Readers share memories from 1968 Sky River Festival in Sultan
We asked readers to share their memories of the 1968 Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair. Here are some of the more colorful recollections:
The times they were a-changin'
OF ALL THE LOCAL '60S EVENTS I attended (Volunteer Park Be-in, Sky River, Satsop, Joplin at Sick's Stadium, concerts at Eagles, etc.), the first Sky River was the best in terms of being new, exciting and filled with the pure '60s spirit. It was Woodstock before Woodstock — the long drive into the country, parking and finding your way with a crowd to some mysterious cow pasture God knows where to commune with your fellow freaks. It was wet, sometimes chaotic, tribal, exhilarating. I especially loved all the strange, stoned-sounding band names: Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Frumious Bandersnatch, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Country Joe and the Fish. It was a one-of-a-kind '60s moment for me. — Knute Berger
OH YEAH! I WAS AT THE FIRST TWO — Sky River One as a spectator, and number two, Tenino, up on the bandstand. At Sultan, me and my beautiful girlfriend at the time, Colleen P. (hey, are you out there somewhere?) hid out from the rain in a small hay shack. We couldn't see much, but we could hear, and we stayed out of the mud and rain. We must not have been "real hippies"; we valued our comforts. It's almost impossible now to convey the sense of magic during the buildup to that event, spurred on by strange goings-on promoted by The Helix (Seattle hippie newspaper), including the legendary Piano Drop, spurred on by hipsters such as Paul Dorpat and even my dad, Lowell Richards. There was such a strong sense that everything was changing for the better. — Farley Funke
SUMMER OF 1968 FOUND ME on a trip around the USA with a school chum ... . The trip included the Democratic convention and police riot in Chicago followed closely by our return home, and the Sky River Rock Festival. The contrast was profound. From clubbing in the street to three days of unfettered rock and roll at Sky River — wow! High points were the camaraderie, the sharing and not having to go home. Most memorable performances included the Congress of Wonders and the unannounced performance by the Grateful Dead, a favorite band from that day on (most of the books about the Dead omit that lovely performance). Sky River set the stage for more festivals in coming years.
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The poster advertises the momentous three-day appearance of the Grateful Dead at the West High School auditorium in 1980. In a career that lasted more than 30 years and included 2300 shows, the Dead played only once in Alaska. Grateful Dead tribute
Yours in the '60s. — Kent Hoover The Grateful Dead plays the Sky River Festival, even though they were not on the original schedule. The posters, with only a few exceptions, are very accurate. The last made poster is the most accurate.
Nobody seems to agree on who actually played — though the Grateful Dead, Santana, Big Mama Thornton and comedian Richard Pryor were definitely there, and so was the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Nor does anyone seem to know how many people came,
Who would grace Dufresne's next few posters after Raquel Welch? SG: Let's go backwards — the three posters in the movie featured Rita Hayworth (circa 1949), Marilyn Monroe (circa 1958) and Raquel Welch (1966, the year he escaped).
Barr and wife Mary did produce two subsequent Mountain Aires for BGP - in 1988 (the Grateful Dead) and 1989 (Huey Lewis & the News). "My goal is to re-create that type of atmosphere," said Meyer, who attended some of the original Mountain Aire shows.
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I know we all can’t stand it when the lazy journalist writes about how the Phish is the modern day Grateful Dead and how Trey is Jerry and blah blah blah. Well, dear readers, I am about to go there too…but it’s not what you think. Instead of being lazy about it, I am actually going to offer evidence and well thought-out arguments why this era of Phish closely resembles that of the Dead from ’87-’89.
I, like lots of other Deadheads, mainly prefer the pre-’74 era plus ’77 and a few other random years. Please don’t bother me with mid-’80s Dead. Same goes for the last 4 years of the band’s career. If you thought Phish sucked at Coventry, listen to the last Grateful Dead show ever at Soldier Field. A 7 song first set which I don’t even think reaches 60 minutes and a second set where Jerry mumbles and fumbles his way though the last set the band would ever play. And Phil’s vocals on the Box of Rain encore are all too reminiscent of Trey’s butchered guitar work on Curtain With (although it should be noted that Phil just plain can’t sing whereas Trey was all f’ed up on god knows what at Coventry).
The other years that I occasionally get in the mood for are the early and late Brent years. Brent joined the band in 1979 and played with them until his untimely death in 1990. Even though he was the longest tenured keyboardist with the band (the only other rock and roll job with a higher mortality rate than keyboardist for the Grateful Dead is drummer for Spinal Tap), at the time of his passing he was still considered “the new guy”. I really dig what Brent brought to the band: his voice had the soul of Pigpen, his keys had more range than Kieth’s did and he and Jerry had great chemistry together. It’s too bad that such a large chunk of Brent’s work with the band is buried in the mid-’80s, an era that I do not believe represents the best of the band, which eventually culminated in Jerry falling into a diabetic coma in 1986.
With Jerry back in good health, the band hit the road again in 1987. Backed by the release of their hit single (!) “Touch of Grey”, the band came back with a vengeance. The ranks of the Deadheads swelled. The band was on MTV (necessary snarky comment: remember when MTV played music videos? Also, happy 30th birthday MTV). The band was clean (mostly, I assume). And the music came back.
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