Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

1973 rock festival in New York state

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Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

Genre| Jam band music, rock music
Dates| July 28, 1973
Location(s)| Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, New York
Years active| 1973
Founded by| Shelly Finkel, Jim Koplik
Attendance| 600,000
Website| Photographs of Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a July 1973 rock festival outside Watkins Glen, New York, that featured the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and the Band. The July 28, 1973, event long held the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "largest audience at a pop festival," with an estimated 600,000 fans in attendance at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway. Approximately 150,000 tickets were purchased in advance, the rest being admitted in what became a "free concert".

## History[edit]

The concert was produced by Shelly Finkel and Jim Koplik, two promoters who had organized a successful Grateful Dead concert at Dillon Stadium, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1972.[1][page needed] At that show the Grateful Dead were joined on-stage by Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, and Jai Johanny Johanson, members of the Allman Brothers Band.[1][page needed] This impromptu jam planted the seeds that would eventually spawn the "Summer Jam" concert in Watkins Glen, New York.[1][page needed]

Similar to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, an enormous traffic jam created chaos for those who attempted to make it to the concert site. Long and narrow country roads forced fans to abandon their vehicles and walk 5–8 miles on that hot summer day. 150,000 tickets were sold for $10 each, but for all the other people it was a free concert.[citation needed]

Also similar to Woodstock, there were no reports of violence at Watkins Glen. However, unknown to attendees, the day was marred by the death of Willard Smith, 35, a skydiver from Syracuse, New York. One of the flares he dove with ignited his body suit, and he was engulfed in flames. Smith's body was eventually found in the woods near the concert site. There is also the unsolved disappearance of two high school teenagers (Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit) from Brooklyn who were hitchhiking to the concert.[2][3][4]

> Many historians claimed that the Watkins Glen event was the largest gathering of people in the history of the United States. In essence, that meant that on July 28, one out of every 350 people living in America at the time was listening to the sounds of rock at the New York state racetrack. Considering that most of those who attended the event hailed from the Northeast, and that the average age of those present was approximately seventeen to twenty-four, close to one out of every three young people from Boston to New York was at the festival.[5]

Summer Jam was the last concert event to be held at Watkins Glen International until 2011, when the rock band Phish organized and performed at a three-day festival, called Super Ball IX, at the complex.[6]

## Production[edit]

Bill Graham's FM Productions provided lights, staging and a 50,000-watt sound system.[7] The sound system introduced a new concept: digital delay lines to compensate for the speed of sound in air, allowing speaker towers to be placed at intervals from the stage, allowing distant audience members to hear clearly. New Jersey electronics company Eventide brought three digital delay units each capable of 200 milliseconds of delay. Four speaker towers were placed 200 feet (60 m) from the stage, their signal delayed 175 ms to compensate for the speed of sound between the main stage speakers and the delay towers. Six more speaker towers were placed 400 feet from the stage, requiring 350 ms of delay, and a further six towers were placed 600 feet away from the stage, fed with 525 ms of delay, the audio signal coming through all three modules. The most distant audience areas were unable to see the stage because of terrain, but they could hear the concert. Each Eventide DDL 1745 module contained many 1000-bit shift register integrated chips, and cost the same as a new car.[8] The concept meant that the people in the front were not blasted with too much sound in an attempt to reach the back, and the people in the back enjoyed high fidelity sound. The system worked very well.[7]

This concert was attended by 600,000 people - twice the number that went to the Woodstock festival in August 1969. Due to the crowd's enormous size additional broadcast towers were set up, but this required more amplification power. At this time The Grateful Dead only used amplifiers made by McIntosh Labs. Sound engineer Janet Furman was dispatched by helicopter with $6,000 cash to nearby Binghamton, site of McIntosh Laboratories, to obtain five additional 600-watt MC 2300, their most powerful amp at that time.[9] Despite the fact that it was the weekend, she was able to locate the owner, buy the amps off the factory floor, and fly back to the festival site, with the overloaded helicopter skirting high-rise buildings and narrowly avoiding catastrophe in the process. Thanks to a combination of persistence and luck, the extra MC 2300's were incorporated into the sound system, successfully providing high-quality music to the gigantic crowd.

