Jerry at his best...one of my all time favorite tunes and best version. I played this for my 16 year old son the other day and he said"...Dad, what is that?!? I've never heard anything like that before!" The next day he was balls deep in GD and JGB. This is going to be fun.
Further proof why Jerry is and will forever be the greatest creative genius in human history. Jerry will come again to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no end!
tbird420h The Rain 🌧 brings it around for me I’ve learned over the last few years. As I sit here a little wet from taking out the fur baby this evening I’m filled with smiles...
I cry', and rejoice, inside. In 1978 I was 21, fried, depressed and 3500 miles from home. Everyday I'd put the studio version of "Mission in the Rain" on the turn table. That tune, and John Lennon's "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You", resonated with my troubled soul. Still do.
The absolute best. I am 25 years old and never had the opportunity to see Jerry. That said, his spirit and candor lives through me. While I have a degree in Jazz Saxophone, Jerry Garcia has proven to be a massive influence in my life. Jerry represents the true spirit and love of music. What a long strange trip it's been!
+colinfriedkinmusic1 I totally feel what you are saying! While I am among the luckiest souls of my generation (at 32) to have been able to experience multiple shows in my childhood (12 when Jerry died), I was too young to REALLY get it back then. I am a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and added guitar to my list 7 years ago. I always say Jerry taught me how to play guitar because I learned by deconstructing Dead songs, and for that matter, being able to play those very songs is the whole reason I began to learn to play instruments in the first place. (first drum set at 10, played along to mickey and bill's solos on Dead Set and GD movie, had an affinity for jazz-style percussion ever since)
+colinfriedkinmusic1 Jerry loved the saxophone. I read an interview where he claimed that he made attempts but failed to bring Saxophone into the Dead. Thankfully, Jerry had other groups like Legion of Mary and the JGB who featured saxophone giants like Clarence Clemons, Branford Marsalis and Martin Fierro. I'll always remember Clarence blowing on "That's What Love Will Make You Do." He would build and tease then build again pushing the band to an amazing gush before smoothly passing the momentum and power over to a visibly excited Jerry who would just shred atop the cooking rhythm like a surfer dropping in at Mavericks. I played with Martin Fierro a couple of times. He was fun to play with. I remember one set with Martin, myself on drums and James Talley on keyboards out at some Stinson Beach patio bar. We played a version of Hendrix "Little Wing" that was magical. At first I was just playing another cover and then, Wham, we were soaring above ourselves. Bartender, servers, patrons, traffic, even people walking bye all stopped and listened. I never saw that before or again. Great memory.
It is mind-blowing how many songs Jerry knew the music and words to by memory without a teleprompter. It goes to show how deep it was in his heart and soul and DNA.
my first time in San F, for the NYE shows, I visited the Mission. It rained and I called my dad and was all, DAD!!! I AM WALKING IN THE MISSION!!! JUST LIKE THE SONG!! He knew enough to be thrilled for me. BH
That fucking guitar solo though. Oh my god. The tears of joy it brings me. We're so lucky to live in this time of human history, to have had Jerry Garcia.
This show was really a fine effort by JGB 3/12/78 Commack LI NY was a show that I will always remember. Still looking for a good recording of that one. anybody have one ????? This tour was amazing !
Jerry gets super stoked when he sings the "get some satisfaction in the s.f rain" part. I absolutely love this song. Always have from the first time I heard it on reflections.
San Rafael Marin county San Francisco California Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters
Love how Jerry and John recognize Keith taking a very quiet path throughout the song, then calm down and let him speak his mind in his solo (very enthusiastically tossed over from Jer), then John and Jerry stand side by side playing quiet for Keith. and then Jerry comes in quiet like him before putting a stamp on it. Perfection.
San Francisco in the good Days, Jerry Garcia. All time Legend him and Carlos Santana. Both from the mission. 2 Latino brothers Mission style . Beloved by The whole world. 24th folsom. God bless the mission.
I saw them both in the park in San Francisco more than a few times. This song is nostalgic because I lived in the Mission. I spent some intense days down there. It’s a beautiful part of town.
