You people need to understand somethng. This video was never supposed to happen. They were filmed on the sly. Probably the whole festival is sitting on Pennebakers shelf. The 4 song Moby Grape set also exists. Don't tell Matthew Katz! We will probably never see all of what is available. Listen My Friends, this is the great Rock and Roll swindle. Count your blessings you can click twice and see this. They are on fire here. Cherish it.
this is the best grateful dead period 1966 thru 1973 and basically the only stuff I like from the dead .Especially viola lee blues. Each version is different and Jerry plays an awesome gutar solo in a different style in every version . A sign of a true artist !I first heard them play in 1968 while in the 1st grade and was instantly hooked
But neither the Grateful Dead or whoever "owns" their legacy now (possibly some asshole company that rhymes with "wino") owns this particular footage or sound recording.
If this actually sounded decent (sonically) a coupla million folks would jack to it. I know how to fix it. Should I do it?
according to one book, the dead weren't in the movie since they didn't want to sign their financial rights (for european distribution etc) over to the producer, whom they felt was LA scum.
There is nothing in this performance to support the idea that the Grateful Dead "blew all the big ones." Put this next to any of your favorite versions of Viola Lee.
Here's what it is, I think: the Dead -- and I say this as the most complete possible fan of the Dead -- just don't hit you as hard, or as fast, as the Who or Hendrix or anybody they felt outclassed by at Woodstock.
The Woodstock set is, on the other hand, not very good...
what can you say. this was the Dead and all they were really meant to be. they had it all back then and continued to have it all until Pigpen left us. When he left they should have looked for another Blues Rocker and not settled on a the jazz side of things it toned them down too much and they lost their rawness without Pigpen and the Blues. long live the Grateful Dead with Pigpen. saw many shows but never with him so i never really saw the Grateful Dead
@bakesterfire I love the Dead regardless,,but,,,I have to agree. They were at their best until Pigpen died. He was the cat. All their stuff up until his death is their best,,,,except for ,,,before he died...a wee story here,,,he came over with photographer Bob Sideman,,,whoever,,,,,but Pig wanted to take some last pics with the band. They refused to see him. Actually refused. True story. He went back to his apartment and ,,,Sideman (?? whoever) took pics of Pig. He died shortly after. :( ♥
The Dead always claimed they sucked at Monterey. They were WAY wrong. I have the Monterey DVD box set and the guy writing the liner notes has nothing but the highest praise for the band, unfortunately they're not on the DVD.
@PHILLIPBENNETTful Um have you checked out what other acts were wearing that night? Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Mamas & Papas....they were all pretty much "heavily" dressed (no pun intended)
The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it. Clerk he wrote it down indeed-e Judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down Give you this jail sentence you'll be Nashville bound --- Some got six month some got one solid. Some got one solid year indeed-e Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here --- I wrote a letter I mailed in the air, Mailed it on the air indeed-e I wrote a letter I mailed in the air. You may know by that I've got a friend somewhere
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! amazing footage I can't belive you found this. Best cover song they did the original was by Noah Lewis.............LONG LIVE THE DEAD
This video proves that Phil Lesh can't remember what happned at Monterey. Clearly, the Dead WERE filmed. It was Big Brother's manager who refused to have that band filmed. After their set was well-received, Janis Joplin persuaded John Phillips to allow the band to play again for the cameras despite their manager's objections.
Viola Lee Blues was not filmed in its entirety because the song went on for too long (this is according to D.A. Pennebaker, the film's director).
Why would you come to see a Grateful Dead video, just to dislike one of their quintessential songs? If you don't like Viola Lee Blues, then you don't like the Grateful Dead!
@robkelley420 Uh, maybe someone came hoping to see and hear the performance and were disappointed by the horrible sound quality? And this is from when the Grateful Dead actually mattered . . . (sorry, Deadheads, but the soul of that band died with Pigpen . . . )
@EasyAce I think something was lost with Pigpen-- but I don't think the soul was lost, it just changed.I will never forget the day I heard about it.Felt like the world ended
me and bobby mcgee in the promised land with an alligator won't fade away if we see samson and delilah in the morning dew singin' some u.s. blues for an estimated prophet who lives on shakedown street above the dark star that feels like a stranger on the golden road of terrapin station where there's help on the way so lang as you don't tie a slipknot over franklin's tower playin' blues for allah in the chapel of saint stephen for one more saturday night but caution i'm a friend of the devil
Their performance gets overlooked since they went on right after The Who lit it up and right before Hendrix did.....well we all know what Hendrix did at Monterey (~);}
One of the biggest losses for Dead Heads of the 20th Century was the Dead's almost whole performance at Monterey not being captured on film, I know I would sure as hell kill to see the whole performance w/ good sound quality. Even this 10 minutes of footage is a rare gem, they weren't even supposed to be filmed at Monterey, they didn't sign the release that allowed the producers of Monterey to film them.
