He's Gone? Naw-- not Gone. We're still listening. Keep going down that track, Jerry, because even as you are resting, we are still listening. May the four winds blow you safely home, everybody!
My 12 year old girl told me the other day while I was listening to Twiddle she wanted to hear the song about the devil from the dead Instead, good call little mama! ♥️😊♥️
Jerry's feeling no pain and stealing my face in some existential slo-mo, great video!! I liked the Dead for many years, but unfortunately didn't have that older brother/sister/sage to really tune me in to their incredible sound. So my mind was warped by garbage radio selection brainwashing. Thank goodness for RUclips! Now... I LOVE THE DEAD and watching the videos is (almost) like sharing the true experience. Damn, Jerry was a fine, fine guitarist and singer. My mind's been liberated, prejudice has fallen to the wayside, my iPod has been filled with gigs of awesome Dead gigs, and maybe most importantly - I'm practicing what Jerry preached - "Just be nice to one another"! Peace, my brothers and sisters :~]
Well brotha, it's awesome you have the capacity for it. Unfortunately a lot of folks don't get it. After finding the Dead-or them finding us- I think we all feel like our minds had been warped by "garbage radio selection brainwashing" Enjoy your liberation! Now your mind can get warped the good kind of way! Peace n light to you (~);}
My ipod too is absolutely FILLED with Grateful Dead too! Right now I've got 12 or 13 Dick's Pick's shows plus another 10 or so other live shows....I'm 43 and only saw them with Jerry 3 times in Detroit, but their influence over me has been remarkable. They're my absolute favourite band of all time! Peace man! I was happy to read your comment.
I have listened to probably maybe like 99% of Grateful Dead songs but I have to say this is my favorite. This song can get stuck in my head. (and steal my face right off my head!)
A rip-snortin' version of this song if there ever was one. Really, I can't think of a recording that's better than this one that I've heard. Jerry just in the absolute prime, his voice as pretty and tortured and in the moment as could be. Bob and Jerry's harmonies just perfect. Everyone playing understated and smart, very musical. Magical stuff.
I like the one on Dead Ahead a bit better, I think that was Radio City Music Hall. So very eerie, and Jerry has the most stern look on his face on one of the "Nothings gonna bring him backs", gives chills Everytime and really sends the meaning of the song home
Hallelujah! The right honorable Reverend Garcia, Soulman Bobby, Pastor Phil, Brother Brent, Bishop Billy and Monsignor Mickey presiding over the eulogy of those daredevils and tempters of the great abyss who live life on the edge between bliss and total annihilation. God rest their souls. And we all say Amen.
This song , He's Gone brings new profound meaning as another great friend has left the party . 90 mile skid , 10 mile ride , hot as a pistol but Cool inside .
Oh yeah, reason #1265 why I love the Dead. Hurray to RUclips!...keep seeing new, great tunes that keep me coming back. For those that don't know, the great poet/lyricist Robert Hunter-
Europe 81 Wait a minute I thought the album was Europe 72 Jokes aside this song is great Today is the saddest day ever, it’s August 9th😢 He’s unfortunately gone but not forgotten We love you Jerry, Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest We will continue to listen to this wonderful music Say hi to Robert Hunter for us Thank you Jerry and the Grateful Dead We love you and our love will not fade away May the Grateful Dead live on forever and my fellow DeadHeads, let’s all continue to play Dead and make sure that the music never stops ❤️⚡️💙💀🌹❤️❤️❤️
Miss you Jerry!! You were my tribe. Now its Gone. If any1 wants to meet or be pen pals .im inJefferson City,Mo. Stuck And miserable. Yet remAining positive . We can do this. Just Smile Smile Smile
@minodude01 it was this night! i got the whole show on vhs... And as things turn out sometimes: By now i'm working as a TV producer for live music shows and one of my employers is the the station "wdr" where this show is from.... Peace from Germany!
Once listened to this, how can it be possible for anybody to listen to nowadays 21 century so called "music"?....this is when and where music terminated! Gone!