Yes God bless the mission where this white.girl whoarried a Puerto 🇵🇷 Rican had a son named Angel 30 years ago. Rest in peace methcocaine a d fentanyl suck
@bartjoy5179 i love the mission 24th and Alabama a d 150 Precita Park were my 2 best girlfriends growing up. The. Trina was from pottery hill just up the street from general hospitaloon Rhode Island andsuemt Sue rented that place on 23rd and potrero
"10 years ago I walked these streets. My dreams were ragged dull. Tonight I would be thankful, Lord, for any dream at all. Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true. But everything you gather is just more that you can lose." This really sums up Jerry at this point in his career, especially in the context of frontman of the Grateful Dead, against his will. A humble man who couldn't find the light of his youth, even though it shone out from him onto all of us almost every second he was on his stage.
Despite growing up on the Dead (my mom said I was singing Casey Jones before Wheels on the bus go round and round), going to several Dead concerts, and having a cassette tape suitcase full of bootleg tapes recorded by a guy called Dead Red, who lived in Brisbane, I totally missed this song until my 30s. I must have heard it, but just wasn't ready for it. Then one day it totally blindsided me, and I was instantly transported back to my difficult teenage years when my skateboard was my best friend, and I was skating from Bayshore and into the mission on another night ride, but I kept sliding, and falling from the wet ground, and just started walking. I didn't want to go home. I just wanted to skate, so I just walked in the rain trying to sort things out, until I was tired and wet, and still had a long walk up steep hills to get home. I still have that skateboard and the edges are all delaminated and ragged from many wet rides around Bernal Heights, industrial SF, HP, and the mission. While it brings on a little bit of sad nostalgia, it also makes me feel grateful for where I'm at now.
This song and video is truely medicine for the heart mind and soul . Jerry may not be alive in body but he is very alive and timeless / ageless through in his music and spirit
OK, I'm pretty sure no one will read this, but I just feel I had to put it out... I was watching some other video on RUclips just now and it was almost midnight here in Brazil. It's been some time since I last watched this performance and something made me come back once again. It's just over midnight now so I looked at my Facebook memories and I think I've found the reason I was brought here today... Exactly two years ago I performed this song at the music school I studied in, singing and playing bass, inspired by this particular video. At that time I was playing bass for three years and was just finding out how to actually project my voice and utilize my vocal range, but didn't quite know how to control it yet. So many things came out wrong that day! I'd just bought a new strap, but it was uncomfortably low and I couldn't adjust it, then I began the first few notes on the bass in the wrong key and that also influenced the notes I sang (so the first few verses were really rough before the drums actually came in), the drummer I played with - which was also a student - sped up the song towards the end and completely stopped playing for four bars (after the verse "All the things I planned to do I only did halfway). But still, while I kinda cringe at the first seconds every time I rewatch my performance, it was so worth it! By the middle of the song I kinda left behind all my concerns and went head-first into the moment and the music. I kept thinking "this is where I wanna be for the rest of my life, this is what I want to be doing". That feeling is something I'll never forget and I thank Jerry for this!
Thanks for your remembrance. Your writing reminded me of these lyrics found in the Car's song, "Bye Bye Love" ...It's such a wavy midnight When you slip into insane Electric angel rock and roller I hear what you're playing...
"When you're in the song, you're with Jerry. It was very palpable the other night. We did 'Mission in the Rain.' I actually saw him and [lyricist Robert] Hunter, walking along the Mission District. That was the image in my mind." ~ Phil Lesh
+Margot Sauers You are so right...never the same since he left. My license frame reads- at the top " 8-9-95"...the bottom reads "...and then he flew on" Even the Fare Thee Well shows have that special little thing missing. Take care, Jack
I am Grateful I got to see them quite a few times between '87 up to and including Jerry's final show at Soldier's Field. I was shocked and sad when I heard the news on the radio while driving a work truck on 08/09/95. Disbelief is the best way I can describe it. I perform lots of GD music on a volunteer basis for nursing home residents and hospice patients. The gift of music is a gift to be shared. Jerry's spirit lives on in every note and word. Forever missed he will be by all who loved him.
He always seemed happy at the Jerry Gracia Band shows. I never ever remember Jerry not looking happy at any Jerry Band show. However, on this incredibly fabulous rendition of an incredibly fine song; he does look nearly ecstatic!!!
Watching this today 7/9/20. Never got to see the old man live but this song hits home so hard for me. Tears have definitely come and gone just from listening to this tune alone. Love you jerry, even tho i never saw you. This music fills my soul
How gorgeous, how sad, how true to life. What clear tone, amazing note choices, phrasing and expression. The song and the playing come from a deep, deep place. Beautiful, frightening. Thanks for posting this.
