When down I found that listening to the Dead would restore my spirit. The GD became my most effective antidepressant. For years I tried to figure this out and then one day listening to Stella Blue a thought charged into my mind, "Jerry's guitar sounds happy even when he plays the blues." Eureka, that's it. Jerry plays a Happy Guitar. Add that to the smile and BOOM, the ultimate antidepressant. Smile on.
So awesome to get to see him playing Tiger again. There are so many great performances archived on YT. Again it’s so awesome to be able to see Jerry playing Alligator or Wolf or Tiger, rosebud & lightning bolt. Each with their own unique sound & vibe that Jerry brings out masterfully. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand in end
@@bcpiet60 i am not 100 percent sure but its a safe bet he used tiger for most of if not all of the early and mid and even into the later 80s when rosebud came in. Wolf and lightning are my favs sooo crisp and clean braaaahhh.
Seeing the Dead was an experience second to none, living on the road, following them all over this great country of ours was by far the highlight of my life, thus far, I fukenmissem everyday. Can't wait to see you all on that Golden Road some time from now. If I've ever experienced a time in our history that needed a band like them it's now. Thank you Jerry, Bobby, Billy, Phil, Mickey, and Brent, as well as, Vince you made my younger self young forever!
Sam you lucky deadhead man,i nver seen the magic live.Thats why we younger deadheads,not saying your old brother,love to here what your trip was like.Much love and respect to you and yours.And deadheads worldwide remember we are ever Where.
I was lucky enough to have seen one of the Deads last shows (3 rivers) literally changed the entire course of my life. Feel absolutely blessed to have seen that show. Things had certainly gone way downhill by that point, can't even begin to imagine what the earlier years were like. Those days are long gone, I thank God every day for the time I spent chasing music in my younger years. Got to meet a million wonderful people, have a million stories to tell...and ten million that will never be told. Long live the GD.
@@berryseinfeld6772 I love this! If you want a truly mind blowing acoustic Jerry experience search up Jerry Garcia and John Kahn at Oregon State Penitentiary. It’s here on YT. They went to play there at the prison because Owsley was locked up there. It’s life changing.
It always amazes me how they transition from one song to another from one note to another. They don't even have to look at each other. They just know. It's all one song.
I’ve always used the word “elegant” to describe the way Garcia slides around the guitar neck and adds extra surprise notes here & there in his solos... first time I saw him play live I was hooked!
@@frankmurphy8567 that's OK to not care for it. But the rest of us really do love it. Rather than be offensive and rude just don't watch it or comment. Have a good day brother.
Grateful to be at this show in NYC, $100 bucks for a ticket, I saved money for 3 weeks to go down. Stayed sober because I knew I would want to remember this show. Can't say the same for my buddy Brad, he had a great time also.
a few years ago my buddy Brad was at a Wilco show at RCMH, standing out back he ran into Jeff Tweedy and the band smoking cigs. They asked Brad if he had ever seen a rock concert at the hall and he told them about the dead in 1980. They freaked out that he was actually at this show!!
Was at this show, , 40yrs. ago, just about to THE DAY !!! AND returned to the scene, 10-31-19 for 'Dead & Co.'.... and 'the music WILL NEVER stop!!!!!!
That rhythm guitar playing from Bob in Shakedown Street is fantastic. Give that song one extra listen and just listen to the rhythm guitar. What a musician.
