Notes:
Commander Cody; Maria Muldaur with John Kahn opened
Set List:
Promised LandTennessee Jed
Me and My Uncle
Sugaree
Jack Straw
Mississippi Half-Step
It Must Have Been the Roses
El Paso
Scarlet Begonias
Around and Around
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Big River
Row Jimmy
Playin' in the Band
Wharf Rat
Truckin'
Nobody's Jam
Playin' in the Band
Ship of Fools
Sugar Magnolia
U.S. Blues
Comments
I was but a child at 16 - first show
Who are these guys? I had seen Sabbath, Zeppelin, Tull, Floyd and Alice Cooper, but driven to check out this band from literature.
Fell in love with "Box of Rain" when I first heard the song 9 years before (used some lyrics in my brother's wedding toast), but no Box....
Knew Mexicalli because I was in love with a girl who was just 14. No Mex.
I did rcognize "truckin," barely...Wiped out alternating between joints of Red then Gold Columbian, some dipped in honey oil.
Could hardly stay on my feet, top of the bowl, but the music made me feel like I was standing on the moon (where have I heard that?).
"On the Road," Kerouac was assigned reading (religion class!!!). Led me to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," the bible. Led me to Thomas Wolfe and the permanent recogintion that October 6, 1966 was a sorry event in the history of California.
Leary was a federal fugitive at the time and it wasn't until 5 months and ten days after this show that I took my first dose and line of coke. Yeah Casey!!!!
But I knew that I was on the bus from this day forward.
Thank you,
Forever Grateful
parking at the bowl
Another lovely day in and with the sunshine.
The Commander is always good, and Maria seemed delightfully ripped this day, leaning backwards to plant kisses on John Kahn (great Walkin' One And Only and Paul Butterfield dropped by to blow harp).
That monster PA literally covered the mouth of the Bowl. The energy level was only part of a notch down from UCSB a couple months earlier, but, well, there was always something magical about that combo of clarity and tunes like Scarlet, Chinacat, and Truckin'.
A very nice touch was the tables of free stickers and album cards (the UGLY RUMURZ sticker graced my Sunn bass amp for years). Lastly, the Bowl parking lot is small, so they always park the cars side-to-side and bumper-to-bumper. On this day, it was us that strolled to the front car and drove out, breaking the log jam. Our best post-gig departure time EVER!