How many people out there went to a Dead show sober? My first 2 were sober! I absolutely love them that much . The rest of the shows were so awesome too! Then I was tripping. My point has always been (since 1996, that drugs are'nt necessary to love the band!!
@@ramsayhofmeisterSaw them sober as a judge at Soldier Field a few years back. I've reached the age where a second beer puts me to sleep anyway. First time was Folsom Field, Boulder in Sept 1972, my first week in college. I was a shy kid who'd gone to small schools and wondered if I'd made a mistake choosing this huge place. My next door dorm neighbor Patrick from Boston blew in with some windowpane and said "C'mon, you can't miss the Dead!" Like that scene in Almost Famous pretty soon it was "You Are Home!"
@mikegalvin9801 Very cool, Mike. My mom's side is actually from Chicago, so I've been there a thousand times. My friend, Steve, was at that show you are referring to, I think. He and his dad own the Indiana Pacers. I'm from Indy. Also, I have the most awesome story of anyone attending a Grateful Dead concert. I'll share it with you soon. My best friend, Keith, went to a show in Cincinnati and was tripping in the summer of '85. He's been sober more than 13 years now. We came from a Catholic high school and grade school background. You are going to love it!
@@ramsayhofmeister Catholic school grades 1 to 5, then middle school public (folks wanted us to meet non Catholic kids). Then my brother went to public high school, me to Catholic as while we were close at 14 we were sick of being "the twins." There was a girl from Indianapolis in my dorm - last name Steinway. "Like the pianos." "Yes my family makes them." As kids we used to go to the Indiana Dunes. Good Old Days when they rented dune buggies to 11 year olds without helmets LOL!
Letting go is difficult, practically impossible without multiple attempts to leave. I'm sure nomads had easier lives, using what they could and then escaping with only what was truly necessary. But, who can Live that way? Especially now...we have Love to remind us of the light, but when Hate gets involved everything gets messy. Keeping our heads, that's what this song is about. And, not becoming frustrated along the way...(Nick, 5/11/2024)
I have been to only one dead show, the last time they would ever play the old Boston garden. it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I was high for three days after still great, I kiss you Jerry and because of that I miss all of the guys.
I used to think that it was the anti-hippy mentality that kept bands like GD off the air in most places, but I think it also has something to do with long intros and long songs as well. The consumer wants their hot 3 minutes and nothing more. These guys were/are a treasure.
I wondered why I had no recollection of the dead going to Europe in 1981. Then it hit me- I was deployed on the USS Tripoli in the middle of the Indian ocean. This is before information technology as we know it boys and girls. A helicopter found us once a week, delivering mail, 16mm film canisters, VHS tapes and reel to reel music. I worked in the tv/radio room voluntarily, and did the sports report one night when the other guy was sick. Anyway - we hung out with the audio visual sailors because we had absolutely nothing to do on a ship, being a Marine infantry unit. We ate well, surreptitiously smoked pot with a black government pen as a pipe and a gas mask filter with which to blow the smoke through. Ah- these were the good old days. The television programming we received was appropriately irreverent for young men in their early 20's. Every week we got a new SCTV- and we would stay up half the night, stoned and laughing our asses off. But the only grateful dead we ever got was some old recorded retrospective that featured Jerry intermittently talking in between some older dead music from the early 70's. We could choose what to broadcast to the ships closed circuit TV's and wall radios. I remember getting complaints from some of the marines that the music was too dated, and "could we play something more contemporary". Lol.
This song was actually written because, I don't remember who it was. Unfortunately. I don't have my book about the story anymore. But it was a dad or uncle of one of the members. He ran off with all of the bands profits. He literally disappeared. That's the story behind this song. They would have built the wall of sound earlier if he wouldn't have taken all the money. Such chill guys they never pressed any criminal charges. But this song is a representation of their dislikes of him. Hens we have "He's gone". Little bit of Dead head knowledge for your skelton ❤
3 28 81 Essen, Germany (Rockplast) Just happens to be the first tape I ever traded for, hooked for life. The entire show is on here in bits and pieces. Best Althea IMHO
I especially like his bell bottoms in this one,lol! I love a good Phil show these days, dead and company are good but Phil seems to enjoy himself more!
