Watkins Glen: From Summer Jam ’73 to Super Ball IX

In this week's episode of The Sauce, we talked a bit about the fact that Phish was coming to Watkins Glen for a three-day music festival (Super Ball IX) over July 4th weekend this summer. In case you haven't heard, here's a trailer to fill you in on the details and history behind the event...

This will be a pretty big festival. Probably the likes of which that has not been seen here in the Finger Lakes since 1973. That event, Watkins Glen Summer Jam featured the Grateful Dead and attracted an estimated 600,000 people to Schuyler County village on the southern-most tip of Seneca Lake. While there is no known footage of the 1973 music fest, there is this audio recording of the Dead's performance of 'Here Comes Sunshine' with some imagery:

...and this one of their performance of 'Bertha' at the Glen in July of 1973: