allman Brothers' sets.
Missed the '73 Roosevelt show. Caught the '74 and '76 ones, though. And so many more. And thank you, for a real good time.
ps Was also my first experience with a certain class of chemicals. Had only smoked weed previously and well. I remember quite well, I remember quite well....
Thanks for the memories!
Watkins Glen is still there. Every fall,they have the Westies at Watkins VW Bus Rally. My bud just went to it.
Thank you, Steve!
Sweet video thanks Steve forever grateful forever dead 🔴⚡🔵🤘🏻
I was there + climed a tree so I could c backstage ! It was awesome ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹💀☠️⚡️🎸1️⃣🌎🕊️🪽😘😍🥰😰💙💜🩵😇
Hi Steve! Where's my Grizzly Peak t-shirt? Margaret Mumm-Moore
The sound check was pretty much a full show.
Good stuff Steve
Thanks William.
Oh man, what a time!
I camped out at Watkins Glen for a couple of nights in 1982 or so for the return of the Grand Prix...at that time I only heard stories from my dad about things that happened there in the past, but had no idea the Dead had played there even though I got on the bus 2 years earlier at one of the Radio City Shows..in fact that show was 10/29/80 so tomorrow makes it 44 years ago!
Thanks for watching Mark.
@ Wouldn’t miss it for the world. You are truly a legendary historian.
That’s hilarious, a “Jerry wellness cream”, holy shit Steve. Huh?
Awesome ! Thanks Steve ! ❤️
“If I don’t play for a day I can tell, if I don’t play for a week my wife can tell, if I don’t play for two weeks everybody in the world can tell,”
My Uncle was at Watkins Glen. He rold me a stoey about how between bands, during downtime, in the crowd theyd have a "biggest Hippie Earth Mama Bush Contest". He said the winner had several squirrels and small birds of some type living in the enormous, overgrown, musty muff that he said easily extended outwards about 6 inches in a puffy crotch afro. I didnt have the heart to ask my Uncle why he still married my Aunt anyway, after seeing that...."oddity". So, yeah. Watkins Glen.
Love ya, Steve. Could you respond to why the Dead stopped playing Alpine?
Jerry Garcia, when asked his favorite song of his: "I can't. 'Cause often, the ones that get me don't get anybody but me (laughs),” but which song was his most loved? “I really loved 'Row Jimmy Row'."
One in every 350 Americans attended this concert.
Thank you Big Steve! Thanks for the tales and takin us backstage.
THANKS STEVE 😊❤😊
RIGHT ON!👊
Big steve where can I score some grizzly peak mannnn
What about the concert at RFK in DC, I was there for that awesome gig
Great job Steve. Historical epic event in Rock and Roll.
Thanks!
Thx, Parrish! I met you with Moonalice in Jackson Hole. I also grew up an hour from WG in the Catskills. I was too young to go, but I fully remember the traffic on Rte. 17 where I grew up. Love the stories! Thx!
Thank you Big Steve
Thank you George.
Thanks for the confirmation. So, you're saying Jerry's signature lick was 5 in the space of two, not 3 in the space of 2.
👂 💚
Phil is with Jerry now playing in Heaven,aloha
My McIntosh amp is worth as much as my old Civic. Pri-ori-ties.
Every dog has its say!
My dad was there also. All he said about it was that he saw someone get stabbed by an HA...lol.. good ole security
I knew Levon Helm too ! He wanted to date me but I was Jerry’s girl ! Being inlove with Jerry was the 1 st time I fell inlove with!
"The root of my playing is that every note counts, every note has a personality, every note has a little spirit."- Jerry Garcia
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I would have loved to worked with and known Owsley. What a great life you have lived so far.
Thanks Clay!
SEALEVEL! Ck um out