@spacemeddle I'm actually reading Phil Lesh's book right now and he says that the band chose to not be filmed. The guys who got the MPF up and running wanted to film every act and sell it as a movie, but the Dead declined the offer to be filmed because they did not know where all the money would be ending up (aka a bunch of bum record execs profiting off the beauty of the event.)
Woah, didn't know this footage existed anymore! I was reading the booklet that came with the complete Monterey DVD set, and it said they ran out of tape before the Dead even finished their first song. Said they had around 10 minutes of footage, so it looks like this is it!
Even though it's not the whole performance, it's better than nothing and they should have included it on the DVD. They could have faded it out. The Grateful Dead were said to be one of the HUGE highlights of Monterey.
@TheOneartist My mistake, looks like this is the whole song, but it's probably sped-up or partially cut, because the audio I found of this is 14 minutes, but it ends and starts the same. The director of Monterey Pop said the footage ran out before their first song ended, but it looks like that's not the case.
Really should have been on the DVD, unless the original was lost or something.
@blewj this ain't disco dead yo. 77 was disco dead. this is early incantations of the country dead, which blossomed into jazzy dead, then alt/jazz dead, then disco dead, then, after many years of awesome music, finally became dead dead. long live all of the dead!!
Thank you for sharing this film! Totaltrekker, the Dead actually performed this song in a film called "Petulia" in 1968-- a big production with George C. Scott and Julie Christie. They even did a little acting in a couple scenes!
Pigpen must have just recently swapped from using his Vox Organ,which is on the first LP,to using a Hammond Organ here! He seemingly had difficulty mastering it at first & John Cippolina's Mum gave him lessons.
How the fuck could you not see the absolute genius in this early recording even if the video quality is mediocre and even if you ate some brown acid. This is some of the best shit I'm so happy for coming across a video for this festival, I envy all who were there man.
Damn, I wish they had agreed to have their performance professionally taped here. They thought it was selling out to tape. This is the best we'll ever see of the Dead at Monterrey Pop.
. . . learned the bass within the course of a single week(!), but he'd played jazz and classical trumpet before then, Pig was a stone bluesman. So -- yeah, their music contained elements of ALL of it.
And as for "psychedelic" -- Jerry once said that music is a "signpost to new space" -- an aural representation of endless possibilities. That's how a jazz musician might see improvization, and it's also how a user of psychedelics would desribe that experience.
Through the years, Jerry used a lot of different terms for the band and its music ("just a regular old shoot-'em-up barrom band," if I recall it correctly, was one of my favorites.
But think about it -- between all of 'em, just about every imaginable musical influence went into the mix. Jerry and Weir were old folkies, but Jerry also had a keen ear for jazz and classical; Kreutzman came in from a big-band jazz background, Mickey had been a martial drummer, Phil . . .
I love this lineup of the Dead- Pigpen was their keyboard player and nothing ever gelled like these jams with Pig on keys- its too bad theres not more footage like this, and with better sound too!
"...I wrote a letter..mailed it indeed...mailed it indeed ...indeedy....i wrote a letter..i mailed it in the air....you may know by that I ....I gotta friend somewhere...."
I was not born until 1973. I sometimes wished it was 1943. I would have been old enough to go see all of this. But hey there were some good things about the 70's 80's 90's and 2000's that are good. It's a damn shame Jerry Garcia is no longer with us!
Crappy copy, but actually good for those days since generally rock films were badly done since the camera directors had no idea about the music. Being so used to dialogue they often just showed the performers face or from dumb angles like from behind or far off side or much on someone not leading or even something inanimate or the audience which is briefly O.K. yet not while something more interesting is ocurring, like an instrumental part. McKernan could play when not too druck! Augy San Diego
At last some footage of the grateful dead playing live before their country music stuff. I dont have footage of them playing Monteray festival 67 on my dvd because they apparently ran out of film from their long improvisations
@villiparis They were never country. They were always a folk band, but never country. Southern rock is the shoe that fits more when describing the endles amount of styles they went through. They are THE jam band.
