Grateful to be at this show in NYC, $100 bucks for a ticket, I saved money for 3 weeks to go down. Stayed sober because I knew I would want to remember this show. Can't say the same for my buddy Brad, he had a great time also.
a few years ago my buddy Brad was at a Wilco show at RCMH, standing out back he ran into Jeff Tweedy and the band smoking cigs. They asked Brad if he had ever seen a rock concert at the hall and he told them about the dead in 1980. They freaked out that he was actually at this show!!
@@berryseinfeld6772 I love this! If you want a truly mind blowing acoustic Jerry experience search up Jerry Garcia and John Kahn at Oregon State Penitentiary. It’s here on YT. They went to play there at the prison because Owsley was locked up there. It’s life changing.
Seeing the Dead was an experience second to none, living on the road, following them all over this great country of ours was by far the highlight of my life, thus far, I fukenmissem everyday. Can't wait to see you all on that Golden Road some time from now. If I've ever experienced a time in our history that needed a band like them it's now. Thank you Jerry, Bobby, Billy, Phil, Mickey, and Brent, as well as, Vince you made my younger self young forever!
Sam you lucky deadhead man,i nver seen the magic live.Thats why we younger deadheads,not saying your old brother,love to here what your trip was like.Much love and respect to you and yours.And deadheads worldwide remember we are ever Where.
I was lucky enough to have seen one of the Deads last shows (3 rivers) literally changed the entire course of my life. Feel absolutely blessed to have seen that show. Things had certainly gone way downhill by that point, can't even begin to imagine what the earlier years were like. Those days are long gone, I thank God every day for the time I spent chasing music in my younger years. Got to meet a million wonderful people, have a million stories to tell...and ten million that will never be told. Long live the GD.
When down I found that listening to the Dead would restore my spirit. The GD became my most effective antidepressant. For years I tried to figure this out and then one day listening to Stella Blue a thought charged into my mind, "Jerry's guitar sounds happy even when he plays the blues." Eureka, that's it. Jerry plays a Happy Guitar. Add that to the smile and BOOM, the ultimate antidepressant. Smile on.
So awesome to get to see him playing Tiger again. There are so many great performances archived on YT. Again it’s so awesome to be able to see Jerry playing Alligator or Wolf or Tiger, rosebud & lightning bolt. Each with their own unique sound & vibe that Jerry brings out masterfully. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand in end
@@bcpiet60 i am not 100 percent sure but its a safe bet he used tiger for most of if not all of the early and mid and even into the later 80s when rosebud came in. Wolf and lightning are my favs sooo crisp and clean braaaahhh.
It always amazes me how they transition from one song to another from one note to another. They don't even have to look at each other. They just know. It's all one song.
I’ve always used the word “elegant” to describe the way Garcia slides around the guitar neck and adds extra surprise notes here & there in his solos... first time I saw him play live I was hooked!
@@frankmurphy8567 that's OK to not care for it. But the rest of us really do love it. Rather than be offensive and rude just don't watch it or comment. Have a good day brother.
After readin' a few hundred of these I need to put my two cents in here. to begin with I am 72 now. Saw my first show as the closing of the joint in SF. The name of the place is gone right now. It happens when u get to 72. From that show til one in Prov RI '85 I saw 153 shows. A few stick out like the one in Syr NY '82 where fifteen minutes before the show Howie and I got front row seats center stage b/c someone decided not to come to the show. It was that might that I meant the love of my life. This was a sit down show but no one sat. Two girls had somehow gotten down to stand in front of Howie and I. They were pretty little things so neither of us minded them being there. They were rubbing their asses up against us all through the show. It was not until after the show we even learned their names. The funny thing was they too were from RI where I had been living for a year then. Howie and I were living up on Observatory Ave in a house known as the Observatory commun. The girls were from Cranston. That summer Betsy and I set up Living together on the west side just a block form PC in a triplex that was an historical building. She had money. Her father had died when she was 25 and left her, her sister and Ma vry will off. This meant that I didn't have to work. But I did just to fill my time. the triplex and the one next to it where the first two built on the west side. Both were in poor shape. The man we rented form for four yrs was a rich lawyer who bought them to restore. This is the work I id while we lived there. By myself I brought them back to their original mid Victorian glory. By the way we were of the same age Betsy and I. Just 33 that wonderful spring we meet. I had only 15 yrs with her. She pasted in '97. We left RI in '87 after we adopted our twin girls who where just a year & a half. We did not want to raise them in a city so we moved back to my home county of Steuben NY where we bought a large farm (500 acres of burned out potato land). We went to raising grass fed beef on it. Over the years the kids and I have expanded the farm to 800 acres & gone into chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, ducks, geese & turkeys. My girls are still with me. Neither of them have a full time man. The little one (4'11") has one child and has no more use for sex while the tall one (5'8") has three and has dif man every month. Me I have lived with no woman but Betsy. She was the only woman I vry found who was worth her salt. So Kids the dead brought me a lot more then wonderful music. They got me the love of my life and two wonderful Kids and four great grand kids. I have many more stories to tell of my shows like the fact that I never went to a show with a ticket in hand and I never missed a show I went to.
In 1972 I went to a Jerry Garcia Band concert in Eugene, Oregon with no ticket. Sold out show, apparently, alas. The really quite beautiful woman at door said to me, I think you need this concert, and let me in, no ticket. Frankly I still don't understand that, but I'm glad it happened.
Was at this show, , 40yrs. ago, just about to THE DAY !!! AND returned to the scene, 10-31-19 for 'Dead & Co.'.... and 'the music WILL NEVER stop!!!!!!
That rhythm guitar playing from Bob in Shakedown Street is fantastic. Give that song one extra listen and just listen to the rhythm guitar. What a musician.
