The Grateful Dead at Watkins Glen

[ccm911]

While reading Phil Lesh's memoir of the Dead, he mentions playing at Watkins Glen on July 28th 1973.  Also on the bill were The Band and the Allman Brothers.

Phil describes the stage as being in the infield, down low in somewhat of a natural amphitheatre.  I am guessing that this would put them down by the boot.

Was anyone there?  If so, can you tell me where the stage actually was?  I am just curious.

[TwentySix]

http://johnandmaryshappylittleworld.blog...-1973.html

[APXD 30]

More like, does anyone remember the show

Did they play @ the track or possibly the Glen park in town ? Sorry I can't remember Chris, but I wasn't around for a few more years.

[JoeP]

In a word, the concert was EVERYWHERE:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/1973/topstory_Rockers_Sound_Historic_Note_at_Glen.html

 

[ccm911]

Thanks, Guys!!!

Best quote: "Hawkers sold beer and soft drinks, marijuana, mescaline and records".

Those folks had fun!!  Guess I was born 10 years too late.

As for where the stage was?  I am so overwhelmed by the size of the crowd, that I can barely make out the track.

[dmano]

My friend Jeff was there and he has told us of the many stories of the goings on at the concert. They were on the up side/heal of the boot back then they called it the BOG and he and his gang burned a school bus that was stolen from the local school.

[nplenzick]

I think there might be a little confusion here. I attended just about all of the professional events at Watkins Glen in the 70's except the concert. I have three friends who did attend. There was no concert in the bog and no one could remember any bus burning in the bog during the concert.  The bog was located between the heel of the boot and the last corner before the front straight. It was on the outside of the track right where the present day Cayuga Rd. and Oneida Rd. intersect near the present day Gate 6. There was a bus burned there, a Greyhound Scenic Cruiser during I think 73 when Emerson Fittipaldi was World Champion during the GP in October. The story goes it was rented by a bunch of Brazilians, when it was empty it was stolen and driven to the bog. When I saw it on Saturday afternoon there were people jumping up and down yelling the bog got the bus, the bog got the bus. When I returned that night there were several thousand people chanting the same thing throwing M-80's and beer bottles filled with gas at it. Somehow they turned the bus upside down and squashed to about six feet high. I have a great photo of a guy with a Jack -O-Lantern on his head with the words F*** You carved in it looking over the mob so to speak. Oh those were the days! Unfortunately my photo's of that era are in a slide format one of these days I need to put them into something more modern and maybe then I should put them up for sale!      

[dmano]

Maybe I have the wrong location but Jeff has shown me his pictures of the bus and a few cars being burned there during events at the Glen. He lived 15 min from the track as a teen and has lots of pics of him racing bikes and cars there.  I will try to see if he will let me scan his pics.