tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post5712456119877722233..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: JGB 9/15/76 S.S. Duchess, New York City Harbor, New York, NYFate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-21280654341978640012022-06-30T16:15:52.516-06:002022-06-30T16:15:52.516-06:00Yeah, we list Cheyenne at Jerrybase: https://jerry...Yeah, we list Cheyenne at Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19760915-02Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-76227455089246733612022-06-30T13:33:01.122-06:002022-06-30T13:33:01.122-06:00The band , Cheyenne, which was a local NYC band op...The band , Cheyenne, which was a local NYC band opened the show.<br />Last minute invite to play from one of the roadies who ask Cheyenne if they'd play at a concert that featured Jerry Garcia band.<br />Of course who wouldn't jump at that opportunity. <br />Cheyenne band was never noted on poster as it was like I said last minute.<br />, Elephants Memory Did play as did BoDiddly who was joined by the Conga player from opening band, Cheyenne. <br />Jerry Garcia don't think played with Bo that night.<br />Keith & Donna were also in the mix <br />There's a post or so that mentions a band who wasn't on the bill which was Cheyenne, They were a good starter .<br />Other than that. Faded memories.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-65375063397649890432022-01-01T13:16:55.693-07:002022-01-01T13:16:55.693-07:00I, too, was on the boat. We dropped a lot of acid...I, too, was on the boat. We dropped a lot of acid in the West Village and passed around a bottle of whiskey on the subway ride to the Battery. The choppers mentioned above were there and HA were taking the tickets. Later, I a crew member<br />said that a lot of the crew were beaten up before they let paying customers on as the Angels didn't want to beat up the musicians as they had already been paid. Right after boarding, I was blindsided in the face for no apparent reason, and, in a stunned state, found a friend and went to the bathroom where we got the blood on my face cleaned of. Not feeling much pain, though. The stage was on lowest deck and it was solid angels so we mostly hung on the upper decks. They had the new at the time Advent video system with large monitors - awesome for the time. The sound was very good, piles of PA speakers on each deck. The nitrous tanks (sponsored by High Times magazine) on the top deck were the only place that you didn't have to watch your back since an unconscious Angel was a safe Angel. Bar areas were pretty scary, bartenders were all Mommas.<br />After the initial excitement, it was a wonderful time, watching NYC glide by while listening to Jerry. I do remember Keith was positioned at side of stage and he kept nervously looking over his shoulder..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-60389976234007695812021-06-07T06:45:43.831-06:002021-06-07T06:45:43.831-06:00So cool! Thanks for sharing.
I think them running...So cool! Thanks for sharing.<br /><br />I think them running around filming refers to the 9/5/73 event on the same vessel, albeit when it was the SS Bay Belle. I vaguely recall the interview you mention of him talking about it, but only vaguely.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-83331126900928703362021-06-06T06:27:08.885-06:002021-06-06T06:27:08.885-06:00I was at this show. Hung out waiting and partying ...I was at this show. Hung out waiting and partying with my friends in Battery Park. Suddenly, over the noise and chaos of rush hour lower Manhattan, you could hear the growing roar of the Angels caravan of bikes. Handing over my ticket I was told "Ya better keep your ticket stub or else you get a free swimming lesson!" I spent most of the cruise on the top deck and did manage to procure some nitrous balloons. I heard an interview a long time ago where Garcia talked about a film crew running around Manhattan filming the boat during the show. Anyone else ever hear that one?macemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06255800919769438474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-83995277067876776772021-04-07T00:29:39.639-06:002021-04-07T00:29:39.639-06:00Hey, thanks for the article post. Will read on…