You have to admit , the Dead is timeless So cool to watch and listen ! I still miss Jerry , as I only saw the Dead with Jerry Playing a handful of times , then it was Ratdog, Further, Dead and Company
You're one of the lucky few human beings in the history of humanity to have seen Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead. I started liking the Dead in the early 2000s... Officially became a Deadhead in 2014/2015 so I even missed Ratdog 😔 For me the live shows have been all JRAD, Dead & Co, the Cause, Grateful Shred, Dark Star Orchestra, & Brown Eyed Women (whose bassist is amazing, BTW! Check her out!). I'm not complaining, but I'd pay a lot of money for a sphere I can walk into and experience past Grateful Dead concerts as if I were actually there (with VR/AR/AI technology) - with the same volume and quality of sights and sounds and the ability to walk around and dance (and even talk to people who were there). I hope those types of devices exist before I die! I did check off one bucket list item this year (VIP pit ticket for Dead & Co @ Deer Creek!!). Many more to check off -- hopefully soon! 😁🤘✌️⚡☠️
@@brianfisher6165 y'all are so lucky I was born a month after Jerry Died 😭. Still Grateful I can listen to pretty much any show that was ever played though through the archives!
Thank you for sharing this♥️ I am enjoying it so much. I am trying to remember the last time I saw the grateful dead. I can't for some reason. I can remember the first time though! It was just after PigPen passed. What an incredible show. This show here is giving me goose bumps! It is making me very happy! So a big thanks. And hugs to everyone. This is great ♥️🎶🎶🎶
@@kevmichael2064 it's funny because I'm glad they didn't. When I want electric blues I have the dead when I want disco I have the dead wheen I want rockabilly again I have the dead reggae dead etc etc. They just, to me, make any genre they touch enjoyable. It's what made them what they are to millions.
I remember watching this on Showtime in 1981. Haven't seen it since (completely forgot that Franken & Davis hosted that show). Thanks for posting it here. 👍
I love how Billy and Micky trade off on the mini drum kit and the hand percussion kit...I have seen parts of this a bunch of times but never really noticed before...The film editing is done so you really don't see the switching back and forth...Thanks for posting all these awesome shows!...
The energy in this is just incredible! So positive, so fun, so scintillating. Brilliant, just brilliant! Thanks guys for tumbling into my life when I was 14 and opening my mind to a wider world.
Oh how I wished I was there! I was the sound guy in SF at the Warfield when we taped all the Franken & Davis stuff, awesome in itself, but Acoustic Dead! My first shows were ten years previous, Fillmore East, when the line up was Acoustic Dead, New Riders (Jerry on pedal steel, Micky on drums), followed by Electric Dead. Sheer bliss!
I met a girl at the Lewiston Maine outdoor concert so when we were in California we got to stay 2 more weeks so we could b there more ! Then Jerry took me to his shows then back to the concert ! What a grateful trip it was for us ! 😆😁😂🤣😍🥰😘😍🥰😘
@@markdebonis1077 Check the back of the vinyl copy of "Greatful Dead", aka "Grateful Dead Live" ot"Skull and Roses" or "Skull Fuck", and you will see the following words printed in black and white: "DEAD FREAKS UNITE Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed Dead Heads P.O. Box 1065 San Rafael, California 94901." The only thing certain about certainty is its inherent uncertainty.
Long live the dead. This year would have been so much harder if i had never heard of them. Jehovah's favorite choir. I cant wait to see all of you again. 🎸 💀 🎶
I used to have this on VHS back in the late 1980s. Lots of stuff on here I never saw. I understand there are certain parts of this film that are still left out to this day.
Not to be super negative, since this is was the era i first starting following the boys, and i played this vinyl a bagillion times over and over. Just love it!! Just recently listened to it again and without looking it up i knew this was the NY crowd. No crowd in the history of the dead could be quite so obnoxious with yells and whistles and cat calls in the middle of a to lay me down quite like a ny crowd. They had no concept of just listening nor did they have any concept that decades later the rest of us would still be saying, just stfu!!
This is one of the NYC Radio City Music Hall shows in October 1980. Not Madison Square Garden. Discovered Dead at 14 in 1973. 21 year old me was at this Radio City show. Great times.
SO FUNNY how Brent makes the little "intro" for the "comedy team" here.........HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...HILLARIOUS......very slick, his humor....just like his keyboard playing.....and vocals, one of the very BEST .........This show is one that I keep going back to, again and again.....cause it makes me LAUGH every time...Laughter, in the days we live in now, is VERY GOOD MEDICINE INDEED......I LOVE to play my guitar along with this one too....the acoustic sets are AMAZING here, and not very commonly heard either...I wish they would have done more acoustic sets in their shows....Oh well...Jerry said he felt like his "skill levels on the acoustic guitar was not nearly as good as his electric" stuff....but, FUK .....it SURE BLOWS MY MIND none the less.....when I hear him play an acoustic guitar.....He is a continuous inspiration for me....and always will be.....
Hey man pssst....little known trick; Vaseline. Vaseline rubbed into the scratches on CDs and DVDs will fix any scratch. Toothpaste too. No shit. Give it a try. Your welcome ✌️
Saw this show which was live at Radio City Music Hall in NYC on close circuit tv from South Mountain Arena in West Orange NJ. Dead had never done that before. We all dressed up for Halloween. Friend of mine was dressed as Jesus Christ. A dead ringer for JC. He parted the crowd as he walked across the floor of arena. Freaked some people out. So fun. Great show.
Watching this on New Year’s Eve 2021. I was at this show when I was 20. What’s most alarming is that Jerry is only 38, a worn 38 too. Phil conversely is 41, and didn’t really age for the next 30 years Here I am, almost 62, and being thankful the Dead left this legacy for the fans.. Amazing, how life can be.
I'm 48 years of age and I'm sitting here in our kitchen with my 35 year old fiance watching this gem while she's watching the latest news about the Afghanistan disaster. I must say I'm glad to be able to escape into the past where of course everything was better :)) To keep my sanity in this mad world and I feel sorry for the generations after me who can't do the same. Even Pot won't do the same to them as to us.
