i dont think i have ever not fallen in love with a Grateful Dead song. sometimes i think "oh i will skip to my favourites" but then the song starts and i end up listening to it all and thinking its purely amazing...
My sister cried when I took her to her first show @ Oxford Plains. She was at Saint Lawrence University. Some where during the show she turn to me and said, " I get why you go on Tour. Peace, Love and Light, Sis..
This is me and my lovers Love song He used to usher for the grateful dead and Jerry garcia band We got a version in 9/11/21 and it really felt like Bobby played it for us Means so much to us ❤️⚡️💙
@tennesseejed69 how well i know what you mean to say.. for instance i miss the '60's so much i'm sort of still "there" and i'm 61 years old! we'll never leave the past to be in the present! you and i are waiting to see Jerry (the band) and all our loved ones in the hereafter, where it'll be like always.
This song is about a girl that bob weir knew in Prauge named Gadec minor. The keys in the song go from G to A to D to E to C minor. The soviets took over in the 60s and he had to leave the country and her as a result. The line, "I still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name." That's a direct refference to her name being spelled by the keys. Knowing this made this sad song all the more sadder.
Other then the fact that when he wrote this, he'd never been to Europe let a long Prauge and John Barlow wrote the words. Where do you people get this stuff?
while this isnt my favorite, i do like this song. bob and donna do great vocals and ive always liked jerrys lead and solo on this. beautifully done song. i know some out there complain about donna. well she was good. and, for the record, they all had off nights. they werent perfect. they enjoyed what they were doing and ive enjoyed them too.
I new it had to the man himself,( Nice one Chris )your the man it is wife's song. PS-I recorded your Good Morining Little SchoolGirl, man great recording as always buddy . Have a greatful Day ,your on my top ten people to get song's on Utube anything you put out! Thanks for your email.Hope all is good with you & your Family. Keep them coming Chris
You don't have to like her, but if you can't respect her and her contributions to a band that often appeared to have no idea how to utilize her many talents, than I totally agree -- you can't respect the Dead. She persevered, always doing her best and never complaining, right up to her last day in the band. The band never addressed her problems hearing herself onstage, and did precious little with the songs she wrote, which were damned good. "Rain," possibly the best of the lot, never got played once, and that would have been the shit to hear live. She was given no possible pathway to success by the band, which is deeply disappointing. Vince Welnick was treated similarly, but that's another story.
The comments about Donna are baseless since she had to contend with the wall of sound and this was not studio work. Donna and bob and Jerome and billy and Phil and pigpen and Brent and Mickey et Al are Gods children doing their best at entertaining us dead in songs that enrich our souls long after we all pass on. Donna did her best or bob would not have kept her after her husband Keith died in that traffic accident. Bob Weir was the glue that held the Dead together for us as long as it lasted. Donna is still singing in Alabama. Jerry and Brent are nodding and winking to each other in heaven, especially when they surprise each other that they played in sync or it just sounded good. Don’t complain, find the good in the music and keep the songs in your head, then and only then, will the music never die. Hey now.
Keith and DJ sounded INCREDIBLE in 77-78 Donna Jean sounds like crap when she gets all Yoko Ono screamy and Jerry wasn't so keen on her but this performance is an example of how great she actually could be.
what's all this see you in the afterlife nonsense, just keep the music alive...let your songs drift out into space no matter how it sounds to someone else
I'm getting really tired of people trashing Donna. There are shows where each and every member of the Dead have had off nights, flat, not holding notes etc. Where are those criticisms? If you think that Donna is off on this song you are utterly tone deaf, and really should not be publicly evaluating these posts. You make yourself sound musically illiterate. If you don't like the arrangement, that is purely taste, but don't say she is off key. Lastly always remember these mixes aren't prof qualit
Please don't say you where @ the Winterland. If you say you where there, let me question you. I love that place(Geary & Fillmore) Their are $mill apts there now. I remember when they came with that show the Acid being past around where like pyramids. There will never Wonderland. After Winterland we went to Oakland, then The Shoreline
....word has it, Donna had trouble at concerts hearing the rest of the band and sometimes got off key...I'll tell ya, in those days it was a real problem. In her studio performances, she was good...The band wouldn't have kept her around if she was always discordant.
Awoke today, felt your side of the bed; The covers were still wet where you been layin'. Jerry redeems another bob las vegas twighlight years tour, yet to come....donna u are welcome to join him...no dis, just is.... surely looks like rain... miss you jerry
The reason why Keith and Donna were asked to leave is Jerome wanted more production from Keith, and it was not there Yes, Keith had an exceptionally smooth touch to the piano and yes. Keith did well on the studio production of wake of the flood - but more was needed.
Sorry....great performance but not Egypt....I'm not enough of a Deadhead to know what show this is bug Gracia's guitar solo here is not the one I know (and prefer) from Egypt........peace
I know theory. Also, you are wrong. And, also, you shouldn't expect your listener to know music theory. Not even jazz musicians expect their fans to know theory.
