OT: Grateful Dead at Colt Park

[mhshuskies]

Grateful Dead Channel now playing the show from Colt Park, 8/2/76. My first experience and its been a long strange trip ever since (but a good one). Was anyone else there? Looking forward to Fare Thee Well at Soldier Field, 7/3-7/5!!!!

 

[mauconnfan]

I was at Colt a couple months before that for Peter Frampton.

 

[Bezzz]

There were some awesome concerts at Colt Park. I saw a triple bill with Peter Frampton (Frampton's Camel), Rod Sterwart with Faces and the headliner Humble Pie (RIP Steve Marriot). I think it was '72.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Wasn't Frampton Humble Pie's lead guitarist?

 

[Bezzz]

Wasn't Frampton Humble Pie's lead guitarist?

He was, but split from them early on to form the camel, and then, ya know, "do you feel like we do?"

 

[Bezzz]

Memory was a little fuzzy. It was '73 and it was J. Geils Band, Frampton's Camel and Humble Pie. The interwebs are a amazing thing. Check out some of the bands that backed up Humble Pie...Foghat, Gentle Giant, Steely Dan, Egar Winter. Great shows.

 

[mauconnfan]

Wasn't Frampton Humble Pie's lead guitarist?[/QUOT

Yes good call. Rockin the Filmore was an excellent album led by "I Don't Need No Doctor" and Marriot belting out some lyrics.

 

[alexd]

Memory was a little fuzzy. It was '73 and it was J. Geils Band, Frampton's Camel and Humble Pie. The interwebs are a amazing thing. Check out some of the bands that backed up Humble Pie...Foghat, Gentle Giant, Steely Dan, Egar Winter. Great shows.View attachment 9615

And who can forget Spooky Tooth and Tranquility??

 

[jazyj]

you know bill walton will be there

 

[CTKIDD]

76 was a little before my time but I got to over 150 shows from 82 to 2002. When touch came out it was the beginning of the end for me...still got all my tapes but don't even have a deck to play them on anymore. Those were great times that ironically the same truck I followed the dead in have converted into an ice cream truck that I drive today. It's a 73 Chevy step van with like 2 million miles on it.. Still going...

 

[gtcam]

yea I was there and I went to virtually every Dillon Stadium/Colt Park show in the 70s
was also listening to the GD channel to the show - as usual

 

[Hoophound]

76 was a little before my time but I got to over 150 shows from 82 to 2002. When touch came out it was the beginning of the end for me...still got all my tapes but don't even have a deck to play them on anymore. Those were great times that ironically the same truck I followed the dead in have converted into an ice cream truck that I drive today. It's a 73 Chevy step van with like 2 million miles on it.. Still going...

So you have the same truck you drove in 82' and converted it to an ice cream truck that you currently use? You are an f'in legend.

 

[sledog]

Someone alert the Wavy Gravy squad!!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Someone alert the Wavy Gravy squad!!

I'd be stunned if any of the pig farmers are still alive.

 

[Huskyhoops25]

Does anyone know if Robert Hunter (Dead's lyricist) graduated from UConn? I know he attended, don't know if he ever graduated.