You bet we schooled those generations well tho daddyO. The only reason i still have hope for this shit show we got going on, right here, rights now. I'm 60. No great grand kids yet. Kinda good when ya think about it. As if by design, he's gone just came on. Peace Big O. Love from Peggy O.
I agree ! I never have gotten over Jerry ! We were inlove but couldn’t get away from him ,ihigh on ectacy was 2 years on it having a good time but my mind was always on Jerry he is my soul mate ,he loved my hands because I was born with Crocker fingers only the little ones ,❤️🕊🐇🎵🎹🎼🎶🕊🏴☠️🌹🌹😘🥰😍😥
"Hey, Hey, Henry K How many folks did you bomb today? Hey, Hey, Henry K How many troops did you kill today? Hey, Hey, Henry K How much Agent Orange Did you spray today? When you were down On your knees Prayin' with Nixon Did you also pray For the souls You were "fixin'"?
Oh man!!! re reading the chats from the last night!!!!! OH!! Sh#t!! I love you guys... so funny to read all. Was going super fast!! Funny so enjoyable you guys should check it out!!! LOVE N PEACE
First cassette of the Grateful Dead I had at 13 years old but it was called "For the Faithful" made from a record company in Passaic, NJ.( just the acoustic sets) Took awhile to get into it because I thought the Grateful Dead was a heavy metal band ! Then got Skeltons from the Closet and became a total Deadhead !
A very happy 81st birthday to Philip Chapman Lesh March 15, 1940. And many, many more to come. What can I say which hasn't already been said about Phil??
Of course the date I have now @ this show is December 18 , 2023 but I love u my old friend ! ❤️💜💗💓💘🩵💝💖❣️💕💞❤️🩹💔🤍🤎🩶🖤💙🐰🐇🌹all hearts out to u + family ! From Vinalhaven Maine !
I did LSD at 15 with my best friends. I listened to Doors, Hendrix, Floyd..the usual suspects. Then I was introduced the the Grateful Dead. To make a long story short the only thing I listened to after that was Dead bootlegs.
1970...I was lucky enough to have been granted some real mescaline about age 17, then was gifted "orange barrel" LSD at my private school. That evening my best friend had a nice quiet party in his basement. There was the Skull and Roses album. Bertha was on. There was something about that song and the way it was being played.... after that, their music never stopped. The 1st time I saw them was at Vanderbilt U. Then RFK 6 10 73. That was the greatest one I ever experienced. May I suggest the new soundboard of it at ruclips.net/video/JIGb3BhKePQ/видео.html The photo is from the day before. On 6 10 JG was in his archetypal black.
@@pegmarinello3188 Make sure you crank it up to get the opening D chord. You can hear the screams of awesome... I was in the balcony at the other end of the stadium and it was like a powerful concentric wave that rolled out over the vast crowd, up into the balcony and then everyone's attention just flowed right back. From then on it was a journey to the Beyond Within and even God got very much involved.
@@Spherian7 I'm enjoying the show you recommended. Audio only, but i love the photo. The wall of speakers and Jerry in that red tie die with the music symbol. The dark hair and beard of his youth. The piano surely dominates the stage. The wall of speakers that predates the wall of sound. I haven't seen this photo b4. I says alot
Like the Kissinger clown, the last time I saw the Dead do an acoustic set was at the Fillmore East in 1970. (The New Riders and they were more or less morphed together that night.) The performances at this 1980 gig at Radio City Music Hall are superb. Thanks!
I made every Night was great bunch shows 8 nights of "fresh mushrooms" the midnight train back to Long Island full of dead heads dripping with sweat was amazing
That Opening Song..iS Cool...this the best concert thay did...Country Folk Rock is their best...i wish thay kept it like this....Ripple ...Uncle Johns Band etc
I’ll never b as happy as I was with them for almost 10 years then I had to leave because my love was to deep for Jerry plus this was our song to lay me down !
I’ve been into this by myself most of the time now because I lost a lot of my Deadheads friends so may it b as it is because I still have these concerts for myself + my heart only ! ❤
Hey! It looks like the description needs to be updated. It states the shows are from Madison Square Garden. Weren't they from Radio City Music Hall? Anyway, looking forward to the Friday stream. Thank you!
I still love this man we call Jerry so much that’s it has ruined my life because when I was with him there was no world or people or anything else for me to think about ! We would just look at eachother + knew what we were thinking ! He is my soulmate until I die to b with him ! ❤️🐇🐰🥲😢😥💀☠️⚡️🌍 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜love all over the world 🌎 may there be !
I absolutely love hearing them do "On The Road Again" - to me, it's very, VERY similar to hearing them do, "The Monkey and the Engineer" - both are very quick little ditties that are helmed by Bob at the vocals. And both have very fun, short little Jerry solos.
Perhaps their best version of "Bird Song" ever, Acoustic or Electric. The 1st set took me places I never thought an Acoustic set could take me, and set the stage for the rest of the show. "Dead Ahead" is still one of the Dead's most Psychedelic video performances ever released to this day. Drop a tab and take the journey! Get back on that Road again!!
Saw this one live at a theater in Waterbury, CT. This was the first time they attempted something like this. It was great, with superb visuals, and with no idea what they would play. Unfortunately it didn't really attract a huge crowd so they never tried it again.
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When life gets tough, listen to The Dead! Greatest medicine on the planet!! Thank you fellas
Ain’t that the truth. It’s church and heals
@@augustwest5273 hmmmm, why do I want to listen to Wharf Rat right now?
sure as you're born
@@StormTrysail because he’s in a drain ditch and caught on a limb
@@augustwest5273 lol
This is a work of art for all humanity till the end of time. How lucky we are.
