The Story of "Truckin" by The Grateful Dead

[Yngeldorf]

☮ + ♥ + ♪ = (~);}

[Jagethemage]

man compared to 99% of the rest of the Dead's LIVE jams, Truckin is pretty much LAME as hell!

IT'S A COMMERCIAL studio track, from a band that was.. well.. *insert divine spiritual word that has yet to exist*

if you dont understand the grateful dead by now, you just dont get it. and never will

god bless THC, LSD, DMT, and whatever other divine sub will grace us in the future

<3 you all

[rhcpdave]

Kreutzmann = Bill Murray

[jakethesnake576]

I was 2 years old when Jerry passed on, I wish I had the chance to have the memories of these guys they really were a band unlike any other

[HippieNiki72]

I was lucky enough to be born in 1972 and I was really grateful to see Jerry before he died. I never seen Brent but my first dead show was Deer Creek the summer tour in 1993. Wow! It changed my life and I finally found what I was searching for and found where I belong. Finally found my family!!! I miss you Jerry!!!!

Hippie Niki {~}:}

[Chopin389]

@HippieNiki72 Hey Niki, I was born in 1972 also. December 31, 1972!

[johnnyventure]

The one thing about going on tour with the dead, was the simple (and freightening) fact that there were no rules or guidelines. YOU had to make it happen. Either you enjoy the fact that it's an adventure that only you are in control of, or you go for the laid out plans of false security and get continually let down because of your expectations.

 To expect the unexpected and dig it!

You don't need the Dead to live your life that way.

[FunNotNuts]

I was born in 1950 so in 1970 I was 20. During the 60's and 70's the world was full of such positive change. There was so much love for our fellow man. We totally believed in love and our music reflected that. The Dead were embraced and have been in our hearts ever since. Human rights became an issue and changed so much in everyday lives. Please, young people, carry the torch of love into the future. It's the only thing that will save us all.

[nunyabidnez2011]

> During the 60's and 70's the world was full of such positive change. There was so much love for our fellow man. We totally believed in love and our music reflected that. [...] Human rights became an issue and changed so much in everyday lives. Please, young people, carry the torch of love into the future. It's the only thing that will save us all.

@FunNotNuts We need to bring that spirit back now more than ever! We've lost so much since then...

[aptrosto]

@FunNotNuts

most of us are too busy watching Teen Pregnant drama

[MrJustinwar]

@FunNotNuts Right on Brother!

[blewj]

Be here now.

[danocable]

@traphikk do not be so critical, please it is not a debate peace.

[MrMikeystreetz]

Railroad earth has good music along with alot of bands but i do agree there alot of medicore music in the jam secne.

[taylor410ce]

@MrMikeystreetz i tell people all the time that i like phish, the dead, and the derek trucks band but i don't like "jam bands" if that makes any sense.

[LoRentAssMan]

@coconutcrab4martin

with all due respect bro, just as much going on back then, and just as complicated, as today. Very similar to today actually. Your Rose Colored Glasses may be skewing your view a bit. And The Dead are still the best band ever.

[thezenfuldog]

@coconutcrab4martin right on man..41...exactly....just so much easier....you had time to actually THINK back then..I mean, could actually *SIT DOWN* in a bar, enjoy a pint of your favorite....just hang out...now..geesh...saw someone post the other day they went out ordered 2-*TWO* Margaritas and charged $46 were moaning about it on some review site....I'd moan too....just not right man.......I quit man....just dropped out........can't handle it...

[thezenfuldog]

Two people in this world *REALLY* suck...man...why would you stop by a *DEAD* song and post *DISLIKE*....

[SpaceCadetChris]

Reading these comments were a complete buzzkill!

That being said yea life blows right now...we're all slaves toiling away...but at least we can listen to some good ol Grateful Dead to bring a smile to our faces while we work ourselves to death! God bless the Dead!!

[Lobodomy69]

I'm actually so mad that I missed that entire era of good music. I'm fifteen and my generation's music is just terrible.