Great to see this, the real Grateful Dead, in youthful wonder. Pig Pen on organ here, and he could play well. Jerry and Pig had a good vocal blend too . Jerry jumping around ,Bob and Phil singing backup, Bill the one, wonder drummer. Can you tell? I'm still a Dead head I reckon ? The first record was great......
My friend Richard Raymond was working at Sands point Country Club in Long Island , his GF was a bartender in town where this big ole jukebox had the 13 min version from the record...on it....great volume....as soon as we hit the bar that song would go off for a good time by all.
So was their whole set filmed? (assuming this is actually from the pop festival) I know they refused to be in the film but I'd love to see more of their performance.
God I love Bill Kreutzmann. Tell me that man isn't one of the most underrated drummers in rock history? Got such a great feel for the groove. I love me some primal Dead but man is this stuff intense. Even in Blair Jackson's book there's a interview about their older crazier psychedlic phase where Jerry says "You can only take so much of that stuff",
i guess this song teaches us that we all gotta write a letter and mail it in the air at some point in our lives and we cant prevent it from happening.
As a side note , Jerry is playing john cippolinna/Quicksilvers black custom les paul in this classic performance ...the day the world caught a small glimpse of what heaven is like!
Man, this is MUSIC!! I love Jerry's guitar solo and playing in general as well as Ron's keyboards. This song has a nice bluesy sound to it - Just love it.
@jgray110 going back to my coment you just said it the best improv band not acid rock and back to 6749er i so feel you on there there higher deeper music but what that kid was saying i was trying to explain to him no hate at all
I seriously doubt that brinkmcd is Bob Weir, i mean come on, arguing on youtube about WHAT TYPE OF MUSICAL GENRE the Dead fit under? How bout this one guys..... FUCKIN' BADASS JAMROCK if u get confused just STFU and listen 2 the music play
@gratefullistener420 I think it's weak. Workingman's Dead is FUCKIN' BADASS JAMROCK? You make me think you might be confused, Or are you just into talking trash?
Bobby looks so beautiful! Oh, and this is really great blues song, too.
As for all of the "Acid Rock" folks, I'm with 6749. They didn't need the labels: in 1970, 80 and 90 they were the best acoustic band on the planet, and they flirted with lots of other sounds, too.
I don't know who filmed this but it couldn't have been anyone from Pennebaker's crew. Aside from the fact that they refused to let those guys shoot during their set, the film is completely different. Pennebaker & co. shot in gorgeous 16mm (as you can see from all the other Monterey Pop footage). This is just muddy Super 8. Maybe friends of the band or something?
Y r people arguing about the GD? who cares what kind of music its called. Its just great mind blowing music that will never die. This is 1 of my favz too. well from the early days anyway.
the way i understand it was the media created the term hippy to define the concept.before they were known as hipsters.the so- called hippies burnt an effigy in golden gate park and declared it the death of the hippie, in 1967.they said from that day forth they would be known as freemen. that was later shorten to freaks.hence freak bros. comix.
@Zendishwasher1 Hippies were used in the 1950s about white kids coming around to black jazz clubs and trying to act hip, in fact over the top hip. So initially it was a sarcastic term, which later got into the media in the 1960s when they needed a label. The beatniks were the 1950s and somewhere the hippie term caught on and then that is the bus everyone jumped on to identify themselves once in the media. Original "hippies" did not use the term, it was media and advertising again.
You people need to understand somethng. This video was never supposed to happen. They were filmed on the sly. Probably the whole festival is sitting on Pennebakers shelf. The 4 song Moby Grape set also exists. Don't tell Matthew Katz! We will probably never see all of what is available. Listen My Friends, this is the great Rock and Roll swindle. Count your blessings you can click twice and see this. They are on fire here. Cherish it.
Gogoguyful 5 days ago
and I go crazy watching this knowing I met one of the amazing people in this band in this video!!
I love Billy!!! Such an awesome dude! And very nice in person.
jimmorrisonmylove 1 month ago
ahhh groooovin! this song is so beautiful
clerk he wrote ittttt
clerk he wroteee it down indeedeeeeeeee
jimmorrisonmylove 1 month ago
this is the best grateful dead period 1966 thru 1973 and basically the only stuff I like from the dead .Especially viola lee blues. Each version is different and Jerry plays an awesome gutar solo in a different style in every version . A sign of a true artist !I first heard them play in 1968 while in the 1st grade and was instantly hooked
furgore1 2 months ago
Okay, let me break it down for everybody.
