I could sit here and listen to them reminisce all day, and i hope that bob schedules some more shows with some other members of the dead and Phil some more
ESP since jerry mentioned that it dropped off the list no the difficulty in singing it while playing. Maybe the reason for the minimalistic approach. Great.
The session with Phil and Jason Crosby was in the groove, on track and just amazing. I simultaneously cried and experienced such incredible joy hearing "Operator". Playin' In The Band" revealed far more subtleties than live versions! great ensemble playing. "Lazy River Road was another crying externally, experiencing great internal joy moment. They may dislike each other but God, do they make beautiful music together!
0:36 Sugar Magnolia (Bob Solo, Acoustic) 4:02 Sunshine Daydream 5:46 Cosmic Charlie 14:24 Loose Lucy 22:28 Jack Straw 32:43 Break - Couch Talk 49:57 Operator 53:44 Lazy River Road 1:00:54 Playing In The Band
I totally love Bob's rhythm playing ... all those little flourishes intead of chords and rhythmically interesting too... After all this is the guy who gave us China Cat's intro....
His guitar playing is almost like "chunck chuncky". And it's got a very "metallic tinny" kind of ring to it. It's a blend of rhythm guitar and almost kind of like a lead percussion.
@@Chrispypullen That sort of sound for him really started in the late 80s/early 90s. Everyone was going for that tinny sort of thin guitar sound around that time, and since then, bobby seems to still favor that tinny sound. He uses many single coil instruments through Vox AC30s on one of his recent tours with Dead and Co, which obviously will produce a very trebly/tinny tone. He used to use a guitar with humbuckers back in the early days, which is definitely my favorite era of Bobby's playing as well as his tone. He played many fully voiced chords much more than the single line runs he does these days. He used to _really_ play like Tyner back in the day with so many chords it would make your head spin following the lead of Garcia's playing, and his tone was very warm and jazzy. Now he uses a lot of treble in his sound, but the opposite could be said about the warm and rich sound of Bobby's ES-335 in the early 70s.
Man Bobby sang some great tunes. It really is different when a band has 2 singers. It's like you get so used to one of them and then the voice changes and it's nice to hear something different.
The stage as a sacred place, love it. It's so heart warming to hear band members and family share their stories of magical moments during those times. Another reminder to me that it was real! Thank you for that acknowledgement. Do more of these rocking/couch sessions!
Phil is Dorian Grey. He looks younger at the end of the video than he did at the start. It's uncanny. It's like 40 years have skipped over him without leaving a trace.
@@gratefulaya192 I'm 62 & just had a ruptured appendix ...followed by a major ❤ attack & 4 surgeries. Kicked 11 drugs w/ weed, beer & aspirin! The worst thing about death has GOT to be that first night! Rock on brutha!💫 (🍄);·}X
I know people grow and change but I really miss seeing them together, finally they found someone who fits in well playing the guitar and Phils not there to enjoy it.
Bob is looking more and more like "The Dude" all the time...Wish he would have Jeff Bridges on they could do Bobby McGee together. Jack Straw is a gem on this one! Thanks guys...
No nO NO That is not, totally not the correct reference for "Steal Your Face". Just what would you do with that asshole face, anyway? I suggest you listen to ALLIGATOR, the last go home your mommas callin' you.
the first time i asked a girl to dance, and it worked, was during a new new minglewood blues at the stone in 1985. george thorogood special guest. also, was nearly killed by some hells angels I happened to call "scams," but narrowly escaped unscathed (with my doobage!) ..don't flush me down, was the phrase, if I recall.
we (Bob Weir)spent two nights together. 1969. I was 19 yrs old. talk about the feelings this evokes! I hate his beard. wonder if he ever thinks of us???
