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 Jeff
Sprigut brought some great shows to Rochester before he dropped
the "Red" and "Inn" from the name of the
club and turned it into a real sports bar - like people play
sports in the bar, or on the grounds at least, in that big volleyball
tent. I haven't been there since. But we saw Sun Ra there and
Doug Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet. I wound up with this photo
of Captain Beefheart and two e-bayable tickets from the Beefheart
show.
Greg
from the House Of Guitars/Chesterfield Kings says Carl Mack
took this photo below. Greg had a pretty cool fanzine at the
time, Future Something, and he did an INTERVIEW
wth Don while he sketched.
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Rolling
Stone was 50 cents on May 14, 1970 when I scooped up this issue
from the news stand. There was a half page Warner Brothers ad
on the inside split between Captain Beefheart & The Magic
Band's "Trout Mask Replica" and The Grateful Dead's
"Live Dead". The Dead ad had a quote from Lenny Kaye
(who went on to play in The Patti Smith Group) saying "The
Dead's music touches on ground that most groups don't even know
exists.") I agree with that but Trout Mask Replica got
to that ground and worked the heck out it.
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