This one popped up the other day on my playlist and I thought.. you know who would like this song? .. Jamal! This one is a lyrical monster that applies to all generations...
Digging the content man, if you ever get an idle half hour sometime give this a whirl 🤠 That's It For The Other One - live in San Francisco February 27th 1969.
Years ago in the old days of the internets, I used to prowl Barlow's blog. Very thoughtful and respectful man, who didn't consider himself above conversation and political disagreement with a random nobody like myself. I think I would have been proud to call him friend.
The Dead didn't get political very often but when they did, they made their point perfectly. This is an example of that side of them. Thank you, Jamel. You're the only reactor who gets it.
Nah, that's exactly what all men say as they continue to dance around the proverbial golden calf while perpetually building the Tower of Babel... *Good grief...*
@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. I think you miss the meaning of that line. It isn't about self indulgence necessarily. You have to have the line before it to make sense of it. History's page is neatly carved in stone The future is here we are it we are on our own. It is saying you can't do anything about the past you can only do better now moving forward.
@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. I see this line as a call to take personal responsibility for the state of the Planet. We won't be bailed out by an imaginary God or "aliens"... "The future's here - we are it - we are on our own" 🌎
Bob is one of the most emotive singers ever. I just love his passion. His voice has only become more colorful with the years. You can hear a whole story just in his texture.
Agreed. And I absolutely love the documentary “The Other One”. When I was younger it was all about Jerry but Bob was the glue. He’s the Samwise of the Dead. Subtly leading the Dead to destroy the One Ring!
@@willmeyer2745 I love the documentary as well. Appreciated learning about his journey creatively and spiritually, and how he made the shift to becoming a devoted family man.
My favorite line is when the game is lost and we're All the same, know one left to take the blame,, we will leave this place an emty stone that shiny ball of blue we call our gome
@@mindigd "Bob spit on me" was my bumpersticker at one point. Pretty good Throwin' Stones" looks like '80's? Bobby always sang that one well, though. I seem to remember a REALLY good one, but I can't place the date as it was on, like, a compilation album, like "Rarities" or "So Many Roads" Same crunchy, saturated mix, just the lead just kept building, Jerry whipped The Boys into a frenzy, and everytime it sounded like they were gonna wind down, Jerr would peak again, like "I got some ideas, fellas...okur?"
Me too!!! I know exactly where I was too. My younger brother had just grabbed me from Chicago midway airport and we were headed north and turned left heading westbound... it was on that curve that I asked him “who is this!?”
It’s really important to appreciate how good Bob Weir was as a rhythm guitarist. Jerry gets a lot of credit (rightfully so), but Weir studied the great jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, and the inversions he uses provides a lot of space for Jerry, Phil and in this era, Brent. In fact I love the show where Branford Marsalis played sax. That was the Dead at their jazziest, an Weir at his most creative.
@@crazyfingers19 Very true, although in my experience, this is a point that is a little overstated. What he often did was voice a chord in a non traditional way and then either put an extension on it like a 9 or an 11, or he would go from a standard voicing to a Sus chord and back with a flick of the finger. It’s reaching those “extra” notes I have trouble with, since my hands are quite small by adult standards.
The show with Branford Marsalis is phenomenal and one of my favorites. Every time I listen to it it makes me go “dammit they should’ve had a sax player since when Keith and Donna joined”
The children’s rhyme, “ashes, ashes we all fall down” came from the Black Plague. In the mid-80s we were all convinced we were a few minutes away from nuclear destruction under Reagan.
One thing that was beautiful about the darkness of this song is that it was almost always contrasted by leading into the beauty and hope of Not Fade Away. This music made such deep, emotional connections with me that I can't count the number of times they carried me through deep sorrow, bawling my eyes out directly, into unbridled joy within a few bars of music.
The only problem I ever had with this song is I knew the show was going to be over very soon. When the crowd would sing ashes to ashes all fall down it was often loud you couldn't help but to smile.
yeah, this one definitely had its spot. I think it could have fit fine in the first set ballad spot a few from the end, but not as the first sets grew shorter in the later days. post space was just a comfortable spot for it.
This is the best version of this song I’ve ever heard! I was going to say Jerry killed that solo, but the whole band was on point - absolutely amazing!
i love that you keep coming back to the Grateful Dead! many many more songs and versions to experience! really think you should do some earlier Pigpen years stuff, lovelight or the eleven, or maybe a Help>Slip>Franklins
Even more so when you consider the Dead palling around with and doing fundraising shows for the likes of Pelosi and Biden. Both parties suck, and anyone who supports either is part of the problem (war profiteering, Wall-Street bailouts, corporate welfare, etc. etc.). On our own.
It's only nothing gets done when people expect polititions to do something. That's the point of the song, that we're on our own, now we need to do something. This would be an empty statement if it weren't that the Dead created so many charity groups on their own, just because it needed to be done and it wasn't getting done. Think of the grass roots organizations that were started the same way. It's up to us to just do the thing in our corner, and then it happens.
