Grateful Dead - Sugaree (1976-08-04) pt. 1 of 2

[seanx666]

Is Roosevelt Stadium an outdoor venue? Cuz I see trees in the background...

[blewj]

Wow; thanks for posting the entire set!!!

[JimmyPage97]

2 people must be ungratefully dead hehehehe

[glick59]

first show---kind of cool to have first live song, first live show on video!

[Buncle56]

my first show

[JRMelyan]

Good ole Roosevelt Stadium... where I took my road test for my drivers license in "74"

[rydeto]

phil is so far off in this song ...terrible

[MrBuddhamurphy]

@rydeto

Phil is right where he's supposed to be . . . with the kick drum, my friend.

[runner1956]

most excellent. a great show here.

[Paulgrotmartin]

I was at the Lyceum in London, four nights in a row in 1971. My brother was Jwerry's stage security; my boss the promoter. Psyliscibun and then the roadies figured out how to open the cast iron dome and we all flew to the stars with Mr. Garcia's guitar our guide. Of course, this song wasn't around, then, but it followed close on the heels of that European Tour. Brings so much back.  Thank you for sharing. Jah Bless.

[captaindebris]

Jerry looks great!

[shuasolutions]

this is pure gold!

Thanks for posting

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERRY!

[dudehokie]

This vid shows how much the dead touched many generations. I miss you Jerry

[deweypug]

Some things in life are perfect, this band, this song, this feeling, this moment... God I love it all so much.

[tvhausspot]

i was born in 81 never had the chance to see jerry in person :( that makes me so sad. ive seen the dead and further and bob and phil with the allmans, but none of that makes up for never seeing jerry

[speedmutt]

This is crazy man, I was 8 years old when this was recorded.

And I still got the chance to see Jerry and the guys when I got older, many, many times.

lol, who are the Grateful Dead and why do they keep following me?

My Guru is dead.

The ship of the sun is sailed by the Grateful Dead.

[mbh64]

"when they bring that "way-gun" round"...ah yes, those sure were good years.....The Dead doing their "disco best" in 76-77, sounding sooo sooo clean, crisp and tight. The music was like silver liquid running down a hillside, and this footage...grainy and faded is like a dreamy glimpse into the past. NICE!

[kariaudar]

There has never been a band in the history of the world with more soul and heart than the Dead. Truly timeless music, as ryguy83 says in his comment.

[teleevangelist]

2 weeks ago, a prototype travis bean guitar, unbuilt sold for $35,000 in ebay, jerry is playin a travis bean in this video

[Bearses]

I was wondering...this guitar only made limited stops on tour 1976 - 77 correct? Then he jumped to the "Shakedown era" guitar by 1978, custom-looking job...

[deweypug]

Yeah, I think he played 'the Wolf' after the Travis Bean, then went to the Alembic 'Tiger' sometime in '79...

[ryguy83]

fuck yeah the dead will live on forever, there music is timeless they will be making ripples through are lives forever and time...LOVE

[danviola47]

pokey,i can't remember the year i seen the band and dead,all i no is jerry has the same birthday as me 8/1 although i was born in 56 but i seen them with the band around this time at roosevelt stadium J.C N.J. that place had great concerts back then i seen so many that i can't go into them all but heres a few clapton,allmans,elp,doobie bro. even poco with the beach boys,etc.etc.,but is this the one with the band?I think it may have been in 73 or 75 the 1 i'm talking about not sure let me no????

[pjl1015]

Miss you Jerry!

[feb845]

11th grade, very high and full of Dead wonder. Those were the days!! Roosevelt Stadium had a haze of red dust that rose 50 feet in the air, it was kind of like hell only with the Dead playing, very cool! Jerry was a GREAT singer and an even better band leader!

[chipman5544]

how we miss you Jerry...RIP brother

[pokey3681]

I was at this show, great performance, sawthem alot at Roosevelt Stadium

[breeze418]

I was at this show, great show, but what a F'N dump that place was!!!

[MrSpiritCoach]

ROFL. Dude, the place DEFINED the word dump. But I loved it. Great music, great atmosphere, pure dump. Those were the days. LOL

[dununba]

my first GD show. I think they opened with Sugaree....

[steveo9fingers]

my 1st show too i remember the red dust riseing in the infield i remember selling hashish those were the days

[written12]

Muchas gracias. A great clip.

This was when the Dead could still be seen in decent sized venues(yeah, I know this was at a stadium)- before the Giant Staduim type gigs of the 80s.

And Keith Godchaux, God rest his soul, really added taste and color to ballads and meduim tempo songs.

[JavaHeadStone]

Phil is too cool for school!

[ratherbehigh]

The way Jerry sings the word "you", not me man, oh wait, yeah me.

[AllmanBros424]

as a fellow guitar player, i lovee jerry's solos. but i have to say, the piano makes this song for me

[3642130]

damn it i didn't mean to hit the down thumb(someone please balance it 4me) -but yeah i always thought it was coolthat (especially w/the piano) the dead could sound like the hse band in a saloon in 1840!

[greatspirited]

@3642130 you can change it by voting again.