Amen
"Uncle John's Band"
Introduction (Franken & Davis) 2:02
"Bird Song" 4:47
"On The Road Again" 14:34
"To Lay Me Down" 18:04
"Ripple" 26:43
Henry Kissinger Interview (Franken & Davis) 31:20
"Me and My Uncle" 33:36
"Mexicali Blues" 36:35
"Ramble On Rose" 41:03
"Little Red Rooster" 48:30
A Visit Backstage (Franken & Davis) 57:18
"Don't Ease Me In" 58:10
"Lost Sailor" 1:01:50
"Saint of Circumstance"
1:08:00
"Franklin's Tower"
1:14:12
"Drums"
1:20:41
"Space"
1:28:55
"Fire on the Mountain"
1:32:39
"Not Fade Away"
1:39:45
"Good Lovin'"
1:44:44
"Heaven Help the Fool"
1:54:40
"Shakedown Street"
2:02:45
"Samson and Delilah"
2:15:52
"He's Gone"
2:23:32
"Truckin'" 2:37:44
Jerry's Bird Song solo is like a runaway car without brakes... all over the road, but never straying too far from the centerline;)
tnx
thank you!
Thank you fam
Early Brent sets were so underrated yea he was getting the hang of it but they played awesome sets.
Grateful to be at this show in NYC, $100 bucks for a ticket, I saved money for 3 weeks to go down. Stayed sober because I knew I would want to remember this show. Can't say the same for my buddy Brad, he had a great time also.
In New England...ruclips.net/video/2KnaKjwiT3A/видео.html
The info says this was in 1980 --- do you know the day in october this concert took place (I want to look up the setlist).
@@samjames2552 this was Halloween the 31st.
a few years ago my buddy Brad was at a Wilco show at RCMH, standing out back he ran into Jeff Tweedy and the band smoking cigs. They asked Brad if he had ever seen a rock concert at the hall and he told them about the dead in 1980. They freaked out that he was actually at this show!!
it took me too long to be that smart...I forget more than I remember.
This is how I got into the Dead. I taped this off of PBS in the 90's and listened to Bird Song over and over.
What an amazing performance of it huh?
Probably the star of show for me
@@MichaelHallerandAssociates beautiful. It’s funny because I just assumed forever that the Dead were an acoustic band.
quite a jam huh? :)
@@berryseinfeld6772 I love this! If you want a truly mind blowing acoustic Jerry experience search up Jerry Garcia and John Kahn at Oregon State Penitentiary. It’s here on YT. They went to play there at the prison because Owsley was locked up there. It’s life changing.
Seeing the Dead was an experience second to none, living on the road, following them all over this great country of ours was by far the highlight of my life, thus far, I fukenmissem everyday. Can't wait to see you all on that Golden Road some time from now. If I've ever experienced a time in our history that needed a band like them it's now. Thank you Jerry, Bobby, Billy, Phil, Mickey, and Brent, as well as, Vince you made my younger self young forever!
Sam you lucky deadhead man,i nver seen the magic live.Thats why we younger deadheads,not saying your old brother,love to here what your trip was like.Much love and respect to you and yours.And deadheads worldwide remember we are ever Where.
Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Do you know where America is mentioned in the Bible ???????
@@tabathastaples7884 what?!?? Are you confusing this with a Christian channel? Just wondering
I was lucky enough to have seen one of the Deads last shows (3 rivers) literally changed the entire course of my life. Feel absolutely blessed to have seen that show.
Things had certainly gone way downhill by that point, can't even begin to imagine what the earlier years were like.
Those days are long gone, I thank God every day for the time I spent chasing music in my younger years. Got to meet a million wonderful people, have a million stories to tell...and ten million that will never be told. Long live the GD.
Jerry smiling warms my heart.
When down I found that listening to the Dead would restore my spirit. The GD became my most effective antidepressant. For years I tried to figure this out and then one day listening to Stella Blue a thought charged into my mind, "Jerry's guitar sounds happy even when he plays the blues." Eureka, that's it. Jerry plays a Happy Guitar. Add that to the smile and BOOM, the ultimate antidepressant. Smile on.
So awesome to get to see him playing Tiger again. There are so many great performances archived on YT. Again it’s so awesome to be able to see Jerry playing Alligator or Wolf or Tiger, rosebud & lightning bolt. Each with their own unique sound & vibe that Jerry brings out masterfully. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand in end
looked like he was the only one giggling at the Al Franken intro...as they were coming out from backstage... This cracked me up.
@@bcpiet60 i am not 100 percent sure but its a safe bet he used tiger for most of if not all of the early and mid and even into the later 80s when rosebud came in. Wolf and lightning are my favs sooo crisp and clean braaaahhh.
Oh yes they were great guitars but the wolf was my favorite ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹🎹🎧🎼📽️🔛🩵👽🪐🛸🚀💥☄️⚡️🥀peace man !
It always amazes me
how they transition from one song to another from one note to another. They don't even have to look at each other. They just know. It's all one song.
I’ve always used the word “elegant” to describe the way Garcia slides around the guitar neck and adds extra surprise notes here & there in his solos... first time I saw him play live I was hooked!
Someone once screamed at Neil Young, "Hey man, it all sounds the same."
He replied, "It's all the same song.."
It amazes me how shit they are and how people actually like it
@@frankmurphy8567 that's OK to not care for it. But the rest of us really do love it. Rather than be offensive and rude just don't watch it or comment. Have a good day brother.
