I first started properly listening to the dead about 3 years ago but in the last six months I have (mostly) stopped listening to anything but the dead. I feel blessed to have finally realised the true depth of their musical genius, and the brother/sisterhood of my fellow devotees 🙏❤️
I was 13 (maybe 14) when some friends asked me to go to a free concert. It was the Grateful Dead. I'd heard of them but didn't know much about them. The concert made an addict out of me. Over 50 years later l still love them. Saw them many times and so many memories.
saw them in '69 (in Austin TX) after returning from Viet Nam. After so much death and blood got lost in their music, LSD, and the terrible memories that still hover just above the little steel roof here in rural Maine. Music has the power to heal. Jerry lives in our hearts and minds.
@@robertlepper5460 thanks for your reply, believe me not a day goes by that I don't recall the bullshit that rained down on the innocent silent people of Viet Nam. In the words given to the actor in Coppolas magnum opus "the bullshit in Viet Nam piled up so high and deep you needed wings to stay above it". For myself. I was young (21) had never been away from home. We were caught up in a situation beyond our understanding or, well nothing I can say here will change anything, I was "called" by my country to go and kill people I'd never met, far to many black men served with me. I do agree however that there is a black wall in DC that lists 56000 plus or minus names who died for NOTHING, nothing was advanced, nothing was.........oh well, nothing is what we all get in the end. Sorry I may have, well you know. Peace, it's all we have left.
Growing up in the '70's I have to admit I was just a mild fan of the Dead as I was in the harder rock and prog bands of that era. But rediscovering their music now that I'm 62 gives me a true sense of solace in these scary, uncertain times. Thanks, Jerry, Pigpen, Phil, Bill, Mickey and Bob.
Same here. Friend gave me my 1st tape in 94. Cow Palace show from 72 or 73. I was hooked. I kick myself that I never got to see them. 50 year old fart here.
If anyone is unaware. You can listen w/out being interrupted by ads(a crime in this case!) by just letting the first ad play, then slide the time indicator to the end until you see the circular "refresh" icon. Hit that & listen to this masterpiece the way it was intended. Of all the jams this is the one nobody should've cut to bits the way they have. I'm sure most know that little trick but hopefully someone will be spared that craziness. ✌🏽✌🏽 Masterpiece!
This is the very first performance of Wharf Rat. This is the show that busted out Wharf, Greatest Story Ever Told, Bertha, Loser and Playing in the Band!! I envy anyone who was there to hear all these soon to be classic Dead songs played live for the very first time. Good 'ol Grateful Dead forever! ✌🇨🇦
As a 14 year old runaway driven there by a friend's sister's boyfriend (who had a ticket) the parking lot was as far as we got but you could often hear the sounds from those "Theaters" the east coast had then.
@@j.pederzane9692That's a bit extreme bud. if anything the Dead were the American Beatles of the stage/road. But studio output/songwriting doesn't even compare a little. What the Beatles achieved in the studio in such a short time is unparalleled...certainly by the dead. However what the dead achieved on the road the Beatles couldn't/wouldn't come close to know matter what history might have been. my two cents. hope I'm not being rude. Healthy disagreement if anything
@@josephfinkelstein5979 It's all good. We all know de gustibus non disputandum but it's so much fun to pretend our personal tastes are stone cold truths.
Robert Hunter passed away Monday 9/23/2019 in the night. RIP you amazing wordsmith and cosmic traveler. Sure he got on the bus but he was also smart enough to know where the best bus stop was and when to get off. He was 78 years old and survived by Maureen his long time wife.
Along w/Dylan...Iconic writer/chronicler/Observer of Americana covering the last 100yrs..So many memorable lines..Hunter was good.. I got no dime....but i got some time .. To hear your story...... Oh the humanity..RIP Robt.
The Dead would have never made it without Hunter. A genuine genius in my mind and with Jerry Garcia the best composers of popular music in the last half of the 20th century.
The often invisible but clearly not silent member of the band. RIP Robert Hunter. Your words and their imagery have brought untold richness to uncountable ears and minds, changing many, many lives for the better. I hope you're in a special place for those gifts you provided to all.
It's my birthday in a couple days. I am 28 years young. And, I've got all my teeth, family by my side, a lovely caring independent women to call my own . . . it's my life :) Maybe if people stopped comparing themselves to one another, that would be enough for all of us to be who we are . . . I really just want to be happy and that's about it. I'm glad you're here to read this, that means we're both aLLive -- Nick
What's beautiful to me about this is how so many people can find relations to their personal lives in the lyrics and sounds, and come together to love one another purely through the grateful dead. That is beautiful. If we had more of this in the world maybe it would clean up a bit
Agree Bobby Z wake up to the boys every morning, took years to figure that on out on the old alarm clock. There is still something about Jerry's guitar filling a whole valley with pure magic. Haven't found that wake up clock yet.
A masterpiece. It almost hurts to listen because of how deep the memories of my youth go. I loved a girl named Sandy who will always be my link to those days.
Been stuck on Morning Dew for my latest Dead obsession, playing and watching all the versions I can find, no new music can make me feel emotions like this, true beauty
@@lloydclaussen9132 exactly,,For about 4 years straight now I have listened to the dead everyday ...Got into collecting vinyl and I have 28 pieces of dead vinyl now....The music never stops here..
