Damn straight. I listened to the GD since 1974. It's the only music that keeps my heart& soul intact. I'm a amputee and I'm battling 4 different types of cancer on top of diabetes. Gerry & company is only music that keeps me on that path of rightousness
In my opinion, this is THE pinnacle version of the song. If you close your eyes, you can visualize the fog lifting from a metropolitan area's docks, on a gloomy fall morning, and August West sitting there on the ground next to a building.
Usually I prefer hip hop & r&b but back in high school I was introduced to the grateful dead. This version of this song has since been in my top 5 favorite songs. Always will be.
@@Shepherds100 no music is “better” than the other and talking down on someone for the music they listen to is trashy. Jerry got hip hop wrong when he was alive but it has developed into a stunning art form. The development of hip hop and rnb is an evolution of the same Black music that gave us the Dead, so calling hip hop “crap” is ignorant and shitty tbh
Grew up in Marin ...started going to Dead shows in GGP when I was 12. 64 now. Devastated the day Jerry died. Having to call my brother at his law office in SF to tell him. He couldn't speak. The music transports and the sounds Jerry pulls from his instruments are sublime and incomparable.
In my opinion without a doubt the best wharf rat version. There are some others that I like but this one by itself seems to be the best. It is focused but yet very sad and disturbing.....but also passionate. A work of art.
Zappa was too smart (Yalie) for his own good. He spent most of his time entertaining himself in front of the rest of us. Anastasio is the same way. Garcia/Hunter weren't fascinated by themselves like Frank/Trey, they were fascinated by the world--the world we see and the world of possibility. And they shared that vision lovingly and brilliantly with us. These tunes will live forever.
sugarhollowdaddy1 How do you feel now, after the fare thee well shows? I am asking honestly. I think Trey opened a lot of eyes. He was never a "look at me player." He's always been a group effort guy. I think thar came through. I agree, no one can replace Jerry (Especially these vocals here) but I thought Trey did an admirable job.
+Chuck Howe Trey was humble enough not to try and pretend he could do what Jerry did. he left a lot of holes in those solos. Those were Jerry's songs and Trey honored them. If anything, I think Phil was being a bit of dick on fare the well, he does have an ego. That being said, Frank thought we were ALL idiots and he was probably right.
The Deads music can transport to the days of gun slingers and gamblers or deep into your mind on a inter cosmic journey. Always leaving the listener to come to his or her own understanding. Thats why the dead never have and never will sound dated. And what Dead & Co is doing prove still creating beutiful music....Jerry eould be proud.
Phillip Reading i am a dead nubbie. But catching up. Truth be told, i am circling back, having not listened well in years past. Ripple is my current favorite. A song that makes me cry knowing where we could be as a people yet seeing how far we have fallen. I am sure to the GD connoisseur Ripple seems old and worn out. But thats only because we are old and warn out.
I agree. It’s Americana no matter what the delusional hippies have to say...most of these early tunes are in the center of american violence...I don’t get the love peace jive unless it’s unconsciously hooking on to its opposite ...which is in a way fascinating or revealing beyond any hippie claims.
@@drewcamero1489 The songs are authentic, artistic, and significant and frivolous at the same time, speaking to things not often spoken of in daily life. All that to say there is nothing old and worn out about Ripple. Enjoy what speaks to you, however it touches you.
Best week in Grateful Dead history it was a perfect mix of drugs toys experience and talent nothing was better before or after even though I love it all
Sitting at work, taking a break just in case the Big Boss Man figures out how to find this comment, I was struck by how little "life" is in this recording. It reminds me of the soundboards that have little audience interaction. The version of this show I obtained from archive.org several years ago has much more Keith, Phil and crowd. Give that a try, I think you'll agree
Well that is a great statement that Graham made very poetic but....if your the only one who does something than you ipso facto are the best and worst simultaneously. But truly the quasi jazz improv approach to such a variety of styles was not only unique to them but ot still is to this day. PHISH and modern jam bands all lack the songs the soul and the multi instrumental simultaneously interweaving into each other improv style. This is because they based their efforts on listening to and feeding off each other in real time. "There is nothing like a grateful dead show".... another famous quote which stands out for it's sccuracy
Grateful Dead: artististi affascinati dal mondo, il mondo di possibilità-curiosità-bellezza. Hanno condiviso questa visione amorevolmente e brillantemente con noi. Grazie.
down down by docks an old man died, but he had a story that's still here today, what more can jerry say about the way life takes us down, down some day we'll fly away
Once I had two pet rats named August West and Pearlie Baker. They lived happily in the same cage together until August died and Pearlie ate his corpse. Left nothing behind except his tail.
