I'm an old picky Deadhead, and this song got me through my fight with cancer back in 1995, and through the quarter-century of medical issues I've dealt with since then. I'm also in the crowd in the music video. That isn't stage smoke, it's fog, and we were freezing! Thank you, Jerry. We will survive.
I am bbn blessed enough to have traveled with the band in the 90s and I agree, I am over here jamming out in my apartment with chills! Rock on my fellow humans. RIP Jerry✌❤🌈🌠
Everyone making a TON of recommendations on what Dead songs to review, Jamel gonna come back on next week with dreads, a tie-dye, and birkenstocks talking about what a long strange trip it's been.....
Growing up, (I'm 31) I knew this song as a 'sub-par' sort of 'radio single' of the GD. So when the local heads would tell me to listen to the Dead, this song was always the 'gone mainstream' song they told me to avoid. After listening to the dead for years (and reading a Jerry biography) I realized this song is fucking magnificent! The "WE WILL survive" after reading that book always lifted me so high. This song has gone from a classic rock channel song in my youth to a poppy GD song in my adulthood to one of my favorite Dead songs of all time. Jerry put this song out after his near-death coma... What kind of inspiration could you ask for!
Well, also because it's a radio hit and a pretty popular song of the time. "The song got into the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 9, and reached number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart." -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Grey
I just got chills and laughed out loud when he says "it's real familiar" made me remember feeling the same even as a child discovering them so long ago! Welcome, Jamel :)
I love that big ol' smile he gets on his face just like anyone that experiences the Dead and "gets" it! I "got" it in 1968 and have stayed on the bus ever since.
I'm glad you acknowledged the "WE will get by" part of the song. My first concert was Grateful Dead. I was 15 years old and my older cousins took me. I didn't know the music but they played this song and I recognized it. When they got to the "we will get by" chorus the crowd responded so loudly that it gave me goosebumps! Since then I've been to many many concerts over the years and there's NOTHING that compares to the atmosphere of a Dead show!
@Paul Bowman same! I also took my younger brother to a Dead and Co. concert and he wasn't big on the dead before hand but he had a blast and he was like "ok, I get it now". It was great
@Meghan Harris It was a culture shock to me. Me and another guy just walked around inside the venue the whole show just people watching while listening to the music. And the parking lot scene was no different. It was a DEADicated family gathering and everyone was having a good time!
I have touring with Dead Co since 2015 and it's been a blast . I have more fun than I did at GD shows ! I am also staying in hotels instead of in a tent ! Ha . I guess it's called creature comforts . Last year at the Gorge in my RV was the best concert experience of my life . Also not being as "medicated" might have something to do with it . I have found a mixture of a few red bull vodkas , 10 to 20 mg of edibles , a few beers and a few pre rolls takes me back and there . I fall asleep by 2 am and wake up ready to roll . Two years ago the Gorge , Eugene run was a push , but I was up early and made record time in the Rav . 6 hour drive between shows is brutal overall though . 25 GD shows 90-94 . 19 DC shows , including NYE 20 so glad to have caught it ! Hotel and flights booked for Boulder fingers crossed !
@@an7948 also I wasn't touring with GD during "peak" years . Dead and Company haven't really laid to many eggs. Maybe Vegas 17 . Shure it's slower but Mayer never has a off night . Less setlist variable DrumsSpace Dead Co is best in GD history imo . Its shorter and more jammier . Also just knowing this is the back nine for Bobby and the drummers . The shoe in a dryer drum effect is GD to me . I love hanging in the spinner wook section and cracking jokes with those guys . I was cracking up OG Wook Fam on NYE doing my Bobby !
This song, especially the chorus of "I will get by, I will survive" took on a whole new level of power and poignancy after Jerry Garcia recovered from his diabetic coma. Especially when they played it live again when they played their first show back on December 15, 1986. You can hear the fans roar and holler when they get to that line because they knew their hero was gonna be OK.
That's interesting. I associate this song with his death because my work partner and I had just gotten into the company truck and this song came on the classic rock station. I said sarcastically, "Jerry Garcia must have died because they'd never play this song otherwise!" and then an announcement came on that, in fact, Jerry had passed that day. I'm so glad I got to see them live a couple of times because they're just unbelievable.
@@oregonchick76 I went to exactly 1 GD concert and it was in 1987. Amazing show; it lasted hours and hours. As for this song... I also think of Jerry's death when I hear it, as it was their last big hit before he passed. Either way, it's a good one.
This is the beauty of diving into the music of the Grateful Dead. There’s nothing quite like hearing a song of theirs for the first time. The orchestra of instruments, the depth of the lyrics sung by none other than the man himself, the soul of Jerry’s guitar playing that cuts a deadhead to their core. And that’s just the beginning. 30 years of the best live music one could listen to, with thousands of variations of said song. Like discovering the song all over again. It truly is a blessing. EXTREMELY GRATEFUL 💀⚡️
I'm a Deadhead from long ago! Uncle John's Band, Friend of the Devil, Mexicali Blues... Love the Grateful Dead! We still love you Jerry Garcia! (It's about what we called "the blues". Today they call it clinical depression. We actually made efforts to combat it instead of giving into it. That's why the song sound so light-hearted. You'll hear a lot of very bouncy songs that have pretty dark lyrics but, this was the generation that was taught to push forward, Shake It Off, fight through, never give up, never surrender.)
buddy moore Time’s have changed and there used to be hope.. Looking to the future of our country from my mid-twenties, today? Not a chance. Orwell and Huxley were right in their predictions just a generation before yours; they’ve bypassed man’s conscious concern into the unconscious desire to simply be content. Don’t point your finger at us man, soft clay molds much more easily.
This song was a classic example of an accidental "hit." The Grateful Dead were the archetypal psychedelic hippie rock band of the 1960s. By 1986, they were 20 years into a "long, strange trip" of constantly touring and, ironically, never really selling that many records. Along came "Touch of Grey" and for reasons nobody has every really understood, it took off. Here were a group of middle-aged, pot-bellied white guys that catapulted into the Top 10 on the charts. And the mass audience never really listened to nor understood the lyrics. They just latched onto the beat. Strange, but true.
Miguel Gonzalez That’s very true. I was a teen in the 80s and had heard of The Grateful Dead, but had never heard them on the radio or saw them on TV until “Touch of Grey”.
So many people do that with music they listen to the beat or just go by the title or HOOK of the song and think ewww that's demonic like people do with GOD IS DEAD, by Black Sabbath...
