Don't want to brag but I was at all 5 shows. It was farewell to the wall of sound. On the fifth night, Mikey Hart rejoined the band after leaving in the wake of his father ripping off the band a few years earlier. I think I sat in the front row of the balcony most nights taping these shows on a Nakamichi tape recorder. This was before taping was allowed and we had to smuggle our gear past Winterland security. Still friends with the guys I went to these shows with. What a long strange trip indeed...In 2023, one of the three Mad Tapers sadly passed away. But the two of us who are still here trekked to Vegas for a couple of Sphere shows without him. The music never stops...
Duckie, may I recommend, as a long time fan, that you catch Phil Lesh live at the earliest possible convenience. If you have not already done so. There is no substitute for the real thing, in person...
We are coming up on 50 years since this performance. What a wild thing to think. And it's still so relevant and impactful to so many. New heads are getting turned on everyday by the sonic tapestry the boys weaved through the decades. What an incredible time to be alive. ❤❤❤❤
Tapestry called free. People making their own…living loving forever ❤. Get some on you and spread it. “Leave it on!”.🎉 Another Ron once said. “Without a warning…”
You know that moment when the music washes over you and you feel like you're in a different place. You can feel the stress of the day completely leave your body. It almost brings tears to my eyes.
That feeling of perfect peace walking out on to Post Street after the concert was incomparable! They blasted us off, flew us around and gently deposited us back.
You described every Grateful Dead concert I ever attended. Even in the so called later days of Jerry. The shows, the music, the whole scene was that transcendent. It was soul lifting, indeed. And Jerry was awesome, right to the end. Imho.
Another classic by far grateful dead piece of. similavr to a Rembrandt, seems everywhere this piece was performed live, morn dew just happens bridge th gsp between/7
Yeah, for sure in my Top 5 favorite Dew.. Jerrys singing is perfection, the Band completely in sync - Jerry unfurling waves of goodness from his gtar. Miss you Big Man..
It was designed out of necessity because their entire speaker system, known as the Wall Of Sound was located behind them. It was the premier sound system of the time. Most bands sounded like garbage in big halls, so they developed this system to get over the crowd without distortion. It's pretty amazing, including the fact that each musician has his own stacks of speakers, the out of phase mics, and even a quadrophonic soundboard.
This song is so powerful and moving, there is something otherworldly about it. It took me almost 50 years, but I finally "get" the whole "Deadhead" thing now. Better late than never, right?
When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was a proud punk and scorned the Dead. Later, I worked in the music biz, with a lot of indie/alt/punk musicians in the 90's. Fast forward to 2010, and I had a shit life year and somehow spent hours, just hours, listening to the Dead on archive.org and posted something about that on FB. This ancient punk guy, famous musician, says "we all shit on them at the time, but the terrible secret is that the music is very, very good." Couldn't say it any better.
Transformational and the reason we are ALL here. Thank you David for sharing the magic with the kind folks who love it the most. BTW, who the hell disliked this video! Repent!
There's just something about Morning Dew... no matter what my train of thought is, as soon as I hear that opening chord I am snapped right out of it and just *present* for the song. This channel - and in particular this project to roll out video from the vault - is a freaking gift, thank you!
Y'know? You're right. There is something ineffable about Morning Dew that makes it, somehow, more than it is. Did you know this was the first song Bonnie Dobson ever wrote? She was 18 at the time, and we all lived under the nuclear shadow of the Cold War. [Side note: Actually got to see her perform, and meet her, when we were traveling in the UK last fall. An absolutely delightful warm, open hearted, and generous woman who, by the way, is still in fine voice to this day (much to her own surprise). I don't think she exactly understands the whole Dead phenomenon, but she does appreciate that her song continues to mean a lot to many, many people who barely, if at all, know who she is.]
The song was performed and sang by Jerry as a way to seriously bring you back from a hardcore Trip...bring ya back to Planet Earth and relax the Brain...( I"m gonna be ok :)))
Practically the most powerful chord that exists in the deads music. That opening D sucks everyone in. You could hear a pin drop it’s just so Emotional it takes me places my mind didn’t think existex
It seems like this song had the same effect on the band too. Every version of this song I hear is very focused and present, no matter what year it's from.
