The Grateful Dead at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, on May 9, 1977 ☮ "If you get confused listen to the music play..." A soundboard recording of the entire show can be listened to here: archive.org/details/gd77-05-0...
And no political views!!! Wish the world could be a Dead parking lot. For those too young to never been, almost Utopia, if it weren't for cops.... But even, most cops looked the other way.
@@vancefyock8962 The only time the cops ever interacted with me at a dead concert was in the early 90's around upper New York after a crazy blizzard the night before (didn't have tickets). I was walking back to my friends with a huge nitrous balloon and 2 cops approached me and asked me what was in the balloon... I said, Air. They asked me for it and as I was about to hand it to them it slipped out of my hand never to be enjoyed by anyone.
You are not alone sister , I also lost my mom last month , she was 99 . Been listening to GD to keep my balance , music can do that ya know. Celebrate and always remember the good times 🎶
33 and just diagnosed with cancer.. But its okay cuz i listen to the music play! Everything is okay. So thankful for these boys.. They pulled me out of the darkness when i was diagnosed with ms at 21. I didnt even go to the darkness this time because i know how to roll away the dew. Forever Grateful. Forever Dead. Not Fade Away! ✨💜✨
@@moonbeamwonders5830 Sending you Light & Love on your journey. Strength and smiles sent from the ether to you. May the four winds roll you safely home...🙏🌊🌌
@@MarkMasters... your post just brought marvelous chills upon my body.. Spirit bumps! I appreciate your kind words so very much! Im still walkin, so im sure that i can dance! Betcha ill run into you at a show in the future.. When this happens - we'll shake our bones together! ✌💜☺
This is one of those songs that I still remember hearing for the very first time. Standing outside in a snow storm smoking a cig just marveling at how beautiful everything in that exact moment was. I’m in my early 20’s now but this music has transcended the generational barrier of time and touched my soul. At the same time, it makes me sad that I’ll never get to see Jerry play live. Thank you to the previous generation for so diligently capturing these performances!!!!
……. in those wonderful days, experiencing the Dead live is best described as an unpredictable journey, turning the unknown into the familiar , as if remembering one's own birth, guided by a lightning rod known to most as Jerry Garcia, juggling crystalline notes over a warm bed of sound joyfully laid out by his creative musical magicians...……….
I think you can actually see Jerry play live so to speak and get the same experience. I believe he anticipated the longevity of the band. He wanted us to watch the films created at EVERY SHOW. In my opinion that's as real as seeing him front and center. You can actually feel him sitting in on the Dead and Co. shows. John Mayer is the one to succeed him. Not everyone likes the newer twist bit ig but, John has grown better each time I've seen him. Jerry's there in the energy. John is translating it.
If its wasn't for jerry allowing people to record the shows itwould not be the same for you and your peers today. He knew that by doing so his music could live forever. What a generous and humble thing to do
Certain it can't hurt, this song, prayers...in situations like these. Wondering, did she make it? Either way, sure she did in that you're doing everything good she taught you how to do!
I felt that most intensely at the Stone in SF (10/4/86), Garcia's first appearance after his coma. Being in that tiny club and JGB opening with "How Sweet it is To Be Loved by You". Not a dry eye in the house. I felt so privileged to be there that night.
I had finals the next day but it was worth it took my organic chemistry final still tripping and passed today I’m a doctor thank you to the greatest band that ever was
You were definitely up late doing your chemistry study Dr. Joel. Congrats to you man, I need a prescription for legal herb, what are your office hours?
Dylan and the dead, 86 rich stadium, was 16,fire on the mountain made my mind melt, then Tom petty, then tom petty, the Heartbreakers and fucking Dylan, epic day
The best GD track IMHO. It’s got everything we love about Dead. Psychedelic, funk beat , melodic guitar solos, great Garcia vocals , propulsive percussion , improvisation without meandering
I was 22 yrs. old when I attended that show in Buffalo. 63 now and took my daughter to see Dead and Company at Darien Lake (near Buffalo) this past year. Feel a tear trickling down my nose!!
I'm 32 years old and over the past few years I've got my 62 year old Dad into The Dead in a big way. Now we never miss Dead & Co, went to see Lesh 2 weeks ago in Bethel. The music is alive and well and most importantly it's being played incredibly AND respectfully!!!