These lyrics, like a lot of Bobby's songs, were written by John Perry Barlow -- who deserves praise right alongside Hunter! This is one of the rare political songs they sang and I love it! The melody always reminds me of Samson & Delilah.
These lyrics were written by John Barlow. Music is by Bob Weir. John and Bob were a musical pair in lyric and melody similar to Jerry and Robert. John Barlow respected Robert Hunter so deeply and was so humble that he called his song “Weeds in Roberts rose garden” and added more saying that the roses needed something else among them. Great stuff!
@@bjenkin100 I've been listening to the Dead since 1984/1985 (not a Touch Head), and I've never heard a Dead song that's not as relevant now as when they first started playing it. Their music has a timeless quality to it.
@@otherstar1 right on brother i feel same way. One of the many things making them so special. This one particularly On Point... the songs can even grow more pertinent over time. same with some of the other great old bands songs but I know what you mean the Dead songs never seem to sound even the least bit antiquated or worn out to me no matter how old or how many times i listen
Oh...Now you reminded me I need to look up the Not Fade Away w/Darkness jam :) Haven't heard that in ages. It's probably what got me into the band in the first place
I swear, Grateful Dead AND Steely Dan in ONE DAY? What did I do right today? LOL. And damn, this is a GREAT version of this song. This is one of my faves from them. A great day from Jamel indeed, thanks for the uploads today, my friend.
This song is so incredibly prophetic on so many levels. Thank you to the angels/spirits who gently whispered in Bob Weir’s and John Barlow’s ears as they slept. The Dead were early advocates for saving our planet’s 🌏 natural resources. Save the Rainforests. Unfortunately millions of acres are still being ♨️ burned down today. Thank you for bringing this song to light ✨Jamal. ☮️
This is the song that got me into the grateful dead, at that time in my life I was a punk rock kid and would always say that I hated the deads music (even though I had never actually listened to them). I was young and stupid but after hearing this song and reading the lyrics my mind and life was changed forever. And yes I still love punk music.
Saw Dead & Co play this in Boulder 3 or 4 yrs ago and thought how uncanny the lyrics were- prob even more accurate today. The Dead were prophets. Love your vids, Jamal- so passionate
Great commentary Jamel on the depth of the the lyrics and their relevance today. Can I make a request too for Pink Floyd “On the Turning Away” please? It’s a song of great relevance and importance today as well. Keep up the great work !
@@estimatedleighton6389 That solo speaks out a feeling to me as much as the lyrics. To me it is the part of the song that sings out "There is hope". That solo part is all about bright happy dancing like Iko Iko. I don't think it is a coincidence that the following verse hints at a possible good outcome. "We leave this place an empty stone, OR that shining ball of blue we can call our home". That solo was the hopeful part of the story along with the following verse.
@@Jeff-S It's true, and cool thing is, they phrased it that way on purpose, leaving the main structure of the songs minor feeling resolve, and placing in a nice bright major box pattern, that, though repetitious, manages to build drama, thanks to Jerry always landing on higher resolve, and then going yet higher, each time. If you fuck those kind of builds up by not raising your pitch and volume up each time, it can fall flat. But, they are The Boys.
Love when you react to GD. The line "Shipping powders back and forth, Singing black goes south and white comes north" refers to gunpowder and drugs, often the agents of powerlust and greed that fuel warfare. Which makes the rest of the verse more powerful "And the whole world full of petty wars, Singing I got mine and you got yours"
another great video to help Keep Great Music Alive, and to be a brother to all. Thank you Jamal .... I think there's a seat that's reserved for you in heaven. Jamal .... I've been listening to the Grateful Dead for 55 years, and first saw them play live in 1970. It's wonderful that you appreciate their music, and the whole scene, and it's really fun and even heart warming to revisit that whole trip with you with your commentary in your videos, and see your discovery of all this. So, I'll join all those who have suggestions for you. I figured you are a man who appreciates blues and R&B, and the original front man for the Grateful Dead, the one and only Pigpen, was deep into Blues. His father was an R&B disk jockey in the bay area and Pig (Ron McKernan) grew up listening to the great R&B guys like Lightening Hopkins, Bobby Blue Bland, Otis Redding, James Brown, and so many others. Pig died young, only 27, and although the Grateful Dead never gave up their Blues roots, they lost something when they lost Pigpen. So here are 3 great tunes that Pigpen did with the Grateful Dead. On the Workingmans Dead album, please check out the song 'Easy Wind'. Pigpen growls his way through the song, and the playing behind him is perfectly tasteful and a little scary. The Dead also covered the song "Hard To Handle' by the late, great Otis Redding. There are many, many great versions of the Dead playing this. My favorite is from a show on Feb 18,1971. That entire show was recently released as bonus material with the 50th anniversary of the album 'American Beauty', so if you have that anniversary release, you'll find the song on that, and it's freaking fantastic. Finally, and if you want to understand the older dead heads, the greatest performance of Pigpens life (imo) came on the song 'Turn On Your Love Light' by Bobby Blue Bland, and you definitely want the version on the Live/Dead album. To hear Pigpen going through this rave up is just amazing. I was lucky enough to see Pigpen with the Dead maybe a dozen times or so before he passed away in 1973. He was a sweet cat who dressed and strutted like a freaking Hells Angel, but everyone who knew him said he was the nicest guy in the band, and I believe that.
