This.is super nice. However I saw my first show in 1972 and have heard equally and even better performances of this song. Maybe it was jusd the LSD, I don't know.
superlatives are for the blind and deaf.. this is a great version . but Best?!? hmm a bit questionable .. i have experienced several versions that are EQUAL
The police scare me and Im only 15, they run rampant in our town harassing stoners and beating minorities. Its like they let people with mental problems join the force. Their funding only keeps goin up and our educational funding keeps going down, why is California going insane?
That for This one/ Here is why second to none the Greatful Dead was and will be the Group to go down in History, Jerry knew one can come close to the way he Played, you played the song on you guitar, truely had a gift, know one will ever have ... Thanks Jerry for a real good time!!!!!! We miss you
I of course know good music....we all do....it's called personal taste...and I canNOT stand the Grateful Dead....doesn't mean I don't get that others just weep majestic at them...but I sure do not. Everything sounds the same to me. It doesn't hit me in my soul. That's music tho. very personal and subjective! I just hate when people say...oh we knew good music...like if you do not like the Dead you don't know what moves my soul....sheesh.
First heard the dead as a kid in late sixties, then saw them for the first time 1976 at Beacon theater and didn't stop until the 1995, the 70s for me where special, the vibe was mellow, in between sets the dead showed clips from old movies, whether you saw the The Grateful Dead once or a hundred times or just heard them, then your tuned it, go with the flow, you didn't miss a thing !
First saw the boys in March 1971. Heard many versions of Sugar Magnolia over the years. At that show they played Sugar Magnolia in the middle of the second set. In 1973 I saw them at Kiel in St. Louis where they ended with Sugar Magnolia/Casey Jones. Just awesome. Every other show I saw Sugar Magnolia was the second set ending song. I got so I hated to hear them start playing it because that meant the show would soon end. How I miss Jerry.
You know, I'm in my mid late 30s and caught the tail end of GD live. 13 shows starting in '89 and ending at that last less than memorable show in Chicago. At the time, we were all mourning not being able to go to those great 70's shows. It's all relative. Great thing about music is that it survives and transcends. And the well for GD music is full. Enjoy when you can, as you can, integrate, and keep moving.
I saw all the Buckeye Lake shows and a handful of other midwest shows starting in 1989. I felt the same way - it's not my generation, but it's still pretty dang good. HOWEVER, to have toured from 1971-1974 ... ;)
@PinkFloydrulez Shit man, I am 22 and I've seen Further thrice. It may not be the same, but it's as close as our generation is gonna get. So quit whining and get yourself a ticket before the rest of the band (Jerry forbid) dies out.
This song was the song that made me a fan....driving down the road one day this came on the radio ....I had to pull over and listen. I was 21 and the rest is history!
is this, in fact the "best version" -- would love to argue this with multiple deadheads as they would point out other versions and then we would listen and discuss and get caught up "Dead Music" and then swap stories about dead shows and there is really no way better to spend time than listening to Grateful Dead. When in college - this was our favorite Dead song and still my wife and I (married almost 40 years) consider it "our song". Also good versions w/ donna jean.
Nice job on the video of great dead clips. Not a bad version of this great song. I unfortunately never got to see the Dead in person and will forever regret not making it to a show when I had the opportunity. RIP Jerry
Another song with lyrics from the guy who deserved to be front and center with this band - Robert Hunter. As good as Garcia's licks were, Hunter gave their music meaning.
I heard this song on the radio on my way to school (college) one day in 1987 .... I pulled over to listen to the whole thing ....I was late for class.... but incurred and everlasting fascination / love for this band and their music
It is definitely a hot one but not necessarily the BEST. You can't really compare a '72-'74 quintet/Wall of Sound Sugar Mags with a post-'75 sextet version. It's like comparing a pinot noir with a cab/merlot blend. It really comes down to personal preference, in my opinion. I like 'em all and still can't get enough after 36 years! since I "got on the bus". I'm gone try to find the rest of that show. Thanks for posting.
@AncientDrummer Good comment... many of us have a special time of our life when we are on the bus...and that time is always the "best" ... take any group that existed from 1965 to 1995 and shoe me how thier feel and interpretation changed over time... to reflect new insights... new ways of playing or new technology.... that is only true for the Dead. People go to other groups from back in the day just to hear what they heard then.... a real garden Party.... not so with the dead.
You wanna know why I love this song? It made me a better person. Before I discovered Grateful Dead I was this stressed trapped and selfish ass. I would make a big deal out of things that weren't neccesary. But after I heard this song I suddenly changed. I was being nice to people, I was feeling cheerful, I felt free, I started taking more notice of things that were important like poverty, war, and other problems.
Now I listen to this everyday to keep me feeling good. Thanks so much GD!!