Listened to this for the first time after hours at a radio station with my one of my good friends. Undoubtedly one of the most moving experiences of my life so far. We were swearing, yelling, lying on the floor, dancing, and by the end we were silent. According to my friend, Phil Lesh had no memory of this performance, but cried upon listening back to it, and I can see why. So grateful to have this band in my life!
This is the song that plays eternally in the universe, and every time we hear it is just the moment when we happen to be tuning in to the song that never ends.
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, Jane, I've been a pastor of Lutheran congregations in Montana and Alaska for the last 25 years. I know it freaks some people out a little when a pastor loves the Grateful Dead, but both are a part of who I truly am.
Interesting thought. Reminds me of a 'vision' I had one afternoon I've not told many people while listening to plenty of Dead as I was generally inclined to do on such occasions. It's theme was 'how stars are made'. It was the end of earth history (however far into the future it took to get there wasn't clear) and everyone was of one heart/mind and 'ready'. The bands all over the world took the stage and began to play .. each taking breaks as necessary but 'the music never stopped' right? At one point I was able to fly across from one scene to the next and all the bands were actually playing the same song but I'd catch them at different points of the various improvisations of the theme. And finally .. it could have been days ... they/we all reached that moment when it all just came together .. and then like a massive bolt of lightening coming out from within .. we, and the earth, gently burst into a star!
Listening to this on the day of Mr Robert Hunter's passing. Two songs with absolutely timeless lyrics that feel as though they're from another era, and yet still contemporary as hell. Dark Star, of course, was the first song he wrote for the band. "Shall we go, while we can, through the transitive nighfall of diamonds?" And indeed go they did. Bless the Dead!
Easily my favourite Darkstar. The transition after Wharf Rat is the most phenomenally beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard. The Mikaela Davis version is absolutely on par with it though. This music is magical in every way🌼🌺🌻🌸🙏☮️❤️🍄🌈
@@lizlalove6171 Yes. I come to this every time I walk. The transition at exactly when you mention literally makes tears come to my eyes every time. It is so profoundly emotionally intense it is unreal.
Mr. Garcia was that crazy cool guy that took tickets on the roller coaster and let you ride again & again for free... How I loved that guy! We miss you so much dude! Always a hoot captain!
Not really even a song. More like an experiment. Auditory alchemy. Ritualistic magic with a 5-8 person covenant including also audiences of millions eventually. Mass hypnosis, hysteria, and massively heavy.
Jerry sounds high af starting the lyrics to DS... Then, he gets focused. The whole thing is just amazing as hell. All cylinders firing -an early taste of my favorite span of years for this band: '69-'78. The excesses began catching up with them. Rough patches, then the mid-late 80s were solid but never as good as the early stuff. When the Dead is mentioned, a lot of people think of the crummy stuff and never bother to look a little deeper. Such quality music, being composed as a group with the audience's energy creating it as well in a weird symbiosis of sharing an experience. It's where music becomes vessel for everyone's moment; potentiating the whole thing to unbelievable spaces. I remember when I got this recording on a Maxell XL290. Wore it out. This much emotion and power just by improvising with a little structure to leap from and hop back to.
I think this is really their best. 71 was when they were really at the peak of their creativity and I never get tired of listening to the way Garcia would just soar and play with so much emotion. I feel really sad that he lost this in later years but I think thats what heroin does to people. I think he knew it too and was embarrassed by all the adulation that came later. He didn't want to rest on his laurels.
I am blessed to enjoy this fantastic band with their unique sound. I am gratefully alive with their music. It is in fact a beautiful star in my life. Old Hippy from Cape Town.
@@NowhereMan7 Uh, yeah...about that. They said the same thing about the Buddha, Nikola Tesla, Jesus, Einstien and Jonas Salk, Marconi, and Beethoven, Da Vinci, Socrates. And Stephen Hawking. Too mention only a few individuals who have changed the course of history. Some in their selected field. And others whose influence is felt every single day by the same 7 or 8 billion hunans that you mentioned. All of us roaming our small blue-green oasis in this vast mysterious universe. Like the others mentioned Jerry Garcia brought not only the gift of his virtuosity playing the guitar. But he brought out of us our own humanity. Which many of us would have never experienced without him. You may not see the light. But we do. Peace.
@@NowhereMan7 Yeah, that's an oddly negative thing to say about a comment that was full of warm sentiment and sadness. Just for a second, imagine if someone said something like that to you after your mother died or something. "Dude, there's plenty of old ladies around. What's the big deal?" Lol. And the comment wasn't about his personal loneliness. It was about what Jerry brought to the world. When Jerry died, a part of all of his fans died too. Some of us spent years following him around from city to city living on Ramen noodles and grilled cheeses. Jerry was literally a HUGE part of some people's life. And it was all cut short so abruptly. He was only 53 years old. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were just having a bad day or something when you wrote that. I'm sure we've all made similar mistakes. I know I have. So, peace to you and yours.
This concert was one week before I was born! Happy to live at a time when we can have such unrestricted access to this inventive, freeing, beautiful music. Thanks for posting, @mrmusicneverstopped
I'm so glad I am lucky to have been old enough in 1971 to have seen The Grateful Dead along with so many other amazing bands then. I feel sorry for anyone who never saw the real Grateful Dead around this time; luckily, there are many recordings for them to listen to and a few films from that amazing era as well. The audiences were much different then, too. Thanks for posting this.
