I was at this show. Had a backstage pass. Saw part of the Dead's set. It was unusually short, as I recall. They played "Satisfaction" towards the end of the set. A few Dylan tunes too, I think. It was during a period when I wasn't paying that much attention to the Dead. I was on stage with the rest of the hangers-on and "I know a guy" crowd, during this interview, while Jerry Jeff Walker was playing. Steve Wozniak spent much of the day on a big couch on stage right with a full view of the bands (and probably his own monitors). Jerry Jeff and his band really hammered it out. I think Natalie Maines's dad was on pedal steel for this tour. Jimmy Buffett played later. Came out on stage in oversized board shorts, no shoes and hair looking like he just jumped off his boat. Audience loved them both. Fleetwood Mac closed the show. I saw Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks backstage. They needed a golf cart to get from their trailer to the stage (about 150 feet). Rumor (pun intended) was that half the gross domestic product of Bolivia was on a table in the back room or their trailer. It was 1982 after all. Thing is, they played flawlessly. Bobby and Mickey look like they might have stopped by FM's trailer at some point. Good times!
I think the interviewer was former MTV 'veejay', J.J. Jackson. And, yes, it sucked that the interview ended so abruptly. I was really digging it. I wonder if Jerry, Phil, Bill and Brett were interviewed.
uncle bobo put on a good show. I danced with him at the dead in Vegas in 1991. It was only April but it was hot!!. BGP had installed water to drip off the bottom rim of the arena, onto the freaks cutting the rug on the field. We hopped down from our seats in the stands and boogied with bill (and 40,000 of our closest friends) with bruce playing on the band on piano. It was great fun to see the heads at the hotel buffet before the shows, and being merry pranksters in the casino after the shows.
Ah yes, the good ol Sam Boyd Stadium. I missed the 91 shows, but caught all of the subsequent ones, 92-95. Good times. 👍 Las Vegas casinos and Dead Slots.
I was a 20 year old kid who had just come back from the Gulf War as a military journalist. I had just walked the Highway of Death a few months before this and was in the process of being busted by the Navy for taking LSD overseas. I was at this show too and it was the first peace I’d felt since Saddam went in to Kuwait the previous August. About a year later I was doing spoken word and met Kesey and became friends with him. I spent every summer until his death working on his farm, learning how to think like a writer, and going to all west coast Dead shows with the Pranksters. It’s crazy to watch this video and know I was roaming around somewhere near there about to be given a backstage pass to the rest of the Dead’s career and start a crazy adventure but was worried sick about my impending time in the brig. I wish find that kid and tell him “Don’t worry. Everything is about to be wayyyy better than you can imagine than the just okay you’re hoping for”
@@waynej2608 I saw both 1991 Vegas shows, with Santana while still a senior in High School. All 3 1992 Vegas shows after moving to Arcata, CA (HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY) & my last GD show was the Sunday Vegas '95 show with Unbroken Chain!!! Only 1994 shows were the Shoreline run. After Expo 1993, I was all about JGB SHOWS. The GD runs were getting too risky. You'd have to see 5 shows to hopefully cath a good one. I did have fun at the first Phil & Friends (last Acoustic Dead gig) show at BCT.
People don't really fully grasp the concept that the members of the GD were constantly surrounded by LSD for a large portion of their career. Meaning they would end up dosed even if they didn't intend too lol. Im pretty sure Bobby even said he stopped taking LSD voluntarily in the 60s but still would slip up and accidentally dose himself considering 90% of their backstage "refreshments" were spiked, especially when Bear Owsley was around. This was their world, they adapted to that state yet still excelled musically in a way no band before them has. People call them burnouts, I call it impressive lol. Im not condoning it, that's just how it was.✌
Clean acid isn’t like “crazy fractals” all day it’s like a magical antidepressant when taken in metered amounts. Source: I didn’t get the owsley but I sure had as much of the pickard as I could ever want. Until it stopped abruptly and my beautiful life got pretty bad :( But yea that stuff is magic if you keep the doses reasonable
@@george.s.8491 People who try a psychedelic often rank it among their top five most important life experiences, like their marriage or a child's birth. Awesome's right.
When I get to Heaven, I'm headed straight towards the eternal Grateful Dead Show they are having up there. If there's no show, I might be going to Hell in a bucket.
@@george.s.8491 - It's original MTV DJ, J.J. Jackson conducting this interview. Jerry Jeff Walker is a legendary outlaw singer songwriter who is playing on stage during the interview. Jerry Jeff wrote the song Mr. Bojangles amongst other gems.