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back to the 60s and be a hippie and sleep with bob weir I wonder if he is faithful to his wife he is still incredibly sexy
sunshinenblues I figured that people like you who have been on the inside would have come out sooner.Can you give anything else?It doesn't have to be sexual, I love the behind the scenes stuff.I saw them,garcia band,midnites,kingfish,etc 300++ times,and always wondered abt that stuff....thanx
I can never understand the logic of these self-proclaimed music experts who denounce one musician as being inferior and at the same time exalt the praises of musicians who played with him for insanely long periods of time. Bobby played with Jerry for over 30 years and with Phil for over 50. If he is such an inferior musician why would musicians as great as Phil and Jerry collaborate with him for so long? The same sort of criticism is heaped on George Harrison yet he collaborated with Clapton his whole life. There is a reason why these great musicians hung around, played, and recorded with each other for so long and the obvious answer is: respect for each other's talents.
You definitely have a point. If you focus in on Weir's playing, there's so many nuances and it's not a strict rhythm guitar. Very complementary to Gerry and fills in the spaces. Never really heard much criticism about Harrison. He wasn't as fast or flashy as a Clapton or Albert Lee, but always tasty and appropriate lead for the song.
belliose Don't get me started. Few music critics have the gnosis and sensibility, the right stuff, to deal with PoMo fame. Take Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best guitarists: it's supposed to be composed by panels of experts, but it's maddeningly stupid and in the end absolutely useless; for example they have John Lennon fairly high on the list as a rhythm guitarist, exposing themselves as the popularity contest they inevitably degrade into. I love John Lennon, and he is an excellent guitarist, but this is absurd. On the other hand, who, in the whole wide world, is a better rhythm guitarist than Bob Weir? Because the Dead approach is so improvisational, Bob often leads the whole ensemble based on his read of the rhythm section and sometimes plays straight lead, like a sweet slide solo, all of which leaves Jerry as the free guitar who feeds off of Bob. They were a great duo, the equal of Allman/Betts and Green/Spencer. Clapton, who I also love, one of the best guitarists, is the most overrated musical artist to emerge in the 60s, placing in every popularity contest, but he did not sing and he didn't write songs, although he did create some fine guitar music. Harrison was a more rounded guitarist and a truly great songwriter and a fine vocalist to boot. In the future we will hear more of Lennon/Harrison and Garcia/Weir.
belliose Garcia allowed the likes of Donna for years. Go figure. There is more than talent to why a band is what they are. Luck, coincidence, friendship, etc.
rbmunkin Dude, Donna could sing. She could harmonize well and she was very creative with her voice. Jerry was a great musical experimenter and his theory of music was unique and daring. So many people don't 'get' the Dead because they want to think conventionally and Jerry wanted to push the conventions. Donna tried stuff that worked sometimes and sometimes didn't. Just like the rest of the band. If you respect Jerry you should respect his judgment. He had his ideals and strove to achieve them. Donna worked with his ideas and some of her stuff is truly excellent. Which is basically what could be said of all of the Dead's work.
belliose Everyone has their own opinion. Mine is that I didn't like Donna's live singing. It was screetchy and didn't fit, IMO (stress on "IMO"). I'm not alone: Bill Kreutzman: "Donna is a good person and I don't want to hurt her by saying this, but I never felt she fit in with the sound that we were going for...." And he continues a bit. See page 164 of his book "Deal". Just because I respect Jerry and feel he's a GREAT musician, doesn't mean he is perfect or "god". He made mistakes - like heroin and junk food. And Donna (IMO).
"What shall we say? Shall we call it by a name?" Garcia was an incarnation of Krishna - you don't have to believe it ["Do you think this will piss off the Clapton people?" - hysterical] Mythology develops over time, "Garcia as Krishna" is not my idea, it will be the idea of people a century or two from now.
What about the band as a whole.. I don't understand how everyone takes Garcia as Godlike but it to the whole GD family to make the magic happen.. The whole GD catalog is my Bible but I see them as a whole... Garcia was just a man with man problems just like us all and hated the fact people looked at him as Godlike
In a very real way, I think Jerry sacrificed himself to the community. Sure, he could have taken better care of himself, but he didn't have time for that when the weight of the whole Dead train was on his shoulders. The whole band, the crew, and the Deadheads made the magic happen, but in so many ways Jerry was, and still is, at the center.