After spending some wonderfully enjoyable time with Ken Burns's Country Music over the past two weeks, I come back to this chestnut and now see parallels to country music I hadn't seen before. 400 years from now they'll be playing this sequence and the world, whatever it is at that point, will stand in awe and connect back to Mother Maybelle, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart and more. Of course, Ives will appear. 'Trane and Miles. Wolfie. It's all here. IT'S ALL HERE! Sorry, crystal ear vision stream appeared.....Whew....
What a fabulous pair drawn out and jamming all over the board. Thanks whoever recorded and posted this stuff, can't thank you enough for the incredible improv. RIP Jerry, Keith, Ron, Brent, thanks for making and leaving us these gems. Peace, goodwill, and great listening right back atcha. Underrated band, continually blowing me away with each new rendition I find. Thanks thanks thanks. God bless 'em.
The Beautiful jam as its called coming out of WR and going backinto DS is one the most amazing jerry solos u will ever know.i keep listening to it over and over. It truly is beautiful
doesnt matter what its called. It is from Energy and perhaps God. I dunno , brother. But I am alive and breathing. and hoping for you. And everybody else. My gawd I am.
The Capital in Port Chester. Yeah man! I was there. 17 years old and in a groove that only The Dead could provide. The music, The people, The venue, The times. Always brings a smile and happy feeling. Believe it if you need it. If you don’t just pass it on.
I was SO sure Jer was going to lift me right off my feet at StLouisFox during an early '70s DarkStar I began picturing the mildly surprised faces of those around me. Truly sublime ...phew
Rumor has it that he levitated during all dark stars, but maybe it was just me to the time he was twisting all of our minds into one whirled peas in unison
First saw the Dead in 1985. My life was never the same since that day. The world would be a much better place if Jerry was still alive, certainly more bearable.
And when, in the bye and bye, time begins and ends, and the squirrels scurry up an oak tree, and the rabbits glance here and there, and the soft breezes blow and smiles summon all that is s good and pure, there you will be and they will be, too!
There has never been a band able to put an LSD PERMAGRIN on my face and reduce me me to tears in a few short minutes.They say music evokes emotion well Jerry and the boys were absolute masters of this ..China cat Rider from Alpine always makes me smile Happy Jerry does it every time
. I was 18 and my 2nd show. Exactly 5 months after my 1st show. This certainly cemented my relationship with the band. Forever and always. RIP John Perry Barlow, who I passed outside the Cap that night.
Thank you for posting this show. I am not sure if I was at this particular show but I may have been. I went to all the Port Chester runs and would go to one show every time they played there. Always a guessing game which would be the best show to get tickets for. It is so great for me to be able to hear recordings of the Dead made when I was still a teenager living in NY and then recordings of the shows from Winterland after moving to SF
For adventurous fans of the Beautiful Jam in this sequence, check out Keith Jarrett's Koln concert recording from 1975. The chords and the vibe will make you smile.
I was just listening to Dead & Company and thinking how good they were. I got to admit I passed over the John Mayer trio. but then this Dark Star, Warfrat, at Dark Star comes on, and I can't stop the tears from pouring down my face! God I miss you Jerry! I never did listen to one of these RUclips mixes before, they're not so bad!!! (~);}♥️💀🐊⚡🐢🌹🎶✌️
The beat goes on and on.... there are lots of awesome bands still touring that have spun off the Dead and who have collaborated with various members and many who’ve been heavily influenced by them. Don’t worry it ain’t going away. Keep on truckin’
Wonderful from back in the day when the Grateful Dead were inventing, creating with the audience, something new and very free we could join in ecstatic joy...
thx for the upload! caught a number of shows , late 70's to late 80's. always a(positive) mind expanding experience ! RIP jerry, ron, keith, et al ! SP BK NYC
LSD TEARS...BUT GRATEFUL DEAD BROTHERS ARE CALLED "BROTHERS"....."BROTHA"......IS a rap/hip hop form of 'brother".....which is yo yo what's up brotha....lol
You know, given the fact that the Dead play songs in a way that they're more or less never the same twice and the fact that they allow tapers, that must mean that The Grateful Dead has produced more original music than anyone else. Is that right? I know there are jazz bands that play music like that but they don't record every show for years. And even if they did, who tours as much as the Dead? The other thing I wanted to say is that Warf Rat has some amazing lyrics.
not sure, but i know that jerry is one of the most prolifically recorded musicians of all time. few have had more performances documented save some rnb and reggae drummers
@@austinharvey9116 Right. And I think what I was trying to get at in that comment, when you improvise, you're composing music. You're literally composing original music.
@@joshkarosis132 so true. once you've seen behind the veil so many times, the thing you were searching for and lost the answer for becomes clear again.
Read that Phil Lesh,when played this set years later was reduced to tears by it.. i know why, the post Wharfrat jam is aptly named.. Beautiful improv. guys.
I just assented to another Level. Mind you, I've been listening to this version for about 2 years. And try and play through it regularly. Jerry does a fine Keith Jarrett and Phil weeps. Yup, a keeper..
15:27 BEAUTIFUL JAM! So this is the mother recording from which it came. This particular vignette of music is hallowed ground in the pantheon of jam music. For years, I have counted this among the very best moments of the Grateful Dead. What a joy to unexpectedly find this here. You hear something like this and you just feel astounded that you got to be part of this world
This is gigantic music. Hearing Dark Star from Live Dead for the first time back in 1969 was a landmark experience in my life. I got to see them live just once.....at the Lyceum London in 1972. And that gig went down in history as one of their all time best. The Trucking...Jam...Morning Dew from that night ended up on the Europe 72 album. I was blessed.
