I was the first person in the queue to buy tickets for all three nights The Grateful Dead played Wembley, back in 1990. My only claim to fame. My life is complete!
Heard this live more than once. My favorite venue was in Alpine Valley Wisconsin when I was living in Chicago. The Dead would book 3 or 4 shows in that open air amphitheatre over a week or two and there were a couple of state parks in easy driving range. Camp at the lake, lined with tie- dye banners and relax or fish during the day then go to the show at night. Always worth a weeks vacation from work. The motorcycle made it easy to cut through the traffic but the parking lot was a party unto itself. Those were the days.
i remember hearing this live on 4 hits of purple microdot...the world was swirling and breathing and contorting to the music....color light and sound emotion....dance till u thought u pass out....I miss u guys
I am listening to his with my 14-year-old son. I so wish I could have seen a show with him - these clips bring back so many good memories - sends chills up and down my spine, but with a wonderful smile on my face! I do miss the shows... peace to all.
A great story I heard from an old deadhead, one time a group of skinheads formed in the parking lot chanting white power to provoke the Deadheads. The hippie crowd vastly outnumbered them, surrounded them, and drowned them out chanting "Love is real, Not fade away!" And clapping in unison, drowning out their evil vibes with love, music, and shaking their bones. Slowly but surely, love and kindness prevailed and the skinheads skittered off.
I was at this show! Parked in a cornfield and the car sank up to the doorknobs in mud. We had to come back a week later after it dried and dig it out. It was also the first time I tried sugar cubes :)
I see your problem. I dissolved one of their cubes in a glass of water. Shared it with a friend. I had more than one friend. OMG! A day that still lives in infamy!
Wow, how I miss these guys!!! This song is so awesome, it makes me just want to get up and dance. You know that "Grateful Dead" dance we all do and love. I've been sitting here all day watching Dead videos on youtube. Enjoying all of them, especially the shows I was at, this one included!! Best times I ever had were at Dead shows and especially the parking lots!!! The music never stops baby & My love will never fade away!!! Peace & Love to all my fellow Deadheads!!! Michelle
I am only 20 now, extremly happy with my life, the music of the grateful dead saved my life. I will never get to see jerry or brent, i have seen phil n bobby and DSO a good amount of times and jerrys there everytime living in the music and the hearts and souls of every human there listening to the sweet sound, EXTREMELY GRATEFUL HUMAN. Thank you so much. The dead truly taught me how to be happy in life without hard drugs all the time. I accually cry at shows sometimes
my love for the dead will never fade away only band to play outside the box and thrive doin it only band to truly capture the aura of audience and bring heart mind and soul alive on stage most bands struggle really bad to put on a good live show but the dead were 1 of few bands to be better live than studio
Nothin will ever top this! This IS the Grateful Dead... cruising in 5th Gear...on the smoothest road around...No one has ever played a solo this intense since... the perfect blend of feedback / distortion, sustain, tone, technique etc...and of course passsion!
Having listened to this song thousands of times,I think this version of this song is Brent's signature . It really put a stamp on the REAL keyboard player for The Dead.
I was at this show, lived 20 minutes away from Alpine Valley at the time. Still know the back way in! Anyway, this was a great show toward the beginning of a great (sadly final) era. Thanks guys!
LJ Mills Are you always on meth when you attempt to type? Because you either have problems typing or are simply an idiot that doesn't know how to spell even the simplest English words correctly. I'm guessing a GED was never part of your live.
The grateful dead is a great band. My dad has every original grateful dead albums on vinyl. There's no other band who had a sound like the grateful dead had. I read in in rolling stones the one they did on Jerry Garcia. Jerry said they got the name Grateful dead from a praise in a book. He took it to the band which were calling them the Warlocks at the time and asked what they though of calling the band the grateful dead. Everyone in the band liked the name the grateful dead.
God, this brings back such fine memories of those Alpine stands. We were young and exactly where we wanted to be. The band always seemed stoked at this beautiful venue and I will never as long as I live forget the sound of the roar that came down that hill and engulfed the pavilion. It was almost frightening the power of it. Ah, that those days may come again. Like Hunter says, "and they surely will, but not for me."