1978 was such an excellent JGB touring year (GD also)! Jerry was loving it, smiling here with a glow, and a chuckle here and there at 1:55 and 3:00...Miss you!
I was at this show. They broadcast the early show on the radio, I went to the late show, and the next night they released officially (Warner Theater). What a great show.....40 years later I still remember it. I'd say I really miss Jerry, but we have his music, on tape and on video so he's with us every day.
I've seen some incredible mission in the rain this is one of my favorite it's a time when John Kahn and Maria Muldaur we're seeing each other so you had Donna Jean and Maria singing together I saw this combination a few times but like I said this is one of my favorite. Mission in the Rains... Peace Paul
This is such a beautiful show! Jerry seemed so happy, totally on top of his game, having a hell of a good time. And Donna wasn't doing any caterwauls. Both in this song and Rhapsody in Red she (along with Mouldar) sang beautifully. Donna was always an excellent studio singer, but many years after the fact, she lamented that she often couldn't hear herself correctly in the monitors at GD concerts, and thus her tragic squalling like a mashed cat. But apparently the acoustics were really good on stage at Capitol Theater, and she and Maria sang wonderfully. It's bittersweet to see Jerry so happy and animated here. Heroin for Jerry became like a crocodile that drags you under the water and rolls you. This show was before he got dragged under. Miss you Jerry! BTW, I was born in 1962 and spent my first eight months in S.F.'s Mission District, after which my parents moved to southern Marin. So this song takes me back to my earliest roots. And as I grew up, I felt really honored that the Dead were our local band. Still do today.
I lived in the Mission at this time and have totally embraced this song. Now the Mission is tottering on the edge of gentrification, that is if the gent is willing to risk get robbed, shanked or shot. The Mission ain’t the same and it doesn’t rain anymore.
I was born in san francisco Ca. The mission district. The great Jerry garcia. How blessed were we to Have Jerry garcia and Carlos Santana. To of The greatest guitar players from the mission. San Francisco. Ca
He must be so happy that his work not only meant so much but still effects so many and can change your very soul still to this day over a quarter of a century after death and transport you back to the best times ever had. With out this music I would surely be depressed if not suicidal he was a gift to us all..I swear he could look out at the crowd and you would think he is looking directly at you and give you that reassuring nod and smile that all is well in the world.
I miss this magical man and these magic moments so so much! Truly heartbreaking and I thank everyone who contributes these awesome memories to youtube, I hope the music never stops! Love love love to all!
Not sure anyone else noticed, but I was wondering what got Jerry smiling around 8:17. It seems that he lowered his guitar volume too much (or off) around 7:50 and didn't realize that he was out of the mix until around 8:12 when he tried to play a louder chord. Puzzled by the silence, he looked down, turned the volume back up and returned with a big smile on his face at 8:17. Such a great version of this tune.
I just heard a grate Garcia story involving him buying a round of rootbeer floats for all the customers at an A and W if anyone has any more Garcia stories would love to hear them.
Seeing Donna and Maria's beautiful energy and grace reacting to the band's dynamics is amazing. It's amplified with the audience in a relatively intimate theater so a simple ballad attains monumental intensity when Jerry's emotional/musical crescendo blows the roof off the joint. Everybody wins with this one.
Written about the Mission District in SFO, where Robert Hunter was living. One of his most reportorial songs. Clear, concrete, and concise. But, per usual, the music makes the song. Feels like a rainy day melodically. I like the uptempo shift after the intro. Rarely hear that. The performance is passion. Jerome Garcia, now performing in Heaven's Band, played great while down here! I saw him live twice, GD and JGB, in DC in the early 80s.
Great version of this song. This video looks like it was recorded on one of the early Ampex low-speed video cameras Bob Wikersham had from his time at Ampex.
One of my favorite performances of probably my favorite Hunter/Garcia song ever. Knowing how prophetic the “ten years ago” verse would be…shooo it hits me in the chest.
I was playing out last night - music. The act before me was this guy in his mid 20s: beautiful voice, mechanically perfect on guitar…gorgeous…but no soul. Empty. I felt nothing. Then this…mechanically a bit wonky, a few Missed notes, Jerry a bit pitchy…and yet this leaves me weeping. That is Jerry’s magic. His heart is on that guitar, and in his voice. This is music.