I was much too young to be at this although I remember seeing clips on TV ,not sure if it was broadcast on ONTV or PBS.I would see Jerry Garcia and other bands at The Blockbuster Pavilion years later,ony 25 mins from home.
"It could have been worse". Sure, Bob, you could have been playing in the middle of a rainstorm, with improperly grounded mics (giving the band members electrical shocks) and on a stage that was collapsing due to the wind turning the giant backdrop screen into a sail. Note: that's the conditions they played under at Woodstock.
The interviewer Reggie Jackson one of the first V-j’s on MTV. MTV started out playing music Videos all day & night nonstop hence a V-j instead of DJ lol . I’m pretty sure I’ve got his name correct it’s been a long long long and getting stranger trip. Along with a few hits to the head over the years
The dude is actually J.J. Jackson. Reggie Jackson, played right field for the NY Yankees. Before that, for the Oakland A's. He helped bring world series rings, to both franchises. Cheers.
LOL, is Rock Scully doing coke in the background? 1:45 - 2:15.... probably not even him, probably not coke, but.....what do yall think? wouldn't be out of character
I'm thinking yes on the coke obviously could be pills or something else but coke makes sense to me. As for Scully? it looks like it could be an older version of Scully compared to the many 67 pics from the 710 bust. From everything I've read Mickey still gets very high, opium, coke, etc. There's a great video from Fare Thee Well of a very coked Mickey wiping his nose clean on stage and its Bobby pointing it out to him. Good for Mickey too. Rock on!
@@Bee-hf3fc Mickey has been sober for years. It's nice that you relish in someone's demons and chemical history like you have any clue. Are you fluent in his sex life too? 😛
@@bend6973 oh grow up. It's an observation and he's one of my favorite musicians. Are you anymore fluent in his chemical activities then me?. I think he was cleaning his nose from coke. Deal with it
@@speedspeed121 Ive read about it many sources over the years but couldn't tell u where. Should be some info on it google. It was early on but still it did happen snd they stayed together. Mickey had nothing to do w it, just his dad
@@speedspeed121 it's well-documented fact. He embezzled their money when he was their manager in '70. It's why Mickey left the band for awhile, and it's who He's Gone was originally written about ("steal your face right off your head"). Read any of the biographies like Dennis McNally's and you'll get the full story.
@@glennfreeman3570 Thanks. I'm a lover of Dead music, but I guess I really don't know their history very well. On a side note, as a jazz musician myself, I think they sounded way better when Bill drummed alone. Anyways, thanks for the info
They’re called musicians, that word is (was) used to described people who played real instruments and made something called music. I know, I know, these terms are like a foreign language and I’ve already gone past your attention span. But you can always google their names and they have Wikipedia pages. Of course that would require reading. So...never mind.
You get it or you don’t. Reminds me of a 20/20 interview in the 80’s where some lauded rock music critic said it’s only the drugs they’re terrible musicians. Fast forward 2023 the whole band is widely regarded as the BEST musicians to grace a stage.
I was at this show. Had a backstage pass. Saw part of the Dead's set. It was unusually short, as I recall. They played "Satisfaction" towards the end of the set. A few Dylan tunes too, I think. It was during a period when I wasn't paying that much attention to the Dead. I was on stage with the rest of the hangers-on and "I know a guy" crowd, during this interview, while Jerry Jeff Walker was playing. Steve Wozniak spent much of the day on a big couch on stage right with a full view of the bands (and probably his own monitors). Jerry Jeff and his band really hammered it out. I think Natalie Maines's dad was on pedal steel for this tour. Jimmy Buffett played later. Came out on stage in oversized board shorts, no shoes and hair looking like he just jumped off his boat. Audience loved them both. Fleetwood Mac closed the show. I saw Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks backstage. They needed a golf cart to get from their trailer to the stage (about 150 feet). Rumor (pun intended) was that half the gross domestic product of Bolivia was on a table in the back room or their trailer. It was 1982 after all. Thing is, they played flawlessly. Bobby and Mickey look like they might have stopped by FM's trailer at some point. Good times!
Thanks for sharing your story. You paint the picture well ✌
6:23 JJ is told that Fleetwood Mac’s trailer is running really low on blow
Ha! I was only 7 in 1982 but man!...those must've been, "the days" that I hear people talking about all the time.
3:22. Mickey's vision starts strobbing and he goes into some alternate reality for about 10 seconds.
He must’ve been dosed as fuck lmao
mwahahaha
Drums and 'space'. 😎👍
Both on Psychedelics.....
Yeah what was up with that? Lol.
Bobby and Mickey look like they were, "Driving that train..." on this particular occasion.