I saw The Grateful Dead in summer 1990. They had Bruce Hornsby open for them. Our concert was one of the last ones before the keyboardist died. This song was my FAVORITE of the concert. So cool live. We sung that song forever, it seemed-the crowd going back and forth. So alive.
20 freakin' years wow. great summer. remember the east coast tour quite well (surprisingly lol). buffalo, giants, the old jfk, rfk. in sept moved to vegas & the boys followed the next year :)
Nice! Ah, good memories. That era was the best of them all. Jerry was so fired up and the whole band was peaking! I toured the west coast extensively during the late 80's and early 90's....wonderful! Thank-you for posting this!
This was from 7/17/89 and the middle of a three show run at Alpine Valley. For my money one of the best shows of the eighties. Brent, Jerry et al are having a blast and listening to one another and those good vibes are reflected in their playing. Big grins on Jerry and Bills' faces. I think '89 was the last truly great year for the Dead especially the Summer and Fall tours where there were a good number of outstanding shows. Just my opinion, I miss this band. Thanks Kulpo42!
Never fucking fade away jerry,you will never fade away.....R.I.P Jerry.....there will never be another like u,u r a fucking legend!!!! I followed u the summer of 95,its the only time im happy im 42...bcuz I was fortunate to have seen u let alone get to follow u for a summer
LoveFlatfootin1 I absolutely agree. I like to think he'd have grown into an even greater musician. BTW, it's a lot of fun to listen to this and the 1957 Buddy Holley and the Crickets original back to back. I'm also a fan of the '63 Stones cover.
I love responding to 3 year old comments, I just couldn't pass it up. Buddy Holly I think would have really loved this version. He was a true musician and I believe he would have given the Dead thumbs up. He wasn't just incredible musician, songwriter, but his studio work in production was very sophisticated. I hate throwing the word genius around, but Holly was a legitimate musical genius.
Buddy showed every sign of being a musician capable of great growth. He had moved to NYC's Greenwich Village in his last year, and had he lived, he would have met Dylan, Cohen, Ochs, and all the other members of that scene, and imagine the chemistry that would have taken place. Oh, yes, he would have loved the GD's version -- I'm pretty sure NFA ended up being their second most played song
Thanks for posting this. I'm pretty sure his show was the first of three nights in a row in July 1989. I was there the second night, also great, great venue, perfect weather. I'm not sure, but this may have been the band's first extended tour after Jerry got sick from his various bad habits. The band is in full form here, at the top of their game. It's easy to say they should have quit when they were ahead, but when you're in the situation, quitting is likely the last thing on your mind. I saw them at Soldier Field, Tinely Park (World Music Theater, since renamed), and three more times at Soldier Field. The Tinley Park show was Brent Mydland's last performance before ODing. New keyboard guy, and they were back at it. I didn't go to any of the supposed reunions with Jerry replacements. Sorry. No Jerry Garcia, no Grateful Dead. I did go to the first Further concert at Alpine Valley in 1996. It was good, especially Hot Tuna and Los Lobos. Los Lobos did a really smokin' and emotional version of Bertha to open, really hit the crowd. Mickey Hart's group was good. Bruce Honsby also was great. I don't pay to see music much anymore. Concerts are good, but they are expensive, and it's not the same as when I was younger. I will see Zakir Hussain, though, when he comes to town in April. It doesn't fade away.
I saw this band twice. Each time I saw them it was like seeing more than one band. Plus I was high, so the music was, like, squared with the distance or something. And these guys are always improvising. There's no script, there are only themes. And those are wonderful like this one. These guys are torturing the song relentlessly. It cries out with everything it's got.
Yeah man, taking their time. Still gives me chills. Know our love will not fade away. I remember the crowd singing this (and sounding good!) at Winterland for what seemed like 10 minutes and the band actually came back out.
Best summer tour I ever saw, Foxboro, Buffalo, RFK and Giants. But Alpine was my favorite venue. Check out the Buffalo show from July 4th if you haven't yet. Special show. I was 20 years of age and on tour with a pocketful of Mail order tickets. I was extremely lucky, Thanks Liz, nice work, keep smiling.