The feel that Bill K alone on the drums gave the band is evident here, in the 1971 raw psychedelia, in the monumental 1972 collection of recordings, and on into 1974. With Mickey Hart it was very different (not gonna be the judge here). For certain, Bill Kreutzmann was one agile mo'fo' back there...
Hey, I was at this show. They played in a gymnasium for the first and last time. That fancy wooden basketball floor was like a trampolene during sugarmag. You either danced, and in beat, or you got thrown to the ground. All you kids craving a life 30 years ago, now is the best place to be cause you are young and alive - take the lesson jerry brings and do it again only better.
Its awesome how they can take what the studio version is roughly a 3 minute work of art and turn it into a 9 minute work of art that's probably 3 times better. I'm 15, and I'm loving this, the generation I live with has hope!
@fatariknight I saw the Dead many times at Winterland and other parts of the bay area in addition to St. Louis (where they owned the FOX theatre that they played in) and in San Diego. They were in their glory from the late 60s to the very end. You're right, it was a 3 or 4 hour "trance"-cendental state. BTW, the 3 shows live at Winterland June 1977 are now available on a CD. Great stuff.
@fatariknight some people know good music to this day...thanks to my father who's with me right now lol. I love the Dead, the beatles, stones, dylan, CSN, jimi, the doors....you name it. I even like the Hollies and Traffic. And I'm nineteen years old. There's no need for the elitist front....in fact that's against what Jerr Bear stood for. Thought you should know :P
i was seven! wish someone had told my mom because she loves it when i play it for her now, but doesnt remember them from that period in her life..aaron the king was their vibe...woe is me!
@liam95red Same here, my mom doesnt even remember when Jerry died but i play them all the time and she now loves them. but i was only one when he died..
Fave. tune memories of playin in the Mts. with my g.f. as a teenager. This was the only tape we had lol was my nick name for her "Sugar Magnolia" She has passed on (r.i.p.) But on my bday today I have been jammin on all my old fav's. this was is it. Also a survivor of a lot of G.D. shows in the west. Am wearing the shirt I had made when I heard of Jerry's passing,Hand stitched with I MISS JERRY on the back and a peace/world on the front. PEACE Rick Wichita ks. via western slope Colorado
@mdmmurray1 Thank you ! Don't feel older ,but am having a bit of mid life crisis lol I miss the people real bad some times! The real folks ingrained in me my true Peace though and I pass it on to the others in the true Rainbow fashion. PEACE Rick thanks again
Listening to this song brings tears to my eyes. I was fortunate enough to be taken to a few Dead shows growing up as a kid. My mom and dad said hell would freeze over before they would take me to a show...well, one night there was no babysitter...needless to say from that day on...they were purchasing 3 tickets, instead of 2. One of my fave songs.
@brownster5 your son makes me said too im only 14 but i love grateful dead and sublime i lission to them every day and never get sick of them all there songs are just great
1970-73 were my Peak GD years~!! Never heard this Stanford show before. pbski, you would have "freaked"~!! I 1st saw GD on 9/24/76 William & Mary College. However Bob & Jerry jammed @ an Allman Bros concert on "Mtn Jam" @ Gaelic Park, Bronx NY 1972 which I attended. I left the venue @ age 18 thinking "I can now die.......I've seen it all!!!" Hahahah if I only knew what LIFE would later show me.........backstage @ GD shows!!!
Hard to believe how good they really were, and then there was that great output! Song after song, night after night, cover songs, r&b, American classics, acid rock, and utterly awesome, very hip, modern electronic music!
40 days later I saw my first Dead show.: Bertha Me and My Uncle U.S. Blues Looks Like Rain Tennessee Jed Box of Rain Jack Straw You Ain't Woman Enough Row Jimmy Beat it on Down the Line Here Comes Sunshine The Race Is On Loser El Paso China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Playing in the Band Greatest Story Ever Told They Love Each Other Mexicali Blues Brown Eyed Women Big River Brokedown Palace Me and Bobby McGee WRS Prelude Dark Star Eyes of the World Wharf Rat Sugar Magnolia Casey Jones
this is great....huge fan, American Beauty was one of my first albums and it was given to me, been a music junkie since then.........she dont come and I dont follow boyzzz
1st show: Philly, Spectrum, '77, wish I'd toured with em back in the day, however, very GRATEFUL for all the shows I did see: PA, NY, CO, VA, DC; check out the shows at: archive.org !!!
I toured 1982 thru 86 not missing very many-there was a show in Philly (84?) when I heard my personal fav version of Sugar Mag-I do remember the 50 or so that was climbing up the bricks outside the place up prob 5 stories high to get in
those guys were sons of that times.....thanks to the web for keeping 'em in our memories...and to Youtube as well......you can foubnd almost everything on anyone on Youtube....this helps not to lose those "pearls" ....
Every time a non-head asks me my favorite dead song... the impossible question without getting into version, date, venue etc. Always seem to end up with a version of this in the top ten that I come up with ... goin where the wind blows....