After readin' a few hundred of these I need to put my two cents in here. to begin with I am 72 now. Saw my first show as the closing of the joint in SF. The name of the place is gone right now. It happens when u get to 72. From that show til one in Prov RI '85 I saw 153 shows. A few stick out like the one in Syr NY '82 where fifteen minutes before the show Howie and I got front row seats center stage b/c someone decided not to come to the show. It was that might that I meant the love of my life. This was a sit down show but no one sat. Two girls had somehow gotten down to stand in front of Howie and I. They were pretty little things so neither of us minded them being there. They were rubbing their asses up against us all through the show. It was not until after the show we even learned their names. The funny thing was they too were from RI where I had been living for a year then. Howie and I were living up on Observatory Ave in a house known as the Observatory commun. The girls were from Cranston. That summer Betsy and I set up Living together on the west side just a block form PC in a triplex that was an historical building. She had money. Her father had died when she was 25 and left her, her sister and Ma vry will off. This meant that I didn't have to work. But I did just to fill my time. the triplex and the one next to it where the first two built on the west side. Both were in poor shape. The man we rented form for four yrs was a rich lawyer who bought them to restore. This is the work I id while we lived there. By myself I brought them back to their original mid Victorian glory. By the way we were of the same age Betsy and I. Just 33 that wonderful spring we meet. I had only 15 yrs with her. She pasted in '97. We left RI in '87 after we adopted our twin girls who where just a year & a half. We did not want to raise them in a city so we moved back to my home county of Steuben NY where we bought a large farm (500 acres of burned out potato land). We went to raising grass fed beef on it. Over the years the kids and I have expanded the farm to 800 acres & gone into chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, ducks, geese & turkeys. My girls are still with me. Neither of them have a full time man. The little one (4'11") has one child and has no more use for sex while the tall one (5'8") has three and has dif man every month. Me I have lived with no woman but Betsy. She was the only woman I vry found who was worth her salt. So Kids the dead brought me a lot more then wonderful music. They got me the love of my life and two wonderful Kids and four great grand kids. I have many more stories to tell of my shows like the fact that I never went to a show with a ticket in hand and I never missed a show I went to.
In 1972 I went to a Jerry Garcia Band concert in Eugene, Oregon with no ticket. Sold out show, apparently, alas. The really quite beautiful woman at door said to me, I think you need this concert, and let me in, no ticket. Frankly I still don't understand that, but I'm glad it happened.
You have to admit , the Dead is timeless So cool to watch and listen ! I still miss Jerry , as I only saw the Dead with Jerry Playing a handful of times , then it was Ratdog, Further, Dead and Company
You're one of the lucky few human beings in the history of humanity to have seen Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead. I started liking the Dead in the early 2000s... Officially became a Deadhead in 2014/2015 so I even missed Ratdog 😔 For me the live shows have been all JRAD, Dead & Co, the Cause, Grateful Shred, Dark Star Orchestra, & Brown Eyed Women (whose bassist is amazing, BTW! Check her out!). I'm not complaining, but I'd pay a lot of money for a sphere I can walk into and experience past Grateful Dead concerts as if I were actually there (with VR/AR/AI technology) - with the same volume and quality of sights and sounds and the ability to walk around and dance (and even talk to people who were there). I hope those types of devices exist before I die! I did check off one bucket list item this year (VIP pit ticket for Dead & Co @ Deer Creek!!). Many more to check off -- hopefully soon! 😁🤘✌️⚡☠️
@@kevmichael2064 it's funny because I'm glad they didn't. When I want electric blues I have the dead when I want disco I have the dead wheen I want rockabilly again I have the dead reggae dead etc etc. They just, to me, make any genre they touch enjoyable. It's what made them what they are to millions.
@@brianfisher6165 y'all are so lucky I was born a month after Jerry Died 😭. Still Grateful I can listen to pretty much any show that was ever played though through the archives!
The energy in this is just incredible! So positive, so fun, so scintillating. Brilliant, just brilliant! Thanks guys for tumbling into my life when I was 14 and opening my mind to a wider world.
Oh how I wished I was there! I was the sound guy in SF at the Warfield when we taped all the Franken & Davis stuff, awesome in itself, but Acoustic Dead! My first shows were ten years previous, Fillmore East, when the line up was Acoustic Dead, New Riders (Jerry on pedal steel, Micky on drums), followed by Electric Dead. Sheer bliss!
I love how Billy and Micky trade off on the mini drum kit and the hand percussion kit...I have seen parts of this a bunch of times but never really noticed before...The film editing is done so you really don't see the switching back and forth...Thanks for posting all these awesome shows!...
@@markdebonis1077 Check the back of the vinyl copy of "Greatful Dead", aka "Grateful Dead Live" ot"Skull and Roses" or "Skull Fuck", and you will see the following words printed in black and white: "DEAD FREAKS UNITE Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed Dead Heads P.O. Box 1065 San Rafael, California 94901." The only thing certain about certainty is its inherent uncertainty.
I’ve been into this by myself most of the time now because I lost a lot of my Deadheads friends so may it b as it is because I still have these concerts for myself + my heart only ! ❤
Long live the dead. This year would have been so much harder if i had never heard of them. Jehovah's favorite choir. I cant wait to see all of you again. 🎸 💀 🎶
"Hey, Hey, Henry K How many folks did you bomb today? Hey, Hey, Henry K How many troops did you kill today? Hey, Hey, Henry K How much Agent Orange Did you spray today? When you were down On your knees Prayin' with Nixon Did you also pray For the souls You were "fixin'"?
