I discovered this band in 2020 at the age of 23 years old. My life has never been the same. I, quite literally, view the world completely differently. The Grateful Dead are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
@@patrickmcdade7353 I guess so! If you could only see my playlists on Spotify. Thanks for the kind words Patrick! It’d be great if we could connect somehow and discuss the dead and/or other music. Much love - Zach in San Antonio TX.
right. in the mid 70s (and typically with donna jean g.) they TOTALLY slowed the saint down! those recordings are just fine, but certainly unlike the psychedelic fury of the earlier recordings when they were all firing on every cylinder available plus a few more! same thing with this albums version of The Eleven (which like more than St. Stephen for its ...pure musical fire!!) man they kicked the whiz out of both these tunes here!
this record changed my life. some would argue, not for the better. but i argue back, i am who i am. i like who i am. i would not be this person, if not for the Grateful Dead.
When i was around 8 or 9 i was into marilyn manson (still like his old stuff) but around 14 or 15 i discovered the dead and took off the dark cloths and fake teenage depression and traded them in for tie die and a more positive outlook on life as long as the sun shines and the plants stay green as long as the music never stops the world will always be a beautiful place
The best version I've ever heard. A lot of rock bands depend on youthful energy and inspiration. And because the Dead's method of getting out there & seeing what happens is very hit or miss, there was only a small window of time when they had the energy and focus to play this properly on those occasions when everything came together by serendipity, and an even smaller window when the good version happened to be recorded.
thank you. 1969 was the year that I saw them first in my college - they played SUNY Stony Brook, and I was a full-bloomed hippie chick and student there. I met Bobby Weir during the 'intermission' and we kissed right in front of many of my friends. he asked me to come the following week to Porchester, NY for their concert. I did. i'm tired of telling the story it's been so many years! i'm 66 yrs old now, hardly able to believe my history during those beautiful years! Bobby changed my life, and he never even knew it! at the Capitol Theater, I danced for two long concerts that weekend on the stage two feet from him. he let me get past the guard at the stage door by saying I was his cousin. later on, after my long night dancing I was asked into Bob's room by him. wow! so, you've definitely brought me back in time....my best time for sure.
Thank you for telling the story even though you're tired of it. Gives later fools like me a glimpse. I particularly love the fool by quicksilver messenger service. I bet you heard that a bit at the time.
see my notes above; the lyrics to this song, and to Brown Eyed Women, rather prefigure the discoveries Bob Weir would make decades alter when his biological mother who;d given him up at birth fund him, and he found his biological fathe through her lead. for someone who was adopted and never knew the parents who spawned him... we all might as well be their cousins. glad you got to be :kissing cousins!"
@sunshineblues Your ‘69 years young and hope your doin’ great!! You must have had a blast. Thanks for sharing, and don’t ever get tired of sharing it.....keeps ya young
Love the way the tempo ramps up with the lead riff following along, this is the best rendition of St. Stephen out there. I believe this was the original from the album.
Grateful Dead has changed my life forever! I am a complete deadhead !!! St. Stephen is my favorite song of all time !!! St. Stephen, song five, disc skeletons from the closet. I LOVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!!
I was few years shy of getting to see them as a complete band. But they will be preserved forever in digital archives by nerds that have heard them in their nascent lives.
I was the only in 1989...When the audience screamed "St. Stephen" or "Dark Star" for 2nd Encore... Well, I was the lone voice going, "THE ELEVEN!!!" and "ALLIGATOR!!!!!
oh absolutely~ it's just magical here! sadly there's a bit of light noise that hasn't been removed. i suppose a remastering could get rid of that white recording noise (or maybe this is put up here from vinyl). regardless, in (it seems "our" estimation) this is their finest performance of the song. check out the version from "two from the vault " as well - that's a pretty good one too.
this song has grown on me through the decades and I used some of the lyrics in a site of poems I wrote honoring Phyllis who was Bob Weir's birth mother. "wonder who will water all the children of the garden" "wrap the babe in scarlet garments all your own..."
Amen to that. The peanut guitar on the skulls and roses album is the ultimate tone. Not fade away/going down the road feeling bad! His solos on that are so beautiful.
i love the little jam right after the last verse befor the william tell bridge. but the version from two from the vault is super tight too, so much energy in that entire performance
I mean this is the dream set for many of us , no? Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven>And we bid you Goodnight. I wonder if it's because of just how good these versions are on Live Dead. I've never heard a better Dark Star or a more powerful St. Stephen.