## Performance[edit]

Although the concert was scheduled to start on July 28, thousands of music fans were already at the concert site on the 27th. Robbie Robertson of The Band requested to do a soundcheck, but was perplexed that so many people were sitting in front of the stage. Bill Graham allowed the soundcheck with the crowd of people in front, and the Band ran through a few numbers to the delight of the audience. The Allman Brothers Band did their soundcheck next, playing "One Way Out" and "Ramblin' Man". Grateful Dead's soundcheck turned into a legendary two-set marathon, featuring their familiar tunes such as "Sugaree", "Tennessee Jed" and "Wharf Rat". They also performed a unique jam that was eventually included on their retrospective CD box set So Many Roads (1965-1995).

On July 28, the day of the concert, 600,000 music fans had arrived in Watkins Glen.[10] Grateful Dead performed first, playing two long sets. They opened with "Bertha" and played many hits such as "Box Of Rain", "Jack Straw", "Playing in the Band", "China Cat Sunflower" and "Eyes of the World".

The Band followed the Dead with one two-hour set. However, their set was cut in half by a drenching thunderstorm; in a scene again reminiscent of Woodstock, people were covered with mud. During the storm, keyboardist Garth Hudson performed his signature organ improvisation "The Genetic Method"; when the rain finally let up, the full Band joined Hudson on stage, and segued into their signature song "Chest Fever".

Finally, the Allman Brothers Band performed for three hours. Their performance included songs from their soon-to-be-released album Brothers and Sisters, along with their standards "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", "Statesboro Blues", "Les Brers in A Minor" and "Whipping Post".

Following the Allmans' second set, there was an hour encore jam featuring musicians from all three bands. The jam featured spirited renditions of "Not Fade Away", "Mountain Jam", and "Johnny B. Goode".

## Discography[edit]

* The Allman Brothers Band — Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas (Capricorn Records, 1976). "Come And Go Blues" was recorded on July 28.
* The Band — Live at Watkins Glen (Capitol Records, 1995). Purported to be a 10-song excerpt from their set,[11] only two tracks - an impromptu organ solo during a rain delay by Garth Hudson and a jam session \- are from the festival. The rest are either studio cuts with overdubbed crowd sounds or performances from other shows, including one cut from the Woodstock Festival in 1969.[12]
* Grateful Dead — So Many Roads (1965–1995) (Arista Records, 1999). This 5-disc box set includes an 18-minute jam performed as part of the Dead's sound check the day before the concert.

## See also[edit]

* Rock music portal

* List of jam band music festivals
* List of historic rock festivals

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Jackson, Blair; Gans, David (2015-11-10). This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. Macmillan. ISBN 9781250058560.
2. ^ "EPISODE 41: MITCHEL WEISER AND BONNIE BICKWIT". thevanishedpodcast.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
3. ^ Kingsley, Jennifer (February 21, 2009). "Couple vanished on way to 1973's Summer Jam". Star-Gazette. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009.
4. ^ "Mitchel & Bonnie". www.mitchelandbonnie.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
5. ^ "Excerpt from "AQUARIUS RISING" by Robert Santelli". chronos-historical.org. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
6. ^ "Phish announces Super Ball IX to take place July 1–3 at Watkins Glen International". LA Times Blogs - Pop & Hiss. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
7. ^ a b Kane, John (2020). The Last Seat in the House: The Story of Hanley Sound. University Press of Mississippi. p. 469\. ISBN 9781496826824.
8. ^ Nalia Sanchez (July 29, 2016), "Remembering the Watkins Glen Festival", Eventide Audio, retrieved February 20, 2020
9. ^ Furman, Janet. "History of Furman Sound and its Grateful Dead Roots". Furman Professional Audio and AC Power Products. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
10. ^ "600,000 People See Grateful Dead, Allmans & The Band At Summer Jam At Watkins Glen In 1973". JamBase. 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
11. ^ Allmusic review
12. ^ This fraud was revealed in the liner notes of the remastered Moondog Matinee CD released in 2001 by Capitol: "Chuck Berry's Going Back To Memphis, on the other hand, was completed and ready for inclusion on the album Moondog Matinee but ended up being shelved in favor of Promised Land. This version has been released before complete with overdubbed audience sounds as the opening track on the fraudulent Live at Watkins Glen CD. No one in the Band was connected with that particular release which had been originally mastered sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, although not released until 1995. The outtake of Endless Highway included here, which was recorded sometime between Cahoots and Moondog Matinee, was similarly included on the Watkins Glen CD with overdubbed audience."

