Category: FL
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Reading Notes: Dupree 1974
Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…
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GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton
Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…
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GD19700327-29: March 27-29, 1970, “Winter’s End Festival,” Miami, FL (CANCELED)
[Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It sounds like a really disastrous episode. Long narrative in the following: Thomas King Forcade, “Winter’s End: free the Rock & Roll Six,” San Diego Free Door, April 23, 1970, pp. 8, 12, accessed…
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GD: May 9, 1970, Ocala, FL (CANCELED)
Grateful Dead Southeastern Livestock Pavilion Ocala, FL May 9, 1970 CANCELED Hard to know if this was ever finalized or not, but things sound certain enough as I read them. Apparently two fellows known as Ed Sanford and Lee Smith, both of Ocala, had countercultural leanings (my supposition) and planned a “New Renaissance Faire” for…
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GD: April 1-3, 1969, Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, FL (CANCELED)
Grateful Dead Dinner Key Auditorium Miami, FL April 1-3, 1969 CANCELED A three-day happening from April 1-3, 1969 at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami was canceled after the March 1st onstage antics and subsequent arrest for lewd and lascivious behavior, indecdent exposure, and other charges of the Doors’ Jim Morrison. The decision to deny…