Grateful Dead - Samson and Delilah (Winterland 12/31/78) (Official Live Video) 

Why is this video only 360p? This is blaspheme!!! From my first show, Hartford, Conn. '77, it was obvious to me then that this band and crew were always striving for and always had the best possible video/sound quality available at the time. Of all the bands I've seen and heard none of them even come close Never! (Except for Hot Tuna around '75, '76 and '77 when they were using some of the GD's Wall of Sound) It's obvious here that nobody who was in the GD or crew has anything to do with these videos. It's a Musical Industrial Complex deal now. That means greed and just not giving a crap might somehow be lurking about somewhere behind the scenes of these videos and the music contained within them. Blaspheme I say! For that the people responsible must get stoned! Not to death but with doses and bud! Maybe. just maybe they'd see(and hear)the light. Still love this video though! Just say'in, dig?

How is This NEW footage ?

Richard M I can dig it man! Truth

'95

@@richardm4857 it is what it is. look at it this way neighbor, some of us youngsters never had the chance to see any live shows due to our age. well, prime shows that is. from my perspective, ill take what i can get. at least the sound quality is respectable. the music never stops

backstabber lol

@Delilah, that's so cute!

So was I

Just named a cat after this song so I guess you’re not alone

Hey there Delilah

Haha! Nice

Jammin'!

I hope when I die Jerry arrives just like he was here to guide me on my trip! Just imagining 😊

He high AF that's why

its def one of the deads best tunes. prbly my fav bobby vocal tune for sure

Praise be to Jerry !

Good ol' Grateful Dead.

Sean Fischer The entire show has been released on video. You can still find it pretty easily online and order it on dvd , even if it is OOP . Though it may be back in print, not sure.

sneaker face vids, thanks for the heads up! I’ll have to take a look and see what I can find. It is much easier when it just shows up in my RU-vid feed though ;)

Yeah bro this is whole show is a 10 dollar DVD

@Sean Fischer, that's so cool!

Yeah...this is probably the best show I've heard too.

I was thinking that as well only saw once with the boys

Lmao where's the short shorts

LMAO

✨🙌✨🙏✨👏✨ Hallllaaaalooooyeah!!!

Preach 🙏🏻

Tell that to slow and company

I like the Deadset version. I think that tempo was perfect. Have Dead and Slow really played this? I've never heard Dead and Slow play this.

@@andrewblack7852 LOL

I'm not a guitar player, but I love when you can hear Bob's guitar really well in the mix. As much as I love the late 80s, I think he got lost in the mix pretty often. I love listening to early 71, before Keith was in the band. Bobby's always really loud in the mix, and I love the tone of that hollow-body he was playing.

David St Hubbins I completely agree! I love shows where Bobby is turned up in the mix, gives the sound so much more texture. That hollow body is probably my favorite of Bobby’s guitars next to the pink Modulus he used in the late 80s-early 90s

Bob in '71 sounds so goddamn good and Phuckin' Phil my god! They evolved because that's what us humans do (some of us) but sometimes i need to go back to hollow body tones and let that richness sink into my ears.

@@davidsthubbins176 I’d say it’s not so much that bobby got lost in the mix in the 80s, it’s more that bobby just went for a completely different guitar tone as the years went on. There are basically two types of guitar pickups (pickups are the magnetic metal bar-looking things underneath the strings on the guitar body that pick up the vibrations of the strings and send them to the amp): single coils (like Jerry used on his Alligator Strat and Wolf), which are often a thinner, more jangly sound; and there are humbuckers, which are essentially two single coil pickups put together in one pickup and give a thicker, warmer sound. Bobby used humbucker pickups from the very beginning of the Dead all the way until the 80s, when he switched to using single coils. Once Bobby switched, his tone got super thin and very trebly, and it only got worse as the years went. You’ll notice to this very day, his tone now is just the continuation of his tone getting more and more thin and jangly-sounding over the years that started in the 80s. In my opinion, his tone during that period (and now) really works against his playing in many ways. I don’t want to speculate here, but oftentimes older rockstars lose a lot of their ability to hear sounds on the high end of the spectrum; they lose the ability to hear treble like the rest of us do. This might be why Bobby’s tone has gotten thinner and more trebly over the years, as he may not be hearing it sound like how the rest of us hear it sound. In my opinion, his playing these days is still great, but his tone is to the point where it almost takes more away from the overall sound of the band rather than adding to it as he did in the early days. I really really wish he would go back to using a guitar and amp setup like he used in this period. It would really make any band he plays with sound a lot better than what he currently uses. Just my thoughts, though.

He surely did which has just brought me back to the source!

Hahaha, yeah. DK stole Bobs style here. Hmm, he did play guitar too, right?🤔

@Klen, You're right he does! Lmao!

Ha! I can see that.

More of Jim Jones I think, which had just happened a few months before this show.

Blues Brothers opener, right?

John Mongani blues brothers???

@@cdawger38pittman41 yes that's them. here's the vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YTpiL_Leg-Q.html

The Blues Brothers did a scorching set ! If you haven’t seen or heard it, you need to. Their band features some of the greatest players in history, same as in their movie.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6JukZBGgv8I.html&lc=z22lxhbhjr2kehixi04t1aokgtlxq54mzmp5yh1yge3yrk0h00410

HaliniSnow thanks a bunch man for posting that gem

@@rolandramirez4557 No prob, a masterpiece like that needs to be seen

Terrapin Station, track #4

@@sneakerfacevids441 lmao God damn that made me laugh lmao

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@@eggman615 goo goo gj'oob

@@Ryan-xq3kl beep bloop blurp bleep blop

....a eight ball .....?

😂😂😂😂

No comparison imo… Jerry played with so much more soul and feel, Trey is a master technician at the guitar but I would not say he had the feel and soul that Jerry six I. HUD earlier years

You can buy it online. Grateful Dead 'The Closing of Winterland"

MSS sky rockets in Flight🚀

Yikes man, rough take

Youre missing out lmao

It's the best era, 1972 - 1974 were killer!

@@ArienDH11 77