The sound in this video SUCKS.
The video is actually not that bad.
But neither the Grateful Dead or whoever "owns" their legacy now (possibly some asshole company that rhymes with "wino") owns this particular footage or sound recording.
If this actually sounded decent (sonically) a coupla million folks would jack to it. I know how to fix it. Should I do it?
herbbirdsfoot 2 months ago
according to one book, the dead weren't in the movie since they didn't want to sign their financial rights (for european distribution etc) over to the producer, whom they felt was LA scum.
buddyiodine 2 months ago
There is nothing in this performance to support the idea that the Grateful Dead "blew all the big ones." Put this next to any of your favorite versions of Viola Lee.
Here's what it is, I think: the Dead -- and I say this as the most complete possible fan of the Dead -- just don't hit you as hard, or as fast, as the Who or Hendrix or anybody they felt outclassed by at Woodstock.
The Woodstock set is, on the other hand, not very good...
buddyiodine 2 months ago
Jerry was fantastic at blues guitar. Shame he didn't do a lot of it
Django5198 2 months ago
what can you say. this was the Dead and all they were really meant to be. they had it all back then and continued to have it all until Pigpen left us. When he left they should have looked for another Blues Rocker and not settled on a the jazz side of things it toned them down too much and they lost their rawness without Pigpen and the Blues. long live the Grateful Dead with Pigpen. saw many shows but never with him so i never really saw the Grateful Dead
bakesterfire 3 months ago
@bakesterfire I love the Dead regardless,,but,,,I have to agree. They were at their best until Pigpen died. He was the cat. All their stuff up until his death is their best,,,,except for ,,,before he died...a wee story here,,,he came over with photographer Bob Sideman,,,whoever,,,,,but Pig wanted to take some last pics with the band. They refused to see him. Actually refused. True story. He went back to his apartment and ,,,Sideman (?? whoever) took pics of Pig. He died shortly after. :( ♥
NoRosesForMe 2 months ago
@bakesterfire ...just pisses me off. He was at deaths door. Literally. Love em anyway. Jerry & Pigpen.♥ I'll always love em the most.
NoRosesForMe 2 months ago
can you believe they went on between the who and hendrix and they fucking killed it
underdogs you know that sort of thing fits so perfectly in with dead mythology I wouldn't have it any other way
PinkFloydrulez 3 months ago
Love the sick bit tone jer goes into after helluva solo going back into verse @1:38
sooo chunky
PinkFloydrulez 3 months ago
Pig, who never knowingly ate acid, seems to be a driving force here, where beat and melody seem to go wrong but oh so right.
Fugly58 3 months ago
The Dead always claimed they sucked at Monterey. They were WAY wrong. I have the Monterey DVD box set and the guy writing the liner notes has nothing but the highest praise for the band, unfortunately they're not on the DVD.
Darrylizer1 3 months ago
Hard for me to believe J.Garcia would be wearing a sweater in July. Must be the wrong date.
PHILLIPBENNETTful 4 months ago
@PHILLIPBENNETTful - ever been to Monterey in Summer? at night? They are properly dressed.
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@PHILLIPBENNETTful Um have you checked out what other acts were wearing that night? Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Mamas & Papas....they were all pretty much "heavily" dressed (no pun intended)
Billyjk72 3 months ago
Most wonderful!!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!
Gratefulgranddad 4 months ago
aw sheeyit. Is Phil playin a Fender Bass? Rare shot
brotherbuttcrack 4 months ago
lol. So shagadelic! And look at how high JG's got that guitar slung!
sparkomatic 4 months ago
Wow, thanks for uploading, fantastic despite the sound quality. Love the Gibson guitar.
jimsgreenberg 4 months ago
nice!!!! this tune hits home with most of us(tour 89 93) it moves me every time i hear it!!!!! thax 4 the vid
MrMatteo1224 5 months ago
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grayfox308 5 months ago
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! amazing footage I can't belive you found this. Best cover song they did the original was by Noah Lewis.............LONG LIVE THE DEAD
grayfox308 5 months ago
How did these guys not make it into the film???
Staszu13 5 months ago
@Staszu13
Its my understanding the Dead refused to release their performance thinking it was sub par.