OK and BINGO! My personal "Stephen" story continues to RHYME with this delightful "dissonance".....DANG :-))!!!!!!! Only wish I could again hold a vinyl "original" in my hands!
There's Gimme Shelter and there 's St Stephen (and, ah.. yeah Whipping Post). and After Midnight.. [if only there was a way to put them together in a tape or sth so I could listen to them while I'm driving..]
Drop a hit of fresh double barrel orange sunshine , have a copy of this album , electrc ladyland and the alman brothers live a the fillmore east handy When you start peaking grab pair of head phones and crank up the tunes
Acid song if there EVER was one...To moi, anyway...As 17 yr old in 11th grade, 1970,trippingness remembrance......"Lady finger dipped in moonlight..."...Feel those coming on to acid butterflies, even now, as I listen to this track...
Most definitely Peter!...every Dead head got a song/jam that does it for him...for me it's 'Blues for Allah' ...did way too much acid, listened to the album incessantly for hours...Help on the Way...and others...( for some reason, i'm locked in a brain-freeze)...Grateful Dead ptsd???..Long live the Dead!
Deadheads, I heard an instrumental (orchestral?) version of St. Stephen on the Grateful Dead Hour some years ago. It blew me away! But I haven't been able to find it since. Can anyone help?
I discovered this band in 2020 at the age of 23 years old. My life has never been the same. I, quite literally, view the world completely differently. The Grateful Dead are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Jerry Garcia: "We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
Good to hear from a younger fella. You probably an old soul. Peace ✌and love 💘 , Patrick from Bumfuck, WV.
@@gdub999tub. Haha! I read that in Jerry’s voice. I also happen to like licorice. And what do ya know, I *really* like licorice.
@@patrickmcdade7353 I guess so! If you could only see my playlists on Spotify. Thanks for the kind words Patrick! It’d be great if we could connect somehow and discuss the dead and/or other music. Much love - Zach in San Antonio TX.
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The Dead did not always do St. Stephen proper service. They do, however, in this classic recording. God, I love this version.
right. in the mid 70s (and typically with donna jean g.) they TOTALLY slowed the saint down! those recordings are just fine, but certainly unlike the psychedelic fury of the earlier recordings when they were all firing on every cylinder available plus a few more! same thing with this albums version of The Eleven (which like more than St. Stephen for its ...pure musical fire!!) man they kicked the whiz out of both these tunes here!
Agreed this is deff my favorite version of stephens
theyre version of this song on Playboy After Dark is also incedible
@@wangson psychedelic fury, excellent
wangson that's cause in the late 70s it became the nitrous song so the into needed to be slower lol
this record changed my life. some would argue, not for the better. but i argue back, i am who i am. i like who i am. i would not be this person, if not for the Grateful Dead.
When i was around 8 or 9 i was into marilyn manson (still like his old stuff) but around 14 or 15 i discovered the dead and took off the dark cloths and fake teenage depression and traded them in for tie die and a more positive outlook on life as long as the sun shines and the plants stay green as long as the music never stops the world will always be a beautiful place
Terrific comment. Never regret anything that lead you to a blessed life of personal happiness and satisfaction
john smith
I discovered the dead at 16 and again at 38. You said it perfect, its transforming. Peace and love brother deadhead!
I feel the same about MetallicA. Love this version of this song though. One of the best live versions ever
Amen
..I heard those first five notes and my life transformed forever. What a Long Strange Trip it's been
The best version I've ever heard. A lot of rock bands depend on youthful energy and inspiration. And because the Dead's method of getting out there & seeing what happens is very hit or miss, there was only a small window of time when they had the energy and focus to play this properly on those occasions when everything came together by serendipity, and an even smaller window when the good version happened to be recorded.
Heard brother.
In your air headed reply i connect and understand. You got it brother.
One of my favorite intros ever. I mean it lights me up!
thank you. 1969 was the year that I saw them first in my college - they played SUNY Stony Brook, and I was a full-bloomed hippie chick and student there. I met Bobby Weir during the 'intermission' and we kissed right in front of many of my friends. he asked me to come the following week to Porchester, NY for their concert. I did. i'm tired of telling the story it's been so many years! i'm 66 yrs old now, hardly able to believe my history during those beautiful years! Bobby changed my life, and he never even knew it! at the Capitol Theater, I danced for two long concerts that weekend on the stage two feet from him. he let me get past the guard at the stage door by saying I was his cousin. later on, after my long night dancing I was asked into Bob's room by him. wow! so, you've definitely brought me back in time....my best time for sure.
