Watkins Glen was the summer of 73 (I'd have to check my bootlegs, but I want to say it was sometime in July). Supposedly, at the time, it was the biggest audience ever at a concert, even bigger than the Woodstock. I think it wasn't until the second US Festival in 83, I think it was, that there was a bigger crowd.
There was so many people there the day before the fest, they decided to have an "soundcheck/dress rehearsal" for those who had already arrived. The Dead's performance during this so called soundcheck was, for many years, more sought after by tape collectors than the supposed "official" festival performance the next day, apparently another example of Jerry's claim that "we were never good on the special occasions".
I forgot who it was who said at some point they had a big jam with people from all three bands, and it didn't work, because apparently everyone was on different combinations of drugs (eg Dead members on pot and/or acid, Allmans members on coke, and The Band mostly likely just plain drunk) which caused everyone to fail to synch up in any kind of coherent fashion. I gather it was a real train wreck.
Oh, and that's Allman Brothers, not Allmond Brothers.
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