But thats what the comment section is for,sister
After readin' a few hundred of these I need to put my two cents in here. to begin with I am 72 now. Saw my first show as the closing of the joint in SF. The name of the place is gone right now. It happens when u get to 72. From that show til one in Prov RI '85 I saw 153 shows. A few stick out like the one in Syr NY '82 where fifteen minutes before the show Howie and I got front row seats center stage b/c someone decided not to come to the show. It was that might that I meant the love of my life. This was a sit down show but no one sat. Two girls had somehow gotten down to stand in front of Howie and I. They were pretty little things so neither of us minded them being there. They were rubbing their asses up against us all through the show. It was not until after the show we even learned their names. The funny thing was they too were from RI where I had been living for a year then. Howie and I were living up on Observatory Ave in a house known as the Observatory commun. The girls were from Cranston. That summer Betsy and I set up Living together on the west side just a block form PC in a triplex that was an historical building. She had money. Her father had died when she was 25 and left her, her sister and Ma vry will off. This meant that I didn't have to work. But I did just to fill my time. the triplex and the one next to it where the first two built on the west side. Both were in poor shape. The man we rented form for four yrs was a rich lawyer who bought them to restore. This is the work I id while we lived there. By myself I brought them back to their original mid Victorian glory. By the way we were of the same age Betsy and I. Just 33 that wonderful spring we meet. I had only 15 yrs with her. She pasted in '97. We left RI in '87 after we adopted our twin girls who where just a year & a half. We did not want to raise them in a city so we moved back to my home county of Steuben NY where we bought a large farm (500 acres of burned out potato land). We went to raising grass fed beef on it. Over the years the kids and I have expanded the farm to 800 acres & gone into chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, ducks, geese & turkeys. My girls are still with me. Neither of them have a full time man. The little one (4'11") has one child and has no more use for sex while the tall one (5'8") has three and has dif man every month. Me I have lived with no woman but Betsy. She was the only woman I vry found who was worth her salt.
So Kids the dead brought me a lot more then wonderful music. They got me the love of my life and two wonderful Kids and four great grand kids.
I have many more stories to tell of my shows like the fact that I never went to a show with a ticket in hand and I never missed a show I went to.
Thanks for sharing. Brought a tear or two. Great story and not an unusual one in the Dead universe. Thanks!
Great stroll down your memory lane....you are a special soul and we are privileged you share the same existence
Great story, thanks for telling. All the best, long live the dead. / Love from Sweden
In 1972 I went to a Jerry Garcia Band concert in Eugene, Oregon with no ticket. Sold out show, apparently, alas. The really quite beautiful woman at door said to me, I think you need this concert, and let me in, no ticket. Frankly I still don't understand that, but I'm glad it happened.
what a fantastic story. thank you for sharing
Jerry smiling during Ripple makes me so happy
So incredibly grateful to the Dead family for streaming this, right on time
at 50..and not really being a grateful dead fan through the years...my god, really appreciate them now...
It's never to late!
same here. I didn't get into the Dead til last year, when I was 53. Took me a long time, but now I'm pretty much a Deadhead. lol
They are the gift that keeps on giving.
55, first time I searched them to see how they sound... this is great.
@@madDadMusic pretty amazing entity they were..
Was at this show, , 40yrs. ago, just about to THE DAY !!! AND returned to the scene, 10-31-19 for 'Dead & Co.'.... and 'the music WILL NEVER stop!!!!!!
Let there be songs to fill the air ⚡️💀🙌
That rhythm guitar playing from Bob in Shakedown Street is fantastic. Give that song one extra listen and just listen to the rhythm guitar. What a musician.
SO TRUE..BOB is really one of the MOST FANTASTIC rythm guitar players EVER......I get such inspiration from him, while playin my guitar.....
@@timmccarthy3034he still sings so beautifully too
He has a wonderful voice for all these years ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹🎹🎧🎼📽️🔛✝️☪️🥰😘😍 + will last as long as he does ! ❤️❤️🐰🐇
I was a rookie NYC Court Officer and I worked security at this concert--all of the days.
Quite a experience.
Lucky you! Did you have fun or at least enjoy the music?
holy makael.... very nice,,
I held off until the morning to watch....Best wake and bake !!!!
Good minds think alike!!!!!!! Pass
There has been no greater influence in my life other than my parents and Mother Nature herself than the good ol’ Grateful Dead. Long live the music!!!
Jah herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜🍄🍌🍄🥒🍄🫒🍄🌍🇧🇴🇧🇻🇯🇲🇸🇪🇬🇧🇻🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🐻🌵🌵🌾
I love Jah Dead !
This is music of the forever soul where love reigns and healing happens and everyone is one !
They were hitting their stride with these shows in the fall of ‘80.
That Heaven Help the Fool is the shining gem of this whole thing. THANK YOU!
You so fucking get it.
You have to admit , the Dead is timeless
So cool to watch and listen !
I still miss Jerry , as I only saw the Dead
with Jerry Playing a handful of times , then it was Ratdog, Further, Dead and Company
You're one of the lucky few human beings in the history of humanity to have seen Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead. I started liking the Dead in the early 2000s... Officially became a Deadhead in 2014/2015 so I even missed Ratdog 😔
For me the live shows have been all JRAD, Dead & Co, the Cause, Grateful Shred, Dark Star Orchestra, & Brown Eyed Women (whose bassist is amazing, BTW! Check her out!). I'm not complaining, but I'd pay a lot of money for a sphere I can walk into and experience past Grateful Dead concerts as if I were actually there (with VR/AR/AI technology) - with the same volume and quality of sights and sounds and the ability to walk around and dance (and even talk to people who were there). I hope those types of devices exist before I die! I did check off one bucket list item this year (VIP pit ticket for Dead & Co @ Deer Creek!!). Many more to check off -- hopefully soon! 😁🤘✌️⚡☠️
Its about time this is back
Dang, I miss Jerry and Brent. This was the era I discovered the Dead, this show takes me right back.
Brent for president
Right on!
Me too man. Saw those 2 exchange some wicked fun Iko Iko's and NFA's!
Me to, brother!!! I'm so grateful for it! We lived in a great time in history for music!!!😉😁
@@brianfisher6165 y'all are so lucky I was born a month after Jerry Died 😭. Still Grateful I can listen to pretty much any show that was ever played though through the archives!
I was at this show!!!! Boy I feel old! Miss Jerry so much, he left us way too young!
Thank you for sharing this♥️ I am enjoying it so much. I am trying to remember the last time I saw the grateful dead. I can't for some reason. I can remember the first time though! It was just after PigPen passed. What an incredible show.
This show here is giving me goose bumps! It is making me very happy! So a big thanks. And hugs to everyone. This is great ♥️🎶🎶🎶
The acoustic Dead always satisfies.
