OLOMPALI Summer 1966: David Freiberg gets up and plays with Garcia, Janis Joplin sashays up and sings with Pigpen,’ Scully + Dalton, page 56

At Olompali all our gear is set up on a flat stage on the grass in front of the big house and anybody can play at any time.

Big Brother and the Charlatans and the Grateful Dead and the Quicksilver Messenger Service are all hanging out and playing together.

Totally disorganized because everybody is so high, wandering off and tripping.

Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann are riding horseback up into the hills, Bobby Weir’s hooking up with the peyote ceremony that’s going on in the back of the property (which is huge, it backs onto state land).

People get lost for days.

Whoever is around plays.

David Freiberg gets up and plays with Garcia, Janis Joplin sashays up and sings with Pigpen.

 

LIVING WITH THE DEAD

Twenty Years on the Bus 

With Garcia and the Grateful Dead

Rock Scully and David Dalton

Page 56

 

LA ROSA – CCC TRANSCULTURAL PACIFICAN HISTORY 1966 – 2009