[omgomgwaitiforgot]

man... this is pretty far out... i wish i could just go back and go on the road with these guys... haha

[kewlbreez77]

... what truly AMAZING journey ...!

[thaneyProdata]

He man get to work - you voted the obamaster into office now you have to pay for his programs. Say goodbyet to the road....

[MsScarlet05]

my 1st show was in 84..nothing like or ever will be like dead tour. miss jerry miss the scene..Nothing Else like it Anywhere. I would leave home with 10 bucks, be gone for mnths, make jewelery & trade for everything..food, clothes, tickets, etc.. those were my golden days..not the same country, or world.. best time of my life~many wonderful friends in my life due to this band..truly magical~*

[foley8706]

I was born in '87 and you know something? 2004-present has been filled with A TON of unforgettable, carefree, wild times for me. You have to make due with what's around and despite what everyone thinks, there IS tons of good music around, you just have to dig a little. Quit paying attention to the top40 radio b.s. and start searching for yourself. Furthur, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Lotus, Umphrey's McGee, Sleepy Sun, Black Angels, STS9, Wooden Shjips, Explosions in the Sky etc. QUIT WHINING

[jimmorrisonmylove]

I'm apart of this new generation (halfway through highschool now) but I am very different from the majority of kids. I eat sleep and breathe this music, I play guitar, I listen to RECORDS on my RECORD PLAYER instead of CD's on a stereo. I met Bill Kreutzmann a few days ago at his 7 Walkers concert. Hell I WISH I could have been born in like 1952 so I could have been apart of this generation. I hate stressing about college and grades. It's no fun though I know I have to do it.

[chasefukuoka61]

Great video, thanks for this..

[DanSVT03]

My "Big Uncle Ed" aka "Eddie Hell" traveled with the Grateful Dead back in the 70's. He tells unfathomable stories at family get togethers about his days of heavy drinking, drug experementation, and unprotected sex with countless random women.

He now dwells in the woods in his homemade tree-fort living off cat food and PBR.

[ekpil]

It was great back in the late 60's early 70's ..Rent and food was cheap . We all just needed a little part time job to get by . Thus we had a lot of time to explore and socialize.

[Furthurism]

I kid you not, I learned to walk to this song.

[GodStarRevisited69]

word bob... we all have been truckin' thanks to you

[canapa320]

I always thought that the part about sweet jane was about marijuana. It lost its sparkle with the other harder drugs....but then again - i'm a stoner :) !!!

[pupils777]

@canapa320 true story, I've had to say "ain't it a shame" and walk away from some of my best friends.

[smartalek1]

This is brilliance.

It's so great to be able to hear their voices as the people they are (were), and not "just" as musicmakers, icons, philosophers, etc, that we're accustomed to from the shows, the tapes, and the vids here & from the Vault.

Thank you so much for posting this, and the others that you've shared here.

I know you'll know I'm neither kidding nor exaggerating, acidinurmind, when I say you're doing a real public service here.

[cunnidvd]

Greatest Rock n Roll band of all time.

[Parkyurkarkas]

With very few exceptions (perhaps Lady Gaga, not that I like her music), the last original-sounding popular band was Nirvana. Everything since is derivative. It's not just music. Why does Hollywood only focus on remakes and super heros now? Creative bankruptcy. What intrigues me is why can't people seem to write songs with hooks any more? It's all just monochrome chords. Perhaps the world of funk still does some cool stuff or Afro-Cuban, eg Barbarito Torres or Peruvian Cecila Noel.

[Parkyurkarkas]

My parents lived through the Depression and WW II and they say that life then was so much simpler and easy compared to today. They were the last generation to earn and keep the American dream. And now, I (DOB 1960) say the same thing to my nieces who were born in the mid '80s, despite that I am nowhere near as economically stable as my parents. Young people today will probably have to live (or die) through some global cataclysm. It's anyone's guess what they'll be telling their kids.