Grateful Dead helped me battle the COVID days. I would just sit there and listen to them, specially morning dew. I feel like thanks to them those day were bearable.
Its hard because I think about the people who were so close to me. Morning Dew is one of those tunes. Jerry died on August 1st. And I am NO one special by any means but Jerry died on my birthday- August 9th. I have dreams. I have wonderful feelings but death is death and may he be in peace- as WE ALL so need it right now. ॐ I was 15. But ya know- I still believe. For each human being. God knows.
@@stacyblue1980 my dad brought me to my first and last dead show In June of 95' my dad died a month later July 8th and Jerry month later. I was 12. Best memory I have of my dad was watching him dance and trip at that show!!! Oh the times we would've had when I reached my teenage years! But yes, I feel a real deep connection w the GD for that awesome time I shared w my dad 1 month before he passed. Miss ya pops. Miss ya Jerry My love will not fade away!
This may be the greatest example of what the Grateful Dead was all about that I've ever seen in my forty years of being a deadhead. Gives me chills and makes me cry all at the same time.
I keep coming back to this Winterland run because nothing can touch the ambiance and music. Would be hard to find anything else which presents in such amazing Light (and quality).
My husband and I got together during this concert series, so long ago! I had had a hard crush on him for years. Two kids and 48 yrs of bliss later… still sounds fabulous!
I am so happy that you are here on the earth to live your life. It makes my universe complete just to hear one such love story around the group that showed me infinite love an joy are within.
This video was an emotional rollercoaster, definitely one of the best dew sets but probably the best filmed set too...and thanks to David and the dead team for reminding us why we love the dead and why It brings us together.
Where's Bobby in this video? Heard but not seen! Yet he's not seen even for a second! He's certainly mixed in loud--much louder than usual. There always a prejudice against this most unique rhythm/almost lead guitarist who's content to be number two, without apparent ego
@@smsdr bob is kinda shown in the background of a few scene's but does not put on a show or move as much during dew sets because he plays a crucial part in the acoustics to help jerry keep rhythm and keep the whole song together, same reason for why he is mixed in louder, and you can hear each player clearer because the wall of sound is being used in '74
Bob is there, shown for a sec. Mickey isn't altho he would be to finish the Winterland shows out. Funny story that as related in the book Living With The Dead by Rock Scully
Sam Bouchard -According to the book he did rip them off of their record advance. They tracked him down and only got 30K back out of like 500K. Mickey was mortified & quit but came back during these Winterland shows & stayed on. Its a good story, i def recommend Living With The Dead
Bonnie Dobson was my great aunt from Canada she wrote this song as a result of a nightmare she had about nuclear holocaust when she was a teen. Thank you for posting
You have great aunt and you can be proud from she write this song now i am in 40 and remeber when i heard this song in my 14 me and girlfriend take 2 acid and leter H and we stay 2 days in bed only push repeat thanks for your aunt and god bless you big whishes from Croatia
You say 'was' as though she is no more. I'm delighted to be able to tell you that great aunt Bonnie is still alive and has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. By her own account the song was written after a dinner party discussion with friends where the topic had turned to what the world would look like after a nuclear holocaust, which was inspired by the film 'On The Beach'. But I suppose she could have had a nightmare too.
I don't disagree with you, but I love how spoiled we are, because we obviously compare the amount of quality audio recordings to the video library. I am so excited that we may be getting a whole lot more. more, bat, more! Cheers!
Where to begin.... I'll skip the 10 minute (positive) rant I have about this, to spare everyone hearing someone full of overjoyous happiness. I'll sum in it up in one sentence: Thank you David and The GDF for helping bringing this magic to the people, we all need it, in these crazy times, this is beauty at it's core!
Play this at my funeral service. I’ve listened to this version at least a thousand times. I’ve cried a million tears. I could go on about the interplay of the instruments, the dynamics etc. all core five are all essential in this and just exactly perfect at the right time together here. Jerry generously let’s the entire band finish up at the climax. Mind body soul wrenching no words for this 13 minute journey. Never fails, never will
@@dunestunes1 that the audio channels are leveled correctly. Can hear everyone as clear as a spring chicken. Phils bass especially, theres bombs all up and down this dew
Ha. Convert them to deadheads. I like that. Been pumping dead music to my boss'es ears for two years now but I'm not sure he's converted yet. At least he doesn't mind it.
