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L♥ve you Jerry!!! He is a blessing to us....even if he sings a fkn confederate song hehe! Peace & blessings to you Johnny for this. Beautiful. One of my dads favorites. He digs the Dead too. ♥ Makes me cry xx (Jerry died on my 15th birthday) L♥ve always
@NoRosesForMe its the biggest American tragedy that the yankees won. The country went from a voluntary union of sovereign states joined together by mutual consent to a forced union where the states were the chattel property of the masters in Washington. Slavery became universal, but only the government and its contractors hold the slaves now. It wasn't about slavery at all, it was about forming an American Empire controlled by the military Industrial complex and bankers thats still being fought
The tide is indeed turning, the greed driven world is dying.....time to put fear aside and realize we all depend on eachother, not governments, religions and all the other garbage that obiously does not work or represent our true humanity......"they should never have taken the very best".....indeed!
@stardumb13 You can definitely say the ideas of Liberty that inspired the brave people of the South to rise up and fight for their rights, is definitely finally coming back into our culture. once enough people wake up then the candidates we put into office will start to reflect how the majority feels. Definitely gaining more momentum now then in the past 30 years.
@BudderBreakfast the south just nwanted our peice of the pie pie when they did it it was right but when we pose a compitittion to them its wrong ? the south wil remaine
f*ck the emprie corporation and their terroristict empire. "Freedom' Died long long long go. BUT yet they teach and preach this 'land of the free' crap to keep the feeble sheeple at bay. To qoute earl Pitts.. WAKE UP UMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" cover Song by The Band Released September 22, 1969 A-side "Up on Cripple Creek" Recorded 1969 Genre Roots rock, Southern rock, Americana Length 3:33 Label Capitol Records Writer Robbie Robertson
@aaronkruel - Joni Mitchell? Sorry - not true. johnny567365 was right - it's Robbie Robertson who wrote it. Joan Baez did a very horrible cover of the tune - no feeling whatsoever. Jerry's cover here is very nice.
@philkidbry you are so right my friend this ain't over with; it's just beginning to start. yankee greed did what all the virgil cains couldn't. somebody has to pick up the pieces and bury all the dead yankee trash.
@ZLBarrister the next civil war will not be led by neoconservatards, the republicans are social conservatives now not like back then, the NeoLibtards and Neoconservatards are incajouts under the guise of "democracy" the globalists are going to opress white settlers and southerners in another war of Northern aggression led by apartment dwelling NY democrats against land holding patriots.
Ah Jerry, I miss your shows so much. I had grown to enjoy the Jerry Garcia Band shows more than the Grateful Dead shows. We didn't have all of the rock and roll asseholes show up at Jerry's shows, like they ruined the Dead shows from about the mid-80's on. Seeing Jerry play in front of 200-300 people was a real treat.
robbie robertson wrote this and levon sung it. robbie picked levons brains and read a number of books to get the history and the feeling from a southern point of view
@luckyoldsunroll A waste? The man's impact cannot be measured! It continues to grow and grow. He had his issues too.... Don't miss him, he hasn't gone anywhere. :) Smile Smile Smile
he from a heart attack do to withdrawls from cocaine and heroin. He was trying to stop his abuse of those drugs and died at rehab. At least give the man some credit and don't make him sound like some sort of fiend.
I do not disagree with you there! I was simply replying to Retro's comment that he died from being a drug addict witch pissed me off! Your preaching to the choir on this one man! I have a steal your face tattoo on my calf something that I can be proud of for the rest of my life! I love the Grateful Dead and Jerry too, he had his problems like the rest of us! He was human and with that much money and background who wouldn't be blowing Coke!
First of all that's your opinion and I can respect that. Secondly where else am i doing to put it? That was the only place with enough room to put it. I have tattoos every were. Lastly I don't really think you or I would want to have a GD tattoo on their gooch!
Well why would I want to get "stick in my ass" pissed at someone just because they don't like me or they think my tattoo is lame. I'm not here for any ones aproval, I'm here for the music. And yes I agree a gooch tattoo is much cooler than one on my calf. So when are you getting your gooch tatoo?
@Guitarstring187 the boys always had separate projects too . all of them with great music attached, from old and in the way to wharf rat to further... check some of them out also .donna jean still sings too with her own band down in alabama.
