Mr. Jim O'Brien, props to you for sharing this incredible music video with those of us unable to attend this spectacular show live and from the heart of Texas Hill Country! It has no doubt touched the lives of all who, through your generosity, watched this video. As well as those who ever took the birthday suit plunge into Barton Springs. Or ate Chicken Fried Steak and danced the Two-Step at the Broken Spoke. Or knocked back some cold ones at Chuys. Or fell Asleep at the Wheel at Liberty Lunch. Or adjusted the belt-buckle after too much of a good thing at County Line. Or ate a Dirty Burger. Or saw Jerry Jeff & Willie joggin thru City Park. Or spent countless nights on 6th Street that will never be remembered. Or experienced Luckenbach when it was open. Or those who had the incredible luck and fortune to catch the awesome energy of you know who, live at Antones. I am all of those. And this music, authentic Texas Rockabilly, expertly delivered by Austin royalty, blasted down the doors to memories long-ago relegated to the recesses of the brain. What a beautiful gift. And I sincerely thank Joe, Dave, Mac & Jimmy for keepin it real.
How Brown so happy to see you write this..I love David Grissom... have for many years... great player and a great guy. I knew I was getting something special the night I recorded this
The Grissom era was the best, with full respect and apologies to Jesse Taylor. There was just an extra rock edge that Grissom brought that pushed that aspect of Joe's musical personality over the top. I've been there for Jesse, Lloyd, Ian Moore, Teya, David Holt, and Grissom and loved them all, but DG is clearly my preference.
I toured with him back in 88 we eere his support band in ireland. David grissom jimmy pettit and i actually forget the name of the drummer .but he is playing with him here. Whats his name? They were all great players and people
I had the pleasure of guitar teching for Joe at a festival here in Birmingham one time, and met him on another occasion. He is one super nice dude, on top of being a great song writer and performer.
I saw this very same band in Cork, Ireland in 1988 and beyond, possibly two or three times around that period. Ever since, David Grissom has been one of my very favourite guitar players. His stage sound would make you think that there were two lead guitarists playing, yes he is that good! I have all of Joe's albums with this band on vinyl and CDs ... and more besides. You'll always have a great night when Joe Ely and the guys play in your town/city!!! Great artist accompanied by great musicians ... Texas' finest. Best wishes from Cork, Ireland.
Live at Liberty Lunch was and is one of the great live albums. To see this band after all this time in reunion is truly great. David Grissom's guitar playing is brilliant --as always. What a player. Thank you so much for this .
Never do I watch an hour and thirty-six minutes of RUclips, but tonite I made an exception. I've been an Ely fan since the late seventies, and the Grissom era was phenomenal. Great reunion. Thanks for filming and posting... JH
It certainly is. I hadn't watched this all they way through in many years until tonight. This just SMOKES! I can see camera errors I made that I wouldn't make today but I'm pretty happy with this. We have it forever.
David Grissom has always been a favorite..i remember seeing him with Joe on Austin City Limits and recording it on VHS...I think Jimmy was wearing pink converse high tops....this is a perfect band !
Wow! Thank you for this. The audio/visual is superb and it was so good to see this latest iteration of these guys. I finally turned on to Joe Ely (and David Grissom) in the late 80s during a blistering performance at Slim's (owned by Boz Scaggs) in SF. "Lord of the Highway" kept me awake and, probably, alive while hauling cars for Mercedes in the middle of the night across the desert southwest. "Live at Liberty Lunch" and "Live from Antone's" are the finest live albums I own. Grissom's a national treasure.
Slim's , not sure how many times he played there .But I was there on I think the first time he came in on the " Love and Danger " tour .As I recall he had both Grissom and another guitarist . Could have been Ian Moore . Blistering good show .
I first saw The Joe Ely Band at the Cotton Club between Slaton & Lubbock in 72. Great show, Great Texas artist. They ran advertisements saying "Bring your ice chest and your bags (lids - grass) - we are outside of the city limits and no law will interfere!".
