tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post3144274049272974747..comments2024-03-16T07:13:50.487-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: March 23, 1975: Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA: The SNACK Concert with Jerry Garcia And Friends (FM VIII)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-65226185733848678542024-01-13T02:38:25.602-08:002024-01-13T02:38:25.602-08:00just to remind you, Jefferson Starship also played...just to remind you, Jefferson Starship also played a set of yet-to-be-released songs (from the upcoming Red Octopus, which followed up their huge success from Dragonfly), with a few JA oldies as encores...they, & Santana were wildly appreciated that day (i was there), as were the Doobie Brothers who had several hits under their belt...& unfortunately, Mimi Farina did not appear or perform that day...J Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863617104875323485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-48395695587395598452022-04-03T19:20:42.640-07:002022-04-03T19:20:42.640-07:00I went with friends because we wanted to see Santa...I went with friends because we wanted to see Santana, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane and TOWER OF POWER. When Jerry and the Dead came on it was a bonus. I think the admission was between five to ten dollars and it was worth it.Joe Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10678059485551360829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-34345987761141028712020-12-19T13:10:45.745-08:002020-12-19T13:10:45.745-08:00I was there. Most intersting 40 minutes of GD musi...I was there. Most intersting 40 minutes of GD music I ever witnessedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11933218511050299877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-23447334565430672572020-11-18T05:39:44.803-08:002020-11-18T05:39:44.803-08:00Great article! One remark however and that is that...Great article! One remark however and that is that Donna wasn't there. Rox VOX released the entire broadcast on CD btw in 2017: https://www.discogs.com/The-Grateful-Dead-Snack-Benefit-Concert-San-Francisco-1975/release/10995629 (although this is the entry for the LP it seems) tpersoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967247437749469001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-37193181580497677892020-07-21T00:29:10.722-07:002020-07-21T00:29:10.722-07:00Oh, and Brando opened his remarks by saying, "...Oh, and Brando opened his remarks by saying, "You're all fucked"tim joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844984553934901060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-89450070382246946862020-07-21T00:27:09.713-07:002020-07-21T00:27:09.713-07:00I was there on the 50 yard line... Santana's e...I was there on the 50 yard line... Santana's echo effect at the end of his set "Toussaint Louverture" was the peak moment of my life at that time. I have about half of the K101 broadcast on reel to reel.<br />tim joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844984553934901060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-85754684516644215322020-07-06T09:48:30.715-07:002020-07-06T09:48:30.715-07:00Me and a bunch of hippy friends drove up from Sant...Me and a bunch of hippy friends drove up from Santa Cruz (Lompico) the night before in a 1954 Chevy station wagon and camped out in front of the stadium. I don't recall a lot of the concert as we dropped acid. I remember the artists would appear magically up high from different points of the stadium. The most inpressive was Carlos Santana as he had an incredible psychedelic guitar and he hit a chord that reverberated loudly around the stadium in waves for a long time. Just amazing. Also, not mentioned here was an appearance by Joe Walsh which also was a great set. The concert was unlike any I've ever seen before or since including quite a few at Winterland including the last with the Dead. A whole experience I'll never forget.lamaleathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16144818230656654627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-4356346752686334972019-07-15T01:00:51.889-07:002019-07-15T01:00:51.889-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Arthur Teknikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463371868412583763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-22951493312257139802019-03-12T15:39:01.598-07:002019-03-12T15:39:01.598-07:00IN 1982 I provided sound for the very first Gay Ga...IN 1982 I provided sound for the very first Gay Games with the opening and closing Ceremonies at Kezar Stadium. For the Opening Ceremonies Tina Turner performed with her entire band!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04995262152167713993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-50461232912970198242018-07-29T07:16:37.307-07:002018-07-29T07:16:37.307-07:00Bill Graham's SNACK concert. March 23, 1975.