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The Band's version is better. I normally like Jerry and the Dead's stuff, but this sounds like they'd gotten into that shipment of quaaludes that just hit town. It was tough to listen to.
@koropal I wonder if that is a reference to a story I heard about a former wealthy landowner seen on the banks of the MS river cutting down a massive old oak that decorated his property entrance to sell it for firewood to passing boats. I'm from the Mississippi Delta and that always has stuck with me.
@willburr I don't know,would a rich southern man "serve on the danville train"?Maybe.That's the thing about great art,it evokes different images to different people,and your take is as valid as any.
@koropal Probably not. Thought the song was written as a first-person account, it doesn't preclude that stories may have filtered into the idea of the song. Robbie Robertson wrote the song for Levon Helm after visiting the south. He said he was trying to express all the sorrow and shame and anger he perceived from the south haveing lost the war.
@koropal But, yes, it's just my take on how it makes me feel. Great art IS wide open and personal at the same time. The brilliant point at which subjective reality becomes objective truth. A rare thing indeed...
last waltz is great, joan baez is great to expose and lend her voice, the band is great, jerry garcia band has some really good versions, the night they drove old dixie down is great, the lyrics are a great parallel between centuries and transcendent....somebody named lee prolly left in 1965, but know what ya mean "patshea" ..good to examine history while living in the present fo sho!!!! "ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest....." :)
Jerry made every sure that every note of his solo was as important as the on before an after it. he was a genius and an innovator of this genre. a man way ahead of his time. his solos have meaning, soul and depth and that is what makes him the best. I fucking love you, Jerry.
jerry garcia wasn't as technically talented as some, nor the best songwriter, nor the most charismatic performer.
but her cared the fucking most. and that's all that matters. and you can feel it in every particle of his being. maybe not he best musician ever, but one of the best humans ever.
that slowed down version forces you to consider what the band was saying. then j baez had a radio hit with this and she screwed up the lyric singing "so much cavalry came" instead of "stoneman's cavalry came" see George Stoneman, Jr. (August 22, 1822 September 5, 1894) United States Army and 15th Governor of California, she shoulda gotta clue. also, listen to any duet that she ever did with b dylan for further proof of her ability to spoil anything she lends her overrated pipes to.
she messes up the lyrics twice - once on the record with "so much cavalry." then on that muppet show version she maintains that it was "stonewall's cavalry" that came. also the narrator "took a train to richmond that fell." may 10th? forget it. in fairness, lee evacuated richmond april 2, 1965. i think levon knows that, but 5/10 fits the line better. baez doesn't know that much less care. lastly, as "they should never have taken the very best," that song should never be sung to puppets. period.
@patcshea Or maybe you shut the fuck up because Joan Baez is amazing? I don't mean to hate, and i would like to just chill and listen to the music but just because she changed one line doesnt mean its a total fuck up. Dylan changed the lyrics to all his songs all the time. Infact the band changed up the lyrics to this song so really you have no point of reference, also it was HER playing it, she made it her own. and about those overated pipes, She destroy's everyone when it comes to singing.
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@KenMacMillan Boy, howdie! Why couldn't this drugged out loser have taken a hot shot thirty years earlier and not helped screw up so many ignorant kids?
Jerry does an emotive rendition of a standard, about one year before "The Last Waltz" , Perfect pitch and tempo. If you don't think so, I'll not convince you. Any musician will agree with me, Perfect!
perfect . . // Ron Tutt does a great job . . // excellent rendition . . Robert Hunter loves this song . . // no doubt the band had a huge influence on him . . (brown eyed woman / / tennesse jed / / etc.)
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Very good point! Jerry had something less than a great voice- and on certain kinds of songs, blues, for instance, he didn't always do the tunes justice.
But on all the narrative, history songs, such as the ones Robert Hunter wrote words for, he really does conveys the mood of the character and mood of the song.
The mere fact that Jerry felt a song to be worth performing, and the act of performing it, raised the song to a new level and turned it into something more than what it had been, lyrical and tonal precision notwithstanding.IMHO a moving rendition - almost requiem-like.
"A moving rendition-almost requiem like." Very nicely put! I think your point is basically right. Garcia choose songs carefully. He head something in them and usually found a way to convey what the song meant to him.