First time I ever saw Joe Ely, David Grissom and band was about 1990 at a waterfront street festival in Louisville. They played mid afternoon to a sparse crowd and tore it up. Too cool for the uninitiated to fully grasp but I knew they were special. I was there mainly to see Marcia Ball. She sat on the bleachers during most of Joe's set and I think he was showing off for him. Grissom was so young and he had such flashy guitars, pointy boots and all that rock and roll hair. so fucking cool. His old man was ground floor Humana Insurance...too cool that DG chose to be a guitar god over a captain of commerce. Sweet memories. Joe plays Louisville fairly regular and often ends the evening on a pool table. Knows his way around. Misspent youth.
Joe Ely is ALWAYS great and the band is awesome as well. I tend to agree with having Grissom as my favorite, but they all are well worth the time invested in going to a show...been to many of them across this great state of Texas...and somehow nobody mentioned that Charlie Sexton played with Ely in the early 80's when he was a kid...he blew us away...anyway, thanks for sharing the music
Joe's had so many great musicians in his bands; when I say Grissom is my favorite I don't mean any slight to any of the others. Another great band was with Ian Moore on lead guitar and Reese Wynans on keys (with Davis McLarty on drums and Glen Fukunaga on bass, if memory serves). That band smoked! Moore wasn't with Joe very long, though, and I only saw that band once.
Holy smoldering show! Love this version of Ely. First heard him in 80s with Bobby Keys and Grissom. Have loved him and Grissom ever since. Great rhythm section. Seems like periodically Grissom shows up with Ely and it's always a blast. Most recently saw Flatlanders including Ely with Rob Gersoe on guitar who plays with Jimmie Dale and he's fantastic, too. Thanks for this treat.
Had the genuine pleasure of having Mr. Ely along with Stevie Vaughn play their acoustics together at a party we had in Lubbock in about 1980. Sax player Johnny Reno who briefly played in Stevie's band says he thinks he remembers being there as well. Very nice men.
Great! Best band Ely has ever had. I've had the privilege many times to stand 50 feet away (or closer), watching one of the best guitar players in the world. And this rhythm section is one of the best around. Oh, and Joe's no slouch as a performer either! ;)
I beg to differ with you, Bill, but you should have been in Lubbock in the early '80s. I won't bore you with how good Joe was back in the day with Jesse and Smokey Joe, Ponty Bone on the squeeze box and Lloyd Maines on steel pedal... Saw him ride a horse onto the stage at Coldwater Country and Linda Ronstadt sing with him at the speedway. Cotton Club, Tornado Jam, on and on. Singin' the West Texas Waltz with Jimmie Dale and Butch... "la la la la la la Idalou," New Deal, Floydada, Slaton, Tahoka, Roosevelt etc. You can't imagine how incredible this guy was on stage in those days with that amazing backup band......
Bob Boatman I first saw Joe in the late 80s when he had these three guys, plus Bobby Keyes on sax, backing him up. The instrumental duels between Grissom and Keyes were something to behold, but even after Keyes left, Grissom continued to generate plenty of heat as the only instrumental soloist. But, I saw Jesse many times since, before and after the Live at Antones era (and Lloyd and Ponty less frequently), plus I have all the old recordings, so I do have plenty of appreciation for the original band. No one can make a steel guitar scream like Lloyd, and Jesse was a hell of a player, no doubt about it.
Bob Boatman My opinion of the difference between Jesse and David: many times I experienced "Yeah!" moments while watching Jesse - i.e., yelling "Yeah!" when Jesse pulled off an exceptionally fine solo. But only with Grissom have I experienced "Holy Shit!" moments. As a half-baked guitarist myself, I could at least follow what Jesse did; he did it far better than I could ever hope to, no mattert how much I practiced, but I could at least follow it. But with Grissom, I've had more jaw-dropping, "how the hell did he do that?" moments than I can count. Just in case it's not clear, I loved Jesse; I really did. Grissom is just something extra special.
***** Mr. Bill: With all due respect, what was extra special about the Joe Ely Band circa 1980 was being there in Lubbock when they were happening. I have seen every incarnation of the band, including David and Bobby Keyes when I lived in Dallas ( at the Fast & Cool Club, etc.). Of course Grissom is technically superior to Jesse (IYO). But unless you were there in Lubbock in the early '80s, you can't even imagine.........................