I have seen bits and pieces of this incredible wonderful, concert all over youtube, and this clip has by far and away the best quality audio and video of all. Do you have the whole show available to upload?
Chris and I buried our oldest brother today, we played this. ( smile,smile,smile )
Peace.
He's Gone? Naw-- not Gone. We're still listening. Keep going down that track, Jerry, because even as you are resting, we are still listening. May the four winds blow you safely home, everybody!
i love you
peace, brother.
He's gone, but he he's not forgotten
God bless the grateful dead😛😛😛😛
NFA
Man, I wouldn't wanna be friends with anyone who hit the thumbs down button on this. Seriously.
33 people are mad about their stolen face
Such a great tune… but I can say that at this point Jerry is beginning to show signs of his heroin addiction….
Nathan Freakout na I’ll skip that
Sometimes while I'm holding my phone I realize I've accidently swiped my finger over "thumbs down".
@@deweypug yes, but...he's in good voice (ignore the eyes) and Phil is dropping bass BOMBS!
Its gone if only you believe that. His soul is a part of all of us.
5:04 Jerry is ripping. I’m enjoying myself thoroughly. RUclips thought that was a good time for an ad…weak
Pure poetry by Hunter and the most elegant melody by Garcia.
My Mom loved this song. R.I.P.
Nothing beats the Wharf Rat!
My Father died one year ago on 11/11/23. I have never played this song so much. Cool to here this slower version.
This is my 2 year old son's fav Dead song.
Boys got good taste, mine sang Sugaree the other day I just smiled smiled smiled cheers!
Josh Abel nice one
Dark Star? He's 5 now!!!!!
Cute 😜
My 12 year old girl told me the other day while I was listening to Twiddle she wanted to hear the song about the devil from the dead Instead, good call little mama! ♥️😊♥️
Jerry's feeling no pain and stealing my face in some existential slo-mo, great video!! I liked the Dead for many years, but unfortunately didn't have that older brother/sister/sage to really tune me in to their incredible sound. So my mind was warped by garbage radio selection brainwashing. Thank goodness for RUclips! Now... I LOVE THE DEAD and watching the videos is (almost) like sharing the true experience. Damn, Jerry was a fine, fine guitarist and singer. My mind's been liberated, prejudice has fallen to the wayside, my iPod has been filled with gigs of awesome Dead gigs, and maybe most importantly - I'm practicing what Jerry preached - "Just be nice to one another"! Peace, my brothers and sisters :~]
Well brotha, it's awesome you have the capacity for it. Unfortunately a lot of folks don't get it. After finding the Dead-or them finding us- I think we all feel like our minds had been warped by "garbage radio selection brainwashing" Enjoy your liberation! Now your mind can get warped the good kind of way! Peace n light to you (~);}
A more thoughtful post I have not read. Well done.
Ha! Cool comment brother! I'm happy to hear that one way or another, you got turned on to the best American band that ever was!
My ipod too is absolutely FILLED with Grateful Dead too! Right now I've got 12 or 13 Dick's Pick's shows plus another 10 or so other live shows....I'm 43 and only saw them with Jerry 3 times in Detroit, but their influence over me has been remarkable. They're my absolute favourite band of all time! Peace man! I was happy to read your comment.
I'm 60 and my 30 year old son got me on the bus. This music is timeless.
I have listened to probably maybe like 99% of Grateful Dead songs but I have to say this is my favorite. This song can get stuck in my head. (and steal my face right off my head!)
Love you Bobby always have a great time with your friends I love you all
nothin but love for the dead
Do you think they may have been tripping hard during this show?
They're a band beyond description
Ol' Jehova's favorite choir
A rip-snortin' version of this song if there ever was one. Really, I can't think of a recording that's better than this one that I've heard. Jerry just in the absolute prime, his voice as pretty and tortured and in the moment as could be. Bob and Jerry's harmonies just perfect. Everyone playing understated and smart, very musical. Magical stuff.