Never take this down. This recording belongs in the hall of congress library
Trying to get them to put this on vinyl
Jerry at his best...one of my all time favorite tunes and best version. I played this for my 16 year old son the other day and he said"...Dad, what is that?!? I've never heard anything like that before!" The next day he was balls deep in GD and JGB. This is going to be fun.
Parenting at its finest
Hey now!
I'm jealous! My son just kinda liked some of their songs. Sigh. Other than that, he's a wonderful guy❤
@@MakeloafnotwarBalls deep means fully immersed in this context. Night school brother
Right on bro
Further proof why Jerry is and will forever be the greatest creative genius in human history. Jerry will come again to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no end!
I’d be hard pressed to find a more soulful performance by any musician. Jesus God Almighty.
Amen!
I just commented "Good Gawd Jerry!
Then I read your post. 😁
Try this one ruclips.net/video/6H_h0ywYv-0/видео.html
Love
Love
i have to re-watch this every few months.
Patrick Siglin dude I completely get that. As I sit here and listen to it in my every couple month cycle. Lol
Patrick Siglin as do I friend
tbird420h The Rain 🌧 brings it around for me I’ve learned over the last few years. As I sit here a little wet from taking out the fur baby this evening I’m filled with smiles...
JRC76 give it a go!
And I’m back. Lol
Am I the only one who gets teary eye they hear this Masterpiece ?
Nope...everytime I listen
every time.....
I cry', and rejoice, inside. In 1978 I was 21, fried, depressed and 3500 miles from home. Everyday I'd put the studio version of "Mission in the Rain" on the turn table. That tune, and John Lennon's "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You", resonated with my troubled soul. Still do.
Every time. Every time....
I'm glad I'm not the only one..
Masterpiece
Every look thats shared on that stage was pure love and admiration for each other.
I was at this show ! I was 16 years old , love you Jerry man forever!
shout out to NJ
i’m in newark
You were born in 1962 ? I'm 1969 alive for 3 months innthe 60s I always say ❤🎉😊
The absolute best. I am 25 years old and never had the opportunity to see Jerry. That said, his spirit and candor lives through me. While I have a degree in Jazz Saxophone, Jerry Garcia has proven to be a massive influence in my life. Jerry represents the true spirit and love of music. What a long strange trip it's been!
+colinfriedkinmusic1 I totally feel what you are saying! While I am among the luckiest souls of my generation (at 32) to have been able to experience multiple shows in my childhood (12 when Jerry died), I was too young to REALLY get it back then. I am a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and added guitar to my list 7 years ago. I always say Jerry taught me how to play guitar because I learned by deconstructing Dead songs, and for that matter, being able to play those very songs is the whole reason I began to learn to play instruments in the first place. (first drum set at 10, played along to mickey and bill's solos on Dead Set and GD movie, had an affinity for jazz-style percussion ever since)
+colinfriedkinmusic1 Jerry loved the saxophone. I read an interview where he claimed that he made attempts but failed to bring Saxophone into the Dead. Thankfully, Jerry had other groups like Legion of Mary and the JGB who featured saxophone giants like Clarence Clemons, Branford Marsalis and Martin Fierro. I'll always remember Clarence blowing on "That's What Love Will Make You Do." He would build and tease then build again pushing the band to an amazing gush before smoothly passing the momentum and power over to a visibly excited Jerry who would just shred atop the cooking rhythm like a surfer dropping in at Mavericks.
I played with Martin Fierro a couple of times. He was fun to play with. I remember one set with Martin, myself on drums and James Talley on keyboards out at some Stinson Beach patio bar. We played a version of Hendrix "Little Wing" that was magical. At first I was just playing another cover and then, Wham, we were soaring above ourselves. Bartender, servers, patrons, traffic, even people walking bye all stopped and listened. I never saw that before or again. Great memory.
look up the flute story, "what happened you run out of talent?"
Spirit - that's right my brother. Good luck to you and God bless you -s
couldn't have said it better myself. I'm 26 and I never had the chance. Eats me up inside
When you compose "Might As Well", you know you have a catchy tune.
When you compose "Mission In The Rain" you know you hit the soul bone, clean shot.
It is mind-blowing how many songs Jerry knew the music and words to by memory without a teleprompter. It goes to show how deep it was in his heart and soul and DNA.
I’m just happy someone had the foresight to record this and load it up knowing someone else needed it!