I do think he was at his very best on slow and medium tempo songs. Stella Blue just came to mind. Of course, there are many others. But almost anything pensive or elegiac really suited him.
john kahn actually chose the material for the jerry band. jerry did dope and showed up for the gigs. that was about the extent of his involvement in the jerry bands. john chose the musicians and the material. as i get older jerry's side projects appeal to me much more than the grateful dead. dont get me wrong i love the dead , but you can only hear me & my uncle so many times
they talk about it in all of jerry's bios. obviously jerry already had a bunch of tunes in his cannon , and alot of those carried through from one incarnation of jgb to the next. as well these early lineups - reconstruction , legion of mary , garcia & saunders. were not put together solely by john . but by the early eighties , yeah john was calling the shots. remember every time from 72 on that jerry touched the stage (non GD) john kahn was by his side. every lineup , every band.
@ncbloom Man, people can tell themselves a lot of things, but if you can actually tell yourself that that little guitar solo starting at 3'50" is anything short of absolutely gorgeous, you need to rethink the way you're coming at music.
lol at your stereotypical remark. thats like me saything that if your roman your either gay or visit child prostitution brothel. please learn correct history before you spread your word. there is always some1 whos knows the truth and its certainly not in the brainwashed masses.
very calming :) i like it
DomseDerPirat 3 weeks ago
im with hannhkin go no negitive nothing just listen
daigesmd 4 weeks ago
Download this show and other Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Legion Of Mary, Garcia & Saunders, Garcia/Kahn, Robert Hunter shows from my blog, you can find a link to it in the video info above.
johnny576375 1 month ago
hmmm i dont like this version but i guess im just not into jerry garcia just wanted to see how he did it
anarchojoe666 1 month ago
No negative comments folks...Not when Jerry is singing.
HannahKinStudio 2 months ago
L♥ve you Jerry!!! He is a blessing to us....even if he sings a fkn confederate song hehe! Peace & blessings to you Johnny for this. Beautiful. One of my dads favorites. He digs the Dead too. ♥ Makes me cry xx (Jerry died on my 15th birthday) L♥ve always
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@NoRosesForMe its the biggest American tragedy that the yankees won. The country went from a voluntary union of sovereign states joined together by mutual consent to a forced union where the states were the chattel property of the masters in Washington. Slavery became universal, but only the government and its contractors hold the slaves now. It wasn't about slavery at all, it was about forming an American Empire controlled by the military Industrial complex and bankers thats still being fought
BudderBreakfast 2 months ago
The tide is indeed turning, the greed driven world is dying.....time to put fear aside and realize we all depend on eachother, not governments, religions and all the other garbage that obiously does not work or represent our true humanity......"they should never have taken the very best".....indeed!
stardumb13 3 months ago
@stardumb13 You can definitely say the ideas of Liberty that inspired the brave people of the South to rise up and fight for their rights, is definitely finally coming back into our culture. once enough people wake up then the candidates we put into office will start to reflect how the majority feels. Definitely gaining more momentum now then in the past 30 years.
BudderBreakfast 2 months ago
@BudderBreakfast the south just nwanted our peice of the pie pie when they did it it was right but when we pose a compitittion to them its wrong ? the south wil remaine
woods8870 1 month ago
@woods8870 im not stupid im just drunk
woods8870 1 month ago
robertson wrote it period!
jocegir 3 months ago
robrtson wrote it period.
jocegir 3 months ago
@johnny576375 thanks brotha!
GinsbergKush 3 months ago
@GinsbergKush No problem.
johnny576375 3 months ago
Pinch harmonics solo beginning is the pinnacle of the song....
AceNightCreeper 4 months ago
f*ck the emprie corporation and their terroristict empire. "Freedom' Died long long long go. BUT yet they teach and preach this 'land of the free' crap to keep the feeble sheeple at bay. To qoute earl Pitts.. WAKE UP UMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
coldh2ocarp 5 months ago
@coldh2ocarp Looks like they're waking up right about now! The 99% TAKE OVER!!!!!!
hanssvoboda 3 months ago
@johnny576375 doesnt work on mac
frfuark 6 months ago
@frfuark Works on my MBP.
