Grateful Dead/Jorma Kaukonen 3 Concert Photos- UofR Palestra-1970

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These are two 8×12 photos and one 8×10 photo of the Grateful Dead jamming with Jorma Kaukonen at the Palestra (the Gym as it were) at the University of Rochester, 11/20/1970. The first two are 8×12 photos from the jam, the third is a shot of Bob Weir and Jorma tuning prior to the jam. The Jefferson Airplane played in downtown Rochester that evening and rumors were rampant that the Airplane would show up to play. As the evening wore on there was a pause in the show and a buzz in the crowd…. as I recall events, Jack Cassidy popped his head up from behind an amp, Phil Lesh started playing the bass line to “White Rabbit”, and the crowd went somewhat wild. Jorma proceeded to jam with the Dead for a number of songs, an incredible conclusion to an incredible show and evening of music.
Images are printed from digital files produced from the original negatives, at a local professional photography studio.
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As a young photographer/musician in the 1969 to 1973 time period I attended a number of rock and folk concerts by such diverse artists as the Grateful Dead, the Who, Hot Tuna, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, Paul Butterfield, John Sebastian, Leo Kottke, Leon Redbone, John Jackson, Elizabeth Cotton, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Steve Goodman, Edgar Winter, and others. The photos I took of these artists from this era are a rare peek back at a period when they were in their prime and offer a glimpse seldom if ever seen of them from a stage front vantage point that is almost impossible to duplicate in today’s mega-venue scene and restrictions on photos of any kind at most concerts. More recent artists featured are Marilyn Manson at R.P.I. Fieldhouse in 1997 and Elliott Smith at Higher Ground in Winooskie, VT in 2001.
Other Rock Photo web pages, Morrison Hotel to name the most prominent one, feature photos by the great photographers of the era documenting these artists and many others, but many of the shots are from backstage vantage points or shots of the artist in a relaxed setting of a hotel, their homes, or staged publicity style shots. There’s nothing wrong with that, God knows I wish I had the access they did in those days.
My photos are from the trenches, I had no all access passes, I was down there with all you other concert goers, attempting to stand my ground while some of you probably were attempting to get around me for a better vantage point. And these photos capture the exhilarating moments that we experienced together, and for those of you too young to have been there, can give something of the feel of what it was like then, a bygone era that can never be revisited but thankfully lives on in these photos and others like them.