[lectricviolin1]

I saw them open with truckin with pigpen at the felt forum and I was on the beginning of an amazing trip to outer space. An absolutely great night of this unique psychedelic experience comfortably cradled by Jerry and phils bach-like fugue-ing, cutting like a switchblade knife of laser beams and musical fireworks, pigpens words of wisdom, and the bands synergetic jamming perfection in the depths of the effected brain truckin, smiling, hitch hiking and traveling through the universe, period

[dippywatcher]

Good story...

[daveducharme]

Who the hell disliked this video?

[Zepster77]

Where and when was this performance from ? It rocks!!!

[dmowings]

greatest rock n roll dance band ever....

[luvadam59]

finding something you enjoy is key. like loving music. I really returned to loving music thru appreciating the talent of Adam Lambert. I love the Dead. We all have to work to get thru life ( unless you are rich I guess). Anyway....

Love is key

[drummerboi420]

@luvadam59 Adamn Lambert IS THE GARBAGE THAT IS KILLING MUSIC!

[luvadam59]

@drummerboi420 Hardly

[drummerboi420]

@luvadam59 Three chord pop is bullshit and you know it, if that fag had as much talent as jerry did in his missing finger then he might be stomachable but sadly noone has that kind of talent anymore. RIP Real Music

[luvadam59]

@drummerboi420 Granted! Jerry was a SUPER talent. I love the Dead. BUT I seriously think Adam Lambert is super talented too. And I am not the only one. His voice in phenomenal. Gayness aside (everybody has the right to be who and what they are).

[hillyard61]

One of the greatest bands of all time. RIP Jerry

[sopthebiscuit]

gotta make a living. gotta please yourself. capitalism sucks. communism sucks maybe worse. (check out Linton Kwesi Johnson "Wot about de Workin Class" for a good laugh!) the only way out is through. the only solutions are spiritual. love your neighbor. account for yourself 1st & then collaborate, or die.

[dingoswamphead]

Poor Rawkus and Traphikk. Hope you can bliss out on the instrumental at the end of this clip as I just did. You can free your mind with the Instant Karma it gives.

Once you get a taste of the Dead you can be blesed for life. I'm getting it as I'm winding up from a long day at work. Thanks for putting this one up, Acidinurmind.

[nowiknowuryder]

WALSTIB, baby!

[howeeye]

too much talk just play_______

[TNAisWWE]

i love to hear booby speack, he is just such a good talker, he voice is so great to hear, talking and singing

[SLOPESOFDEATH]

0:23

[rotolo]

"limitations of the studio" only phil or another g.d. member could really boast this..

[jerdoe]

wow

[ascheylus]

my life's goal is to see a show in every town mentioned in Truckin.. got everything except Houston.. Come on Furthur.. make my karma quest!!!!!!!

[ststephen909]

@ascheylus that is awesome

[mountainboy32]

"Just won't let you be" untill some real lawyers lawsuit these aids spreading dumbies!!!!

[pcburgh01]

ha ha - Jerry sais no commercial potential - did you people know that GD Merchandising is the first merchandising brand for a band to hit the $1 Billion mark in lifetime sales????? (maybe it was $1 million in a year - i will double check and repost......) funny how things change

When was this recorded?

[allforyouz]

I read somewhere that at their peak when they were touring that the dead would bring in 22 million a year.

I don't know if this is right or not.

[pcburgh01]

Yah - I went searching for the numbers. Essentially, Grateful Dead Merchandise, branding and copyright generates a TON of money every year. Think about all the cool Dead stuff there is out there........not including CD's and box sets. Commercial success beyond anyone's wildest dreams i am sure.

[creamofclapton68]

$50 Million actually.

[azenkoan]

I miss Jerry!

[MrGreatfullydead]

this dvd anthem to beauty rocks...

[rawkus1167]

Robert Hunter is a God!!! Who agrees with me?

[pbl1]

robert hunter is overrated scum.

[ststephen909]

@rawkus1167 Totally agree! :)

[bastardtubeuser]

I have the bass rolled right off on my amp to keep things quiet at night, but MrLesh's tone is still coming through strong.

Im GUESSING that's the active alembic hes playing there.

[bothropsasper]

Keep truckin' deadheads, right on!