DExxxxxTR 4 months ago
ps this is definitely my 2nd favourite version of this song.
ALfaDuB101 6 months ago
Very good but ritchie havens version gives me shivers im a brit and it almost makes me wish i was american
watch?gl=US&feature=player_embedded&v=pPuoXZlDFrM
ALfaDuB101 6 months ago
can someone PLEASE tab the solo for this??Thanks :) would love you forever
ryansmusic2007 6 months ago
The Garcia Bands always nailed harmonies. Jerry loved harmony 3 part vocals, Great version here. Thanks.
dunskie 7 months ago
Garcia sang this song so beautifully. He must have really felt this one.
Youssef51 7 months ago
Levon Helm sang lead for The Band, while their guitarist
Robbie Roberson wrote this great classic...
Twilk88 7 months ago
ckwrich1 7 months ago
@aaronkruel - Joni Mitchell? Sorry - not true. johnny567365 was right - it's Robbie Robertson who wrote it. Joan Baez did a very horrible cover of the tune - no feeling whatsoever. Jerry's cover here is very nice.
MrJohnpiano 7 months ago
Hats off to General William Tecumseh Sherman...aka "Uncle Billy." Taught the south a lesson they still haven't forgotten.
Tigermoon1950 8 months ago
@Tigermoon1950 if you were standing in front of me right now and said that, I'd show you what we southerners have and have not forgotten
philkidbry 8 months ago
@philkidbry LOL (pea picker)
Tigermoon1950 8 months ago
@philkidbry you are so right my friend this ain't over with; it's just beginning to start. yankee greed did what all the virgil cains couldn't. somebody has to pick up the pieces and bury all the dead yankee trash.
67roxas45 3 months ago
Ironic a song about the fall of the South, that really captures the spirit of it, was written by a Canadian.
majorporpoise 8 months ago
Love his voice!
maripocita37 8 months ago
Thank you Jerry
drawingsf 8 months ago
I love you Jerry----Thank you !!!
drawingsf 8 months ago
ROBBIE ROBERTSON
maxcady5 8 months ago
I would of given up my left nut to smoke a joint with Jerry.
majorporpoise 8 months ago
just had a great comment..forgot it
MultiPhisher 8 months ago
Levon's voice is just as chilling, suitable for this song. But I love Jerry singing.
pcburgh01 9 months ago 3
today is 150th anniversary of the start of civil war
chrisbrho 9 months ago
NO one could deliver more soul in a slow song then jerry garcia
thomasmario1999 9 months ago 2
The tempo is a bit too slow for me. Still a good song.
MrButtbanger 9 months ago
If the Republicans keep this up, this is what is going to happen to them--AGAIN! (well, actually, it was the Democrats back then)
ZLBarrister 11 months ago
@ZLBarrister
I dont mind us seceding again. As long as there is no slavery, Im all for it!
HalfBornUnicornFetus 10 months ago
@HalfBornUnicornFetus Economically, that might not be so wise for the South. Culturally and politically on the other hand....
ZLBarrister 10 months ago
@ZLBarrister the next civil war will not be led by neoconservatards, the republicans are social conservatives now not like back then, the NeoLibtards and Neoconservatards are incajouts under the guise of "democracy" the globalists are going to opress white settlers and southerners in another war of Northern aggression led by apartment dwelling NY democrats against land holding patriots.
BloodNorseGods 10 months ago
@BloodNorseGods Can you tell me who will win? My lease is up and I don't know if I should buy or lease.
ZLBarrister 10 months ago
THE UNION FOREVER!
maxcady5 8 months ago
@maxcady5 USA forever
swishahouse36 8 months ago
What a voice!
maureen45ful 11 months ago
Ah Jerry, I miss your shows so much. I had grown to enjoy the Jerry Garcia Band shows more than the Grateful Dead shows. We didn't have all of the rock and roll asseholes show up at Jerry's shows, like they ruined the Dead shows from about the mid-80's on. Seeing Jerry play in front of 200-300 people was a real treat.
Jeffmage 11 months ago
I love this version. Jerry had an amazingly smooth voice. Like a vintage tube amp.
maripocita37 11 months ago
YEA BABY!