Once I finish my time machine I know where my first destination will be. At this exact moment in time. This is such a moving morning dew. Probably the boys best version they ever played. Phil absolutely drops bombs on this one. Thanks boys for such a moving song. Never heard anything so beautiful as this.
Nothing less than mystical and sublime. I could hear this reverberating all the way to my bedroom in suburban New York, age 6 ears and mind wide open, weeping at the beauty-by 1984 i would see my first show in New Haven, Connecticut and was then officially “on the bus!” I miss you Jerry🥲
I accidentally became obsessed with the Dead recently. I blame this song, and particularly this performance of this song. The part that starts around 5:37 and particularly right around 5:47 where Jerry looks over at Phil and smiles because he's about to unleash pure magic from his guitar is one of the most delightful facial expressions I've ever seen another human being display. I am just mesmerized by all of these musicians and this song is so damn good. I'm glad they decided to cover this because as awesome as the words and theme are, I didn't much care for the original version.
Smoked DMT, started getting into a bit of a panic, chaotic feelings swelling in my chest. I put this on and all my troubles melted away, just Jerry, Phil, the Boys, and me, in transcendental space for all of time. Every time the Boys would simmer down into near silence, it was like the ultimate tranquility would take hold. You can just tell they were in no rush here, nowhere to be, nowhere to go, nothing was more important than the next note that was to come from their fingertips, and giving the people a beautiful lament that I'm sure everyone in that crowd carry with them to this day. Godspeed to Jerry, Long Live The Dead, and may the universe bless you beautiful Dead Heads!
I was at these - and a couple hundred other - GD shows. Still have my "THE LAST ONE" stamped ticket stub. More or less grew up under the mirrored ball. Hard to express just how good those good times were...
@@tablaturebutler2823 I can sort of imagine. My first show was in 1988. The smallest one I saw was JGB in Reno NV, in a parking lot venue. While most of the shows I saw were quite large, I did have the pleasure of seeing some very special and memorable ones. And of course there were no cell phones! And hanging out near the spinners, not too many people talked during the show :-)
This is the song that finally made me "get" The Dead. Bobby and Jerry together are truly fantastic in the art of weaving their guitar lines. They are all fucking excellent.
The feeling I get in my bones from the build up to the first incredible solo is incredible. Look at the chemistry between Phil and jerry here. Impeccable version so much soul and emotion, but I guess it doesn’t matter Anyway
I just realized that Bob Weir's unconventional playing style almost reminds me of Syd Barret's, how he just makes all these lunging noises and smeared sounds out of left field.
Does anyone else feel like they need this song on repeat right now? It seems even more poignant with all of the covid-19 uncertainty. Just like always, Grateful Dead are here for me when I need them. 🌟
Totally agree. I'm spending a lot of time on youtube these days with the self-isolation. The music I love has saved my life in the past and it is again now. Its good to find similar minded people like you here too. It really helps with the loneliness of this crazy time.
The cycles repeat. Covert 19 is just another bunch of sorrow and bs.... and it’s clearly caused by people. Not natural. All of Jerry’s songs are about humanity. Good bad and ugly
Mourning the loss today of Terry, who taught me to love The Dead. RIP my best friend, first husband, and volunteer father to my child. You were extraordinary ...
A mis tantos años, y después de ver la fantástica serie documental, producida por Martin Scorsese...me he convertido en un DeadHead, jaja!...un poco tarde...que gran guitarrista era Jerry García ! (fuera de broma, que bueno es redescubrir música antes escuchada sin tanta atención)
My son's favorite song to fall asleep to. He's 10 months old. Just shy of a year,not even a full trip around the sun and he already has a love for Jerrys voice and guitar ❤️
No one has traveled around the sun. The sun isnt 93 million miles away. And earth isnt a round ball either. The grateful dead were a masonic stooge band...and knew this. Fuck these lying motherfuckers. Damn shame...still like the music.
