San Francisco Sound

[JRL]

Q: What two things combined to end the era of the San Francisco sound?


A: Owsley got busted and someone invented a portable electonic guitar tuner.

[senorsalvia]

:lol:  :lol: -----   When Newsweek ran thier "Summer of Love article, and they started bussing in tours of straights to 'see the hippies' I got outta dodge..........

[cenacle]

Where were you when all that happened, Sal? You got some vintage tales to tell us from back when? Let's hear some! :twisted:  

[senorsalvia]

I hitched out of the Midwest and spent the summers of '67 and '68 roaming up and down the Pacific Coast Highway.  (had to go back in the fall because I was to be a '69 graduate)....  Quite a culture clash  being in the Haight one weekend, then getting chased down by drunken rednecks looking to give a commie a proper haircut in central Illinois, the following week!!  Yeah, I'll post a couple of tales in a day or two...Gotta sift through the memory banks for an appropriate saga..............  sal

[JRL]

Just wondring... did ya get the joke??

[laughingwillow]

LOL What joke?

Bobby didn't call them the "Exactly Perfect Brothers Band" for nothing.....

lw

[JRL]

I've always said tunings overrated.

[laughingwillow]

This thread reminds me of one of my fav dead shows ever. Unfortunately, due to circumstances which quickly spiraled beyond control, I remember almost nothing about  the performance in question.  Even listening to recordings of this show does almost nothing to jog my memory . (And that's rare for me.)

Interestingly, it was one of the few dead shows I ended up right in front of the center stage.  What I DO remember is Bobby taking a long time tuning up between songs early on and Phil making a comment ot the effect of how the band was taking longer between songs than they did back in the day....

After that, Bobby was a man possessed between songs. He'd tune like mad and then race up to the mike posing like a sprinter at the line waiting for the starter's gun while the others leisurely got their acts together.  But I remember almost nothng of the actual performance. Go figure.

lw

[JRL]

Q. What did the Deadhead say when he ran out of doses?

A. This band sucks!