BobbyBoatman33 It's great to be in on the ground floor of something special; I wish I could have been there when it was first happening, and I definitely envy you for that! Even to this day, though, Joe remains something of a cult figure; although his cult is larger than it once was, he's never achieved the widespread success that he deserves, in my opinion. So, whenever I get to talking music with newcomers to Texas, I tell them that they have to check out Joe if they want to know what Texas music is all about! I still feel like I'm letting people in on a big, wonderful secret!
Saw him in 1996 5 minutes far from my house in Milan Italy in a place called, with a lot of fantasy, Saloon :-) The band played an over 2h set including all the songs of the MASTERPIECE LETTER TO LAREDO ( Teye!!!!!! ) and other great songs like fingernails musta notta gotta lotta, dallas, the roads goes on forever, raw of dominoes and the most underrated classic rock song SETTLE FOR LOVE. At the end of the concert i rember the audience ( over 1.000 people ) went crazy for Oh boy shaking the chairs in the air..uh...a thought for the great outlaw Jesse Guitar Taylor and his blues
One of the best concert i have ever seen..togheter with U2 in 1985 The Waterboys and R.E.M in 1989 and Bruce in 1999 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 and...2014!!!!
first saw Joe Ely at the 23 East Cabaret Ardmore, PA 10/23/92 with James McMurtry opening. On 5/7/93 saw Joe at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly with Lucinda Williams opening .....two incredible high energy shows. Joe'sthe best. Agree with comments about Grissom, he's another dimension.
If I remember right David Grissom started off his career playing with Joe Ely? I think he was about 14 or 15 at the time. Same thing with Charlie Sexton and Joe Ely.
Both David and Jesse Taylor is/were wonderful players. No knock on Grissom, I just prefer Jesse's style. Some like peaty Scotch Whisky, someone else prefers Wild Turkey Reserve Bourbon...it ALL good!
+David McKee Can still hear the band playing that song from the Liberty Lunch and Antone's days...my ultimate, though, is from Chicago Live album...Grissom and Bobby Keys trade solos incredibly... Still, to me, it is Grissom's signature piece...
I saw Joe with David Grissom and it utterly melted my face off
Glad you wrote "utterly", not "literally."
Mr. Jim O'Brien, props to you for sharing this incredible music video with those of us unable to attend this spectacular show live and from the heart of Texas Hill Country! It has no doubt touched the lives of all who, through your generosity, watched this video. As well as those who ever took the birthday suit plunge into Barton Springs. Or ate Chicken Fried Steak and danced the Two-Step at the Broken Spoke. Or knocked back some cold ones at Chuys. Or fell Asleep at the Wheel at Liberty Lunch. Or adjusted the belt-buckle after too much of a good thing at County Line. Or ate a Dirty Burger. Or saw Jerry Jeff & Willie joggin thru City Park. Or spent countless nights on 6th Street that will never be remembered. Or experienced Luckenbach when it was open. Or those who had the incredible luck and fortune to catch the awesome energy of you know who, live at Antones. I am all of those. And this music, authentic Texas Rockabilly, expertly delivered by Austin royalty, blasted down the doors to memories long-ago relegated to the recesses of the brain. What a beautiful gift. And I sincerely thank Joe, Dave, Mac & Jimmy for keepin it real.
marco esteban
Come home, we need you.
Grissom is God. Takes me back to Liberty Lunch. Ely at his finest.
I agree Live at Liberty Lunch is amazing. Dare I say I liked Grissom's tone better when he was playing a Plexi.
@@Billywagner22 DEFINITELY... the plexi bite isn't there.
all hats off to Jim O'Brien for posting this excellent concert footage
cricketears2 - Thank you!
Serendipity is accidentally winding up on this thread and discovering Dave Grissom for the first time......what a player !
How Brown so happy to see you write this..I love David Grissom... have for many years... great player and a great guy. I knew I was getting something special the night I recorded this
The Grissom era was the best, with full respect and apologies to Jesse Taylor. There was just an extra rock edge that Grissom brought that pushed that aspect of Joe's musical personality over the top. I've been there for Jesse, Lloyd, Ian Moore, Teya, David Holt, and Grissom and loved them all, but DG is clearly my preference.
I think I remember Jesse - was that back in 1974-ish? I recall one with a Spanish gunfighter feel...