Darrylizer1 3 months ago
@Staszu13 they where offered i think but they declined. Read the phil lesh book, it describes it in theer somewhere lol
arnoldpalmerfan 3 months ago
something must of spilt !
buzwall 6 months ago
No one seems to remember Monterey the same way. Clearly, the entire song was filmed despite Pennebaker's comments to the contrary. Weird!
bf8ca27 7 months ago
This video proves that Phil Lesh can't remember what happned at Monterey. Clearly, the Dead WERE filmed. It was Big Brother's manager who refused to have that band filmed. After their set was well-received, Janis Joplin persuaded John Phillips to allow the band to play again for the cameras despite their manager's objections.
Viola Lee Blues was not filmed in its entirety because the song went on for too long (this is according to D.A. Pennebaker, the film's director).
bf8ca27 7 months ago
Why would you come to see a Grateful Dead video, just to dislike one of their quintessential songs? If you don't like Viola Lee Blues, then you don't like the Grateful Dead!
robkelley420 7 months ago 11
@robkelley420 Long Live PigPen
wonderlin1 5 months ago 2
@robkelley420 Uh, maybe someone came hoping to see and hear the performance and were disappointed by the horrible sound quality? And this is from when the Grateful Dead actually mattered . . . (sorry, Deadheads, but the soul of that band died with Pigpen . . . )
EasyAce 2 months ago
@EasyAce I think something was lost with Pigpen-- but I don't think the soul was lost, it just changed.I will never forget the day I heard about it.Felt like the world ended
TheDanharper 1 week ago in playlist psychodelic
da ein gruß an quicksilver nicht möglich ist, reich ich ihn durch,wird wohl ankommehn,schöner wohner mit beton,glücklicher mit LSD
illwind2011 7 months ago
Kinda funny how this is the exact same lineup as the one from Feb 1971-Oct-1971 -man how much these guys grew as a band in only 4 years is incredible
rawkus1167 7 months ago
when you type in "some got six months" this vid comes up
...which is strange because it's in the lyrics but they're barely decipherable
busessuck1 7 months ago
f*ing raaaaaaw! gritty, nasty Grateful Dead. Epic!
jacksonBVFC 7 months ago 2
Gawd, were they fierce and tightly wound - Garcia showboats about 8:40 - great fucking clip!
TMGLost 8 months ago
60s dead = coolest band around, even if they were a bunch of punks.
PinkFloydrulez 8 months ago
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me and bobby mcgee in the promised land with an alligator won't fade away if we see samson and delilah in the morning dew singin' some u.s. blues for an estimated prophet who lives on shakedown street above the dark star that feels like a stranger on the golden road of terrapin station where there's help on the way so lang as you don't tie a slipknot over franklin's tower playin' blues for allah in the chapel of saint stephen for one more saturday night but caution i'm a friend of the devil
rosewaterrevolution 8 months ago
Their performance gets overlooked since they went on right after The Who lit it up and right before Hendrix did.....well we all know what Hendrix did at Monterey (~);}
somanyroads74 9 months ago
One of the biggest losses for Dead Heads of the 20th Century was the Dead's almost whole performance at Monterey not being captured on film, I know I would sure as hell kill to see the whole performance w/ good sound quality. Even this 10 minutes of footage is a rare gem, they weren't even supposed to be filmed at Monterey, they didn't sign the release that allowed the producers of Monterey to film them.
spacemeddle 9 months ago
@spacemeddle I'm actually reading Phil Lesh's book right now and he says that the band chose to not be filmed. The guys who got the MPF up and running wanted to film every act and sell it as a movie, but the Dead declined the offer to be filmed because they did not know where all the money would be ending up (aka a bunch of bum record execs profiting off the beauty of the event.)
allenm90 8 months ago 2
@allenm90 yah im reading searching for the sound as well.. just got living with the dead out of the closet too..
bbadphish 7 months ago
And it's a treat seeing Jerry perform without his signature beard and glasses. haha ;)
TheOneartist 9 months ago
Woah, didn't know this footage existed anymore! I was reading the booklet that came with the complete Monterey DVD set, and it said they ran out of tape before the Dead even finished their first song. Said they had around 10 minutes of footage, so it looks like this is it!
Even though it's not the whole performance, it's better than nothing and they should have included it on the DVD. They could have faded it out. The Grateful Dead were said to be one of the HUGE highlights of Monterey.