Re...Hey, thanks for the article post. Will read on…<br />Really enjoyed this blog.Thanks Again.SailawayNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04037688101452962272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-55479430861951910362020-10-01T18:28:08.127-06:002020-10-01T18:28:08.127-06:00Goodness, sounds harrowing. Thanks for sharing.Goodness, sounds harrowing. Thanks for sharing.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-83223133658268388432020-10-01T13:04:45.300-06:002020-10-01T13:04:45.300-06:00I was at (on) this show. It was kinda billed as Je...I was at (on) this show. It was kinda billed as Jerry's birthday party. Elephants Memory was supposed to open. They either didn't show up for their part in the show or that was just another one of the unusually high dosage of high strangeness and ugly rumors surrounding this event. Also around that era, John & Yoko Ono Lennon had become known to appear together, spontaneously and previously unannounced on the stages of local NYC Elephants Memory shows. So then you go ahead and bake all of that extra Fake News up and then you try and stuff all of that Hype into a willing venue.<br />See where I may be kinda going with all this? <br />In this case the "willing venue" turned out to be that inadequate boat. It was in deplorable condition. Apparently for decades it had acted as a sparsely manned "Lightship", anonymously anchored somewhere in the Long Island Sound shipping routes located just outside the entrance to New York City's harbor. At some point during it's long, inglorious career, it was struck by a large shipping container vessel which basically ran directly over her so fast and soaked it with seawater so swiftly that she immediately sank to the bottom, doing so relatively intact, apparently. <br />Nobody died. <br />I think.<br />Her leaking, rusting and collapsing carcass had quickly become classified by the United States Coast Guard as "A Hazard To Navigation" and as such she would have to be dealt with accordingly. Either to be detonated down to the level of the sea's floor OR be raised back up to sea level and then be sold for scrap. <br />Scrap Won. <br />Finally back at her berth on Lower East Side , just a few blocks away from the Hell's Angels NYC Headquarters building, apparently. The next twist in her history is ummmm, vauge but within a year she'd been slightly "refurbished", made to float again and slipped into the waters surrounding all five boroughs of NYC. In the 1970's. You ever see the "French Connection" movie? Well I guess our born-again angel, the Duchess, had found herself plodding about the backwaters of those surrounding waters. Making all kinds of quick trips back and forth to so many secret harbors. <br />By the time we got to sail on her rotten carcass the one bathroom onboard didn't function as such, it immediately converted into a heroin and speed shooting gallery with a distant looking Hells Angel draped across the door that they had to pass. Hells Angels were all over the place and none of them had paid to get in and neither did their girlfriends and all of their friends too. This rusting scow had reached its Legal Occupancy Limit long before any of us paying, ticket-holding customers were permitted onboard just 6 or 7 minutes before our scheduled departure time. The AngelPD were busy “working" by running “security". This meant them getting so out of hand that people were fukin scared shitless. You had no place to run from their sudden outbursts of violence. I just tried to make myself as small and imperceptible as possible while tripping my brains out. The vibe was definitely not a psychedelic one though, it was NYC China White heroin, which had been killing junkies up and down Manhattan that whole year.<br />I kept wondering what was splashing into the Hudson River shortly after we embarked North towards the George Washington bridge. Surely there can't already be that much trash? Finally I realized that it was fellow concert goers that had somehow run afoul of the HA's. <br />That didn't take much. <br />Any perceived stare, not moving out of their way fast enough or maybe they simply didn't like your look and you were hustled topside and thrown overboard. Honestly, I couldn't wait for this show to end and to be safely back at the dock<br />terrytolkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16942126826883970211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-23991306333100701912019-12-16T09:49:29.213-07:002019-12-16T09:49:29.213-07:00Jerry played with Bo Diddley? Whoa. Any more speci...Jerry played with Bo Diddley? Whoa. Any more specific recollection than that? Thanks for sharing!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-19308825030349418812019-12-15T18:43:05.629-07:002019-12-15T18:43:05.629-07:00I was there. The tanks *were* on the top deck. Wou...I was there. The tanks *were* on the top deck. Would like to see vid of Bo Diddly. Jerry played with him for a bit. The Angels were piled up on top of each other near the tanks... Jerry, as you can see in the vid played tortuously S L O W... Bo Diddly played to the rocking of the boat... which had no stabilizers, so it rocked from side-to-side. Quite a thing that. The whole boat was wired for VIDEO, which in 1976 was BIG DEAL!! Very peaceful and calm event, btw. Been hoping to find this video for decades! Now all we need the the Bo Diddly part - ZERO recollection of Elephants Memory (no John Lennon, regardless), if they were there, they must have sucked. :(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03151731338517708027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-52615012779609304042018-05-06T06:50:55.328-06:002018-05-06T06:50:55.328-06:00Oh man, that is fantastic. Thank you so much for s...Oh man, that is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your recollections! Sounds like a great party.