I think that it’s amazing that Jerry’s been gone for 25 years... and yet somehow , his essence still is alive , and always will be . You said it man .. “Love” that’s what it’s all about .. that’s what the Grateful Dead is . The expression of the human existence through music .. brothers and sisters .. music with no net .. alive , searching , lost , and found . I think Jerry would be very happy to see what you’re doing . You can tell when it’s from the heart ..
'Scarlet>Fire' & 'Morning Dew' in that set can stand against any live performance ever & hold their head up high... there's real true magic in the air.
Garcia was/is/will forever be the most honest musician I've ever had the pleasure to see. It was never about how many notes he could cram into a measure of music. It was always about that moment in time. The emotion of that last second. He knew there was as much emotion in the quietness as there was in the aggression. And when he was REALLY ON, the transition between it all was blended effortlessly.
You say honest, I say genuine haha, regardless, he was the master of doing exactly what was appropriate, when able to, and knowing what was not appropriate in the moment with no warning
It takes my emotions to the lowest of lows and brings me back up to a new all time high every time I hear this. This is sadness and happiness in one package. It is perfect and will live forever.
I'm shaken. I have listened to thousands of hours of Grateful Dead, I've listened to this version countless times....and yet I was just brought to tears listening to this sitting in front of my computer. Why do I listen to the Grateful Dead?...uhh, that is why.
He's so amazing. Yes the singing & the guitar & the drumming is god tier here but the piano is just such a fantastically vivid rhythmic presence here & accentuates all the right points emotionally in the song, & it's that that takes this performance over the top for me.
My 1st show was 1988 at Madison Square Garden...I was 8. My dad was a taper. We sat right behind front of house. After that night I was hooked to say the least. My dad took me to see them 40 times after that before we lost Jerry. I knew from that moment on I wanted to be a sound guy. And that's exactly what I do now. This band changed my life in so many ways. Thank you for this video. Brought me right back to being at the show listening to what they do best.
I've been a Deadhead since I first saw them in Boston in 1967. Barton Hall was one of the many 1977 concerts I went to. I also have a modest collection of about 4,000 cd's worth of Grateful Dead stuff.
It's A Beautiful thing, was still too young for that show. Didn't start see them till the early 80,s but I must say that is one of the best. Great Year for the Grateful Dead
My daughter is an accomplished musician and she said what Michael said: “You can’t write that..” My daughter was blown away by 5-8-‘77’s Dew and this is a 25 year old who’s been listening to the GD her entire life. Yet this time we just listened to it in the car. Loud. For the first time she really heard/listened intently to what the Boys were capable of doing and she loved it!
Many songs have appeared in my life as "song I'd like to hear last", but none have made that list more than this one. Thanks for reminding those of us who know this song well, what it looks like to hear it again for the first time. You're awesome, Michael-- and we appreciate you bringing your musical talents to the "internet community". Blessings brother.
My favorite Dead song bar none. IMHO we owe the power of Cornell to Phil but the layering and weaving that the whole band did that day was beyond epic. It was really cool to see you react to this version of the song. This version has the power to take you to a very special place that I think everyone needs to get lost in so they can come out the other side a truly changed traveler. I wish you all the best in the new year and thank you for the amazing videos. Be well.
Thank you, Michael. I wish there was a heart button instead of a thumbs up button for this song. It was the song that made me love the Dead back when I was a young lad of 17 oh those many years ago. This song has stood the test of time since those heady days of 1967. Such a wonderful present you have shared with us. The Cornell Concert in 1977 is such a stand out.
How many other bands can you say this show or that show this decade that decade when listening to one song haha. I had the pleasure for being a tour rat for the last 4 years of Jers run. I have seen the world but still mark those days some of the best in my life as each day each show was an island on to itself. There were days, there were Days and there were days between. Cheers!