This their real sound...Country.Rock Folk...is their best...i wish thay kept it that way...Cool Stuff
The opening Song is Great...The Bongos and Drums Wow...i seen this years ago
@@kevmichael2064 it's funny because I'm glad they didn't. When I want electric blues I have the dead when I want disco I have the dead wheen I want rockabilly again I have the dead reggae dead etc etc. They just, to me, make any genre they touch enjoyable. It's what made them what they are to millions.
U have that so rite Hugh Jorgan !
I remember watching this on Showtime in 1981.
Haven't seen it since (completely forgot that Franken & Davis hosted that show).
Thanks for posting it here. 👍
Frankin + Davis didn’t matter ! We were there to c the Gratefuldead not them !!!
I love how Billy and Micky trade off on the mini drum kit and the hand percussion kit...I have seen parts of this a bunch of times but never really noticed before...The film editing is done so you really don't see the switching back and forth...Thanks for posting all these awesome shows!...
Summer of 1980 my first of over 50 shows !
Best part of quarantine.
The energy in this is just incredible! So positive, so fun, so scintillating. Brilliant, just brilliant! Thanks guys for tumbling into my life when I was 14 and opening my mind to a wider world.
Still maybe their most fun concert film. The backstage stuff has me in stitches every time.
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Shit... Fuck... lol yeah it's pretty great
Oh how I wished I was there! I was the sound guy in SF at the Warfield when we taped all the Franken & Davis stuff, awesome in itself, but Acoustic Dead! My first shows were ten years previous, Fillmore East, when the line up was Acoustic Dead, New Riders (Jerry on pedal steel, Micky on drums), followed by Electric Dead. Sheer bliss!
Interesting. What a great job. You must have so many stories & memories.
I met a girl at the Lewiston Maine outdoor concert so when we were in California we got to stay 2 more weeks so we could b there more ! Then Jerry took me to his shows then back to the concert ! What a grateful trip it was for us ! 😆😁😂🤣😍🥰😘😍🥰😘
That was the best birdsong I've ever seen or heard
Happy American Beauty 50th Anniversary, Dead Freaks!
We're Dead Heads. Not Freaks!
@@markdebonis1077 Check the back of the vinyl copy of "Greatful Dead", aka "Grateful Dead Live" ot"Skull and Roses" or "Skull Fuck", and you will see the following words printed in black and white: "DEAD FREAKS UNITE Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed Dead Heads P.O. Box 1065 San Rafael, California 94901."
The only thing certain about certainty is its inherent uncertainty.
@@markdebonis1077 I live in Italy. Being a Deadhead here is like being a very strange freak ;)
And proud of it!
@@markdebonis1077 Well some of us are but if u dont say it with respect we could get all Pigpeny on you . straight up .
Long live the dead. This year would have been so much harder if i had never heard of them. Jehovah's favorite choir. I cant wait to see all of you again. 🎸 💀 🎶
TRUTH
yes!!!!! Jehovah's favorite choir
I used to have this on VHS back in the late 1980s. Lots of stuff on here I never saw. I understand there are certain parts of this film that are still left out to this day.
Jerry and Bob add Quicksilver licks to Not Fade away. The vibe is over the top.
Rolled out of bed to this, now I can’t find my face again ❤️💀🌹
Its on ur pillow!!!! Peace n Love
I lost my face in the early 80 s + never found it again ! 😊
Best version of Lost Sailor & Saint of Circumstance in my opinion anyway.
I agree and it is not even close. Bobby at his best.
I'm 57 years old and been a Dead Head since 14 this show is FUCKIN GREAT!!!!
Fans: screaming out requests Jerry: Any other songs no one wants to hear? 😂🔥🌹💀this is beautiful show
Bob said that lol
Happy Halloween my fellow Deadheads!
you too brother! stay spooky :D
hell yea go hawks!
Not to be super negative, since this is was the era i first starting following the boys, and i played this vinyl a bagillion times over and over.
Just love it!!
Just recently listened to it again and without looking it up i knew this was the NY crowd. No crowd in the history of the dead could be quite so obnoxious with yells and whistles and cat calls in the middle of a to lay me down quite like a ny crowd. They had no concept of just listening nor did they have any concept that decades later the rest of us would still be saying, just stfu!!
Me and My Uncle right into Mexicali Blues omg this is a dream
Welcome back guys 🙏
This is one of the NYC Radio City Music Hall shows in October 1980. Not Madison Square Garden. Discovered Dead at 14 in 1973. 21 year old me was at this Radio City show. Great times.
The Halloween 1980 show was actually at Radio City Music Hall, not MSG
Best news I've had in a long time!!!!! Glad you're back!!!!!
This is the best concert I’ve ever seen ! Plus I was there ! Wow ❤️🐰🐇🌹love this so much !
SO FUNNY how Brent makes the little "intro" for the "comedy team" here.........HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...HILLARIOUS......very slick, his humor....just like his keyboard playing.....and vocals, one of the very BEST .........This show is one that I keep going back to, again and again.....cause it makes me LAUGH every time...Laughter, in the days we live in now, is VERY GOOD MEDICINE INDEED......I LOVE to play my guitar along with this one too....the acoustic sets are AMAZING here, and not very commonly heard either...I wish they would have done more acoustic sets in their shows....Oh well...Jerry said he felt like his "skill levels on the acoustic guitar was not nearly as good as his electric" stuff....but, FUK .....it SURE BLOWS MY MIND none the less.....when I hear him play an acoustic guitar.....He is a continuous inspiration for me....and always will be.....
This is their best concert!...The Bongos and Congas..Fantastic!
how many times have i bought this on dvd to have it scratched later. more than 3 copies already thanks for putting this out there!
Hey man pssst....little known trick;
Vaseline. Vaseline rubbed into the scratches on CDs and DVDs will fix any scratch.
Toothpaste too. No shit.
Give it a try.
