Re: Jerry Garcia, Days Between, Watkins Glen, And Stuff
By chance, a few minutes after I read Journeybear's original post, I was reading Bill Kreutzmann's memories of this event in his memoir, Deal. He felt that the Dead were far from their best at the festival, but had warm memories of the Sound Check concert. Apparently, the Dead and the Alllman Brothers had a serious rivalry, and the Dead were outdoing the Allman Brothers by performing a full concert after the Brothers and The Band had done two or three tunes for their sound checks. Kreutzmann felt both that the Allman Brothers outperformed the Dead, but that The Band's concert was the highlight of Watkins Glen.
As an aside, I have mixed views on the book -- Kreutzmann has good stories, but he's not the most thoughtful or insightful person going, and the writing, done with or by Benjy Eisen, is atrocious. If the book were posted on the Cafe, Journeybear would be busy for weeks, commenting on the grammar!
Added: And besides, Dawg isn't mentioned once in the index.
Last edited by Ranald; Aug-01-2021 at 1:35pm.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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