TheOneartist 9 months ago
@TheOneartist My mistake, looks like this is the whole song, but it's probably sped-up or partially cut, because the audio I found of this is 14 minutes, but it ends and starts the same. The director of Monterey Pop said the footage ran out before their first song ended, but it looks like that's not the case.
Really should have been on the DVD, unless the original was lost or something.
TheOneartist 9 months ago
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Jerry is literally a god
goatman666 9 months ago
Jerry is literally a god
goatman666 9 months ago
I like the funky Dead of 77 more than Disco Dead, featured here, but I still love this.
blewj 9 months ago
@blewj
You mean the porn groove era?
That was my least favorite sound from the Dead.
from '67 - '72 was the best in my opinion.
But hey, were both fans, so that's all that matters!
bradstorrs 8 months ago 3
@blewj this ain't disco dead yo. 77 was disco dead. this is early incantations of the country dead, which blossomed into jazzy dead, then alt/jazz dead, then disco dead, then, after many years of awesome music, finally became dead dead. long live all of the dead!!
GenMathis74 8 months ago
This clip IS your time machine
birdlives46 9 months ago
@birdlives46 true, its the closest ill get.
Deadjam5862 8 months ago
ahh, I need a time machine.
Deadjam5862 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing this film! Totaltrekker, the Dead actually performed this song in a film called "Petulia" in 1968-- a big production with George C. Scott and Julie Christie. They even did a little acting in a couple scenes!
bldali 9 months ago
Pigpen must have just recently swapped from using his Vox Organ,which is on the first LP,to using a Hammond Organ here! He seemingly had difficulty mastering it at first & John Cippolina's Mum gave him lessons.
67psych 10 months ago
20 people cannot handle....... the PHIL ZONE! ;-)
wolfkarel 10 months ago
how has no one mentioned phil? where's the love for the phil Zone?
I love you PHILLLLL!!!!!!!!
MrBalaw28 10 months ago 2
@MrDread423 yes but can you see it?
wooorangetang 10 months ago
To those who dislike if you were a true dead head you would love and appreciate anything they do.....
SAMSELESKY 10 months ago
no they played after the who then hendrix followed them it's in this documentary where jerry says this youtube.com/watch?v=cxcFzdgxt8o
SlavetotheMachine 10 months ago
How the fuck could you not see the absolute genius in this early recording even if the video quality is mediocre and even if you ate some brown acid. This is some of the best shit I'm so happy for coming across a video for this festival, I envy all who were there man.
zevi14 10 months ago
@zevi14 gotta admit though, it does sound like complete ass , as far as audio quality goes.
I cant listen to it, espescially considering u can get a far better copy of this show in trading circles and it be bearable.
MrDread423 10 months ago
I thought the Dead said they refused to be filmed?
totaltrekker 11 months ago
@totaltrekker everything was filmed but they refused to sign away the rights to use the footage of the dead in the moterey pop movie.
casualtySR 9 months ago
Jerry is my guru.
estimatedeyes 11 months ago
20 people ate the brown acid...
TheMuzikphreak 11 months ago 40
apparently they came right after hendrix played right?
willwelsh816 11 months ago
I can see Peter Tork at the last 4 seconds 9:31, as he gave a speech right after this song. Also, WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE?
ledZep342 11 months ago
@ledZep342 PLEASE TELL ME!
ledZep342 11 months ago
youtube is kinda like a dead vault..
rotolo 11 months ago
i am amazed that this has 305k views
i would literally kill a few people for this in slightly better quality
morvelification 11 months ago
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ledZep342 11 months ago
@morvelification dude why, it's better quality man! There would obviously be more views!
ledZep342 11 months ago
Damn, I wish they had agreed to have their performance professionally taped here. They thought it was selling out to tape. This is the best we'll ever see of the Dead at Monterrey Pop.
Umberto2 1 year ago
. . . learned the bass within the course of a single week(!), but he'd played jazz and classical trumpet before then, Pig was a stone bluesman. So -- yeah, their music contained elements of ALL of it.
And as for "psychedelic" -- Jerry once said that music is a "signpost to new space" -- an aural representation of endless possibilities. That's how a jazz musician might see improvization, and it's also how a user of psychedelics would desribe that experience.
So -- yes. All that and more!
jazzmanchgo 1 year ago
RE: "Labels"
Through the years, Jerry used a lot of different terms for the band and its music ("just a regular old shoot-'em-up barrom band," if I recall it correctly, was one of my favorites.
