This has been my favorite song of all time for at least 5 years now. I'm currently 15. Discovering Grateful Dead in a place where no one's ever heard of this band is the best experience I've had with music so far.
I absolutely love the back & forth between JERRY & BRENT THEY LET IT GROW TO WERE ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS A LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND ONE OR THE OTHER TOOK OVER.
THREE GUITARS , TWO DRUMMERS AND ONE ORGAN ... 3, 2, 1, AND GO ... WHATS NOT TO LIKE ?! I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD THAT THE "DEAD" EXIST SO THAT SOME OF US CAN LIVE , AND ENJOY THIER MUSIC !... THANK YOU JERRY AND ALL OF YOU GREAT MUSICIANS THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE US JUST SO WE COULD LISTEN ..!🎻🎹🎶🎵🎼📼🎧
What is awesome is that towards the end of his first solo, Jerry changes keys to an obscure minor chord and then resolves and dove tails it into the harmony........ I was there, I think I lost my mind a 100 times during this show.
I'm with you absolutely. But I just wish he played more grand piano than keyboards with Midi back then...Keith played mainly the grand piano and I just loved that sound.
So nice to see Jerry having fun onstage instead of staring at the patterns on the rug like he did in the post-Brent years..was so painfully obvious to see how much he missed playing with him 😔
@@timothy3732 So in the 90s, Jerry was using 'rat,' or smokable heroin. 'Stoned' or 'high' doesn't really get it--more like he was on the nod--and at least the shows that I saw then, he just looked tired.
This is one of the best live rock/blues/boogie performances in existence. If were teleported to this show and didn't absolutely get the funk down then you must have no soul! Jerr and the boys absolutely cooking with oil, love the lil' rhythmic spotlight bobby gets...before his tone turned into a Line 6 starter pack amp preset.
Was at several of these Alpine gigs but to relive them here is cool. So at 2:18 to see Jerry raise his eyebrows as a "wink" to Brent...as a "get ready...your up next" then at 2:38 nods and steps back... All the stage eye contact is great to watch here.
One of their peaks for sure... 89 was a great year for the dead. I love the '72 and '74 shows too, Pigpen will always have his place in my heart, some songs just weren't the same without him, and '74 is one of my favorite Keith years personally, even though he did a lot with them even back in 72 he really came into his own by 74 in my opinion.. And yet there are so many other good years too... So much good music, so much good lovin' :)
i know its been 7 years and all, but i have to say they took most of pigpens songs out of rotation in the years after his passing. you really can not replace the soul and suffering of a voice like pens, especially on the same songs
The only one I can think of that they ended up bringing back was “Turn On Your Lovelight,” which I don’t think was played often, at all. I guess they also added “Good Lovin,” back as well, but that was a cover in the first place (even tho Pigpen made the song his)...
This is great. '94 or so, its my birthday on a Friday and KFOG is on the work stereo. Mentioned my BD (5/28/57) was the day MLB voted to move The Giants from NY to SF. fan thru the years, handful of games attended. Crummy morning so called the station to thank them for the "This Day In History". Dave asked if i wanted a song played. Wanted "Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad" . Skull and Roses is like 9 minutes and change. He couldn't spare the time. I got it.
I was spotlight number six, above the stage, for two of the three nights they were there. Alpine Valley locked out the union years before, and Gerry's mom was a union leader. The Dead always use union crews. I just happened to be available when a classmate was looking for people to be on the crew. Free food all day, lots of hard work, and working the spotlight on Lesh for one of his solos. Coolest thing I ever did. It was so much fun.
This was my favorite song to play with my band, Alligator. I was the best drummer the ever had. They were playing one night, so i told the guy in the band i grew up with, (im better than then that guy). One rehearsal, before we played the out, not bad, considering I'd never played a Dead song before!!
@wsj160. I believe it was because of the scene. I mean u have three shows and camping on the grounds. It was a fucking lock down for three fucking days man! Heads pitching their tents on the putting greens on the golf course behind the stage. No one gave a shit and as a result there was no trouble. Although that was the last time they ever allowed camping at alpine valley again. So be it...
Love Dead & Company, but nothing they play has the same drive and energy as this. I get they are all coming along in the years now and moving fast for a long time is not easy at any age but damn... what I wouldn’t give to just go wild to a Deal or Goin Down the Road with Jerry, just once...
@blewj Two drummer dead is where it's at. Mickey made the band so full. But if you prefer one drummer dead im telling you to check out furthur if you already havn't. they are fucking insane and the drummer will blow your mind.
Booby is truly a useless rhythm guitar player. He was almost fired in the early days because he couldn't learn chords. He is one of the least consequential musicians in rock history.
+bart man (bartman420) I get it so hard. Only saw Jerry once when I was 10 but the music has been in my life forever. This is my hands down favorite version of GDTRFB
I love “the moment” between Jerry and Brent. Brent noticed Jerry starting to fall behind a bit and threw a tasty riff to pull him back on time. Then Jerry gives him the look and Brent just tears a hole in the sky with the solo Jerry gives up to him out of gratitude.
@@schwoschwoberg584 if I saw an apple as blue and you saw it as red, we'd both be seeing the same apple someone else might call green. Whatever the hue, it's definitely there for everyone to notice.
Does it get any better?!?! Jerry and Brent exchanging those looks. What a special time. As they say, "The Grateful Dead weren't the best at what they did, they were the only ones to do it!" Hope everyone is doing well and sharin' in the groove :)
Must've been good dope among the cornfields in Lake Geneva this summer because this was the last time that these guy's played this strong for 3 shows in a row. And after brent passed they only played 3 shows total that were good up till jerry checked out. Jerry still loved to play in his band in fact if you wanted to see jerry happy and enjoying himself on stage you had to catch JGB shows. He was just going thru the motions with the dead and it was painfully obvious. It bothers me to say this but ya gotta be honest. I was fortunate to have seen 375 shows from keith and donna day's thru brents day's. The band was pretty weak after brent passed.
I agree, it seemed that after Brent passed Jerry was sort of bored. Sort of like Brent was the one musician that could keep him on his toes - like a dueling banjos type of thing. Sadly, Vince and Bruce combined do not even come close to Brent, in both vocals and playing.
IMHO, Bob Weir is underrated and under appreciated. It is his pulsating rhythmic chords that provide the backing for Jerry Garcia to soar into the heavens. And let's not forget Phil Lesh's beautiful bass guitar playing. Now I, as many others do, idolize Jerry Garcia. He is my hero and one of the best guitar players to ever pick up the instrument but his virtuosity has firm underpinnings in the background set by Bob Weir and Phil Lesh. And Bill Kreutzman, too.
Bobby’s rhythm guitar gets shafted in a lot of recordings. Which is a damn shame, bc when his rhythm guitar is present in the mix, it adds an entire new dimension to the experience bc his playing is so unothrodox for someone in a rhythm guitarist position...