You’re absolutely right. This song has aged extremely well. The images that are created by these lyrics is as relevant today as ever. Whether it’s nuclear proliferation or pitting one group against another. The future’s here, we are on our own. Counting on politicians to bring us together is futile.
Most memorable Throwing Stones off the top of my head were the day Jerry died-“Papa’s gone, we’re on our own.” And then Dead & Company’s south Florida show after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
This is as powerful as music gets. I don't know anyone who doesn't get chills from this one, no one who was alive anyway for the 60's and Nixon and Viet Nam and lived under constant fear of The Bomb. It's great to see others getting this message. John Perry Barlow mostly wrote this one but everything was a collaboration. [JPB was co-founder of EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, which everyone should donate to...the People's guardians of electronic privacy rights.] ========================= As little kids we all held hands in a circle and did a 600+ year old song+dance written about the Bubonic Plague in Europe. "Ring around the rosy/Pockets full of posies/Ashes. Ashes, all fall down" And we'd all fall down holding hands ----> I guess you'd get a rosy circle around the bite mark from a flea, then you'd die of "the Black Plague" (heh). In those days they'd put flower seeds in your corpse's pockets. But then they'd burn all the Plague bodies, which was as far as sane sanitation went in those days.
"A peaceful place or at least it looks from space." Love one another, and "keep great music alive." And, if I may suggest. Jack Straw that cat from Wichita is a pretty good one.
This album was released at the ending of the Cold War. This song had a lot of meaning to those of us who remember growing up thinking the end of world was a real possibility. Some chose to worry and some of us kids decided to dance and shake our bones...
John Perry Barlow wrote this song about a friend/politician in Wyoming that he knew that was all about saving the environment, but, over time, became obsessed with international affairs and started changing for the worse. That politician was Dick Cheney!
Thank You Jamel!!! Made my night. Been waiting for this amazing song. Probably their best lyrical song. Another great one is "We can run." Love that you are on the bus with us.✌✌✌✌✌
"Ashes, ashes, all fall down" is from the nursery rhyme: "Ring-around the rosies/A pocket full of posies/Achoo. achoo/we all fall down." This originated during the time of the bubonic plague in Europe (the 1300s). Its meaning is: Ring around the rosies refer to the red rings that develop around pustules/A pocket full of posies -- flowers were carried because people thought their aroma would ward off the plague/Achoo, achoo -- coughing came as the disease progressed (over time it was translated to "Ashes, ashes")/We all fall down -- we all drop dead.
As someone mentioned below. Nearly all of Bobby's songs' lyrics were written by John Perry Barlow. Weird and Barlow were a song writing team just as Jerry and Robert Hunter were. 😉 ♥️⚡💙
Jerry's last song (vocally) was Black Muddy River, Box Of Rain was the final song every played. So Many Roads was earlier in the second set, but nonetheless just as heartfelt all around.
you nailed it, Jamel. mostly everything has been said in the comment section about this song "throwin stones" written by the late John Perry Barlow. he was an incredibly talented writer amongst other things and so was Robert Hunter. I author poems, song lyrics occasionally, and have always looked up to these writers. I wish I could write as good as those two did! As for the song "throwin stones" it got me really into the grateful dead in high school, and I never looked back since then. It is very heavy loaded with politics for a Grateful Dead tune, but I don't think it preaches or takes sides one way or another, but just points out universal realities and truths about observing the nature of the political system, and how corruption of Government and people in power impacts culture and society. hope that makes sense. I find it hard to explain this song, but it's one of my favorites and never gets old or irrelevant. I always learn new insights when I listen to this song. released in the 1980's 'like you said,' "it's as relevant today in 2021 as it was back then." keep up the excellent song reviews Jamel. i think we could now officially call you a deadhead jamel. keep on truckin...
Kinda takes me back to the Meadowlands - this time of year in 1983 - when I first heard it; it gave me chills down my spine. If I remember my Dead lore clearly, I think this was a Bobby/John Barlow collaboration.
They played this song for years , every once in a while before they finally put it on Touch of Grey . First time I heard it was at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island , I wanna say 84 maybe 85 . Just blew everybody away . ( That wasn't on tour ) It fits the time we're in now just as muchas it did then . They never got openly political like they did with this time . But geez when they do they do it right . Picture a bright blue ball , spinning , spinning free . Dizzy with eternity . Paint it with a skin of sky , brush in some clouds to see . We'll call it home for you and me . ✌️✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow this one hit deep, it's been amazing remembering through your reactions what it was like to experience these songs the first time. As always you are a wonderfully astute and insightful listener. You hit precisely on what Bobby is doing wrt letting the music and lyrics take over his body. He's talked about this in recent years, how he gets out of the way for the characters in the songs. I think a lot of folks didn't get that. 🖤
Alright brother, I knew it was coming & now it's official. Dead & Co and The Black Crowes(well a few of em) are on tour in Los Angeles this year. I'm so excited for live music & I hope your planning on hitting these shows. Take good care. Hope to see you & the Mrs. @ a show!!
i love this channel because after decades of being a DeadHead, it's like revisiting some of these songs with fresh eyes and ears. Rekindles some of that old appreciation. Thank you Jamel aka Jamal. 12/31/87 is a great show all around. Other great songs from that show: Bird Song, NFA, Push Comes to Shove. But every song in that show is a solid performance.