Oh boy oh boy! Can't wait to see you embark on the Grateful Dead journey! If Pink Floyd represents one direction on the compass of the psychedelic horizon, the Dead represent the exact opposite direction :D
Ya, I think Ripple and Uncle johns band are my hearts favourites....reminds me of growing up in Eugene, Oregon... Summertime being poor, but having lots of freedom and true hippy, trippy, dancing bear rainbow bearded goodness. And the Oregon County Fair, where we tried to create a new way of living even if only for a few weeks.
Give *Eyes of the World* off Without A Net a spin in a quiet room with your headphones turned up. Reality altering. Then go for the studio version of *Terrapin Station* You may never be the same again.
This song quite literally saved my life when I'd descended into heroin addiction in 1998 in my mid 20s, and it seems like a GREAT tune to share with the world at this juncture in History. Glad you related to it, and yes, as a Deadhead, I can tell you that community spirit is precisely what the Dead were/are all about! Thanks for these vids! I been watching one or two every night the past week and am gonna write a blog post and create a podcast about you and them!!
I've been a Deadhead for over 40 years. Thank you for reacting to them. Since they never played a song the same way twice, it's always worth checking out different recordings. Ripple was the song that originally got me hooked on the band.
I remember as a teenager listening to Fire on the Mountain in my friend's basement, got really swept up in it. Still my favorite song by them twenty years later. Grateful Dead is the one thing I've kept listening to my entire life, through the decades. Other things come and go but Grateful Dead stays. Their live material is a huge contributor to this. They have over a couple thousand live recorded shows available for you to listen to archived on the internet, for free. Their tendency to improv and evolve over the years keeps it always fresh. Glad to see people are still discovering it to this day. They are what inspired me to pick up guitar and I've become quiet good over the years, big part of my life.
Now imagine to be in a venue and have everyone grooving to that beat, feeling it in their souls. And I will say you feel heard and understood, my Dead family from my 20’s to this day are still my family. I love you for checking it out!!! You rock!
You are absolutely right about this song dealing with adversity. I became a deadhead about 45 years ago (in my teen years). About ten years ago I was severely injured in a random street crime,(just walking home) and as I came to, I was being loaded onto a flight-for-life aircraft and this song was going through my head! Thank You, Jerry!!!
@@bcouri1 I'm convinced a firearm probably would not have worked as this was basically an ambush; I had very little reaction time and they probably would have used it against me.. My situational awareness was low as this was my neighborhood and it was early in the evening (dusk). Pepper spray may have worked, who knows. There were at least three of them and I did land a few punches as they stomped on my hand (after I was unconscious, of course!) These days, I find situational awareness and a cell-phone helpful, but I still consider a personal defense course would be great. I am also in the market for a good shillelagh!
Finally some Grateful Dead! You will find that over the years, they have experimented with many textures and colors of music. They also had many guest musicians, such as Branford Marsalis playing sax in this epic live performance of their song "Eyes of The World." ruclips.net/video/SEE_R4VIkR4/видео.html
I always recommend people start with the album American Beauty and workingman's dead and then listen to Spotify from there :-) I dare this Jamal guy to listen to Brokedown Palace and not cry...
I think the lyrics were written by the late Robert Hunter. A most underrated poet, you might want want to check out other of his songs to understand what he means.
Yes, the Dead! Live Dead is the best. Def check out “Morning Dew” live in Winterland ‘74. And “Eyes of the World” live in Oakland with Winton Marsalas and Bruce Hornsby.
Morning Dew was inspired by the movie "The Beach" from 1958. The movie is about a nuclear apocalypse where everyone was destined to die. There is a full version of the movie on RUclips...make sure you choose the right one though - one is warbly and cuts off before the movie ends. Enjoy!
Dead & Co playing throwing stones in Boulder July 2018 is my favorite version of that song...at least the jam after “we are on our own”...don’t know what it is about that version but I’ve listened to a lot and it’s 🔥 Not just saying that cause I was there I’m mainly replying cause that’s a low key song you don’t hear people mention real often. (Also Liberty right after Throwin’ Stones was bangin too)
My daughter, a freshman in college, got extra credit for knowing the dead sing “Throwing Stones”, when her stoner political science professor played it in class.
That song has been the catalyst of many Grateful Dead fans' long, strange trip "The bus came by, and I got on. That's when it all began" "I may be going to hell in a bucket baby, but at least I'm enjoying the ride"
"Eyes of The World" & "Fire On the Mountain" are some of my favorites. I love their entire album called "Without A Net" their song on there called "Chinacat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" is fantastic. 💖
I just came across this (and I am loving it) and this was my fathers favorite group.....band......and this makes me smile! I’m trying to move forward every single day since he passed! This one is for you Old Man! “WE WILL GET BY”!
More GD: "sugar magnolias!", "sugaree", "St. Stephen", "Truckin'", "casey jones", "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace", "Box of Rain", "Friend of the Devil", "Eyes of the World", "Scarlet Begonias", "uncle John's band", "shakedown street" and anything live. It all kicks ass.
"Box of Rain"..."Phil Lesh wanted a song to sing to his dying father and had composed a piece complete with every vocal nuance but the words. If ever a lyric 'wrote itself,' this did--as fast as the pen would pull." LET PHIL SING!!!
Never knew that. Box of Rain is one of my favorites. Back in the early days of the Apple Macintosh, there was a program that let you create your own icons, in a B&W bitmap image. I created an image for Box of Rain, and assigned that to my hard drive.
The title is an extension of the saying, "Every cloud has a silver lining" with the Grateful Dead adding that "Every silver lining has a touch of grey." Always clever lyrics written by their lyricist Robert Hunter who was considered a full member of the group but never performed with the band. Jerry Garcia said that Robert is the band member who never comes out on stage with us.
@@kevingruenofficial Yeah, Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics and Jerry Garcia wrote the music for "Ripple." The lyrics have been compared to the 23rd Psalm and also Robert was pretty drunk when he wrote it. I remember reading an article that said he wrote the lyrics for "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" all in the same afternoon, apparently while also drinking, but still a good day's work.
@@jeremymoorer7033 Yes. Robert wasn't with them yet on the 1st album. He wrote 1 song on their 2nd album. But their 3rd album Aoxomoxoa he had and Jerry Garcia wrote all the songs on the album except "St. Stephen." So, yes, he and Jerry wrote "Doing That Rag." Robert and Jerry became quite a songwriting duo from then on, although, Robert did co-write some songs with other bandmembers later on.
This song was there only commercial success and got a whole new crowd into the greatest American band of all time. The live song is always on point and they spent so much energy and time to make their live sound as clear and powerful as possible. Americana music at it's best. Glad you liked it and glad you checked it out. They are one of my favorite bands. Their concerts were part of my life for many year. Rest in peace Ron, Keith, Brent, Vince, and Jerry. Long live the Grateful Dead.
