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  • Were do we go from Here...... you moved us Phila Boys... Thanks for this cut , now you see the really SF movement, If jerry was free all the groups from their wanted Jerry to sit in. but not only asked him reqested him to play on this song and many others ,... the list go's on.....

  • Groovy!

  • so rad.

  • This is a bit noisy for a large part of it. It started to get going when Casady started soloing, but then it was cut off.

  • thanx for sharing cheers

  • Enough to give you a flashback. Ah them days when the acid was Owsley and the music swept us away to other climes and places. Inever caem back, except to suffer the straight world

  • Synchronized Pandemonium !

  • I think most of this sucks. But, there are some very sweet moments.

  • is that Janis dancing like a crazy person at 2:07?

  • @MrGoyo71 probably

  • Better times!

  • good lord, my head wouldve exploded with awesomeness if i was old enough to be around for this lol

  • must have been quite the party thx.

  • fucking great, the one place i thought i could get away from bieber and gaga, and you fucks have to talk about it in the comments. we know they are shit, it's common knowledge, so stop bringing it up.

  • back when people still had balls

  • Kind of reminds me of the Hanson, Gaga, & Beiber jam.

  • @twinoak170 Where do you get Hanson, Gaga & Bieber from this video? Your officially a complete nincompoop for even bringing up those horrid names on such an epic jam, with some of the worlds best musicians who, thank god, never lived long enough to see such horrible acts as Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber. Who in the sam-hell do you think you are!? MR. BAGGY PANTS!!!!!

  • @spacemeddle "I said what I said and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now it's all this". Regrettably, Mr. Baggy Pants.

  • @twinoak170 LOL ya know, your alright Mr. Baggy Pants.

  • Christ I was born too late. I was stuck with the crap from the 80s.

  • It could only happen once in an eternity

  • Sweeet..!

    

  • what's Santana on? I want some

  • why the 9 dislikes?

    

  • This what it was all about back then. Everyone drank a puddle and whatever went down was cool. How the times changed. I would like to get in stewie griffin"s time machine and go back to these times. Now that would be all that.

  • This is pure magic, can't believe some of these vids remained to this day. Thanks dude for putting this up, peace.

  • WOW! can't believe I just found this!!!!! Nice to see now but jams like this HAD to be seen and heard LIVE! Too bad I was a wearin diapers.... I'm just glad almost half a century later and some of these dudes are still supplying the air I need...

  • yeah we are rocking now

  • Yow!

  • very geoovy, i wish i was there

  • They must've paid a lot of money for that smoke machine. It works well.

  • Jerry.

  • My God cold shiver time! Takes me right back there!!

  • can you pass the acid test?can you?can i?i can?can?i?i?can?you?can?can?ac­id?pass?the?acid?acid?

  • shit, dude

    three awesome bands came together to create this ultimate trifecta of godly musical power that manifested itself on an unsuspecting stage in san francisco

    id like to be a fly on the wall of that room

  • Planet Earth R&R, plus Pachuco Power!!! Casidy is pretty sharp on bass...bringin the stoners to the latin tip...

  • Wow! that was cool! Thanks Man!

  • If I understand correctly, the Family Dog at the Great Highway was a venue out at the end of Golden Gate Park at the ocean, some sort of ice skating rink turned into a live music venue. Am I correct? Does the building still stand?

  • Is all that smoke in the background grass?LOL

  • OH ! OH! WOW AHHHH ??? oh I am supposed to say something now? sorry had stage fright after watching ALL THAT . SHEW! have that electric fuzzy feeling all over and it's not a seizure! This is why I am still a Hippie! That made me feel good . Thanks so much Rick In Wichita Ks.

  • captain freakybeats ...that's the name they should take ...it reminds me a word or two by Lou Reed... "walk on the wild side" yeah that's so right here

  • DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THE SNACK CONCERT AT OLD KEZAR STADIUM

  • Freakin amazing; incredible, really, would have loved to have been there for this one, as well as the opening of the Red Noodle show previously mentioned; awesome music, awesome video! What an outstanding collection of talent, even Janis was in the audience. Thnx!

  • way cool video dude

  • relax fellas ah.. there ya go ...........the famous one chord jam............nice chord.....we usually end up e minor

  • Most of one whole side of the Quicksilver Messenger Service LP "Happy Trails" is taken up by the "Who Do You Love Suite", 6 tracks, 1968. That's what your listening to...I wish they'd caught the whole thing. I heard QMS and The Chambers Brothers jam this same number in Hawaii at the opening of The Red Noodle in 1970 for 45 minutes: awesome!