"this is already not going according to plan" - if the Dead had a mantra, this is it! Yeah Bobby!!!
He followed that up by uttering their other mantra, "...but it better!"
no plan survives first contact with the dead
WOW! Very nice! Very nice indeed!!
Loved the stories about PigPen.
Thanks so much for posting
I could sit here and listen to them reminisce all day, and i hope that bob schedules some more shows with some other members of the dead and Phil some more
Just swell stuff.
Endless thnxs to Jerr and Bob for ever enduring classics.
...been wandering around, not necessarily lost, for a long time, somehow ended up here... Thanks Bob!
Legendary Legends. Brothers and friends. Thanks for posting. :-)
Some great stories about great People . So Glad to see this one . Thank You :) QC
Nice Cosmic Charlie for 2013!! Sweet… Phil & Bobby harmonize nicely considering the passage of time.
ESP since jerry mentioned that it dropped off the list no the difficulty in singing it while playing. Maybe the reason for the minimalistic approach. Great.
Really fine singing from both. Can you imagine if Jerry were in the mix for this stripped down harmonizing.
Absolutely loved this. Awesome Playin' jam. Thanks so much. A bright spot in my week so far!
This sit down about Pigpen was fantastic to hear. Thanks for the stories.
The session with Phil and Jason Crosby was in the groove, on track and just amazing. I simultaneously cried and experienced such incredible joy hearing "Operator". Playin' In The Band" revealed far more subtleties than live versions! great ensemble playing. "Lazy River Road was another crying externally, experiencing great internal joy moment. They may dislike each other but God, do they make beautiful music together!
what do you mean by they may dislike each other?
SO BEAUTIFUL, Thank You Don Eggiman! :)
...GOOD LORD !!...that jam after Playin' in the band is INDESCIBABLY UNBELIEVABLE!!!
0:36 Sugar Magnolia (Bob Solo, Acoustic)
4:02 Sunshine Daydream
5:46 Cosmic Charlie
14:24 Loose Lucy
22:28 Jack Straw
32:43 Break - Couch Talk
49:57 Operator
53:44 Lazy River Road
1:00:54 Playing In The Band
Opening jam? Thanks 🙏🏼
Thank you BOBBY AND PHIL !!!!!!
That Jason Crosby is so talented! I love his violin, keyboards and don't forget he has a Great voice!!
we're in at almost 19 minutes and I sure am enjoying You guys, Thank YOU for being here!
This is great.I cant listen to weir here live because im in scotland and the time difference so this is fantastic!
I have some betty boards and they are pretty great for how long ago they are and on tape...but also a good overall mix from the board...nice job
I totally love Bob's rhythm playing ... all those little flourishes intead of chords and rhythmically interesting too... After all this is the guy who gave us China Cat's intro....
....totally agree.....he is a very stylish player....under rated............
The Weather Report Suite has always stood out to me as the best example of Bob's awesomeness on guitar.
His guitar playing is almost like "chunck chuncky". And it's got a very "metallic tinny" kind of ring to it. It's a blend of rhythm guitar and almost kind of like a lead percussion.
@@Chrispypullen McCoy Tyner ish
@@Chrispypullen That sort of sound for him really started in the late 80s/early 90s. Everyone was going for that tinny sort of thin guitar sound around that time, and since then, bobby seems to still favor that tinny sound. He uses many single coil instruments through Vox AC30s on one of his recent tours with Dead and Co, which obviously will produce a very trebly/tinny tone. He used to use a guitar with humbuckers back in the early days, which is definitely my favorite era of Bobby's playing as well as his tone. He played many fully voiced chords much more than the single line runs he does these days. He used to _really_ play like Tyner back in the day with so many chords it would make your head spin following the lead of Garcia's playing, and his tone was very warm and jazzy. Now he uses a lot of treble in his sound, but the opposite could be said about the warm and rich sound of Bobby's ES-335 in the early 70s.
pure love and beauty, thanks again guys 😎
Operator! Nice job on that one for Phil!!!
