Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away--Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (4-5-71)

[cindy85123]

Road trip~

[cindy85123]

Longstrangetrip710. You rock. Got nothin more to say then that. Great footage~ GREAT dead!

[vinstrumentals]

Priceless footage! good music too!

[bubb3432]

going where the water tastes like wine... i don't wanna be treated this old way!

[315highriders]

Thanks for the upload... uproarious american guitar shreds!

[cindy85123]

This video rocks. Peeps on tour~! Love it, luv it.

[peejay1954]

1937 ROAD TRIP. WOW, THIS IS NOW 75 YEARS AGO! How time is flying. I was born in 1954 and recall seeing cars like this in my youth. I remember black and white tv and movies. I remember my first joint and as in half baked, had The Grateful Dead playing in the background. PROFOUND REVELATIONS! Thanks for the ride, Jerry, Bill, Phil, Bob, Mickey

[PatriotUSA53]

Best version of this fine song, ever and period. Garcia was never more on than he was here and I saw the Dead over 50 times from 1968- 1986.

[729pjp]

bizarre!!

[brontis23]

It's the next night: 4-5-71. I was lucky enough to see all 3. This (4-5) was the best night, but there was some terrific stuff in the first set from 4-4.

[Cadmium77]

Awesome. My all time favorite Dead recording. Thanks.

[wingman572]

one of the best "road songs" of all time. watch your gas pedal on this one kiddies!!!!!!!

[pinkfloydmgmt]

Best cover of this song, by far.

[1969dane]

The chick in the video was walkin kinda funny after they left the house. Musta been a good session.

[RUuser]

This and the China Cat/Know You Rider jams have always been among my favorite. I've heard the Dead described as a late 20th century jug band. That's pretty accurate.

[PinkFloydrulez]

i hear people talking about the dead just being noodly jamming and bad live musicians and jerry sounds like someone trying to imitate mark knopfler and failing miserably and then I listen to this and I'm completely baffled and wondering what the hell theyre listening too

[tmmmviii]

@PinkFloydrulez

The Dead can be great or awful, but Garcia is mostly good to very,-very good.

[tmcd1030]

Thanks. Simply THANKS !!

[pweedman11]

went to concert in H.T.

[jerryme2100]

@bendbadgersteve, I apologize for blastin' your buddy Bobby month's ago. I should not post after 6-12 IPA's. But I still believe bobby saved many a show,,,,, but didn't truly make any. I'm sure you've seen the NFA from Alpine '89.If not check it out, and tell me who was inspirational???

[pweedman11]

caution to you kids out there. if your in a corporate meeting be shure to wear headphones so you can crank it all the way up. cause the only way to get the true appreciation

[russrnb]

@pweedman11 and be sure to not drum with it... Ive never been able to ... not fade away indeed!

[pweedman11]

JERRY GARCIA SAYS PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT! LOL

[pweedman11]

goin where the water tasts like wine lol THANK YOU JESUS

[PinkFloydrulez]

i love when billy steps it up at 4:48 like a train picking up pace and chuggin' along

[pcburgh01]

looking at this film makes me wonder how much have people really changed? It's all perspective really. I tend to think people are the same as they always have been, it's just that the immoral, greedy and ruthless side of people is out in the open.

[rjl032653]

The best version...Skull and Roses....it woke me up to the beat best R&R band of my generation.

[272LBCRT25]

A Buddy Holly classic.

[rjl032653]

@272LBCRT25 Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly....GDTRFB - Woody Guthrie......a perfect merger of 2 great American musical influences. Both would appreciate the Dead's rendering on this album, IMHO.

[jayhackworth]

Jerry is singing poetry with his guitar.

[fire777777777777]

its a pleasure walking out the door everyday with this song and soul in me. thanks boys.

[leethacksawninja1]

Became a deadhead in 1973 while attending Uni Hawaii and my fellow swim team mates turned me on to the Dead this is the greatest lead breaks I've heard. Long live Jerry, Pigpen and the rest of the dead.

[pingnocchio]

they did a concert in isla vista ca. early seventies...anybody got anything from that? 

[tjhillgardner]

After many years, this version still sends chills up and down my spine.

[odanak100]

Jerry's guitar was so damn articulate right then,

[rjl032653]

Articulate....perfect description.....

[kittykontageousss]

My favorite Dead song.

[kittykontageousss]

My favorite Dead song, along with New Speedway Boogie, and all their other songs.

[tracymcali]

outstanding, thanks.

[MicMacGrass1]

What a GREAT video to put to this my friend! I am passing this around like an old ragdoll handed down from generation to next generation! Thank You Brother/Sister {both!} You are making my Sunday Nite come ALIVE! [and amny others, I am sure :)]

[Elfwolf7]

:Holy Shit! the lady dancing with the Indians at 3:38 goes perfectly with the song..LMAO!