  • jack casady is such a badass

  • fuck!!! santana, jerry garcia, bob weir and jorma kaukonen jamming. fuckin pricelessssssssss

  • @MrMeddled ...LMMFFAO....I'm sure there is a vault filled by Chet and FD with tons of videos. These guys were so hi, they didn't even notice the cameras. Go to the archive and listen to sum of these shows. Hardly contrived.

  • Was that Janis Joplin @2:03??

  • jerry really brings it together

  • and it will be done thru many bands, including my own. we are starting to play some really trippy and far out stuff, and all the locals are now comin to see us, and i have my school wantin bell bottoms and saying groovy, right on, and far out! 

  • no my friend, it will happen in no one city, but across the nation. everywhere i go people want another woodstck they want to expand, they want to love, and to really live. Everybodies screamin for a new underground movement, theres a war goin on that noone wants, this is our chance, i used to think i belonged in the sixties, but now i think i belong now.

  • all i have to say is: there is still hope, man. bands like phish, tool and radiohead still pull out the crazy stops and push the boundaries like never before. it will be done. but where?!?! austin?!?!

  • These jams happened a lot after the gigs in San Francisco '65 -'68. It seemed like after everyone was done playing they would show up at the Avalon Ballroom & jam until the Police & Fire Dept. would show up & turn off the power to the building to end it or it would have gone on till daybreak. No one wanted to end, those were the days. I was so lucky to grow up in the SF Bay Area & went every weekend to fantastic gig.

  • @TheQuicksilverdog sounds like the life man wish i could have lived in your time.

  • @TheQuicksilverdog Wasn't this at the Family Dog down at the ocean beach?

  • @TheQuicksilverdog you are truly incredibly lucky to have grown up when and where you did!

  • @TheQuicksilverdog Grew up in the East Bay & went to as many as possible. Old Fillmore, Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom, Playland @ the Beach......this jam is like the one @ the "Last Days of the Fillmore" (West); got in on the guest list with the light show (Little Princess 109, I loved McKays). There's nothing like the jam sessions that carried on after the normal sets!!!

  • This Is FIERCE, man.

  • even if i live to be 103 i will probably never see anything as cool as this....kind of depressing actually what happened to the idea of what music is. these days it just sounds like someone threw rocks in a blender and hit puree

  • @50daysofnight Sure you can still see stuff like this, its just harder to find. I went to bonnaroo the second and third year, there were a few hardcore jammed out sessions involving numerous member from different bands. But I know what you mean, back then scenes like this were normal. In 2005 at the Greek theatre Comes A Time: A Tribute To Jerry Garcia was held, that is a good show check it out.  The date for it was 9/24/05

  • @50daysofnight

    well put. however,

    seemed more like dried poop than rocks to me when I last looked! :-)

  • Awesome Thank you this made my day

  • Amazing.. No other suitable words.

  • Look at Janis J. having fun......Needle and the damage done

  • oh, I was born just on the cusp of these very incredible musicians. Had my birth been 10yrs earlier, oh what a strange trip it would have been ;P

  • wow! what an incredible jam, man garcia, mike schrieve, jorma kaukonen, carlos santana, and all the rest of em' this blows my mind

  • so glad I lived during these times!

  • OK What 7 shitheads gave this a thumbs down?

  • Does anything need to be said besides, holy shit, I wish I was there.

  • wowowowowwo.

    this musicans played on the albm if i could only remember my name, and they did very beautiful stuff.

    if you want something like this, get that cd

  • HOLY BEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, BATMAN!

  • @TheGreatStonedOne

    this is on dvd also

  • Yikes! 40+ years ago??!!

    To my ears it sounds very Santana-ish, likely because their rhythm section is at the core of the jam. Really interesting to hear/watch all the different styles intermingle and bounce off each other.

    I wanna hear the rest!! Thanks for posting!

  • Can this be found on a album

  • This proves the adage "too many chefs spoil the soup" Awful,

  • I should of been a teenager in the 70's, unfortunately I got screwed over and was a teen in the 90's and had to put up with grunge and heavy metal.....why??!! The dude @3:44 is cleaning the residue from his nose

  • @rcortez911 yeah

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  • Far out, man. This was broadcast on PBS under the title "San Francisco Sounds" the Dead performed, Hard to Handle, China>Rider, Jam.The other performers were JA & Santana. The jam is an absolute MUST for any Deadhead. In fact this snippet sounds BETTER than the SB recording I have. THANK YOU for the post I have a visual to go along with the audio. COOL!!!!!!

  • Mickey

  • bello sarebbe stato esserci, ma avevo 10 anni, peccato, comunque grandi artisti for ever

  • I see on stage: Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Michael Carabello, Jerry Garcia, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Gary Duncan from Quicksilver Messenger Service. Who plays drums next to Michael Shrieve? Is that Mickey Hart or Spencer Dryden?

