Grateful Dead - Bird Song - 08/27/72 - Old Renaissance Faire Grounds, Veneta, OR (Sunshine Daydream) 

I envy you Laura

Hey Laura .....I saw their show back in 1974....can't remember much...I did find my car....

You should 😊

Hell, I consider myself lucky to have got out on the road when there was still a Scene to be seen.

You left out a many

I agree. I think RU-vid is one of the finest aspects of this digital world we find ourselves in today. At the time this concert was happening, I was finishing my first summer out of high school, not a care in the world! But I had no idea of the Grateful Dead either as I was pretty naive at 17.

Blessed

...and I get transported to a hot sunny western day, feeling like I was there. -Peace to all

It’s a gift for sure

Too lucky. I mean, to be alive when the Dead played-- hell, to be a teenager in 1965 (btw I noticed your comment has 65 likes at the time of writing... let's keep it below 95 people. You all know why) would have been fucking awesome, amazing beyond words. (And I'm sure they had their share of bad times just like we have ours. But let's not go around comparing suffering.) But to be alive now?? Dude, the further into the future we get, the more long lost dead tapes are discovered and released. Things that many diehard deadheads have never even heard! It's insane!!

Word.

You can get shown the light if you look at it right....Amen.

@Burr Anderson I am,,, that I am

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"maybe the best dead show ever".... I think I said that after each one I attended :)

I hope naked pole guy is doing well in his later years

I think I know Naked Pole Guy….

@@fablenewsnetwork7223 find him..we need an interview of him..

My first Dead concert was a month later at Folsom Field in Boulder. Saw them many times later in some fine venues - Red Rocks, Louis Sullivan's classic Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Winterland and the New Years shows in Oakland - but nothing like the first. Plus I really think they were particularly great in 72 (the Europe album has lasted for a reason).

My thoughts exactly

The best. always.

This song written for Janis.

Naked Pole Guy rules!

I laughed at that, thank you

LOL :)

I live in Oregon. This is far too close to the truth.,,

I busted out laughing.

I read somewhere that he is real conservative now and denounces this as he doesn't want to talk about it

Colin Gasman 👌👌👌

What was in that drip? 😂

Fuckin A Right ! (~);}

God Blessed

forever

Exactly a month later, they played an amazing Bird Song at Stanley Theater. That's another great one. There's some special magic in this show, despite the crazy hot weather.

Man I wish we all could just rome necked and be free like they could do back then, but now we would get damn arrested. It’s rediculous how life is now. Respect to you brother!! ✌🏼

6/22/73 🙏🏻🔥 but this is the all timer

He is Iggy Pop on mushrooms !!!!

@@ramario6195 I am glad people wear pants nowadays.

Ya dude.

jamatoneblue I can feel the healing, I hear the light, I can see through the darkness

Its true

This is like a positive alternative universe to soulless days.

Right on

9/27/72 is also excellent

I agree with this! It just is soooo smooth and perfect

9/17/72 is the best imo The break around 5:15 is the reason its like the opening of Pandora's box

Agreed

Exactly ❤ they dissolve into each other going from a “me” to a “we”, asking how can I elevate the other guys instead of myself. 🙌🏼 that’s the magic 🌸Om Mani Padme Hum🌸

Funny, I was just thinking how nice Jerry's voice was, being to the fore for a change😊.

Agruments most definitely can be made for it, for sure. Other beauties: 11/19/72 Houston, 9/27/72 Jersey City, 9/21/72 Spectrum, with Branford 3/29/90. 3/16/73 Nassau & the acoustic one from Radio City 10/27/80 are also great. And I was fortunate enough to see them live for those great versions.

10-27 is a beaut.....anything from 9-21-72 is nothing short of amazing.....but man, this show was magic

Agree, This and Phili 9-72, I think DP 36.

bEST Ever !!

SickBoy666100 Yeah. Really moving.

Long live naked telephone pole guy!!!!!

Really is an inspiration, shine on you crazy diamond. I point people towards this video to try and explain why I like the band.

The naked guy eventually moved to NY and became a highly successful stock broker...at least that's the story. His name is Bob.