When the Dead music was what the real fans talk about. Wish everyone could have experienced a Winterland show! Plus Morning Dew always seemed like their true Anthem. So lucky so much has been recorded!
Too bad they did not compose it. Jerry liked it and that's all that matters... A song about nuclear Armageddon would be a little weird to represent the band. Dark Star would be more fitting.
@@rogdow5497 They didn't compose it, but they changed the words, and those changes transformed the song. I always heard the song as not about nuclear armadeddon, but as a love song where one of the lovers is at first hesitant but then decides to open up accept the love.
The sparkle in Jerry’s eye during the close ups is so beautiful. He was truly an amazing soul. I’ll never forget my 12 year old head and my dad seeing that Jerry abs passed, and he just shook his head in disgust….it hurt him to see someone so brilliant and in my eye saint like dye from something so bad. I wound up hooked on pain meds etc. and eventually heroin, and survived somehow, and I can feel Jerry’s pain in the later years even though he was big and jolly, there was pain there. What a beautiful song, and beautiful band…🙏🔥✌️🤙🏻💚💯👽👾❤️
Ageless......... We had such a wonderful lifetime of experiences........ and although its sometimes painful to acknowledge that those days are gone, how fortunate for us that we lived them..... and lived them well. Thank you, for those thirty years of magic!!!
In 2019, after 33 years of listening to rock and pop music from the 50s-90s I thought I had heard it all....CSNY, Beatles. Who etc. etc. etc. A LONG list. I had been steadfastly ignoring GD because, frankly, I thought they were a bunch of drug-addled longhairs from California who played 30 minute songs! I do remember when JG died, but it didn't mean much to me, however sad or tragic it was, except that he had played pedal steel on Teach Your Children. What can I say....? In some ways I feel that I have discovered the first - and last - rock band. I didn't expect to ever discover anything more from this era that would be deep and moving....but I did! And let me say this, I don't believe there is anything else in that era that I can discover that will be quite as profound as the Grateful Dead.
I love the really quiet, reflective part of this song and the pairing with the film shots of audience, the band, Jerry's shadow, the big disco ball. It's really beautiful. Not only did Jerry pull together this performance musically, he edited the film as well. I think he did a great job!
I just listened to this after being there live 46 years ago with a group of pranksters from my high school one was my girlfriend Lisa who left this earth way to early like Jerry but I was blessed to know and love both of them. My quest for the rest of my days is to learn and play all the songs from this show and reconnect with tears of joy and sorrow.
Peace be with you. Tonight. I play this. Just Lucy and I. Starting at the sky with diamonds. My diamond is the mother of my son, my best friend. My most longed for contact. Taken in a housefire. My son was 8. I’ve never faced this pain. Praise Yashua not one inch of her burned as the house did around her. In my father’s hands just sleeping. Until I wake and see those eyes again. Forever grateful forever a vapor. Grateful. Dead. ❤
@@aliciakenerley2119 I love this either A you have taken LSD and are now pretending you didn't B have never taken it so therefore have nothing to compare to it , so for a LSD mind altering experience yes you need LSD, for another totally different experience you don't
This song seems like it goes on for eternity while you're tripping it's amazing, a life changing experience that I think everybody should experience man I just got the chills
we drove all the way down from humboldt county to see this show. we didnt have tickets but in those days they always held on to a few hundred tickets to sell at the door at Winterland, so you could always get in. Saw the show and drove home the same night. What a blast!
The jamming in this number at this performance - it ranks with the all-time greatest Jazz bands when they would reach their apex live on stages in the 30s, 40's, 50's, even into 60's...free...a group of musicians all speaking to each other with their instruments - having a conversation...through the language of Jazz music. That's what they were playing for much of this...Jazz...in it's purest form. They just did it in their Grateful Dead style. This was sublime. Absolutely sublime. And a gorgeous lyric and voice to convey it to boot. Bless them all.
I loved when the Dead did their Morning Dew cover. This was amazing. For anyone wondering what it was like seeing the Grateful Dead "on", this is it. Wow!!!
I sent my 5 kids and 5 grandkids all Grateful Dead shirts with no comment attached. They all thanked me and 3 of them said they listened to the dead for the first time and liked the music. Its a start..