I'm not a musician, heck, I'm lucky that I can play the radio, but I can certainly tell that you went on one hell of a bus ride with this gem. Being an old Head, I saw you taken away. From bobbing your head to the rhythm, to that expression that Jerry was taking it a bit far right before he pulled it back in, to bopping to the beat, to the surprise with the "vibrato" of the band, to the wonderment of exactly where they were going when the music seems to fade to the background, to the 1,000 yard stare when you realized where you have been, to the excitement when the band was bringing it back up from the precipice of death, to the wide eyed acknowledgement when you realized where you were going, to the anticipation of getting there, that my friend is the essence of the Good Ole Grateful Dead. Congrats dude
"When it comes together -- you could never write that, plan that." And that is the essence of Dead, Dead on a great night that didn't happen every night, but when it did, and it did often enough--then you're hooked.
In all the best performances I've heard of this tune through the years, there's a feeling that it's constantly a millisecond away from disintegrating completely. Like the couple in the landscape of the lyrics, the band barely clings to a remnant of normalcy. A walk, or a tune, performed in the midst of and in spite of the End. This take is like a dream - thanks for checking it out.
You get it..your drive home from dropping off son..it just hits you..time to do it..thats what the GD experience is all about..no rhyme or reason..its a life force..after Jerry died, I bailed for 12 years..then I met my soul mate who never heard of the band..no judgements..she was 23, I was 40..then I started taking her on the journey..tears came. I missed it so much..watching her experience even on video what I had brought me back to the living. Then, finding your channel, watching a professional experience it, made me smile. Love you brother!
Epic example of the band slowly stepping up the intensity ladder from sweet and subtle to a ferocious catharsis. I used to see this sort of thing just rolling off the stage in thick waves over our heads. The band was just saying, "Oh, ya like that? Well here's comes some more times 2, times 10, times 50." They pushed the music to places most musicians can't even begin to contemplate. And we were grateful for every moment of it.
THANK YOU for playing the song through. Im 51 and I discovered the Dead in 1984 when I was 15. We are grateful that we found you. You are a young man with a son and I can understand the emotion listening to Jerry sing and play this masterpiece. I wish you could have experienced Jerry in person. It was magical.
Yeah man, your discovery of the dead is what made me discover you. The dead was/is such a huge part of my life that I had lost touch with for a few years. Thanks for bringing me back. I am enjoying all your videos and being one of your guitar students, but most of all knowing that we are connected by a deeper understanding. Hope to meet you someday.
Was in a hurry this evening to pick my daughter up from gymnastics practice after a terrible day at work and heard this song for the first time waiting in the carline. This song transported me to another place, a better place. From watching you, I think it had the same effect. How have I gone this long without hearing this?? I guess you I heard it exactly when I needed to
I love when another person gets to feel something like this. Most never encounter or cross the paths with this situation. The dead still move me as they have for years. Glad you got to feel this too.
THE morning dew. This song brings a tear to my eye every single time. Happy holidays everyone. DID YOU SEE THE PHISH ANNOUCEMENT!!! CHESS IS BACK!!!!!!!
I was lucky enough in 92 and 93 me and 2 other friends did Dead tour both years in the summer.I would finish my last exams in college then roll out.Saw alot of the U.S and met a bunch of cool people.Some of my greatest memories and ive always love playing Jerry songs.His solos remind me of raindrops hitting a tin roof.
Yup!! The memories we created nearly 30 years ago are still burned in my brain as some of the best days in my life. It’s beautiful and a little sad at the same time as it hard to find things as emotionally satisfying as meeting folks in the lot, seeing/hearing Jer bend time and space then getting a nut brown ale and a grilled cheese at the end of the night. Feels like yesterday brother!
You in this video perfectly encapsulates how I feel every time I hear this beautiful masterpiece. The full portion of this set is St. Stephen>Not Fade Away>St. Stephen>Morning Dew, and the whole thing is an absolute monster. The St. Stephen>Morning Dew is so natural and perfect that every time I hear St. Stephen I now expect it to go into Morning Dew. My favorite thing about Morning Dew, and this one in particular, is just what you said: how every instrument is just as important as the other and they all take turns sharing the spotlight
I was one of the thousands of people who were hounding you to do this song from this show. So glad you followed through! What an amazing piece of art. Everybody is playing their hearts out on this one!
