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Subject: 1973 Watkins Glen Jam


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George (great tyme)
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Date Posted: 16:41:27 02/24/08 Sun

Yep left from Union City Dave and I. We were hitching a ride south at the same time when a U-Hual truck loaded with a bunch of college hippies from Edinboro stopped and asked if we wanted to go to a concert, well HELL YEA we said. So we climbed in the back of the U-Haul with at least 30 other cool partying people. I do remember knowing one of them,Ray W, from the same home town. Anyways, it was elbow to elbow with non stop smoke being passed around. We did stop at a grocery store and purchased a couple grocery carts of Beer. So now the player we got the drunker we were. I was sitting at the very end of the truck next to the overhead door, the door was raised about a foot so we had fresh air coming in. We were now driving through Jamestown NY on our way to the summer jam 73. Some one had brought a realy nice Black Lab, well he wanted out and the only way was past me. So this dog is going to take a dive for the back door and I was the only one I guess that was capable of stopping him from jumping out. I sat my just oped cold Beer down so I could grab ahold of the Lab, his foot hit my beer and knocked the can of beer out the end of the truck. I thought oh shit,I dont have good luck so I sort of figured that this was not good. I looked down under the bottom of the door and there was my beer spinning across the road on its bottom with foam coming out the opening,it did look pretty cool. On the other side of the twirling beer can was a Jamestown Police car and yes his lights were lit up, not good. Our driver of the U-hual pulled over just like we are suppose to, so we are stopped now. Not knowing who or what was lerking in the back ofthis U-Haul truck the Officer slammed the door down and locked it, I might have reacted the same way, maybe. About ten minutes or so passed, then the door started to raise ever so slowly. Outside looking in wer a dozen or so of pistols drawn police officers. We were quite loaded by now so our reflexes kept us on our seat. The suit and tie officer in charge new we had illegle drugs and such in our possesion, he said he would give us a ten count to put everything in a pile to the rear of the truck. So he turned away from us and counted to ten. Of coarse we couldnt give up our reefer. When he turned back around to see no pile of illegal stuff it must have really pissed him off. He slammed the door down and we were off, had to be to the His station cause He wasnt dressed for an outdoor concert. OK, now we are passing shit around and eating what we can and washing it down with warm beer, starting to cop one hell of a buzz. At the police station, the u-haul was unloaded and searched for illegel stuff in which a larger box was needed to put the baggies in. We didnt do a very good job of eating the evidence, I am sure I wasnt the only one that was full and happy. Real long story short, pleaded guilty- $25 dollar fine and you could go, plead innocent you got to stay and it cost you 50 bucks. I was a 17 year old minor and wasnt charged but We did get our pics taken. So anyways we were allowed to go and load all the gear back into the truck. The truck was searched quite well but gee right in the middle of the floor was a couple bags of weed, guess someone there was cool enough to drop them for us. All of this seemed to last about most of the night and the next morning. I couldnt tell you even what day it was. Finaly we made it to Watkins Glenn I could not believe the size of the partying people that was here. We got there right after the parachuters jumped, was told that one got killed.
After that we jammed and partyed, also got lost physically and mentally. I dont know how we all were able to find our way back to the U-haul but we did. It was the best time having been able to be a part of the largest outdoors concert ever. All the folks that made it there were peaceful, laid back and mellow. THANKS TO ALL THAT MADE THIS CONCERT THE BEST.
I did find a picture of me It looks like me. at the sie below, I am in the bottom right front corner, dark pocket tee-shirt, pushing my hair out of my face. It was a good tyme. I'm Done.
Crowd six
http://www.glenphotos.com/summerjam/index.html

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Re: 1973 Watkins Glen JamGeorge (great tyme)16:54:09 02/24/08 Sun
Re: 1973 Watkins Glen JamRobb (forum host)07:43:59 02/28/08 Thu


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