15. The Wheel -} Wharf Rat - Grateful Dead - 5/7/77 Boston Garden, Boston, MA - U31DoD 2012 Edition 

The piano and singing in Warf Rat is a gospel experience.

My old best pal stoner banjo fiddle playin ‘72 VW bus drivin chess master fellow funikin nite chef now professor of sciences married to a lovely Vietnamese professor father of the brightest boy with the best odds laid out ahead of him mr Doctor Ian Hosch for these cassette tapes I do thank thee my dear friend. Fare thee well always and in All Ways.

People of the 70s .. is this what life sounded like? It’s absolutely beautiful. Sweet. Pure. I feel like I am touching a warm window......

harmony is a precious fleeting gift. Liquid moments in time. share them

First got into the Grateful Dead in 1970. I had heard bits & pieces of them before, but I never really got INTO them until I got my hands on American Beauty during the summer after HS. The weather was perfect, so I did some (very CLEAN) Acid and went to a post-graduation party at the Park, and had the time of my life. True Sunshine Daydreams. One of the most beautiful days of my young life. Most of the people at the Party were similarly enchanted, and we had our own little Woodstock that day.

I had an enormous psychedelic experience with this video, a pair of headphones, and a cup of coffee. BEautiful light show NuttyRiv3r!

Growing up in the 1980s this concert was THE bootleg to have. We used to go on country cruises on razor straight roads through the cornfields of Indiana with all the windows rolled down and passing around some smoke listening to this bootleg (among others but this one was universally liked by everyone so it got played more). This wharf rat brought a tear to my eye the first time I ever heard it. I was beyond high at the time but still 😂 I think the bootleg sound was maybe even better than this bc Jerry’s voice & guitar were elevated in the mix so Phil’s bass Keith’s piano and Donna’s backing vocals all sounded PERFECT. July 18, 2022 is the first time I’ve heard this in at least 20yrs and brings back incredible memories to back when life was great and Indiana summers were 78 degrees and perfect & not the 90+ and 80% humidity we regularly have these days. Most of the time listening to the Dead is too painful bc I’m the only one still alive out of our group (drugs) but every once in awhile it is GRAND 🕺🎶 Ps. Thank you for keeping this stuff alive!!!

This is the best live version I've ever seen or heard of Wharf Rat. There are great versions.... this is excellent.

Beautiful beginning of WHEEL, Phil's bass is GREAT! Who can give this a thumbs down? Those three (3) have been sequestered from society, locked and chained in a steamer trunk , somewhere and NEVER heard music. I doubt they went that far NOT to hear Donna, the drowned cat. Awesome bass, one of "those"" nights, when people walk out and you can hear a pin drop. This is one of those nights, one of those shows-- when you 'know' a higher presence is there, isolating this moments from every other part of the world. I met a nice guy, he followed the band, that was his life. He told me he was an accountant and went to a Grateful Dead show, and NEVER looked back, never went back. The kind of thing where you meet a soul like yours, and you always meet each other, at every show, you're friends. I went up to him and asked if he wanted to barter - a joint for a hit. He was all for it - and he always had the best acid, and we would always meet and out came the hits and shows like this were happening, Then a cool summer night, would come up. Man, I miss the aura of the Grateful Dead shows, before it started to get funky.......then you just stayed with your people and didn't get involved .......Colorado nights that lasted forever. @Todd Custer - you're so right, "share those liquid moments in time.". Share them THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!

Epic! Nothing better for the head....than the Grateful Dead..

‘77 happens to be a golden year for the dead. Everything they did in ‘77 is splendid.

Great show! I was with my friends. Members of our band called " ONE" . We where playing a lot of shows all over Boston. Lot of memories!

I remember this show very well. The sound was great. Plus I was playing in a band around Boston at the time. We had great light shows etc. Brings back many memories!

This might be my favorite Grateful Dead thing ever.

Wharf Rat - I remember the first time I heard this at Winterland. By the time he sings I'll get up and fly away - it was like my head came out of that slow jam and just flew away those words. Great graphics with this - well done. So glad a friend shared this with me.

Bob's ethereal guitar work on Wharf is astonishing. Jerry -- didn't have a Tony Bennett voice, but have you ever heard anyone else deliver like Jerry did, as on this example? Jerry was honestly a great singer. Keith was so good here. Man, everyone playing their little hearts out, individually and together. No wonder these dates in May '77 are considered their high-water mark.

tripping to this is mind blowing.