JimmyPage97 11 months ago
robbie robertson wrote this and levon sung it. robbie picked levons brains and read a number of books to get the history and the feeling from a southern point of view
bazmuk 1 year ago
Geez, there is no way a Canadian wrote this song. I believe Levon when he said songs were stolen from him.
darkstar92772 1 year ago
jewish-indian from canada or country boy from Arkansas my bet is Levon
luckycharmsyummy 1 year ago
RETRO714 U SHOULD JUST KEEP UR COMMENT TO URSELF
phishphreak247 1 year ago
just heard Johnny Cash singing this, in a very humble way, as this song just deserves.
kirkwallboy 1 year ago
the fat tone of jerrys gets me every time---there is nothin ive heard that even comes close--thanks!!
daysbetween67 1 year ago
@willburr
irate170 1 year ago
Awesome! Hauntingly dramatic vocals by Jerry.
shkdwn318 1 year ago
holy shit why did this awesome man die. what a waste and how I miss him so.
luckyoldsunroll 1 year ago
@luckyoldsunroll A waste? The man's impact cannot be measured! It continues to grow and grow. He had his issues too.... Don't miss him, he hasn't gone anywhere. :) Smile Smile Smile
DeepBlueHeart1221 1 year ago
@DeepBlueHeart1221 You're so right. I'm 32, never saw him, but he makes me happy everyday!
grube28 1 year ago
He died becayse he was a drug addict.
RETRO714 1 year ago
@RETRO714
he from a heart attack do to withdrawls from cocaine and heroin. He was trying to stop his abuse of those drugs and died at rehab. At least give the man some credit and don't make him sound like some sort of fiend.
magicmark1292 1 year ago
@magicmark1292 WE LOVE JERRY FOR BEING JERRY AND THE HEAD GYPSY FREAK MASTER.
wc4dblues 1 year ago
@wc4dblues
I do not disagree with you there! I was simply replying to Retro's comment that he died from being a drug addict witch pissed me off! Your preaching to the choir on this one man! I have a steal your face tattoo on my calf something that I can be proud of for the rest of my life! I love the Grateful Dead and Jerry too, he had his problems like the rest of us! He was human and with that much money and background who wouldn't be blowing Coke!
magicmark1292 1 year ago
@magicmark1292 *edit* no-one should be proud of calf tattoos
GrapeBeverage 11 months ago
@GrapeBeverage
First of all that's your opinion and I can respect that. Secondly where else am i doing to put it? That was the only place with enough room to put it. I have tattoos every were. Lastly I don't really think you or I would want to have a GD tattoo on their gooch!
magicmark1292 11 months ago
@magicmark1292 why should you respect my opinion? and, having a tattoo on your gooch is indescribably cooler than one on your calf.
GrapeBeverage 11 months ago
@GrapeBeverage
Well why would I want to get "stick in my ass" pissed at someone just because they don't like me or they think my tattoo is lame. I'm not here for any ones aproval, I'm here for the music. And yes I agree a gooch tattoo is much cooler than one on my calf. So when are you getting your gooch tatoo?
magicmark1292 11 months ago
@magicmark1292 i'm glad you asked. lemonparty(dot)org , my website has a picture of my gooch tattoo right on the front page.
GrapeBeverage 11 months ago
@GrapeBeverage
haha nice try. Well I'm done communicating with you. It seems that you just troll around looking for arguments.
magicmark1292 11 months ago
@RETRO714 He died because he was human--we all die
Briancramer67 10 months ago
Most emotional Version = Best Version
JonasBeavis23 1 year ago 2
thanks for this!!
fantastic. sure do miss the fat guy ...
godzillaa1 1 year ago
@johnny576375 I remember it well, just left of the stage and about 20 feet back.!!!
NearlyNormalSteve 1 year ago
so this isnt greatful dead??? Hmm what happened to the greatful dead
Guitarstring187 1 year ago
@Guitarstring187
its the 'grateful' dead you idiot
StarangWonda 1 year ago
@Guitarstring187 the boys always had separate projects too . all of them with great music attached, from old and in the way to wharf rat to further... check some of them out also .donna jean still sings too with her own band down in alabama.
babzc 1 year ago
unbelievable...that beautiful...
candis222 1 year ago
Jerry's emotional interpretation of this tune is so right on!
wolverine84 1 year ago
Nicky was THE MAN
dandelion1967 1 year ago
As a longtime Grateful Dead fan I gotta say The Band's is much better. Not even close.