Throw in Bobby Keys on the Sax, and they were the best road band going...
I toured with him back in 88 we eere his support band in ireland. David grissom jimmy pettit and i actually forget the name of the drummer .but he is playing with him here. Whats his name? They were all great players and people
@@jduill Davis McLarty.
Greatness!
I had the pleasure of guitar teching for Joe at a festival here in Birmingham one time, and met him on another occasion. He is one super nice dude, on top of being a great song writer and performer.
I saw this very same band in Cork, Ireland in 1988 and beyond, possibly two or three times around that period. Ever since, David Grissom has been one of my very favourite guitar players. His stage sound would make you think that there were two lead guitarists playing, yes he is that good! I have all of Joe's albums with this band on vinyl and CDs ... and more besides. You'll always have a great night when Joe Ely and the guys play in your town/city!!! Great artist accompanied by great musicians ... Texas' finest. Best wishes from Cork, Ireland.
Live at Liberty Lunch was and is one of the great live albums. To see this band after all this time in reunion is truly great. David Grissom's guitar playing is brilliant --as always. What a player. Thank you so much for this .
Wish there were more full Ely concerts like this. Thanks
Letter to L A. Magnificent, smouldering classic incendiary solo!!
Never do I watch an hour and thirty-six minutes of RUclips, but tonite I made an exception. I've been an Ely fan since the late seventies, and the Grissom era was phenomenal. Great reunion. Thanks for filming and posting... JH
+John Hodge Glad you enjoyed it... it was a great night at a great festival.
Epic Jim, thanks!
It certainly is. I hadn't watched this all they way through in many years until tonight. This just SMOKES! I can see camera errors I made that I wouldn't make today but I'm pretty happy with this. We have it forever.
David Grissom has always been a favorite..i remember seeing him with Joe on Austin City Limits and recording it on VHS...I think Jimmy was wearing pink converse high tops....this is a perfect band !
Wow! Thank you for this. The audio/visual is superb and it was so good to see this latest iteration of these guys. I finally turned on to Joe Ely (and David Grissom) in the late 80s during a blistering performance at Slim's (owned by Boz Scaggs) in SF. "Lord of the Highway" kept me awake and, probably, alive while hauling cars for Mercedes in the middle of the night across the desert southwest. "Live at Liberty Lunch" and "Live from Antone's" are the finest live albums I own. Grissom's a national treasure.
Slim's , not sure how many times he played there .But I was there on I think the first time he came in on the " Love and Danger " tour .As I recall he had both Grissom and another guitarist . Could have been Ian Moore . Blistering good show .
Nothing will ever beat the original Joe Ely band playing at the Cotton Club in Lubbock.
Looking forward to your video
I first saw The Joe Ely Band at the Cotton Club between Slaton & Lubbock in 72. Great show, Great Texas artist. They ran advertisements saying "Bring your ice chest and your bags (lids - grass) - we are outside of the city limits and no law will interfere!".
typical a merry can of rubbish comment ! ...comparing music to music ...another wanker who wants a SLOW WIN ?
David Grissom meant as much to The Joe Ely Band as Mick Taylor did to The Stones. Priceless.
Arne Emil Bredland excellent comparison. I agree and Jesse Taylor would be Keith Richards.
That's blasphemy. And bullshit. You obviously never saw Jesse "Guitar" Taylor with Joe and the band in Lubbock in the early '80s.
First time I ever saw Joe Ely, David Grissom and band was about 1990 at a waterfront street festival in Louisville. They played mid afternoon to a sparse crowd and tore it up. Too cool for the uninitiated to fully grasp but I knew they were special. I was there mainly to see Marcia Ball. She sat on the bleachers during most of Joe's set and I think he was showing off for him. Grissom was so young and he had such flashy guitars, pointy boots and all that rock and roll hair. so fucking cool. His old man was ground floor Humana Insurance...too cool that DG chose to be a guitar god over a captain of commerce. Sweet memories.
Joe plays Louisville fairly regular and often ends the evening on a pool table. Knows his way around. Misspent youth.
