******Video, Audio clips and full concerts. A very emotional performace of this tune from a great show, New Year's Eve 1976.
So great to feel the coolness of the stones as the music came from indoors and the stars were visible w/o the city lights.No wonder Chet Helms briefly advertised the site as "Magic at the Edge of the Western World."Ĭlick HERE to see listings of ALL Family Dog on the Great Highway Concerts. In the back was a flagstone patio w/a well and the 'refreshment' stand for mind & body. Venturing onto the beach for a night time smoke was, in the parlance of the time, really trippy.Above the dance floor, encircling it were 2 - 3 rows of seats, Chet had put in a bandstand at each end so they'd be no set-up waiting time. Christmas & New Years Eve Ramadan LGBT Love & Valentines Day Autumn School & University Halloween Birthday & Celebration.
In 1969, Playland ebbed as the San Francisco pop culture was taking hold.I haven't been able to locate any information on the Edgewater Ballroom yet but other interesting facts have surfaced surrounding the area of Playland, Sutro Baths and the Cliff House.Family Dog At The Great HighwayThe Family Dog, the rock dance commune centered around original hippie Chet Helms, lost its lease on their Avalon Ballroom headquarters and moved west, out to the beach, out to a rickety wooden building where generations of San Franciscans had come to eat fried chicken, roller skate, play with their slot cars and now.dance to the Grateful Dead.On summer nights, fog hung in writhing sheets around the old building and the muffled roar of the breakers could be heard through the front door, just on the other side of the seawall. 1987 at Anaheim Stadium, Not Fade Away from New Year’s Eve 1978 at the. This same building, originally known as "The Casino," apparently dated to the 1880s and lasted through the mid-1970s. The new video features China Cat Sunflower into I Know You Rider from October 17th. The site was at the former Edgewater Ballroom, part of the Playland At The Beach complex. Via "Jerry's Brokedown Palaces" Blog: Family Dog On The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CAThe Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on Jwith the Jefferson Airplane. Listen via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or in the player below.Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (Aug– June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 "Summer of Love", was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties. Also, if you use iTunes, please consider posting a review as it really help get the word out. If you like pictures of things, you can find that here: BrokedownPod Instagram. Please, don't forget to follow the account for regular news, live tweetstorms of shows as I listen, and other minutiae. I had a great time chatting with them and think that you will enjoy them as well. Pardon as I take a moment to send a shoutout to my new friends, Aaron, Mel, & Apple over at the No Simple Road podcast.
So, polish off the egg nog and break into the bubbly, cos we're gonna party like it's 1969. We've got the Rock & Roll, Blues, and, my personal favorite genre, Face-Melting Jams. This month we take a look at a few of those New Year's Eve performances and play some choice cuts to help you close out your year. Sometimes, spectacle would accompany the strike of midnight but really, the Grateful Dead is all the spectacle we Deadheads need. Once upon a time, in Grateful Dead land, the eve of the new year was celebrated with a festive concert appearance, perhaps even a run of concerts. It's December and, on top of the various religious holidays ahead, we close out and usher in a new and hopefully better year.