...Bill Graham's SNACK concert. March 23, 1975. <br /><br />I was there. My one and only Dead set live. Jerry's solos and Blues for Allah set<br />we're sonic fusion clean shredding. <br />Santana's solos we're ultra cool Mahavishnu and Hendrix like. He played in flowing white robes and an ultra cobalt butterfly blue Telecaster. Tommy Johnston sang lead and played better melodic solos than anyone else. His Wayfarer sunglasses and Gibson flying V mesmerizing. His lead vocals we're incredible for a white guy probably on smack, dude sang like an Angel. <br /><br />The Main speakers we're two massive<br />stage left and right <br />Horn style cabinets with enormous unreal 3' diameter single speaker cables. <br />The stage was 10' or more off the ground. Good thing the speakers we're up high and tilted up a bit, the volume and sound we're incrediblely clear, good and super loud. There may have been<br />more than 50,000 people in the Kezar that day.<br /><br />There we're a half dozen 50' diameter circular elevated hand painted hippy banners down in the front and these denoted private party of various 'sects' of Dead heads. You couldn't penetrate into these areas without connections or friends.<br /><br />An 70- 80 year old Dead head couple we're selling acid tabs. And, everyone was high as kites, selling and using every drug known to man and packed in like sardines. People we're naked everywhere,shooting up and rolled up in blankets rooting (fkng) and even sleeping during the show. Probably just passed out. <br /><br />In the 1975 Rolling Stone article inside the front cover, I can see myself in front in the photo from the stage. I stood for nine hours straight. I was a SBCC tennis player and in excellent physical health. Good thing too.<br /><br />It was a cool damp windy sunny day <br />in San Francisco and along with a side trip into the Haight a day I'll never forget. <br /><br />I was 19 years old<br />and had driven up to SF early in the day from<br />downtown Santa Barbara in a 1965 metallic powder blue Malibu with my ticket scalper buddie Jake who followed Dead and Stones tours around the world. This is my memory and testimony of an unforgetable day and experience<br />back in the very stoney days of SF Hippiedom<br />and the start of my strange embrionic 1970's live music and out doors party experiences.<br />It was also the year I began playing the guitar<br />from the amazing things I heard and saw that day. Lorenzo McNally of Morro Bay.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626278138469717083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-77574148939234473062018-03-24T12:29:27.366-07:002018-03-24T12:29:27.366-07:00ned has released a new, remastered, 2 CD 'seas...ned has released a new, remastered, 2 CD 'seastones'. it is available through the store at his web site. you can read the album notes here http://spiritcats.com/seastones.html. <br /><br />p.s. it is great!nedbasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310453607928460178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-31516863718431064552018-03-22T16:18:31.991-07:002018-03-22T16:18:31.991-07:00I would most definitely second that. It is great! ...I would most definitely second that. It is great! Incornsyucopiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194586063192261829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-59676017370340290172018-03-22T14:56:34.266-07:002018-03-22T14:56:34.266-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.nedbasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310453607928460178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-22205526644715338882018-03-22T14:54:49.401-07:002018-03-22T14:54:49.401-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.nedbasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310453607928460178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-14120063041195640382016-04-28T10:20:27.828-07:002016-04-28T10:20:27.828-07:00ned lagin has an official website Spiritcats.comned lagin has an official website <a href="http://spiritcats.com" rel="nofollow"> Spiritcats.com </a> nedbasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310453607928460178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-76257857530210084292016-04-03T22:10:34.560-07:002016-04-03T22:10:34.560-07:00No one has yet mentioned Eddie Palmieri, who opene...No one has yet mentioned Eddie Palmieri, who opened the show with an excellent set (Bill Graham was a huge salsa fan, and made sure to put Palmieri on the bill.) I was impressed. My first exposure to that music. Very tight. Sounded superb.<br /><br />I thought the Dead melange was very uneven- as it happened, it was pastiche of everything they were working on in the studio to be released as the Blues For Allah LP. High point was the Solomon's Marbles jamming- low point was the "Eternity Blue" portion of Blues for Allah, which was done without lyrics- just the band wordlessly vocalizing "doot-doot-doot-do-do-do-do" over that plodding tempo. This was perplexing, at best- someone could easily have called a final crescendo chord and cut the jam short before that gratuitous monotony. ("Eternity Blue" isn't a lot better with lyrics, as included on Blues For Allah, for that matter. A remake of "What's Become of the Baby?" would have been preferable.)