Thanks for those videos! More please!!
Underrated interview right here
Nobody is rating it
They were def tuned up for that interview! ❄️🌍❄️😂👌❄️
That bloww
this was a festival put on by Woz in 1982. Note Jerry Jeff Walker playing in the background.
Came to same thing! London Homesick blues.. thought it was gary p. nun but wasn't on the bill
first thing I noticed. What a show that must have been the JJW and Dead.
@@andypesant8072 I hadn't caught that! The old Austin City Limits theme music, back before they "modernized" the show.
@@Kohntarkosz friendliest people and the prettiest women that you've ever see. Also mickey it your nose one more time!
Hideous interview. A different Weir for sure. Mickey just talks too much here.
This was a good clip. Solid interview and the ending is kinda funny lol
Bobby sounds especially coherent.
Ha! Agreed! He sounds unusually coherent in fact!
Cocaine?
LOL poor interviewer at the end. He had a GREAT interview going, himself deserving plenty of credit, and then "we're outta tape....oh shit!".
You don't know who that interviewer is? 😆
I think the interviewer was former MTV 'veejay', J.J. Jackson.
And, yes, it sucked that the interview ended so abruptly. I was really digging it.
I wonder if Jerry, Phil, Bill and Brett were interviewed.
@@waynej2608 i knew oif most of the MTV personalities, going back to the thriller world premier, but i must have been sleeping during his shift!
@@VBshredder he's an original
uncle bobo put on a good show. I danced with him at the dead in Vegas in 1991. It was only April but it was hot!!. BGP had installed water to drip off the bottom rim of the arena, onto the freaks cutting the rug on the field. We hopped down from our seats in the stands and boogied with bill (and 40,000 of our closest friends) with bruce playing on the band on piano. It was great fun to see the heads at the hotel buffet before the shows, and being merry pranksters in the casino after the shows.
Ah yes, the good ol Sam Boyd Stadium. I missed the 91 shows, but caught all of the subsequent ones, 92-95. Good times. 👍
Las Vegas casinos and Dead Slots.
I was a 20 year old kid who had just come back from the Gulf War as a military journalist. I had just walked the Highway of Death a few months before this and was in the process of being busted by the Navy for taking LSD overseas. I was at this show too and it was the first peace I’d felt since Saddam went in to Kuwait the previous August. About a year later I was doing spoken word and met Kesey and became friends with him. I spent every summer until his death working on his farm, learning how to think like a writer, and going to all west coast Dead shows with the Pranksters. It’s crazy to watch this video and know I was roaming around somewhere near there about to be given a backstage pass to the rest of the Dead’s career and start a crazy adventure but was worried sick about my impending time in the brig. I wish find that kid and tell him “Don’t worry. Everything is about to be wayyyy better than you can imagine than the just okay you’re hoping for”
The Giants stadium show in 1991 was amazing, I was at that one. think it became a one from the vault release.
@@waynej2608 I saw both 1991 Vegas shows, with Santana while still a senior in High School.
All 3 1992 Vegas shows after moving to Arcata, CA (HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY) & my last GD show was the Sunday Vegas '95 show with Unbroken Chain!!!
Only 1994 shows were the Shoreline run. After Expo 1993, I was all about JGB SHOWS.
The GD runs were getting too risky.
You'd have to see 5 shows to hopefully cath a good one.
I did have fun at the first Phil & Friends (last Acoustic Dead gig) show at BCT.
Love how constantly happy Ol Bobby is here! That dude looked like he was constantly happy (high)...nowadays, not so much.
The good ol' days
Ummm.... He's whooping it up.... believe me! ❄️🌍❄️😂👌❄️
because someone important is missing
@@warrenschwartz5653 r u a doctor? ❄️👌❄️🌎❄️
@@warrenschwartz5653 " My buddy come quick with the iodine!" ❄️🤣👌❄️🌎❄️
People don't really fully grasp the concept that the members of the GD were constantly surrounded by LSD for a large portion of their career. Meaning they would end up dosed even if they didn't intend too lol. Im pretty sure Bobby even said he stopped taking LSD voluntarily in the 60s but still would slip up and accidentally dose himself considering 90% of their backstage "refreshments" were spiked, especially when Bear Owsley was around. This was their world, they adapted to that state yet still excelled musically in a way no band before them has. People call them burnouts, I call it impressive lol. Im not condoning it, that's just how it was.✌
Clean acid isn’t like “crazy fractals” all day it’s like a magical antidepressant when taken in metered amounts.
