I was blessed to see the Dead twice. Once in New Haven, Ct. 1970 something. It was a riot. No NO, I mean a REAL riot, with TG and batons! The other one was in Park West, Utah 1980 something. NOT a riot! It was 3 days of 24/7 French toast, served out of School bus in the parking lot! There was no schedule, the band played night and day. I don't think they ever stopped. I sure dint. BEST TIME EVER!
How anyone could see the greatest band in the universe only twice when the opportunity was there to see them many more times obviously after 1970 something just blows my mind Kurt!! What gives? You couldn't have been that busy that you couldnt have tried to experience that "BEST TIME EVER" a few more times..What gives brother?? GD was around till mid 90's ..
I was very fortunate to have seen the Grateful Dead at least a few times every year from 1978 to 1995. I have been able to see everything from Further Festivals, Ratdog, Phil and friends, The DEAD, Rhythm Devils, Future, and DEAD and Company. When they announced that 2023 would be the last time that they would Tour it Broke MY Heart to think that this could be the last time that I was going to be able to see MY BROTHERS and SISTERS that I have met over the last 45 years of being on the road every summer since I was a teenager. I know that there's many other bands that do what they did......... But there is NOTHING like getting a few of your friends together in the dead of winter here in Minnesota and planning your summer road trip to see as many shows that we could get to in a 2-3 week time frame. Then we would have to start to plan the whole Tour and the Trip of a Life time and see what ever we could do during this 2-3 weeks of our summer.
I’m sure you could go full nut and set up in front of their houses and sell grilled cheese and walk around with a finger in the air looking for that one miracle! If it were me I’d come out hug you and bring you in and hang for a few!
I was at this show…Friday, 10/14/94 at MSG!! The band opened the show with a most memorable Jack Straw. Regardless whether this Scarlet-Fire was or wasn’t their longest, still great and timeless! Thanks for posting!
Nothing better then listening to the show you were at !! N I always loved seeing a few in a row n loving rating them. Great problems of using my vac days at work to make it happen.
I was listening to Zappa- Advance Romance and RU-vid played this next. It brought a tear to my eye of all the long, strange trips with Jerry, Bobby, and Phil. I didn't start seeing them until '85, but at least 50 shows until 94. Spent my Mom's 50th with her at Laguna Seca, CA melting the daze away. 🥴 They will forever be the masters of jams. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
What a wonderful memory with your mom for her 50th, excellent! Yeah, similar here was listening to something & this came on next, definitely got misty eyed. Was there in multiple venues this tour. The music will never stop, keep on truckin friend! 👌💜💙💚💎🌞
❤️⚡💙, sound like me bro. Zappa and Jerry gone, I remember thinking when Jerry passed, Frank gone, now Jerry, what's a head to do. I turned my gaze to Mark Knoffler and was feeling better. The album that brought me out of it was " All the Roadrunning", check it out, very emotional but set me right musically again. ✌️❤️⚡💙🎸
This is NOT the "longest Scarlet-Fire ever". That honor goes to 11/1/79 Nassau. That one clocks in a bit over 34 minutes, and every single minute is pure gold. A top 3 version.
I was at that show at MSG in 94. The Scarlet Fire was epic...but then they played Way to Go Home and it sucked the energy out of the place. If they played something good like Estimated or Playing it could have been a classic
I'm a teacher so sometimes we listen to music while we work This day I let the kids each pick a song...if I could.pick the first one for the next day. Tuesday morning we started the day with this.😊
@@toddmorrissey8372 I thought the Touch Of Grey MTV sell out was the dumbest thing the band did until....Vince! They were in a hurry to get anyone with high harmony so they wouldn't have to cancel the fall tour like they did in 86 when Jerry collapsed. It was a money decision that destroyed their sound. Yes ANY Brent over ANY Vince ANY day. 😉✌️💨💨💨
The Grateful Dead mail order envelope brought a GIANT smile on my face....I remember as a kid always adding a note to please give me floor seats for at least 1 show....they always did...i like to believe my note had something to do with it lol ✌️😎
What a miracle! These guys, on this stone, in our time creating joy pieced together from vibrations as a gift to the world. I am so lucky to have witnessed it. One last (?) run this summer. I can hardly wait...
So so sweet. Relentlessly. That's the best crowd reaction I have ever heard recorded or live, with the DeadHeads riding, pulsating throbbing writhing sweating and GRATEFUL....SUBSCRIBED..PeaceOrElse
I loved the garden shows still. coliseum in the spring garden end o summer, still have my tics for the 95 shows that never happened. I miss him every day Natalie we are not alone.
90's dead is a unique beast, with much sophistication and depth. Each year is completely different and each year has stellar shows, yes, even 95. Shoot, spring 93 might be the musical pinnacle of the dead's performance career... def my favorite year/tour for best guitar playing from Jerry!!
@Rogério dude!! I was JUST going over that show! It is a monster and one of my favorite shows! The 15 minute playing and then that MONSTER jam after uncle johns band. It's crazy. Yes, the sugaree too. Glad to know there are other 95 dead aficianados out there
Wow, had forgotten about the mail-in ticket sales for the Dead's early shows! Saw a bunch of shows 72-early 80's. It was always an adventure of listening and experiencing where the band where going that night. Always sublime, full of unexpected turns and yes mistakes! And probably the best PA ever during the wall of speakers era in the mid 70's. Ignore the Dead detractors, it never was about showing off...shut up and listen with the band each night!
This was the first birthday show I was able to see. Very short first set, some thought it would be an off show. Long scarlet, weird whiny jam after first verse of Fire went on forever. I remember the firebreather letting out a big plume of fire on the floor as Fire erupted. Loved the jams, they just went on forever.
