On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:42:09 -0400 "McLeod, Iver J"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know if this bit of trivia is worthy of
> making it into the database
> but the site
> http://www.mountainmusic.net/chrono.htm has the
> following
> information regarding 7/3/69:
>
>
> "July 3 Holden Colfield/Zephyr/The Grateful
> Dead, Reed Ranch. The concert
> did not start until after midnight, the Dead
> started at 4 am."
Interesting. Raises a similar question to 4/25 & 26/70. How did they get
from Colorado to WI/Chicago so fast?
Presumably that means 4 a.m. on 7/4/69. So they finished at 6 or 7 or 8 a.m.
And they played at the Electric Theater later that same day. Stephen Wade was
at the shows on the 4th and 5th. I just asked him and he said "[on the 4th] I
watched Phil fall into the amp and I was right there in front (and entirely
sober). It was an evening show, and I imagine, not one particularly late
either."
It's 1072.5 miles from Colorado Springs to Chicago according to yahoo --
that's a good 16 hours at least even if you really haul ass. Even if they
didn't start til 9 p.m. Chicago time, that's 8 Colorado time which leaves them
a maximum of 12 hours door-to-door including take down and set up of
equipment. Surely they didn't have two road teams in those days with two sets
of equipment? Or did they? Presumably they could have chartered a plane i
suppose. Were they so logistically agile in those days? and could they afford
to do it?
