In an interview with David Crosby in the Santa Barbara Magazine David ends the interview with a wonderful compliment about the Kingston Trio. At the time of the interview, David and CS&N were playing at the Santa Barbara Bowl. David was asked, “You’re playing the Santa Barbara Bowl – which I’m sure you love and have played many times before. Do you remember the first concert you went there?” And David replied, “The first show I saw there was the Kingston Trio and I was absolutely thrilled. I was folksy, I loved it! They were very good! I think that’s how far back it goes – my relationship with the Bowl. I consider Santa Barbara my home. I love it very much, and hope to live out my life here.”
(Image from Santa Barbara Magazine) Excerpt lifted from David Crosby’s: How I Survived Everything And Lived To Tell About It:
“After a series of adventures, the Mayan and its crew sailed into San Francisco Bay and found moorings in Sausalito. David lived upon the boat and recorded his solo album “If I Could Only Remember My Name” at Wally Heider’s studio in San Francisco. He made the Trident (a local restaurant and bar) his personal watering hole.
Built on pilings over the water on Sausalito’s main street (Bridgeway), it had a deck with an expansive view of all of San Francisco Bay and the most gorgeous waitresses north of the Playboy Mansion. No airbrushing and no implants. Trident women had rings on/in their noses and tattoos of flowers and butterflies where you could see them, and sometimes where you couldn’t. There was no house uniform so waitresses could wear anything from Victorian Velvet to see-through Indian gauze. Some shaved, some didn’t.
The line between staff and clientele often blurred: beautiful women would hang out waiting for an interview or a job opening, and female staff would stick around after work, fraternizing with guys who could afford the tab (it was not a cheap place to eat).
“If sex, drugs, and rock and roll had caused a revolution, the Trident was its Reign of Terror!”
I was one of the fortunate handful of carpenters back in ’69 who transformed the Trident from it’s ’50’s dinner club style to Frank Werber’s vision of that period. And it’s been beautifully restored. I will forever remember that great time. The people, the talent, the energy. Simply awesome.
Ben Sochacki
Hi Ben, Thanks for your comment…somehow it got lost and I apologize for responding so late. I’m curious if you have any images/photos of that time that you could share? Also, with your permission to post them on this website? If that’s a possibility could you email that to me at MDLomas@gmail.com Thank you, Mark
Having been on the original 1969 construction crew of what the “new” Trident came to be I only wish that I had taken time to take photos, or at least bothered to ask folks who did for copies. But alas I did not. Too busy or pleasantly stoned to take time. But the memories are some of my best at 70 yrs old.
Ben Sochacki
David was always very sweet and friendly. Dated one of the hostesses, Gretchen, and later helped finance Pine Street Bakery. I was the first employee and Gretchen and Nancy were great to work for.
I new nick Reynolds in Oregon late 70s early 80s and his great friend Bill who worked on the trident redo. Love to have his name mentioned as a artist contributor on such an iconic place. He mentioned Janice wanted to have the same thing done to her house but Bill said this is a work of art and can’t be redone. RIP. Bill and Nick.