I Was there!!

For me, the Grateful Dead was Jehovah's Favorite Choir. The shows were church, where I came to talk to God. So many overpoweringly beautiful moments.. I came away from many a show staggering from a combination of dance and rebirth, revelling in a renewal of psychic cleansing and recharging. Many was the time I'd check the front of my pants because I was sure there had to be a wet place from my whole-body orgasms in processing the energy of the crescendos there. These concerts, these people who made them happen, (from the musicians to the technicians to those in the audience putting every bit of their own energy into manifesting the moment into a magical alchemy of physicality) were the best moments of my life.. and I felt highly rewarded for a year of grueling labor by being able to see thirty or so shows, where miracles abounded. I thank God for the band, the people, the music and the memories.. I learned more from the shows than I did in over six years of "higher education".and beheld that Aural Alchemy is the reason one of our words for creation is 'Universe', for we all combine in the music that is Creation, and God put us here to sing together so as to make the music manifest. My brethren, God is Love, who put us here in Paradise, little tiny pieces of himself- here to experience what he has made. Therefore we too are Love.. and....are so all are one. There is one more thing to extract from the previous statement.. and it is NOT a blasphemy to think or say. Can you dig it? Then stop being a competitor, and be what you really are. A Creator! Love your brethren as you love yourself, because as your brother is so are you. Blessings.

This that stuff that changes lives

The intro to 'The Wheel' is always a treat. Really nice on the album version also.

Fabulous trip, my friend. I am lounged back, while the wife still sleeps, before daylight in the desert, craving inspiration, looking for it in the GD, stopped by your post, and just got back, from your superb interpretation. Thumbs Up👍

Instantly makes everything better!!

Utterly mindblowing and the graphics are amazing. Thank you and goodnight.

Dude, your digital liquid light shows (for lack of a better term) are frickin' awesome. Nice work!

77 sure was a special year

The Peggy-O is 1 of my favs from this night.

story of my life. awesome

Masterfully produced visuals on top of even more masterfully produced music. What's not to like?

I'm only 48, but i saw mary's light shows at the Maritime. These are world class.

Outstanding!

It's wonderful .thanks for the weed chico california.im in Florida now .

Timeless🎉

Bass great, Lesh filling

I love the visuals!

Absolute perfection

Donna-Jo's good on this one...

The studio version I think is possibly my favourite ever slide guitar solo done by anyone, Great sound 👍✌️

I love Wharf Rat

As always, Garcia offering a free guided tour thru the mesosphere.

Damn this is good y'all 👍

I feel sorry for the 3 people that didn't like this.

I never understood the dead until I listened to them on acid with a lot of nitrous around now they are one of my favorite bands. They found me at the right time in my life.

Amazing 😍👌🙌

Thy more one expands thy mind, thy more quicker that consciousness will enter.

The visuals are sic for wharf rat🔥

Holy wow this was friggin cool

I'll never get enuff dope .not till I'm gratefully dead.

Yup, I was there ….the Gahden…rats and everything…

Nice!

I think I just came a little, paused to change my shorts GDF NFA ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

something hapoened to the video, it looks like the band exploded then melted numerous times, i'll have to have it in the the shop

righteous stuff

Bound to cover just a little more ground! ✨

very good.........................................................

Incredible versions. What did you use to create these visuals? They're absolutely insane.

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Crackling crisp

Just subscribed.

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The Band was about joy

Is there always time involved during events of traveling so much, maybe? right now this is comment 25 here.

This is what the kids don't understand is that the dead was a different machine with Jerry. Trey and John Mayer is totally different than Jerry

Totally subime

Drums before

3:26

If you want to send anyone 25 minutes of the dead. Please do this.

I’m on acid and I really appreciate the visuals

Groovy dooby dooby. Doo

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😁

Who are the Grateful Dead and why are they following me?

shit hot

won't you try just a LITTLE bit harder?

" IF THE DRUMMERS DON'T GET YOU, THAN THE FAT MAN WILL. " 😜

This is literally nothing but windows media player animations, wtf is it doing in a playlist called "(LSD) Trippy video playlist" ????

37 minute commercial... I skipped it

Great show Great music iz just the screen. . . . . .Why, Donna? sounds like a drowned cat.

NONE like this

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Ditch AI the original artwork was and is far better

What did the deadhead say when he ran outta acid This music sucks 😄