Joe Ely is ALWAYS great and the band is awesome as well. I tend to agree with having Grissom as my favorite, but they all are well worth the time invested in going to a show...been to many of them across this great state of Texas...and somehow nobody mentioned that Charlie Sexton played with Ely in the early 80's when he was a kid...he blew us away...anyway, thanks for sharing the music
Joe's had so many great musicians in his bands; when I say Grissom is my favorite I don't mean any slight to any of the others. Another great band was with Ian Moore on lead guitar and Reese Wynans on keys (with Davis McLarty on drums and Glen Fukunaga on bass, if memory serves). That band smoked! Moore wasn't with Joe very long, though, and I only saw that band once.
And let's not forget Lloyd Maines on steel guitar.
David Grissom a very great Guitar Player and also a good Singer :)
Holy smoldering show! Love this version of Ely. First heard him in 80s with Bobby Keys and Grissom. Have loved him and Grissom ever since. Great rhythm section. Seems like periodically Grissom shows up with Ely and it's always a blast. Most recently saw Flatlanders including Ely with Rob Gersoe on guitar who plays with Jimmie Dale and he's fantastic, too. Thanks for this treat.
God I love this band....Joe and David are magic!!!
Love this rendition of Wishin for a Rainbow! Hell yeah
Great video thanks.
The GREAT Joe Ely!!!!!
Had the genuine pleasure of having Mr. Ely along with Stevie Vaughn play their acoustics together at a party we had in Lubbock in about 1980. Sax player Johnny Reno who briefly played in Stevie's band says he thinks he remembers being there as well. Very nice men.
That wouldn't have been at Bruce Jagger's place after they played at Fat Dogs would it have been??
Great show. Thanks for sharing
Loved this concert, Thanks for sharing.
I used to play with jimmy petit in the early 70s in del Rio Texas great bass player
Great! Best band Ely has ever had. I've had the privilege many times to stand 50 feet away (or closer), watching one of the best guitar players in the world. And this rhythm section is one of the best around. Oh, and Joe's no slouch as a performer either! ;)
I beg to differ with you, Bill, but you should have been in Lubbock in the early '80s. I won't bore you with how good Joe was back in the day with Jesse and Smokey Joe, Ponty Bone on the squeeze box and Lloyd Maines on steel pedal... Saw him ride a horse onto the stage at Coldwater Country and Linda Ronstadt sing with him at the speedway. Cotton Club, Tornado Jam, on and on. Singin'
the West Texas Waltz with Jimmie Dale and Butch... "la la la la la la Idalou," New Deal, Floydada, Slaton, Tahoka, Roosevelt etc. You can't imagine how incredible this guy was on stage in those days with that amazing backup band......
Bob Boatman I first saw Joe in the late 80s when he had these three guys, plus Bobby Keyes on sax, backing him up. The instrumental duels between Grissom and Keyes were something to behold, but even after Keyes left, Grissom continued to generate plenty of heat as the only instrumental soloist. But, I saw Jesse many times since, before and after the Live at Antones era (and Lloyd and Ponty less frequently), plus I have all the old recordings, so I do have plenty of appreciation for the original band. No one can make a steel guitar scream like Lloyd, and Jesse was a hell of a player, no doubt about it.
Bob Boatman My opinion of the difference between Jesse and David: many times I experienced "Yeah!" moments while watching Jesse - i.e., yelling "Yeah!" when Jesse pulled off an exceptionally fine solo. But only with Grissom have I experienced "Holy Shit!" moments. As a half-baked guitarist myself, I could at least follow what Jesse did; he did it far better than I could ever hope to, no mattert how much I practiced, but I could at least follow it. But with Grissom, I've had more jaw-dropping, "how the hell did he do that?" moments than I can count. Just in case it's not clear, I loved Jesse; I really did. Grissom is just something extra special.
***** Mr. Bill: With all due respect, what was extra special about the Joe Ely Band circa 1980 was being there in Lubbock when they were happening. I have seen every incarnation of the band, including David and Bobby Keyes when I lived in Dallas ( at the Fast & Cool Club, etc.). Of course Grissom is technically superior to Jesse (IYO). But unless you were there in Lubbock in the early '80s, you can't even imagine.........................