Piggy! Nice one.
Thanks for this.
Always like it when Phil is creating the rhythm - leading from behind, giving others the foundation to play on.
Jason Crosby on the violin, guitar, lead vocal, and piano. Really good on the ivory.
Weir always sounded like he was playing two guitars at once.... Great guitarist.
There's people who hate him quite a bit and think he's the worst. Not sure why.
You was, Great Phil, you never be forgotten.Say Hi to Jerry Lee and Hunter, and the band.
Good to hear more about Pigpen, thanks for posting!
This is actually quite cool. Cosmic Charlie!
a Lazy Lightning Supplication would be divine bliss
Man Bobby sang some great tunes. It really is different when a band has 2 singers. It's like you get so used to one of them and then the voice changes and it's nice to hear something different.
Bobby really is a great guitarist. Rare to see a non soloist be that good. Keith Richards comes to mind as well.
Uhhh Yeah!
hell yeah. this is great. i dig phils terrapin turtle pin on his bass strap.
Keith does some really nice Chuck Berry-esque lead stuff, but, yeah, he was more a riff rocking kind of player, no doubt.
The stage as a sacred place, love it. It's so heart warming to hear band members and family share their stories of magical moments during those times. Another reminder to me that it was real! Thank you for that acknowledgement. Do more of these rocking/couch sessions!
Nice to see Bobby playing that Alvarez K Yairi again. Phil does sing, but it's been a long time. God I miss the beach. :)
JUST FUQING SICK .. THX WEIR .. IVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU FOR AGES
Bobby really is a heck of guitarist, isn't he?
Yes
"I Don't know anybody that plays the guitar like Bobby!"...J. Garcia.
This is...special.
very cool.thatnks for sharing with us!
I love the shots of Parrish just chillin...
Bobby and Phil just look like they are having a real good time
Steve Parish is a funny guy. He tells great stories.
Nice. This Playin' in the Band is a real treat
great version of Jack Straw one of my top 3 favorite dead songs!
Thank you gentleman
Phil is Dorian Grey.
He looks younger at the end of the video than he did at the start.
It's uncanny. It's like 40 years have skipped over him without leaving a trace.
Paul L well i hope he lives another 25 years along with bobby
Paul L agreed ! and. with a 2nd liver to boot....
@@gratefulaya192 I hope I live another 5 days 😶
@@johnstallings4049 i feel the same way many of days
@@gratefulaya192 I'm 62 & just had a ruptured appendix ...followed by a major ❤ attack & 4 surgeries. Kicked 11 drugs w/ weed, beer & aspirin! The worst thing about death has GOT to be that first night! Rock on brutha!💫 (🍄);·}X
Gorgeous! Love it!
Amazing, free and beautiful
Thanks Erin
One of the best videos on Us Tubes
Thanks Bobby... Jason Crosby ..Great!
I know people grow and change but I really miss seeing them together, finally they found someone who fits in well playing the guitar and Phils not there to enjoy it.
Bob is looking more and more like "The Dude" all the time...Wish he would have Jeff Bridges on they could do Bobby McGee together. Jack Straw is a gem on this one! Thanks guys...
Excellent phrasing.
Wish Phil would do that Porter Wagoner tribute, and get it over with already.
These guys mos def have potential.
Just an absolute honor and a pleasure.
I used to own the same acoustic guitar ! Nice Alvarez "Yari"🤠
that playin'......... 😲🤗✌💃🤗✌
Jason Crosby has me pining for some Keith G era listening!
whoever thumbed this down needs their face stolen
John Riley yeah,,steal their face right off their head...must be a motley crue fan......
It's definitely better to BE a Deadhead than HAVE a Dead Head... :-)
well said!
No nO NO
That is not, totally not the correct reference for "Steal Your Face".