## External links[edit]

* Book excerpt on the Watkins Glen rock festival from "Aquarius Rising" by Robert Santelli
* Photographs of Summer Jam at Watkins Glen
* Grateful Dead Live at Grand Prix Racecourse on 1973-07-28 (July 28, 1973) Audiorecording
* more photos from the Watkins Glen Summer Jam festival

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* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* Family Dog at the Great Highway
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* Spectrum 11/5/79
* Spectrum 11/6/79

Compilations|

* Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead
* What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
* The Arista Years
* Selections from the Arista Years
* The Very Best of Grateful Dead
* Flashback with the Grateful Dead
* The Best of the Grateful Dead
* Long Strange Trip
* The Best of the Grateful Dead Live
* Sage & Spirit

Box sets|

* Dead Zone: The Grateful Dead CD Collection (1977–1987)
* So Many Roads (1965–1995)
* The Golden Road (1965–1973)
* Beyond Description (1973–1989)
* The Warner Bros. Studio Albums
* All the Years Combine: The DVD Collection
* Grateful Dead Records Collection
* The Story of the Grateful Dead

Videos|

* The Grateful Dead Movie
* Dead Ahead
* So Far
* Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey
* Backstage Pass
* Infrared Sightings
* Ticket to New Year's
* Downhill from Here
* Anthem to Beauty
* Sunshine Daydream
* Long Strange Trip

Side projects and
spin-off bands|

* The Other Ones
* The Dead
* Furthur
* Dead & Company
* 2015 tour
* Summer 2016 tour
* Summer 2017 tour
* Fall 2017 tour
* Summer 2018 tour
* Summer 2019 tour
* Fall Fun Run 2019
* Jerry Garcia Band
* RatDog
* Phil Lesh and Friends
* Rhythm Devils
* Donna Jean Godchaux Band
* Heart of Gold Band
* Missing Man Formation
* New Riders of the Purple Sage
* Old & In the Way
* Legion of Mary
* Reconstruction
* Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
* JGB
* Kingfish
* Bobby and the Midnites
* SerialPod
* BK3
* 7 Walkers
* Billy & the Kids

Related topics|

* Acid Tests
* Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley, Ltd.
* Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead 1987 Tour
* Dark Star Orchestra
* Day of the Dead
* Deadhead
* Deadheads for Obama
* Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead
* Fare Thee Well (album)
* Fare Thee Well (concert tour)
* Grateful dead
* Grateful Dead Archive
* The Grateful Dead Channel
* Grateful Dead Comix
* Grateful Dead discography
* The Grateful Dead Family Album
* Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies
* Grateful Dead Origins
* Grateful Dead Records
* Jazz Is Dead
* List of Grateful Dead members
* Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
* The Music Never Stopped (album)
* The Music Never Stopped (film)
* Pickin' on the Grateful Dead: A Tribute
* The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra
* Relix
* Reunions of the Grateful Dead
* Rex Foundation
* Shakedown Street (vending area)
* Summer Jam at Watkins Glen
* Unfinished Grateful Dead album
* Wall of Sound
* Wharf Rats

Related people|

* Eric Andersen
* Bob Bralove
* Jerilyn Lee Brandelius
* Candace Brightman
* Betty Cantor-Jackson
* Bob Dylan
* Carolyn Garcia
* Bill Graham
* Gerrit Graham
* Rick Griffin
* David Grisman
* Lenny Hart
* Dan Healy
* Bruce Hornsby
* Alton Kelley
* Steve Kimock
* Ned Lagin
* Dick Latvala
* David Lemieux
* Branford Marsalis
* Stanley Mouse
* Ronald Leon Rakow
* Merl Saunders
* Rock Scully
* Bob Seidemann
* Laurence Shurtliff
* Owsley Stanley
* Howard Wales

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