[greatspirited]

@3642130

[garybletsch]

Check this out, Deadheads. When I went off to college in '76, on my bunk was this weird skull and roses sticker. Stickers had some serious adhesive back then! I had no idea what it signified, but wanted no part of it. A sworn citizen of Squaresville then, I started scraping it off the formica. It took several scraping sessions to get it off there! Little did I know--I'd be a long-haired Deadhead a short time later. That bunk was destined for me, no?

[rapidtimer]

I was on the dugout too wow Kraz Man I see onstage.....lol

[cnedwick]

smmoothh...lovelyyy...god i love jerrryy!...

[skootmagoot]

whats the name of that axe, is that alligator

[jaspitz]

That's a Travis Bean guitar...stock off the rack. Jerry actually endorsed the guitar in an ad in Guitar Player magazine.

[cnedwick]

if i remember correctly, jerry and bob endorsed takamine guitars in the 70's as well. is that right??

[skootmagoot]

ive never been to a show but when i hear people booing just when there tuning up thats just fucked up that kind of greatness takes time

[wildmthyme]

noone makes a guitar sing like jerry does..

sweet footage,a sadly abrupt ending tho

kudos...makes me want to relive the 70's.

[SoundsLikePurple]

5:16 lol...

[gerry410]

I was at this gig and every other one they played there. Till 1 or 2 in the morning every time. the party didnt end. Haven't partied like that since. Miss the Dead.

[Sugaree43]

Nice!

[jonstolp]

They are and always will be, the coolest band to get together and mesh,...along with Phil Lesh,...oh, yeah,...shake it!

[skootmagoot]

JERRY WAS SOOO HAPPY :]

[rixmix76]

Sweet! One of my fave songs performed on my 18th birthday! Sorry though, Jerry...we can't forget we knew your name.

[giffey10]

i always thought he's gone was written about the passing of pigpen.

[spagNsc]

Shake it Sug

[MarxuxII]

one of my favourite live songs cheers mate

[yaiknowscrewme]

active pickups on phils bass??early setup maybe??

[oohmeohmy]

phil lesh's bass neither seems out of tune or inconsistent. it seems near perfect to me, as it usually seems to. pretty sure a man with perfect pitch isn't playing outta tune too often...

[RayNDeere]

For most of the years, The Grateful Dead had two drummers. Bill Kreutzmann is the original drummer and Mickey Hart joined around 1967, then left for several years in the 1970s after his father took some of the Dead's money (the inspiration for the Dead song "He's Gone" Hart came back in 1975

[stuffyhead]

Is that the "Mission Control" bass?

[thebannie]

ahh...yes...in sparkling clover...

[thebannie]

i bought mine in a second hand shop in Dunedin, New Zealand, for $3. Turned out it had been my brother's! Anyway, my daugheter rang and I reminded her, player her the Tutube clip. she couldn't remember it )-: does the CD have extra tracks?

[thebannie]

yeah I've got the album right here in my study; (it's called 'Garcia', it's the one with JG's hand showing the half missing finger - it's got 'deal' and 'the wheel' on it) must remind mt daughter when I see her tonight. agree, this is not hte best version

[thebannie]

wonderful...best band i never saw. They never came to new zealand. Sugaree is one of the first songs my daughter sang. She was 2; 1976, i forget the album, but still have it..lovely song...thanks for posting

[mrmojoroo]

anybody got a time machine?

[brianm1314]

i do wanna come?...i wish it was true, but unfortunately i was only born in 1992 so i never got to see jerry :( but im seeing bob weir and ratdog this summer!!!!!!!

[PandaMcCartney]

I feel your pain *hug* Just born a little too late..

Congratz on Bob and Ratdog though! You seeing them with the Allman Brothers as well?

[PandaMcCartney]

I feel your pain *hug* Just born a little too late..

Congratz on Bob and Ratdog though! You seeing them with the Allman Brothers as well?

[brianm1314]

yes i am...its gonna be an awesome show

[PandaMcCartney]

Sweeet :)

[brianm1314]

yeah man

[caseyjones92]

i feel for ya bro, i was born the same year. i can't believe i missed deadheads for obama. i've seen donna jean, mickey hart, and ratdog so far.

[giffey10]

where is roosevelt stadium? is that new york city?

[farluu1]

No sir, right across the river in Jersey City, NJ

[poppyseed136]

sweet and thank you so much for sharing!!!@!!

[ioriorioriorio]

TYhis reminds of seein them at dylan stadium, hartford connecticut....got backstage many a time!! I used to think Jerry had some secret powers---he did, it turns out!! hahahahah

[poppyseed136]

jerry had some thing muhahhahaahaahaaa

[kingshitfuckmountain]

first concert I ever saw. the dead. spectrum fall tour 94 I was 14 years old. Felt like was on another planet. Great version of this song! '76-'77 was my favorite time ever for dead

[brianm1314]

i could cry i love this band so much.

[maxmalo]

even in black and white the Dead is still a colorful band ;>

[yaiknowscrewme]

jerry on a mosrite ...nicee

[DrKennyWang]

That's actually a Travis Bean with an aluminum neck. I can't tell you the actual model, but that's what it is.

[gummybear100]

Actually it was a Travis dozindotcom/jers/guitar/histor­y.htm

[arkiteta]

ahhhhh... I luv this song =D

[cheetotito]

Indeed

[davidaron]

Aaaah... those were the daze. Great east coast show. Roll with it, Jer!