I have the Greatful Dead DVD of the "Closing of Winterland" which was their "home base" for concerts. The Blues Brothers opened for them. Then there's six or so hours of Greatful Dead performance/music. Wonderful DVD. I would recommend that you purchase it for GREAT PERFORMANCES! Lots of fun! Oh my JESUS, pour forth your DIVINE MERCY upon the soul of Jerry Garcia, forgive him his sins and bring him to everlasting life, amen.
Mel this is as close as the Dead got to being Rage against the machine with the lyrics. timeless. unfortunately relevant content. LOVE EACH OTHER WE ARE ON OUR OWN
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Weather Report Suite... please!!!! its a song that hits ya on a similerly positive n deep level...
This one popped up the other day on my playlist and I thought.. you know who would like this song? .. Jamal! This one is a lyrical monster that applies to all generations...
Digging the content man, if you ever get an idle half hour sometime give this a whirl 🤠
That's It For The Other One - live in San Francisco February 27th 1969.
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John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for ‘Thrownin’ Stones’ . He was Bob’s main lyricist, like Hunter was to Jerry!
Years ago in the old days of the internets, I used to prowl Barlow's blog. Very thoughtful and respectful man, who didn't consider himself above conversation and political disagreement with a random nobody like myself. I think I would have been proud to call him friend.
The Dead didn't get political very often but when they did, they made their point perfectly. This is an example of that side of them. Thank you, Jamel. You're the only reactor who gets it.
Since Jerry died they have gotten a lot more political.
Unfortunately
@@pdamn1975 nah, the world got harder.
@@cynlcole4649 no society got softer
@@pdamn1975 How? The catalog hasn't changed.
THE FUTURE IS HERE•WE ARE IT•WE ARE ON OUR OWN
Nah, that's exactly what all men say as they continue to dance around the proverbial golden calf while perpetually building the Tower of Babel...
*Good grief...*
@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. I think you miss the meaning of that line. It isn't about self indulgence necessarily. You have to have the line before it to make sense of it.
History's page is neatly carved in stone
The future is here we are it we are on our own.
It is saying you can't do anything about the past you can only do better now moving forward.
@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. I see this line as a call to take personal responsibility for the state of the Planet. We won't be bailed out by an imaginary God or "aliens"...
"The future's here - we are it - we are on our own" 🌎
You are all correct.
Bob is one of the most emotive singers ever. I just love his passion. His voice has only become more colorful with the years. You can hear a whole story just in his texture.
Agreed. And I absolutely love the documentary “The Other One”. When I was younger it was all about Jerry but Bob was the glue. He’s the Samwise of the Dead. Subtly leading the Dead to destroy the One Ring!
@@willmeyer2745 That's a great analogy. (~):)
@@willmeyer2745 I love the documentary as well. Appreciated learning about his journey creatively and spiritually, and how he made the shift to becoming a devoted family man.
We need an Estimated!
@@NeutronDance my time coming any day! ESTIMATED would be a good one. I would even suggest the studio version to capture the reggae nastiness 100%
Patience, they say, is a virtue. I've been waiting a long time for more Dead. Thank you Jamel!
The first time I saw them - they were called The Warlocks in 65, the acid tests, love those days/memories.
"A peaceful place, or so it looks from space; a closer look reveals the human race." -- never quite realized before how good that line is.
My favorite line is when the game is lost and we're All the same, know one left to take the blame,, we will leave this place an emty stone that shiny ball of blue we call our gome
It's very cinematic. Start from the big view and zoom in.
You had me at Grateful Dead.
Ditto
Everytime
Right here
AMEN 🕺💃
Bobby spits so much truth so casually in this song, it can be a bit shocking. Always been one of my favorite.
I was taking "Bobby spits" literally, since the first few rows are considered a splash zone. But I agree with you 100%.
@@mindigd I was gonna say, not just truth, saliva
Summer 85 tour stickers:
The Fat Man Rocks
The Thin Man Spits
My fave: Trouble ahead Jerry in Red!
@@mindigd "Bob spit on me" was my bumpersticker at one point. Pretty good Throwin' Stones" looks like '80's? Bobby always sang that one well, though. I seem to remember a REALLY good one, but I can't place the date as it was on, like, a compilation album, like "Rarities" or "So Many Roads" Same crunchy, saturated mix, just the lead just kept building, Jerry whipped The Boys into a frenzy, and everytime it sounded like they were gonna wind down, Jerr would peak again, like "I got some ideas, fellas...okur?"
@@mindigd I was thinking the same thing 😂☔
We're both hearing this for the first time. Nice. I love how all the instruments intertwine.
"I love how all the instruments intertwine."
