Notes and Dope

So I haven't had much time to jump in with stories about the "Glory Days" but many of the mentioned (and unmentioned) gigs and tales come rushing back like the warm rush of some good NY dope.

I do remember the sullen look on the late Grateful Dead musician Ron "Pigpen" Mckernan's  face as he silently sat in the grim back room of the Cafe Au Go Go.

I also remember former Storrs band fan Peter Tork (Thorkelson) of the Monkeys coming out of a limo on St. Mark's Place giving a nod to his old hero group NGC sitting on the stoop.

Others:
The uptown eastside club run by some connected mob guy who made the band tuck in their shirts before getting on stage.
Taking acid at Minty's - putting on his father's prized Princeton Tiger mascot outfit  and having the father come home and go nuts.
David and Danny buying their first sets of beads in a Hartford department store ... blowing minds as they went.
David finding a copy of a strange band from California, The Mothers of Invention's first album in the Jazz section of the record store. 

More later,

Cove