Fact #33648
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The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac and The Flock play on the opening night of The Warehouse, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. After the show, The Grateful Dead are busted for drugs. Keyboard player Tom Constanten quits the group.Full article:
Mick Fleetwood (drummer, Fleetwood Mac) : The police were out to bust (LSD manufacturer) Owsley’s ass, and they busted The Grateful Dead too. He lost all his money keeping out of jail for years, but eventually they got him. That Dead song with the line 'busted down on Bourbon Street' (Truckin', from the LP Beauty), that was the night that Fleetwood Mac played with them at The Warehouse in New Orleans. Owsley had spiked the water fountains and after our set, John McVie was out of it, and couldn't handle the fact that The Dead were going to get up and play! So he stood in the audience while the rest of us jammed with The Dead. The audience loved it - a massive freak-out.
That was what caused Owsley eventually to go to jail. We were nearly there. We were following their car back to the hotel, absolutely out of it on acid. I drove the car from the back seat with my feet while somebody else worked the pedals from the side - nobody was in the driver's seat. Oh God! We got lost, and by the time we arrived, they'd been busted.
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That was what caused Owsley eventually to go to jail. We were nearly there. We were following their car back to the hotel, absolutely out of it on acid. I drove the car from the back seat with my feet while somebody else worked the pedals from the side - nobody was in the driver's seat. Oh God! We got lost, and by the time we arrived, they'd been busted.
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