[GDguitarplayer]

I think this is also in' the complete annotated Grateful Dead' book. This is really cool & Thank you!

[traphikk]

man fuck school and work, why can't young people just take it easy every few months anymore? my post high-school life has just been a treadmill, a "hump" to unlock the fruits of the rest of my life, school-work-school-work...for what, toiling at a job until i die? don't think im trying to justify laziness,i had honors in high school and on the deans list now, theres just no space for young people to live carelessly anymore,its always something new to worry about every few months, ugh

[StephenMatthewMusic]

because now you have to get out into whatever workplace (after overpaying eventually for college since the apprenticeship system doesn't really exist anymore) and position yourself and don't forget to "brand" yourself and fit yourself into a category so "they" will know what to do with you. Sad, but the weird world we live in now, and not simple at all.

[Marthanna3]

I really feel for you...at your age, I had some freedom it seemed like...working, but still having cash to go to shows (1988 or so...Butthole Surfers, Cure, Pleasure Barons, etc).

Now, young people can hardly keep up...for my part, I vote to support finacial aid for students, etc...

Good luck, man!

Martha

[THCisbody]

dude.... perfect. agree 100% you used to be able to be alright even if you dropped out of high school and now you cant do shit without graduating college

[poolpig]

@traphikk hows all it goin 4 ya?

[67675656565655656565]

@traphikk thats so true young people are just slaves now jim morrison said it best at his miami concert its worth watching.I can relate to it on so many levels nowadays.

[conormori]

@traphikk this is amazingly written, i liked it

[SaveyourSavior]

@traphikk when your right your right, and YOUR RIGHT!

[NoRosesForMe]

@traphikk typical college richie complainin about life. wtf do you have to complain about? Try real life. Try spendin your best years in factories and sleepin in your car sometimes and worrying yourself sick about paying bills and feeding yourself. You got nothin to complain about so shut the fuck up and get real....or at least try to understand how damn good your life really IS. I have to speak the hard truth here. ......and....... god bless Pigpen ♥

[dippywatcher]

@traphikk Just don't stress out too much. I find that not watching TV and

meditating instead is very healthy. Just my "take"...

I wouldn't bogart you, Man....

[pupils777]

@traphikk from a highly "traditionally" educated person and a guy who has driven thru 44 states on tour, traveling will each you as much as college.

[Manwithcam]

@traphikk Gotta make your own way, man. Do what you know is right, not what everyone's always been telling you is the right thing to do. School and work aren't what life is about. Life is about living.

[TemplarVision]

@traphikk, Hang in there. As a parent, I know it sucks, but our social structure, decorum and political position in the world dictates the process of American education, career and "success." For your sake, because the mores that are in place are not likely to change soon, knuckle down and get your degree, find a job that you like, then live simply, that doesn't mean to starve, but is a Lexus in the driveway necessary? Be good to yourself and the people you see every day. All the best!

[frenchie2alfalfa]

@traphikk the reason its not like that anymore because you THINK thats house it is, get out there and change that.

[RogueLeader1337abxy]

@traphikk you have no idea how right you are

[minigiganten]

@traphikk So i know its been a year since you made this comment, but i gotta tell you. I graduated last year in juni, since then i been unimployed (sorry for the bad english) but all i have done is smooked weed, chillin with friends, listen to music like the grateful dead, pink floyd,. rolling stones and so on..and you know what, though it kind of boring after 9 months..its been the Grat(est) time of my life..peace.

[ih8tbush]

@traphikk I guess the Grateful Dead's answer to that would be, "keep your day job"



[MrCraigary123]

@traphikk man.... im takin it easy man ha ha

[omgomgwaitiforgot]

@traphikk i know dude! i thought it was about "the good times" and not about working your ass off all day, thats def. not a good time. a good time is going on the furthur bus following dead and going to concerts and getting baked out of your minds. they just don't want that anymore i guess. and REAL assholes are taking over man. i completley agree with you. i guess all we have to do is fight fire with fire. thats the only thing we can do.

