There's mosquitoes on the river...

...Fish are rising up like birds.

Sunday Toona - The Honkey Chateau Edition

Live at the Chateau d’Herouville (aka “The Honky Chateau”), Herouville, France, June 21, 1971.

According to Jerry Garcia:

We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have. We went over [at the promoter’s expense], but the festival was rained out; it flooded. We stayed at this little chateau [Chateau d’Herouville] which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers, which is where Vincent Van Gogh is buried…

We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn’t even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers… We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool.

It was great.

Playing in the Band, China Cat Sunflower and Me and Bobby McGee embedded below.

Sunday Toona - For all you old Dads out there

Live at the Kongressaal Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, May 18, 1972. Very good soundboard. This was Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s last tour with the Dead before he died in 1973.

Ramble On Rose and Sugaree embedded below.

"There's mosquitoes on the river fish are rising up like birds"

The TCO Fly Shop in PA has a steal your face link on the left sidebar of their home page. When you hit the link you get the background story behind this one off Abel reel and some vintage Jerry. 

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