JPMInyCricket  (7/29/2026 6:55:26 AM)

My very first glorious show. Having missed RFK and Watkins Glen the prior Summer despite strong inclinations I should attend, I dare say 3rd times a charm. Very soulful To Lay Me Down, (M-80 explosion audience hijinks notwithstanding) and a gorgeous Weather Report Suite were highlights. The He’s Gone>Truckin>Nobody’s Fault>Spanish Jam>Wharf Rat ensured a dozen of us St. Albans D.C homeboys were comfortably ensconsed on the Bozo Bus for the next 50 plus years! Oh, and the late 2nd set Fennario is the only time I believe that Pretty PeggyO came “trippin’” down the stairs. Three days later I was on a Jet to the Promised Land with a pocketful of Orange Sunshine and the knowledge I had found my tribe and the background music for my life story!

   Hummingbird  (7/28/2026 2:05:20 AM)

This show was outstanding for all the same reasons ! 52 years ago tomorrow. I saw 3 Wall of Sound shows in 74. Atlanta 6/20, Roanoke 7/27 and this one on 7/29. They covered the GD spectrum of music and events. All very different. Maria Muldaur opened at the Omni which I assumed accounted for a shorter show but intense performance. Roanoke I’ve already reviewed. This Cap show was the weirdest. The Other One > Nobody’s Fault was epic. There was no Seastones in Atlanta. So when it appeared in Roanoke we thought they were specifically trying to fry us. And they did. At the Cap Centre the intermission and the Seastones were exceptionally long. Some asshole threw an M80 high into the air during To Lay Me Down. It sounded like a bomb because it was a bomb. It freaked everyone out including the band. You can definitely hear it on the SDB or audience recordings. Today they would charge the asshole with a terrorist attack ! It took a while to gather ourselves and get back into the groove. But we did and the 2nd set music/jam here is proof that the GD were the bomb on this night. Love reliving these 73-74 shows. They were playing like demons !!!!