Hey Doc, You're right, this is a great version. I also like the video, I thought it was the actual concert video, great editing and effects.
I was old enough to follow the dead in college, but not laid back enough to actually do it. I got a degree four years later, but missed on life. At the time, taking off a semester seemed like a huge sacrifice, but now, to give up six months to get that kind of life experience seems well worth it.
peeps got me to thinking: how many heard every Sugar Mag they ever played? it might be more than four! This one is definitely the Best though and I've seen my hands full.... thanks Boys, Sweet Magnolia Day\dream... broke big in Pittsburgh, and that's a fact...
It's good, but the best ? I saw the Dead about 190 times between 1975 and 1991, most of those 1976-1982. When I was a teenager in high school there was nowhere I was happier to be than under the mirror ball at Winterland, waiting for the show to start. Magic. I listen to these shows and all the stuff on archive and am amazed, it still sounds so good. That was an incredible time, always to be cherished. We were so lucky to have that.
Great song, love it, it is so nice to post and read posts where people aren't being crass and name calling, love everyone here........Woo hoo. love the Dead
I could never begin to count how many times I've heard this song. Been on the bus since 72. Tonight some 39 years later, Sugar Mag continues to rock my soul...Great version
Dear matt, i lived thru those years and I can't begin to tell you how wonderful the 1973 concert in Des Moines IA was. There was a full double rainbow at the end of the concert outside on the state fair grounds. An concert to remember for all time! Peace my friend, joellen
I want to dance with you all ! Reliving Rochester NY in the late 70's (maybe early 80's)! AWESOME !! Sounds so fantastic.....My favorite (of many !) jam!!!!! MISS YOU JERRY! Still have my t-shirts from the 70's.... rolling in on over 50yrs myself ! PEACE!
Hi not high- having a good lol boy times change ,I came across this link while cleaning up email from an old friend ,I went ahead and played it and disturbed my 13 yr old daughter who needs to sleep for school tomorrow.Am certain I awoke my parents playing this at 11.30pm when I was 13 , next I will be lighting a bonfire and jammin the backyard ,My feel good song thanks ,Rick,DAD in Wichita
I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
Where can you find a relatively popular video on YouTube that doesn't even have one asshole hitting the "Dislike" button? Only The Grateful Dead, my friends. I cannot even describe how jealous I am of all you old-timers. I'm 23 and I would KILL to be thirty years older so I could have been around for these guys. I would never have left your side, Jerry. Not once.
@pbskl agreed man I'm 21 and wish music would go back too sounding this grate :] Check out jimiller band it's a dead cover that plays at nelson ledges quarry park in Ohio (nlqp.com) I hope too see you there man, peace!
It's no wonder I was hooked. I had just turned 18 a few days earlier and decided to check these guys out. This was my 1st show!! Later that year I'd see Old and In the Way in SF and Kingfish too.
you suck
dakidizkool 2 days ago
This.is super nice. However I saw my first show in 1972 and have heard equally and even better performances of this song. Maybe it was jusd the LSD, I don't know.
jeffimjatse 3 days ago
Check out Further. Bob Weir and Phil Lesh.
msmomo2u 5 days ago
superlatives are for the blind and deaf.. this is a great version . but Best?!? hmm a bit questionable .. i have experienced several versions that are EQUAL
carlafierro7 1 week ago
Thanks doc! This is incredible! Great job.
Peace out man.
msmomo2u 3 weeks ago
The police scare me and Im only 15, they run rampant in our town harassing stoners and beating minorities. Its like they let people with mental problems join the force. Their funding only keeps goin up and our educational funding keeps going down, why is California going insane?
TFrills 3 weeks ago
@TFrills seiously pathetic...yeah there's always some jerks around...remember "Four Dead In Ohio" CSNY
1goodmusiclover 1 week ago
I miss the dead and all the shows all too much fun .,.. No hassles and freedom :) the good times
galars44 1 month ago
Listen, it's a good version but I think the one from Hundred year hall and, 4/71 when they closed out the filmore east are better,
jerryme2100 1 month ago
That for This one/ Here is why second to none the Greatful Dead was and will be the Group to go down in History, Jerry knew one can come close to the way he Played, you played the song on you guitar, truely had a gift, know one will ever have ... Thanks Jerry for a real good time!!!!!! We miss you
philagerryberry714 1 month ago
I of course know good music....we all do....it's called personal taste...and I canNOT stand the Grateful Dead....doesn't mean I don't get that others just weep majestic at them...but I sure do not. Everything sounds the same to me. It doesn't hit me in my soul. That's music tho. very personal and subjective! I just hate when people say...oh we knew good music...like if you do not like the Dead you don't know what moves my soul....sheesh.
HearthCricket 1 month ago
@HearthCricket That's okay Hearth. We all have different tastes. Thanks for stopping by.