Bigpolak57 1 year ago
100% beautiful
mightyolav 1 year ago
The band wrote this song. this version touched my heart. Jerry Garcia will always have songs filling the air
TheAtticdweller 1 year ago
At the end of the Civil War, to clarify the previous comment...
willburr 1 year ago
Nicky makes this one work. Best sideman ever.
pieter731 1 year ago
This was written by "The Band' levon Helm, many have done this song but you need to listen the the version on The Last waltz a tribute to the band
macster43 1 year ago
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ScumJunkie 1 year ago
makes me cry
kennypoitras1 1 year ago
solo para lolos
ruben30121 1 year ago
Great cover by a great band
TreesOfBaylor 1 year ago
I love this version.
SuperLizardness 1 year ago
jerry garcia sucked bad in this version. I mean it
aggiecougar 1 year ago
@aggiecougar you sucked really bad in this comment
DrakeEaton 1 year ago
@aggiecougar fuck off
LedZeppelin362 1 year ago
who wrote this song?
aaronkruel 1 year ago
@aaronkruel Robbie Robertson (The Band)
johnny576375 1 year ago 15
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aircooledvw62 1 year ago
@aaronkruel robbie robertson when he was a member of the band
babzc 1 year ago
@aaronkruel wrong, it was levon helm from the band that wrote it.
darkmatter138 8 months ago
@darkmatter138 Check your liner notes, its Robertson.
johnny576375 8 months ago 5
@darkmatter138 Robbie wrote this, and just about all of The Bands songs.
dunskie 7 months ago
@darkmatter138 dumbass
antenora1009 7 months ago
@aaronkruel actually your both WRONG.... Joni Mitchell wrote this song
philkidbry 8 months ago in playlist steal your cake right off your plate
@philkidbry Joni never even DID this song Smartie Pants. Joan Baez did. Written by Robbie Robertson. Trust me.
dunskie 7 months ago
The Band's version is better. I normally like Jerry and the Dead's stuff, but this sounds like they'd gotten into that shipment of quaaludes that just hit town. It was tough to listen to.
parrotlegal 1 year ago
The second verse is "there goes the Robert E. Lee",a Mississippi riverboat that at the time was the height of luxury,get it?
koropal 1 year ago
@koropal I wonder if that is a reference to a story I heard about a former wealthy landowner seen on the banks of the MS river cutting down a massive old oak that decorated his property entrance to sell it for firewood to passing boats. I'm from the Mississippi Delta and that always has stuck with me.
willburr 1 year ago
@willburr I don't know,would a rich southern man "serve on the danville train"?Maybe.That's the thing about great art,it evokes different images to different people,and your take is as valid as any.
koropal 1 year ago
@koropal Probably not. Thought the song was written as a first-person account, it doesn't preclude that stories may have filtered into the idea of the song. Robbie Robertson wrote the song for Levon Helm after visiting the south. He said he was trying to express all the sorrow and shame and anger he perceived from the south haveing lost the war.
willburr 1 year ago
@koropal But, yes, it's just my take on how it makes me feel. Great art IS wide open and personal at the same time. The brilliant point at which subjective reality becomes objective truth. A rare thing indeed...
willburr 1 year ago
the edition of jgb with nicky hopkins was one of the best.
gurdjieff66 1 year ago
amazing, jerry in great form here, as always
enardi09 1 year ago
last waltz is great, joan baez is great to expose and lend her voice, the band is great, jerry garcia band has some really good versions, the night they drove old dixie down is great, the lyrics are a great parallel between centuries and transcendent....somebody named lee prolly left in 1965, but know what ya mean "patshea" ..good to examine history while living in the present fo sho!!!! "ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest....." :)
waylandsphere76 1 year ago
yes thats jerry alright
jrich1641 1 year ago
Really beautiful. I just got thru thinking the black crowes had the definitive version. This is amazing. Who'se on vocals? Garcia?