You just summed up my many decades of loving this band in one sentence. Thank you first time listener.
They're talking to each other
When i dye buried 6 deep, set of Bosses at my feet, pair of head phones on my head, and forever play the Grateful Dead! amen
This is the song that got me on the bus! (~);} The kids they dance and shake their bones!
all too clear weir on our own!!!
Me too!!! I know exactly where I was too. My younger brother had just grabbed me from Chicago midway airport and we were headed north and turned left heading westbound... it was on that curve that I asked him “who is this!?”
what a grate memory, I was there at this concert, twirling in the hallway....
I knew Jamel would appreciate the lyrics in this one~
It’s really important to appreciate how good Bob Weir was as a rhythm guitarist. Jerry gets a lot of credit (rightfully so), but Weir studied the great jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, and the inversions he uses provides a lot of space for Jerry, Phil and in this era, Brent. In fact I love the show where Branford Marsalis played sax. That was the Dead at their jazziest, an Weir at his most creative.
Also his hands are so big he could form chord shapes that most can't.
@@crazyfingers19 Very true, although in my experience, this is a point that is a little overstated. What he often did was voice a chord in a non traditional way and then either put an extension on it like a 9 or an 11, or he would go from a standard voicing to a Sus chord and back with a flick of the finger. It’s reaching those “extra” notes I have trouble with, since my hands are quite small by adult standards.
The show with Branford Marsalis is phenomenal and one of my favorites. Every time I listen to it it makes me go “dammit they should’ve had a sax player since when Keith and Donna joined”
really wish branford had been able to collab with the dead more often. it was a match made in heaven
Sumptuously!
"Shipping powders back and forth, singing black goes south and white comes north"
This was such a huge statement at the time in the 80s.
The children’s rhyme, “ashes, ashes we all fall down” came from the Black Plague. In the mid-80s we were all convinced we were a few minutes away from nuclear destruction under Reagan.
That’s one of the great things about the Dead. Their lyrics encourage us to ask ourselves deep questions.
One of all time favorite reactors listening to my favorite dead song.
Your channel is one of my favorites on RUclips. I love that we both love the Dead, Rush, and Steely Dan.
One thing that was beautiful about the darkness of this song is that it was almost always contrasted by leading into the beauty and hope of Not Fade Away.
This music made such deep, emotional connections with me that I can't count the number of times they carried me through deep sorrow, bawling my eyes out directly, into unbridled joy within a few bars of music.
The only problem I ever had with this song is I knew the show was going to be over very soon. When the crowd would sing ashes to ashes all fall down it was often loud you couldn't help but to smile.
yeah, this one definitely had its spot. I think it could have fit fine in the first set ballad spot a few from the end, but not as the first sets grew shorter in the later days. post space was just a comfortable spot for it.
Sweet dude ...seen the dead for first time in 91 ....16 years old..still my favorite band
This is the best version of this song I’ve ever heard! I was going to say Jerry killed that solo, but the whole band was on point - absolutely amazing!
i love that you keep coming back to the Grateful Dead! many many more songs and versions to experience! really think you should do some earlier Pigpen years stuff, lovelight or the eleven, or maybe a Help>Slip>Franklins
The song is relevant today because nothing gets done. We are on our own.
Even more so when you consider the Dead palling around with and doing fundraising shows for the likes of Pelosi and Biden.
Both parties suck, and anyone who supports either is part of the problem (war profiteering, Wall-Street bailouts, corporate welfare, etc. etc.). On our own.
It's only nothing gets done when people expect polititions to do something. That's the point of the song, that we're on our own, now we need to do something. This would be an empty statement if it weren't that the Dead created so many charity groups on their own, just because it needed to be done and it wasn't getting done. Think of the grass roots organizations that were started the same way. It's up to us to just do the thing in our corner, and then it happens.
These lyrics, like a lot of Bobby's songs, were written by John Perry Barlow -- who deserves praise right alongside Hunter! This is one of the rare political songs they sang and I love it! The melody always reminds me of Samson & Delilah.
And Barlow played a big role with Tech and Government so he is speaking literally and figuratively with inside knowledge on the subject.
Interesting you say that - Jerry briefly went into the Samson & Delilah melody during his solo (the music must have carried him away). Good ear! :)
I thought that they were political. Freethinking?
Genuinely warms my heart to see you embrace the Grateful Dead as a veteran of 60 or so shows. Love it. Love your content.
I so wish I could have given you your first miracle, Jamel..... there was and will NEVER be anything like a Dead show again!
As a Deadhead and St. Louis Blues fan I find myself conflicted by your icon.
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
I think this is your first Bobby tune!!! Hooray Jamel ☮️❤️🌏♾️
Was just going to say the same. This is one of my favorite dead tunes and my overall favorite bobby tune.
Truckin last summer, I think.
I can't wait for him to do a brent song!
@@dialacatnone3719 yeah... He needs to hear a really soulful Blow Away
Loved those 87 shows. Ventura was one hell of a time. All these years later this kid is still dancing and shaking his bones.
These lyrics were written by John Barlow.
Music is by Bob Weir.