Thank you for telling the story even though you're tired of it. Gives later fools like me a glimpse. I particularly love the fool by quicksilver messenger service. I bet you heard that a bit at the time.
I'd have kissed Bobby in Front of my friends for such as this
I farted
see my notes above; the lyrics to this song, and to Brown Eyed Women, rather prefigure the discoveries Bob Weir would make decades alter when his biological mother who;d given him up at birth fund him, and he found his biological fathe through her lead. for someone who was adopted and never knew the parents who spawned him... we all might as well be their cousins. glad you got to be :kissing cousins!"
@sunshineblues
Your ‘69 years young and hope your doin’ great!!
You must have had a blast.
Thanks for sharing, and don’t ever get tired of sharing it.....keeps ya young
Been listening to this since 1971 in High school..
This is THEE version of this song.. period.. !!!
Very cool to hear Chewbacca hangin' with the crowd @ 00:20. Should have guessed he's a Deadhead.
+Bargerland ahahahahhaha :-D
hahahahahah!!!! that's awesome!
LOL
Hahahahaha....awesome
The original "Wook"
Love the way the tempo ramps up with the lead riff following along, this is the best rendition of St. Stephen out there. I believe this was the original from the album.
High green chilly winds and windy vines in loops around the twining shafts of lavender, they're crawling to the sun
that happens now and then, just go with it
The eleven is magesty pure
This is where their psychedelic sound peaked, before they ended up going country/folk later that year and never looking back
50 frickin years and 2 days later, and has not last any of it's LUSTRE!!!!:-))
Grateful Dead has changed my life forever! I am a complete deadhead !!! St. Stephen is my favorite song of all time !!! St. Stephen, song five, disc skeletons from the closet. I LOVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!!
Rest in Peace Dear Robert Hunter and have a Love-ly next life... ..
Best version of this song ever!!
One man gathers what another man spills...
I was few years shy of getting to see them as a complete band. But they will be preserved forever in digital archives by nerds that have heard them in their nascent lives.
Truly sacred to me. Not a band, a family.
CIA Moment
I used to cover this back in the early 70's.
My mom used to play this all the time when I was young. . .
This is my favorite version. Love this album. :)
I bought this album via Woolworth's. It was ordered under the name Mr G Dead! I loved St.Stephen and Dark Star. Love to all fans of Mr G Dead.
the audio on this recording (not to mention the performance) is totally kick ass.
Jesus help me and my addictions😢 Holy Ghost pray 4 us all😢
What a great song...hello from Greece...
One of my side missions this lifetime is seeing how many times I can listen to this track.
One of my feel good mystical favorites! This is a godlike rendition. Live!
This entire album is a masterpiece by the Dead.
The scream in this song is EPIC !
The Dead's best work. Maybe any rock bands greatest work. Live Dead!
This cut's STILL SMOKIN"! I can hardly believe how well they did this one. Used to play it, but it never sounded like Jerry.
I was the only in 1989...When the audience screamed "St. Stephen" or "Dark Star" for 2nd Encore... Well, I was the lone voice going, "THE ELEVEN!!!" and "ALLIGATOR!!!!!
probably my fav recording of St. Stephen
oh absolutely~ it's just magical here! sadly there's a bit of light noise that hasn't been removed. i suppose a remastering could get rid of that white recording noise (or maybe this is put up here from vinyl). regardless, in (it seems "our" estimation) this is their finest performance of the song. check out the version from "two from the vault " as well - that's a pretty good one too.
+wangson the white noise makes it
wangson I love the William tell verse
@@wangson Noise reduction is the devil. You take the noise away and strip some of the character from the sound of the music in the process
@@sunkintree You've got a great point.
this song has grown on me through the decades and I used some of the lyrics in a site of poems I wrote honoring Phyllis who was Bob Weir's birth mother. "wonder who will water all the children of the garden" "wrap the babe in scarlet garments all your own..."
St. Stephen (short story) was tasked by church elders to see that the poor and homeless were given food.
He was stoned to death.
look it up
The Dead were absolutely great when they played with energy, rather than... dead.
Anthem to beauty
Dead forever
Live St Stephen is so much better than studio
This always makes me wann play guitar !!!!!!!!
i know!! i grab my axe everytime i hear this one...lead line is delicious!