You should have been to the faire in the early 00s. It’s now for families, back then it was for family. I love my Dead family. I have a lot of Mouse’s art. I have enjoyed a lif of the times we shared together after Jerry passed. Spring Morning Rain, Phil and Phriends with Try and Paige, but some of my favorite times have been seeing artists I love pay tribute. So Long Jerry is one of my favorites, Dean Ween

@Grateful Varmints Without Billy, There would be no "Dead and Company", I believe. With the drummers back (Billy always played the main beat, Mickey following, and filling in the gaps, it seemed.), D+C isn't, The "Further" Tour. Really miss Jerry. Only followed from late 88'(Miami), steadily on, till 93'-95, just catching shows when we could.. I've always loved The "Bird Song" from 89'/90'? '"Nassau County Colliseum", w/"Branford Marsalis", who Phil invited. He had never heard "The Dead" before. Fast learner!!! I love that "Bird Song"! Jerry was surprised how well Branford went with the flow. They were like 2 birds, meeting, and flying joyously, like no one ever, who doesn't know any of their tunes! So Beautiful to hear there interaction.. Stunning!

@@timturk1899 what a show. Believe that was march 90. Brent passed away before branford marsalis could play with them the 2nd time. Which was around newyears 1990/91

He wasn't distracted by Mickey Hart trying to keep time.

One of the many reasons the Grateful Dead are so special :)

Thank you. It's all about Jerry for sure, but Bob laid down so much great rhythm and really glued it all together. Especially since Phil's bass lines were very contrapuntal. And Billy K. solid as a rock. Vastly underrated drummer.

Bobby was an incredible rhythm guitarist

I CANNOT imagine a Dead without Bobby, and to think he was almost kicked out

I'm going to see bob this summer thank god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! / spring i think idk man.

Janis and Jerry gone too soon. Miss them always.

@@ganymeade5151 Well at least we got Jerry until he was 53. Heroin was a lot less forgiving to the much smaller Joplin, who consequently joined Club 27.

@@JohnDoe-gk7ok nope hers got spiked by the music producer because she was about to quit..They kill them off and turn them into legends,icons and profit forever off of them..

​@@daveyboy8907Please .... say the origin of this story.

Is this song really about Janis? Awesome if true - anyway, truly increíble version at the beautiful OCF site - a place I've been blessed to visit many times. Thank you to whoever posted this! ❤❤❤❤❤

🤣🍄👍😆🍄👍😊

@@stillaliveandwell5291 haha... I think in the end the camera guy made the right compromise between one of the greatest guitar players ever and some tweeked out Wook naked on a telephone pole.. Wow- dude is probly STILL trippin...

LMAO You are funny

He's not a freak on the pole, I always loved the Greatful Dead An traveled with them been to some great places and let you know I'd be on that pole Dancing with the pole and I'm Just Being Me 😂

@@cindycunningham3026 Really? You'd be up on that Pole Buck Naked? Nice!

It's Iggy !!

Nah, it's a bit much, it is... 😬

Hey! im that old crow! I was just enjoying the show on my pole!

Renaissance Faire turned into Oregon Country Fair- very commercial but the vibe in Veneta can probably still be found, although nothing like this.

Social distancing nude is all well and good but surely he was told about the wearing of masks in a crowded area ...

Please provide his Open House schedule. Real estate agents often provide baked goods to visitors, if you know what I'm gettin' at. Wonder where he keeps he contract signing pen? I suspect it's all digital now, though :)

Acid is a hell of a drug

Possibly the funniest shit ever. Buy a policy from him, dude.

Or a house. Get on that.

There you go!

That's why they had such a cult following. They were only selling a naive sort of innocence and some great tunes.

I feel like they were there for the exact same reason as the audience. To be apart of a great musical experience. The money and lifestyle was a bonus. Since everybody was there for the same reason, they just soared

Thats why i love em

That’s what copious amounts of LSD will do for you :)

LSD ego death and being ugly does wonders

Stairway to heaven

Of course, but Bobby deserves his share of the credit here. Some great comping and countermelodies

yes, great rhythm by Bobby Weir here.

he ain't da "big" man - he be da "fat" man ! ! ! RIP . . . Forever . . .

@@TJBmd I love stair way too heaven, Axl Rose sings it so fine.

Jerry, so good on this song. Something I passed on to my kids.