John and Bob were a musical pair in lyric and melody similar to Jerry and Robert. John Barlow respected Robert Hunter so deeply and was so humble that he called his song “Weeds in Roberts rose garden” and added more saying that the roses needed something else among them.
Great stuff!
Unfortunately, I think this song will be relevant for a while.
Right on always will be relevant... already been so for 30+ yrs
@@bjenkin100 I've been listening to the Dead since 1984/1985 (not a Touch Head), and I've never heard a Dead song that's not as relevant now as when they first started playing it. Their music has a timeless quality to it.
Truth
@@otherstar1 right on brother i feel same way. One of the many things making them so special. This one particularly On Point...
the songs can even grow more pertinent over time. same with some of the other great old bands songs but I know what you mean the Dead songs never seem to sound even the least bit antiquated or worn out to me no matter how old or how many times i listen
It's more relevant than ever!!
Actually John Barlow wrote this with Bob Weir and were a songwriting team for the Dead like Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia.
My mind automatically went to Not Fade Away.
That song is like the biggest bud I mean on the plant
Oh...Now you reminded me I need to look up the Not Fade Away w/Darkness jam :) Haven't heard that in ages. It's probably what got me into the band in the first place
Yep!
@Party Puppy bop bop bop👏👏
Mine too , and they were headed that direction!
💀🎸🎶🎵🧠
I swear, Grateful Dead AND Steely Dan in ONE DAY? What did I do right today? LOL. And damn, this is a GREAT version of this song. This is one of my faves from them. A great day from Jamel indeed, thanks for the uploads today, my friend.
What made that time so great, was hearing several different versions of the song, before it was released. And then how it matured over the years.
Jamel you should check out Standing on the Moon, any one of the live versions.
Yes, pretty pretty please Jamel!
I 3rd that Standing On The Moon!! 🌙
me 4 :)
yes. that crimson white and indigo version
Standing on the Moon always reminds me of when Jerry passed. Heard it on the radio right after the announced his death. Tears still run down my face
This song is so incredibly prophetic on so many levels. Thank you to the angels/spirits who gently whispered in Bob Weir’s and John Barlow’s ears as they slept. The Dead were early advocates for saving our planet’s 🌏 natural resources. Save the Rainforests. Unfortunately millions of acres are still being ♨️ burned down today. Thank you for bringing this song to light ✨Jamal. ☮️
This is prime 80's Dead. Lyrics even more appropriate today.
This is the song that got me into the grateful dead, at that time in my life I was a punk rock kid and would always say that I hated the deads music (even though I had never actually listened to them).
I was young and stupid but after hearing this song and reading the lyrics my mind and life was changed forever.
And yes I still love punk music.
One of my favorites and a powerful performance. Thank you for your good thoughts, good human.
Couldn’t click on this fast enough!
Me too sister! ✌🏼
Saw Dead & Co play this in Boulder 3 or 4 yrs ago and thought how uncanny the lyrics were- prob even more accurate today. The Dead were prophets. Love your vids, Jamal- so passionate
Great commentary Jamel on the depth of the the lyrics and their relevance today. Can I make a request too for Pink Floyd “On the Turning Away” please? It’s a song of great relevance and importance today as well. Keep up the great work !
How can anyone not love this?
Really hope you're gonna catch all these wonderful lyrics...
Another masterpiece by the greatest rock n roll band ever! Love your reactions Jamal, brings mme back to when I heard these songs for the first time.
I was at this show! NYE shows were LEGENDARY. Thank you Jamel for taking me back to a happy time :)
The rich man in his summer home, singing just leave well enough alone. A great and truthful line.
Musically, it’s cool how they are serving the song and not fooling around. Very serious treatment. Jerry the sideman.
Yeah but Jer Bear smokes that guitar solo
@@estimatedleighton6389 That solo speaks out a feeling to me as much as the lyrics. To me it is the part of the song that sings out "There is hope". That solo part is all about bright happy dancing like Iko Iko. I don't think it is a coincidence that the following verse hints at a possible good outcome. "We leave this place an empty stone, OR that shining ball of blue we can call our home". That solo was the hopeful part of the story along with the following verse.
@@estimatedleighton6389 jerr bear!🤘
@@Jeff-S It's true, and cool thing is, they phrased it that way on purpose, leaving the main structure of the songs minor feeling resolve, and placing in a nice bright major box pattern, that, though repetitious, manages to build drama, thanks to Jerry always landing on higher resolve, and then going yet higher, each time. If you fuck those kind of builds up by not raising your pitch and volume up each time, it can fall flat. But, they are The Boys.
Love when you react to GD.
The line "Shipping powders back and forth, Singing black goes south and white comes north" refers to gunpowder and drugs, often the agents of powerlust and greed that fuel warfare.
Which makes the rest of the verse more powerful "And the whole world full of petty wars, Singing I got mine and you got yours"
another great video to help Keep Great Music Alive, and to be a brother to all. Thank you Jamal .... I think there's a seat that's reserved for you in heaven.