Just what would you do with that asshole face, anyway? I suggest you listen to ALLIGATOR, the last go home your mommas callin' you.
haaaaaa. i see what you did there, you sneeekie
"Do you think this will piss off the clapton people" (1:18:00) is a lot funnier than its reception made it seem
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a DEADHEAD in the UK......BIG LOVE
Bobby has the best rhythm style to this day
If they had done cosmic charlie in the 80s & 90s where do you think it would have been slotted? IMO, it would have been nice before the set I closer?
Beautiful!
i loved watching this !
we love you Bobby and Phil. Now and always. Jerry too, both ways (love to him and from him)
Get acquainted with the Vedas, the Vedas will help you'aall define your religious foundations, yeah!
what a beautiful playin'
that cosmic charlie was Rad!
thanks for sharing ! is there any video of Pigpen and Janis doing lovelight ?
Phil can sing,,,so happy,,,,I thought brother couldnt sing at all,,so he can,,,,rock on good people,,,,
David Doyle i guess that is a true statement but it is also false
Violin/fiddle is awesome!!!
Musical partnerships that stand the test of time are much more about sharing the same head space than being on the same technical skill level......jmo
I'D STILL LIKE TO SEE THEM DO SOMETHING WITH JACK AND JORMA-NOT SINCE THE 90'S!!!SORRY FOR THE CAPS !!
phil and jorma did the cap this year and it was niceeeeeeeeeee
I LOVE that they did Operator here!
Dave Lemieux is doing a wonderful job as vault curator.
Steve Parish just chillin',takin' it all in!😁😎
bobby sounds very good here
Excellent!
Then Phil came in and brought it all together!😁😍🤠
the first time i asked a girl to dance, and it worked, was during a new new minglewood blues at the stone in 1985. george thorogood special guest. also, was nearly killed by some hells angels I happened to call "scams," but narrowly escaped unscathed (with my doobage!) ..don't flush me down, was the phrase, if I recall.
Thank you guitar gods for this. Where is this filmed; in Bobbies living room?
Bobby studio
"This one's in the KEY signature of 10/4."
A "Bobby-ism."
lies.
@Bob weir Since ~1970.
Hey, that’s big Steve Parrish! That’s my boy!!!!
Hey Eric, they're singing Cosmic Charlie!
we (Bob Weir)spent two nights together. 1969. I was 19 yrs old. talk about the feelings this evokes! I hate his beard. wonder if he ever thinks of us???
osty, you said you'd like to know more about the '60s...I'm willing to share what I did and what I learned...give me an email.
would love to know more stories
Aaron Rodriguez i'm usually a reclusive kinda lady! but, you sound sincere enough and I've got the stories! @gmail, sunnydayblue....give me a note!
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back to the 60s and be a hippie and sleep with bob weir I wonder if he is faithful to his wife he is still incredibly sexy
sunshinenblues I figured that people like you who have been on the inside would have come out sooner.Can you give anything else?It doesn't have to be sexual, I love the behind the scenes stuff.I saw them,garcia band,midnites,kingfish,etc 300++ times,and always wondered abt that stuff....thanx
Wish I could have been there. I turned the big 50 on this day.
I can never understand the logic of these self-proclaimed music experts who denounce one musician as being inferior and at the same time exalt the praises of musicians who played with him for insanely long periods of time. Bobby played with Jerry for over 30 years and with Phil for over 50. If he is such an inferior musician why would musicians as great as Phil and Jerry collaborate with him for so long? The same sort of criticism is heaped on George Harrison yet he collaborated with Clapton his whole life. There is a reason why these great musicians hung around, played, and recorded with each other for so long and the obvious answer is: respect for each other's talents.