I don't know if I would say flawless some of those harmonies were a little rough but the music's killer what else can you say

it wuz' a good one, it wuz'

@@arlenmargolin1650 Jerry and Zappa both suffered from the misconception/great insight (your choice) that it was okay to play. live, on stage, in front of the paying public, things you never played before/noodle aimlessly in a a hit and miss fashion (your choice). It's only the musicians who hear the obvious clam notes. I think Zappa is the most egregiously guilty of a aimless noodling/practicing the guitar on stage (your choice). Garcia at least stays close to the diatonic harmonies, but maybe that's cuz they're playing much simpler harmonies (usually!! this song amazed me as a jazz guy, with all the open voiced layered guitar harmonies) to begin with, whereas Zappa is playing over (usually) much more adventurous harmonies, and has a bent for being as avant garde with his playing as his money making, dumb rock beat under it all, cooler than hell lyrical comment tour de force songs will allow. (your choice) Jerry has at least one excuse for the clams, the drugs, whereas Zappa,, mister "just say no" has no such excuse. Amazing how libertarian Zappa was in regards to social issues, and at the same time, in the end a quite conservative, misogynistic homophobe who also commentsAmerica's ideas of US's use of its military strength, comments not even a "c hair" left of Bush - Gingrich -reagan -Rush -think. Interesting, complex individual for sure. Google George Duke's groupie story. The internet is a terrible embarrassment making thing. Everything you ever did or said in front of a camera, or witnesses will eventually be made public, if you have any celebrity at all.

@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out In the immortal words of Harry Dean Stanton's character Curt in Rancho Deluxe, "Well, okay if that means somethin' to ya."

Checked in friend

Thanksgiving 2020!

@Breckyn Thomas Sunshine Daydream LSD my friend

listening and jamming along on my electric plugged into my computer using S-Gear. Tons of fun!

Oh fuckin rights

@SoftserveSodium well they're quite reserved, wouldnt you say?

@@kevingruenofficial No I would definitely not say reserved. Quite the opposite.

@@zach3305 all I'm saying is they didnt need to shred for their music to be good. I have yet to see a concert of theirs with Garcia or weir playing like van halen or something. It wasnt their forte. They were better at writing intricate jazz chords progressions which I'd say was the deads signature sound.

@@kevingruenofficial The apprentice hears what he does not immediately know but wishes to understand.

Check the Dark Star from this show for said shred.

Excitin' yer chitin

How sO, all shriveled up & DeAD. MakeS mE feel Like ah "Babe in the Woods" with one rabBit in mY jaws, & aNother 🐰 clutched in my paWs.

Golden caps are rad

Actually little pieces of paper soaked in LSD were available when waking into the field in front of the stage. No charge. Free psychedelia that day.

He got even better with Brent. started playing harmonics and finding empty space, not easy with 2 drummers, Jerry, Phil and Brent. I actually find his songs harder to learn. They have chord variants and lots of hooks / little inflections. Of course Jerry's ability to glide between playing styles and craft lead parts was only highlighted more with Bob'.

He was born for this. Took him some time but he got right where he needed to be.

greatest rhythm guitar player... so far 🤙

Yah..... So sublime you can't hear him. Other than his voice for the band, he SUCKED and still sucks. I also saw him/Ratdog and the same thing.... Nobody could hear his guitar. What a lose and poser he is.

Its like he is a alien puppet....

Jerrys Notdead i thought the same thing. So iggy

dude is definitely distracting. is he wearing a loin cloth?

Dr. AwkwarD I hope so!

No, obviously he is NOT wearing anything, but that was so very typical of many of the Dead's concerts, and so be it. No one should allow anyone else freak them out because of something this simple. It is what it is. I remember introducing my mother to Jerry years and years ago, at an outdoor concert in New Jersey, and a very robust, rounded woman came up and ripped open her peasant-blouse to show off her extremely large breasts to him, and my mother just said, "Brava to you, my dear woman!" while Jerry continued his soft-spoken chat with my mother. I was with The Flock for a wee bit, and similar types of things would happen all around us whenever we opened for the Dead, and it was really little more than part of their show, and rather inconsequential. So don't be freaked out about the "iggy Pop" look, all right. Just enjoy this stunning rendition of a song beautifully written for the late Janis Joplin who, all so many years ago, died on THIS very date. 4 October 2018.

you the one standing on the pole so high

I was there somewhere

Send me some video of Redrocks Colorado in 1984anAlpine valley of the stage I was on the Stage by the speakers

Glad you're better. Stay well, sir. Life's a jungle sometimes/often times (sorry GMF for the tweak).

you've got a lawn under tall oaks to stretch out on. Why be depressed?

Musically 1972-1974 is hard to beat. The really long jazzy jams that lasted forever and went to far away places....definitely my favorite era largely because of Keith, but it's everyone. They all feed off of each other.

@@thebreathalyzercouldn’t agree more. Those years were something special

STARK, as in STARK naked hippie dude dancing atop wooden post! .. No diss to your original statement, but I couldn't resist saying that! lol!

