Grateful Dead - Turn On Your Love Light (Woodstock 1969)

[olasol]

What did one Deadhead say to another when they ran out of pot?

Man, this band sucks!

Always loved the joke....and I am a fan of the band!

[fancherlicious]

Ooh yeah, this is terrible. I never understood what all the fuss was about in the first place. I think I like about a half-dozen studio tracks by them, half of which carry on too long for my taste. Live Dead almost always sounds like crap to me. I do, however, like the one with Pigpen singing Hard to Handle from 1970, but even that one they could have capped off after about 3 1/2 minutes.

[philagerryberry714]

Jerry came a long way from playing an SG to what he had when he had his Custom Brown one he had till the End of his Playing time!

[citylimitsniki1]

Old or new Dead It's all wonderful

[retrorichie80s]

dont eat the brown acid

[bartmcfarling]

RONALD C. McKERNAN

1945–1973

PIGPEN WAS

AND IS NOW FOREVER

ONE OF THE

GRATEFUL DEAD

[crusher153]

whoever is bashing the dead for lack of soul. i have to tell you that this ain't the best recording of love light. i have a copy from 1971 at the hollywood palladium that is awesome! its like 25 minutes long. i dont have any video to put to it but i will try and put something together just so you can hear what they really sound like when they are on and have a good recording device.

[zendishwasher2]

first album i bought was long strange trip, thought it was heavy metal. changed my life. love you all.

[bartmcfarling]

@zendishwasher2 I bought Skeletons from the Closet and was expecting Iron Butterfly, or Black Sabbath.... Been a long strange trip ever since.

[zendishwasher2]

love you pigpen! classic!



[1eggcream]

The GREATEST rock and roll band EVER!!! Hands down!

[smokefree78]

Wow dude,

that must've been cool. The 60s were a lot of fun for some folks no doubt. Sure wish more of those folks had held their ground on all the social and environmental issues they stood up for back then.Don't worry, I'll never stop loving you Mom and Dad. Mostly just sayin' cuz this is YouTube and that's what all the kids are doing these days...

[walosi24]

Antham of the Sun was the first album I ever bought as a young teenager...which later lead to acid trips and the like...LOL...you ain't a DeaD HEAD IF YOU DON'T GET IT...o_O,...Poppawoof

[stopthehatechild]

I respect the Dead for their taste. They pick some great songs to cover and I'm sure this was fun to see at Woodstock with everyone having a great time and high as fuck.

But honestly their covers are always completely watered down and soulless. Listen to the Bobby Band version and compare it to this. They drain all the funk out of it the way only arrhythmic hippies can.

[Joeloflunik]

I have never understood the appeal of the Dead.....I bought Anthem of the Sun when it was first released and found it lacking in quality and years later I listened to it again and it's still bad!. I too have the extended Woodstock DVD and 37 minutes of Turn on Your Lovelight is probably the most tedious and wasteful 37 mins of music that I have ever heard. People say that they are a trippy band but I have listened to them on acid and no I'm afraid that the Dead just don't cut it for me.

[Huskybeast00]

@Joeloflunik Songs like The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion), Lady with a Fan, Looks Like Rain, Reuben and Cerise, Scarlet Begonias, Brokedown Palace, Throwing Stones....just to name a few, these songs are the SOUL of the Grateful Dead. I like this song, and some of the blues stuff is better than others. I was the same way, when I was in school I bought Dead CDs and didnt like em. Later on, I just started listening to all the songs and so many are amazing. You don't need to be trippin.

[Joeloflunik]

@Huskybeast00 Ok thanks for that, I will find the songs and give them a listern...the Dead deserve another chance. Cheers

[ledZep342]

@Joeloflunik Yea, I too have the extended DVD, and Turn on Your Lovelight is interesting, I watched all 37 minutes of it, but it's kinda to long and dragged out, but interesting.

[Joeloflunik]

@ledZep342 Yes too long...might be OK if it was about 10-12 mins long max

[ledZep342]

@Joeloflunik Yea, well, it is still interesting!

[alykat3838]

Jerry Garcia said " drugs are not the problem other stuff is".

[TheDrmedina]

According to legend, the Grateful Dead were tripping on LSD during their performance at Woodstock. That would not have included Pig Pen, who didn't like acid. People who attended said that the Dead played great stuff offstage at the Hog Farm tent, which was serving as a trips hospital. I was in Europe that summer, and didn't attend. My girlfriend did. My college roommate did also, and broke out some Woodstock Sunshine at the Harpur College concert which was released at Dick's Pick No. 8.

[NoRosesForMe]

♥♥♥PIGPEN♥♥♥

[HeyGidz]

:30 is the best part of the whole thing

[MTCosta666]

Pig Rules

[blueeyednirvana]

Happy birthday Pigpen!

[43goe]

Ron "Pig pen" McKernon was always my fave ...I have an oil painting of him by a famous artist, Bob Piersanti, I will cherish forever...love on PigPen...his version of 'it hurts me too" on Europe '72 is absolutely superb!

[optionaxis]

Happy Birthday JERRY!

[acubassman]

Ahhhhhhh! Come on, please. Let it shine! Shut the fuck up, i want to tell you something. When I get lonesome, and I feel like a motherfucker, then your sweet little light, thats all I need. So, come on, baby please, that's all I need! Whoooaa!

[angelicboy66]

Considering that the Dead were usually played in such a sybiotic manner, feeding off one another, you would have thought that after nine minutes of this shit that one of them would have said "Fuck it," and pulled the plug.

[optionaxis]

Ignorant kids lol. Have fun listening to lady gaga

[MattHatter]

@angelicboy66: You couldn't be more right bud! I got the remastered DVD set of "Woodstock" and I'd like to line up everyone who took part in adding this crappy performance to the bonus disc and hit them with a baseball bat! The band went on with this crap for over 30 MINUTES! They just kept trying and trying to get this song off the ground and they NEVER DID! If you watch it in it's entirety, it becomes a game, to see how long you can actually last. WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE!

[agirlnamedharold]

it was actually sunny?! wow.

[stargate121]

Jerry Garcia was right. The Dead were super colossally bad at Woodstock.

[agirlnamedharold]

honestly, though monumental, woodstock was actually a huge failure in many ways, and most of the bands say that they did awfully, and its true.

and yet i still wish i could have been there, haha.

[AbeBSea]

I think I would have been miserable at Woodstock. I'm pathologically shy, and would have have a physical deformation. That and the rain would have ruined it for me.

[AncientGuardin]

@AbeBSea

trust me

you'd probably have a shit eating grin smeared on your face from all the LSD and probably good vibes that were everywhere - youd've have the time of your life

he he heeee

[bamdude3]

@stargate121 its worse than you think. thats not the poor footage making this sound grainy and soft. this is exactly how people heard it through the speakers at woodstock.

[iorgo91]

good times...