Yes
Over the years people ask why I love Jerry so much- here's the reason why
We get it 😉
Thank God, we get it..
I was at this show. You could see and hear Jerry's soul in this song.
Jealous jerrymylitus Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters
Very lucky man.
Every single time.
I really love this song
I have walked in the Mission in the rain MANY times. I will always love Jerry. He just GOT IT!! Listen carefully people, his kind never comes again.
Same here my friend, so much love to you fam
One of my absolute favorite tunes. It’s my mourning dew for the JGB🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
my first time in San F, for the NYE shows, I visited the Mission. It rained and I called my dad and was all, DAD!!! I AM WALKING IN THE MISSION!!! JUST LIKE THE SONG!! He knew enough to be thrilled for me. BH
Oh man. Mission 1993 to 2002. Crazy fuckin times..strung out. Hating life. But still playin' the game. This song sums everything up. Goddamn for real.
@@AugustinePM Same here walking around The Mission on a Mission in The Rain. Crazy times.
That fucking guitar solo though. Oh my god. The tears of joy it brings me. We're so lucky to live in this time of human history, to have had Jerry Garcia.
Fuk yeah
Everything you gather is just more that you can lose
Agreed times 10! We need to live more simply, I learned the hard way!
Goosebumps all over. Robert and Jerry could write one hell of a song together!
"JERRYBUMPS"
All that you gather is just more that you can lose. My heart aches but the music heals.
No matter how painful
So beautiful to see him smiling like that and having so much fun.
I'm with you....
Might seriously thinking about being my top 1 song of all time. Nothing makes me feel like jerry did.💫
yo tambien!!
Sketons from the closet yaaa Jerry Deal A AL album best ever
Don't you let that deal go down ❤
This show was really a fine effort by JGB 3/12/78 Commack LI NY was a show that I will always remember. Still looking for a good recording of that one. anybody have one ????? This tour was amazing !
Have you checked archives? Now I’m on a mission 💃
Jerry gets super stoked when he sings the "get some satisfaction in the s.f rain" part. I absolutely love this song. Always have from the first time I heard it on reflections.
San Rafael Marin county San Francisco California Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters
Keith Godchaux and Jerry Garcia is the sweetest sound in music history, always has been...🌹🎧🌹
Nobody gives Keith his credit.hands down the most accomplished player they ever had..the whole Bobby thing killed him
Love how Jerry and John recognize Keith taking a very quiet path throughout the song, then calm down and let him speak his mind in his solo (very enthusiastically tossed over from Jer), then John and Jerry stand side by side playing quiet for Keith. and then Jerry comes in quiet like him before putting a stamp on it. Perfection.
Keith was by far the greatest keyboardist the Grateful Dead ever had IMO.
@@aaronkutten what did Weir do to him ??
@@stevenribler9743 fucked his wife
I miss jerry still
+Renee Senderoff Me too!
Renee Senderoff , music has never been the same, and never will, it's over...
Renee Senderoff can't replace the goat
Renee Senderoff we all do 😢
Forever and ever...
Man oh man.....Keith was a beautiful artist. This is really great to the uninitiated. But we all know, still check it. Thanks folks.
Great, thanks for noticing his playing. Great days.
San Francisco in the good
Days, Jerry Garcia. All time
Legend him and Carlos Santana. Both from the mission. 2 Latino brothers
Mission style . Beloved by
The whole world. 24th folsom. God bless the mission.
I saw them both in the park in San Francisco more than a few times. This song is nostalgic because I lived in the Mission. I spent some intense days down there. It’s a beautiful part of town.
Yes God bless the mission where this white.girl whoarried a Puerto 🇵🇷 Rican had a son named Angel 30 years ago. Rest in peace methcocaine a d fentanyl suck
@bartjoy5179 i love the mission 24th and Alabama a d 150 Precita Park were my 2 best girlfriends growing up. The. Trina was from pottery hill just up the street from general hospitaloon Rhode Island andsuemt Sue rented that place on 23rd and potrero
Jerry must be come back to rescue the World ❤❤❤
Best video on YT hands down.
Whenever I wake up in a “mood”, I watch this and I’m better. Works every time!
"10 years ago I walked these streets. My dreams were ragged dull.
Tonight I would be thankful, Lord, for any dream at all.
Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true.
But everything you gather is just more that you can lose."