:-)
msmomo2u 3 weeks ago
Willy's Jeep
jJeremyRoot 1 month ago
My friend; this is in my top 10, and by God, i think you are right!
seventurns100 1 month ago
Insight: I thought I "grew out of the Dead" those hippies, lol. But.. I didn't. Renewed respect emerges
musicizzzzzzzzzzzzzz 2 months ago
very nice version i agree
cavemandan 2 months ago 2
awsome music
1burnman 2 months ago
free
MegaJane37 3 months ago
First heard the dead as a kid in late sixties, then saw them for the first time 1976 at Beacon theater and didn't stop until the 1995, the 70s for me where special, the vibe was mellow, in between sets the dead showed clips from old movies, whether you saw the The Grateful Dead once or a hundred times or just heard them, then your tuned it, go with the flow, you didn't miss a thing !
MrBull419 3 months ago
First saw the boys in March 1971. Heard many versions of Sugar Magnolia over the years. At that show they played Sugar Magnolia in the middle of the second set. In 1973 I saw them at Kiel in St. Louis where they ended with Sugar Magnolia/Casey Jones. Just awesome. Every other show I saw Sugar Magnolia was the second set ending song. I got so I hated to hear them start playing it because that meant the show would soon end. How I miss Jerry.
ariesric1 3 months ago
thanks for an awesome jam sesh
stevencmann 3 months ago
You know, I'm in my mid late 30s and caught the tail end of GD live. 13 shows starting in '89 and ending at that last less than memorable show in Chicago. At the time, we were all mourning not being able to go to those great 70's shows. It's all relative. Great thing about music is that it survives and transcends. And the well for GD music is full. Enjoy when you can, as you can, integrate, and keep moving.
sonicthought 3 months ago
@sonicthought
I saw all the Buckeye Lake shows and a handful of other midwest shows starting in 1989. I felt the same way - it's not my generation, but it's still pretty dang good. HOWEVER, to have toured from 1971-1974 ... ;)
chiefbigwig1 3 months ago
Quit whining about what's fair or not fair. This is good music. Enjoy it. Carpe diem, you know?!?!?
mangledinal 4 months ago
@mangledinal you have the right idea, seize the moment, Sunshine Daydream !
MrBull419 3 months ago
anyone who dislikes any grateful dead video should be hunted down and flogged.
bluegoose56 4 months ago 2
Trippy... $unsh!n€ D@ydream
MrCraigary123 4 months ago
happy birthday, Bob! long live for Jerry!
tedkashiwaya 4 months ago 3
i'm almost 22
i'm never gonna get to go to a dead show
it's just not fair...
PinkFloydrulez 4 months ago
@PinkFloydrulez I'm 59. I've seen the Dead twice. I'm never gonna get to do a lot of things you will do.
It's just not fair.
jduit231 4 months ago
@PinkFloydrulez Shit man, I am 22 and I've seen Further thrice. It may not be the same, but it's as close as our generation is gonna get. So quit whining and get yourself a ticket before the rest of the band (Jerry forbid) dies out.
Jrinu 3 months ago
What a grate tune!
farfrompukin1974 5 months ago
the jam is good, but i have to say i've heard better "sunshine daydreams". its just me.
wingman572 5 months ago
This song was the song that made me a fan....driving down the road one day this came on the radio ....I had to pull over and listen. I was 21 and the rest is history!
kenzbt1 5 months ago
is this, in fact the "best version" -- would love to argue this with multiple deadheads as they would point out other versions and then we would listen and discuss and get caught up "Dead Music" and then swap stories about dead shows and there is really no way better to spend time than listening to Grateful Dead. When in college - this was our favorite Dead song and still my wife and I (married almost 40 years) consider it "our song". Also good versions w/ donna jean.
verbenco 5 months ago
really wish I made it out of the parking lot so I could not only hear..but see them perform live in person
mysticlighter 5 months ago
@mysticlighter THE LOT IS NO PLACE TO BE AT SHOWTIME KID
muckstar23 5 months ago
Nice job on the video of great dead clips. Not a bad version of this great song. I unfortunately never got to see the Dead in person and will forever regret not making it to a show when I had the opportunity. RIP Jerry
freeflyr28 5 months ago
It was very good but I don't know if I'd say the best version I've heard.
stuco 5 months ago
Another song with lyrics from the guy who deserved to be front and center with this band - Robert Hunter. As good as Garcia's licks were, Hunter gave their music meaning.
rjl032653 5 months ago
I heard this song on the radio on my way to school (college) one day in 1987 .... I pulled over to listen to the whole thing ....I was late for class.... but incurred and everlasting fascination / love for this band and their music
kenzbt 6 months ago 4
never heard one that i did not think was the best.........when you are there listening, they are each the best!
lousurfs 6 months ago
never heard one that i did not think was the best.........
lousurfs 6 months ago
It is definitely a hot one but not necessarily the BEST. You can't really compare a '72-'74 quintet/Wall of Sound Sugar Mags with a post-'75 sextet version. It's like comparing a pinot noir with a cab/merlot blend. It really comes down to personal preference, in my opinion. I like 'em all and still can't get enough after 36 years! since I "got on the bus". I'm gone try to find the rest of that show. Thanks for posting.
