2/23/70 was the day of the Dead Bust Benefit at Winterland, with Santana, It's A Beautiful Day, QMS & the Airplane playing to raise funds for the Dead's legal fees for the New Orleans bust the end of January. The Dead were in Austin on this date.
I don't doubt your memory Harry, but the date's wrong. (right era) -- From: [email protected] (deadlists-digest) Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:35 -0800 (PST) To: [email protected] Subject: deadlists-digest V9 #1 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:25:33 -0800 From: Harry Angus <[email protected]> Subject: gd70-02-23 Does anybody remember the concert, Spring of '70, at the Colisseum, that started out with Josephus, then progressed through John Mayall, Beautiful Day, and Quicksilver, culminating with the Grateful Dead? After the concert, 'everybody' went to the Hand for resurrection. I was focusing on a guy with really curly black hair & granny glasses who I thought was my friend Kenny (things were a tad wavy). The saloon-type doors burst open, and a tall, skinny guy in a fringed leather jacket came in, walked up to 'Kenny', and started stabbing at him with a knife! 'Kenny' pulled a 'gun'! This was unheard of among all us peace-lovin' types. Anyhow, it transpired that 'Kenny' was Jerry Garcia and the tall fringed one was John Cipollina, from Quicksilver. The knife was rubber and the gun was a water pistol. Apparently this was something they pulled on a semi-regular basis . . . I went back to talking to one of the Beautiful Day adjunct personnel until it was time to melt back into the night . . .(YallerKitty) http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/user/5453-yallerkitty/