The best version hands down….unreal.
i dont think i have ever not fallen in love with a Grateful Dead song. sometimes i think "oh i will skip to my favourites" but then the song starts and i end up listening to it all and thinking its purely amazing...
Tears are flowing with JOY!! DONNA IS ON POINT!
Donna and Bobby sing together like angels on this song!!!
The BEST versions of this were with Bobby and Donna...🍺😎👍
WOW. THIS IS WHAT I CALL BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. WHY CAN'T MY GENERATION MELT FACES LIKE THIS?
My sister cried when I took her to her first show @ Oxford Plains. She was at Saint Lawrence University. Some where during the show she turn to me and said, " I get why you go on Tour. Peace, Love and Light, Sis..
💖
I wish one of my sister's had had a similar reaction.
MAN I MISS THE OLD DAYS!! I yearn for the 1970's and early 1980's. Oh well maybe in the afterlife.
fillmore east every weekend, no matter how
who
I love this song cuz it's alright and I'll still sing you love songs
This song is too awesome for anyone to dislike it.
I only get to say this rarely, Donna is heavenly on this. They are all spot on, Great solo too.
LOVE DONNA
I always thought that I was the ONLY one...🤔
Heard a lot of rain, this one's a GEM !
Jerry’s solo is incredible... 😯
Jerry is DEFINITELY a LEGEND... 🍺😎👍
@OldBeethowen
Thanks for us ! This Jerry's solo is absolutely amazing ! One of his best solos of his carreer.
that is a freakin fabulous story that I never knew!!! this one of my number one favorite songs and knowing that just made it more sweeter.
such a great dead song, such a shame so few people have heard it
Love this!!! and Donna sounds terrific!!!!!
Great version..one of my fav DEAD songs..Definitely Bobby tune
PPL JUST DONT KNOW HOW TRULY GREAT THEY WERE,,,,MISS YOU JERRY AND TY FOR THE COUNTLESS SHOWS
This is me and my lovers Love song
He used to usher for the grateful dead and Jerry garcia band
We got a version in 9/11/21 and it really felt like Bobby played it for us
Means so much to us ❤️⚡️💙
if you can't respect Donna, you can't respect the Dead. end of story.
jordanfan1023 Amen!!!!!!!!!
This is the song. Bob and Donna made it but Leah and Kruitzman carried it
False
Sadly many of the fans who claim 77 is the Dead’s best year ignore that the harmonies were a part of that.
Not true
Donna and Bobby had such great chemistry together. I REALLY WISH they did more projects together...
I think this was my first show after moving from NY to SF in early 1978.
His voice is so haunting in this song....
I love Donna my fav Dead period.
Genshu Chris Ro Anyone that dosent like Donna wasn't there. The new age of negative thought we live in. Bring back the days
I cry to this song every night.
I wonder if Bobby ever found her.
Aiko Kayy , this song was written for pig pen and Joplin and their fling.
@tennesseejed69 how well i know what you mean to say.. for instance i miss the '60's so much i'm sort of still "there" and i'm 61 years old! we'll never leave the past to be in the present! you and i are waiting to see Jerry (the band) and all our loved ones in the hereafter, where it'll be like always.
From Harlingen with Love Back❤
9 December 2023 ❤
I love the Grateful Dead!!!!!!!
First time listening here🎉❤😊
Simply awe inspiring....Words cannot do this justice....
Mynrkeys totally agree gives me goose bumps
This is one of the best LLR's I have heard.
I love this song. It's the perfect love song.
Wow! Final jam goosebumps
This song is about a girl that bob weir knew in Prauge named Gadec minor. The keys in the song go from G to A to D to E to C minor. The soviets took over in the 60s and he had to leave the country and her as a result. The line, "I still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name." That's a direct refference to her name being spelled by the keys. Knowing this made this sad song all the more sadder.
Allan Selberg. Thanx for that insight bro!😀
Allan Selberg fascinating ♡
Other then the fact that when he wrote this, he'd never been to Europe let a long Prauge and John Barlow wrote the words. Where do you people get this stuff?
Thank you for that info.
I read he made that story up
JERRY IS GREAT AT SOLO QUITAR ! DONA & BOB IS GOOD VOICES !
I think Donna sounds Grate!
great kool dead tune(bobby)always great live!!!!
If you cant imagine what heavens angels sound like then listen and hear
Looks Like Rain is on the studio album Ace. It's considered a Bob Weir album because all songs were written by him, but the band is the Grateful Dead.
The standard.....
Just ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! I'm sure "THE WIZ" would have definitely gave them 2 stars at least but is worthy of 3!!!!!!
Beautiful...!
while this isnt my favorite, i do like this song. bob and donna do great vocals and ive always liked jerrys lead and solo on this. beautifully done song. i know some out there complain about donna. well she was good. and, for the record, they all had off nights. they werent perfect. they enjoyed what they were doing and ive enjoyed them too.
happy b day capt still miss ya brother
@gurtobe Without a doubt, one of his finest ever.
0 dislikes is very appropriate for this gem, so nice, here comes the rain.
Awesome solo!
Great solo!!