[darkwolfdv]

@omgomgwaitiforgot

Well, if you can survive and pay your bills by just going around having fun all day and being half baked, more power to you. I'm not independently wealthy though, I have ot work to pay the bills.

[lawlbiker]

@traphikk dude you are spot on with that.. i think the same exact way... let us fucking live and have some godamn fun! it really pisses me off... we are just used for work and then they fuckin throw us out when we die... no time to live in this era, retirement is 70 now... honestly i dont plan on living that long... we are just worked till we die... simple as that... but the people on top dont give a fuck....

[barrybuttery]

anyone know where you can get the video footage of this gig? or what its called? amazing footage of 1970, pigpen an all!

[stashJ8]

yeah dude just type in grateful dead truckin'...its from a europe 1972 show

[barrybuttery]

I thought that pigpen didnt go on the 72 tour because he was too ill?

[stashJ8]

It's true that he was very ill during this time period, but he was able to summon the strength to play during most of the Europe '72 run.

[caseyjones67]

were did they get all of tht footage at of them on the plains and hotels and shit

[Kayadogkw]

Thanks for the ride guys. Keep on keeping on. Ernesto

[halbie71]

1960s & 1970s-Great time to be a young man!!!!!!!!!! I miss the those days. I hate to be a young person growing up today, they will never know how great a time it was grow up during those days!!!

[rawkus1167]

Trust me...I am 25 and think about that all the time. Growing up in the 90's was kinda fun, but the 2000's was easily the worst decade in recent memory. What the hell does this new generation have going for them?

[griffinmpable]

@rawkus1167 Phish is a reprieve

[PagePlant91]

Jack White

[harbmx23]

Bisco....

No just kidding Bisco SUX almost as much as WSP

[rawkus1167]

ha I agree. The only jam bands I really like are Phish and Grateful Dead. My friends who like that whole scene ask me why and I always say, "because those guys actually write decent-to-good songs". The jams are great of course, but if the song isn't good at its core nobody cares if you make it 25 minutes long. WSP has some really good songs in the 90's when Dave Schools was in the band. Bisco, Umphreys, moe., all these bands have very forgettable and bland songs. Sorry but its true.

[irtimed]

@rawkus1167

dave schools has always been in panic...?

[pcburgh01]

wrong about moe. and panic. both have very well written songs .........

[PetersJunta]

@rawkus1167 i agree 100% lol

[Umberto2]

@rawkus1167 uh dude, Dave Schools is still in the band and WSP still writing good songs. What are you talking about? Moe. has some decent song/songs too man. Check it out.

[phishinvan]

@rawkus1167 I think you mean Mikey Houser. Not Dave Schools.



[TheMantis1point0]

FOR sure my friend, Im 26 and I could not agree more.

[Themostchillguyever]

@rawkus1167 Boy bands and screamo death metal.

Im 16 and i wish i had grown up in the 60's 70's or 80's. I agree man, the 2000's suck

[FlobotsRevolution]

@Themostchillguyever

I am 18 and I said the same thing when I was 16, and I still do, HOWEVER, I think that our generation has much more ahead of it than any previous generation. There are still creative people making music just as good as this, there are still amazing sub cultures to experience, we just lack a cohesive youth culture encompassing many types of people and music. Hopefully 2012 will fix that.

[LoRentAssMan]

@FlobotsRevolution

I am 30. keep dreaming buddy. There is not now, nor will there EVER be anyone again that makes music like The Dead, making music for music, not for money. I love The Roots, Sublime, etc... but no one will ever come close to doing what the Dead did and produce the volume of great music that they did. Never. Not even close. Hopefully in 2012 you will do some more research and realize that. ;)

[FlobotsRevolution]

@LoRentAssMan

That is not the point of the Dead. They where not about being better than other bands. Sitting on the beach in LA with a bonfire and a bongo, and my freind playing guitar is just as good as any greatfull dead experiance My freinds may no be as talented as the dead but that does not mean they cant make great music and that does not mean they are sell outs. Music is about the experiance between the musicians and the audiance and the greatfull dead did not have a monopoly on that

[LoRentAssMan]

@FlobotsRevolution

So all music is the same? Lada Gaga music is just as good as The Dead or your friends on the beach? We're not talking about "having a good time" we are talking about producing great music. And no, you and you and your friend with a bongo and a guitar will not be "just as good" as the dead. lol. if it was, you would have thousands of people comign to see you play as well.