But think about it -- between all of 'em, just about every imaginable musical influence went into the mix. Jerry and Weir were old folkies, but Jerry also had a keen ear for jazz and classical; Kreutzman came in from a big-band jazz background, Mickey had been a martial drummer, Phil . . .
jazzmanchgo 1 year ago
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they were kids on the road to furthur -- keep rockin Phil & Friends :-)
recordcastle 1 year ago
they were kids on the road to furthur -- keep rockin Phil & Friends :-)
recordcastle 1 year ago
the grateful dead played their set at monterey in between The Who's set and Jimi Hendrix's set. What a tough gig slot that must have been...
grubbybean 1 year ago
@grubbybean im sure they were able to fulfil that spot, time machine monterey AHOYYYYYYYYYYYY
bbbicf 11 months ago
Pure music.
thegreenolivo 1 year ago
I love this lineup of the Dead- Pigpen was their keyboard player and nothing ever gelled like these jams with Pig on keys- its too bad theres not more footage like this, and with better sound too!
nukes27 1 year ago
Bob is too hot, that is some muzak people, that's goldust , man.
GodStarRevisited69 1 year ago
Truly one of a kind. I miss them every day.
PATOMMM 1 year ago
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holly sh*t!!!!
1eggcream 1 year ago
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1eggcream 1 year ago
There is no question.
TheStellablue72 1 year ago 11
"...I wrote a letter..mailed it indeed...mailed it indeed ...indeedy....i wrote a letter..i mailed it in the air....you may know by that I ....I gotta friend somewhere...."
♥P.M. ♥
R.I.P.
A friend indeed.
NoRosesForMe 1 year ago
This music is not even close to being jazz. They're just kinda rockin on a basic blues progression
Wartfacedfreak 1 year ago
Classic
Sh3rMaN420 1 year ago
I was not born until 1973. I sometimes wished it was 1943. I would have been old enough to go see all of this. But hey there were some good things about the 70's 80's 90's and 2000's that are good. It's a damn shame Jerry Garcia is no longer with us!
mchpm13 1 year ago
Crappy copy, but actually good for those days since generally rock films were badly done since the camera directors had no idea about the music. Being so used to dialogue they often just showed the performers face or from dumb angles like from behind or far off side or much on someone not leading or even something inanimate or the audience which is briefly O.K. yet not while something more interesting is ocurring, like an instrumental part. McKernan could play when not too druck! Augy San Diego
yguaray 1 year ago
ruthless jam
24pquiles 1 year ago
Wrote a letter....mailed it in the air....you may know by thattaaaaaa I got a friend somewhere.
threezerol944t 1 year ago
At last some footage of the grateful dead playing live before their country music stuff. I dont have footage of them playing Monteray festival 67 on my dvd because they apparently ran out of film from their long improvisations
villiparis 1 year ago
@villiparis They were never country. They were always a folk band, but never country. Southern rock is the shoe that fits more when describing the endles amount of styles they went through. They are THE jam band.
threezerol944t 1 year ago
Awesome>Thank you whoever posted this. Old Grateful Dead is the shit. Fucken awesome. 67" was it. I just wish this went on the film
jbuckster80 1 year ago
'67 Dead
Damn...
ledzeppelin1002 1 year ago
fucking amazing song
too bad its such shitty quality..
morvelification 1 year ago
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6749 's on the ego trip of not having an ego. songs awesome
ilovenotgloves 1 year ago
6749 's on the ego trip of not having ego. songs awesome
ilovenotgloves 1 year ago
god i wish this was in better quality, and also i wish it was on the original film......
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 1 year ago
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zx1357 1 year ago
Great to see this, the real Grateful Dead, in youthful wonder. Pig Pen on organ here, and he could play well. Jerry and Pig had a good vocal blend too . Jerry jumping around ,Bob and Phil singing backup, Bill the one, wonder drummer. Can you tell? I'm still a Dead head I reckon ? The first record was great......
Pastpickerpresent 1 year ago
man they tore that sound system UP!
derfsanderson 1 year ago
Classic Dead.
jefftobin11 1 year ago
thank god someone video taped this
jeffj257 1 year ago
This is just so beautiful to see. God, what a sexy Les Paul Custom he has!