Source: I didn’t get the owsley but I sure had as much of the pickard as I could ever want. Until it stopped abruptly and my beautiful life got pretty bad :(
But yea that stuff is magic if you keep the doses reasonable
Wow that sounds amazing, I would love to try it. No big crazy dose but it sounds awesome
@@george.s.8491 People who try a psychedelic often rank it among their top five most important life experiences, like their marriage or a child's birth. Awesome's right.
"Stopped taking acid voluntarily" meaning he cut back to just shrooms and DMT (and nitrous and...)
Dude...1982...cocaine.
Holy smokes!!!! Please please PLEASE DONT STOP!!!!!!!
i was there, fist dead show for me....it was awesome....
Good God, Mickey.
Breakfast with the Dead. 18 and wide eyed. What a day.
When I get to Heaven, I'm headed straight towards the eternal Grateful Dead Show they are having up there. If there's no show, I might be going to Hell in a bucket.
Micky and bobby are cool cats.The interview man liked them,laughs and good times.And oh shit
Coolest CIA agents no doubt.
@@briansmith9455 that Social Engineering comment was strange.. lol
@@johnlenz420 there are so many. Which one?
Jerry Jeff Walker is the man.
RIP Gypsy song man
He certainly was. He lived the life. I hope he an Hondo are hanging out together again.
This was before my time somewhat, I was 7yrs old in 82. Was Jerry Walker the black guy doing the interviewing?
@@george.s.8491 - It's original MTV DJ, J.J. Jackson conducting this interview. Jerry Jeff Walker is a legendary outlaw singer songwriter who is playing on stage during the interview. Jerry Jeff wrote the song Mr. Bojangles amongst other gems.
@@markpapa2033 ahhh ok, thank you!!
A funky fresh interview
I hope Mickey got his nose figured out.
Haha haha
lmfao
He needed a line after their 6 hour show the night before
God love em 🎉❤
great interview,
Perfect ending!!
Such nice boys, they seem very happy 😁
"Bob Weir; perpetually sweating through a purple Izod..."
Back when Izods we’re high quality
I’ll have what they’re having …hahah jeez
Life? What do you think they're having?
@@ryanw6626 they are coked to the guilds. If you’ve done it you would know.
@@themelt1657 you bunch of amateurs
Haha gonna hop on the bus next week ....
@@themelt1657 I dont think so lil buddy
London Homesick Blues, playing in background👍
The great D.J. ~ J.J. Jackson, conducting this interview.
Sounds like Jerry Jeff playing in the background...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was much too young to be at this although I remember seeing clips on TV ,not sure if it was broadcast on ONTV or PBS.I would see Jerry Garcia and other bands at The Blockbuster Pavilion years later,ony 25 mins from home.
mikey's comments on safety could not ring more true after watching the woodstock 99 documentary
Man, now I wish this JJW set was available to watch!
Is it really not available anywhere? I've got to investigate this...
Here it is...
ruclips.net/video/GPzNGRJ_-cc/видео.html
At least this is a good bit of the Dead's set at the "Us Festival".
"It could have been worse". Sure, Bob, you could have been playing in the middle of a rainstorm, with improperly grounded mics (giving the band members electrical shocks) and on a stage that was collapsing due to the wind turning the giant backdrop screen into a sail. Note: that's the conditions they played under at Woodstock.
Ride that wave got a chuckle from Bob.
Definitely tripping here.
I think that’s Rock Scully running around in the background,while Jerry Jeff Walker plays
Weir is dosed to the antlers!
Ah, I've never seen this footage before. I forgot that the Dead performed at the first US Festival.
The cravat is a lost art. JJ Jackson sported perhaps the final version.
Jerry Jeff Walker singing in the background 😁
Thank you!! Please! Anymore where that came from??
That Joy Bobby had is Lost today. He’s perma grin.
He certainly does less cocaine if that's what you mean
I wanna go home with the armadillo 🎶
Breakfast with the dead it was a wonderful time I helped install all the trees that everybody find on
Triple J with the GD, this is a good one.
I bet if I did an interview on camera people would be trying to figure out what I'm high on too
Smile smile smile:)
home of of the armadillo
Bob looks stoned...
Ya think? lmfao
he would never do drugs
The interviewer Reggie Jackson one of the first
V-j’s on MTV.
MTV started out playing music Videos all day & night nonstop hence a V-j instead of DJ lol . I’m pretty sure I’ve got his name correct it’s been a long long long and getting stranger trip. Along with a few hits to the head over the years
The dude is actually J.J. Jackson.
Reggie Jackson, played right field for the NY Yankees. Before that, for the Oakland A's. He helped bring world series rings, to both franchises. Cheers.