This really sums up Jerry at this point in his career, especially in the context of frontman of the Grateful Dead, against his will. A humble man who couldn't find the light of his youth, even though it shone out from him onto all of us almost every second he was on his stage.
*riding tall. He says riding tall.
@@skennydeform9469 huh. I guess I can see that. I don’t know why I’ve always thought it was ragged dull…. L’chaim
@@kbbl102.5 It's definitely "riding tall"
@@mattlevitch4794 kind of the opposite of what I've always heard it as huh?
@@kbbl102.5 Misunderstood song lyrics are great 🤣
I really just can’t stop listening to it over and over
My favorite Jerry song.
Despite growing up on the Dead (my mom said I was singing Casey Jones before Wheels on the bus go round and round), going to several Dead concerts, and having a cassette tape suitcase full of bootleg tapes recorded by a guy called Dead Red, who lived in Brisbane, I totally missed this song until my 30s. I must have heard it, but just wasn't ready for it. Then one day it totally blindsided me, and I was instantly transported back to my difficult teenage years when my skateboard was my best friend, and I was skating from Bayshore and into the mission on another night ride, but I kept sliding, and falling from the wet ground, and just started walking. I didn't want to go home. I just wanted to skate, so I just walked in the rain trying to sort things out, until I was tired and wet, and still had a long walk up steep hills to get home. I still have that skateboard and the edges are all delaminated and ragged from many wet rides around Bernal Heights, industrial SF, HP, and the mission. While it brings on a little bit of sad nostalgia, it also makes me feel grateful for where I'm at now.
Skateboards make very loyal friends, cheers
OMG, no wonder I crossed the continent multiple times to hear this guy live.
I followed him all the way to Europe in 1990
The world was so much better then, yet here we are. See you again Jerry.......
I just seen Maria up in Norwich NY this past summer in 2022 and she was as Lovely as Ever
This song and video is truely medicine for the heart mind and soul . Jerry may not be alive in body but he is very alive and timeless / ageless through in his music and spirit
OK, I'm pretty sure no one will read this, but I just feel I had to put it out...
I was watching some other video on RUclips just now and it was almost midnight here in Brazil. It's been some time since I last watched this performance and something made me come back once again. It's just over midnight now so I looked at my Facebook memories and I think I've found the reason I was brought here today...
Exactly two years ago I performed this song at the music school I studied in, singing and playing bass, inspired by this particular video. At that time I was playing bass for three years and was just finding out how to actually project my voice and utilize my vocal range, but didn't quite know how to control it yet.
So many things came out wrong that day! I'd just bought a new strap, but it was uncomfortably low and I couldn't adjust it, then I began the first few notes on the bass in the wrong key and that also influenced the notes I sang (so the first few verses were really rough before the drums actually came in), the drummer I played with - which was also a student - sped up the song towards the end and completely stopped playing for four bars (after the verse "All the things I planned to do I only did halfway).
But still, while I kinda cringe at the first seconds every time I rewatch my performance, it was so worth it! By the middle of the song I kinda left behind all my concerns and went head-first into the moment and the music. I kept thinking "this is where I wanna be for the rest of my life, this is what I want to be doing". That feeling is something I'll never forget and I thank Jerry for this!
It all gets read by someone someday...wonderful story...
And read again..✌💜
Interlochen?
Thanks for your remembrance. Your writing reminded me of these lyrics found in the Car's song, "Bye Bye Love"
...It's such a wavy midnight
When you slip into insane
Electric angel rock and roller
I hear what you're playing...
Great story ! If you’re up for it, please share a link to your performance - I would love to check it out.
You can tell that Jerry is having a blast playing this one. Makes me smile to see him so happy. We miss you
I revist this song every so often, and still get massive goose bumps.
Jerry was absolutely brilliant on that song .
"When you're in the song, you're with Jerry. It was very palpable the other night. We did 'Mission in the Rain.' I actually saw him and [lyricist Robert] Hunter, walking along the Mission District. That was the image in my mind." ~ Phil Lesh
Andrew Marsh wow that’s powerful stuff 😍
Love Phil I love all the gd members even Donna
Lucky. His SO SOUL. NOBODY DOES IT BETTER....NOBODY CAN DO IT LIKE JERRY, THANK U I SAW HIM.
Great quote. So true.
