Grateful Dead - Cosmic Charlie 3/1/69 w/Band Pictures

[mreye73]

This is so much faster than the studio version. Did they always play it like this?

[thatguru877]

@mreye73 Yeah you would of needed alot of acid to dance to something that slow.

[calbeatnik]

I was at this show sweet trying to find something from Dec 5th 1969 show I was at also. Altamont was the next day and I left from the Carosuel Ballroom out to Altamont.

[pinkus44]

totally fucking awesome

[Gr8ful2588]

Pig Pen was awesome :)

[rjl032653]

kicking ass , like it was 1965....jeeezus, this band could rock us to our inifnite souls.

[spacemeddle]

@rjl032653 Amen Brotha!

[somercet1]

An amazing collection of pictures.

[moss824]

just plain awesome!

[popomczowzow]

slide!!!

[iorioriorio]

Coutney love instead of john KADliCHECKELSLOVAKIAKIAN

[iorioriorio]

John stewart on guitar..forget kadlicheck...kadlicek...kad...­he's good but, but, how- is about charles nelson reily on lead guitar???/?..

[MUSICNEVERSTOPS]

I was at this Show The energy was there from the Audiance...But Warren Was not the Answer...Now John Kadlecik from DSO....I GIVE EM A YEAR...AND THEY WILL BE CELLING OUT MSG IN A HEART BEAT.....BRENDON BURNE ARENE....GREAT STUF IN THE FUTURE 4 THIS GREAT BAND HE WAS OUT THERE FOR TAKIN WHAT TOOK SO LONG...DAM THAT BOY IS BAD.

[iorioriorio]

Dunno..they take it too fuckin seriously....get real the 60's were all about humor...jon stewqart would be a good guitar beyond kadlicheck- off

[6749er]

I was at this one w/Pentangle & Sir Douglas Quintet. Great seeing the pics from the daze too. Thanks. They used to fun doing this song.

[chazzyboy1234]

This song's about my dad.

[RetartedlyBeast]

really me too

[stashJ8]

Yeah I knew that, they had already bounced and moved to Marin County by 1968, i just didn't know this song explicity dealt w that.

[mediajunk]

What I love about this song is the way it sneers at the faux long-hairs who flocked the Haight in the Summer of Love. It totally clowns on hippies, especially the poseurs and partiers. The best part: The Deadheads it makes fun of don't even know it's about them.

And it rocks - hard and goofy. The Dick's Picks Vol. 8 (Harper College) is my fave. Even without the benefit of hallucinogens, Jerry's detuning, noisy guitar will melt your brain.

[stashJ8]

really? i didnt know that...yeah dick's picks vol. 8 does have a sick cosmic charlie

[mediajunk]

Late in the Summer of Love, the Haight looked like Cancun during Spring Break. The vibe got less radical and communal as the band-wagoners, drunks, yokels, tourists and frat boys crowded in.

As the song says, "Go on home your mama's calling you."

[6749er]

Lot of every one showed up on Haight by summer 67 but think they were talking about all the kids from everywhere who showed up with flowers in their hair & not clue about what the real scene was & fucked it up more than any other group that showed up except for all the bad people who showed up to prey on them who weren't around before they showed up. . Bunch of mostly burnt broke homeless hungry cold kids & all the rip-off scamers that followed them in didn't look like Cancun on Spring Break.

[agbz]

@6749er right on!

[larryllama]

Is there a live recording of this song with such fantastic slide playing as on the studio version?

[Worden26]

this is a live version buddy... listen to the end if u dont believe me

[larryllama]

Yes I know it is.

I will rephrase my question:

Does there exist a live version of this song which has slide guitar as good as the slide guitar that is used on the studio version?

Most live versions have NO slide from what I have heard. If anyone knows of a slide-tastic live version, please tell me so that I can seek it out :-)

[willruddock]

If anybody would like I'll send you the complete 10 cd Fillmore West complete recordings from which this great song is a part of.

[belafonte55]

I would love that.

[ClueSign]

So freaking cool I can hardly stand it.

[airnsmke]

warms my heart, chills down my spine, blink and its gone, blink and its mine

[whackjob1994]

I wish I lived in the 60s. The 2000's have shit for music.

[caseyjones67]

dude same here

[redsoxnation897]

they used to hand out free acid back in the day

[07cramit]

im living in the wrong decade

[fluffydolly]

smoking live version

[1tag2]

"More Bass Lesh Feeling"

I know some of you remember that.

[ClueSign]

@1tag2 I remember "Lesh is More" too

[ravenmoon86]

"New ones come in as the old ones go

Everything's moving here but much too slowly

A little bit quicker and we might have time

To say how do you do before we left behind" I dig it in every way.

[putdownan8dude]

i love jerry. and i even play in a punk rock band!

[geekstreat]

@putdownan8dude Fuckin A!!

[bluesriot2]

I love that line " I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe" . thanks for the post

[lukequagliana]

Cosmic Charlie was one of the best songs they ever wrote. Too bad the left it behind back in 70.

[mikeincalifornia]

They've been playing it on the current tour. Sounds like they've been revisiting all of the old favorites.

[1tag2]

"the current tour" is not the same, never could be.

[TheCannabisKing]

its a different band under a different name stealing jerry's songs.

[KozmicJoker]

OKAY.

[rambleonrose93]

they played it on 4/12/09

and caution

[DrBelser12]

COSMIC CHARLIE!Great pictures.