SuperLizardness 1 year ago
3:45 Guitar solo encore.
robertlaberge 2 years ago
AMAZING JERRY WE MISS YOU!! i love this lineup this is music with feeling WOW
mainetechnet 2 years ago
Jerry made every sure that every note of his solo was as important as the on before an after it. he was a genius and an innovator of this genre. a man way ahead of his time. his solos have meaning, soul and depth and that is what makes him the best. I fucking love you, Jerry.
naes41091 2 years ago 3
jerry garcia wasn't as technically talented as some, nor the best songwriter, nor the most charismatic performer.
but her cared the fucking most. and that's all that matters. and you can feel it in every particle of his being. maybe not he best musician ever, but one of the best humans ever.
R.I.P.
lethalnezzle 2 years ago 3
that slowed down version forces you to consider what the band was saying. then j baez had a radio hit with this and she screwed up the lyric singing "so much cavalry came" instead of "stoneman's cavalry came" see George Stoneman, Jr. (August 22, 1822 September 5, 1894) United States Army and 15th Governor of California, she shoulda gotta clue. also, listen to any duet that she ever did with b dylan for further proof of her ability to spoil anything she lends her overrated pipes to.
patcshea 1 year ago 2
baez's version disgusts me. not because she's female, because she ruins the lyrics and destroyes the meaning of a brilliant song.
SuperLizardness 1 year ago
she messes up the lyrics twice - once on the record with "so much cavalry." then on that muppet show version she maintains that it was "stonewall's cavalry" that came. also the narrator "took a train to richmond that fell." may 10th? forget it. in fairness, lee evacuated richmond april 2, 1965. i think levon knows that, but 5/10 fits the line better. baez doesn't know that much less care. lastly, as "they should never have taken the very best," that song should never be sung to puppets. period.
patcshea 1 year ago
@patcshea Or maybe you shut the fuck up because Joan Baez is amazing? I don't mean to hate, and i would like to just chill and listen to the music but just because she changed one line doesnt mean its a total fuck up. Dylan changed the lyrics to all his songs all the time. Infact the band changed up the lyrics to this song so really you have no point of reference, also it was HER playing it, she made it her own. and about those overated pipes, She destroy's everyone when it comes to singing.
awesomehatguy 1 year ago
fucking beautiful. we miss you Jerry.
naes41091 2 years ago 3
The best.
flydef 2 years ago
Love levon, love the band.... but this is the best rendition I've ever heard =)
RIP JERRY
jelHax 2 years ago
jerry>>>levon
MarcoEsquand0las 2 years ago
My God! I can't keep up with the tempo... :)
bulle450 2 years ago
It's not slow, man... what are you on?
:) lol
ROCKSLIDZ 2 years ago
They had to play this slow because the people were so fucked up that they probably wouldn't understand it.
KenMacMillan 2 years ago
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@KenMacMillan Boy, howdie! Why couldn't this drugged out loser have taken a hot shot thirty years earlier and not helped screw up so many ignorant kids?
Norm
theshadow1932 2 years ago
lol, to Jerry it probably sounded like normal speed.
KenMacMillan 2 years ago
Is a somber, sad song so the pace in this version is appropiate too. Jerry was an amazing entertainer, we miss him today so much.
56LC 2 years ago 9
And I'm proud to be one of them. Thank God for that.
JoMu82 2 years ago 2
Ron was the best drummer and yes John called the shots, belive me!
deadheadable 2 years ago
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emptynet1 2 years ago
Do we have a date on this?
McKeonTJ 2 years ago
I believe it was December 20, 1975.
MrJerryWallace 2 years ago
@McKeonTJ 12 /20/75 winterland
babzc 1 year ago
Jerry does an emotive rendition of a standard, about one year before "The Last Waltz" , Perfect pitch and tempo. If you don't think so, I'll not convince you. Any musician will agree with me, Perfect!
MrJerryWallace 2 years ago 2
I think so!
This song is perfect!
I am Japanese Deadhead.
keihead2 2 years ago 2
perfect . . // Ron Tutt does a great job . . // excellent rendition . . Robert Hunter loves this song . . // no doubt the band had a huge influence on him . . (brown eyed woman / / tennesse jed / / etc.)