Owsley Stanley who the song Kid Charlemagne was written, besides being the LSD king of the time, was the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead and created their iconic skull logo
Owsley stole/ borrowed it from the natives,basically, the red and blue w a lightning bolt was / is actually originally painted on a buffalo skull and has a few representations ...male -red and blue female / red - daytime and blue nighttime.......also the blood of the people is blue and red....the lightning representing the thunder beings.......
Scarlet Begonias is usually performed live with Fire on the Mountain, really good pairing. Franklin's Tower is usually performed after Help on the Way and Slipknot, also one of the better song groupings.
That feeling of familiarity, is deja vu from your past life. I felt it the first time I truly listened to the dead too. The dead have always been with us in our universe and will always be there for ages to come.
i love the grateful dead. i recommend everyone dive deep into their song catalog. i miss you so much jerry. thank you for all the joy youve brought me and millions of others
Dude, I am so happy you are reacting to The Dead! There are so many, too many, great songs that are lyrically brilliant and tell wonderful stories with emotion. NFA!
@@Nik-ko9eq a while back I listened to the album again after not having heard it in probably a decade. I was surprised I was still able to sing along. That says less about me than it does about the album being excellent.
Oh boy!!! As a modern day Deadhead, I was lucky to see them about 20 times. I skipped many classes in college, making grilled cheese sandwiches in the parking lot to sell/trade. Check out Ripple, Scarlet Begonias, Shakedown Street, Sugar Magnolia, and anything early on with Pigpen on keyboards/harmonica (maybe Good Morning Little Schoolgirl). Awesome vid as always, friend ✌️
This was a very good, FM radio friendly pop tune from The Dead, 20+ years into their career. The ultimate live jam band with a loyal "Dead Head" following. Explore some of their 70's work, and You Tube will provide you with a treasure trove of live performances.
Nina Blackwood of MTV (1983): "Do you think the sound of the Grateful Dead has ever been captured correctly, or the right way on vinyl? A studio album I should say." Jerry Garcia: "No. I don't ... I ... no, no. Not at all, not at all. Because when we go into the studio we turn into these scientists. We turn into another kind of ... we become another sort of person and it's uh, it's ... No we don't. I mean it's like the difference between building a ship in a bottle and being in a rowboat on the ocean, ya know it's a world of difference. "
Thank you so much for covering this. You hit the nail on the head. Exactly how I feel every time I hear this. I'm a "Dead" kid. So awesome to see others appreciate. ❤
Seeing them live was what it was all about. It was so much fun! Summertime, full moon coming up over the stage, bopping along with thousands of others, and there was this smell that you only got at the height of the show, a fog of pot, incense, fresh sweat, and trodden grass. It was such a special time, and I'm so glad I got to experience it. The Dead used to allow anyone to record their shows, and there was a special area set aside for the people with boom mikes, and equipment. You could bring them a stack of blank cassette tapes and a few dollars for postage, and they'd send you their recordings a few weeks later.
20 mins? The Dead is a way of life for millions of us, and have been for well over over 50 years... not to mention the music is still going strong with Dead & Company. There is more to life than pop music, RnB, and Hip-Hop my friend.
@@Wayzor_ I think you did too much acid at the shows. I said 20 videos, as in they have 20+ great songs. I'm a fan too. Maybe slow your roll a bit on these comments, if reading isn't your strong suit.
Stumbled across this and it was on my birthday. The Deadheads around the world always love when someone takes the time to really listen. Thanks, glad I found this. Fare thee well.
I was raised at the shows and this song has been my anthem for a while...some of my worst days, I will turn on the radio and Touch of Grey comes on like the universe knew I needed it! It's so fun to watch someone else feel it for the first time! Thank you and welcome to the family :)
to be able to scream "We will get by..we will survive" at a live show at the top of my lungs is the best therapy I could ever seek for any problems in life.. we are not alone, there are people that love
I first heard this song when I was a senior in high school, shortly after it was released. It came on the radio as I was getting ready for school in the morning, it was so sunny and a perfect day, and this came on, I can't explain the profound effect it had on me; that was the mid-late 80's so that just goes to show you... I will get by!
If you have to listen to the “live version” you have to realize that there are many and the song wasn’t played the exact same way from day to day (year to year). The studio version was recorded live too, but with studio overdubs
I always liked the studio version. Like you said there's literally thousands of live recordings of this and all their songs. Most of the vault tapes soundboard feed or audience recordings that were traded back 30 years ago weren't mastered, and I believe a lot of the vault tapes are multi track which is rad, but you'd have to be a studio engineer to master them. Anyway a lot of the vault tapes are hit or miss, more hits though. Reason why I like this version is it just sounds so polished and crispy clean.
They posted this reaction on the official Grateful Dead Facebook page today, congrats! I watched it last week, but I thought that was cool they posted this there. DO MORE GRATEFUL DEAD AND THE HU!!
Listen to live versions, they're much more creatively interesting than the studios. The Grateful Dead is KNOWN for their live performances and amazing psychedelic excursions throughout the human mind.
Thanks bro, really needed this right now with all thats going on right now. This brought me to tears. Been listening and following the Dead for 30 years.
Awwhhhh! I started crying as soon as I it started playing! Brings back so many wonderful memories listening to this when I was a kid! And it’s a fighting anthem for me right now in this time of crisis , for everyone around the world! I will get by! Love you Jerry, RIP!
I'm an old picky Deadhead, and this song got me through my fight with cancer back in 1995, and through the quarter-century of medical issues I've dealt with since then.
I'm also in the crowd in the music video. That isn't stage smoke, it's fog, and we were freezing!
Thank you, Jerry. We will survive.
keep keepin on brother.
Amen praise the Lord Jerry Garcia
Lots of love! Stay safe and stay strong....
We will get by 😉🥰
Stay strong brother! Thank God for Jerry and the music he blessed us with
Hang in there buddy
nothin like watchin someone hear the dead for the first time
Oh yes!
I would recommend the live version from 4-14-1984, one of my favorites.
I'm an old head. I love watching people get 'woke' to the dead
U got that right a treat in itself..and the hoodie he is wearing is quite appropriate a
I am bbn blessed enough to have traveled with the band in the 90s and I agree, I am over here jamming out in my apartment with chills! Rock on my fellow humans. RIP Jerry✌❤🌈🌠
Everyone making a TON of recommendations on what Dead songs to review, Jamel gonna come back on next week with dreads, a tie-dye, and birkenstocks talking about what a long strange trip it's been.....
Ha!👍
Ha!! Ya man!!
:0)
I have a company that makes tie dyes and I would gladly donate a shirt and tapestry for the video.