Hey, I was at this show. Bobby's guitar strap button broke and they had to gaff it in place to get through the show. No back up guitars back then.
Damn I miss the 70s
good stuff enjoy
i love this verion jerry owns it
@tennesseejed69 I love the donna!
I new it had to the man himself,( Nice one Chris )your the man it is wife's song. PS-I recorded your Good Morining Little SchoolGirl, man great recording as always buddy . Have a greatful Day ,your on my top ten people to get song's on Utube anything you put out! Thanks for your email.Hope all is good with you & your Family.
Keep them coming Chris
Soooooo Sweeeet
You don't have to like her, but if you can't respect her and her contributions to a band that often appeared to have no idea how to utilize her many talents, than I totally agree -- you can't respect the Dead. She persevered, always doing her best and never complaining, right up to her last day in the band. The band never addressed her problems hearing herself onstage, and did precious little with the songs she wrote, which were damned good. "Rain," possibly the best of the lot, never got played once, and that would have been the shit to hear live. She was given no possible pathway to success by the band, which is deeply disappointing. Vince Welnick was treated similarly, but that's another story.
winterland
10/18/78
The comments about Donna are baseless since she had to contend with the wall of sound and this was not studio work. Donna and bob and Jerome and billy and Phil and pigpen and Brent and Mickey et Al are Gods children doing their best at entertaining us dead in songs that enrich our souls long after we all pass on. Donna did her best or bob would not have kept her after her husband Keith died in that traffic accident. Bob Weir was the glue that held the Dead together for us as long as it lasted. Donna is still singing in Alabama. Jerry and Brent are nodding and winking to each other in heaven, especially when they surprise each other that they played in sync or it just sounded good. Don’t complain, find the good in the music and keep the songs in your head, then and only then, will the music never die. Hey now.
Keith and DJ sounded INCREDIBLE in 77-78
Donna Jean sounds like crap when she gets all Yoko Ono screamy and Jerry wasn't so keen on her but this performance is an example of how great she actually could be.
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HERE COME THE RAIN! (hot damn)
Not sure what that means jw89. I am not up on the pop lingo, but then again, I am listening to songs from 1978.
what's all this see you in the afterlife nonsense, just keep the music alive...let your songs drift out into space no matter how it sounds to someone else
@rblodget Amen
I'm getting really tired of people trashing Donna. There are shows where each and every member of the Dead have had off nights, flat, not holding notes etc. Where are those criticisms? If you think that Donna is off on this song you are utterly tone deaf, and really should not be publicly evaluating these posts. You make yourself sound musically illiterate. If you don't like the arrangement, that is purely taste, but don't say she is off key. Lastly always remember these mixes aren't prof qualit
The landscape would be empty if you were gone
@rblodget According Phil it was because she and Keith were getting divorced and she wasn;t making the rehearsals.
@tennesseejed69 well said....
Please don't say you where @ the Winterland. If you say you where there, let me question you. I love that place(Geary & Fillmore) Their are $mill apts there now. I remember when they came with that show the Acid being past around where like pyramids. There will never Wonderland. After Winterland we went to Oakland, then The Shoreline
@townshend1969 every solo is his best bud
It's not from Egypt 78--It's Winterland 10/18/78
It's from the Winterland shows after the Egypt trip...complete with a slide show :)
....word has it, Donna had trouble at concerts hearing the rest of the band and sometimes got off key...I'll tell ya, in those days it was a real problem. In her studio performances, she was good...The band wouldn't have kept her around if she was always discordant.
Did they play this twice? If they didnt, this is not the Egypt 78 show.
@bdagostino11 seriously, background vocals should be in the background. her vocals were always too heavy in the mix.
@originalritz touche! :)
@fbskier20
you mean *steal* faces like this?
Awoke today, felt your side of the bed;
The covers were still wet where you been layin'.
Jerry redeems another bob las vegas twighlight years tour, yet to come....donna u are welcome to join him...no dis, just is....
surely looks like rain...
miss you jerry
:) QC
:) QC
Well, they did eventually let her go.
there is a reason they booted donna, and it wasnt the drugs...
The reason why Keith and Donna were asked to leave is Jerome wanted more production from Keith, and it was not there
Yes, Keith had an exceptionally smooth touch to the piano and yes. Keith did well on the studio production of wake of the flood - but more was needed.
@tennesseejed69 suite melt brah
Sorry....great performance but not Egypt....I'm not enough of a Deadhead to know what show this is bug Gracia's guitar solo here is not the one I know (and prefer) from Egypt........peace
I cant listen to it when she sings she manages to ruins it every time
Svlad Cjelli I actually thought she did fine here
The dissonance is intentional...learn music theory people!
I know theory. Also, you are wrong. And, also, you shouldn't expect your listener to know music theory. Not even jazz musicians expect their fans to know theory.
Great song but cap version
@tennesseejed69 I just don't like a woman in my Grateful Dead. Its not sexist, its just not what I like.
someone edit donna out of this itll be better ...thanks
Simply awe inspiring....Words cannot do this justice....