Memory:Pat Sellars
My future ex-husband introduced me to GG and said he'd seen them play in '72 or '73 at the basketball gymnasium at the University of So. Florida. A radio station had given the tickets away, had actually begged folks to take them because no one had ever heard of GG.
GG was a tad late and about half of the 200 or so folks gave up and left. He said when they did arrive, the few fans and the horrible acoustics didn't dampen their spirits at all. He said they actually seemed to enjoy the smaller crowd, talking and bantering with them, answering questions, explaining stuff and showing them how they did this and that, showing them what the instruments they used were and the different sounds they could make.
He remembers being awe-struck by their music, which he'd not heard before. Everyone was sitting on the hard, wood floor getting their heads ripped off at what he said was one of the longest concerts he's ever seen. GG jammed from one tune to another and instead of breaking, one or two would jam on their own while the others rested a bit.
His total recall in a sentence was, "They sounded like classically trained musicians who sometimes sounded like animals locked in a garage, but the whole sounding like music for the untamed soul."
We are divorced for a long time now and he got custody of the GG vinyls. I waited for years for GG to come back to Florida but never saw it happen. A shame, that. Praise Goddess for CD's and your website!