@@jungleforeva
Sweet barter,
I’ve said for years, “everybody’s a Deadhead, some people just don’t know it yet”.
Absolutely
Exactly
agree with ya man 🤙🤙
Soooo true
Hell
Yeah brother!
When they would get to the end and turned it to "WE will survive" at the live shows the lights were turned on to us Heads. still feel that light.
Indeed!
Joe Maxon so true. There’s always so much happiness at shows, right?
.... And leave it on! 😍
Growing up, (I'm 31) I knew this song as a 'sub-par' sort of 'radio single' of the GD. So when the local heads would tell me to listen to the Dead, this song was always the 'gone mainstream' song they told me to avoid. After listening to the dead for years (and reading a Jerry biography) I realized this song is fucking magnificent! The "WE WILL survive" after reading that book always lifted me so high. This song has gone from a classic rock channel song in my youth to a poppy GD song in my adulthood to one of my favorite Dead songs of all time. Jerry put this song out after his near-death coma... What kind of inspiration could you ask for!
chills
"I will get by, I will survive" is ingrained in the fabric of human consciousness.
That's why it's so familiar
Truth
Well, also because it's a radio hit and a pretty popular song of the time.
"The song got into the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 9, and reached number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart."
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Grey
@ mic_085
No comparison but PATTI LABELLE ?
Thank you
mlc_085 nailed it dude. Great comment
Second generation deadhead, in tears watching this guy discover the Dead.
I just got chills and laughed out loud when he says "it's real familiar" made me remember feeling the same even as a child discovering them so long ago! Welcome, Jamel :)
Glad he appreciates it and doesn't cut it down. Great messages, great music... dudes for good taste.
😭😭
What are the differences in generations? I've been a fan since just maybe 6-7 years before dead and co was a thing so where does that put me?
Fellow second generation deadhead here too!!!
This song seems real appropriate at a time like this. Stand united.
mark zellers This song is always appropriate.
We will get by!
mark zellers stay safe 🤟🤝
@@Headytopper125 thanks you too.
Always appropriate
BEST QUOTE: "I'm curious to see the live version" ... my mans aint even know :D
Baaahahahahahaha
I saw them with jerry in the early 90s he bout to get 'woke'
he. aint. even. know.
"I don't know what the guys look like" oh boy
@Bradley Neufeld
Naw, my dude don’t. Daz cold troof.
I love that big ol' smile he gets on his face just like anyone that experiences the Dead and "gets" it! I "got" it in 1968 and have stayed on the bus ever since.
couldnt agree more. thats a one way ticket only
I drank the kool aid in 2017 at 21 years old :P
I got on the bus in 93 after a summer working in Yellowstone Park, but I think I was actually a passenger before that and didn't realize it🤔🙂
I'm glad you acknowledged the "WE will get by" part of the song. My first concert was Grateful Dead. I was 15 years old and my older cousins took me. I didn't know the music but they played this song and I recognized it. When they got to the "we will get by" chorus the crowd responded so loudly that it gave me goosebumps! Since then I've been to many many concerts over the years and there's NOTHING that compares to the atmosphere of a Dead show!
@Paul Bowman same! I also took my younger brother to a Dead and Co. concert and he wasn't big on the dead before hand but he had a blast and he was like "ok, I get it now". It was great
Toured 90-95 and you're right.
c6quad you couldn't have said it any better dude! Nothing like a GD show! Smile, Smile, Smile ;))
@Meghan Harris It was a culture shock to me. Me and another guy just walked around inside the venue the whole show just people watching while listening to the music. And the parking lot scene was no different. It was a DEADicated family gathering and everyone was having a good time!
Wookiefoot or Nahko, has done that for me. Lots of Love at these events tho..
Imagine when this guy hears "Box of rain" or "Ripple" for the first time.
Those are the songs that made me fall in love. Box of rain just made something click.
LOL better yet Terrapin
I have touring with Dead Co since 2015 and it's been a blast . I have more fun than I did at GD shows ! I am also staying in hotels instead of in a tent ! Ha . I guess it's called creature comforts . Last year at the Gorge in my RV was the best concert experience of my life . Also not being as "medicated" might have something to do with it . I have found a mixture of a few red bull vodkas , 10 to 20 mg of edibles , a few beers and a few pre rolls takes me back and there . I fall asleep by 2 am and wake up ready to roll . Two years ago the Gorge , Eugene run was a push , but I was up early and made record time in the Rav . 6 hour drive between shows is brutal overall though . 25 GD shows 90-94 . 19 DC shows , including NYE 20 so glad to have caught it ! Hotel and flights booked for Boulder fingers crossed !
@@an7948 also I wasn't touring with GD during "peak" years . Dead and Company haven't really laid to many eggs. Maybe Vegas 17 . Shure it's slower but Mayer never has a off night . Less setlist variable DrumsSpace Dead Co is best in GD history imo . Its shorter and more jammier . Also just knowing this is the back nine for Bobby and the drummers . The shoe in a dryer drum effect is GD to me . I love hanging in the spinner wook section and cracking jokes with those guys . I was cracking up OG Wook Fam on NYE doing my Bobby !
Gerry wrote this after his OD episodes
This song, especially the chorus of "I will get by, I will survive" took on a whole new level of power and poignancy after Jerry Garcia recovered from his diabetic coma. Especially when they played it live again when they played their first show back on December 15, 1986. You can hear the fans roar and holler when they get to that line because they knew their hero was gonna be OK.
That's interesting. I associate this song with his death because my work partner and I had just gotten into the company truck and this song came on the classic rock station. I said sarcastically, "Jerry Garcia must have died because they'd never play this song otherwise!" and then an announcement came on that, in fact, Jerry had passed that day. I'm so glad I got to see them live a couple of times because they're just unbelievable.
@@oregonchick76 I went to exactly 1 GD concert and it was in 1987. Amazing show; it lasted hours and hours. As for this song... I also think of Jerry's death when I hear it, as it was their last big hit before he passed. Either way, it's a good one.
...and still he died due to health complications from his heroine addiction...so sad...and I miss hearing JERRY LIVE.
Yeah this. He wasn't a virtuoso guitarist, but nobody sounds like Jerry. So quirky and so beautiful.
Robert Brzezinski dope didn't help, but in fact its tye way you live while a junkie that fucks you up. Not goos for a diabetic
This is the beauty of diving into the music of the Grateful Dead. There’s nothing quite like hearing a song of theirs for the first time. The orchestra of instruments, the depth of the lyrics sung by none other than the man himself, the soul of Jerry’s guitar playing that cuts a deadhead to their core. And that’s just the beginning. 30 years of the best live music one could listen to, with thousands of variations of said song. Like discovering the song all over again. It truly is a blessing. EXTREMELY GRATEFUL 💀⚡️
That's exactly it.