I hear you i started on the road with them in 86 till 95 over 128 shows i miss them and all the deadheads so much can't bring myself to go see the dead and co i want my memories with Jerry and Brent that's it i love Bobby but john Mayer doesn't do it for me
Im 52, still love the dead but I never had kids so Im still on LSD and mushrooms by choice and I never left Shakedown Street..much love and respect to you
I’ve been listening to this version of Franklins Tower (the best version) for about 5 years now and every time it’s played it’s crazy good. Was chillin at a party the other day and played it when everyone was leaving and a few of my homies who had stayed back (who dont listen to anything close to the grateful dead) all started dancing around, great night.
I learned that ENDLESS GOOD COMES IN ENDLESS WAYS .. from being around the band the deadheads in and out of shows and a family full of goodness grateful bob
I’m 19 and turn 20 in 3 months. I started listening to franklins tower a few years ago but really started listening to the dead about 9 months ago. Since then their music has entirely changed the way I personally perform my music. They changed the way I think about music completely and I’m ever so grateful for it
Hi , Lilly , I'm 72 and will turn 73 in 2 months ..and have listened to ( and gone and seen ..) the Grateful Dead since 1966 ! Welcome to the tribe and may the music bring your life love and joy !
I'm almost 51 and just discovered what I've been missing all these years. Of course I listened to a few of their songs but I went down the "rabbit hole" the other day! So glad I did!
Don't feel bad. I did the same as you. Last year I really started getting into thier music. Been buying up CDs as fast as possible. Playing thier music all the time. WAY different and better to that I heard on the radio stations. No other band that I know of, throughout the 60s n 70n even come close; and I grew up in that era and seen almost all the band's. Good for the soul.
Awesome I slowly got my dad into the dead he's still not a head like me but he grew up in that time and I remember when I first asked him what the grateful dead was when I was about 8 or 9, my neighbors older brother was into them, I still remember he looked at me like you better not turn into one of those people. Lol now I'm 40 and finally getting him to come around at 65 so never too late.
The Dead rode a Love wave that covered the decades and flowed between gigs, from the Filmore days when I first saw them as a youngster and through the following decades, once you caught that wave you never wanted to get off, and at the very least you wanted to share it like I do and ride the sweet sound wave until my body is no longer of this earth and my soul is forever Grateful Dead ✌🏼☯️✨
In '87 I took my dad to Portland for tests in preparation for upcoming heart surgery. We had 80 miles to go. We were in my '69 Corvette complete an 8 Track!! They didn't come with one, but mine got one. Going over Coast Range I popped a boot legged Dead cassette in. This Franklin's was the first song. I didn't say who the band was. By the end of Jerry's opening jam, dad is into it. He's tapping the time and hand drumming. The song ended and I popped the cassette. "Those guys are good that guitar player is something. What's the name of the band." "Grateful Dead" I answered. "Odd damn name. But they could call themselves Pissed On Dead and still have a following. They got that style they got and believe me it is all their own. I put the cassette back in and repeated this Franklin's. Dad went though everything I had and told me what he liked and didn't. He pretty was into all of it. I left him at the hospital. My older sister would come get him. I never saw my dad alive again he was 74. I still have the memories of him "getting his head into it" We talked on the phone twice. He had questions about the tape my sister brought along with cassette player.
My first show was in `72 and I have been listening to them almost everyday since, and they still do it for me. I envy you brother, because there is so many magical moments ahead for you.
I am 23 and grateful dead has changed my life. I moved to USA this year and have been kinda depressed. The thing that keeps me going is the fact I will get to attend dead and company's final tour concert next year
The Dead definitely pioneered a sort of psychedelic folk-fusion: Americana music played with rock instrumentation in the style of modal jazz. It doesn't sound quite like rock, but it's not quite jazz, either. A very interesting musical synthesis to think about - and addictive to listen to!
Nooo that folk fusion happened when Irish immigrants came over to the USA not that the dead didn’t influence psychedelic jam bands but not pioneers in my opinion
@@jaypollock9347 They just announced Dave's Picks #50 out in 2024-- May 3rd 1977 Palladium NYC show! Of a 5-night run at the Palladium that year, I went to 3 shows! April 30th, May 4th and May 5th.