AncientDrummer 6 months ago
@AncientDrummer Good comment... many of us have a special time of our life when we are on the bus...and that time is always the "best" ... take any group that existed from 1965 to 1995 and shoe me how thier feel and interpretation changed over time... to reflect new insights... new ways of playing or new technology.... that is only true for the Dead. People go to other groups from back in the day just to hear what they heard then.... a real garden Party.... not so with the dead.
jimaroo100 6 months ago
You wanna know why I love this song? It made me a better person. Before I discovered Grateful Dead I was this stressed trapped and selfish ass. I would make a big deal out of things that weren't neccesary. But after I heard this song I suddenly changed. I was being nice to people, I was feeling cheerful, I felt free, I started taking more notice of things that were important like poverty, war, and other problems.
Now I listen to this everyday to keep me feeling good. Thanks so much GD!!
Django5198 6 months ago 2
thanks for posting! I love this song! thanks again!
Jessev1968 6 months ago
This brings back some grateful memories...you will always be with us Jerry. What a long strange trip it's been....
b2sneeky 6 months ago
Oh I agree with Fatariknight.
sweetlunacy 6 months ago
The version with that cowboy in the beginning is also aweful. I like that groupie too. And specially the public is amazing. Like that.
deadheadstolla 6 months ago
Good vibes all around, RIP Jerry and pigpen
SPIKEJONES12211 6 months ago
The feel that Bill K alone on the drums gave the band is evident here, in the 1971 raw psychedelia, in the monumental 1972 collection of recordings, and on into 1974. With Mickey Hart it was very different (not gonna be the judge here). For certain, Bill Kreutzmann was one agile mo'fo' back there...
soyounoat 6 months ago
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER DAY, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TIME LIKE THE DAYS BEFORE OF AND AFTER DEAD SHOWS
THIS IS THE BEST VERSION THE JAM CAN NOT BE PUT INTO WORDS
MsDancingbears 6 months ago
@MsDancingbears Caps is cruise control for awesome...
earthlyradiodotcom 6 months ago
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER DAY, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TIME LIKE THE DAYS BEFORE OF AND AFTER DEAD SHOWS
MsDancingbears 6 months ago
This was my 1st Dead show...I turned 18 a few days before the show. What an introduction !!!
rpdugoni 7 months ago 2
great audio for 73. NICE! Born again Deadhead, 1977, Englishtown, NJ
thegunnydog 7 months ago
Hey, I was at this show. They played in a gymnasium for the first and last time. That fancy wooden basketball floor was like a trampolene during sugarmag. You either danced, and in beat, or you got thrown to the ground. All you kids craving a life 30 years ago, now is the best place to be cause you are young and alive - take the lesson jerry brings and do it again only better.
ziphler 7 months ago
Its awesome how they can take what the studio version is roughly a 3 minute work of art and turn it into a 9 minute work of art that's probably 3 times better. I'm 15, and I'm loving this, the generation I live with has hope!
bigmaclover7 7 months ago
You'd go to a Dead concert-stay for 3 hours in a trance-float out and life was not the same...back in the day, we knew good music.
fatariknight 7 months ago 30
@fatariknight some of us still know good music, that is why we're watching this video right now!
emsterlikewhoax 6 months ago
@emsterlikewhoax amen
fcirelli76 5 months ago
@fatariknight I saw the Dead many times at Winterland and other parts of the bay area in addition to St. Louis (where they owned the FOX theatre that they played in) and in San Diego. They were in their glory from the late 60s to the very end. You're right, it was a 3 or 4 hour "trance"-cendental state. BTW, the 3 shows live at Winterland June 1977 are now available on a CD. Great stuff.
garyjagels1 4 months ago
@fatariknight some people know good music to this day...thanks to my father who's with me right now lol. I love the Dead, the beatles, stones, dylan, CSN, jimi, the doors....you name it. I even like the Hollies and Traffic. And I'm nineteen years old. There's no need for the elitist front....in fact that's against what Jerr Bear stood for. Thought you should know :P
JAW
teamshlayer 4 months ago 8
@teamshlayer ya got it straight brother..your old man taught you well!!..
1goodmusiclover 1 week ago
@fatariknight were you ever dosed? or dosed on your own free will? (~):}
BMWproductionCo 3 months ago
Check out the Version from the Official Release Ladies and Gentlemen at The Fillmore. It is excellent. My favorite.
