Talk:Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

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Contents 1 Live recordings questions 2 Other thoughts on 'Summer Jam'... 3 Long quote from "Aquarius Rising" by Robert Santelli 4 Largest Gig Claim

[edit] Live recordings questions

I question the validity of this fact:

The Band - Live at Watkins Glen (Audio-CD, released 1995). This release is mostly comprised of studio takes with overdubbed audience sounds.

Listening to this disc as we speak ... liner notes claim it is in fact "drawn from the most complete available tape of the Band's Watkins Glen performance." Anyone aware of evidence to the contrary? [11:58, 28 July 2006 216.24.56.161]

I don't know, but you should make your argument on Talk:Live at Watkins Glen. Wasted Time R 13:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Watkins Glen (6 CD-Box with The Band, The Grateful Dead, and The Allman Brothers Band)

Does this box set really exist? I couldn't find anything about it on the web and there's no information on year or publisher either. Is this a bootleg maybe? Sorry, it seems that the link where i have found this information is no more online. --Melly42 11:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other thoughts on 'Summer Jam'...

I arrived on the Wednesday prior to the scheduled start, the traffic was already getting heavy some miles from Corning. We were glad that we found a spot near where they were setting up a food concession, bathrooms were also nearby as was a spigot for fresh water (or so we thought). The story on the month-long 'runs' will come later.

No sooner had we six piled (Debbie Zigon, Diane Porzio, and ???) out of the car, when we were offered a bowl of DMT. So started a magical five day trip-fest, all free and probably the last of its kind. This has always struck me as somewhat significant. I think that we all felt that the world was changed, and perhaps this weekend of over-indulgence was our last chance to grasp that psychedelic, day-glo brass ring on the merry-go-round that was the autumn of our collective dream of peace, love, rebellion and Woodstock Nation.

Already, the parking fields held a smattering of Caddies and Winnebagos that would have seemed so out place just a couple of years ago.

[edit] Long quote from "Aquarius Rising" by Robert Santelli

What is the Wikipedia protocol for long quotes? I don't want to cheat Mr. Santelli of his due. The best I could "due" was footnote the link.

[edit] Largest Gig Claim

It claims in the article to be the largest gig in history until it was later superceded, yet the largest ever gig according to the guiness bock of records is the isle of wight festival 3 years previously. Can this claim be verified? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.134.105 (talk) 10:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I recommend you to go into your next library and study the Guinness Book of World Records (from 1980 to 2007). BTW At the Isle of White Festival were only 400.000 people. --Melly42 13:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)