BobbyBoatman33 It's great to be in on the ground floor of something special; I wish I could have been there when it was first happening, and I definitely envy you for that! Even to this day, though, Joe remains something of a cult figure; although his cult is larger than it once was, he's never achieved the widespread success that he deserves, in my opinion. So, whenever I get to talking music with newcomers to Texas, I tell them that they have to check out Joe if they want to know what Texas music is all about! I still feel like I'm letting people in on a big, wonderful secret!
Wow. How can this have so few views? Well, I got to see it! Thanks for sharing!!!!
A great performance
i have liked Joe since the first time I heard ,Me and Billy the kid on Live At Liberty Lunch.
Saw him in 1996 5 minutes far from my house in Milan Italy in a place called, with a lot of fantasy, Saloon :-) The band played an over 2h set including all the songs of the MASTERPIECE LETTER TO LAREDO ( Teye!!!!!! ) and other great songs like fingernails musta notta gotta lotta, dallas, the roads goes on forever, raw of dominoes and the most underrated classic rock song SETTLE FOR LOVE. At the end of the concert i rember the audience ( over 1.000 people ) went crazy for Oh boy shaking the chairs in the air..uh...a thought for the great outlaw Jesse Guitar Taylor and his blues
One of the best concert i have ever seen..togheter with U2 in 1985 The Waterboys and R.E.M in 1989 and Bruce in 1999 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 and...2014!!!!
ehm...Calvin Russel and Dave Alvin in 1997 Steve Earle 1999 Patti Smith 2006 Pearl Jam 1996 2000 2003 and..2014!!!!!
@41:00- 47 mins he is wailing that baby! That is one of the greatest sounds I have heard coming out of a 6 sting David Grissom !
QUACK! Beautiful.
Davis is a monster player
you have a great ear and i have been stealin this sound since i got my first guitar in 1977 when i was 12
@@scottfabiszak8152 It is incredible. I live an hour from Memphis and have seen a few. He is bad!
first saw Joe Ely at the 23 East Cabaret Ardmore, PA 10/23/92 with James McMurtry opening. On 5/7/93 saw Joe at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly with Lucinda Williams opening .....two incredible high energy shows. Joe'sthe best. Agree with comments about Grissom, he's another dimension.
Really great gig, everyone was playing well, and Joe was in fine voice. The drummer was showing that snare drum no mercy...
liberty lunch revisited.superb,ely and this lineup are everything texas should be.grissom is a true master of his craft.
Joe's best band at the coolest fest. What a treat.
Giants still walk among us people. Please pay attention.
Texas gold on that stage!!
Guitar player reminds me of the great Eddy Shaver, RiP
It's David Grissom... We all knew and loved Eddie down here in Austin, but even he would tip his hat to Grissom.
If I remember right David Grissom started off his career playing with Joe Ely? I think he was about 14 or 15 at the time. Same thing with Charlie Sexton and Joe Ely.
mclarty and petit rock solid ( ck spell)
Joe is as great here as he always is, Grissom, well what can ya say that has not already been said. Maybe just plain fuckin goodwill do.
Funny "flatlander" in the NE is a pejorative. Looking forward to seeing this guy in Maine next week.
Davis Mc Larty your a rocker! The rest of you ain't half bad either.
And "Letter to LA" would not be the song it is without Grissom's guitar work.
grissom!!
great !
Bass player is kicking ass, to....
makes me remember bobby keys, man.
Both David and Jesse Taylor is/were wonderful players.
No knock on Grissom, I just prefer Jesse's style.
Some like peaty Scotch Whisky, someone else prefers Wild Turkey Reserve Bourbon...it ALL good!
dGrissom ouch : quel style ! great gig
@10:24.2 -- "Wishin for a Rainbow"
The last word in lonely is Ely.
Blues
Ely is Texas
Billy the Kid and I never got along!
How bout "letter to LA"?....get outta here! that's some gold!
+David McKee
Can still hear the band playing that song from the Liberty Lunch and Antone's days...my ultimate, though, is from Chicago Live album...Grissom and Bobby Keys trade solos incredibly...
Still, to me, it is Grissom's signature piece...
Boy,it seems like the drummer is struggling to keep up....
I don't see that
if dallas is a jungle does that mean she has hairy bush?
Hairy Bush, the illegitimate brother of George W.
WE ..GOTTAGETTALOTTA of this @ CRANK IT UP ! 😜🤪🤪
A great performance