Hashjihadful 7 months ago
fuckin awesome tune. 2:25
NocturnalCucumber 7 months ago
@NocturnalCucumber and 4,56
deadheadstolla 7 months ago
where can i get this on mp3?
millerhb1 7 months ago
5 people dropped the wrong color blotter
cptcephas 7 months ago
made me get out my air guitar!!! Bobby giv that finger.. sunshine daydream!!! <3
Jagerslipknot 7 months ago
i was seven! wish someone had told my mom because she loves it when i play it for her now, but doesnt remember them from that period in her life..aaron the king was their vibe...woe is me!
liam95red 7 months ago
@liam95red Same here, my mom doesnt even remember when Jerry died but i play them all the time and she now loves them. but i was only one when he died..
zackt112 7 months ago
I love this song and this version is really good!
fliby113 7 months ago
love these guys I am 33 and grew up going to their concerts and touring the U.S on my summer vacations as a kid....Miss You Jerry
albright78 7 months ago
I am so Grateful my parents introduced me to the Dead, and taught me how to appreciatte the music and the vibe...
DestinyAllen1922 8 months ago
Fave. tune memories of playin in the Mts. with my g.f. as a teenager. This was the only tape we had lol was my nick name for her "Sugar Magnolia" She has passed on (r.i.p.) But on my bday today I have been jammin on all my old fav's. this was is it. Also a survivor of a lot of G.D. shows in the west. Am wearing the shirt I had made when I heard of Jerry's passing,Hand stitched with I MISS JERRY on the back and a peace/world on the front. PEACE Rick Wichita ks. via western slope Colorado
wichitarick 8 months ago 2
@wichitarick happy bday!
mdmmurray1 8 months ago 5
@mdmmurray1 Thank you ! Don't feel older ,but am having a bit of mid life crisis lol I miss the people real bad some times! The real folks ingrained in me my true Peace though and I pass it on to the others in the true Rainbow fashion. PEACE Rick thanks again
wichitarick 7 months ago 3
Mind-blowingly delightful version. And awesome quality recording, too. Thank you!!
hvanscoy 8 months ago
Listening to this song brings tears to my eyes. I was fortunate enough to be taken to a few Dead shows growing up as a kid. My mom and dad said hell would freeze over before they would take me to a show...well, one night there was no babysitter...needless to say from that day on...they were purchasing 3 tickets, instead of 2. One of my fave songs.
DestinyAllen1922 8 months ago 25
@destinyAllen1922 totaly cool girl !! awesome ! my son hates the dead . makes me sad .
brownster5 8 months ago
@brownster5 your son makes me said too im only 14 but i love grateful dead and sublime i lission to them every day and never get sick of them all there songs are just great
slowridesublime420 7 months ago
@slowridesublime420 same man.
NocturnalCucumber 7 months ago
@doc160
The version they picked for the Europe '72 vinyl was release was exceptional as well.
psscudder 9 months ago
1970-73 were my Peak GD years~!! Never heard this Stanford show before. pbski, you would have "freaked"~!! I 1st saw GD on 9/24/76 William & Mary College. However Bob & Jerry jammed @ an Allman Bros concert on "Mtn Jam" @ Gaelic Park, Bronx NY 1972 which I attended. I left the venue @ age 18 thinking "I can now die.......I've seen it all!!!" Hahahah if I only knew what LIFE would later show me.........backstage @ GD shows!!!
cdog1954 9 months ago
Hard to believe how good they really were, and then there was that great output! Song after song, night after night, cover songs, r&b, American classics, acid rock, and utterly awesome, very hip, modern electronic music!
StanleyPacion 9 months ago
Beast sugar mag?
06-20-83 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Md.
None better
hockeygame3 9 months ago
awesome, soooo good,
cavmusicnyc 9 months ago
Did all the tweeters blow at this show?
MrGrevy 9 months ago
NCWharfRat 9 months ago 2
@NCWharfRat Quite the memory for a dead head lol.
wichitarick 8 months ago
this is great....huge fan, American Beauty was one of my first albums and it was given to me, been a music junkie since then.........she dont come and I dont follow boyzzz
cavmusicnyc 9 months ago
1st show: Philly, Spectrum, '77, wish I'd toured with em back in the day, however, very GRATEFUL for all the shows I did see: PA, NY, CO, VA, DC; check out the shows at: archive.org !!!
kewlbreez77 9 months ago
saw the dead more times than i saw that finger here....