I agree ! I never have gotten over Jerry ! We were inlove but couldn’t get away from him ,ihigh on ectacy was 2 years on it having a good time but my mind was always on Jerry he is my soul mate ,he loved my hands because I was born with Crocker fingers only the little ones ,❤️🕊🐇🎵🎹🎼🎶🕊🏴☠️🌹🌹😘🥰😍😥
I met a girl at the Lewiston Maine outdoor concert so when we were in California we got to stay 2 more weeks so we could b there more ! Then Jerry took me to his shows then back to the concert ! What a grateful trip it was for us ! 😆😁😂🤣😍🥰😘😍🥰😘
I used to have this on VHS back in the late 1980s. Lots of stuff on here I never saw. I understand there are certain parts of this film that are still left out to this day.
Thank you for sharing this♥️ I am enjoying it so much. I am trying to remember the last time I saw the grateful dead. I can't for some reason. I can remember the first time though! It was just after PigPen passed. What an incredible show. This show here is giving me goose bumps! It is making me very happy! So a big thanks. And hugs to everyone. This is great ♥️🎶🎶🎶
I remember watching this on Showtime in 1981. Haven't seen it since (completely forgot that Franken & Davis hosted that show). Thanks for posting it here. 👍
Hey man pssst....little known trick; Vaseline. Vaseline rubbed into the scratches on CDs and DVDs will fix any scratch. Toothpaste too. No shit. Give it a try. Your welcome ✌️
A very happy 81st birthday to Philip Chapman Lesh March 15, 1940. And many, many more to come. What can I say which hasn't already been said about Phil??
Of course the date I have now @ this show is December 18 , 2023 but I love u my old friend ! ❤️💜💗💓💘🩵💝💖❣️💕💞❤️🩹💔🤍🤎🩶🖤💙🐰🐇🌹all hearts out to u + family ! From Vinalhaven Maine !
I'm 48 years of age and I'm sitting here in our kitchen with my 35 year old fiance watching this gem while she's watching the latest news about the Afghanistan disaster. I must say I'm glad to be able to escape into the past where of course everything was better :)) To keep my sanity in this mad world and I feel sorry for the generations after me who can't do the same. Even Pot won't do the same to them as to us.
You bet we schooled those generations well tho daddyO. The only reason i still have hope for this shit show we got going on, right here, rights now. I'm 60. No great grand kids yet. Kinda good when ya think about it. As if by design, he's gone just came on. Peace Big O. Love from Peggy O.
That Opening Song..iS Cool...this the best concert thay did...Country Folk Rock is their best...i wish thay kept it like this....Ripple ...Uncle Johns Band etc
Most definitely! My 1st concert, I saw David Bowie @ MSG in '75 as a freshman in H.S. Got introduced to the Dead a few yrs later. Saw them as much as possible. Only other shows after that were The JG Band, Bobby & the Midnites, Phil Lesh & Friends, The Band, etc. After Jerry left way too young, I saw The Dead and Furthur! Have not been to any Dead & Company shows yet. I'm constantly listening to the Grateful Dead, have a collection of memorabilia from the '60s on!!
Watching this on New Year’s Eve 2021. I was at this show when I was 20. What’s most alarming is that Jerry is only 38, a worn 38 too. Phil conversely is 41, and didn’t really age for the next 30 years Here I am, almost 62, and being thankful the Dead left this legacy for the fans.. Amazing, how life can be.
Perhaps their best version of "Bird Song" ever, Acoustic or Electric. The 1st set took me places I never thought an Acoustic set could take me, and set the stage for the rest of the show. "Dead Ahead" is still one of the Dead's most Psychedelic video performances ever released to this day. Drop a tab and take the journey! Get back on that Road again!!
Thats the kicker, you can always count on Brent and Jerry to pop out something crispy on LRR. Finding one, however, with both of them on fire and Bobby not butchering the slide is rare for sure haha. (No bobby hate here I love his goofy slide screw ups but this one is on point!)
This is one of the NYC Radio City Music Hall shows in October 1980. Not Madison Square Garden. Discovered Dead at 14 in 1973. 21 year old me was at this Radio City show. Great times.
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