I've heard the Dead referred to as "The Joyful Bearers of Bad News" and that is so fitting imo.
🖤
For real!!!!
The joyful bearers of god. bad or good the only thing that can be said is they were joyus for the expression of infinity
I'm a Deadhead from long ago! Uncle John's Band, Friend of the Devil, Mexicali Blues... Love the Grateful Dead!
We still love you Jerry Garcia!
(It's about what we called "the blues". Today they call it clinical depression.
We actually made efforts to combat it instead of giving into it. That's why the song sound so light-hearted.
You'll hear a lot of very bouncy songs that have pretty dark lyrics but, this was the generation that was taught to push forward, Shake It Off, fight through, never give up, never surrender.)
Met the Wharf Rats in 1965
Have followed them since
Forever Dead✌💖🎼🎵🎶
now everyone is screaming into the corner of a room, people have gone soft, we will survive!
buddy moore Time’s have changed and there used to be hope.. Looking to the future of our country from my mid-twenties, today? Not a chance. Orwell and Huxley were right in their predictions just a generation before yours; they’ve bypassed man’s conscious concern into the unconscious desire to simply be content. Don’t point your finger at us man, soft clay molds much more easily.
RIPPLE will hit your soul brother it’s deep
ship of fools has the same effect
And Box of Rain!
"And They Love Each Other" miss my buba terribly but makes me happy too
Fuck yeahhhhhhh my family
Yes!
This song was a classic example of an accidental "hit." The Grateful Dead were the archetypal psychedelic hippie rock band of the 1960s. By 1986, they were 20 years into a "long, strange trip" of constantly touring and, ironically, never really selling that many records. Along came "Touch of Grey" and for reasons nobody has every really understood, it took off. Here were a group of middle-aged, pot-bellied white guys that catapulted into the Top 10 on the charts. And the mass audience never really listened to nor understood the lyrics. They just latched onto the beat. Strange, but true.
Miguel Gonzalez That’s very true. I was a teen in the 80s and had heard of The Grateful Dead, but had never heard them on the radio or saw them on TV until “Touch of Grey”.
So many people do that with music they listen to the beat or just go by the title or HOOK of the song and think ewww that's demonic like people do with GOD IS DEAD, by Black Sabbath...
@@bowwowie8691 I think it was "in your wildest dreams" it was out in 86
Hmmm...not sure there was much "archetypal" about the Dead...but anyway...🙂
Does anyone else want to see Jamel react to Terrapin Station? Or is it just me..
And Shakedown Street!
I want a reaction to the Cornell 77 Morning Dew
Ripple came to mind for me!
Christian Hiam yes!!!!!
It's not just you....I want to see him hearing "Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with scents and color, roll away despair...."
"Man, I'm really interested to see them live, I hear all these great sounds coming from these instruments..."
And so it begins.
Oh boy oh boy! Can't wait to see you embark on the Grateful Dead journey!
If Pink Floyd represents one direction on the compass of the psychedelic horizon, the Dead represent the exact opposite direction :D
Both equally amazing no doubt
Yes!
ANDTHISONETIMEATADEADSHOW....😎
Arky Andy keep that attitude sir!
You got that right! The Alpine Valley show where fantastic. When that album came out with the Touch of Gray song on it did change things a bit.
The chorus is fitting for recent events. Stay safe everyone!
quikspecv4d ✌🏻be with you!
Taking in new context too. But then we always sang this song with conviction . . .
I'm dying
My thoughts exactly!!! 👊
We will get by
As one of a contingent of geezers, young man, all I can say is it heartens me to see young folk trippin' out on the Dead. Rock on brah.
The song "Ripple" by the Dead makes your soul weep.
Ya, I think Ripple and Uncle johns band are my hearts favourites....reminds me of growing up in Eugene, Oregon... Summertime being poor, but having lots of freedom and true hippy, trippy, dancing bear rainbow bearded goodness. And the Oregon County Fair, where we tried to create a new way of living even if only for a few weeks.
right into brokedown palace... just right
aldenjduehrhfhfk smith took the words out of my mouth
Orr Shemesh may the words be yours, I'm through with mine.... blessings
Give *Eyes of the World* off Without A Net a spin in a quiet room with your headphones turned up. Reality altering.
Then go for the studio version of *Terrapin Station* You may never be the same again.
Inspiration, move me brightly
light the song with sense and color,
hold away despair
@@Calistogakid2u Love your movies man....
Right outside this...lazy summer home...
I was at the show on 3/29/90 with Branford Marsalis, my favorite Eyes of the World ever!!!
This song quite literally saved my life when I'd descended into heroin addiction in 1998 in my mid 20s, and it seems like a GREAT tune to share with the world at this juncture in History. Glad you related to it, and yes, as a Deadhead, I can tell you that community spirit is precisely what the Dead were/are all about! Thanks for these vids! I been watching one or two every night the past week and am gonna write a blog post and create a podcast about you and them!!
Bryan Winchell Way to get yourself to place of wellness Bryan. That’s fantastic.
Glad it got you through.
Bryan Winchell Walk tall sir.
WALK. TALL.
I dare you to listen to "Standing on the Moon" without getting a tear in your eye.
Mike McDonnell oh my god for real... that song tears my heart out not because it’s sad but because it’s so transcendent. Love the Dead!
Gonna check it out now. Signed- Phish fan who doesn’t know GD as much as he should.
That or stella blue in the 90s
@@emilyslater9951 What She said!
A lovely view of heaven but I’d rather be with you... be with you!
I've been a Deadhead for over 40 years. Thank you for reacting to them. Since they never played a song the same way twice, it's always worth checking out different recordings. Ripple was the song that originally got me hooked on the band.
My ALL TIME FAVORITE dead song, “Althea live.” Give it a listen.
🙌🏻🌻🌹💀🌹🌻🙌🏻
3/28/81
Yes!!!!!!!!!!
This is the Grateful Dead’s biggest radio single, most likely why it sounds familiar
Also the only one they produced a music video of for the MTV generation.
I remember as a teenager listening to Fire on the Mountain in my friend's basement, got really swept up in it. Still my favorite song by them twenty years later. Grateful Dead is the one thing I've kept listening to my entire life, through the decades. Other things come and go but Grateful Dead stays. Their live material is a huge contributor to this. They have over a couple thousand live recorded shows available for you to listen to archived on the internet, for free. Their tendency to improv and evolve over the years keeps it always fresh. Glad to see people are still discovering it to this day. They are what inspired me to pick up guitar and I've become quiet good over the years, big part of my life.
levitating octahedron my fav song too!