@@sparkimoto that hippy was me in a former life at this concert, he wasn't the only naked person there by a long shot.

@@sparkimoto I saw him too! I came to the comments wondering if anyone else thought to mention him. Then again, it was 1972

77 was pretty amazing but a different flavor and definitely not 65-74/75 Grateful Dead or this show. I used to copy this show repeatedly for friends, to replace my copies, and to have multiples. I don't know if I ever had the entire show until CD trading started and eventually they released this like.... atleast 20 years late.

Of course they were trippin balls

No they were not tripping. Because they could never* play tripping. Jerry admitted it.

​@@avail1."Jerry admitted it" was that before or after he talked constantly about how their first shows played as the Grateful Dead were played tripping??? Or the other band members who can name specific shows where they were tripping (Phil and Billy in their books multiple times in fact)??? I think you either misunderstood something else Jerry meant or believe something that is the direct opposite of the truth,the Dead could play tripping. Even worse bands with lazier players can just fine,it's not like having to drive or do your laundry on acid!

My favorite as well! Billy K just has the perfect swing to him. LOVE this lineup so much.

@@captainkangaroo4301 Ya, but Mickey never learned to keep time. He's always all over the place, like is this it or is that it? Billy K without the distraction of Mickey is so much more enjoyable. Billy is the human locomotive.

Agreeed, love Mikey, but this soooo smooth

And the segs were better, too. But Mickey did provide a lot of punch during rock n rollin' 77.

and thank you, US CIA and Army, for testing your chemical weapons out on civilians like Robert Hunter and Ken Kesey.

@@Scott64a 🤣

"Sometimes the songs that you hear are just songs of your own." You can interpret that line any way you like.

Check out what Billy Strings did with Robert's lyrics for Thunder. Billy K asked Billy S to put the lyrics to music as that hadn't been done. Excellent. Robert Hunter lives!

You need silence sometimes to appreciate the beauty of life, as well as the music.

@@AJ_Deadshow underrated comment

The song is on repeat for two plays, with its false ending in the middle. It reminds me of Miles Davis’ Shhh Peaceful where the song ends, and comes back to life, giving a sense of permanent cycle, like the sunrise.

I would be exactly like naked Iggy Pop dancing on the pole in the background here.

it was lol .

@@jasonlambert5552 lol i was gonna say the same thing

The music is too good for that mess. It’s not necessary to drop acid.

@@ceciliaohman185 thank you. Some people actually have the ability to understand and enjoy music ala carte

Some babies were born because of these guys.

Not a cloud in the sky either.

@@yetivanmarshall1473 Just yesterday

You think

So to speak!

You don't say lol

Highcullsofliving Low key thats like the very first thing you wanna do while on acid..

Fern ridge water supply

Richard Weed might be

Almost as beautiful as "Look for a while at the china cat sunflower proud walking jingle in the midnight sun" Or "Shall we go, you and I while we can, through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?" But in my opinion, none better than "If I knew the way, I would take you home."

AJ Deadshow I gotta say once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right is up there with all of them man

As good as any poetry i have ever read and I was an English Literature major.

A band beyond description.

I always looked at the Grateful Dead as America's Beatles. ✌💀👽🎸🎤🎹🥁🎵🎶

Go Jerry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂

That's right ...not another possibility in my time !

Only if you're stoned out of your mind.

they will if you and I help them to

Now put a saxophone in his mouth and let circle of Bird continue it's self

nice

Uncle Sam? That you?

Them ol' U.S. Blues

thats not this song

bzfgt bzfgt i

True story

He's right, you know?

Oh man you know the china cat from this same concert? I always valued it so much, for me it was the single most important video on youtube. A national treasure even tho im not an american :P Shame it got taken down by warner bros, and got replaced with a video thats more or less the same but one that just doesnt have that psychedelic beauty that chill as the other one. Cant even get close to it. Im such an idiot for not downloading it.

bzfgt bzfgt: correction: on the web...the internet is the wheelbarrow; the web is the content within the wheelbarrow which is empties onto your screen;) Look up the definition of both, then please spread the word. Everything we do online is on the WWW, not the III.

Michael Lester definitely not. I’m happy but that’s happy. I hope he remembers part of that feeling!

no...no im not, but im willing to try.

LOL. Sometimes... yes.

I'm a beautiful woman and I'm 1954 I'm ole school an looking young as 40☀️

Not this second, but been there.

Totally. The Beyond Within performed without stress, effort, pretense, or ego... and only brotherly/sisterly vibes. I brings to my mind a poster I saw not long after.. The Grateful Dead - Jesus's children of Paradise.