I like the one on Dead Ahead a bit better, I think that was Radio City Music Hall. So very eerie, and Jerry has the most stern look on his face on one of the "Nothings gonna bring him backs", gives chills Everytime and really sends the meaning of the song home
Best band in the land!
Leave ya rarin to go if we just making up words to fit crossword puzzles
You really think 1981 Jerry was in his prime? I've never heard this said about him by anyone else before.
@@commbir5148not prime, but 81 was a good year of GD and JGB. By 83 things were way more hit and miss but even up to his coma there were great shows.
I was in a grateful dead tribute band with my dad and his best friend. Today was my dad’s best friend’s funeral. RIP Gav.
Condolences.... remembered isn't gone
nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!
Coming up on one year since my Father passed. My heart tells me this song is all about him... My Dad. I love you Dad.
Hallelujah! The right honorable Reverend Garcia, Soulman Bobby, Pastor Phil, Brother Brent, Bishop Billy and Monsignor Mickey presiding over the eulogy of those daredevils and tempters of the great abyss who live life on the edge between bliss and total annihilation. God rest their souls. And we all say Amen.
This is sublime. I’ve got chills and just filled with so much love and so many memories. Good ol’ Grateful Dead.
Superb - Jerry was such an amazing artist.
16 years ago today...and nothing's gonna bring him back - Thanks for every song Jerry
Goin' where the wind don't blow so strange,
Best version of this song you could hear !
Awesome version of this song! Sound is perfect: You can hear everything so well.
Christian Couto Except Bob’s guitar
I miss Jerry
This song , He's Gone brings new profound meaning as another great friend has left the party . 90 mile skid , 10 mile ride , hot as a pistol but Cool inside .
whoever got this version Thank you. amazing.
Thank you ... Just what my Monday Morning needed
cranking up those speakers.....
singing along...
bringing back the joy
God Jerry's vibes are just beautiful.. Can't wait to see furthur this summer.. Missin ya Jerry
Oh yeah, reason #1265 why I love the Dead. Hurray to RUclips!...keep seeing new, great tunes that keep me coming back.
For those that don't know, the great poet/lyricist Robert Hunter-
20 years ago today R.I.P. Jerry.
Now.. 25 years.. insane
Europe 81
Wait a minute
I thought the album was Europe 72
Jokes aside this song is great
Today is the saddest day ever, it’s August 9th😢
He’s unfortunately gone but not forgotten
We love you Jerry,
Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest
We will continue to listen to this wonderful music
Say hi to Robert Hunter for us
Thank you Jerry and the Grateful Dead
We love you and our love will not fade away
May the Grateful Dead live on forever and my fellow DeadHeads, let’s all continue to play Dead and make sure that the music never stops
❤️⚡️💙💀🌹❤️❤️❤️
NO BETTER LIVE BAND EVER
Miss you Jerry!! You were my tribe. Now its Gone. If any1 wants to meet or be pen pals .im inJefferson City,Mo. Stuck And miserable. Yet remAining positive . We can do this. Just Smile Smile Smile
id love to be you pen pal
I hear you sister.
This whole show is GREAT! saw the dead here in 1990 euro tour!! Good times!!
It’s not the same without you Jerry😢
the music never stopped
These guys were old before they were old.
Had that mystic vision
Jerry’s solo was beautiful and melodic
@minodude01 it was this night! i got the whole show on vhs... And as things turn out sometimes: By now i'm working as a TV producer for live music shows and one of my employers is the the station "wdr" where this show is from.... Peace from Germany!
Imo This show has the best shakedown street solo I've heard 🎵
100% agree. I have thought that for years and years and nothing I have found has changed my mind yet....
all thanks to Miss Annie F Hubert that I love this band too...fond memories of 70's in 7-Oaks.....thanks for the post....
thanks, wsj. sometimes have to search a long time to find a video of this quality!
Garcia's beautifully melodic phrasing is just unparalleled...