@@waynej2608 ......Reggie!.......Regggie!
He had a pretty good candy bar…
@@davidkopec9442 They need to bring that candy bar back!
Looks like a couple fellas stayed up all night to be able to show up that early for a show?
BOBBY!! What a frickin' dork.
I remember how hot it was
Jerry jeff in the back😈😈😈
anyone able to identify the first jerry jeff song playing in the background? sounds so familiar and cant quite hear it well enough to place it
I believe it is "London Homesick Blues" written by Gary P Nunn.
INTERESTING111
I would love to do a line with them.
This seems way way after only 13 years from Woodstock !! Now it's 40 years after this, where does the time go?
You gotta ask Uncle John's Band🏴☠
Where does the song go?
@@deanl0Yep, but this seems closer to now then the 60s but it is not.
Bobby is waxed!!!! 😂
What is the song playing at 0:45
Definitely tripping balls lol
Man hart was on that powder 😳
Does seem to be on something
Touching his nose rather a lot
All of that pollen in the air, man those guys' noses are itchy!
Was that Rock Scully running around in the background?
looks like a lot, definitely him to me
Drugs and money galore
LOL, is Rock Scully doing coke in the background? 1:45 - 2:15.... probably not even him, probably not coke, but.....what do yall think? wouldn't be out of character
He 100% was doing coke😂😂 straight up in front of the camera no fucks given
I'm thinking yes on the coke obviously could be pills or something else but coke makes sense to me. As for Scully? it looks like it could be an older version of Scully compared to the many 67 pics from the 710 bust. From everything I've read Mickey still gets very high, opium, coke, etc. There's a great video from Fare Thee Well of a very coked Mickey wiping his nose clean on stage and its Bobby pointing it out to him. Good for Mickey too. Rock on!
@@Bee-hf3fc Mickey has been sober for years. It's nice that you relish in someone's demons and chemical history like you have any clue. Are you fluent in his sex life too? 😛
@@bend6973 oh grow up. It's an observation and he's one of my favorite musicians. Are you anymore fluent in his chemical activities then me?. I think he was cleaning his nose from coke. Deal with it
@@Bee-hf3fc I agree w 82.
I was correcting your current day assessment.
is tha jj jackson?
Who else thinks that Mickey was on 'shrooms ?
Definitely on something
Apparently he's just like that lol
He said in an interview that he doesn’t believe in being intoxicated on stage
Why the dude in the thumbnail look like Sasha Baron Cohen lmao.
Kokaine
Fucking A!
👀
holy cocaine
hehe
Stoned !! 😝
Which festival is this?
US Festival in California put on by the cofounder of Apple (not Jobs, can't remember the other guys name).
3:23 Mickey, what's going bud, you good?
The drips
The coke is running down the back of his throat
They both look like the inspiration for a Ben Stiller movie 🙄.. just saying
Have a coke! sheesh…
Where was this? A festival of somekind?
Luckenbach Tx ?
Every time I see Bob and Micky interact, I sense tension.
Mickeys dad screwed the Dead out of alot of money
@@lastnamefirst4035 I never heard about that. When? Where can I read about it?
@@speedspeed121 Ive read about it many sources over the years but couldn't tell u where. Should be some info on it google. It was early on but still it did happen snd they stayed together. Mickey had nothing to do w it, just his dad
@@speedspeed121 it's well-documented fact. He embezzled their money when he was their manager in '70. It's why Mickey left the band for awhile, and it's who He's Gone was originally written about ("steal your face right off your head"). Read any of the biographies like Dennis McNally's and you'll get the full story.
@@glennfreeman3570 Thanks. I'm a lover of Dead music, but I guess I really don't know their history very well.
On a side note, as a jazz musician myself, I think they sounded way better when Bill drummed alone.
Anyways, thanks for the info
who are these 2??
Guy on the left plays percussion, guy on the right plays guitar lol
Idk who the interviewer is
On the left is Johnny Rotten, and that's Robert Plant on the right.
They’re called musicians, that word is (was) used to described people who played real instruments and made something called music. I know, I know, these terms are like a foreign language and I’ve already gone past your attention span. But you can always google their names and they have Wikipedia pages. Of course that would require reading. So...never mind.
@@martyhopkirk6826 hehe lmfao
2 cool dudes
Lots of confidence and fun, but I've come to realize the Dead's music was pretty average.
Ew
You get it or you don’t. Reminds me of a 20/20 interview in the 80’s where some lauded rock music critic said it’s only the drugs they’re terrible musicians. Fast forward 2023 the whole band is widely regarded as the BEST musicians to grace a stage.