Concert Free Radio at Watkins Glen 1973

[StephenR]

Great article about some guys from Connecticut that set up a mobile pirate radio station so they could broadcast from the Grateful Dead/Band/Allman Bros. show at Watkins Glen in 1973. Ron and Alembic built and ran the PA for this show so Ron is featured prominently in the article.

http://www.hartfordradiohistory.com/Concert_Free_Radio_-_CFR.html

This is one show I decided to skip since I had gone to the Dead/Allmans show at RFK stadium in DC in June and had tickets to see the Dead and Band at Roosevelt Stadium late July, early August (Jerry's birthday show was killer). It turned out to be the largest gathering of people ever. Quite an event but after Woodstock and a few other large festivals I was already done with hanging out in huge crowds of people. Most of the people I know that did go ended up nowhere near the stage but said it was one great party.

[lbpesq]

I was also at Jerry's 31st birthday at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City on 8/1/73.  12 days later, on 8/13/73, I got on a plane and moved to California.  It was the early 70's when California was the promised land, the Dead played more often in California than in N.Y., and my mother lived in N.Y - all excellent reason to move to the West Coast!

Bill, tgo