[alliant]

@rawkus1167

oh please, i roll my eyes at that ignorance. theres beautiful music, beautiful people, beautiful drugs...it's just a little harder to find perhaps?

[Jenscool]

@rawkus1167 They can relive the 6o's in there own way!

[SpenserAteTheWorld]

@rawkus1167 well.... we got legal weed in california (= 2000's have sucked but i think 2010's and 2020's are gonna be far out... hopefully.... if they arnt gonna be sucky and gay

[badattitude77769]

@rawkus1167 Hate to say it, breaks my heart, they will have to face very harsh realities, took me a lifetime, my seven vietnam vets in this little complex with agent orange poisoning know that.

[tehbackmaskr]

@rawkus1167

I will say the only thing the 2000 generation really grasped a hold of was the theory of "free love"

except the "love" has been removed from it. Now it's just "free fuck"

Besides that, I honestly cannot see anything positive going on right now.

[GreenGeneStinkyFoot]

@rawkus1167 Furthur, Dubstep, solar and wind power (i'm sure these were around before 2000, but whatever), uhhhhh what else? i don't know. oh yeah, slap chop!

[xilucantes]

@rawkus1167 optimism i guess... :)

[spacemeddle]

@rawkus1167 I am 14 and trust me man, i have complete belief that my generation is gonna change everything for the better! Music, politics, freedom! right now it's kinda a shit hole though, but were gettin' it done early!

[jarradcoombsroxxors]

@rawkus1167 A prescription for Xanax, Zoloft and Nembutal...

[rawkus1167]

@jarradcoombsroxxors

Haha true but I would give it all up to be able to take a time machine and have seen a Dead show.

[hiebsch21]

@rawkus1167

we got linkin park, kings of leon, red hot chili peppers, there's been lots of great bands in the 2000's, we got lots of stuff goin for us

[rawkus1167]

@hiebsch21 Dear God man Linkin Park? Kings of Leon? If those are your 2 examples of "great bands in the 2000's" I think our opinions on music are just too different for conversation brah.

[iamkuda]

@rawkus1167 We got the whole world going for us.

[TemplarVision]

@rawkus1167 - Parents. LOL

[metal9535]

@rawkus1167 aside from good video games, we have NOTHING!

[austin99203]

@rawkus1167 Pshhht weed:)

[bts106]

@rawkus1167 progess. pull your head out of your butt, and keep yor eyes on the prize

[pauluzjohannes]

@rawkus1167 trust me, the 80's weren't no picknik either. when musicians traded in their weed for coke. aaarghh

[susaninmaine]

@rawkus1167 don't get old before your time....there's plenty of good shit happening now....as great as the past was it's the past...the '00s are comparatively stagnant culturally and artistically but there's still life, so if you can maybe help breathe more life into things now (that's what I try to do)

[darkwolfdv]

@rawkus1167

I'm in my 40s and the 2000s have been pretty good so far. Really enjoyed the 70s and 80s the most though.

[itsstillfriday]

@rawkus1167 ...Sorry you feel that way... there's part of me that feels that each generation looks to previous generation times...as better... and resent their current era.. as a teen in the '80's I think that was the big motivator in digging up so many of the relics of the 60's and 70's.. (and I think on thru the 90's and 00's we have done a good job at digging up the best parts.. however remember.. the 60s and 70's must have been HELL with all of the areas of contention..and social change..

[icecoldhubbas]

and then again at 4:27

[icecoldhubbas]

this is one the finest versions of truckin I ever heard

[icecoldhubbas]

3:01

[skskck911]

great stuff,,nice bit from unter,Bobby and all...

[bikerhippy]

Outstanding Post

[icecoldhubbas]

no doubt