Re: Only One Dead Show


Jim Morrison wrote:
So I was on a trip this weekend with a bunch of buddies. Hanging out,
having margarita's, eating hot dogs and shooting the ***. Paul and I
start discussing music and he starts telling me how he saw hendrix,
zeppelin, cream, allmans, etc. back in 1970. All of these killer shows.
So I ask him if he ever saw the dead. He says he wasn't much of a
dead head but did catch one of there shows that was pretty good.

Jim "Which one?"

Paul "It was a show at Watkins Glenn with the Allman Brothers."

Jim "Holy ***!! You were at Watkins Glenn!?! ..."

Proceeds to tell me all about it.

So he only went to one show but it was a hell of a show to be the one!

I was blown away by it all,

That reminds me of when I first met a guy named Dobe (Doh-Bee) who is
my friend still, after nearly 20 years.

I got a fantastic job in 1987. One of my co-workers was a very
*unusual* character, about 10 years older than I. We hit it off, and
planned an after-work visit to a local tavern for happy hour. I told
him I had been a big fan of the Grateful Dead for years, and I asked if
he had ever seen them.

"Oh I saw them once when I went to visit my brother who lived in San
Francisco. They played a show with the Airplane and .... I think ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service..."

I was intrigued. He told me that his brother lived a block up the hill
from the Dead's house on Ashbury, from early 1966 or so, and
occasionally spent time in the 710 house, as there were many parties
there. When Dobe was around 17 years old, he often flew from Tacoma to
SF to hang out with his brother, go to Love-Ins, hang out in the
Panhandle, etc....

He said this one show he remembered was sometime in 1967 with the
triple bill I mentioned above. He said someone passed around a plate of
*strawberries* and he ate one and then took off on a trip..... His one
outstanding memory was when the Dead took a break, and Garcia hopped
off the stage into the audience, and Dobe happened to be standing right
there. Garcia asked him for a cigarette, which Dobe obliged. He said he
remembered that musically the Dead were LOUD.

A cool footnote is that my for last Grateful Dead concert, which was
May 26, 1995 in Seattle, I bought tickets for both Dobe AND his older
brother Peter who had lived in SF and was now back in Tacoma. I
provided something extra along with the tickets which brought both of
them back to that old feelin' again, and we had a GRAND old time.

LP

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