Grateful Dead Columbia Revolt 1968-05-03

[steed3902]

damn that was cool!

[ambush77]

Morons... The song is "golden road" to unlimited devotion... From the first record.... Some fans you are...

[usedMTVpromos]

@ambush77

either tune plays, try a different browser or playback .

[JBLegally1]

They are playing Golden Road.  Hey, Hey

[deadheadwookie17]

This is Cold Rain and Snow, not Golden Road.

[phatstax2011]

@deadheadwookie17 -It is the Golden Road, sorry dude!

[rpdbluevideo]

uh the tune is Cold Rain and Snow..played while the Dead was onstage when Janis died..

[wbfree]

Awesome footage, thanks.

[fforest122]

Why are there not more videos of the Grateful Dead from the 60s on Youtube ? There must be loads of them out there some where.

[tabbacco2040]

The song is? who know?

[MattHatter]

Yep, it's "Cold Rain And Snow" from the first album.

[seshes42o]

it sounds like cold rain and snow

this footage is amazing to see!!

[gamoonbat]

There is another player in this band standing next to Bob Weir. He does not look like Phil Lesh or Pigpen.

[quastheunseen420]

awesome =D

[bluewhiskey1]

This is very cool. Thanks for the upload.

[caseyjones67]

god i love sitting on top of the world

[usedMTVpromos]

Lucky Sync Drum > 1:42 > Sittin' on ToP transition.

Are any lip-readers out there who could inform us what song or words the band is expressing?

Any transcription at all would be of great service!

[caseyjones67]

well i dont know but its one of there songs from the first or second album and it could also be something like i know you rider or one of those old singles they released in like 66 im not sure wat song it is just listen to some of the songs with really fast upbeat drums and youll find it

[usedMTVpromos]

well that narrows it down considerably.

note the jaw dropping gal at 1:03.

the general crowd reaction of intense attention to detail (and this is not a Dead Head crowd mind you) indicates the song (lyrics) are simpatico with the students.

Maybe it is Cold Rain And Snow - "and I don't want to be treated this a way..." which would explain why the students used (the studio version) for the audio of the band's performance which for whatever reason couldn't be used.

[12347771]

@caseyjones67

This is "The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion) the first track on their first lp.

Very tinny record despite the fact it was engineered by Dave Hassinger who conjured the great depth heard on The Stones 'Aftermath" and The Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow"......I would have loved to have heard Wilson Pickett cover this song!

[zbgb68]

@12347771 I can't believe your the only one who knew that! I fell in love with this song on my uncle's 8-track as a kid in the early '70's! And it would be "wicked" to hear Wilson Pickett cover it!

[alligayda]

@usedMTVpromos ok this is the middle to the end of "cold rain and snow" which the internet gives credit to all the boys in the band for, but I'm pretty sure that it is an old blues tune that they may have ripped off and changed. They sing here: "Well she's comin' down the stairs combin' back her yellow hair and I ain't gonna be treated this a way. This a way. Well she went up to her room and she sang a fateful tune and I'm goin' where those chilly winds don't blow."

[alligayda]

@usedMTVpromos this is the middle to the end of "cold rain and snow" into a bit of "sittin' on top of the world" sung here is:" well she's comin' down the stairs combin' back her yellow hair and I ain't gonna be treated this a way. this a way. Well she went up to her room and she sang a fateful tune and I'm goin' where those chilly winds don't blow. and I'm goin' where those chilly winds don't blow." into:"I'm sittin' on top of the world"- no lip readin' just know the tunes.

[mosoul65]

"Columbias Radicals of 1968 Hold a Bittersweet Reunion", NY Times, April 28, 2008 is a good Wikipedia link along w/ "Columbia University protests of 1968".

[msurrealist]

looks like someone tacked audio on to a separate video clip- no synchronization at all between vocalisations, guitar figures, etc..

too short, too.

[sovietdawn]

I like the shot of those two kids banging on Mickey Hart's cymbals, and Mickey doesn't seem to mind. That's pretty cool.

[folkrockm14]

really groovy dead stuff man.ill always hate the war and ill always love the dead.

[TheRealCritique]

Why did the US govt avoid a general draft and drive us into bankruptcy with mercs in Iraq? Because they didnt want to risk igniting the hippie gene in the current generation. Still, sh*t is finally hitting the fan, and lets hope it has positive activist result. People are at least finally giving up on right-wing horsesh*t. I'm 43, and I've always been a lib (was on arch digs in the late 60s and 70s), but I think a lot of people my age and younger who were right-wing are seeing reality.

[albinosp4cemonky]

The funny thing is that the "right-wing" was founded on a conservative small government that would avoid war and persecuting things like drug use.

[SHMUJEW]

right...maybe you should read a book someday

[rogerrodd]

It all ended with the repeal of the draft. American youth stopped attending college to avoid being inducted producing subsequent wholesale ignorance and apathy. Not one generation since (and including) then has collectively stood for any political or social cause.

Tell an 18 year old man AND woman today that for the next 6 years the military will be ruling their life and forcing them to fight and die. Then we might not have a nation full of brain dead jingoists chanting "Support our troops".

[tballz420]

You're right, I wish you would tell me what to do instead.

[highervis]

As a result we have people like the above poster. Cocky youth proud of their ignorance & allegiance to conformity who get their ethics from shit like South Park. & think thinking is for fags.

[morrisolder]

The concert was played on the patio of Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia's Student Union, in support of the student strike that spring. This was not on graduation day but a while before that; if May 3 is correct, 3 days after 720 students were arrested and many beaten by the NYPD. Don't recall the playlist, but it was about an hour. Truly a great moment, in a great year, when young people from Mexico to New York, from Paris to Prague to Orangesburg, SC, rose up to demand an end to war and tyranny.

