On this day in 1970 the Grateful Dead were set up like a bowling pin.
On February 1, 1970, news of the Grateful Dead's arrest ran on page one of The Times-Picayune's morning edition.
Busted, down on Bourbon Street. Set up, like a bowling pin.
Those lyrics to the Grateful Dead tune "Truckin'," which appears on the late-1970 album "American Beauty," make reference to an infamous moment in the band's history. During Carnival season 1970, members of the group, its crew and several friends were arrested in a drug raid at a French Quarter hotel, in the wee hours of a Saturday morning.
The Dead had been in south Louisiana the previous year, to play the International Pop Festival held at the Baton Rouge Speedway in early September 1969. They were in town for a two-night stand to open the now-legendary rock club the Warehouse. (Even with the bust, the band, indeed, did play both nights.)
At least they got a good song out of it.
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