[mckvicker]

Just after moving to Colorado in 1972 my brother and I hitchhiked from Pueblo to Boulder to see the Dead. during the guitar solo in “Goin Down The Road

I became a Deadhead! To this day This and Brown Eyed Women are my favorites.

[odanak100]

Thank you for putting this up .

[BanjoEclipse]

I love bob weir's rhythm on this one

[PinkFloydrulez]

can't imagine the level of MIND BEING BLOWN by some kid who had only heard this song by buddy holly and other guys coming to this showing and hearing it played LIKE THIS, it must have been incredible

[PinkFloydrulez]

I mean that just shows it, the great thing about the Dead and when they're really ON you can pick out any instrument you like and listen to the playing of that person and immensely enjoy it

[PinkFloydrulez]

so many favorite moments in this but the one I feel like mentioning right now is when they're switching gears into GDTRFB and the drum beat picks straight up at 4:48 or so and the song really kicks in

SO ON POINT

[blackmountainboar]

the transition starting @ 3:56 gives me an eargasm every time

[mavis41558]

@blackmountainboar oh man you nailed that one! It just soars. Couldn't be more perfect is right on too. I have worn out this track on vinyl, eight track, a couple cassettes that melted in cars and now CD. 6:12 is the second perfect zenith. Cool Cool Cool.

[jerryme2100]

Hey band badger steve , Jerry was totally carrying your litle buddy bobby. He was strugglin through bar cords well into the Eighties Jerry & Pig pen are the only reason the Dead reached their potential, I take some of that back, Phi,l Bill and Mickey kicked ass also.. in fact bob was the only thing holding them back

[RichardBPOliver]

@jerryme2100 .. what a load of bollox, man! Holding them back from what, btw?

[jerryme2100]

Welcome: Hermy&Hakury I was only 8 when this gem was recorded but luckily I am the youngest of 6 and my Bro,s & Sis,'s had me Tuned in .this tune and Merle haggard's OK from Muskogee are my first music memories explore people there is a lot of grate stuff out there.

[hermygagala]

Another gem from the Dead a new found gem of a band of mine. I heard of them before but never bothered to look into them until now. Top five already. Nazareth is number one and is there to stay though.

[Hakuryu9]

I wish I could have been there, to see this in person, but I was 1 year old when this was recorded. It took me 19 years to discover the band, and I was at Deer Creek the last 2 years before Jerry died, but I still wish I could experience this in that time.

Great song, great band, and many times in my life the song fit perfectly and helped me carry on.

[rjl032653]

Ah yes....the quintessential version of the Dead's various versions of this tune. The first was, IMHO, the best. For a brief moment in 1971, this albium was being played everywhere, except , of course, on the AM radio dial. A perfect sonic mix, keeping in mind this was recorded 40 freaking years ago. The video is a perfect...this is how I remember getting around town back in the 70's. ;-)

[bendbadgersteve]

This is the recording from the Skull & Roses live album. The band is just perfectly on. Lesh and Kreutzman are totally synced and Weir's rhythm playing is inspirational. Harmonies perfect and, finally, Garcia is ON. Jam makes sense and they jus seem to know where they're going that night.

Couldn't be more perfect.

[inst1g8t0r]

@bendbadgersteve you said it ALL

[rjl032653]

@Totally correct....there was no band capable of playing live music in '71 like this band. Great musicians...great audio tech guys....friggen awesome. Billy K was the best drummer of our time....listen to this tune and you realize this...

[goober2233]

what tha

[Hillshire011]

Guitar World review:

“Not Fade Away”

Grateful Dead (1971)

GUITARIST: Jerry Garcia

Jerry’s solos always served up more noodles than lunchtime in Chinatown, but did he have to dump them all over a classic Buddy Holly tune? And there’s that hideous wheedly guitar tone, which practically makes you want to scratch a chalkboard for relief.

Amen

[Skoomaheadmrmush]

@Hillshire011 ur a straight bitch you cant even criticize the song yourself you have to use someone elses critisism to express your opinions you're a dumbass

[rjl032653]

@Hillshire011 Shorter Guitar World: I'm a loser and I hate to credit one of the great live band's that kicked cosmic/sonic butt in 1971.

[melissacorrell]

great video & well-timed wave - 1971 was a good year

[gregroy54]

wow awesome the best ever favorave they dont makem like this no mo im raot ive seen god in garcia drop everything and sit and listen to pure good times seeing color a grand flashback

[BiggsofPA]

Thanks for posting this - it made my night.