The singing is totally out of tune.

Guava jelly:the singing is out of tune? you just don’t get it!

Vanessa Orchowski what is she doing outside on the ground?

@@comradeelmo5739 Maybe having a direct connection to Mother Earth.

Samuel Paperman is it really tho?

Jimmy Chimpo yeah

My two month old daughter loves the Dead too. Starts smiling and shaking her little feet whenever I play Sugaree for her.

Agree with you lindsay. I truly think the dead were peaked in 72-74. Jerry really peaked by 75. And jerry garcia band was born.. love everything jerry did musically. He was the best.

👍😊🍄😆🍄👍

that's the point of them

Hehe!!

LOL !!

Yeah he is one of the unsung heroes of the strat , I guess cuz he moved on, but his bends were so beautiful on a strat.

Designer guitars just like designer drugs, they are killing rock and roll. I absolutely agree, nothing was better than Jerry on a strat

yes it’s the bends he did on the strat

.....AND LEAVE IT ON.

Actually they brought me here to hear the Dead original.

@@chamicels Very cool. Like a circle or cycle completing itself. If only naked pole dancing guy would have reprised his Veneta performance for Mikaela and Southern Star. On second thought, maybe not!

@@georgestevens1502 haha

Yes sir, it is sublime, and Mikaela’s harp and singing in a harmony different from the original really gives it another dimension. They definitely get it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5qUVeY3FTk0.html

Laughy face emoji

True genius is rare.

err. Metheney, Scofield, Joe Pass, George Benson, BB King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Could name a few more that i can identify in 3 notes, ore even one note but Ill leave it there

Santana and he's still playing

i'm not sure but i am pretty confident that he is my grandfather. passed away 10-11 years ago sadly.

Disgust for the exhibitionist .... putting himself above everyone, even the Dead.

Amen brother. Like breaking through into another dimension and feeling back home again but without ever leaving or arriving...

You can tell it was 105 by Billy's sweat drenched conductors cap

What was it like experiencing that day at 105 degrees? Hot and groovy, I presume?

@@jonathansheldon6499 There was someone at the entrance to the field handing out blotter acid; a small square of paper no bigger than your thumbnail soaked in acid. I didn't notice the heat. It was amazing to be able to walk up to the front of the stage at will and see what Jerry and Bobby were doing up close.

@@georgestevens1502 You didn't get within 50 feet of the stage, the Hell's Angels idea of stage security was to fence off the stage for about 50ft from side to side, park their rides in there, and hang out. I saw a couple a guys get thrown out, over the fence, then people stopped even trying to get close to the stage.

@@georgedennison3338 The video of the entire Dead portion of this concert doesn't show any ot that; it shows people getting close to the stage; there was no Altamont vibe at all; even at 50 feet that's pretty close to the stage. Where in the video does it show Hells Angels and their bikes in front of the stage? Give a time marker so it can be looked up.

There was a decent crowd that day it was a festival

People find them in all sorts of ways, from all sorts of angles. I'm glad you found them. Some folks never do.

Better late than never - Welcome on board

I'm about that age. Hard to imagine my life without the dead woven in since I was about fourteen or so but a part of me is a bit jealous of being able to discover it for the first time. OTOH I have hundreds of shows and haven't listened to much past 1978 in years so I got something to keep me going for a couple more decades at least.

Me and Dead, 1966. Doesn't matter when, Jeffrey. As we all know, what matters is now.

@@williamgrumm7252 Indeed, to be here now.

Still missed. My 1st show was just a month later in Philadelphia. I was off on an adventure that lasted 20 years. Seems like it was just yesterday. Keep Smiling.

Love yous both!!!

Scot Gallagher do you know Shawn Gallagher?

"Celebrating...Beer and weed..." If that's what is takes for you to celebrate, you're in need of some psych help. If there is one thing RU-vid has taught me, it's that there's a hell of a lot of mentally ill motherf*ckers out there. too many...all the people who need drugs to celebrate; those who are proud to note they have to get high, stoned, whatever to listen to music; the really sick ex-military pricks who loudly proclaim they used to listen to this or that band or song when going out to murder people...We live in a f*cked up world of people who are so f*cked up they don't realize (and don't care) how f*cked up they are and how they're f*cking it up for everyone else.

@@jankafka7330 whats you talkin bout Willis? I like your kitty though.

I want to fly a 747

And no live feed on this recording.

Definitely up there with "Reckonings" version bird song,my opinion