I love what Dylan said about Garcia : ' He is the very spirit personified of whatever is muddy river country at it's core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal'.
Can't get enough of them. Everyday is a new adventure and there's always things to discover. Sucks that I couldn't be there but listening to them makes me feel alive
I never saw Mozart or Beethoven… But, it still moves me. Thank the universe that they put out so much beautiful music to bring so much joy to this life!
@jeffreywhite3427- I could have sworn I danced with you at a Beethoven show, or maybe it was one of Mozart's shows....they are both incarnations of Jerry.....🎼🗺️🌬️💫🎶🕉️🌍🙏💸🏴☠️®️
@@DiannMelodyDunkley-sx2jrThey were following us- we all had bumper stickers, for years, on multiple vehicles, that said "Who is that band and why are they following us?". It was all about the energy exchange between the crowd and the band ...
I was 5 years old at the time of this concert and I feel the spirit of this music is what created built and framed my mind my energy and my output of frequency I'm so grateful to be a part of this era 🙏💯☺️
3:27 Jack Straw 11:40 Dire Wolf 18:52 Beat It On Down The Line 24:20 Peggy-O 35:44 Mama Tried > 38:14 Mexicali Blues 44:29 Funiculi Funicula 46:29 Row Jimmy 58:48 New Minglewood Blues 1:05:53 Loser 1:16:40 Lazy Lightning > Supplication 1:29:26 Bertha > 1:36:53 Good Lovin 1:46:53 It Must Have Been The Roses 2:00:07 Estimated Prophet > 2:12:02 Eyes Of The World > 2:23:54 Drums > 2:50:15 Truckin > 2:58:40 Wharf Rat 3:09:17 Around and Around 3:19:18 U. S. Blues
After seeing them at New Haven, CT had some kinda road rage incident getting out of the parking lot. Had 3 dudes in a Honda chasing me & the 3 chicks I was with. Couldn't shake em so I finally slammed on my breaks & put my '68 Chrysler Newport in reverse & just smashed their radiator into the front seat I think. That ended that.
Thank you for this. I was never much of a deadhead, never followed them around, but i went to this show to round out my concert experiences. I always loved their recorded albums and listened to them a lot. We had seats in the balcony above the stage and about even with the curtain across the wings of the stage so that we had a full view of the back stage area. What i remember the most about this concert was the constant parade of random people that would wander out of the audience and end up behind the stage -- socialize with the bouncers a bit and then pick up a pot and spoon or some random instrument and contribute to the music in the background. Must have been a couple of dozen folks that did it. I was mesmerized by this as I had never seen this happen before or since. Later in life I got to see Pink Floyd perform The Wall in LA and Frank Zappa in San Diego, Todd Rundgren. In this same time frame saw Yes in the round saw Robin Trower in Greensboro. Later on saw the Rolling Stones on the Steel Wheels Tour. I was a student at NCSU at the time of this concert, so a little younger than most of the audience. This was a very good memory -- the music always made me feel peaceful. The best show that I ever saw though was when Jethro Tull opened the War Child tour in Asheville NC in January 1975. They rehearsed with the entire North Carolina Symphony for a week before the show and then had a small string ensemble travel on the rest of the tour.
They were tripping on acid is what they were doing. The shows I went to were to the point of overwhelming. Especially since I was also on acid. I remember an Atlanta show where I realized tens of thousands of people were all on acid. It was a very strange experience.
@@desertweasel6965 It was as close to organized insanity as you could get. Just when you thought you were losing your mind, you turn around and see some guy that's completely lost his marbles.
I made this same comment on here years ago but I dont know what happened to it. I'm just glad someone else caught it and thought it was worth mentioning
this is the SWEETEST peggyo ever !!! the gentle lilt breaks my heart,,,still brings tears to my eyes.. miss u jerry bear.. ( been on the bus since 1972 !).xxxxx always
If you have time I think the 19th of this very same month,( seven days later), has an exemplary Peggy O that might make you cream your jeans. Been a Deadicated Deadhead since late '88! Love from Canada ❤️🇨🇦🥶 Northern Alberta 😁👍‼️
I'm almost ashamed to say how many times I've watched this video--at least 100. Can't get enough of this show! Thanks so much for all you do for us, Voodoonola!
just watched this show. well then, everything you said except i have yet to watch this a 100 times but i will get there. i have never seen Jerry so happy before. i have been listening and watching since about 1992. this is now my favorite show. Voodoonola2 has a upgraded version.
Wow. Jerry, Bobby, and? Donna Jean really hit their rock star moments there near the end of Jack Straw. Rarely have I seen Jerry and Bobby step forward and strum it out together like they did there. The Dead never cease to please.
Donna sounds like a cat drowning. You can see Garcia throw looks at her, all the time. The only reason Donna was in the band was because she wouldn't allow Keith to perform if she wasn't included. That entire story can be brought up.