Earliest music i remember is the dead. My dad used to play them all the time. For many years as a kid the running soundtrack in my head was usually shakedown street and casey jones. Those were my 2 fav dead songs when i was little
If you meet a potential lover, better see if they like this. Could mean it's a one-time thing as opposed to a lifetime. This is experience talking. Get high and listen to Tom Jones?!? Buhbye.
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Cheers to all the Deadheads who found, and are listening to this song right now!
Cheers and a hardy Woohoo! unto you as well my friend 🐔🎶🎵🎶😎
Cheers! Never had such a good time!
Rit on back at tha 🙏
@Karma Mechanic nah weir every where. They're still playing in stadiums. Nfa fam!
Yup
Started age 11, just passed 50 and still here. Music will never stop being music, to me.
Started at 14, still obsessed at 61. Still finding surprises.
I first started properly listening to the dead about 3 years ago but in the last six months I have (mostly) stopped listening to anything but the dead. I feel blessed to have finally realised the true depth of their musical genius, and the brother/sisterhood of my fellow devotees 🙏❤️
Welcome to it, amigo. My first show was 35 years ago...today.
And I've listened to them pretty much every day since~
No violence no exploitation no Bullshit
Just Jam that is the Dead
Careful... Next they'll start callin' you a Deadhead, which you had become.
I was 13 (maybe 14) when some friends asked me to go to a free concert. It was the Grateful Dead. I'd heard of them but didn't know much about them. The concert made an addict out of me. Over 50 years later l still love them. Saw them many times and so many memories.
face stole
saw them in '69 (in Austin TX) after returning from Viet Nam. After so much death and blood got lost in their music, LSD, and the terrible memories that still hover just above the little steel roof here in rural Maine. Music has the power to heal. Jerry lives in our hearts and minds.
peace Brother
I hope you spare a thought for those you killed in the name of American imperialism
@@robertlepper5460 oh stop that. It's not like many of them had a choice to go to war. We don't need your hate here.
@@robertlepper5460 thanks for your reply, believe me not a day goes by that I don't recall the bullshit that rained down on the innocent silent people of Viet Nam. In the words given to the actor in Coppolas magnum opus "the bullshit in Viet Nam piled up so high and deep you needed wings to stay above it". For myself. I was young (21) had never been away from home. We were caught up in a situation beyond our understanding or, well nothing I can say here will change anything, I was "called" by my country to go and kill people I'd never met, far to many black men served with me. I do agree however that there is a black wall in DC that lists 56000 plus or minus names who died for NOTHING, nothing was advanced, nothing was.........oh well, nothing is what we all get in the end. Sorry I may have, well you know. Peace, it's all we have left.
@@michaelmorrison8261 never forgotten. Glad you made it home...it gets me when I read comments as if you started the war...peace brother
Growing up in the '70's I have to admit I was just a mild fan of the Dead as I was in the harder rock and prog bands of that era. But rediscovering their music now that I'm 62 gives me a true sense of solace in these scary, uncertain times. Thanks, Jerry, Pigpen, Phil, Bill, Mickey and Bob.
Same here, although I did attend a couple of Dead shows while in college. Enjoying it now in my "old age" more than ever.
Robert Hunter. ✌️
Same here. Friend gave me my 1st tape in 94. Cow Palace show from 72 or 73. I was hooked. I kick myself that I never got to see them. 50 year old fart here.
Welcome home brother. Be well and stay safe.
Hey, nothing wrong with KC.
If anyone is unaware. You can listen w/out being interrupted by ads(a crime in this case!) by just letting the first ad play, then slide the time indicator to the end until you see the circular "refresh" icon. Hit that & listen to this masterpiece the way it was intended. Of all the jams this is the one nobody should've cut to bits the way they have. I'm sure most know that little trick but hopefully someone will be spared that craziness. ✌🏽✌🏽 Masterpiece!
Adblock plus too! for computer users
@@Magumba_State there are plenty of ways to listen without ads if you have an Android phone
It's a travesty. Thanks.
Depends on how much RUclips u do. Personally it's worth the $11 per month as I listen to at least 2 h per day of music
Brave browser app. Thank me later.
This is the very first performance of Wharf Rat. This is the show that busted out Wharf, Greatest Story Ever Told, Bertha, Loser and Playing in the Band!! I envy anyone who was there to hear all these soon to be classic Dead songs played live for the very first time. Good 'ol Grateful Dead forever! ✌🇨🇦
As a 14 year old runaway driven there by a friend's sister's boyfriend (who had a ticket) the parking lot was as far as we got but you could often hear the sounds from those "Theaters" the east coast had then.
Ridiculous. Their run of songs 69-74, geez Marie. The Beatles, with depth.
They were probably "I wish they would stop playing all this new shit and get to 'St. Stephen'!"
@@j.pederzane9692That's a bit extreme bud. if anything the Dead were the American Beatles of the stage/road. But studio output/songwriting doesn't even compare a little. What the Beatles achieved in the studio in such a short time is unparalleled...certainly by the dead. However what the dead achieved on the road the Beatles couldn't/wouldn't come close to know matter what history might have been. my two cents. hope I'm not being rude. Healthy disagreement if anything
@@josephfinkelstein5979 It's all good. We all know de gustibus non disputandum but it's so much fun to pretend our personal tastes are stone cold truths.
Grateful not to be Dead, so I can listen to this. Proud to be a member of a species that can get this cosmic.
Michael Trigoboff Very well said.
