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1973 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen...
1973 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen...
Item # 725450
August 02, 1973
THE VILLAGE VOICE, Greenwich Village, New York, Aug. 2, 1973
* The Grateful Dead w/ Allman Brothers & more
* Summer Jam at Watkins Glen - rock festival photos
* Grateful Dead - Elton John - Jethro Tull - Grand Funk
The front page has six related photos of the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in New York. (see images) Page 5 has a heading: "The Mellowing of America" with lead-in: "The Watkins Glen Story" Coverage continues on the following page.
background: The 1973 Watkins Glen Summer Jam, held on July 28, 1973, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York, was one of the largest music festivals in history. It featured just three bands—The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and The Grateful Dead—yet it drew an astonishing 600,000–650,000 people, surpassing the attendance of Woodstock in 1969. Though the official concert was scheduled for Saturday, July 28, a massive crowd arrived early and attended an informal soundcheck jam on Friday, July 27, which turned into an impromptu concert enjoyed by hundreds of thousands. The actual concert on Saturday featured full sets by all three bands, as well as a joint jam session at the end, where members from all groups played together. Despite the overwhelming crowd, limited facilities, and massive traffic jams, the festival remained largely peaceful and is remembered as a historic gathering of fans of jam rock, Southern rock, and counterculture. It remains one of the largest concert gatherings ever in the U.S.
Page 53 has a full page advertisement for the Grateful Dead, Swell Dance at Nassau Coliseum.
A few other nice full page ads including a nice Elton John concert ad. (see images)
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
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Complete with 98 pages, tabloid-size, one crease across the center, small red stamp on the front page within the photos, a few small archival mends at the margins on a few inside pages, generally good.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive. Rare as such.
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Category: The 20th Century
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