Deep Elem Blues - Jerry Garcia

[kidntrope]

I can't believe how much JDarks vids have helped me in my favorite obsession. Thanks for all the great info and tabs. Keep them coming!

[MrJoeyp52]

hey is that 5-5-82? oregon state prsion with john kahn?

[saucydman]

There's nothing like a true fan. Love it!

[jovanholden1]

Been watching your vids & using your site for nearly 3 years now. Great guitarist.....not so great singer.

[JDarks]

@jovanholden1 The latter... is well known, acknowledged, admitted, confessed, no defense, guilty, but helps me keep my place in the song. What a shame. lol

[jeffreyhsykes]

@JDarks Love me some JDarks. Maybe the best guitar site there is.

[Buccis5]

Hey Darks thanks for posting this along with your tab. I'm having trouble with the rythm and chord progression after the intro. Could you PLEASE help me understand this??? Thanks again!!

[bpatrickn]

How can i get the TAB for this song?

[jovanholden1]

@bpatrickn comments like from 4 months ago, but hes got a site (jdarks.com) with most Grateful Dead tabs

[mpegmike]

Less Talking for Christ's sake! Like Frank Zappa said! "Shut up and play yer guitar"

[bpatrickn]

deep elum is part of dallas texas known to be a blues hangout in the 20s

[chazaam000]

i just started playing acoustic and you seem like a great teacher. its hard to see where your fingers go and what not, i wish i could just pay you for some dead lessons

[aoxomoxoa88]

Damn, I want to buy a guitar now, along with your house..... as long as you leave all those fine pictures on the walls!

[allenbosox]

Does this song refer to Deep Ellum, in Dallas?

[vauxhall908]

i just play it in E end part reminds me of my friends fathers house but with Frank Zappa

[vauxhall908]

very cool darks

[myke232]

dude, you're hilarious. remind me of dennis hopper for some reason. great video, thanks.

[deathlikesilence710]

Thank You Thank You Thank You

[GDguitarplayer]

That's a grate lesson right here! Thank you!

P.S.

Is that a real Watkins Glen poster? Holy crap JDarks you got everything! -LOL

[natureperson420]

i dont know shit about playing music let alone guitar but Jerry is not a lazy music maker i know that much i also know this guy is great at life hes the cats meow

[folkrockm14]

nice jay that is very helpful too me

[folkrockm14]

you have a farm too?it kinda looks like a barn

[Tserindorji]

Where is that version of Deep Elem Blues from? Date/Venue? I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that version.

[natureperson420]

i think its his own

[nolanrygar]

Sounds like Jerry Garcia and John Kahn at Oregon State Prison 5-5-82 01.

[ut00biFer0us]

Darks, I just recently stumbled onto your stuff and I just wanna say, in a very heartfelt way ... you are a genius.

Not just the playing; you're a killer there, in spades. I've learned much from you already over the past few days. But your insight, wit, feel, your humor, your touch .... the whole shebang. The musical tour of your house ~ classic. LOL, what a setup :)

Thanks for doing what you do, man. You bring a lot of good here.

[slipyourhips]

Ditto

[flukedoos]

JDarks, thanks for the awesome tutorial. Your stuff is awesome and is exactly what I've been searching for! Thanks for the good work, keep it up and let me know your tour dates!

[th3king1111]

Thank you so much Jdark for this amazing video!

[poderosocosme]

nice barn in the background

[bphirm]

thanks man, I've been wondering about the middle part of the solo for 10 years...I've got a nice song about boobs in my videos if you wanna hear a great song too...take it easy...BP

[arodlop]

Awsome.....Keep groovin. Deep Ellum by the way is where I live and work......Next to downtown Dallas....Still funky and alive.........

[Hanksalot]

I thought it was only ME that rewound this tune from The Jerry Garcia Band Almost Acoustic album OVER and OVER in my car...

and then went out and played it at gigs

Apparently not...

[flukedoos]

I also wore out that part of the tape!

[damon0110]

and me lol

[icutpeepolz]

FAKE

[theperson37]

Those are some of the best blues I ever did hear!

[MsMinglewoodBlues]

great stuff, buddy!!!!

[jwray13]

Jdarks, I've just discovered your videos here, and they led me to your site. Thank you for all you have done. I'm working on Deep Elem at the moment. I couldn't do it without you.

p.s. Do you ever get any comparisons to Dennis Hopper? At the first of this video, I swear you sound just like him, and you favor him a little anyway. I just thought it was funny! Keep doing what you are doing!

[theerion]

good call with the Dennis Hopper resemblance, I second that :-)

[McGSkjellyfetti]

Great stuff! For jamming folks can play on the standard pentatonic scale in C#. (That's the "relative minor" of the key of E) Thanks for posting this J.

[acidmindcps]

Very nice playing!!!

Cheers!!!

[stealurface1976]

wicked playing...one of my favorite songs to play...although i play it a bit different...

[roadkilltcmc]

thanx so much for helping me over this hump bro.

[codsack]

VERY well transcribed. You are one cool cat.

[FlubbaSketchy]

Why, oh WHY must I spend weekend upon weekend trying to learn this shit? This shit that means nothing to no-one outside of jdarks, me and maybe 710 other weirdos? Whatever my inner demons, thank you jdarks for making it even plausible; without you, i'd have no hope. Again i thank you (duhduhduhduh_uhh for a real good time)! ;)

[JDarks]

If you learn it, find some friends to play it along with you, then take it to a gig at the local bar and watch 25-50 folks groove to it, then you'll know "Why." And you're welcome. :)

[theerion]

Don't forget me, dude. I'm the 711th weirdo in there.

[brainonlegs]

@FlubbaSketchy

Yep, it's a project for life. A half-assed picker like me would need an infinite number of weekends to get this down, but I'm gonna die trying.Jdarks is just a brilliant resource. I'm proud to be one of the weirdos (that's my family's very word for it, too)

[jeffntab420]

you play very good, id love to sing deep elm while you played it. im 31 and love the dead, and guys like you inspire me. keep rockin'

[LittleRedKing]

Great set of licks. Thanks for the tips.

[jkilcull]

One of your best videos to date! Love the "inner chambers/sanctuary/shrine" ya got there! So, when we all going down there? Deep Elm, that is? I've got 9 bucks saved up so far!!!

[Jack808Straw]

I Keep my money in my shoe when I go down to Deep Elem.

[johnmundiejr]

best version is Jerry solo (no John Kahn) Passic NJ 4-10-82

[dp11issosweet]

i still have found no better version than disc 2 of reckoning that slide gives it a whole different jug bandy old time vibe

[johnmundiejr]

thats great; if you have a band to back you; but to just fool around the Passic show rules-(early show)

[3chrds]

deep elem is fuhhhckin groovy!

get dirty wit it, jdarks!

[Blobweird]

just a random thought. When you play that lick he does during the chorus. The first "Oh sweet mama" you sing, the first Ohh you voice sounds JUST like Jerry. Nice job all around. Love to do this diddy

[dp11issosweet]

wow that "barn" of yours is every musicians dream

[caspersvapors]

what recording are you working off darks?

[joebroomhead]

thats the Oregon state prison tape. gotta be the greatest "play along" versions for an acoustic guitar player. straight forward versions all nicely played and well recorded. Nice sunny day, you should be out on the bike..

[theerion]

dude, you're the best. i could write volumes.