It took me awhile until I was older and wiser to realize what I was missing the dead have a good soul of energy that keeps going on and on and on spreading that love and I'm grateful to be a part of it even if it took me time and I want my son to be a part of it
@Pokemon2019 "I dreamed I saw Jerry G last night, alive as you and me, I said Jere, your over 20 years dead, I never died said he, I never died said he." (with apologies to Joan Baez and Joe Hill..) ;-)
@Pokemon2019 I miss him every day , not the same as going to see him every couple months, used to wash away all the bullshit life has to offer , like a nice long shower of Joy !!!
Coming out of a long depression. Now im happy i put on the old records. Im happy because all the old records. Bless my brothers and sisters on theor journeys around the sun
I’m so Grateful to be sober, and still embrace this music, even more so then when I was high...being clear allows me to grasp the deeper meaning of the words, and the depth of the chords...God bless the child that rings that bell!
The Dead have something for every generation and every part of your life. From my acid soaked early adulthood to my middle aged fatherhood, the Dead have been the soundtrack to my life. Reassuring and enlightening me when I need it. They have shared my travels, my career, my loves , my friendships , my successes and concerns. From Further to the future they are part of my soul. God bless Jerry for being the guy you wanna have a smoke with and talk about life. The man I turn to over and over .
That is just so right on ! Somewhere within the rhythm and the rhyme there lies a key that opens up a doorway to pure joy . Blessed are those who know where that key does rest and to those who don't point the way and wish them all the best .
I just became engaged to my best friend. A musician, a healer, and my savior. I wouldn’t be here without all you dancing bears. Thanks for spreading love Like butter. If you ever get confused, just listen. Thank you all. And RIP Jerome.
The day my father and I were driving and heard over the radio that Jerry had passed, he pulled over on a country road and rolled a "J" and smoked with me for the first time. I remember my parents telling me they took me to a dead show, and then a week later a floyd show, and somewhere in there jethro tull. You can say I was steeped in real music.
@@ronschaffer5959 so I was 16 at the time, it was a strange experience. They took me to concerts ever since I was 3-4 my first concert was jethro tull, I obviously don't remember, I could've been younger than that. Mom and dad could never agree to an age on that subject. The rents were hippie to their soul. I grew up listening to the dead, tull, floyd, clapton, I loved it.. sry for all the extra I threw in there, it was just to tell you at least how I grew up. Happy holidays Ron.
Best FT memory- Staying in a former army barracks in what was East Berlin, Oct 90, and hearing this broadcast on the radio, about an hour after the band played the ICC. Listened looking out over the city on a clear cold star lit sky, silence everywhere except the music. With Farmer Bob along on the adventure and Magical Max and Armin as our guardian angels while in Berlin.
1977 was such a magical year for the Dead. Jerry plays with what I can only call grace. Barton gets all the love but Buffalo, The Mosque, and Chicago shows are all just as good. For my money the show at the Mosque in Richmond was best of the year.
Bakedfetus666 ! Yea it was magical, i think Donna Jean gets a little too much hate but i do wish that she wasn't around that year because she doesn't add much to the band her wailing gets very annoying in most songs. But she doesn't ruin it enough to make 77 less than #1 in my book...
***** I'm not bitching about Donna... in fact the very first thing i said was that "i think Donna Jean gets a little too much hate" (even if i'm generally not a fan of hers). It was more of a way of expressing how much of a fan i am of 1977 as a whole; that i'm not a Donna fan yet that '77 is my favorite single year. Considering all the years that Donna is not even in the band, that says more about how much i like that era than it does about Donna. These are just my opinions... and i agree some people go a little over the top with the anti-Donna stuff. Hell, i even like 'Sunrise'. She's a part of the band's history and that's just how it is. But everyone has their own tastes/preferences.
If you can find the FM soundboard from Philly's WMMR for the 3/31/87 show. Jack Straw opener into a very playful and rocking Franklin's. Jerry is pretty exceptional and later in the show they cut in with Mickey and the station promo, "Your listening to WMMR, RR rocking in Philly!" Had this on tape years ago but can only find hissy audience versions. A shame because the show was a pretty good one.