<br />Fortunately, the set didn't end there; the band managed to rev up a fairly decent version of Johnny B. Goode as an encore to redeem themselves before exiting the stage.<br /><br />I thought Santana did the best set, with Tower Of Power and Eddie Palmieri in a close tie for second place. This ranking probably reflects my bias toward electric rock guitar soloing at the time, with Carlos being one of the all-timers at that, and the uncanny way the Santana band would use percussion solos to segue between songs. But ToP and Palmieri's band were both top-notch, almost impossibly tight, doing seriously complex arrangements with impeccable skill.<br /><br />Graham Central Station was a funky rhythm section looking for a concept. Larry Graham's grooves helped define the sound of Sly Stone's band, but he's no Sly Stone. Or George Clinton, Maurice White, Stevie Wonder, or Emilio Castillo.<br /><br />The Doobie Brothers hits medley was good, albeit simply not in the same league as the other bands in terms of the ambition of the playing. But the the Doobies never aspired to a high degree of improvisational exploration onstage, they were on a roll as far as putting out catchy tunage, and their performance was much more consistent than the Dead that day. A credible performance, for what it was.<br /><br />Then Joan Baez came on after hours of loud electric bands, and tried to do some songs solo on acoustic guitar, a la her performance at Woodstock six years earlier. But the crowd was not having it- they booed her off the stage. (Read the Rolling Stone article on the SNACK show, they confirm this.) She tried to get the crowd singing along with her, and the whole thing fell flat. She quit in the middle of a song, saying "I don't give a shit", and that was that. Definitely a discordant note in the proceedings, mostly due to the terrible placement of her performance- following one high-energy electric band after another, just prior to Neil Young & The Band. As the Rolling Stone article mentioned, that mini-debacle could have been avoided if her solo turn had been included as part of the ensemble in the Young/Band- & Dylan- set that followed. Which I recall as fairly good, but a bit anticlimactic, and thrown somewhat off-course by the collision of solo acoustic Joan Baez with tends of thousands of party hounds that had transpired only twenty minutes of so previously. The sound problems were noticeable, and Dylan's presence in the mix was practically inaudible. DC Readehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966699799030112905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-81280426548630626032016-04-03T22:04:11.933-07:002016-04-03T22:04:11.933-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.DC Readehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966699799030112905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-3313144640120118002016-03-02T18:07:31.035-08:002016-03-02T18:07:31.035-08:00Attended this event with my cousin and friends at ...Attended this event with my cousin and friends at the tender age of fifteen. My grandparents lived directly across the street ( Frederick St ). My grandmother had a delicious dinner waiting for us when it was over.<br />Saw the Dead two more times that same year. Once in Golden Gate Park and once at Winterland. Lucky to have been there and done that. 1970's Grateful Dead is 99.9% of what I listen to today....42 years later......Went to most all the shows in San Francisco during that era. <br /><br />We stopped going in the early 80's because it was not the same. Leave it at that.<br /><br />Went to every single JGB show in the city, including his last show. Incredible guitar player he was.<br /><br />Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09307659395853720286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-13207405931401186522015-11-09T12:11:29.225-08:002015-11-09T12:11:29.225-08:00You may be confusing this one with the September 2...You may be confusing this one with the September 28, 1975 show in Golden Gate Park. That one the band was definitely tripping. It's possible the band (or at least some of them) were tripping on March 23 as well but in my discussions with Ned Lagin, who played that day, he never mentioned that (while pointing out numerous other LSD-influenced shows he was a part of). The other fact that makes me question the claim is that minus the Johnny B Goode encore, they only played for just over 30 minutes. Trying to keep to such a short playing time would be REALLY hard tripping. And the music itself is not easy to play. There's a whole structured form of improvisation they're