Tiger weighed way more than the heaviest Les Paul. I don't know how Jerry's back stood playing this thing for hours.
Around 13-ish lbs. That's a bowling ball!
Jer was a tank!
I hear that. I love heavy guitars the neck doesn't move on you as much imo
this is the best vesion of this song I have heard...and it is one of my fav they do.....love the scat at the end with the audience.
Once listened to this, how can it be possible for anybody to listen to nowadays 21 century so called "music"?....this is when and where music terminated! Gone!
just like no other! miss ya` Jer`.
Nothin left to do but smile smile smile 💙🌝❤️
We need Jerry in this world
I miss the dead too. But they've done their job. In many ways. Wink Wink to the CIA.
I love how Phil is looking in this one, he is so hip with his bell bottoms! Lol
Jerry's feeling it. 😊❤
This song is SO satisfying!
23 years ago today! Fuck Heroin. Thank you Jerry!!! thanks for posting
In my older age the slow jams are my fav!!
I'm with you. Nobody could do slow and gorgeous like the Dead.
Mind melting.....amazing.....
bobbys voice is chillingly powerful
very nice indeed
Just a tiger in a trance...
Nuthin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!
How many people out there went to a Dead show sober? My first 2 were sober! I absolutely love them that much . The rest of the shows were so awesome too! Then I was tripping. My point has always been (since 1996, that drugs are'nt necessary to love the band!!
Sober seeing them at Alpine Valley. I think 1986.
@@ramsayhofmeisterSaw them sober as a judge at Soldier Field a few years back. I've reached the age where a second beer puts me to sleep anyway. First time was Folsom Field, Boulder in Sept 1972, my first week in college. I was a shy kid who'd gone to small schools and wondered if I'd made a mistake choosing this huge place. My next door dorm neighbor Patrick from Boston blew in with some windowpane and said "C'mon, you can't miss the Dead!" Like that scene in Almost Famous pretty soon it was "You Are Home!"
@mikegalvin9801 Very cool, Mike. My mom's side is actually from Chicago, so I've been there a thousand times. My friend, Steve, was at that show you are referring to, I think. He and his dad own the Indiana Pacers. I'm from Indy. Also, I have the most awesome story of anyone attending a Grateful Dead concert. I'll share it with you soon. My best friend, Keith, went to a show in Cincinnati and was tripping in the summer of '85. He's been sober more than 13 years now. We came from a Catholic high school and grade school background. You are going to love it!
@@ramsayhofmeister Catholic school grades 1 to 5, then middle school public (folks wanted us to meet non Catholic kids). Then my brother went to public high school, me to Catholic as while we were close at 14 we were sick of being "the twins." There was a girl from Indianapolis in my dorm - last name Steinway. "Like the pianos." "Yes my family makes them." As kids we used to go to the Indiana Dunes. Good Old Days when they rented dune buggies to 11 year olds without helmets LOL!
Best song alert
Letting go is difficult, practically impossible without multiple attempts to leave. I'm sure nomads had easier lives, using what they could and then escaping with only what was truly necessary. But, who can Live that way? Especially now...we have Love to remind us of the light, but when Hate gets involved everything gets messy. Keeping our heads, that's what this song is about. And, not becoming frustrated along the way...(Nick, 5/11/2024)
thank you so much for posting. wow. awesome. wow again thanx PURE JOY.
To my dead head friend Ted gone since 11 94. 26 yrs. Old aneryism. Buffalo
GReat version, I hadn't seen this one before.
Love dis band.
R
We miss you Jerry.
The video is over and I seem to have lost my face.
I have been to only one dead show, the last time they would ever play the old Boston garden. it was one of the greatest nights of my life, I was high for three days after still great, I kiss you Jerry and because of that I miss all of the guys.
"No ones ever really gone."
- Luke Skywalker
HA!!
But if we rid ourselves of their energy, cease to exist they might
thanks for uploading this on my birthday!
He's Never Gone..don't worry!....
Tears & Happiest
Jerry Garcia[Aug.1st.,1942-Aug.9th.,1995].He's gone.