You definitely have a point. If you focus in on Weir's playing, there's so many nuances and it's not a strict rhythm guitar. Very complementary to Gerry and fills in the spaces. Never really heard much criticism about Harrison. He wasn't as fast or flashy as a Clapton or Albert Lee, but always tasty and appropriate lead for the song.
belliose Don't get me started. Few music critics have the gnosis and sensibility, the right stuff, to deal with PoMo fame. Take Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best guitarists: it's supposed to be composed by panels of experts, but it's maddeningly stupid and in the end absolutely useless; for example they have John Lennon fairly high on the list as a rhythm guitarist, exposing themselves as the popularity contest they inevitably degrade into. I love John Lennon, and he is an excellent guitarist, but this is absurd. On the other hand, who, in the whole wide world, is a better rhythm guitarist than Bob Weir? Because the Dead approach is so improvisational, Bob often leads the whole ensemble based on his read of the rhythm section and sometimes plays straight lead, like a sweet slide solo, all of which leaves Jerry as the free guitar who feeds off of Bob. They were a great duo, the equal of Allman/Betts and Green/Spencer. Clapton, who I also love, one of the best guitarists, is the most overrated musical artist to emerge in the 60s, placing in every popularity contest, but he did not sing and he didn't write songs, although he did create some fine guitar music. Harrison was a more rounded guitarist and a truly great songwriter and a fine vocalist to boot. In the future we will hear more of Lennon/Harrison and Garcia/Weir.
belliose Garcia allowed the likes of Donna for years. Go figure. There is more than talent to why a band is what they are. Luck, coincidence, friendship, etc.
rbmunkin Dude, Donna could sing. She could harmonize well and she was very creative with her voice. Jerry was a great musical experimenter and his theory of music was unique and daring. So many people don't 'get' the Dead because they want to think conventionally and Jerry wanted to push the conventions. Donna tried stuff that worked sometimes and sometimes didn't. Just like the rest of the band. If you respect Jerry you should respect his judgment. He had his ideals and strove to achieve them. Donna worked with his ideas and some of her stuff is truly excellent. Which is basically what could be said of all of the Dead's work.
belliose Everyone has their own opinion. Mine is that I didn't like Donna's live singing. It was screetchy and didn't fit, IMO (stress on "IMO"). I'm not alone:
Bill Kreutzman: "Donna is a good person and I don't want to hurt her by saying this, but I never felt she fit in with the sound that we were going for...." And he continues a bit. See page 164 of his book "Deal".
Just because I respect Jerry and feel he's a GREAT musician, doesn't mean he is perfect or "god". He made mistakes - like heroin and junk food. And Donna (IMO).
Friendly edit,Pig's dad, Phil McKernan , was a DJ at KRE in Oakland when Ron was a youngun.
Beautiful Lazy River on this one
I'd give my right index finger to be sitting on that couch with a cold one..
loved it!
"What shall we say? Shall we call it by a name?" Garcia was an incarnation of Krishna - you don't have to believe it ["Do you think this will piss off the Clapton people?" - hysterical] Mythology develops over time, "Garcia as Krishna" is not my idea, it will be the idea of people a century or two from now.
wailinburnin what about Hunter?????
What about the band as a whole.. I don't understand how everyone takes Garcia as Godlike but it to the whole GD family to make the magic happen.. The whole GD catalog is my Bible but I see them as a whole... Garcia was just a man with man problems just like us all and hated the fact people looked at him as Godlike
I like Phil's boys his voice has matured over the years has such an old tone to it
In a very real way, I think Jerry sacrificed himself to the community. Sure, he could have taken better care of himself, but he didn't have time for that when the weight of the whole Dead train was on his shoulders. The whole band, the crew, and the Deadheads made the magic happen, but in so many ways Jerry was, and still is, at the center.
pig and jerry are smiling
Most likely theyre sharing a joint together in heaven with Brent and Keith
And Vince
miss you Pigpen !! love the stuff about him and Janis Joplin
Must be Healey at the board during the couch session. Somebody keeps turning down Bob's mic.
Super Cool!
Interesting and sad -- I never knew Pig's liver disease was congenital, not from the alcohol. Makes his demise seem even more tragic . . .
Weir here, weir there, weir everyweir(~):}
dyin and livin happy in state of irremediable ecstatic bliss...gone to heaven and not comin back....gone to heaven and stayin