16. So Many Drugs
In retrospect, the chaos of the event made for some interesting music. The drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, Butch Trucks, was less than impressed with how messed up the bands were by the end. “… After we finished playing,” said Trucks in a Forbes interview. “We all came out for the jam and all I can say—I’ve heard the tapes—is it was an absolute disaster. I kept listening and listening, then thought about that night. It was a jam that couldn’t possibly have worked because of the mixture of drugs. The Band was all drunk as skunks, The Dead was all tripping and we were full of coke.”