I think in many ways that may be true but when you listen to how they progressed as musicians as time went on some of their better work is a decade later
This is certainly one of the best. 7/8 & 12/31/78 are a couple of other ones that come to mind. Like so many of their tunes, there are many great versions to enjoy. :)
Wasn't they tho, dang I say! Outta this planet Jams, all of the fellas firing on every cylinders they got the whole month that year. Not many days will go by before I'm listening to something from May 77. Have had 30 seconds of drippy 🎶🎵 Jam from the Barton Hall M Dew when they're really flyin around 12~13 minute mark as my ringtone. The band being so cool about the tapin just gave us so much. Dude I could sit here and swing from Garcia all day but I gotta get some stuff did. Safe travels friend and may you be blessed with Light and Love with Peace surrounding ya⚡🎸✌👊
THE best Wharf Rat (IMO) Phil!! Base! 77! So many things about this version that contribute to this being one of my favorite versions of Wharf Rat..Thank you Chase, you have great uploads here on youtube. good tase (~);) Cheers-Peace
Who gave this a thumb down? Greatest Dead song. Love every version, this is one of my favorites. The other two are from 6/26/74 Providence show and other from the Winterland closing show 12/31/78. Many others but those are two Dicks Picks that seem to be in constant rotation. Be kind :)
I concur...I do appreciate the Steppin out in 72 version too. I know I got about 20 different versions of this and they are all good some great :) Transport me to my happy place
heh. i'm the same person as sunshinenblues on another account, and got tired of having no picture by my name!!! that was always something which bothered me alot. this picture is me...and so is this song! good talking to you (i call you chase-fuk-u-upper) and often wondered where your moniker came from? out of my mind in love with this download, keep me happy as only your videos do!
Got high for the last time as this song was being played.5.7.77...just smoked one of those joints that kept going back and forth..back and forth.. Actually I got nicely blasted because I had spent most of the previous 12 months stationed in Korea..so I had developed a head as I had only got smoked out 3 times in 12 months.... At any rate and here is the cool part ... 10 years later ended up forming and naming The Wharf Rat Group with a couple of other kids. Now you know the rest of the story....
i am a dead nubbie. But catching up. Truth be told, i am circling back, having not listened well in years past. Ripple is my current favorite. A song that makes me cry knowing where we could be as a people yet seeing how far we have fallen. I am sure to the GD connoisseur Ripple seems old and worn out. But thats only because we are old and worn out.
1st show, this night was magic, go get the rest, wheel ,eyes, peggy-o, friend , around,TMNS,...........................remember like it was yesterday,beautiful
@@Rave0851 that show at The Garden (the day before Cornell) and the show at Buffalo the day after Cornell are in my opinion coincidentally two of the greatest shows ever, while Cornell was merely EXCELLENT; but no more excellent than the whole.tour was
Wow! After all these years I figured out that I was at this show. I was part of a group of people from Vermont who protested the building of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant back in 1977. 1400+ of us were arrested and we were put in National Guard Amories. I still have the Time Magazine article on us, and I personally am in the picture that they used in the article. I just found it and noticed that it was in May of '77. I didn't have a ticket to the show, but the guy on the cot next to me told me that he did and that his girlfriend was supposed to go but things weren't working out for them, so he asked me if I wanted to go. SURE ! Miracle ! ... we got there and found that we had seats that were way in the back. I said, "follow me" and we made our way up front and got everyone up dancing and we danced the night away. I always remembered it to be a very special show.
Miss this band dearly. Like them or not, they captured the essence of art. The years when they were their best, mid 60's through the late 70's, I would have loved to seen a show. I caught the tail end of their work in the early to mid 90's and in fact the 2nd to last show in Chicago(with Jerry). Wow, seems like yesterday but I guess 25 years ago. WTF! Any rec. for shows to listen to with guests such as Branford M. type?
Aaron Petersen You got it Aaron! I was very lucky. Boston Garden, Music Hall Boston, Winterland, and meeting Jerry backstage Cow Palace. I even started playing guitar. Started the band ONE from Boston 70's. Thank You everyone. Play on! Peace
GENIOUS!!!! Jerry built an entire song around the A seventh chord!!! Has that ever been done before??????....perfect for a tune about a homeless wino!!