Notes

Bob Weir (Robert Hall Weir) - guitar, vox
Robbie "Fireball" Hoddinott (aka "Robby Hoddinott") - lead guitar, vox
Matt Kelly (Matthew Kelly) - harmonica, rhythm guitar, vox
Dave Torbert (David Edwin Torbert) - bass, vox
Chris Herold - drums, percussion

source: aud 1st gen reel (master cassette no longer exists)
taped by Jimmy Warburton

lineage: aud > sony ecm-99 > sony tc-152 cassette master > 7" reel @ 7.5 ips, dolby b, 1st gen
transfer: teac a-2300sd dolby b > hd-p2 24/96 > hd > adobe audition 2.0 (levels, dither, edits) > cd wave > tlh > flac
transferred & seeded by Rob Berger 9/30/2010

Rob Berger NOTES:
--first east coast appearance
--on bill with Aerosmith, Poco, Slade, Nils Lofgren, Mahogany Rush, Hoochie Cooch
--Thanks for sharing this Jimmy. Smokin'!
--Sounds like a good time was had by all.
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Some Selected, Cool Recollections By Attendees Of This Concert:

davmar77 comments (10/01/2010):
--this was the east coast debut of kingfish.
--i actually first heard about it while at the dead's great american music hall show a couple weeks before.
--i overheard some of the dead's management folks discussing it.
--quite an interesting lineup.
--we left right before aerosmith came on as they closed the show.

Jerusalem3 comments (10/09/2010):
--WE left too...the Rain came down Hard about 25 mins after we got out...some real crazy chick picked up....FBC and I....and took us to a motel where we first screened this tape....cool times.
--and the aerosmith fans got WET.

Cooch comments (6/27/2013):
--I was there as a young 14 year old teenager and ended up getting free admission with the gate crashers.
--I remember the bottle throwing and the attempts by the Hollow Moon security to keep the crashers out with bats.
--One scene I remember clearly is looking through one of the rear doors of the south grandstand building. I saw two Hamilton township policemen beating on some long haired dude with their nightsticks. They were merciless!! He looked only about 18 or 19 years old, he didn't seem to be fighting back.
--The lakes in the middle of the race track were full of people swimming and topless girls...too much for a kid to be experiencing...what a time!!

Unknown comments (2/8/2020):
--We slept in the parking lot with a 1/4 keg that we forced the gate to allow in well before the gates came down.
--The earliest attempting crashers were yelling "let it in" about our keg. So many pressed up behind us as we (about 8 of us) argued with a big bald Statie that he eventually capitulated after insisting that we promise not to throw our keg at people. $7 Refund back then.
--We stayed to the end. Every beer for miles got drank. There were lines of people going to and from all the bars in that area. We even ran out and had to go buy a couple cases!
--Aerosmith was amazing!!! I was front and center for them. It seemed like everybody burned out and started leaving early so I walked up until I was like 10-20 feet from the stage.
--After the show ended I saw a biker threatening to start beating people who didn't leave so I went to the car. It was easy to find, most everybody else had left by then.
--My crew use to kill a keg or 2 every weekend, plus "what else you got" was like a motto for us. We had barrels of practice but that festival was the biggest beer bash I ever saw. And the bands were all great. I even had a 60x spotting scope to zoom in on guitars and drums with. Mahogany Rush and Aerosmith were my 2 fav bands right about that time so...No shit I was living!!!
--If you read this and walked past the grand stands and saw the 4-5 foot high pyramid of beer cans that stood for hours just across the walkway from the main entrance...What's up!!!
--We watched that pyramid be built and defended for hours!

William comments (6/10/2020):
--A good friend of mine was at this gig and told me that Slade were pelted mercilessly with bottles and cans.

Philajoe comments (7/27/2020):
--Was there to see Kingfish, remember Ambrosia playing a decent set

Unknown comments (1/8/2022):
--the show had over 75000 people there the concert was made free so that no one would get hurt...the promoters already made a profit from pre sales and everyone could be paid....this was our first outdoor concert after over sixty shows in the trenton war memorial and the trenton civic center...rich fuller president hollow moon concerts
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vg NOTES (4/6/2023):
--Thanks so much to Jimmy Warburton whomever originally recorded & shared out this Kingfish 1975 show & to deadbman for the transfer & share of his copy far & wide to us all. Absolutely Appreciated!!
--lineup at this event (from start to finish was): Hoochie Cooch; Mahogany Rush; Nils Lofgren; Slade; Poco, Kingfish; Aerosmith
--some sources with state that Ambrosia played this event instead of Hoochie Cooch...I believe maybe that was the original intent, but for some reason as the concert got close to the day, Ambrosia couldn't make it & local blues band Hoochie Cooch was thrown into their slot...then again, this contradicts the comments of Philajoe above, though no one knows how good this chap's memory is of this day or not--hahaha!! Maybe they did play after all or maybe they did not
--tickets for this puppy were $6 advance, $6 at the gate. Tasty!!
--Concert kicked off at 1pm
--There were gate crashers at this event that busted down the fence during Nils Lofgren's set & the 8000 attendee cap was estimated to have swelled to more than 14000 & the concert became a free one as the promoters simply gave up & let everyone in.
--Hollow Moon Concerts (promoters of the concert) stated that they broke even on the event
--http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2009/10/august-24-1975-trenton-speedway-new.html
--I added the band members info
--corrected some song titles toward how they appear on the original albums
--added more detail to the setlist info
--added more detail to the venue info
--this venue no longer exists...it opened & held its first race on September 24, 1900 & closed on June 29, 1980...the site is now a huge outdoor museum called Grounds For Sculpture.
--The Allman Brothers Band headlined a huge show there on October 7, 1973 & apparently over 60,000 attended and the concert security was completely overwhelmed then as well, ending outdoor concerts there until the Aerosmith event.
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_Speedway
--added pics of the venue & newspaper ads & reviews (caveat: note that the first image of the speedway I included is from the 1973 Allman Brothers Band concert there, but I still felt it had the best vibe to represent this event as the fashions & peeps attending would still be very similar)