TheBlogmocracy 9 months ago
I toured 1982 thru 86 not missing very many-there was a show in Philly (84?) when I heard my personal fav version of Sugar Mag-I do remember the 50 or so that was climbing up the bricks outside the place up prob 5 stories high to get in
bgmac1964 10 months ago
This is my husband's song for me! And yes, I pay those tickets!
skinny2bme 10 months ago 2
I. LOVE. THIS. SONG!!!!!
zarathustra1214 10 months ago 2
those guys were sons of that times.....thanks to the web for keeping 'em in our memories...and to Youtube as well......you can foubnd almost everything on anyone on Youtube....this helps not to lose those "pearls" ....
sunshinedaydreaming 10 months ago
a few dislikes are always legit.cmon people, they totally effed up the bridge even though its a great nugget. i LIKED it.
busplunger 10 months ago
Every time a non-head asks me my favorite dead song... the impossible question without getting into version, date, venue etc. Always seem to end up with a version of this in the top ten that I come up with ... goin where the wind blows....
russrnb 10 months ago 2
Hey Doc, You're right, this is a great version. I also like the video, I thought it was the actual concert video, great editing and effects.
I was old enough to follow the dead in college, but not laid back enough to actually do it. I got a degree four years later, but missed on life. At the time, taking off a semester seemed like a huge sacrifice, but now, to give up six months to get that kind of life experience seems well worth it.
Jeremiahnine23 10 months ago 3
Awesome! Almost as good as the 11/11/73 Winterland Arena-version...
utvol6945 10 months ago
I'm pretty sure I was there!!! :D
mkepes 10 months ago
fantastic show with so many great firsts I just love the whole thing to bits. Loose Lucy, Eyes, They Love Each Other, I could go on and on...
PinkFloydrulez 10 months ago
peeps got me to thinking: how many heard every Sugar Mag they ever played? it might be more than four! This one is definitely the Best though and I've seen my hands full.... thanks Boys, Sweet Magnolia Day\dream... broke big in Pittsburgh, and that's a fact...
dennywolfe 10 months ago
I'm old school. Great music, but why chop up the video?
Please don't wish to be older. Wish for a freaking time machine.
See you there.
grizzly919 10 months ago
very good there can not be a best we all have a different ear
hippi2285 11 months ago
Right Click>>>Save As :) Right on! Jammin' version.
PwaiChung 11 months ago
It's good, but the best ? I saw the Dead about 190 times between 1975 and 1991, most of those 1976-1982. When I was a teenager in high school there was nowhere I was happier to be than under the mirror ball at Winterland, waiting for the show to start. Magic. I listen to these shows and all the stuff on archive and am amazed, it still sounds so good. That was an incredible time, always to be cherished. We were so lucky to have that.
rizdog2 11 months ago
Great song, love it, it is so nice to post and read posts where people aren't being crass and name calling, love everyone here........Woo hoo. love the Dead
Labrika100 11 months ago
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Labrika100 11 months ago
10-4-70 version is wayyyyyyyy better than this one. Phil kicks ass!
173rdbobby1967 11 months ago
Many versions heard, but that is the best one I ever heard. I love it
tsgriri1 11 months ago
Sympathies. I beat myselt up for only going to 80 shows in 20 years.
You need to check out "Road Trips, Volume 4, Number 2. Just released in Feb 2011. 1988 shows at Meadowlands.
grizzly919 11 months ago
Best version of any song
joshuarayborn 11 months ago
that just blew my mind
idonteatlard 11 months ago
The dead were always big & always will be for this australian goin'back to the 60's maybe u are too young can't help that champ!
pity u didn't' come across me u could have been on the bus so much earlier!
great version of a dead classic.cheers from oztralia.
gratefultiger 11 months ago
i love this song
i first heard it in 1999 (they werent big in australia) when i was falling in love with an american woman who was a fan...
summer of love and groovy music with a beautiful woman who owned this song purely
it could have been about her.
good memories :)
sugarnads 1 year ago
aaah brings it all back......I just love it
lillith72161 1 year ago
Great one. I had this back in the day. Always like imagining being there hearing it for the first time.
legunncat 1 year ago
Two utterly clueless people
peggy986 1 year ago
I could never begin to count how many times I've heard this song. Been on the bus since 72. Tonight some 39 years later, Sugar Mag continues to rock my soul...Great version
Gr8flStu 1 year ago
just checked my itunes, i have 96 different live versions of sugar magnolias and maybe this is the best... the guitar jam is just brilliant!!
artaylor5615 1 year ago
'73 was a godly year for the Dead
skovie23232 1 year ago
@skovie23232 My bad, I meant '72
Always gotta love high mistakes.
skovie23232 1 year ago
Nostalgia for a place I've never been. Sunshine Daydream it is indeed, can't help thinking what might have been if I had a few more years behind me.
Thank god the internet can bring me as close to being there as will ever be possible.
matttv824 1 year ago
@matttv824
Dear matt, i lived thru those years and I can't begin to tell you how wonderful the 1973 concert in Des Moines IA was. There was a full double rainbow at the end of the concert outside on the state fair grounds. An concert to remember for all time! Peace my friend, joellen
joellenmegan 1 year ago
Thanks for a rip roaring great version of my favorite song to dance to!!!, gotta get up now and dance, see ya.