I have been listening to the Grateful Dead since before I was born, literally from the womb. This version still makes me weep like a toddler with a skinned knee. It is my happiest of happy places.
I grew up in Eugene, Oregon during the late sixties through the early eighties. Ken Kesey certainly played a role in my, "formative" years. Jerry played my high school. Ken brought the boys to an epic 3 night stand being the first "rock" show in the building. Ken warned us to behave so we could get them back for more shows. So many years later, I'm still running through those shows. Oh man...
@@joeynice123 It's a blurry memory, lol, but I'm fairly certain I was at the first field trip in 1972. My mother loved the yearly Renaissance Faire. She's a goofball from Germany and this, along with the Saturday Market were a huge draw and I was always eager to go. The difference in the next decades appearance was the addition of Psychedelics. Shows were very different after that...memories!
I have been waiting for this! I had it cranked, and was laughing out loud as I saw the expression on your face as the intensity built toward the end! I hope you will do another video on it where you unpack what is happening musically in this. I don't play any instruments (alas) but I always learn a lot from your breakdown of the music.
I must say that September 3, 1988 at Capital Centre is my favorite Dew performance. Phil's bass was turned to 11 and he drops massive bombs during the crescendo.
I like to comment on every dead song you do... what you said at the beginning about it finding you at the right time in your life is so true. I love your videos! thank you. This cornell 77 series has been an absolute treat. Happy holidays and thank you!!!
Finally!!!! But I'm really interested for Jack Straw of all of the Cornell, I think it will be one of your favorite Dead songs, if you don't know it already. It's my all time favs, and Cornell - the best version EVER
Indeed. Those late 70s jack straws got really dark, and let’s face it, it’s a lyric as dark as they get. It’s almost like it took all those years of insanity and redemption and more insanity from ‘72-‘77 for the musicians to really walk hunter’s lyric.
Thank you! I really needed a boost today and watching someone listen to this recording or the first time was pure joy. I had tears running down my face and a grin from ear to ear. This is one I go back to over and over again. There is so much to take in that every time I listen I get more from it. This version makes me feel all the feelings.
I love that people are still getting on the bus after so many years. Your speechless moment, sums it up better than any words could. Hope this new year, is better than the last. (~)}:}
I was never a big Grateful Dead fan until I started watching you Michael! I am so crazy about your videos brother that I find myself lost in them. I play along and try and keep up with you which is next to impossible for me. I so appreciate what your doing and that you bother to take the time to walk us all through these iconic songs. I have a banjo that I break out just for fun and pluck along. Once again Michael thank you thank you. Happy New Year to you and yours. The Muleman.
So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago. Until then I literally hadn't picked up my guitar in like 3 years. I got the itch again and damn it feels so good to scratch it. Keep doin what ur doin dude !
very cool, such a beautiful way to end the year. BTW i got hip off of YT reco when i saw '..guitar teacher reacts to Morning Dew' back in like march '20. look at you now 212k and rising. congrats you put in the work and deserve it! keep up the great work, cheers!
A silver lining to this crazy year... and a legacy of the message in the song that takes on extra weight during times of great sorrow and foreboding... Thanks for sharing your reactions with us this year !
Michael, this is the Holy Grail 😇.... This is by far my favorite live performance and the jams here are the absolute best. Great job, glad you played it straight through w/ no interruption. Take care 😁✌🍻
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Old timer Deadhead here (first show at age 13 in December 1969 at the Fillmore East). Thanks for the enthusiasm you bring to the Boys, all versions of them, and providing fresh ears, insights and knowledge about the music that had added immensely to my enjoyment and clarified why the Dead are special, unique and forever. In 100 years much of the music we listen to will be a memory but I have feeling Grateful Dead will still be being played. Just as importantly, you have introduced me to so many musicians, bands, styles etc and your Reacts/Breakdowns are incredible and something I’ve come to need on a regular basis. So THANK YOU. Shit I don’t play guitar, never had an interest until I started watching your channel, but I’m going to pick one up this spring and subscribe to your lessons... and now a request/suggestion. GD Rockin’ the Cradle Egypt 78. It gets panned a lot. But the Estimate/Eyes is one of the best ever recorded. The Eyes of The World especially. It’s a long one but there’s never a dull moment.
