warrin with an i

No Tickets, No Problem - The Grateful Dead at Winterland The embroidered linen shirt made by Cyndi I n the fall of 1974 the Grateful Dead were going to be doing 5 shows at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco. Cyndi really wanted to go or maybe it was more like Cyndi was going to go even though she had no tickets and, since I had recently become her boyfriend, I was going too. The show was sold out but Cyndi insisted we drive down and get on-line the morning of one of the shows in hopes that additional tickets would be sold for that day's show. After all, Bill Graham was the promoter and had a rep for over packing his shows by admitting additional people into them the day of a concert. The Grateful Dead were planning to take an extended break from touring so this was going to be their last concert for awhile. They did end up playing a couple of shows in '75 but they would not return to touring until the summer of '76. I wasn't too sure about going ...

Cyndi Loses Her Shirt and I Go Over a Waterfall Cyndi at the piano in the Villard house I was the summer of 1975. Saigon had fallen that April and the movie “Jaws” had hit the movie theaters that June. Cyndi and I had returned from our cross country adventure. We all, the Barrington Gang and me moved out of the Fairmount house. One of us, it wasn't me, found a more normal sized 4 bedroom house close to campus.  It was a nice old house situated on the North-East corner of Villard and 19 th Street. The house had a fenced (white picket) yard, a full basement, and a ghost room. The ghost room had a window that looked to the front but there was no entry into the room. The wall above the stairway looked like it might have once had an opening in it and we were pretty sure there was a story involving a murder that goes with it but nobody seemed willing to say anything about it. We were never able to find out the details about that room. It's evidently a very wel...