Primal Headin' For Cosmic!
One more day I find myself alive!
You can listen to this on the other side. I will be jammi9ng with Jerry in a few years!!! Praise JESUS!!
No diggity no doubt
Robert Hunter passed away Monday 9/23/2019 in the night. RIP you amazing wordsmith and cosmic traveler. Sure he got on the bus but he was also smart enough to know where the best bus stop was and when to get off. He was 78 years old and survived by Maureen his long time wife.
shit i didnt know. bloody hell. no mercy.
Aw, man! He was amazing. Thank you for posting!!
Along w/Dylan...Iconic writer/chronicler/Observer of Americana covering the last 100yrs..So many memorable lines..Hunter was good..
I got no dime....but i got some time ..
To hear your story......
Oh the humanity..RIP Robt.
The Dead would have never made it without Hunter. A genuine genius in my mind and with Jerry Garcia the best composers of popular music in the last half of the 20th century.
The often invisible but clearly not silent member of the band.
RIP Robert Hunter. Your words and their imagery have brought untold richness to uncountable ears and minds, changing many, many lives for the better. I hope you're in a special place for those gifts you provided to all.
It's my birthday in a couple days. I am 28 years young. And, I've got all my teeth, family by my side, a lovely caring independent women to call my own . . . it's my life :) Maybe if people stopped comparing themselves to one another, that would be enough for all of us to be who we are . . . I really just want to be happy and that's about it. I'm glad you're here to read this, that means we're both aLLive -- Nick
What's beautiful to me about this is how so many people can find relations to their personal lives in the lyrics and sounds, and come together to love one another purely through the grateful dead. That is beautiful. If we had more of this in the world maybe it would clean up a bit
Bobby Zimmerman zimmy!
Agree Bobby Z wake up to the boys every morning, took years to figure that on out on the old alarm clock. There is still something about Jerry's guitar filling a whole valley with pure magic. Haven't found that wake up clock yet.
Bring me back
Wonderfully put Bobby.
A simply yet wonderful sense of community
A masterpiece. It almost hurts to listen because of how deep the memories of my youth go. I loved a girl named Sandy who will always be my link to those days.
WOW! I have listened to many a dark star in my life.....but this one is really special.
Most Cosmic Darkstar\Wharf Rat I have ever heard..This is a "must listen " at least once a week...love it!
every time I listen to the Dead, it does something to my soul that I have no words for...So love it!
Been stuck on Morning Dew for my latest Dead obsession, playing and watching all the versions I can find, no new music can make me feel emotions like this, true beauty
@@lloydclaussen9132 exactly,,For about 4 years straight now I have listened to the dead everyday ...Got into collecting vinyl and I have 28 pieces of dead vinyl now....The music never stops here..
that's why they're A Band beyond description ⚡💀⚡🎸🎶🎼🎶🎹🎵😊😊😊😊
It awakens your soul.
I hear ya' (~);}
This is my favorite era of the Dead. I love these early 70's Dark Stars.
Beautiful... This was the year I was born and still listening after 31 shows..
17 years old and no clue what was ahead. This music was my comfort zone in a turbulent time.
Listened to this for the first time after hours at a radio station with my one of my good friends. Undoubtedly one of the most moving experiences of my life so far. We were swearing, yelling, lying on the floor, dancing, and by the end we were silent. According to my friend, Phil Lesh had no memory of this performance, but cried upon listening back to it, and I can see why. So grateful to have this band in my life!
Cried??? Probably all the cocaine clogging his sinuses
This is the song that plays eternally in the universe, and every time we hear it is just the moment when we happen to be tuning in to the song that never ends.
That is an amazing comment. Forgive me
For asking but the internet you know- are you really a priest, Father?
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, Jane, I've been a pastor of Lutheran congregations in Montana and Alaska for the last 25 years. I know it freaks some people out a little when a pastor loves the Grateful Dead, but both are a part of who I truly am.
Very astute comment. I often think "it" is always there. Takes the right group of people to merge into it and open it up for us all. Always there.
Interesting thought. Reminds me of a 'vision' I had one afternoon I've not told many people while listening to plenty of Dead as I was generally inclined to do on such occasions. It's theme was 'how stars are made'. It was the end of earth history (however far into the future it took to get there wasn't clear) and everyone was of one heart/mind and 'ready'. The bands all over the world took the stage and began to play .. each taking breaks as necessary but 'the music never stopped' right? At one point I was able to fly across from one scene to the next and all the bands were actually playing the same song but I'd catch them at different points of the various improvisations of the theme. And finally .. it could have been days ... they/we all reached that moment when it all just came together .. and then like a massive bolt of lightening coming out from within .. we, and the earth, gently burst into a star!
Listening to this on the day of Mr Robert Hunter's passing. Two songs with absolutely timeless lyrics that feel as though they're from another era, and yet still contemporary as hell. Dark Star, of course, was the first song he wrote for the band. "Shall we go, while we can, through the transitive nighfall of diamonds?" And indeed go they did. Bless the Dead!
I was there. My second Dead show. Words can't say.
Easily my favourite Darkstar. The transition after Wharf Rat is the most phenomenally beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard. The Mikaela Davis version is absolutely on par with it though. This music is magical in every way🌼🌺🌻🌸🙏☮️❤️🍄🌈
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musical transition is what the Grateful Dead do better than anyone
@river-jordan612 , at 15:33, this is one of the most devastatingly beautiful things I've ever heard. I actually cried. 100% right
@@lizlalove6171 Yes. I come to this every time I walk. The transition at exactly when you mention literally makes tears come to my eyes every time. It is so profoundly emotionally intense it is unreal.
