Flagging Down the Double E's

Flagging Down the Double E's

Janis Joplin Gets Arrested, Patti Smith Breaks Her Neck, and Bob Dylan Prepares for Prime Time

1976-04-21, Curtis Hixon Convention Center, Tampa, FL

Ray Padgett
Apr 21, 2026
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Photo by Gerald Bettman, via Reddit

What I didn’t realize until doing this series is that the first three shows of Rolling Thunder 1976 were all in essentially the same place. For those who don’t know their Florida geography (guilty), Lakeland, St. Petersburg, and Tampa are all basically in the same metro area. They’re about 45 minutes apart. It’d be lik…

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