trying to pull off, in between the composed sections, that, again, tripping would have made extra challenging. I could try to ask Ned next time we chat though. Incornsyucopiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194586063192261829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-65755951551184693682015-11-09T11:41:28.849-08:002015-11-09T11:41:28.849-08:00My understanding is that this is one of a handful ...My understanding is that this is one of a handful of Dead shows where it's been verified that the band was tripping during the concert - it's pretty spacey and wonderful stuff.Thelonioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00775584372202540215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-41556459844453166822015-03-23T10:49:54.401-07:002015-03-23T10:49:54.401-07:00Thanks so much for your description of this concer...Thanks so much for your description of this concert. I'm researching it and would like to quote your recollections if possible. Could you write me at incornsyucopia (a) gmail dot com? Would be much appreciated.Incornsyucopiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194586063192261829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-50626399206331498152014-08-07T17:40:23.741-07:002014-08-07T17:40:23.741-07:00I too was there. It was the biggest happening to h...I too was there. It was the biggest happening to hit San Francisco, such a diverse collection of musicians, guests, and crowd. One guest has been missed in all of these recollections of concert goers, BOB HOPE!! The King of Causes, he came out and told a few good and bad jokes. It was truly a great day, beautiful weather, great mood, great people, and yes, great Acid. This will be forever engrained as one of the best days of my life, I was 16.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10255552775233507770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-1412599719603324712014-07-03T13:01:09.680-07:002014-07-03T13:01:09.680-07:00I was there, at the March 23, 1975, SNACK concert,...I was there, at the March 23, 1975, SNACK concert, and very happy to find this rundown by you. I was a 27 year old youth worker, cryptozoologist and author. I recall most people were my age and younger. While I recall all the excitement being about the Doobie Brothers playing there, after it started, people were floored by the appearance of the Dead, Dylan playing with Neil Young, and all the other big names. It was incredible. What a great memory.Loren Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705306131201565523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-56152956618911269212013-11-02T13:55:47.663-07:002013-11-02T13:55:47.663-07:00I was there. I was all of 17 and was living in Wal...I was there. I was all of 17 and was living in Walnut Creek (!).<br /><br />I went with my siblings and a bunch of our friends -- our interest was Santana. We went to every concert they had in those days . . . the ones at Kezar, then a couple in San Jose, back when their backing band was the original Journey lineup -- my God, we were in total heaven. TWO guitar gods and Santana, except doubled!<br /><br />The Dead were very peripheral and the Doobies were okay, but it was Carlos we wanted. I remember waiting on line while it was still dark, drink Southern Comfort . . . and then when we got inside, we all dropped acid.<br /><br />It must have been weak (THANK GOD) because it was pretty chaotic. I remember tripping my ass off and having to go to the bathroom and walking up one of the stadium aisles . . . I thought the entire crowd was watching ME. But somehow, I didn't freak out . . . it was a good trip, as trips go. And I remember Marlon Brando (what's the smallest island in the Pacific? Marlon Brando) vaguely . . . mumbling some Marlon crap . . . and then Dylan. By that time I think we all were seriously burned out (and sun-burned) and just wanted to go home. I wasn't a big Dead fan, but I loved NRPS, so I did listen, but of course it was Carlos that took the cake.<br /><br />Memories, memories. As I type, I am scheduled, in exactly TWO DAYS, to go see THE EAGLES -- yes, THEM -- at the Bell Centre in Montreal. $150 for 2 people -- a little different than the $10 or so we paid each way back in 1975.<br /><br />Would I do it again today?<br /><br />Nope.ChefNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506706291656673082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-6398455109094388482013-11-01T23:15:35.094-07:002013-11-01T23:15:35.094-07:00i was a big deadhead then, went to all 5 of the la...i was a big deadhead then, went to all 5 of the last shows at winterland a few months earlier - we dug the new sound . . .somewhat, but were surprised when, with all the stuporstars at SNACK it was the TOWER OF POWER that stole the show - even the hippies agreed at the time - the horns just blew our minds!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589297895358615384noreply@blogger.com