  • My speakers don't go load enough. :(

  • Heavy S**t man !

  • who r the 6 dumbasses that gave thumbs down!!!

  • Really smoking jam ! Sloppy, yet badass. The way Rock 'n Roll should be !

  • I can't wait until the entire video comes in the mail, only 15 bucks from amazon.com

  • Outstanding!!!!!!!

  • Good God, this is probably made in heaven and tape somehow managed it's way to Earth. Just check out the monster line-up, Santana, Shrieve,Jorma, Casady, Kantner, Garcia, Duncan,. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and David Crosby are checking out and dancing. I don't know names of bongo players and I probably didn't even name everyone. There's probably more psychrock-gods hiding there somewhere. Don't you wish our times are like 60s (musically and open-minded) ?

  • oh hell!

    is this Janis dancing at 2:01 to 2:05 and 5:01 to 5:09?

    and Jimmy's in the crowd as well, watch again!

  • @wildganja Lol this must be janis!

  • @wildganja No, it's not.

  • Once something like this gets started its hard to stop it.

  • Amazing jam, this is the kind of stuff that needs to be remastered and released DVD and CD.

  • ya my bad, i meant to say 4:22, i know for a fact thats jerry

  • @pinto4646 Looks to me like that's Jorma playing at 4:22

  • @DrSartorius84

    It seems to me that Jorma is playing, some rythmn riffs, and Jerry is the guitar playing at 4:20 and 4:50. At 4:50 you can see his chord transitions and identify the sound, which to me is the same sound as at 4:20. But what do I know ? I wasn't there.

  • Jorma and Carlos still rocking on!!!!!!!!!!!

  • :42....wow. garcia is god. that rivals one of my all time fav licks from duane allman on memory of elizabeth reed

  • im not here to break your heart but that was definitely not a Jerry lick.

  • jack cassidy is the eye of the hurricane... he holds this all together single handedly

  • eh. incohesive. i love all these artists though. it just feels like they struggle to find a collective sound. and a lot of them are frustrated or really intoxicated. p.s. i enjoy intoxicants. go music!

  • Wow! Que entrega!!

  • They don't make 'em like this anymore.

  • is that janis in the front row?

  • @jaydee123xyz from the look of those sunglasses ....its gotta be

  • @jaydee123xyz

    Yep :)

  • @jaydee123xyz No, it isn't. Thanks for asking though.

  • GO MIKE SHRIEVE!

  • Yea, this is always frustrating. There is a reason for the "Garcia=God" rhetoric. If you know each musicians style, you can hear Jerry coming in at 1:15 and basically fronting the guitar section from that point on. NO ONE can lay down those divinely fat riffs like Garcia. Jorma and Santana are utter pupils

  • Wow, your a candyflipper, cool for you raver boy. Everyone is proud of you for being able to take acid and then fuck it all up with some dumb pressie pills from biker joes bathtub... Theres a reason you werent born in the above era.

  • The drummer is Michael Schreive, Armando Peraza on Congas

  • That looks like Jimi Hendrix sitting next to Santana's drummer on the left side of the stage.

  • @whitney: I can close my eyes & tell who is playing when, solo or simultaneously w/ others. Love em all however Jorma on this one really works ir & probably because Jack Casady is there on bass...that's one four handed monster. I remember watching this "Night @ the Family Dog" special a year after it was recorded on PBS.

    from the same show check out the Airplane's "Ballad of Me , You & Pooneil" >>1970 version on youtube!

  • Cool little jam session posted on youtube..

  • Great!!!!!!

  • perfect time to be peaking on 2 purple dragons

  • @mrmott44

    the more the merrier is my saying. this would be an absolutely awesome and most perfect time to trip, and even candyflip... EPIC!!

  • @atunick14 I am glad you didn't leave out the last part of your post, I am a natural born candyflipper ! Goes so great w/ phat music !

  • The Santana drummer and Jefferson bass player are just ripping it up. Amazing players. The other guitar players didn't let it breath enough, only Carlos. Serious groove though. Following in Miles Davis's Bitches Brew vibe.

  • At 5:30 is the famous rock photographer Jim Marshall. He passed away a couple weeks ago.

  • sonic scribbles and super sonic graffiti -- and i love it. these musicians were conduits of a power greater than the world itself.

  • god bless the videographer...Wow! Looks like Janis was there too......Jack wails at the end

  • @dalidivinci Sorry to burst the bubble, but people who keep thinking they see Joplin in this video are looking with their hearts, not their eyes. She was NOT in the building.