Never go wrong with a Jack Straw opener - it’s funny how you can instantly tell the song they’re going to play with the beforehand noodling which I think they eventually stopped doing and would just noodle to get the beat and rhythm without eluding to what they were going to play. But damn audio guy is really butchering Jerry at the beginning. Another instance that makes you appreciate the dead and that they are human - it must have been pretty cool when his guitar kicks in during dire wolf but they still can’t figure out his mic. It’s a regular single mic and not a Bear double mic which I though they had at this point (~):) \\_//
Jerry and bob attempting the windmills :) As I read in an article once (with bob weir), it was a nod at The Who (windmills for Pete Townshend and the flying drum sticks for Keith moon who passed away shortly before the concert)
Aside for a few stray Donna comments, I actually didn't see signs of a troll! Priceless, when u consider the numerous Grateful Dead critics who have no clue what their music is really about or how it moves those who join with it rather than rejecting it!
Other than Donna sucking, there is nothing bad about the GD. I have been listening to them almost every day since 1976. There is not another band like them - not even close. It is my belief that people who don't appreciate the GD, really don't understand music and improvising. Also I think that the individual who don't like Donna may not like her because they LOVE the GD's music so much and Donna truly did not get it - she got in the way. She was just singing without "getting it". The GD are so much better without her.
John Meyers ok, it may have been annoying some times but this show is not the best example. And were the deadheads so great for the band and the music really.. lots of people think they had their greatest time artistically before all that, say 69 and 70, the real psychedelic period.
Bought this as boot-leg video on the mean streets of NYC, watched this many many times back in the day (early 90s), so good to see it up on the tube. Too many highlights to count on this one!! Garcia, I mean, really Jer? Windmills!!! Billy tossing the drum stick up, what 10-15 feet, to catch it just in time for the crash cymbal, and then there's the US Blues, Jer on the steel drum during drums, someone else banging pots? Doesn't get better than this!! Thank you greatest band of all time!!!
1978 was I believe one of their best years. Almost 3years from their break and by now they were so in tune with each other. You can sense they were having fun. Garcia in full mode!!
John Petro 1978 could be hit or miss the hits were for the reasons you stated but the misses were bc this was when the excesses started showing up I have some bootlegs from 78 where they were really off especially Jerry. 1979 same story with just a little more misses than 78 and ditto for 1980 but the shows where they were on were truly special. 1981 was when it really effected them but still had excellent shows especially in Europe. 1982 onwards they were mostly misses most of the band was out of control on alcohol & cocaine and Jerry became a raging heroin addict. He smoked it so it destroyed his voice and his lungs. (Way worse than the raspy voice cocaine drip down his throat) and it’s really apparent on recordings. 1977 you can throw on any tape and it rocks.
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There was a subtle power and ferocity to them in 1978. It was like 77 but with reckless abandon that worked. They were also wonderfully high in this show. I thought the Winterland Bertha/GL combo was the best until I heard this.
Great job synching up audience tape, sound board and video! I don't know what was going on with Jerry's mic for the first few tunes but it got sorted out eventually. I'm glad this show (along with so many others) lives on. I loved seeing Jerry blissing out during Bertha. One of the tightest good lovin's I've ever heard! Thank you, voodoonola! ps: stop hating on Donna, folks! Face it, the Godchaux's were part of a Dead Era and like all the Dead Era's, there were ups and downs. This show's an UP!
3 days before my first show ;-) Yeah, everyone loves to gritch about Donna, but a couple things to remember: Jerry liked her singing enough so that she was in the JGB at this time, and the main thing about the Dead's music was improvisation. Donna didn't have an instrument to improv on, so she did with her voice. Yes, it went horribly wrong sometimes (though rarely by this point), but that was true for all of them, and times like Barton Hall it all went right, and that's the main thing :-)
Everything about her is fine by me EXCEPT the bellowing on Playing and Scarlet. She meant well, i get how the part could have worked, i dont get how they didn't tell her to chill on those parts.
There are times when Donna blended well. I saw some shows on this tour and most of the years that followed. . We traveled to see the band, to see any band that Jerry or Bobby was in. How many of us would've gone out to see Donna on her own? I'm one of the people that enjoyed them more without her.
Man, they were amazing all through the 70s. Not trying to knock their shows in the 80s, but it was just better in the 70s. More energy and passion. The fucking heroin use caught up with Jerry, I guess. So terribly sad.
To me 89 & 90 > than 77 & 78' because Mydland smokes Godchaux out of the water, and because the vocals were, globally, while not their strongest suit at any point, better more times than not. I always wish the Dead had gotten a better piano player in the 70's. Godchaux is very bland, period.
@@toddfielder4663 Without giving me platitudes (e.g. his jazzy chords - which actually isn't really true, anyway), can you tell me why you like Keith the best?
@@trevoringalls2630 I wasn't talking to you, but listen to Floyd Cramer and get back to me. That's who Keith was trying to be when he was in the Dead anyway.
