Pig out front. Phil in the middle. Jerry and Bobby flanked on each side. Billy and Mickey backing everything up like a locomotive. Heaven on Earth in 1970! Love watching Jerry playing rhythm while Pigpen and Bobby get things started. Then Jerry comes in with the his solo and parades the essence of cool for all to behold. These are the Grateful Dead!
It sure its!! And the RIVER KEEPS A TALKIN’ and you never hear a word it say!!!!!!!...Live 5 years if I take my time, balling that jack and drinking my wine!!
@@catman2u2 he died way too early. this kind of music died when he did. the super long jams and endless sets faded into rock history..No more epic Dark Stars, 'Moon, Eleven, Death Have no Mercy, Stephen', Hurts Me Too, Easy Wind and all the other heavy songs that will live in infamy... the dead changed to just playing "songs" with solos instead of solos with occasional vocals
@@catman2u2 I agree. I've heard most of them and a few are just mind blowing. The long build up into an epic crecendo with Jerry hitting every note with such intensity it goes right to my core. WTF happened after 70? It's like they just abandoned the very thing that propelled them into a level in rock no other band could reach.
Brother, Jerry kills his ENTIRE SOLO. Like fuck man, what a master class in tasteful yet badass playing. Every note is perfectly placed and soo impactful. He doesn't overplay, but he sure as hell makes a statement. Not to mention his sparse but on point rhythm playing during Bobby's solo. Idk maybe it's just me but this era of the Dead is cemented in my heart and mind as one of the best bands of all time hands down
well said dlm. I've run out of adjectives describing Jerry's playing during that period... nobody could touch Jerry back than...and today. NOBODY will ever replicate those primal jams...ever.
Ron was a serious lead singer - so good you can actually hear Weir's guitar Bill & Micky PUSHING IT HARD Phil Booming along the whole song & Jerr's playing is ethereal ! and Mr Zig Zag too lol the video effects really reflect "back in the day" ! so wish we had more !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (~);}
Poor guy, he found that woman in Janis and she died from heroin. That's where the blues comes from though. If it ain't one thing it's another. Makes sense why he wouldn't trust illegal drugs after that (with modern science we know all the ways alcohol is actually worse than any illegal drug, but they didn't know that then, and I don't necessarily taking more acid would've saved Pigpen though, same with Jerry. It's a popular opinion though) Idk I'm rambling, "keep talking but you [might] never hear a word I say" (depending on if anyone bothers to read this lol)
@@newusernamehere4772 Janis and Pig bonded over their shared love of ethyl alcohol. I have the sought-after poster of the two, with Pig playfully squeezing her breast. Judging from the smile on her face, she wasn't hating it. :)
What the hell was I supposed to do, I was three years old, couldn't get to the show? Damn did I miss a mess of blues and fabulous show. Thank the lord for those to recorded the show, this made my day, or whole week. RIP Dead, you guys nailed it that day. Wow.
I'm not a Dead fan by any stretch, but this is one of the top 5 badass songs ever, and this version is the best of them. Perfect tempo and nice aggressive edge.
this early era was certainly the best guitar and bass tone the band ever had.... it just got so week later on... but this is some strong Chicago blues kinda tone... love it! and they even had good vocals at this time...
Good Lord...that very well might be the greatest solo interval I've ever heard. I've listened to it a number of times and this jam is just...man...I don't have the words. I do have the tears that this solo causes me to shed though - it's that poignant. Jerry is absolutely kicking this jam into celestial overdrive!! Pig is singing and blowing his brains out. Bill is trying to hold it all together before it literally launches the audience into the stratosphere and Phil? Phil is doing his best to send this jam out to our alien brothers light years away!!
Pigpen was completely authentic. Tremendous harp solo here. Is there any band around today that can even remotely approach the intensity of this performance? Until they disbanded in 2014, I saw the Allman Brothers on occasion get close at their March Beacon shows in New York.
Eric there is no band that can touch this today. no "jam band" even comes close. Dead and Co. is to me an insult to their legacy. Mayer plays the blues but his Jerry riffs are imho pathetic.
Yeah Bob will grab a solo from time to time. Most often I have heard his solos on China > Rider jams. Also there's his slide solos, but that's a different subject altogether.
this is one of many dead performances i love to smoke my hash to, thank you very much for this video, it brings me great joy, its amazing the things the internet allow you to view
Best filmed performance I've ever seen of the Dead. THIS is what to show anyone who says they sucked. (Well, this or parts of Veneta '72, The Other One from Beat Club, or Lovelight from Festival Express tour.)
Holy SHIZER if Ron and Jerry only knew how much inspiration I get listening and watching this💪🏼cause I’m a STONE JACK BALLER BLOWING THESE KETTLE BELLS OUT!! EASY!!!! WIND!
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These lyrics are fucking killer....cant stop listening to this. SIMILAR SONGS 1 of 5 2 of 5 I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer Been chippin' up rocks for the great highway Live five years if I take my time Ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine I been chippin' them rocks from dawn till doom While my rider hide my bottle in the other room Doctor say better stop ballin' that jack If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will Easy wind cross the Bayou today Cause there's a whole lotta women, mama Out in red on the streets today And the rivers keep a talkin' But you never heard a word it said Gotta find a woman be good to me Won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea Cause I'm a stone jack baller and my heart is true And I'll give everything that I got to you, yes I will Easy wind going cross the Bayou today There's a whole lotta women Out in red on the streets today And the rivers keep a talkin' But you never heard a word it said Songwriters: Robert C. Hunter
I love just about every incarnation of the Dead but this absolutely still rocks my world. I wan't more excellent video feed of Pigpen please! Nice ugh light show :-D
Great! When Pigpen died, that was the end of the band, the Grateful Dead. I'm not saying they sucked afterwards. They are fabulous musicians.. But the sound of the band changed--a lot. I personally preferred the bluesy Pig-era Dead. Nothing like a good show at the Filmore in those days.Then Cippolina left Quicksilver and all that was left from SF with any cojones was Hot Tuna. Well, The Flamin Groovies, but that was something else, herald of punk. thank God..
there really is no substitute! of all the grateful dead songs/videos on all of youtube i keep coming back to this one. so raw! really makes you shake your bones!!!
I always imagined Robert Hunter playing this with Grateful Dead Oh, well. I did see him play this in Hollywood Bowl at the Whisky a-go-go in 1978! Augy, San Diego
@gratefulvideo TC joined the band in late '68 and left the band in early 1970 - Kieth Godchaux joined the band in late August/early Sept. 1971when Pigpen started getting sick - Pig returned later that year of '71 and was with the band through Europe '72 - His last show was June 17,1972 at the Hollywood Bowl; he did not sing. Ronald C. "Pigpen" McKernan passed from this world March 8,1973 Pigpen is now and will forever be one of THE GRATEFUL DEAD
The warning Jerry gives PigPen is AWESOME when pig is riding his solo out😂 It’s like a wave of a light saber in back ground, Wom! it’s my time NOW! 3:18 Pig says go on!! now
I'm confused. Pretty sure he says that on the Workingman's version as well (I've certainly heard him say that SOMEWHERE else); plus, that's Weir soloing right after Pig says it.
Even if i do find it on Spotify i think I'll keep coming on here to listen to this song. This version isnt remastered and it sounds so raw being that it's not remastered i love it