I graduated from high school in this year. I had been a bit of a "dead head" for some time, but this year began an enormous change of my life. I had been, and still am a Chef de Cuisine, just a 'fancy' term, I suppose for a cook. I lived and studied in France (Le Vaucluse) and also Italy; northern Italia, not that southern crap. I had been recruited for Disney while running the kitchen of a French restaurant in Aspen, CO, back when Aspen was still Aspen, and not the 'beverly hills' of the Rockies. Anyway, I had put in my request for a weekend off several months in advance, (a rather rare thing allowed in the disney world) and got the corporate 'thumbs up'. I, my lady friend, and another couple drove the ~200 miles to Miami, to the spot where this concert was going to be held. It was, (and still is) a rather nasty part of town, but for one bright shining moment became beautiful. The first night's show was amazing, as they generally are. We slept in the car, and the next morning I got a call from disney. They demanded that I return to work. I refused, telling them that I had gone through all of their corporate 'what nots' to get this amazing weekend off. I was told that if I did not make that 4 hr drive back to Orlando, then I would be fired. I chose my friends. This changed my life. From that moment until now, I put the joy of people far, far, far above mere profit.
Miami or Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, on May 9, 1977 - the year I graduated from Tufts So many roads.. Where are you cooking now, my son is studying at JWU in Denver
mistralok.....I love the story. I am a school teacher, but I had a job in college, and I went to lunch. on lunch break my roommate said lets go see Panic (WSP) 10 hours away.......needless to say, I didn't return to work and chose my friends. It WAS a great decision on my brains part.
A cool and inspiring story..but just out of curiosity..how did Disney call you while you were staying in a car??.. the Grateful Dead quit existing well before the age of cellphones being a common thing
And so, Robert Hunter, you and Jerry will make such beautiful music again together. But in this reality, you will be missed, Ive listened to your words my WHOLE LIFE. Thank you.
and this is whats so great about the music and the band, that the music itself can make you feel emotions that you didnt feel before it hits your ears. even to this day 32+ years later I will come across a show i havent listen to and certain songs will still give me the chills and goosebumps and a smile on my face from lob to ear lob
The '70s were a blast!! I was in my '20s then. We had such great music back then and many events to see. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat! ✌❤️ 😎
I thought "listen to ....' was in ref to B. Franklin telling ppl that did not undstnd his process of bell mkg to kinda " take a step back" relax and think. just sayin.
just washes away all the ugly , leaving me a little bit lighter makes the sun shine a whole lot brigbter , come on! play it again! or leave me to sunshine daydream! thank you Jerry!
"Your eyes looked through your mother's face"... listening to this on the 24th anniversary of Jerry's passing. One of the best and my favorite dead songs and lyrics.
No matter what mood I’m in -this song (especially this shows version) fills me with such indescribable joy- Jerry’s guitar solo after the “listen to the music play verse” is so beautiful I can’t put it into words. Long live the Dead and long live Jerry G. 🤟🙏
Mr. Chase Fukuoka, the service you do for other heads as a head yourself is a mighty fine example of the love we're all meant share as deadheads. Keep spreading the love bud, I love what you do. Long live the Dead, and Have A Grateful Day!
Recently started bumping the dead hard while remodeling a kitchen. And my fathers friend told me to put on franklins tower, and I’m so damn thankful he told me to do that.
HIGH AND WELCOME TO THE GRATEFUL DEAD FAMILY OF LOVE AND MUSIC AND MAY ALL YOUR DAZE BE FILLED WITH JOY AND HAPPINESS AND MAY ALL YOUR GOOD DREAMS COME TRUE AND LET LOVE AND MUSIC BE YOUR GUIDING SPIRIT GOD BLESS. ST STEPHEN. GRATEFULLY DEAD
Ted, I think the surviving member know better than to try to 'replace' a musician like Jerry. His technical prowess was a result of his musical heritage, something you can't reproduce.
My favorite version of this is from the Great American Music Hall in 1975. I had it on vinyl back in the day. It was called The Spotcheck. The band was on fire that night. The best show I personally attended was Lewiston Maine in 1980. Incredible outdoors show and the second set was unbelievable.