"Truckin"
"Sugar Magnolias"
"Casey Jones"
"Friend of the Devil"
Ripple....
Box Of Rain
Europe '72!!!! lol
Dwight Yokum's version of Truckin'!
fire on the mountain
The MTV video of this song was huge. Spawned a whole new generation of Deadheads.
My son was little one that was on and he used to always go bones Mama bone
Touch Heads
I'm thinking it was their first music video.
@@MrClobbertime Probably right. Theres the Grateful Dead Movie and other concert footage, but afaik this was their MTV debut.
It helped them score their only Top 10 hit.
......things we've never seen will seem familiar
-Hunter
Terrapin Station
famousjackolantern YES!!! So much yes.
famousjackolantern yes!
There is a Dead quote for every occasion in life, isn't there?
@@josephtesta5100 Once saw a gravestone bearing the legend "What a long strange trip it's been" Also saw it on walls in war-zones.....
Now imagine to be in a venue and have everyone grooving to that beat, feeling it in their souls. And I will say you feel heard and understood, my Dead family from my 20’s to this day are still my family. I love you for checking it out!!! You rock!
You are absolutely right about this song dealing with adversity. I became a deadhead about 45 years ago (in my teen years). About ten years ago I was severely injured in a random street crime,(just walking home) and as I came to, I was being loaded onto a flight-for-life aircraft and this song was going through my head! Thank You, Jerry!!!
@The Deadpool Who Chuckles. like carrying a weapon for personal protection
Where did this happen may I ask ?
@@bcouri1 I'm convinced a firearm probably would not have worked as this was basically an ambush; I had very little reaction time and they probably would have used it against me.. My situational awareness was low as this was my neighborhood and it was early in the evening (dusk). Pepper spray may have worked, who knows. There were at least three of them and I did land a few punches as they stomped on my hand (after I was unconscious, of course!) These days, I find situational awareness and a cell-phone helpful, but I still consider a personal defense course would be great. I am also in the market for a good shillelagh!
@@Summernightsandneonlights A small city in northern New Mexico, considered a safe place.
@Mike Knight The Grateful Dead has seen me through many a dark time!
Finally some Grateful Dead! You will find that over the years, they have experimented with many textures and colors of music. They also had many guest musicians, such as Branford Marsalis playing sax in this epic live performance of their song "Eyes of The World."
ruclips.net/video/SEE_R4VIkR4/видео.html
"Eyes of the World" is the song I would be happy to hear in every Dead show
One of the best Eyes
Eyes..... one of my ALL TIME favorite songs!
More Grateful Dead for you - "Scarlet Begonias" "Ripple" - "Dire Wolf" "Eyes of the World" and the funkiest of their songs "Shakedown Street"
I always recommend people start with the album American Beauty and workingman's dead and then listen to Spotify from there :-)
I dare this Jamal guy to listen to Brokedown Palace and not cry...
I always think west la fade-away and shakedown are the funkiest. Both great in different tempos
Mark Thompson “funkiest of songs” lol listen to just one dark star from the 60s
I recommend only listening to live Grateful Dead, there’s an energy that can’t be described that you need to experience
“Uncle Johns Band” is the song that got me through many weird trips, and I recommend it to anyone just discovering this amazing band
I think the lyrics were written by the late Robert Hunter. A most underrated poet, you might want want to check out other of his songs to understand what he means.
"I'm going to have to see them live." 🤣
the live (version)
Dead and Co. John Mayer is great
Justin Martin never seen the dead, but I’ve seen dead and co and loved every minute of it
Bob Weir is still playing.
Bungler if only....
Yes, the Dead!
Live Dead is the best.
Def check out “Morning Dew” live in Winterland ‘74. And “Eyes of the World” live in Oakland with Winton Marsalas and Bruce Hornsby.
That's an epic "Dew". I would also recommend Wharf Rat from 5/7/77. That whole show is great.
Morning Dew was inspired by the movie "The Beach" from 1958. The movie is about a nuclear apocalypse where everyone was destined to die. There is a full version of the movie on RUclips...make sure you choose the right one though - one is warbly and cuts off before the movie ends. Enjoy!
This song live was always special, with the whole crowd singing along to that last chorus. That's goosebumps for me, every time.
Throwing Stones...still relevant to this day, unfortunately
Dead & Co playing throwing stones in Boulder July 2018 is my favorite version of that song...at least the jam after “we are on our own”...don’t know what it is about that version but I’ve listened to a lot and it’s 🔥
Not just saying that cause I was there I’m mainly replying cause that’s a low key song you don’t hear people mention real often. (Also Liberty right after Throwin’ Stones was bangin too)
My daughter, a freshman in college, got extra credit for knowing the dead sing “Throwing Stones”, when her stoner political science professor played it in class.
ACE Smith that’s deserving of extra credit ✌🏻
Shawn Minnich will always be relevant
The kids they dance and shake their bones!
That song has been the catalyst of many Grateful Dead fans' long, strange trip
"The bus came by, and I got on. That's when it all began"
"I may be going to hell in a bucket baby, but at least I'm enjoying the ride"
9 mile skid, on a 10 mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside!
buddy moore nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile....
He’s got to do eyes of the world from without a net
I was behind the stage for that in Philly...One of the best performances
Totally agree
3/19/77. best performance no question
Love that performance. One of the best I've heard.
Great song! Great CD! GRATE!
I think you really might like Hell In A Bucket by Grateful Dead. For more of a soulful sound check out Jerry Garcia Band.
Yeah, Bob Weir had lead on that one. Good tune.
Jerry Garcia was a big Bluegrass guy, and an excellent banjo player. Therefore, listen to the "Old and in the way" album.....
Like the" DO Da man" LOL
@@CorneiliusLibowitz I was thinking "My Sisters and My Brothers" or "Waiting For A Miracle" live would be great tunes to listen to.
HiaB is such a great song. I agree. You'll love it.
"Eyes of The World" & "Fire On the Mountain" are some of my favorites. I love their entire album called "Without A Net" their song on there called "Chinacat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" is fantastic. 💖
listen to the live at Cornell 79 china cat sunflower my favotrite song and lazy lightning
Gus Best show hands down!!
I just came across this (and I am loving it) and this was my fathers favorite group.....band......and this makes me smile! I’m trying to move forward every single day since he passed! This one is for you Old Man! “WE WILL GET BY”!
"He's Gone" Live at Foxboro 1989! One of the many to pass through while on the GD trip...