Jamal .... I've been listening to the Grateful Dead for 55 years, and first saw them play live in 1970. It's wonderful that you appreciate their music, and the whole scene, and it's really fun and even heart warming to revisit that whole trip with you with your commentary in your videos, and see your discovery of all this.
So, I'll join all those who have suggestions for you. I figured you are a man who appreciates blues and R&B, and the original front man for the Grateful Dead, the one and only Pigpen, was deep into Blues. His father was an R&B disk jockey in the bay area and Pig (Ron McKernan) grew up listening to the great R&B guys like Lightening Hopkins, Bobby Blue Bland, Otis Redding, James Brown, and so many others. Pig died young, only 27, and although the Grateful Dead never gave up their Blues roots, they lost something when they lost Pigpen.
So here are 3 great tunes that Pigpen did with the Grateful Dead.
On the Workingmans Dead album, please check out the song 'Easy Wind'. Pigpen growls his way through the song, and the playing behind him is perfectly tasteful and a little scary.
The Dead also covered the song "Hard To Handle' by the late, great Otis Redding. There are many, many great versions of the Dead playing this. My favorite is from a show on Feb 18,1971. That entire show was recently released as bonus material with the 50th anniversary of the album 'American Beauty', so if you have that anniversary release, you'll find the song on that, and it's freaking fantastic.
Finally, and if you want to understand the older dead heads, the greatest performance of Pigpens life (imo) came on the song 'Turn On Your Love Light' by Bobby Blue Bland, and you definitely want the version on the Live/Dead album. To hear Pigpen going through this rave up is just amazing.
I was lucky enough to see Pigpen with the Dead maybe a dozen times or so before he passed away in 1973. He was a sweet cat who dressed and strutted like a freaking Hells Angel, but everyone who knew him said he was the nicest guy in the band, and I believe that.
Grateful for your Deadhead transformation 🙏🤗
After Throwing Stones (one of my all time favorites) we need Not Fade Away to bring us back.
You’re absolutely right. This song has aged extremely well. The images that are created by these lyrics is as relevant today as ever. Whether it’s nuclear proliferation or pitting one group against another. The future’s here, we are on our own. Counting on politicians to bring us together is futile.
Theres an MTV video for this song too. Later, Bobby in 2015 at FTW shows, changed one of lyrics to, " You can buy...Whole Goddamn Government Today!"
such a great, great song it will never get old for me @ such a great one to dance to.
Whooo...the sound quality. It's just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing and getting it.
This is a powerful message. Thanks for helping us all be good humans Jamal. The Old Yellers appreciate you a lot.
Oh those kids they dance and shake their bones. Look forward to some bone shaking at live shows this summer.
Whether you like the music or not, the message can not be ignored. This song was ahead of it's time and is coming to fruition.
Most memorable Throwing Stones off the top of my head were the day Jerry died-“Papa’s gone, we’re on our own.” And then Dead & Company’s south Florida show after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
This is as powerful as music gets. I don't know anyone who doesn't get chills from this one, no one who was alive anyway for the 60's and Nixon and Viet Nam and lived under constant fear of The Bomb. It's great to see others getting this message.
John Perry Barlow mostly wrote this one but everything was a collaboration.
[JPB was co-founder of EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, which everyone should donate to...the People's guardians of electronic privacy rights.]
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As little kids we all held hands in a circle and did a 600+ year old song+dance written about the Bubonic Plague in Europe.
"Ring around the rosy/Pockets full of posies/Ashes. Ashes, all fall down"
And we'd all fall down holding hands
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I guess you'd get a rosy circle around the bite mark from a flea, then you'd die of "the Black Plague" (heh). In those days they'd put flower seeds in your corpse's pockets. But then they'd burn all the Plague bodies, which was as far as sane sanitation went in those days.
"But his pants are down, his cover's blown!"
Predicted Clinton, evidently.
@@xianshep ya and millions of other rich people in their summer homes.
@@michaelosy462 saying just leave well enough alone.
"A peaceful place or at least it looks from space." Love one another, and "keep great music alive." And, if I may suggest. Jack Straw that cat from Wichita is a pretty good one.
March 15, 1990
They opened the second set with China/Rider, did Terrapin and closed with Wharf Rat/Not Fade Away/Throwing Stones.
Jamel I will see you at the first Dead & Co show in LA that happens, I guarantee you that 💖 I hope soon
Wish you could’ve seen this live- so much fun to dance to
Yeah, the Grateful Dead are many shades of awesome!
Love your reactions ❤ so happy you are on the bus with us
This album was released at the ending of the Cold War. This song had a lot of meaning to those of us who remember growing up thinking the end of world was a real possibility. Some chose to worry and some of us kids decided to dance and shake our bones...
John Perry Barlow wrote this song about a friend/politician in Wyoming that he knew that was all about saving the environment, but, over time, became obsessed with international affairs and started changing for the worse. That politician was Dick Cheney!