Never the same since he left us...8/9/95
+Margot Sauers You are so right...never the same since he left. My license frame reads- at the top " 8-9-95"...the bottom reads "...and then he flew on" Even the Fare Thee Well shows have that special little thing missing. Take care, Jack
yet here he is
I am Grateful I got to see them quite a few times between '87 up to and including Jerry's final show at Soldier's Field. I was shocked and sad when I heard the news on the radio while driving a work truck on 08/09/95. Disbelief is the best way I can describe it. I perform lots of GD music on a volunteer basis for nursing home residents and hospice patients. The gift of music is a gift to be shared. Jerry's spirit lives on in every note and word. Forever missed he will be by all who loved him.
My all time favorite Jerry song and what a great rendition of it. He looks so happy.
This is probably the happiest I ever saw Jerry look.
He always seemed happy at the Jerry Gracia Band shows. I never ever remember Jerry not looking happy at any Jerry Band show. However, on this incredibly fabulous rendition of an incredibly fine song; he does look nearly ecstatic!!!
I was at this show. Those Capital Theatre shows were some of the Best!!!!
It's really amazing the bands the big name bands who played there.
passaic nj stand up!!
Watching this today 7/9/20. Never got to see the old man live but this song hits home so hard for me. Tears have definitely come and gone just from listening to this tune alone. Love you jerry, even tho i never saw you. This music fills my soul
Jerry and John were a good team.
WHO are the people who thumb's down??? This is gorgeous!
it was opposite day
How gorgeous, how sad, how true to life. What clear tone, amazing note choices, phrasing and expression. The song and the playing come from a deep, deep place. Beautiful, frightening. Thanks for posting this.
I'm amazed that this beauty was emanating when I was 10 and 400 miles away.... I'd call that close enough in this vast universe
just as a mom nurtures her young, Jerry nurtures his creations. he worked hard at his craft. his passion. words cannot describe.
I miss Jerry so much it hurts, I'm just thankful I got to see him live as much as I did
1978 was such an excellent JGB touring year (GD also)! Jerry was loving it, smiling here with a glow, and a chuckle here and there at 1:55 and 3:00...Miss you!
Just love this......Getting the tingly feeling like we all should.....Thank you for never letting the music stop!
I was at this show. They broadcast the early show on the radio, I went to the late show, and the next night they released officially (Warner Theater). What a great show.....40 years later I still remember it. I'd say I really miss Jerry, but we have his music, on tape and on video so he's with us every day.
Thank God!
He was happy playing this song,at the end his face lit up as his fingers danced across the strings!
best video on the internet
I have to say I watch it twice a week! That along with midnight moonlight!
This has become a weekly song for me. Gets me thinking about good times in the past and A good reminder to keep the good times rolling. 😎
I don’t know what it is about Jerry but he just makes me want to be a better person.
You don’t want to know. Absolutely beautiful though.
This one should easily make it into your Playlist..
I've seen some incredible mission in the rain this is one of my favorite it's a time when John Kahn and Maria Muldaur we're seeing each other so you had Donna Jean and Maria singing together I saw this combination a few times but like I said this is one of my favorite. Mission in the Rains... Peace
Paul
Peace to you Paul from Gretchen in San Franciscp
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The Mission is an area in San Francisco... A great Mexican restaurant!!!
Listen to Jerry sing. The pure energy and emotion always takes me aback. So gorgeous in his playing and his emoting.
This is such a beautiful show! Jerry seemed so happy, totally on top of his game, having a hell of a good time. And Donna wasn't doing any caterwauls. Both in this song and Rhapsody in Red she (along with Mouldar) sang beautifully. Donna was always an excellent studio singer, but many years after the fact, she lamented that she often couldn't hear herself correctly in the monitors at GD concerts, and thus her tragic squalling like a mashed cat. But apparently the acoustics were really good on stage at Capitol Theater, and she and Maria sang wonderfully. It's bittersweet to see Jerry so happy and animated here. Heroin for Jerry became like a crocodile that drags you under the water and rolls you. This show was before he got dragged under. Miss you Jerry!
BTW, I was born in 1962 and spent my first eight months in S.F.'s Mission District, after which my parents moved to southern Marin. So this song takes me back to my earliest roots. And as I grew up, I felt really honored that the Dead were our local band. Still do today.
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Jerry and Bob were often difficult for her to harmonize with at times because of their unique ennuciation.
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Donna could sing on key when Maria was standing next to her.
Best Mission I've had the chance to hear yet!