More GD: "sugar magnolias!", "sugaree", "St. Stephen", "Truckin'", "casey jones", "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace", "Box of Rain", "Friend of the Devil", "Eyes of the World", "Scarlet Begonias", "uncle John's band", "shakedown street" and anything live. It all kicks ass.
Kevin Gruen "help on the way" is my favorite
Terrapin Station, So Many Roads, Fire on the Mountain
Cassidy, Brown Eyed Women, Eyes Of The World, Franklin's Tower, Althea
shakedown street, truckin and casey jones is a must!!!
@@chizzzmo attics of my life
"Box of Rain"..."Phil Lesh wanted a song to sing to his dying father and had composed a piece complete with every vocal nuance but the words. If ever a lyric 'wrote itself,' this did--as fast as the pen would pull." LET PHIL SING!!!
Never knew that. Box of Rain is one of my favorites.
Back in the early days of the Apple Macintosh, there was a program that let you create your own icons, in a B&W bitmap image. I created an image for Box of Rain, and assigned that to my hard drive.
Hunter wrote the lyrics
That’s why music the shit!! Good music is good music. Good music transcends time people and culture
When Garcia say “we” he is including the audience . In my day I brought dozens of my black friends to the show and brought them backstage .the common response among my friends was this is the closest thing white people have to soul music
If you like this listen to throwing stones a special Lin “ black goes south and white goes north whole world of petty wars I got mine you got yours . I highly recommend you listen I sent you the lyrics to the greatest unheard of band in America . They like hip hop is America’s a modern folk music
Throwing Stones
Grateful Dead
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me
A peaceful place, or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
There's a fear down here we can't forget
Hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Now watch as the ball revolves and the night-time falls
And again the hunt begins and again the blood wind calls
By and by, again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
(Well I know)
It strolls the sidewalk and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It's you and me, you and me
Click flash blade in ghetto night
Rudy's looking for a fight
Rat cat alley, roll them bones
Need that cash to feed that Jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice
Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green, or proletarian gray
Selling guns instead of food today
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
On our own, on our own, we are on our own
If the game is lost, then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or that shining ball of blue we call our home
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions set the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
The radical, he rant and rage
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: John Barlow / Robert Hall Weir
Throwing Stones lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Shakedown Street is a great song by The Grateful Dead... highly recommended
Liking this for your comment and your profile picture.
The title is an extension of the saying, "Every cloud has a silver lining" with the Grateful Dead adding that "Every silver lining has a touch of grey." Always clever lyrics written by their lyricist Robert Hunter who was considered a full member of the group but never performed with the band. Jerry Garcia said that Robert is the band member who never comes out on stage with us.
Is he the one who wrote ripple as well, which was kind of an ode to the book of psalms?
@@kevingruenofficial Yeah, Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics and Jerry Garcia wrote the music for "Ripple." The lyrics have been compared to the 23rd Psalm and also Robert was pretty drunk when he wrote it. I remember reading an article that said he wrote the lyrics for "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" all in the same afternoon, apparently while also drinking, but still a good day's work.
@@qthelost I love Broken Down palace. Did Hunter also write, Doing that Rag?
@@jeremymoorer7033 Yes. Robert wasn't with them yet on the 1st album. He wrote 1 song on their 2nd album. But their 3rd album Aoxomoxoa he had and Jerry Garcia wrote all the songs on the album except "St. Stephen." So, yes, he and Jerry wrote "Doing That Rag." Robert and Jerry became quite a songwriting duo from then on, although, Robert did co-write some songs with other bandmembers later on.
Obvious, but a “touch of gray” in the hair is a stereotypical symbol of aging, also.
Do "Friend of the Devil" and "Scarlet Begonias" next!!!!!!!!
Definitely Scarlet Begonias.
Sublime had a song named that also, was it a cover?
Sublime covered the song, great cover at that.
@@matthewdrake4385 I heard the sublime one, not being a huge Dead fan I didn't know it was a cover... damn
Counting crows also did friend of devil also
I can remember my dad listening to this full blast when my mom was at work.
This song was there only commercial success and got a whole new crowd into the greatest American band of all time. The live song is always on point and they spent so much energy and time to make their live sound as clear and powerful as possible. Americana music at it's best. Glad you liked it and glad you checked it out. They are one of my favorite bands. Their concerts were part of my life for many year. Rest in peace Ron, Keith, Brent, Vince, and Jerry. Long live the Grateful Dead.
We gotta get him to do “They Love Each Orher” from 2/26/73. Come on everyone
Lord you can see its true
Agreeewweeed
FrenchToastCo that would be good. Or some super deep psychedelic old St. Stephen
No, we gotta get him to a show!
leslie redfield bit late for that
Owsley Stanley who the song Kid Charlemagne was written, besides being the LSD king of the time, was the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead and created their iconic skull logo
Rosemarie Vega it’s called a stealie! How would you Know about owsley and not know to call a stealie a stealie? Just curious.
Owsley stole/ borrowed it from the natives,basically, the red and blue w a lightning bolt was / is actually originally painted on a buffalo skull and has a few representations ...male -red and blue female / red - daytime and blue nighttime.......also the blood of the people is blue and red....the lightning representing the thunder beings.......
And the wall of sound
@@cameodoneron cause he wouldnt know what she's talking about if she called it that right ?
@@cameodoneron I always knew it as a steal your face not a stealie but to each their own . Lol ✌
Ok,try "ripple", " Franklin's tower" ," us blues" "sugaree"
R 2112 Yes!!!!!
Yes definitely those 4 and Scarlett Begonias!
Scarlet Begonias is usually performed live with Fire on the Mountain, really good pairing. Franklin's Tower is usually performed after Help on the Way and Slipknot, also one of the better song groupings.
Brokedown Palace
Also dire wolf or st stephens. So many great songs
That feeling of familiarity, is deja vu from your past life. I felt it the first time I truly listened to the dead too. The dead have always been with us in our universe and will always be there for ages to come.
i love the grateful dead. i recommend everyone dive deep into their song catalog.
i miss you so much jerry. thank you for all the joy youve brought me and millions of others
Saw them open with this song! Was a great way to get the show rollin'. One of my best memories was seeing the Grateful Dead live.
Dude, I am so happy you are reacting to The Dead! There are so many, too many, great songs that are lyrically brilliant and tell wonderful stories with emotion. NFA!
Anything off the American Beauty record is a guaranteed great reaction.
Touch of Grey is from In the Dark as opposed to American Beauty. Both are amazing albums.
@@tony567able right, I was suggesting he react to any track from that album.
Yes. That whole album is just 😻
@@Nik-ko9eq a while back I listened to the album again after not having heard it in probably a decade. I was surprised I was still able to sing along. That says less about me than it does about the album being excellent.
Facts.