Man! This stuff is incredible! I don’t know how you do it voodoonola! Many thanks for this and all the other shows you have posted. These really take me back. Good times. Thanks again and keep ‘ em comin’
24:44 Peggy-O. Wow. Jer absolutely owned it. Weaving through the notes. Semi off time, but totally on time. Essence of the dead right there in one fell swoop. 29:30 Jer is like "watch this one"......lol
I agree - I think - that the years Donna & Keith G were with the GD may have been the best years for the band & she / they deserve a lot of credit for that . It's a bummer that we lost Keith to the excesses of life .
>that row jimmy really stands out, love the whole thing though Agree 100%. Jerry said that he loved that song and I completely agree, it's an incredibly beautiful song, and this version is one of the best. And yep love the whole show, 1978 at its best imo.
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Don't have utilities..41f. Last night. Cold.for. Me Wrapped up and pushed play. Didn't know what it was. It was Cameron 78! Yes Jah Herb Jah Jerry from Tucson Arizona Sonoran 🏜️ desert 🍄🌵🇯🇲🇺🇸🇸🇪 Afro Viking 🇬🇳 rastafari
This show is so fucking mind bending awesome! The mannerisms Jerry does at like 1:33ish is fucking priceless. This is full on psychedelic tilt Grateful Dead haha its like theater or a magick ritual really haha fucking thank you sooooo much for posting this! I didnt think I could be more of a Dead Head after growing up with Dead music since I came out the womb (Im 33 now) but aftsr watching this ona good solid 200 mics haha holy fuck....like how much further can I love the Grateful Dead 😆 (the answers a LOT)
The Spring 1978 tour sees the band at a very high energy level-more ragged than the Spring 1977 tour but in some ways more exicting. Cocaine was in wide use that tour, and I'd bet they had access to ecstasy. Apparently the band took mescaline for the 5/11/78 show.
WOW!! Just plain WOW!! Also, love how Jerry, Phil, Bill and Mickey at times seem to having have their own little party...... Great F****ng show.....raining here in NJ and perfect way to spend a late Saturday rainy morning
I agree they were certainly the best band to ever exist. Nothing can be that sweet. We can dance for sure but nothing can be that sweet and slow and fast!
First saw this in about 1990....it was in the archive at duke and my buddy knew a guy. You know how that goes...been a dead freak for years and this one is special. Back when I was eighteen I would drive fifty miles to score a crappy sounding bootleg cassette of the dead. It's almost too easy now. GREAT US BLUES!!
Don't have to work for it anymore and I'm not complaining...god love em...still dig this stuff thirty years later and I ain't ashamed to admit it...my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy though...says Jerry can't sing worth a damn but then again she likes new country so there's that....all good. To each their own. My understanding is that this video was made by students at duke. Production value is good. Multiple cameras...love when Phil and Bob bust balls about the house lights not being turned down. Love early 78.
it is bad ass how they merged a soundboard with this old video. It is so disparate to watch and hear... perfectly beautiful, and crisp audio, and yet the video is clearly a copy of a copy of a copy. Man, I do not miss that aspect of tape trading. Everything I had was covered in hiss, and I would have to cut the treble deeply to make is listenable. Those MaxellXL2 cassettes were the bomb. Look at that, I still remember the exact kind of preferred cassette... and I haven't touched one in 20 years.
Maxell xl2 wear and humidity killed more tapes than I care to think of. Ah the good ol' days. Never would have thought that all those tapes would be Here for our listening enjoyment.
the power they had onstage is beautiful, even as im laying down in the wee hours ,i can feel it oozing from my screen especially when jerry gets into the solo for jack straw and them bam!!!!
Wow! What a JOY! Never seen Garcia so freaking ANIMATED! "Epic" doesn't begin to describe this goosebump rock n roll experience. I had a bootleg CD of this show, but, man, this is even better! THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
if u manage to get inside one of those tic tacs you'll find these droolling amazing people with Jerome on steel drums and Keith nodding at the piano waiting to come in, to find they've been doin space and drums for millions of years hoping someone finds them---what a wonderful show this is!
This one shouldn't be skipped over !! RhythmDevils featuring Parrish , Bobby?. RamRod , and JERRY!! Also some 7ft tall dude(can anyone put a name to him) who bang s what looks to be pot & pan ,all the while looking higher than anyone!!! Even the bible(deadbase) has no mention of any of this Majik !!! Thanks for all your uploads voodoo, you deserve a heapin helpin of whatever makes you happy !!! From everyone who see s all these ....!!!
Who was doing their sound back then - was it Cantor? I must admit that I can't understand how they could set everything up, go through all the checks, and still have Garcia's mic not functioning at the start of the show.
Have you ever heard of the wall of Sound? So much gear that they had two sets, one leap frogging the other as the set up and take down times were so long. Didn’t last long. Maybe just 74. Owsley was doing the sound, they had the first touring line array and the fanciest feedback elimination system that had ever been toured at that point.
Thank you so much Voodoonola !! I’m blessed to have gone to shows beginning in 76 , still in high school. For years we relied on cassettes and tapers, I carried a trunkful wherever I moved. These you tube vids are an unbelievable blessing!!!❤️