Your welcome ✌️
Saw this show which was live at Radio City Music Hall in NYC on close circuit tv from South Mountain Arena in West Orange NJ. Dead had never done that before. We all dressed up for Halloween. Friend of mine was dressed as Jesus Christ. A dead ringer for JC. He parted the crowd as he walked across the floor of arena. Freaked some people out. So fun. Great show.
that's really funny, I used to play hockey at south mountain arena as a kid. love to hear that they broadcast a dead show from there.
I was there/ Don't remember the Jesus guy though. I also saw one of the shows at Radio city. Good times.
Such a FULL sound they have. It’s beautiful 😍
Love it!
Such 👌 sound separation.
Mox is amazing. Doesnt hurt its in an amazing acoustic house like radio city.
I've got to admit that the dead sound really good unplugged...mtv really dropped the ball not inviting them to come on & play... #jambo
I think they did get the invite but declined.
Watching this on New Year’s Eve 2021. I was at this show when I was 20. What’s most alarming is that Jerry is only 38, a worn 38 too. Phil conversely is 41, and didn’t really age for the next 30 years Here I am, almost 62, and being thankful the Dead left this legacy for the fans.. Amazing, how life can be.
Como siempre GRANDES. GRACIAS...
So glad a good friend got me into these guys, followed em for 8 months, I won't ever forget those days
I'm 48 years of age and I'm sitting here in our kitchen with my 35 year old fiance watching this gem while she's watching the latest news about the Afghanistan disaster. I must say I'm glad to be able to escape into the past where of course everything was better :)) To keep my sanity in this mad world and I feel sorry for the generations after me who can't do the same. Even Pot won't do the same to them as to us.
You bet we schooled those generations well tho daddyO.
The only reason i still have hope for this shit show we got going on, right here, rights now. I'm 60. No great grand kids yet. Kinda good when ya think about it. As if by design, he's gone just came on. Peace Big O.
Love from Peggy O.
My girl had cancer so it’s just me + her but she wasn’t a Deadhead ever but I surely love her so much plus she met all the guys ! ❤️🔥
This "bootleg" was on constant "stream" for me in 1984-1986 when I was 16-18.
Wow! Remember Watching this on Laser Disc bought it at Tower Records back in the day!
Space into Fire has brought me to tears hundreds of times!
Just fucking magic!❤
I agree ! I never have gotten over Jerry ! We were inlove but couldn’t get away from him ,ihigh on ectacy was 2 years on it having a good time but my mind was always on Jerry he is my soul mate ,he loved my hands because I was born with Crocker fingers only the little ones ,❤️🕊🐇🎵🎹🎼🎶🕊🏴☠️🌹🌹😘🥰😍😥
The Kissinger bootleg bit kills me haha.
"God dammit, Henry!"
"Hey, Hey, Henry K
How many folks did you
bomb today?
Hey, Hey, Henry K
How many troops did you
kill today?
Hey, Hey, Henry K
How much Agent Orange
Did you spray today?
When you were down
On your knees
Prayin' with Nixon
Did you also pray
For the souls
You were "fixin'"?
I hated that time in our history ! It was so sad ! 🥲😢😥😰🥵😱🤯💘❤️🔥💜👽🪐🛸🚀💥☄️⚡️🥀love + peace please !
Oh man!!! re reading the chats from the last night!!!!! OH!! Sh#t!! I love you guys... so funny to read all. Was going super fast!! Funny so enjoyable you guys should check it out!!! LOVE N PEACE
I'm a Happy Hippie tonight 🎃 yay 🎸💀🎶
So incredible "to lay me down"..beautiful.
First cassette of the Grateful Dead I had at 13 years old but it was called "For the Faithful" made from a record company in Passaic, NJ.( just the acoustic sets) Took awhile to get into it because I thought the Grateful Dead was a heavy metal band ! Then got Skeltons from the Closet and became a total Deadhead !
A very happy 81st birthday to Philip Chapman Lesh March 15, 1940. And many, many more to come. What can I say which hasn't already been said about Phil??
Happy Birthday Phil
Happy day to u captain cunnilus ! My friend Philly from 1978 in Springfield Mass . ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹❤️🔥💓💗👽🪐🛸🚀💥☄️⚡️💜
Of course the date I have now @ this show is December 18 , 2023 but I love u my old friend ! ❤️💜💗💓💘🩵💝💖❣️💕💞❤️🩹💔🤍🤎🩶🖤💙🐰🐇🌹all hearts out to u + family ! From Vinalhaven Maine !
Sounds of younger times, thank you. The last time I saw Young Jerry was a little after this show, at the Rainbow, far away across the Eastern sea.
Radio City Music Hall
New York City, NY
10/30-31/80 - Concert Video (2005 edition)
Show Info:
In 1981, selections from this tour were released on 2 live albums, "Reckoning" & "Dead Set".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead:_Dead_Ahead
Acoustic Set:
Intro (Franken & Davis)
"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) - Oct. 31, '80
"On The Road Again" (traditional, arranged by GD) - Oct. 30, '80
"To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) - Oct. 30, '80
"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) - Oct. 31, '80
Electric Set:
Henry Kissinger Interview (Franken & Davis)
"Me and My Uncle" (Phillips); Oct. 31, '80
"Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow); Oct. 31, '80
"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter); Oct. 31, '80
"Little Red Rooster" (Dixon); Oct. 31, '80
A Visit Backstage (Franken & Davis)
"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by GD); Oct. 31, '80
"Lost Sailor" (Weir, Barlow); Oct. 31, '80
"Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow); Oct. 31, '80
"Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter); Oct. 31, '80
"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann); Oct. 31, '80
"Space" (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Mydland); Oct. 31, '80
"Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter); Oct. 31, '80
"Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty); Oct. 31, '80
"Good Lovin'" (Resnick, Clark); Oct. 31, '80
2005 DVD Edition Bonus Tracks:
"Heaven Help the Fool" (Weir, Barlow) - acoustic; Oct. 30, '80
"Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter); Oct. 30, '80
"Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by GD); Oct. 30, '80
"He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter); Oct. 30, '80
"Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter); Oct. 30, '80
Production:
Len Dell'Amico - director
Dan Healy & Betty Cantor-Jackson - audio mix
Candace Brightman - lighting and set design
SNL regulars Al Franken & Tom Davis - hosts
Thanks dude
I did LSD at 15 with my best friends. I listened to Doors, Hendrix, Floyd..the usual suspects. Then I was introduced the the Grateful Dead. To make a long story short the only thing I listened to after that was Dead bootlegs.