TheIrishmary 1 year ago
@ kariaudar Fuckin' a right buddy...........
andy23822 1 year ago
Bobby if you flip me off one more time i swear to god!!!! oh shit here we go!!!!! lmfao!!!!!
muta40 1 year ago
This is awesome!!!!! Your Dad was fabulous to leave this one lying around. They're jamming in the middle.
KiwiGirlInCA 1 year ago
this version is amazing man
bailiff360 1 year ago
I want to dance with you all ! Reliving Rochester NY in the late 70's (maybe early 80's)! AWESOME !! Sounds so fantastic.....My favorite (of many !) jam!!!!! MISS YOU JERRY! Still have my t-shirts from the 70's.... rolling in on over 50yrs myself ! PEACE!
angelwantinwings 1 year ago
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kariaudar....who is the greatest is arbitrary .....this band is certainly in the top 3!with a bullet ha ha
kurt10063 1 year ago
kariaudar....who is the greatest is arbitrary .....this band is certainly in the top 3!with a bullet
kurt10063 1 year ago
oh my god... !!!
forest1997 1 year ago
Hi not high- having a good lol boy times change ,I came across this link while cleaning up email from an old friend ,I went ahead and played it and disturbed my 13 yr old daughter who needs to sleep for school tomorrow.Am certain I awoke my parents playing this at 11.30pm when I was 13 , next I will be lighting a bonfire and jammin the backyard ,My feel good song thanks ,Rick,DAD in Wichita
wichitarick 1 year ago 4
Thanks...this is HOT!!!!
lumpykarma 1 year ago
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I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
Bluhmer66 1 year ago
I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
Bluhmer66 1 year ago 2
I've been lost since that day in '95. Tried to run from my roots. What a fool was I. Jerry knew he was going. I was a Jerry's kid for the duration until Seattle '95. I swear Jerry pushed me to the Phil zone to save my soul from dyin' with him.
Bluhmer66 1 year ago
this is musical heaven..
tigercity72 1 year ago
come on baby come on baby,......walking on the riverside.....sunshine...daydream...trips i miss and love you
TheIrishmary 1 year ago
come on baby come on baby,......walking on the riverside.....sunshine...daydream...trips
TheIrishmary 1 year ago
73?
generaltsogloves 1 year ago
Man they're tight.
cunnidvd 1 year ago
I agree. Donna is even tollerable in this version!
lukeman62 1 year ago
Where can you find a relatively popular video on YouTube that doesn't even have one asshole hitting the "Dislike" button? Only The Grateful Dead, my friends. I cannot even describe how jealous I am of all you old-timers. I'm 23 and I would KILL to be thirty years older so I could have been around for these guys. I would never have left your side, Jerry. Not once.
pbskl 1 year ago 46
@pbskl if i could, i would hit that thumbs up button on ur comment so many times. EXACTLY. you got it spot on man
travisrmetz 1 year ago
@pbskl
you know it buudy...it was the best of times!
joellenmegan 1 year ago
@pbskl
you know it buddy...it was the best of times! peace to you! joellen
joellenmegan 1 year ago
@pbskl I agree. I wish I could have seen the Dead live.
Hockey8mn 11 months ago
@pbskl agreed man I'm 21 and wish music would go back too sounding this grate :] Check out jimiller band it's a dead cover that plays at nelson ledges quarry park in Ohio (nlqp.com) I hope too see you there man, peace!
magickalbeing08 10 months ago
@pbskl
Don't worry.
I disliked the video for you.
Pickl3n0se 8 months ago
@pbskl
what a lovely post. i wouldn't trade my Dead traveling-dancing-hugging-tripping days for anything. a huge part of my life.
cynful41 7 months ago
@pbskl same here but younger
slowridesublime420 7 months ago
You think this is better than the version on Europe 72? You're high dude. But rock on.
jugglefreak97 1 year ago
rock on out Jerry!
pula58 1 year ago
It's no wonder I was hooked. I had just turned 18 a few days earlier and decided to check these guys out. This was my 1st show!! Later that year I'd see Old and In the Way in SF and Kingfish too.
rpdugoni 1 year ago
It's no wonder I was hooked. I had just turned 18 a few days earlier and decided to check these guys out. This was my 1st show!!
rpdugoni 1 year ago
This IS the best version.
Nice one.
youtard1 1 year ago
Why is it that Bobby flips you off like 6 times over the course of this video? Peace out.
michaelconlan 1 year ago
Wow! Smokin! and I aint Jokin!!
7chill777 1 year ago
Fuckn best song by the dead
joshuarayborn 1 year ago
I remember being in college and my mom asking me have I figured out what I want to do with my life, I said of course....follow the Grateful Dead
jazybellagher 1 year ago 35
great cut...lame video though...
spudco06 1 year ago
you can stream sbds of the show on archive.org
doc160 1 year ago 8
@doc160 A lot of great Little Feat shows on that site, too.
privettricker 9 months ago
baghak!
TFrills 1 year ago