I lived in the Mission at this time and have totally embraced this song. Now the Mission is tottering on the edge of gentrification, that is if the gent is willing to risk get robbed, shanked or shot. The Mission ain’t the same and it doesn’t rain anymore.
Whatever comes down the mission always looks the same my man
Freakin Jerry’s like well Keith ya missed your solo so I’m just gonna have to drag you thru this wether you like it or not . 🎸
I was born in san francisco
Ca. The mission district.
The great Jerry garcia.
How blessed were we to
Have Jerry garcia and Carlos Santana. To of
The greatest guitar players from the mission.
San Francisco. Ca
He must be so happy that his work not only meant so much but still effects so many and can change your very soul still to this day over a quarter of a century after death and transport you back to the best times ever had. With out this music I would surely be depressed if not suicidal he was a gift to us all..I swear he could look out at the crowd and you would think he is looking directly at you and give you that reassuring nod and smile that all is well in the world.
I miss this magical man and these magic moments so so much! Truly heartbreaking and I thank everyone who contributes these awesome memories to youtube, I hope the music never stops! Love love love to all!
Holy moly Jer!
definitely one of my top five jgb songs… so nice to see video of them playing it. thx
Not sure anyone else noticed, but I was wondering what got Jerry smiling around 8:17. It seems that he lowered his guitar volume too much (or off) around 7:50 and didn't realize that he was out of the mix until around 8:12 when he tried to play a louder chord. Puzzled by the silence, he looked down, turned the volume back up and returned with a big smile on his face at 8:17. Such a great version of this tune.
Jerry’s vocals at their absolute best.
I have walked in the mission in the rain. Wow, this song reminds me how much I miss san francisco.
Perhaps my favorite song from perhaps my favorite GD/JGB era...'77-'82. Some SERIOUS member berries here!
My favorite version of this great song. Maria Muldaur has the voice of an angel.
Chills and goosebumps every time with this masterpiece.
Once I walked thru the mission late at night and heard those bells.. they weren’t for me..
That’s just the way live goes sometimes. 🤜🤛
I just heard a grate Garcia story involving him buying a round of rootbeer floats for all the customers at an A and W if anyone has any more Garcia stories would love to hear them.
Seeing Donna and Maria's beautiful energy and grace reacting to the band's dynamics is amazing. It's amplified with the audience in a relatively intimate theater so a simple ballad attains monumental intensity when Jerry's emotional/musical crescendo blows the roof off the joint. Everybody wins with this one.
What a gem. I needed this on this Monday morning. 😘
Written about the Mission District in SFO, where Robert Hunter was living. One of his most reportorial songs. Clear, concrete, and concise. But, per usual, the music makes the song. Feels like a rainy day melodically. I like the uptempo shift after the intro. Rarely hear that. The performance is passion. Jerome Garcia, now performing in Heaven's Band, played great while down here! I saw him live twice, GD and JGB, in DC in the early 80s.
Great version of this song. This video looks like it was recorded on one of the early Ampex low-speed video cameras Bob Wikersham had from his time at Ampex.
The Days Between!
One of my favorite performances of probably my favorite Hunter/Garcia song ever. Knowing how prophetic the “ten years ago” verse would be…shooo it hits me in the chest.
how lucky are we ....for taper(s), mixers, engineers, publishers, Music Vault whoever you are. for Jerry gracing
Man, freaking awesome! I’m playing along with this on my upright bass.
Pissed that RUclips would put an ad a minute into the song, at least put it at the end or the beginning
Should be a federal offence.
Cant stop listening to this .. forever!! 🔥🔥🔥
Jerry was touring with The Dead that month as well I saw him in Springfield! What a warhorse!
I was playing out last night - music. The act before me was this guy in his mid 20s: beautiful voice, mechanically perfect on guitar…gorgeous…but no soul. Empty. I felt nothing. Then this…mechanically a bit wonky, a few
Missed notes, Jerry a bit pitchy…and yet this leaves me weeping. That is Jerry’s magic. His heart is on that guitar, and in his voice. This is music.
Saw many at the real Capitol Theatre. The good old days!
we feel ya forever jer - jerry projects his youth into timeless eternity
Superb sound quality for the year!
Good Morning JerBear. Happy Birthday week. We love you 😍 ❤
Goosebumps all over as well, reminds me of highschool in Mississippi in the mid 90’s.
Can never get enough !!!
Of the good stuff !!
Best song in the world!!