🎶 Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free🎶 🌍
🎶 It's dizzying, the possibilities🎶
Thank You Jamel!!! Made my night. Been waiting for this amazing song. Probably their best lyrical song. Another great one is "We can run." Love that you are on the bus with us.✌✌✌✌✌
You are doing everything you can I love listening to the dead with you
"Ashes, ashes, all fall down" is from the nursery rhyme: "Ring-around the rosies/A pocket full of posies/Achoo. achoo/we all fall down." This originated during the time of the bubonic plague in Europe (the 1300s). Its meaning is: Ring around the rosies refer to the red rings that develop around pustules/A pocket full of posies -- flowers were carried because people thought their aroma would ward off the plague/Achoo, achoo -- coughing came as the disease progressed (over time it was translated to "Ashes, ashes")/We all fall down -- we all drop dead.
As someone mentioned below. Nearly all of Bobby's songs' lyrics were written by John Perry Barlow. Weird and Barlow were a song writing team just as Jerry and Robert Hunter were. 😉
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If you haven't, I'd love to see you react to Jerry's last song: So Many Roads from 7/9/1995.
Jerry's last song (vocally) was Black Muddy River, Box Of Rain was the final song every played. So Many Roads was earlier in the second set, but nonetheless just as heartfelt all around.
Jamal you are the best everybody loves you everybody
Best dam band ever!!!!! Nothing compares to the Grateful Dead. They have so much great music it’s ridiculous. Love the channel bro!!
Outstanding song - thank you!
you nailed it, Jamel. mostly everything has been said in the comment section about this song "throwin stones" written by the late John Perry Barlow. he was an incredibly talented writer amongst other things and so was Robert Hunter. I author poems, song lyrics occasionally, and have always looked up to these writers. I wish I could write as good as those two did! As for the song "throwin stones" it got me really into the grateful dead in high school, and I never looked back since then. It is very heavy loaded with politics for a Grateful Dead tune, but I don't think it preaches or takes sides one way or another, but just points out universal realities and truths about observing the nature of the political system, and how corruption of Government and people in power impacts culture and society. hope that makes sense. I find it hard to explain this song, but it's one of my favorites and never gets old or irrelevant. I always learn new insights when I listen to this song. released in the 1980's 'like you said,' "it's as relevant today in 2021 as it was back then." keep up the excellent song reviews Jamel. i think we could now officially call you a deadhead jamel. keep on truckin...
Bobby! And RIP to the late great John Perry Barlow.
Kinda takes me back to the Meadowlands - this time of year in 1983 - when I first heard it; it gave me chills down my spine. If I remember my Dead lore clearly, I think this was a Bobby/John Barlow collaboration.
They played this song for years , every once in a while before they finally put it on Touch of Grey . First time I heard it was at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island , I wanna say 84 maybe 85 . Just blew everybody away . ( That wasn't on tour )
It fits the time we're in now just as muchas it did then . They never got openly political like they did with this time . But geez when they do they do it right .
Picture a bright blue ball , spinning , spinning free . Dizzy with eternity .
Paint it with a skin of sky , brush in some clouds to see . We'll call it home for you and me .
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Is this one of the first Bob tunes that Jamel has done?
Wow this one hit deep, it's been amazing remembering through your reactions what it was like to experience these songs the first time. As always you are a wonderfully astute and insightful listener. You hit precisely on what Bobby is doing wrt letting the music and lyrics take over his body. He's talked about this in recent years, how he gets out of the way for the characters in the songs. I think a lot of folks didn't get that. 🖤
You called it Baby, This One is DEEP!
if the spirits sleeping, then the flesh is ink ... robert hunter is/was/will always be an epic genius .
Robert Hunter is indeed a genius, but the lyrics for Throwing Stones were written by John Perry Barlow
It was written by John Barlow and Bob Weir
Alright brother, I knew it was coming & now it's official. Dead & Co and The Black Crowes(well a few of em) are on tour in Los Angeles this year. I'm so excited for live music & I hope your planning on hitting these shows. Take good care. Hope to see you & the Mrs. @ a show!!
Thank you for this one Jamel it is a gem , remember this song at msg!
i love this channel because after decades of being a DeadHead, it's like revisiting some of these songs with fresh eyes and ears. Rekindles some of that old appreciation.
Thank you Jamel aka Jamal.
12/31/87 is a great show all around. Other great songs from that show: Bird Song, NFA, Push Comes to Shove. But every song in that show is a solid performance.
I have the Greatful Dead DVD of the "Closing of Winterland" which was their "home base" for concerts. The Blues Brothers opened for them. Then there's six or so hours of Greatful Dead performance/music. Wonderful DVD. I would recommend that you purchase it for GREAT PERFORMANCES! Lots of fun! Oh my JESUS, pour forth your DIVINE MERCY upon the soul of Jerry Garcia, forgive him his sins and bring him to everlasting life, amen.
If you haven't gotten to them yet, definite looking forward to New Speedway Boogie, and Doin' That Rag!
Love ya Jamal Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🍄🌍🍄🔥🍄🇺🇲🍄🐟🍄🦎🍄
Mel this is as close as the Dead got to being Rage against the machine with the lyrics. timeless. unfortunately relevant content. LOVE EACH OTHER WE ARE ON OUR OWN
FINALLY!!!! Ive been hounding you for this one for months