![]() ![]() Cool is a word they all use to describe the style at least of their house. The 1970s will be a first, at least for Aaron and Tristan, as a decade which they originally did live through, and can remember. The grateful dead…hrm…honestly three letters sum up my feelings about becoming a true Deadhead in three letters. With Carlo Rota, Tristan Campus, Aaron Campus, Valerie Campus. While best known as the creator of Batman, around 1960, Bob Kane created the animated series, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse - as parody of Batman. Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (19601962) 30 min Animation, Adventure, Comedy. I was a fan of the Allman Brothers especially their stuff prior to Duane’s tragic death at only 24. Irving, Wally Cox, Allen Swift, Norma MacMillan. I love love love Little Feat I still belt out the lyrics to ‘Dixie Chicken’ whenever I catch it being played. hopping on interstate 87 south gets you to bethel, interstate 90 westbound will take you to ‘the glen’ it’s nickname for us locals.Ĭlosest I (not close at all tbh was the Newport Jazz Festival in 78 at Saratoga, or Springsteen’s Born in the USA tour concert which had 26,000 in attendence, I went to the disasterous Black and Blue concert at Lebanon Valley Speedway that had a mini-riot that made us decide it was time to book out of there before Black Sabbath took the stage and Ozzy sang a note. I’m kind of bummed, my hometown was Albany (I a proud albanian here who lived in the Capital-Saratoga area for 51 years) and Albany, is pretty much midway between bethel and watkins glen. Had just turned six years old when the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival happened in 1969, when Watkins glen hosted the Summer jam in 1973 was still only ten. They took their place among what were, by now, staples in their show such as “Statesboro Blues” and “Whipping Post.” ![]() When the Allmans hit the stage, the timing was perfect to give songs from their imminent Brothers and Sisters album an airing. When they officially opened the event, the Dead played two long sets, after which The Band followed with a two-hour performance. The promoters sold 150,000 tickets in advance at $10 each, but the rest of the throng that created a different sort of jam on the approaches to the racetrack wound up with a long-distance view for nothing.Įven the soundchecks at Summer Jam were epics, with part of the Grateful Dead’s supposed run-through eventually seeing release on the 1999 box set So Many Roads (1965-1995). Watkins Glen was certainly not intended to be a free concert, but it turned out that way for hundreds of thousands of people. Three members of the Allman Brothers Band - Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, and Jaimoe - all showed up on stage for an impromptu jam. The seeds of Summer Jam were sown the year before, when promoters Shelly Finkel and Jim Koplik had staged a Grateful Dead show in Hartford, Connecticut. ![]()
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