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indeed, chaos & a cop riot ensued, including gangs & cops & private security beating up heads, heads burning down a fence to get in & throwing bottles & shoving one or several cops in port-o-lets & turning them over(!!!?). many more firsthand reports at above link. bsky.app/profile/sart... /4

in fact, concerned citizens similarly saw the flaw in this thinking, rightly citing, you know, altamont. and yet. (and, for that matter, many of the attendees recall that the security at colt park ended up being... the actual hells angels.) /3

it’s not often that my jaw literally goes agape at newspaper concert coverage, but this was one of those times: when watkins glen promoters koplik & finkel hired local gangs to do security at a dead show in 1976. friends, they did not “cool it” /2

jumping, on the other hand, like this guy apparently did...

you could even cut a tin can with it BUT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO (as the song goes)

and here's more on the hitchcock set, plus tape. askingtree.com/gigs/184

the report from the golden road written right after the shows seems to confirm that the guy apparently wasn't hurt by the jump/fall, but by security. to be fair, the print version doesn't specify naked or landing on his feet, but not sure how he could've survived any other way? it's all very wtf.

i know!!?

i’m pretty sure summer ’85 was the 1st dead tour that one could follow via net.music.gdead, the usenet precursor to rec.music.gdead, & get setlists/reports within a few hours/days for most shows. (unfortunately the setlist tabbing didn’t get preserved.) groups.google.com/g/net.music.... /3

this new deadcast also gets into the ’85 parking lot scene, with reportage & tour stories from @davidnleopold.bsky.social, then selling ’84 setlist sheets (& touring with collage artist/shirt maker ronnie potter), & t-shirt talk with @sartorialpsychic.bsky.social. www.dead.net/deadcast/sum... /2

the village theatre (1965-1968) kinda had cooler booking than the fillmore east (1968-1971). jessejarnow.com/2020/02/vill...

weirdly, i use one with my laptop more weeks than not when i'm on the air at wfmu because there's a weak wifi spot in the studio right by the console (& when we were broadcasting from our homes during the lockdowns, we all used ethernet cables because it was safer than sending audio via wifi).

hoping i remember to print out some copies of subgenius pamphlet #1 before i next fly. www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics...

amazing, thank you! so excited to listen!

a little sad they toned it down! pretty sure that sentence ended with the words "fuck 'em all"

well you'd be surprised what you learn in len's book. for example, weir swapped in real champagne and the duck got drunk

the len dell'amico book i posted elsewhere in the thread has a pretty wonderful & absurd breakdown of how the "hell in a bucket" video came to be. all the extras are the dead's friends & office staff. dick latvala of dick's picks is in a few shots.

really liked it! it's more the ralph gleason side of things. bsky.app/profile/bour...

very glad i finally read it but almost gave up a few times. so fuckin' bleak!