In a 1994 interview Jerry Garcia recalls meeting The Who at Monterey...

We were scheduled to go on after The Who. They had been out at our motel all the previous night trying to get Pigpen (original Dead member) to come out. 'Cause they?d heard about Pigpen and they wanted to party with the Pig. He wasn?t having any, he wasn?t opening the door for no English guys. Anyway, we?d heard a little about The Who by reputation but we had no idea what their act was like. So we?re standing there watchin? and their music is good, they?re playing solid and Daltrey?s singing good. Then they do ?My Generation? and do their destructo routine. We didn?t realize they?d made an art of blowing s**t up. It wasn?t just something they did, they were good at it. So we?re standing there amidst the debris and smoke and it?s time for us to go on. I don?t think anybody even saw us, they were still recovering from The Who. So we went on and played our set and then Jimi came on and just annihilated the place and then he destroyed all his s**t, too. We might as well not have been there.

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