Most incredible vid of this...Wow...and thanks!
Weird to see Bobby without his package peeking out of his tiny shorts. Such a good performance here!
I used to think that it was the anti-hippy mentality that kept bands like GD off the air in most places, but I think it also has something to do with long intros and long songs as well. The consumer wants their hot 3 minutes and nothing more. These guys were/are a treasure.
Gee McD I think you're right. A 30 minute Dark Star doesn't do well in you hot hits radio station.
They were truly for the music !
last minute of jerry and bobbys singing is fucking beautiful!
I wondered why I had no recollection of the dead going to Europe in 1981. Then it hit me- I was deployed on the USS Tripoli in the middle of the Indian ocean. This is before information technology as we know it boys and girls. A helicopter found us once a week, delivering mail, 16mm film canisters, VHS tapes and reel to reel music. I worked in the tv/radio room voluntarily, and did the sports report one night when the other guy was sick. Anyway - we hung out with the audio visual sailors because we had absolutely nothing to do on a ship, being a Marine infantry unit. We ate well, surreptitiously smoked pot with a black government pen as a pipe and a gas mask filter with which to blow the smoke through. Ah- these were the good old days.
The television programming we received was appropriately irreverent for young men in their early 20's. Every week we got a new SCTV- and we would stay up half the night, stoned and laughing our asses off. But the only grateful dead we ever got was some old recorded retrospective that featured Jerry intermittently talking in between some older dead music from the early 70's. We could choose what to broadcast to the ships closed circuit TV's and wall radios. I remember getting complaints from some of the marines that the music was too dated, and "could we play something more contemporary". Lol.
This song was actually written because, I don't remember who it was. Unfortunately. I don't have my book about the story anymore. But it was a dad or uncle of one of the members. He ran off with all of the bands profits. He literally disappeared. That's the story behind this song. They would have built the wall of sound earlier if he wouldn't have taken all the money. Such chill guys they never pressed any criminal charges. But this song is a representation of their dislikes of him. Hens we have "He's gone". Little bit of Dead head knowledge for your skelton ❤
❤😂😂☮️👍🤩🎶🤩🎶adventure music so so goodish 😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️
this version rocks! the date, the town and the venue please!
3 28 81
Essen, Germany (Rockplast)
Just happens to be the first tape I ever traded for, hooked for life. The entire show is on here in bits and pieces. Best Althea IMHO
Chew Bacca I agree +++++
Sounded good too!
For Gerald and Bob-R.I.P.
1:45 Phil Leah is at a totally different concert
Too funny, I agree he looks more like he is jamming out to sugaree or something⚡🤣⚡
I love that dude hahahaha
I was there. got naked in the bathroom and passed out before this even happened. great night
Awesome
Groovin"
I was wrong about the dates! Haha. My 1st show was 1986!
Tom Petty and Bob Dylan opened! Yeahh
Heather Cooley rip Tom petty, 1950-2017
Mule sez--who can't love Phil with his super bass,good looks and sweet dance moves,And keeps Jerry on track ,thats band love__-----(~);}
I especially like his bell bottoms in this one,lol! I love a good Phil show these days, dead and company are good but Phil seems to enjoy himself more!
Wow
why cant I buy the RockPalast recording....just a brilliant show...help please
ROBIN JONES a me
ROBIN JONES ppl
🌹⚡️🌹
Jerry was feeling good that night :)
Ohhh yeah. High as hell on that Persian. Nothing like that perfect 70/30 mix of heroin/coke when you smoke it.
fun, thanks
I have seen bits and pieces of this incredible wonderful, concert all over youtube, and this clip has by far and away the best quality audio and video of all. Do you have the whole show available to upload?
89'? Seems to be a large jump in the number of quality cameras towards the late 80's and 90's
Somebody Needs a Hug
I agree
A+
Now I know what my old neighbor was into while I stood watching.
I was there.
I have birds chirping outside my back yard right now while playing this song
nothing left to do but smile.........
TUNE!!