[usedMTVpromos]

And in San Francisco too in '68, at SF State College where my Dad and others fought for peace.

I presume the patio was called Low Plaza, since several sources confirm that's where the Dead played, definitely on the 3rd.

It was a pre-Graduation dress rehearsal that was a springboard for the gathering at the patio and other events that took shape that day.

You were there then?

[morrisolder]

The campus has a big open area, and Low Plaza is in front of Low Library, the admin building that the students took over. The concert was in front of the student union on the other end of the open area. The Dead had been asked shortly before if they would do it and we were thrilled that they did...

[punkasspete]

what song is this?

[funkberto]

"The Golden Road" .

launched in single in 1966, included in LP debut in 1967.

[ClueSign]

And now these radical students are buying scalped 'Hannah Montana' tickets for their grandchildren.

[usedMTVpromos]

enjoying family and supporting the black market

[ClueSign]

"Well you know, we're all doing what we can" - John Lennon, 'Revolution'. But, usedMTVpromos,we digress. It's a very interesting post and I wish I was there in 1967 instead of traipsing around my junior high school thinking I was radical for wearing bell-bottoms.

[710haightashbury]

I'm fourteen as well and the dead is my farvorite band. Ignore my account age.

[hendrix726]

Looks I'm joining the club of fourteen year olds who love the dead. haha

[jimleap80]

Awesome again just amzing to think they could set up shop there and play at Columbia like that just a bit before my time wouldve been cool to be there, jim

[peyoteshaman]

was this shot by pete whitehead for his movie the fall?

[usedMTVpromos]

it was shot by a student group.

[123pdiddy]

hi does anyone know where this video came from as in who owns it? pretty cool stuff.

[usedMTVpromos]

it's public domain. see archivedotorg for more info.

[Jenscool]

PRICELESS!!!!

[RWNay]

It would be nice to hear what they are playing. God knows it wasnt The Golden Road, only played twice....

[isjerryzkid]

thank you peaceness

[MojoHandl]

is this the one where they where snuck onto the campus, and their instruments where in like a truck or something, and it was wile the school had armed cops around the campus?

[ptracy4]

This would have been not long after the student strike, the building takeovers, the cops busting the students, all of that.

[tomandshel]

this was right in the midst of the student revolt

[hutsell]

This occured a couple of weeks later.

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I'm going to 'guess' the day the campus was closed and the cops came in to end the weeks old student strike was April 20th, 1968.

[bsenny]

my favorite dead song ever

[reallygonecat]

Good luck finding students today who care.

[bsenny]

what the fuck

[Yajelyk]

I'm forteen and I love the grateful dead

possibly my favorite dead song

[coyote023]

see that girl barefootin' along whistlin' and singin' she's carryin' on..this is the stuff i grew up on

[GinsingSullivan]

What a treasure! Thanks!

[terripin99]

Beautiful stuff !!!

[Lena63]

Thanks for uploading this historical artifact.

[flowerzandbeads]

amazing! jerry garcia voice is amazing! Long live the dead!

[mcmike9858]

NOT JERRY'S VOICE IT IS PHIL

[usedMTVpromos]

Phil and Bob are both singing back-ups to Jerry's lead vocal on this version of Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion).

I love Garcia's voice, especially when he was younger and he had that quiver or vibratto effect when he sang his heart out...

Twas high energy for sure. Never be another like him.

[gawkkkkkkkkkkkkkk]

pretty sure i hear some pigpen singin backup.

[Chiltronic]

hell yeah buddy, check out mother mcrees jug champs. It's jerry, bobby, pigpen and some other guys playing swing and jerry's voice is amazing. Think it's from 64.

[willruddock]

Nope. JER!

[Gossage54]

It's fun to see the Dead when they were crazy young hippies. Is there no audio to any of this footage. I wonder what song they were playing. Golden Road was put to rest by this time. Though that is a great version supposedly from 3/5/67 according to Mr. Boogie. I'll have to look for that show.

[usedMTVpromos]

The "crazy young hippies" appear for

2 mins. in a film about a student strike.

No audio was recorded of the 5-3-68 Dead set.

Golden Road was indeed put to rest in 1967. 2 live versions from '67 survive though many 67 shows were not recorded or documented.

The version featured here is from 5-5-67.

In 1970, Bob Weir playing with the Dead at the Fillmore replied to requests for the song: "Who is that guy? You're always requesting 'Golden Road' and we don't know how that goes anymore!"

[NEWspeedwayBOOGIE]

its funny that you should play this song in the background of this footage from March 3, 1968, because it is not from that date, its from March 5, 1967! cool movie though, just thought u might like to know that fact. (if u didnt already)

[usedMTVpromos]

Mr. Boogie,

its funny that the song is complete and matches the length of the footage.

[StrawberryTerry]

ummmm they had quit performing golden road by 05/03/68. according to dead base all that is known of the setlist is cold rain and snow and sittin on top of the world. list is definatly incompleatebut i can garentee there was no golden road played. possibly qa song or two from anthem of the sun was played or maybe a pig blues or two

[usedMTVpromos]

maybe dead base is dead wrong about the setlist.

Cold Rain and Sitting On Top Of The World (studio cuts off the 1st GD lp, not live versions) were edited onto the footage in the cutting room.

A newspaper said the GD played Morning Dew at this gig.

Morning Dew is longer than this footage and the tempo being played appears faster.

Dennis McNally was there & said this set lasted 30 mins.

Anthem suites tend to stretch beyond that.

Pre 1969 GD setlist data is often sketchy!

[ernestangley]

Oy vay, Jerry w/the earlocks.  Dig the disciple of LeRoi, minus the incendiary direct object - not exactly preaching nonviolence, if you know what I mean.

[ptracy4]

Joe McCarthy couldn't have made a more apt point. :lol: