tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post929833128789221547..comments2024-03-25T06:33:12.809-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: March 12, 1978: Suffolk Forum, Commack, NY: Jerry Garcia Band/NRPS/Robert Hunter and ComfortCorry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-88885697594058152582023-07-24T13:51:37.988-07:002023-07-24T13:51:37.988-07:00I remember going to the show it ended around 5:30 ...I remember going to the show it ended around 5:30 in the morning.. Jerry was taking break's backstage in between some songs probably doing blow.. It was an incredible night of music<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-74769275592352519272022-04-18T11:22:44.056-07:002022-04-18T11:22:44.056-07:00Paid attendance was 8,110, BTW.Paid attendance was 8,110, BTW.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-28840661634159748312020-08-02T08:45:24.734-07:002020-08-02T08:45:24.734-07:00Was there and that’s my stub on the Jerry site, ye...Was there and that’s my stub on the Jerry site, yellow. I think Jerry went on closer to 1 was my first JGB show a great initiation. What night wish I did meander down front but my frame of mind was to hang more in the back. When I got home my mom said your going to school. Hmmmm no! Haha. I wasn’t really like that but was no way I had the ability to go to school that dayStagerlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983872417120291997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-40534849038098412572020-05-17T11:57:49.776-07:002020-05-17T11:57:49.776-07:00Was at this show with ex.Drove from NewRochelle ab...Was at this show with ex.Drove from NewRochelle about an hour. Ate acid on way.Flying high for Comfort. Problem during NRPS on floor crowded and hot.Out of water had to piss ex having bad trip her 2nd and last.Struggled to exit for air told no return.Bummer but no choice. Missed JGB.Would love tape.Broken glass maze park lot. Somehow got thru clearing path while tripping.<br />Great crowd but poorly ran seemed overcapacity. <br />If u have copy write rbrb@netscape.com.Peacericbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715633788019548057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-91997450474007505932020-01-11T11:33:59.486-08:002020-01-11T11:33:59.486-08:00I was at this show. Got there about 10am around 30...I was at this show. Got there about 10am around 30 folks there already, by the time the doors opened about 100 people had cut in line. People were easier going back then no fights. <br />Passed out during Hunter woke up at the end of the Riders. Garcia played 3 sets 2 long 1 short.<br />People went to school the next day.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226095653378215762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-59830410249265935002017-07-19T05:09:17.191-07:002017-07-19T05:09:17.191-07:00anyone know if a tape of the JGB show exists? My ...anyone know if a tape of the JGB show exists? My main memory was grooving to Love in the Afternoon at around 3 am, and the sound of what sounded like jet planes taking off in the arena, which we discovered were hundreds of whippets when leaving the beautiful Suffolk Forum. An unforgetable nite for suregbchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09241637229291447639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-14445936986487830142017-06-12T19:06:46.618-07:002017-06-12T19:06:46.618-07:00I was 15 and this was my second show. I lived in t...I was 15 and this was my second show. I lived in the next town over and one my friend's mother dropped us off. I didn't have a ticket, my 3 friends did. I found a guy selling tickets for $10 near the entrance, he had a stack of them and was peeling them off. The four of us went to the gate and my ticket was clearly a fake (I was clueless) and they wouldn't let me in. there were a few us who were victims and we rushed the gate. We got no where.<br />Angry the group of fake ticket buyers decided to go get our money back, and some revenge. Returning to the entrance the ambulance was already taking him away. Now how to get in?<br />I walked back to the arena with another fraud victim and we went worked our way to the back of the arena. We tried to get in the stage entrance, but they stopped us. As we looked around the sides we found some bottles of booze. Walking past a mound of snow that was on the side on the arena some one called down to us. There was a group of people climbing up the roof. (The Commack Arena had a Quonset hut shaped roof that curved to the peak.). There was a railing leading up the edge of the roof We followed the group up the railing to a hatch about three quarters of the way up.<br />The hatch was open and we climbed through one at a time into the catwalks above the arena. A line of climbed down the metal ladder to the seats stage right, almost behind the stage. the gurds were at the bottom and you had to run as soon as you landed. When I reached the seats instead of running I just sat down. RIGHT NEXT TO MY 3 FRIENDS! Greatest show ever!jrhess3https://www.blogger.com/profile/05912879119769120070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-4073303332324097042015-03-23T11:38:27.702-07:002015-03-23T11:38:27.702-07:00Corry, as always you have to much insight. I just ...Corry, as always you have to much insight. I just revisited this show on tape and, while this tape on this listen left me not thinking it was a great show, the listen prompted me to fill in some color and it all shades just as you have already laid it out.<br /><br />Band flew out of Provy to La Guardia on American #431, scheduled to land at 2:30 PM, 45 minute limo ride, check in at the Holiday Inn in Hauppage. Gig schedule: Soundcheck at 2-3 PM (yeah, right), doors at 6, Hunter at 8, NRPS at 9:30, JGB at 11:30. Noted closing time: "No strict curfew" (compare with the 3/14 Boston closing time: "****MIDNIGHT CURFEW STRICT").<br /><br />The closing time note dovetails with your express point, that they had the run of this little corner of Long Island pretty much unmolested (I am sure John Scher and his local guys, Ruffino & Vaughn, had lots of relationships). It's also just of a piece with your whole narrative, of this probably being a big ol' party among all kinds of friends. A final piece of triangulation on that: on this latest listen to the show, I hear a Garcia sounding like he is partying really, really hard, his voice totally shot four nights into the tour (albeit these nights were Cleveland-Rochester-Pawtucket-Long Island).Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-2108704449786269012013-03-12T19:29:59.566-07:002013-03-12T19:29:59.566-07:00nyctaper, thanks for the eyewitness account.