"Friend of the Devil" and "Sugar Magnolia" is my favorites.
Scarlet Begonias
Throwing Stones
US Blues
Looks like Rain
Uncle John’s band
I love that all he can do is "smile smile smile" when he listens to this song. The Dead are infectious savior's
Oh boy!!! As a modern day Deadhead, I was lucky to see them about 20 times. I skipped many classes in college, making grilled cheese sandwiches in the parking lot to sell/trade. Check out Ripple, Scarlet Begonias, Shakedown Street, Sugar Magnolia, and anything early on with Pigpen on keyboards/harmonica (maybe Good Morning Little Schoolgirl). Awesome vid as always, friend ✌️
Screw that anything with pigpen on the harpsichord.
This was a very good, FM radio friendly pop tune from The Dead, 20+ years into their career. The ultimate live jam band with a loyal "Dead Head" following. Explore some of their 70's work, and You Tube will provide you with a treasure trove of live performances.
I agree. Radio friendly. Sort of a sell out...
Nina Blackwood of MTV (1983): "Do you think the sound of the Grateful Dead has ever been captured correctly, or the right way on vinyl? A studio album I should say."
Jerry Garcia: "No. I don't ... I ... no, no. Not at all, not at all. Because when we go into the studio we turn into these scientists. We turn into another kind of ... we become another sort of person and it's uh, it's ... No we don't. I mean it's like the difference between building a ship in a bottle and being in a rowboat on the ocean, ya know it's a world of difference. "
Thank you so much for covering this. You hit the nail on the head. Exactly how I feel every time I hear this. I'm a "Dead" kid. So awesome to see others appreciate. ❤
Seeing them live was what it was all about. It was so much fun! Summertime, full moon coming up over the stage, bopping along with thousands of others, and there was this smell that you only got at the height of the show, a fog of pot, incense, fresh sweat, and trodden grass. It was such a special time, and I'm so glad I got to experience it.
The Dead used to allow anyone to record their shows, and there was a special area set aside for the people with boom mikes, and equipment. You could bring them a stack of blank cassette tapes and a few dollars for postage, and they'd send you their recordings a few weeks later.
Grateful Dead kinda grows on you.
They're all about loving each other
If you heard Dire Straits in the background at your job, you heard this too, brother. That’s why you know the hook.
Talk about a 20 video rabbit hole...there is a lot to love with these guys, despite only ever having one other hit song, besides this (Truckin).
20 mins? The Dead is a way of life for millions of us, and have been for well over over 50 years... not to mention the music is still going strong with Dead & Company. There is more to life than pop music, RnB, and Hip-Hop my friend.
@@Wayzor_ I think you did too much acid at the shows. I said 20 videos, as in they have 20+ great songs. I'm a fan too. Maybe slow your roll a bit on these comments, if reading isn't your strong suit.
Stumbled across this and it was on my birthday. The Deadheads around the world always love when someone takes the time to really listen. Thanks, glad I found this. Fare thee well.
I was raised at the shows and this song has been my anthem for a while...some of my worst days, I will turn on the radio and Touch of Grey comes on like the universe knew I needed it! It's so fun to watch someone else feel it for the first time! Thank you and welcome to the family :)
"Ripple", "Box of Rain", and "Terrapin Station".
Ripple is the song that made me a fan and a pot head.
And the whistle is screaming...
"Bertha", "Chinacat Sunflower", & "Jack Straw" 😏✌️
Andrew Aevaliotis yes, yes and yes
"Casey Jones" still a fav up here in Dead Central - Marin County, Ca.
"Trouble a-head, you know... trouble be-hind..."🔥
i just left san rafeal to days ago
FFS, do you people ever go away? You haven't cured cancer, you're just from a certain part of California.
@@spunn_co Been hangin' on Phil's lawn at TXR?
@@chrisnewton5126 not as much as a few years ago but ya .. i go more for stu ..
"mississippi half-step uptown toodeloo"
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
US Blues
Scarlet Begonias
Throwing Stones
Looks like Rain
One of my favorite live touch of greys is from RFK stadium 7/12/89. Lots of good energy
I'm 23 but I love the grateful dead! Some of the best music in the world 💗💖 so glad to see others enjoy it like this 🙏🎶💜
I love when someone hears the Dead for the first time..Welcome to my world. I actually have "I will get by, I will survive." Tattooed on my wrist.
Also you should give “Althea” a listen 💚
This song brought the whole 80's generation into the fold. For better or worse. I'd say better
to be able to scream "We will get by..we will survive" at a live show at the top of my lungs is the best therapy I could ever seek for any problems in life.. we are not alone, there are people that love
I first heard this song when I was a senior in high school, shortly after it was released. It came on the radio as I was getting ready for school in the morning, it was so sunny and a perfect day, and this came on, I can't explain the profound effect it had on me; that was the mid-late 80's so that just goes to show you... I will get by!
A Dead Reaction?! You were already my fav react channel.
Terrapin Station (Studio Version)
If you have to listen to the “live version” you have to realize that there are many and the song wasn’t played the exact same way from day to day (year to year). The studio version was recorded live too, but with studio overdubs
No song is ever played the exact same way!!!!!
I always liked the studio version. Like you said there's literally thousands of live recordings of this and all their songs. Most of the vault tapes soundboard feed or audience recordings that were traded back 30 years ago weren't mastered, and I believe a lot of the vault tapes are multi track which is rad, but you'd have to be a studio engineer to master them. Anyway a lot of the vault tapes are hit or miss, more hits though. Reason why I like this version is it just sounds so polished and crispy clean.
You really need to watch the music video.
Just what I was thinking. It totally makes the song 100 times better (even thought it's great on its own).
And that's what I said too
I concur.
You'd love the video.
Watching you smile at this makes me smile! Thank you!
They posted this reaction on the official Grateful Dead Facebook page today, congrats! I watched it last week, but I thought that was cool they posted this there. DO MORE GRATEFUL DEAD AND THE HU!!
I love how everyone has a vague dmt dream like familiarity with the Grateful Dead.
Listen to live versions, they're much more creatively interesting than the studios. The Grateful Dead is KNOWN for their live performances and amazing psychedelic excursions throughout the human mind.
"Every silver lining's got a touch of grey"
I always took it as you can usually only see the silver lining with a bit of time/age/experience.
Thanks bro, really needed this right now with all thats going on right now. This brought me to tears. Been listening and following the Dead for 30 years.
Awwhhhh! I started crying as soon as I it started playing! Brings back so many wonderful memories listening to this when I was a kid! And it’s a fighting anthem for me right now in this time of crisis , for everyone around the world! I will get by! Love you Jerry, RIP!