This is my present. Thank you. How about them drummers 🤙 had the cassettes in 88 onward and still get goosebumps at various moments. It is a time capsule and thank God it is a Betty Board.
You explained it perfectly at the end. There really are no words for it and how it makes you feel. You can analyze it and look at it from a theoretical standpoint but nothing can explain the magic of the moment. All the different personalities and styles meshed together with the energy in the room from the crowd and the snowstorm outside in the middle of springtime forming a beautiful concoction of emotion pouring out of those amps and off the drum heads. It will raise the hairs on your arms and bring tears to your eyes. Thank God for the soundboards that captured this show. Truly grateful.
1967, I was in the Navy in Monterey CA. We went up to SF. There was a free concert at Panhandle Park. Jerry and a bunch of other players with a flatbed trailer as a stage. Memorable.
OMG Thank you Michael this was my first time hearing it too, like you, the dead found me only a couple of years ago and I’m so happy I did and your thoughts and explanations helped me see
Love those explosive Dead endings!!! back in tha'day, the concert hall would be erupting so fantastically and magnificently as they would brilliantly throw those song finale's our way.. I'm hard-pressed to come up with another band capable of those layers of buildings&textures and crescendo's!!!!just awesome and btw, you did a very classy presentation, great job!!! It really does make me feel happy younger generations are reaching out & giving the Dead a chance to be as special to them as they have been to folks like me!!! Cheers
Thank you...as a fan it is so much fun to watch you take this (and other stuff) for the first time and see your genuine reactions. It def. reminds me of back when I first got into the Dead and Phish...so watching your reactions is heart warming. As a guitarist (wannabe...lol) it is very educational. So thanks again...keep it up.
"I don't have the words for this" = Grateful Dead. Watching your reaction is a Christmas gift in itself. There is still much to go with Cornell, enjoy the ride. Happiest of Holidays to you and yours!
That Cornell tape has been in my collection since the early 80s. It’s what hooked me on tapes crusades after the blue dolphin and an exceptional live performance I witnessed of cold rain and snow (it was) opener in the Philly Spectrum in the same timeframe. I love your enthusiasm for the music you break down. Great channel! TY kindly. Best morning dew moment: Alpine valley east troy Wisconsin late 80s (89? I think). An electrified beautiful young girl climbs up out of the pit and promptly sits in front of Jerry as he goes into an elongated lead break - or so it seemed. It felt like an eternity but they let her stay a few seconds before gently carrying her off.
Please Michael, put it all down in a book, to go alongside the book by Peter Conners. We would then have a complete record and deeper understanding of the magical night in 1977.
You just got a new subscriber. And I went to my first show as a freshman at Cornell in 81. Not as well known as 77 but rightly acknowledged as another smokin Barton Hall performance. Anyway it put me on the bus, second show later that summer in Denver and there was no looking back. I'm still on tour with the new incarnations and still miss Captain Trips at every show I attend.
Cornell Morning Dew is the superior version in my book. The tightness in which they are playing, the guitar work from both Bobby and Jerry, and Jerry's voice is so beautiful and soulful when he sings this song. You simply can't beat this version. Cornell 77 and Veneta 72 are in the list of the greatest shows they ever played. So many of the song performances have been stapled as definitive versions. And for very good reason. The band was just ON for these shows. Another great run of shows is late October 74 when they played (it was either 4 or 5 nights, can't remember right now) Winterland in San Francisco. These were the last shows they played before taking their almost full year break and worked on Blues for Allah. But those Winterland 74 shows are just phenomenal to me. Some of the best Dead I've ever heard from their entire 30 year run.