1970...I was lucky enough to have been granted some real mescaline about age 17, then was gifted "orange barrel" LSD at my private school. That evening my best friend had a nice quiet party in his basement. There was the Skull and Roses album. Bertha was on. There was something about that song and the way it was being played.... after that, their music never stopped. The 1st time I saw them was at Vanderbilt U. Then RFK 6 10 73. That was the greatest one I ever experienced. May I suggest the new soundboard of it at ruclips.net/video/JIGb3BhKePQ/видео.html
The photo is from the day before. On 6 10 JG was in his archetypal black.
@@Spherian7 why yes thank you.
Never too much GD.
@@pegmarinello3188 Make sure you crank it up to get the opening D chord. You can hear the screams of awesome... I was in the balcony at the other end of the stadium and it was like a powerful concentric wave that rolled out over the vast crowd, up into the balcony and then everyone's attention just flowed right back. From then on it was a journey to the Beyond Within and even God got very much involved.
@@Spherian7 I'm enjoying the show you recommended. Audio only, but i love the photo. The wall of speakers and Jerry in that red tie die with the music symbol. The dark hair and beard of his youth. The piano surely dominates the stage. The wall of speakers that predates the wall of sound. I haven't seen this photo b4. I says alot
Like the Kissinger clown, the last time I saw the Dead do an acoustic set was at the Fillmore East in 1970. (The New Riders and they were more or less morphed together that night.) The performances at this 1980 gig at Radio City Music Hall are superb. Thanks!
That wasn’t actually Henry Kissinger. Are you dense? That was Al Franken impersonating Kissinger. 😂🤦♂️
@@YogsenForfoth Duh, yeah. 😂
The joke there is that the Dead never cared if you taped their shows.
I love the Dead and I gotta say this Little Red Rooster 🐓 is probably my favorite version, Bob kills it
I made every Night was great bunch shows 8 nights of "fresh mushrooms" the midnight train back to Long Island full of dead heads dripping with sweat was amazing
That Opening Song..iS Cool...this the best concert thay did...Country Folk Rock is their best...i wish thay kept it like this....Ripple ...Uncle Johns Band etc
One of my favorite shows. Like someone said, My first acoustic set.
Such a damn fine show and fun chat with my deadhead friends. ✌🏽🍻
Love you!!!
@@rosebud1958 And I love you! Truly so sweet and so appreciated by ME! 🌹❤️ Hope you are having a grate Halloween!
Thanks a lot, see you in a little while.
I’ll never b as happy as I was with them for almost 10 years then I had to leave because my love was to deep for Jerry plus this was our song to lay me down !
Just a group of friends that loved to make music. No wonder why dead music will stand the test of time
I’ve been into this by myself most of the time now because I lost a lot of my Deadheads friends so may it b as it is because I still have these concerts for myself + my heart only ! ❤
I know how you feel, I’m 66 and am witnessing first hand the ever decreasing hippie population. So many of my friends are gone 💔
@@soxgoddess3332im sorry for u too ! It hurts like hell ! ❤️🐇🐰🎶☠️💀⚡️🐉🐦🔥👽🪐🛸🚀☮️🪽🕊️👻💔🥲😢😥
WooHoo!
Brilliant show!
Hey! It looks like the description needs to be updated. It states the shows are from Madison Square Garden. Weren't they from Radio City Music Hall? Anyway, looking forward to the Friday stream. Thank you!
Um yes, you are correct.
Ur a deadhead. They r just the grateful dead😅
Good eyes, Kid good eyes
such great sound here..
I love the space in their playin..
lots of room...
I still love this man we call Jerry so much that’s it has ruined my life because when I was with him there was no world or people or anything else for me to think about ! We would just look at eachother + knew what we were thinking ! He is my soulmate until I die to b with him ! ❤️🐇🐰🥲😢😥💀☠️⚡️🌍 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜love all over the world 🌎 may there be !
I absolutely love hearing them do "On The Road Again" - to me, it's very, VERY similar to hearing them do, "The Monkey and the Engineer" - both are very quick little ditties that are helmed by Bob at the vocals. And both have very fun, short little Jerry solos.
Marry a fat girl tell you the reason why 🤣
I completely agree 👍 and acoustic at that!!!!🤪😜
What a magical group of presences. Fly high, Jerry.
Really a high watermark these acoustic sets heal the soul.
"what ...what.....is THAT what you people want??"....HAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAA..I LOVE THESE GUYS............and BTW......this is a REALLY GREAT SHOW....
I always miss Jerry, but sometimes I fucking really miss him/them/this
Favorite Shakedown EVER!
Perhaps their best version of "Bird Song" ever, Acoustic or Electric. The 1st set took me places I never thought an Acoustic set could take me, and set the stage for the rest of the show. "Dead Ahead" is still one of the Dead's most Psychedelic video performances ever released to this day. Drop a tab and take the journey! Get back on that Road again!!
My niece has looks like rain , I have this to Lay me down ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹⚡️🕊️🌈☀️🪽💀☠️🥰😘😍with so much love in it for me !
Saw this one live at a theater in Waterbury, CT. This was the first time they attempted something like this. It was great, with superb visuals, and with no idea what they would play. Unfortunately it didn't really attract a huge crowd so they never tried it again.
The night of the show? That must have been Very Cool.
@@brucemholland6518 Yeah. I think it was around 10-12 theaters across the country.
@@auggieeast I would think something like that would have caught on. It was also probably disconcerting to the town-folk. Have Fun!
@@brucemholland6518 They moved to in home pay per view over trying to get everyone to go to a theater.
@@auggieeast And this here magic, of course.
Love this !