Bobby Dudley same
Second best Grateful Dead song ever. Althea is---hands down---their best song ever. (Been here so long got to callin' it home.)
THANKS MORDY
Let all hail Jerry's incredible guitar tone pre- Irwin guitars. Super clean recording.
Amen to that. The peanut guitar on the skulls and roses album is the ultimate tone. Not fade away/going down the road feeling bad! His solos on that are so beautiful.
Phil had such a monstrous, gnarly sound back in those days.
i love the little jam right after the last verse befor the william tell bridge. but the version from two from the vault is super tight too, so much energy in that entire performance
got me through a year in the USAF building bombs in southeast asia - 1970
This is the version of the song that turned the Greatful Dead from "That band Dad always listens to" to "The band I always listen to".
Listening now with our little tuxie girl cat St. Stephen (we have a long tradition of naming cats for saints, so why not?)
I just put this on and the head & body just start movin' -- so glad I experienced these guys
one man gathers what another one spills great line great song great band!!!!!!!!!!!
The lead guitar tone of Jerry tho…
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man alive!....is this on fire or what!?!?
yup, it's pretty boss, alright...the bee's knees!! :-P
Yea man
Totally
my cousin showed me this song in 2002 and got me started on the dead
Classic song and performance. Makes you want to strive, and live, and share, and care, and be a disciple.
I gotta agree with CaliBigBen. My absolute favorite version, No doubt.
God bless the original mix!!
Did we come home again here we are let's be here right now
I mean this is the dream set for many of us , no? Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven>And we bid you Goodnight. I wonder if it's because of just how good these versions are on Live Dead. I've never heard a better Dark Star or a more powerful St. Stephen.
I applaud every time i listen to this song. Even on the headphones!
OK and BINGO! My personal "Stephen" story continues to RHYME with this delightful "dissonance".....DANG :-))!!!!!!! Only wish I could again hold a vinyl "original" in my hands!
There's Gimme Shelter and there 's St Stephen (and, ah.. yeah Whipping Post). and After Midnight.. [if only there was a way to put them together in a tape or sth so I could listen to them while I'm driving..]
such a killer beauty of a song
God this is such a good song
really grounding to hear when you're peaking on double barrel orange sunshine
Top shelf
the rift in this version is 10/10
Happy Feast of Stephen DEC26
Best at Stephen out there
Saw them "live" during this time........Pigpen influence .....nastier harder edge
So fucking incredible
they played it! they played it!!
I thought it was, "Hair so long, got to callin' it home"...
I always did too. I kinda like it better 😆
my friend thought the same thing!
Always thought it was "hair so long, got to comb it in a hole" lmao
It's "Here so long, he's got to callin' it home"...
I always thought it was too. Until I received a copy of dodd' annotated Grateful dead lyrics. I sang it like that more times than I will admit.
Tom Contstanten ruled on keyboards
he lives in Charlotte, NC and I've met him a few times. He's still got his chops up too
Jack Straw )
First heard this in 1970
amazing
Drop a hit of fresh double barrel orange sunshine , have a copy of this album , electrc ladyland and the alman brothers live a the fillmore east handy
When you start peaking grab pair of head phones and crank up the tunes
Acid song if there EVER was one...To moi, anyway...As 17 yr old in 11th grade, 1970,trippingness remembrance......"Lady finger dipped in moonlight..."...Feel those coming on to acid butterflies, even now, as I listen to this track...
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Excellent version! thanks
when they were on, they were really on.
Great version!
I ate Orange Sunshine and tripped to those EXACT LPs in '70-'71...The Big Three, are those albums...
Most definitely Peter!...every Dead head got a song/jam that does it for him...for me it's 'Blues for Allah' ...did way too much acid, listened to the album incessantly for hours...Help on the Way...and others...( for some reason, i'm locked in a brain-freeze)...Grateful Dead ptsd???..Long live the Dead!
best version
NOTHING LIKE THIS AT ALL.
Deadheads, I heard an instrumental (orchestral?) version of St. Stephen on the Grateful Dead Hour some years ago. It blew me away! But I haven't been able to find it since. Can anyone help?
as quoted in a James Bond Movie "Nobody does it Better"
Epic St. Stephen...
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Favorite dead tune
Talk about your plenties.. Talk about your ills... One man gathers what another man spills..
William Tell, baby…
🎉
wonderful
SPOT ON!
music 69 , no se ha escuchado en ecuador, que gloria el oirla
nice!
WonDerFul!! Thank YoU!
Love!
best album too
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned