The balloons of course were a huge liability, they’d get in front of the speakers, they’d pile up against everything. You couldn’t hear anything, you couldn’t make sense of anything, and you couldn’t move. There were so many balloons it was unthinkable. Bill over did the balloon thing, how unlike him.
The thing about this place is it really is a kind of a hazard. One time we were playing a sound check getting everything tweaked up and we hit a big thunderous chord and a great big section of plaster fell out of the ceiling and landed on the floor. David Crosby was sitting out there listening and it landed, oh, maybe about six feet behind him. It was about 6×6, big enough to really ice somebody.
~ Bob Weir