That weird jam was wailing; he was getting more ethereal, closer to the other side. He knew it was almost the end of the road. He was over the old stuff. Seems like letting angels, ie:,: *grateful dead*, to sing through those guitar strings, And/or it could have been the soundtrack to the scuba vacation he wanted to be on but was denied by the corporation. 🤐
FINALLY! Someone mentions that guy on the floor that did that. I thought it was a lighter that had been opened up. Fire-breather, you say? Kinda makes more sense.
Jon Woll, you are exactly right! Played my first gig in months yesterday with my beautiful friends. Slept over 10-hours for the first time in six months - leaving a kidney in Pittsburgh, and my "joie de vivre" by the side of the road. Radiation. Black-coffee mornings, way before dawn and more like that. Listening now to this blessedly long version of Grateful Dead's Scarlet Begonias/Fire On The Mountain and I've got tears running down my face. What a strange trip, indeed. I think I'm happy. Don't pinch me.
In 1969 the boys played 4 or 5 songs in 35 minutes , I think some members of nrps were on stage fooling around with them , remember I was 13 that summer , just learning I was growing a memory
I went to 2 of the Dead Shows, 2 of them are wonderful memories. The 3rd show was in Aneheim, Ca.also a memory, I never got into the show as I ate 10 hits of some purple pyramid. What a trip. Lol
No, there is a longer and better version. The version of Scarlet Begonias > Fire On the Mountain, performed on November first, 1979, is more than 35 minutes long! Check it out on the Grateful Dead Archives.
Wasn't this the show where someone lit flash paper 20 feet into the air during the first chorus of FOTM? Huge roar from the crowd!! There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Concert. 🌹🍄💀🍄🌹
Rember strangers stoping strangers just to shake thair hand because everyone through the world should be part of that hart of gold band ❤ ain’t no time to hate we are all gods children no matter what the cooler our skin is or what way worship god because one day we are all are going to answer to him
I don’t want to hear anymore BS about the 90’ s not living up; 32:34 this right here is liquid gold, if you don’t recognize it, I’m dumbfounded; as I have listened to shows from the 60’s to now a thousand times or two and have been blessed to have seen a few along the way …
wow! Wow !! WOW !!! moving . my soundtrack to a scathing post on congressman jim jordan , as I kept to the beat . Insurrectionist and guilty of Sedition ?!
this is good stuff, but it's not remotely the longest Scarlet-> Fire. Nassau, 11/01/1979 is 38 minutes and 56 seconds and every second of it is amazing. No one will ever convince me that Jerry and Brent hadn't indulged in some of Owsley's finest that night.
So true! Even when you think you do. Check this out: 7/9/89 Giants stadium, Truckin. I'm feeling lifted a couple weeks ago jamming it loud in the yard, dancing, and at the big note of Truckin, you know, BOOOOOOM..... I'm ready to crush it on air guitar lol, and they don't hit it hard AT ALL. Then it comes round again, and I think, "ok, this time they'll hit it hard". Nope. Not the third time either. I think "that's weird, I wonder what's up..." about 5 seconds later Jerry hits the gnarliest nastiest effect pedal and just goes off, ending up in what I'm pretty sure is an unlabeled Caution Jam, for like 10 minutes SO freakin good. It started when I had no idea what that next note was going to sound like.🤯 At the very end of NFA he plays these 3-4 repeated screaming notes that sound straight out of a 69 Other One. relisten.net/grateful-dead/1989/07/09
sorry to bother you.; you REALLY have to stop calling this the longest Scarlet-Fire ever. It is NOT the longest Scarlet-Buyer ever. As I mentioned ina n earlier note, 11/01/1979 (Nassau) is longer. So is 10/14/1994 (MSG) I don't have time or energy to chase down even more Scarlet-Fire that are longer than this. Just call this a great version and let it go at that.
With Jerry mostly at a loss for musical ideas (or at least, new ones), Phil and Billy carry the band. Mickey, who usually keyed off Jerry, is unusually subdued on his wonderful song "Fire on the Mountain". Very interesting late Grateful Dead!
Jer was never lost for musical ldeas he was that driving forse. Behind that univers called the great fuldead. And it’s up to pestle like myself. Who seen jer play hundreds of times Never a loss for musical ideas. Shour your not having a bad trip
@@toddmorrissey8372 I did not know that. My impression of Mickey was formed in an earlier era, when he watched Jerry like a hawk, and instantaneously translated rhythmic changes in the lead into drum beats. This psychic ability, along with the way he could unexpectedly insert fills into microscopic time intervals, made and makes Mickey my favorite drummer of all time.
Moontrolling field notes 10/14/94 is NOT "the longest Scarlet Fire" That title belongs to 11/1/79 Nassau just a few seconds over 35 minutes. When are you going to fix the title of this?
I stopped seeing them after a couple disappointing shows a few years prior. Not good enough... Ill shut up now. Not really. Beautiful mix of high energy from the full band contrasted with a dreamy exploratory night for Jerry Garcia. Kind of reminds me of early Fire on the Mountain versions from from the seventies. I didn't see that era either because I was busy learning how to spell and pick my nose. Anyway I'm glad you kids got your share in 1994 I didn't know anything so high-energy was happening with the band I'm glad they had a really on night and I hope there are a lot more I also don't know about.
This is also not the greatest Scarlet > Fire ever. Even though it's long, it's rushed... and Vince never found a way to really make the keys work. I've played along with well over 100 of them on my bass, and this just isn't anywhere near Copps 1990, JFK 1989, Cornell 1977, Winterland 1974, etc. Thanks for sharing it, regardless.