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-30990016815042873472018-05-06T05:18:40.236-06:002018-05-06T05:18:40.236-06:00I remember. And I've put to print parts of th...I remember. And I've put to print parts of this rememberance prior to seeing this account in this blog. Picked up a good friend from Newark Airport as he flew in from New Mexico where he was framing a retirement home for a friend's parents. Don't recall the ducat being $15 which was extremely steep for the time - but it was for Jerry, and a boat ride, Manhattan, and the Angels. It was going to be a party. We parked my Orange Pumpkin (a 74' Orange Volvo) in St. George S.I. and took the ferry over. Fortuitous serendipity that I found a script bottle (dropped by another show goer??) that had nice chunks of black hash in it. As the ferry begins it's approach to Manhattan Island, that September sun is illuminating what are probably 50? or was it 75 chromed Harleys parked in a row along the Battery. <br /><br />Fast forward to show...the set up, just as Jerry Moore described, though I only remember the nitrous tanks being up on the top deck - and while I wasn't champing at the bit for a balloon, when I was up there, it was impossible to get anywhere near there with all the chicks clamoring for it. Loved the video screens (probably the first time we're seeing them on the other floors). What a party. Couples fucking in the life boats (that were davited away from the deck). The occasional empty tank being 'winged' off the top deck to the cries of 'Man Overboard!!!!'. An Angel falling on his ass from the wet floor (right in front of us) only to get up, dust himself off, with a hearty laugh (no menace as some have reported elsewhere). An ease of just walking up to the front of that impromptu stage (what stage????), Angels notwithstanding. <br /><br />The best part??? Having the Dutchess turn around (somewhere far up the Hudson - I'm really curious where we did this turnabout - Croton? Haverstraw? a small bridge I recall was nearby prior to this turn), but the band was in the middle of 'After Midnight' (technically it was, yuppers, well beyond midnight), that the boat turned into it's own wake. That's when the fun began. It seemed like the crowd was able to attenuate that 'rocking' by shaking, jumping or cosmically 'willing' the Dutchess into rocking port to starboard and vice versa for what seemed like the longest time (straight out of a Popeye movie). All the while Jerry singing, 'After Midnite, We're going to let if all hang out' (check out the audio of this recently released video - listen to the crowd giddly getting off). <br /><br />There are other things that I'd love to bring here. I've been long winded enough. Just love that I was here that night. Such a night. Northshorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14904028053652380528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-86202599995271027272017-03-27T15:32:05.378-06:002017-03-27T15:32:05.378-06:00Ah New York in 1976. Basically nothing left of it...Ah New York in 1976. Basically nothing left of it, culture most of all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-19333887249217743012015-08-20T11:25:15.827-06:002015-08-20T11:25:15.827-06:00video updated (more than a year later) - thanks!video updated (more than a year later) - thanks!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-67626307673870925822014-07-08T13:29:11.480-06:002014-07-08T13:29:11.480-06:00An upgrade is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...An upgrade is here<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYZ2hOWWyv8<br />Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01442319894983489827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-41702021481799032702014-03-28T09:03:09.791-06:002014-03-28T09:03:09.791-06:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujGkFhSOPw4 Here ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujGkFhSOPw4 Here it is! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-63835689005901033592014-02-23T10:42:57.555-07:002014-02-23T10:42:57.555-07:00agh, the video is now private! I got to watch a li...agh, the video is now private! I got to watch a little bit, but was going to back to watch some more. Sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09863025203632599171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-17248704048878758622014-02-19T15:51:18.670-07:002014-02-19T15:51:18.670-07:00Interesting (to me, at least) that the Yipster Tim...Interesting (to me, at least) that the Yipster Times photo spread includes a pic of Keith singing. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of Keith singing before... Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.com