Laight4work 2 years ago
best version of the song
purphanz 2 years ago
No way, The Band's version (the original) is way better
LocalRailfan 2 years ago 2
Did Jerry ever do 'Unfaithful Servant", by The Band..Robbie Robertson??
blueroad99 2 years ago
man way toooooo slow
SurbanCommando 2 years ago
Jerry Garcia a one of a kind. He makes me feel like this is where I should be. Miss you so much.
peacelovemusic2198 2 years ago 3
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
RonRepublican 2 years ago
that makes absolutely no sense. Put down the pipe Regan.
pcburgh01 2 years ago
It's a Quote from Thomas Jefferson, don't know your history it seems..
RonRepublican 2 years ago 2
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pcburgh01 2 years ago
I agree
mulveyk 2 years ago
Jerry was always good at bringing emotion to historical songs.
mulveyk 2 years ago 8
Very good point! Jerry had something less than a great voice- and on certain kinds of songs, blues, for instance, he didn't always do the tunes justice.
But on all the narrative, history songs, such as the ones Robert Hunter wrote words for, he really does conveys the mood of the character and mood of the song.
written12 2 years ago
The mere fact that Jerry felt a song to be worth performing, and the act of performing it, raised the song to a new level and turned it into something more than what it had been, lyrical and tonal precision notwithstanding.IMHO a moving rendition - almost requiem-like.
lakewobegon1 2 years ago 2
"A moving rendition-almost requiem like." Very nicely put! I think your point is basically right. Garcia choose songs carefully. He head something in them and usually found a way to convey what the song meant to him.
I do think he was at his very best on slow and medium tempo songs. Stella Blue just came to mind. Of course, there are many others. But almost anything pensive or elegiac really suited him.
written12 2 years ago 14
john kahn actually chose the material for the jerry band. jerry did dope and showed up for the gigs. that was about the extent of his involvement in the jerry bands. john chose the musicians and the material. as i get older jerry's side projects appeal to me much more than the grateful dead. dont get me wrong i love the dead , but you can only hear me & my uncle so many times
ncbloom 2 years ago
Where did you hear that?
johnny576375 2 years ago
they talk about it in all of jerry's bios. obviously jerry already had a bunch of tunes in his cannon , and alot of those carried through from one incarnation of jgb to the next. as well these early lineups - reconstruction , legion of mary , garcia & saunders. were not put together solely by john . but by the early eighties , yeah john was calling the shots. remember every time from 72 on that jerry touched the stage (non GD) john kahn was by his side. every lineup , every band.
ncbloom 2 years ago
@ncbloom , The grateful dead was jerry's brainchild! Jerry was the dead. In the end it consumed him!
MrSharkey11 1 year ago
@ncbloom Man, people can tell themselves a lot of things, but if you can actually tell yourself that that little guitar solo starting at 3'50" is anything short of absolutely gorgeous, you need to rethink the way you're coming at music.
jeffjohnston123 1 year ago
@ncbloom
I know what you mean man. Ive been listening to some Shady Grove with Garcia and Grisman. Awesome album.
Colour34 1 year ago
@ncbloom no kidding i could listen to weir everyday,even if he were the last musician alive..
rotolo 1 year ago
@written12 RIPPLE
jtb185 1 year ago
@written12 PS IN 1976 I BELIEVE, AT PASSAIC THEATRE I NEW JERSEY , HE LEVEITATED THE ENTIRE THEATRE IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND., HE WAS THE GREATEST.
operalament 1 year ago
the south was a racist enclave of the usa / any way what a great cover of a great song!
papalsword00 2 years ago
lol at your stereotypical remark. thats like me saything that if your roman your either gay or visit child prostitution brothel. please learn correct history before you spread your word. there is always some1 whos knows the truth and its certainly not in the brainwashed masses.
egosdark003 2 years ago
google emmett till it might change your mind.
papalsword00 2 years ago
emmett till still does not change my mind about you being a stereotypical idealist. infact it defines my point even further.
egosdark003 2 years ago
WOW jerry! amazing i gots em chills :)
drankmylastdrink 2 years ago 3
what a song... i know The Band put a lot of heart into it but damn Jerry just has it!!! R.I.P.
4grateful2zimm0 2 years ago
The south was not fighting to keep slaves. They was fighting to protect their way of life.
omy512 2 years ago
which in turn kept slaves around.
setboy1 2 years ago 2
What else about the "way of life" other than slavery was taken away when the south lost the war?
pcburgh01 2 years ago