Grat...nyctaper, thanks for the eyewitness account.<br /><br />Grateful Dead history tends to focus on high-profile shows at the Fillmores or Madison Square Garden, and perhaps rightly so. Nonetheless, I think shows where the Dead or Jerry Garcia or Kingfish came to a suburban town or sleepy little city and raised the roof all night long played a huge part in making fans for life.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-2401717136322678952013-03-12T08:44:14.360-07:002013-03-12T08:44:14.360-07:00Thanks much for the detailed review of what was on...Thanks much for the detailed review of what was only the second concert I ever attended. I was 14. We got there at 730 or so, and there was definitely a rush when the doors opened. I remember one of the security guards telling us to mellow out and to think of Pigpen. I don't have any idea what Pig had to do with it, other than I guess making us feel guilty about a member of the Dead who had only died a few years earlier. <br />The show is a pretty vague memory, although I do have the tape of Jerry's set. I do recall buying a beer at the concession (another first) and staying until the encore, which I recall being a song I'd never heard before but the title stuck with me, Rhapsody in Red. The show did indeed end at 5am. I got home at 6am and my mom let me stay home from school the next day.nyctaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01913990219489976474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-55482631337175919822012-05-20T09:34:51.534-07:002012-05-20T09:34:51.534-07:00rb, thanks so much for this detail. Its great to f...rb, thanks so much for this detail. Its great to find out that Cage and Love were still there, and that the Riders played "Crooked Judge." I updated the post accordingly.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-16514777787998481672012-05-19T22:49:24.727-07:002012-05-19T22:49:24.727-07:00Need to clarify your take on the New Riders at thi...Need to clarify your take on the New Riders at this concert. It was not the lineup with the guys from the Burrito Brothers. That didn't happen until May of 1978. Buddy Cage and Steve Love were indeed still in the band and were in fact at this concert. I was there, was a diehard NRPS follower, and had seen several shows the week prior at the Capitol in Passaic and elsewhere. In fact, this was the last time I would see this lineup with Buddy and Steve Love. They played great versions of Portland Women and Crooked Judge at this show.rb1229https://www.blogger.com/profile/16192166985700733214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-40763218424353173122012-01-27T05:47:40.439-08:002012-01-27T05:47:40.439-08:00Ahhhh ... what a beautiful post. So much insight h...Ahhhh ... what a beautiful post. So much insight here. I just love the devastating question of whether they even noticed. Probably. I think so. But who the hell knows. Might have been hard to hear each other over the rattling sinuses.<br /><br />But I do think so. These guys were amateur (and insofar as they got payed for playing old-timey music, professional) folklorists. Each in his own way. All three were deeply aware of the American (and older, and other) traditions that they had soaked up, that crossed through them. They had memory of all of that, were very conscious about it all, I think.<br /><br />In fact, one premise of our blogs, that so much of our history comes from memory, and we need to triangulate, where possible, with other sources, may reflect the very fact that people were living in a way that was reasonably conscious, such that memory actually survived.<br /><br />I am not saying people weren't zonked out and superficial and indifferent in the same measure, on any given night in, say, March 1978, as anyone else --any "normal person"-- would have been. I just think that they had spent so much time consciously soaking up these traditions, doing so together, in the formative, powerful-young-man years of their lives, that the convergence wouldn't have gone unnoticed.<br /><br />Who the hell knows?<br /><br />One of the things I'd like to learn more about is patterns of who was backstage over the years. My relentlessly modern mind hopes the Archive might turn up logs of that sort of thing, -- !ha! -- But anyway, however we might try to construct it, it'd be fun data to see. As far as I know, Nelson was there every night he was in the same town. Dawson, too. I doubt it, but we just don't know.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll respond to more about the 3/12/78 show if I can. There is a breathtakingly good, but unattributed, audience recording of the Garcia Band show. It reveals a powerfully good (if characteristically flawed) show. I suspect more tapes were made. I'd be stunned if a tape of the NRPS set didn't walk out of the arena that night. Whether any survives to this day, and whether, further, it could be accessed, remains completely unknown to me.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com