  • The real stuff!!

  • Those were the good old days

  • Tom Selleck has one hell of a mustash

  • has the sound of an allman brother jam,like in parts of in memory of elizabeth reed or the jamming part they sometime did in whipping post

  • There's peanuts in the peanut butter!

  • This musta been some night. And to think it probably only cost 5 bucks to get in.

  • @bwanna23 Had it been a paying gig, would have been 3 bucks at the door (or maybe we were up to $3.50 by then, I can't quite remember). But this was an invitation-only private party for the purpose of taping the shows for an NET (predecessor to PBS) special. The edited hour which aired is available again on DVD. Check Amazon for "A Night At the Family Dog".

  • Great..

  • WOW-This Music Is Alot Better Than What I Do:)

  • Drugs definitely would help...lol.

  • @TheGreenBlackbird you just can't stop listening to this music:p ive seen "the ballad of you and me and pooneil" at this same show over a hundred times and i'm still not sick of this kind of sound. it's sounds so fresh and yet it's 40 years old music.:p

  • lol. it all sounds good with the right drug mix.

  • 'Furious' is aptly put!

  • Rockin!

  • Manque plus que Cippolina!

  • Right there at 2:12, now that power trio would have been just fine had they been playing on their own!

  • If this was filmed in Feb. of 1970, then Santana drummer Michael Shrieve was the same age he was at Woodstock, 20 years old.

  • what? is Jack In house???

    ALL RISE!

    jack rules!

  • Remarkably they only needed one bassist......and his name was Jack

  • My God, is that Janis Joplin at the 2:00 minute mark?

  • Don't think it is. You can see her again around 3:13 and she doesn't look like Joplin.

  • wow! didnt see that coming

  • oh god hat was intense when Carlos kicked in..

  • Is that Carlos Santana ??

  • wonder how much pot it took to get the whole lot of them stoned

  • Hahahaha :]

  • perhaps should reevaluate all of the musicians involved in this jam. I'm fully aware the camera only pans to certain areas. But there are certainly more guitarists than shown and another bassists as well.

  • To PubliusNV, get your head out of your ass. I was friends with Jorma and he is probably one of the best guitarists and teachers ever!

  • I agree with wakjob614: holy Shit! This is just a psychedelic wet dream, man. Dig that late 60s San Francisco sound! Where did it all go wrong? Too many drugs? Obsession with money? Synthesizers? Get me a time machine.

  • i hear you. but golden ages aren't meant to last forever. this too shall pass.

    at least we still have the music. and if you dig around somewhat, you'll still find some fairly strong echoes around today.

  • @geedus71 i believe that time machine is called pot lol

  • @Guitarstring187 Hell, I'll just go pick up some fine fragrant weed and get rolling then... see y'all in the front row, late show...

  • @geedus71 I'm there !

  • MORE PLEASE!!!

  • Holy shit!

  • That was totally Janis. I have a bootleg of this show and it's rockin. Bit O trivia, Janis was dating Pigpen from the Dead at the time and she was at most of their shows. On a couple of occasions she did indeed embarrass herself by coming onstage trashed and trying to sing with em...lol.

  • @Feather13 My friend, I worked this gig. Joplin was NOT in the building.

  • woops, I mean jack's jam!

  • Can't believe the poster cut Phil's jam, they were just getting going!

  • That wasn't Phil Lesh... That was Jack Casady...Still a shame is cut off....

    Peace & Love

  • Amazing.  6 years later I saw Jorma Kaukonen in Hot Tuna dipping cocaine off a pile on top of an amp. What a waste of talent.

  • That's not janis joplin, that's a random person in the crowd grooving. Get off it!

  • HEY janis is a god and always will so lay off her it was the 69 if u didnt want to sing u dance the way it was

  • Three of my favorite bands. This is totally amazing! I've never seen this before, and I LOVE it!

  • janis is too stoned, drunk, triping, to do anything but dance, let alone sing..peace..

  • Janis at 5:02... kinda embarrassing

  • that is really a super jam

  • scraping jaw off desk

  • WOW!!!!!!!!

  • I just take a look at J. Garcias face and I know this is a good/god song.

    Jerry's like an angel. Winston Rodney as well.

    So they wrote songs to honor each other:

    Burning Spear (W. Rodney) - "Play Jerry"

    Grateful Dead (J. Garcia) - "Estimated Prophet"

  • bobby wrote estimated prophet not garcia. i got mad love for the burning spear but estimated prophet has nothing to do with him. "and if we should live up in the hills"

  • God damn this is soo cool to think all the people in there probibly paid $6.50 to see that show

    JORMA=GOD