That may be why it's called "Beautiful Jam"!
Glad you enjoyed the music, we enjoyed being able to record this and all the other gems we can now listen to over and over and on and on.
Ken Lee ...who’s we?
Thanks for your work brother
This is an amazing recording. I am truly... Grateful
Thanks for all the recordings..
Kevin Barry... Ken and Judy
in the top three best renditions of Dark Star without a shadow of doubt
This is one of the most beautiful versions of these songs I've ever heard. Brings peace and tranquility to me every time I listen to it.
Mr. Garcia was that crazy cool guy that took tickets on the roller coaster
and let you ride again & again for free...
How I loved that guy! We miss you so much dude!
Always a hoot captain!
"Always a hoot" Much love
All Aboard !! ❤ 🐈 💀
Strangest captain I could find
Mr. Garcia was the guy who took ufw's ticket and then stared him in the eye and said no ticket, no ride
Dark Star was always a living song, never the same twice
same as shakedown, same as help>slip>frank, same as scarlet>fire. never the same. that's why we love these fuckers.
Interesting Thank you
@@charlie.something Charlie something... something foggy
You might say the same of any Dead song.
Not really even a song. More like an experiment. Auditory alchemy. Ritualistic magic with a 5-8 person covenant including also audiences of millions eventually. Mass hypnosis, hysteria, and massively heavy.
I've got goosebumps man, they are just playing so together, complementing each other perfectly and meeting at the same points. Absolutely on fire.
I love the transition into wharf rat so much, and the audience response gives me chills. just floating along together.
The Dead werent just a band: They were an entire GENRE...
Psychedelic Americana.
Ya sure got that right !
They are Eternal. ॐ
No a Gift !!!
They're not just a band. They're an environment. Bill Graham
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
The music never will stop. A monstrous Dead Playlist plays through my head daily. Such a soothing groove for the daily life.
I love many if not all genres of music, but this piece blows me away in it's beauty. And to think it happened spontaneously takes it beyond ..
jerrys playing is so beautiful
Jerry sounds high af starting the lyrics to DS... Then, he gets focused.
The whole thing is just amazing as hell. All cylinders firing -an early taste of my favorite span of years for this band: '69-'78. The excesses began catching up with them. Rough patches, then the mid-late 80s were solid but never as good as the early stuff.
When the Dead is mentioned, a lot of people think of the crummy stuff and never bother to look a little deeper. Such quality music, being composed as a group with the audience's energy creating it as well in a weird symbiosis of sharing an experience.
It's where music becomes vessel for everyone's moment; potentiating the whole thing to unbelievable spaces.
I remember when I got this recording on a Maxell XL290. Wore it out.
This much emotion and power just by improvising with a little structure to leap from and hop back to.
Scott Roy 👍 know how you feel here.✌️
I think this is really their best. 71 was when they were really at the peak of their creativity and I never get tired of listening to the way Garcia would just soar and play with so much emotion. I feel really sad that he lost this in later years but I think thats what heroin does to people. I think he knew it too and was embarrassed by all the adulation that came later. He didn't want to rest on his laurels.
This has to be a soundboard. Sounds crystal clear.
I am blessed to enjoy this fantastic band with their unique sound. I am gratefully alive with their music. It is in fact a beautiful star in my life. Old Hippy from Cape Town.
The best rat sandwich I ever ate! R.I.P. Jerry! Its such a cold, dead and lonely world without you!
Jason R His music lives on, and we'll keep it alive
There are 7 billion people on earth - If you really feel lonely, I dont think one more guy existing would tip the balance
@@NowhereMan7 Uh, yeah...about that. They said the same thing about the Buddha, Nikola Tesla, Jesus, Einstien and Jonas Salk, Marconi, and Beethoven, Da Vinci, Socrates. And Stephen Hawking. Too mention only a few individuals who have changed the course of history. Some in their selected field. And others whose influence is felt every single day by the same 7 or 8 billion hunans that you mentioned. All of us roaming our small blue-green oasis in this vast mysterious universe. Like the others mentioned Jerry Garcia brought not only the gift of his virtuosity playing the guitar. But he brought out of us our own humanity. Which many of us would have never experienced without him. You may not see the light. But we do.
Peace.
@@NowhereMan7 Yeah, that's an oddly negative thing to say about a comment that was full of warm sentiment and sadness. Just for a second, imagine if someone said something like that to you after your mother died or something. "Dude, there's plenty of old ladies around. What's the big deal?" Lol.
And the comment wasn't about his personal loneliness. It was about what Jerry brought to the world. When Jerry died, a part of all of his fans died too. Some of us spent years following him around from city to city living on Ramen noodles and grilled cheeses. Jerry was literally a HUGE part of some people's life. And it was all cut short so abruptly. He was only 53 years old.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were just having a bad day or something when you wrote that. I'm sure we've all made similar mistakes. I know I have. So, peace to you and yours.
@@NowhereMan7 He was number 1!!! Spongebob reference in a Dead chain, love it!!!!
This concert was one week before I was born! Happy to live at a time when we can have such unrestricted access to this inventive, freeing, beautiful music. Thanks for posting, @mrmusicneverstopped
Happy belated birthday.
I listen to the jam over and over.... ahhhhhh.. thanks for sharing!!!
Just got done at Jerrys 75th birthday party!! Happy Birthday Jerry!! What a gift you have left upon the world!! THANK YOU !!! Red rocks 2017
This might be my all time favorite Wharf Rat. Totally righteous post. Thanks Mr. MNS.
Definitely mine also, just the whole package here man!
Dennis Campbell yes, sharing this with a friend for whp
I was gonna comment the same. Wow, first time I hear it.
Agree
I believe this is the very first Warf Rat
So worth it to get the headphones out for this excellent recording and beautiful selection.
I'm so glad I am lucky to have been old enough in 1971 to have seen The Grateful Dead along with so many other amazing bands then. I feel sorry for anyone who never saw the real Grateful Dead around this time; luckily, there are many recordings for them to listen to and a few films from that amazing era as well. The audiences were much different then, too. Thanks for posting this.
After spending some wonderfully enjoyable time with Ken Burns's Country Music over the past two weeks, I come back to this chestnut and now see parallels to country music I hadn't seen before. 400 years from now they'll be playing this sequence and the world, whatever it is at that point, will stand in awe and connect back to Mother Maybelle, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart and more. Of course, Ives will appear. 'Trane and Miles. Wolfie. It's all here. IT'S ALL HERE! Sorry, crystal ear vision stream appeared.....Whew....
What a fabulous pair drawn out and jamming all over the board. Thanks whoever recorded and posted this stuff, can't thank you enough for the incredible improv. RIP Jerry, Keith, Ron, Brent, thanks for making and leaving us these gems. Peace, goodwill, and great listening right back atcha. Underrated band, continually blowing me away with each new rendition I find. Thanks thanks thanks. God bless 'em.
The Beautiful jam as its called coming out of WR and going backinto DS is one the most amazing jerry solos u will ever know.i keep listening to it over and over. It truly is beautiful
Absolutely my friend!
Truer words and all that
who said, "I never met a Dark Star that I didn't like..." (?) David Gans? I think..me too
doesnt matter what its called. It is from Energy and perhaps God.
I dunno , brother.
But I am alive and breathing. and hoping for you. And everybody else.
My gawd I am.
It really is brother man, I don't understand how people can't tune into this beauty
The Capital in Port Chester. Yeah man! I was there. 17 years old and in a groove that only The Dead could provide. The music, The people, The venue, The times. Always brings a smile and happy feeling.
Believe it if you need it. If you don’t just pass it on.
Legend has it Jerry levitated slightly during this Dark Star.
I dig
I was SO sure Jer was going to lift me right off my feet at StLouisFox during an early '70s DarkStar I began picturing the mildly surprised faces of those around me. Truly sublime ...phew
Lmao, fuckin hippies xD
Not sure if Jer was levitating or he was on the ground making everyone else levitate. But yes Sir, in 2020 still going strong.. :-)
Rumor has it that he levitated during all dark stars, but maybe it was just me to the time he was twisting all of our minds into one whirled peas in unison
First saw the Dead in 1985. My life was never the same since that day. The world would be a much better place if Jerry was still alive, certainly more bearable.
It's 2022 and this is as good as the moment the strings were played.
Beautiful Jam is magical. The Star is interstellar. Rat is moving. Words are inadequate.
And when, in the bye and bye, time begins and ends, and the squirrels scurry up an oak tree, and the rabbits glance here and there, and the soft breezes blow and smiles summon all that is s good and pure, there you will be and they will be, too!
Totally precious and kind. Thank you for posting.
They're truly in a class all their own...beautiful.
First ever wharf rat, they also did a few other first time played. Beautiful jam is also in this medley. One of my favorite shows.
There has never been a band able to put an LSD PERMAGRIN on my face and reduce me me to tears in a few short minutes.They say music evokes emotion well Jerry and the boys were absolute masters of this ..China cat Rider from Alpine always makes me smile Happy Jerry does it every time
This was one of Ned Lagin's first times sitting in with the band. That's him playing the clavichord (the harpsichord-sounding keyboard instrument).
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I was 18 and my 2nd show. Exactly 5 months after my 1st show. This certainly cemented my relationship with the band. Forever and always. RIP John Perry Barlow, who I passed outside the Cap that night.
bob vienckowski what sate is this from?
Thank you for posting this show. I am not sure if I was at this particular show but I may have been. I went to all the Port Chester runs and would go to one show every time they played there. Always a guessing game which would be the best show to get tickets for. It is so great for me to be able to hear recordings of the Dead made when I was still a teenager living in NY and then recordings of the shows from Winterland after moving to SF
I was so fortunate to have been at this concert I remember wondering at the time about the combination of Dark Star & Wharf Rat
For adventurous fans of the Beautiful Jam in this sequence, check out Keith Jarrett's Koln concert recording from 1975. The chords and the vibe will make you smile.
I got no dime but i got some time to hear your story...
I was just listening to Dead & Company and thinking how good they were. I got to admit I passed over the John Mayer trio. but then this Dark Star, Warfrat, at Dark Star comes on, and I can't stop the tears from pouring down my face! God I miss you Jerry! I never did listen to one of these RUclips mixes before, they're not so bad!!! (~);}♥️💀🐊⚡🐢🌹🎶✌️
damn this is where all the last hippies are! hello dead heads
Grayson Gabriel Indeed. Hello right back at ya ⚡️💀🌹
Hey, man! Yes we are...I learned everything I know from the Grateful Deas!
yee haw!
@Tuomas Vohlonen you ever try the grateful dead's coffee though? Lol
The beat goes on and on.... there are lots of awesome bands still touring that have spun off the Dead and who have collaborated with various members and many who’ve been heavily influenced by them. Don’t worry it ain’t going away. Keep on truckin’
Wonderful from back in the day when the Grateful Dead were inventing, creating with the audience, something new and very free we could join in ecstatic joy...
listened to a lot of wharf rat, this specific transition had me in a magical daze, my goodness.
thx for the upload! caught a number of shows , late 70's to late 80's. always a(positive) mind expanding experience ! RIP jerry, ron, keith, et al ! SP BK NYC
I know I've listened to this at least a few hundred times. And I swear it gets better Everytime I hear it!!
Hey Now, It doesn't get better then this...Music to set your soul on fire.....
That's how I feel right right now, high as fuck!
fire!!
I broke down crying during this one in such a good way, beautiful Grateful Dead that is all...
+Zen Grohman WOW FAR OUT MAN...LSD
+MERRYJERRYL Furthur out every time I listen, cried like a baby. A BIG TRIPPING BABYYY!!
_Grateful_Zen_ surely something to cry about in a joyful blissful cosmic psychedelic hallucinogenic way!.,,
LSD TEARS...BUT GRATEFUL DEAD BROTHERS ARE CALLED "BROTHERS"....."BROTHA"......IS a rap/hip hop form of 'brother".....which is yo yo what's up brotha....lol
+MERRYJERRYL Brother man, brother.
'71, my first year on the bus. I missed my stop and never got off. Grate Days indeed.
You know, given the fact that the Dead play songs in a way that they're more or less never the same twice and the fact that they allow tapers, that must mean that The Grateful Dead has produced more original music than anyone else. Is that right? I know there are jazz bands that play music like that but they don't record every show for years. And even if they did, who tours as much as the Dead?
The other thing I wanted to say is that Warf Rat has some amazing lyrics.
not sure, but i know that jerry is one of the most prolifically recorded musicians of all time. few have had more performances documented save some rnb and reggae drummers
@@austinharvey9116 Right. And I think what I was trying to get at in that comment, when you improvise, you're composing music. You're literally composing original music.
Awesome! Thanks Jerry, Phil and everyone else.
I think when you've done so much lsd back in the day ya just don't need it anymore..
Just a clear night plenty of stars an some grateful dead ..
You said it brother
Yea I'll never stop trippin.but I do still see trails from the 80s-90s...lol...
You can only gain so much from lsd. Once you've got it, you don't need L anymore to own the mental benefits
The long strange trip never ends
@@joshkarosis132 so true. once you've seen behind the veil so many times, the thing you were searching for and lost the answer for becomes clear again.
Thanks to who ever posted this! Jerrys music will live forever!
My Dad's birthday was Feb. 18th 1920. He would have liked this.
I really have to listen to more of 71...wow.
The Beautiful Jam is transcendent beyond description.
What a fantastic cut! Thanks for the upload
Priceless. Thanks for sharing. Joe
Read that Phil Lesh,when played this set years later was reduced to tears by it.. i know why, the post Wharfrat jam is aptly named.. Beautiful improv. guys.
Not many bands can evoke such feelings, enjoy the music man...Im gonna give it another spin,now youve mentioned it.
Amazin Wharf Rat !, so clean and tight
I just assented to another Level. Mind you, I've been listening to this version for about 2 years. And try and play through it regularly. Jerry does a fine Keith Jarrett and Phil weeps. Yup, a keeper..
ruclips.net/video/7hzZc8-s4So/видео.html
Not reduced, elevated to tears, Yasss!!!
So pretty. Jerry and Phil really shine here. So nice.
Breathtaking
15:27 BEAUTIFUL JAM! So this is the mother recording from which it came. This particular vignette of music is hallowed ground in the pantheon of jam music. For years, I have counted this among the very best moments of the Grateful Dead. What a joy to unexpectedly find this here. You hear something like this and you just feel astounded that you got to be part of this world
so emotional, i cried my tears
So beautiful, so amazing thanks for sharing...so many roads
The solo at the climax in dark star is simply interdimensional
impossible music...its just perfect...i get goose bumps everytime i listen to it...and ive been listening to it for over 20 years...
Best guitar/amp tones during thus period, IMO
This is gigantic music. Hearing Dark Star from Live Dead for the first time back in 1969 was a landmark experience in my life. I got to see them live just once.....at the Lyceum London in 1972. And that gig went down in history as one of their all time best. The Trucking...Jam...Morning Dew from that night ended up on the Europe 72 album. I was blessed.
Well, that is quite the 1st and only show.
this song was their canvas on which to create beautiful masterpieces.
Superb. So thankful to have this band and their music to absorb on a daily basis.
This song was my intro to the Dead 40+yrs ago. The hook that landed me is 2 minutes in.
Earliest music i remember is the dead. My dad used to play them all the time. For many years as a kid the running soundtrack in my head was usually shakedown street and casey jones. Those were my 2 fav dead songs when i was little
Who thumbs this down?...what a world !
I'll kick their arse
If you meet a potential lover, better see if they like this. Could mean it's a one-time thing as opposed to a lifetime. This is experience talking. Get high and listen to Tom Jones?!? Buhbye.
They were stoned and couldn’t figure out how to fix their screw up, ran away screaming
My new favorite. Just found it. Perfect timing too .
Easily one of their 10 best jams
Great Post, thank you so much MrMusicNeverStopped!