![]() ![]() The whole tour … he had a moving van to get out of that place he had so much stuff smuggled into that “low security prison” …ĭonna: I didn’t realize that the new batch that we had gotten in Paris was like a new batch … and I didn’t know that, nobody told me. He must have sent an emissary, because he was in Lompoc …ĭonna: He did show up at some point, or sent some.īetty: He sent some, because I had to smuggle him tapes, my tapes into Lompoc, so he could hear Europe 72. And then Owsley showed up.īetty: No, he didn’t show up, he was in jail. So I was like taking 15 hits every night, before every gig. Donna spoke about her experience in Paris during a session with Betty Cantor-Jackson – who was part of the Europe ‘72 sound engineering team – at Grateful Dead tribute act Dark Star Orchestra’s 2013 DSO High School retreat in Upstate New York ( watch here).ĭonna: Of course we had the good acid … And so we were there for two months, weren’t we Betty, something like that?īetty: Yep, two buses: the Bolos and the Bozos …ĭonna: So eventually, the acid that we had taken from the U.S. Her husband, keyboardist Keith Godchaux had started playing in the band in October 1971. Vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux’s first tour with the Grateful Dead was the Europe 1972 run. After the Dead’s two-night stand, Black Sabbath performed at The Olympia on May 7 and Jerry Lee Lewis kicked off his own two-nighter on May 8. On May 1, 1972, a post-Jim Morrison lineup of The Doors performed at The Olympia, while Soft Machine held a concert at the music hall on May 2. Additionally, The Beatles performed 18 concerts at the music hall in 1964. Prior to the Dead’s arrival in 1972, The Olympia had hosted concerts by the likes of Charles Aznavour, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Édith Piaf, Gilbert Bécaud, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, Lionel Hampton, Otis Redding, The Who, The Rolling Stones and scores of others. The Olympia, which has undergone several extensive renovations over the years, continues to host concerts. On his grave is inscribed: “Son intelligence égalait son coeur.” He died 19 April 1922 and was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery. He retired to an apartment in Paris, spending winters on the Cote d’Azure. His success was interrupted by WW1 during which he gave his printery to the state. Oller lived in a house next to his Jardin de Paris. ![]() In 1892 he started his own amusement park “Le Jardin de Paris,” and in 1893, The Olympia music hall with a waxworks in the basement. Then there was the big one, the Moulin Rouge. The Montagnes Russes was an amusement park that he moved from London. On the entertainment side, Oller opened further amusements. In the Belle Epoque the entertainment industry moved around Oller – he was known by everybody, and was acquainted with everybody important in society … He was also involved with horse racing and betting on horse races, including the invention and early operation of the “pari mutual” system. He was the founder of many music halls, dance theatres, and other distractions, including the famous Folies Bergere. Joseph Oller was a leading entertainment impresario and entrepreneur in Paris during the last decades of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century – the “Belle Époque.” For all of his life was he exceptionally active and creative in conceiving of new business ventures. The owner was Joseph Oller, who also co-founded the famous cabaret theater Moulin Rouge.Īn Oller biography written in 1946 by Ferran Canymeres for Les Editions Universelles described the Spanish-born Oller’s background, stating: When it opened in 1883, The Olympia, or “L’Olympia” as it’s known to locals, was the first music hall built in Paris. The Olympia was a short walk from where the band and their cohorts were staying at the nearby Grand Hotel. It’s like we’re not fucking off enough to enjoy that or we’re not playing enough to enjoy that.” I’m a music junkie and I have to play every day. We’ve had the English freakout, the Danish freakout. We’ve had the German equivalent of the guy who gets up on the stage and takes his clothes off. “Everywhere we’ve been, the audiences have been Grateful Dead audiences. It was sacked by the Barbarians in the year 300, and before that, it was a Roman bath. We went to the Notre Dame and we saw that - really boss, but we couldn’t climb the tower. “Almost every place we went today was closed,” Garcia lamented. As guitarist Jerry Garcia would tell Rolling Stone reporter Jerry Hopkins, their plans for sightseeing around Paris were slightly derailed: ![]()
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