![]() ![]() Or you could drop ‘em all out and go white. It had four filters, and you could combine two - so you could go red, blue, or purple. So I built these little smaller ones by hand, and pretty soon she could change light colors. A color change would be the size of a VW Bug. Back then, they didn’t have color changes for lights or, if they were there, they were huge. JESSE: From the relationship, the band’s lighting rig literally grew.īEN HALLER: I'm hanging out with Candace - beautiful woman, brilliant, smart, we're having a good time. We lived in San Anselmo for a couple of months, and then we found a house out in Salinas. And about the second tour, everybody, band members, crew members - you cannot work for the Grateful Dead unless you move to California. One day, we look out, and there's a guy water skiing around Manhattan. We were on the seventh floor of a hotel in Brooklyn Heights, Columbia Heights, looking from the Verrazano Bridge to the 59th Street Bridge, all of Manhattan. JESSE: By the time they’d gotten back from Europe, lighting director Candace Brightman and follow-spot operator-slash-master tech Ben Haller were an item.īEN HALLER: Candace and I were having a grand time in New York. He didn't do any karate or anything… we threw him out of the thing. We just kind of surrounded him and poor little David Carradine got walked off the stage. And at the Hollywood Bowl, you can imagine, I'm standing with Rex, Steve Parish, a bunch of other people, and David Carradine, who was playing the Kung Fu guy, he came on stage and being very obnoxious. Ben Haller.īEN HALLER: After the tour, one of the first places we played was the Hollywood Bowl. JESSE: The lighting crew the Dead hired for Europe ‘72 became a fixture, pun totally accidental. And I think that was the last show that Pigpen performed with them. But we got it in there, and it was a great show. I called up and said, “We want to bring the Grateful Dead in there” - the phone was all silent for a minute. ![]() It wasn't easy getting them in there, because at that time the Hollywood Bowl was managed by the Los Angeles Symphony. They played there once before, on a multi-act show, but this was really their coming out as a major arena artist. SEPP DONAHOWER: One show that was spectacular, I think for them and kind of a coming-of-age show, was when we put them in the Hollywood Bowl as a headline act. We spoke to promoter Sepp Donahower in our Listen To The River episodes last season, and he said this. But if chapters in Grateful Dead history can be clearly delineated, the show at the Hollywood Bowl was definitely the end of one and the beginning of the next. At least in their mind, Pig would be part of it, as soon as he could be. The Dead were starting to turn the page into their next chapter. If you think we’re having a hard time saying goodbye to Pigpen, we are. His B3 playing is on point, but he doesn’t sing. He played one more show with the Dead, at the Hollywood Bowl, three weeks after they got home. Equipment guys did, but nobody from the band - only Pigpen. I had a burst ulcer when I got home, and the only person who came to see me in the hospital was Pigpen. SAM CUTLER: What can I say? It nearly killed me doing it all. And despite the fatigue and discomfort of riding on two large coach-like buses for what sometimes seemed like an eternity (actually only about 1 1/2 months.but that's plenty long enough), we all managed to survive - although some of us were a little worse for wear - and we were all really glad to get home!” We ask you to once again rise and thank tour architect Sam Cutler. JESSE: The band’s August newsletter wrote, “It was an incredible trip for all 43 1/2 of us (1/2 = Rudso, who was a real gem on the trip)”-Rudso being the newborn son of crew chief Ram Rod-“a real experience in working, traveling, fighting, and playing together. But I was pretty soon back on the job in the office - we all were. I don't even remember what I did I may have stayed back and gone into the country and sort of cooled my heels at some country place or with some old friends or something. Alan Trist of Ice Nine Publishing.ĪLAN TRIST: Pretty much everyone flew home the next day. Presumably, the plan was to start going through the tapes. Their original itinerary had called for the tour to close on the 30th of May, followed by five days at Olympic Studios in London, where the Rolling Stones had often recorded before becoming tax exiles. JESSE: The Grateful Dead finished up a two-month 22-show European tour at the Lyceum in London on the 26th of May, 1972 and prepared to return home to California with some 73 hours of tape. Dennis “Wiz” Leonard, by Blair Jackson, Grateful Dead Gear, 2006. Dennis “Wiz” Leonard, by David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2011. Robert Hunter, by Denis McNamera, WLIR, 3/1978. Jerry Garcia & Phil Lesh, by David Gans, Conversations with the Dead, 4/1983.
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