Killinfloor 1 year ago
My friend Richard Raymond was working at Sands point Country Club in Long Island , his GF was a bartender in town where this big ole jukebox had the 13 min version from the record...on it....great volume....as soon as we hit the bar that song would go off for a good time by all.
Jimala3 1 year ago
The proof is in the pudding!
AaRoNdaPsYcHo 1 year ago
They can't sing and they're out of tune. About the best can be said is that Bill keeps the tempo fairly even.
Kramnosnits 1 year ago
@Kramnosnits at least they dont troll youtube
OMFGRAZORGATOR 1 year ago
jerry gar-sweater.
titicaca321 1 year ago
So was their whole set filmed? (assuming this is actually from the pop festival) I know they refused to be in the film but I'd love to see more of their performance.
stuco 1 year ago
God I love Bill Kreutzmann. Tell me that man isn't one of the most underrated drummers in rock history? Got such a great feel for the groove. I love me some primal Dead but man is this stuff intense. Even in Blair Jackson's book there's a interview about their older crazier psychedlic phase where Jerry says "You can only take so much of that stuff",
rawkus1167 1 year ago
i guess this song teaches us that we all gotta write a letter and mail it in the air at some point in our lives and we cant prevent it from happening.
Squadillah 1 year ago
As a side note , Jerry is playing john cippolinna/Quicksilvers black custom les paul in this classic performance ...the day the world caught a small glimpse of what heaven is like!
deltabluz 1 year ago
How is it humanly possible that 19 people have pushed the dislike button? They should all be hanged, and shot simultaneously.
thetinkerer 1 year ago
Man, this is MUSIC!! I love Jerry's guitar solo and playing in general as well as Ron's keyboards. This song has a nice bluesy sound to it - Just love it.
blackhawk10972 1 year ago
rasowe acidheady keseya
zolwikPawel 1 year ago
the best electric band ever, period. i didn't say perfect, just the best.
mapingthefreakout 1 year ago
I don't think I've ever seen Phil play a Fender.
olesne 1 year ago
@olesne he borrowed it. His got stolen day before fest.
obrother21 1 year ago
@olesne I've never seen Garcia play a Les Paul...
mbgphoto79 1 year ago
All music is psychedelic, think about that one...
SuperDeadheadFred 1 year ago
@SuperDeadheadFred I think you're right.
Bigpolak57 1 year ago
This is easily one of the best Grateful Dead recordings ever.
thetinkerer 1 year ago
it's weird to see jerry with a black beauty/les paul custom
heusker 1 year ago
yeah man w.e it is i love it and im going to brkyln june 26 so ill prob see you there ///// still shocked u dont agree with me in some way
jbdfc 1 year ago
This was a band that truly evolved from great to greatest, the great improv bands of all time
jgray110 1 year ago
@jgray110 going back to my coment you just said it the best improv band not acid rock and back to 6749er i so feel you on there there higher deeper music but what that kid was saying i was trying to explain to him no hate at all
jbdfc 1 year ago
i can't recognize jerry wtf
drunkenscumbag 1 year ago
Has to be my fav song. Don't care about the quality. So good to see video. AHhhhhhh
Thanks again heaven on earth!
sas24ful 1 year ago
wow that was incredible, im speachless
gofasterthanit 1 year ago
You all heard the man! KILL KILL KILL!!!
gratefullistener420 1 year ago
kill kill kill for peace. lph good bye.
bz4youandyou 1 year ago
I seriously doubt that brinkmcd is Bob Weir, i mean come on, arguing on youtube about WHAT TYPE OF MUSICAL GENRE the Dead fit under? How bout this one guys..... FUCKIN' BADASS JAMROCK if u get confused just STFU and listen 2 the music play
gratefullistener420 1 year ago
fucking rite buddeh!
Cam6769 1 year ago
yeah, lol especially cuz he's 20.....
prophetdude2 1 year ago
@gratefullistener420 I think it's weak. Workingman's Dead is FUCKIN' BADASS JAMROCK? You make me think you might be confused, Or are you just into talking trash?
nickgui 1 year ago
@gratefullistener420 HELL YES WELL SAID
kegwizard 1 year ago
i was at this show but dont remembermuch of it , too stoned out on LSD , not EPT like jack black takes
GodfreRayKing 1 year ago
Bobby looks so beautiful! Oh, and this is really great blues song, too.
As for all of the "Acid Rock" folks, I'm with 6749. They didn't need the labels: in 1970, 80 and 90 they were the best acoustic band on the planet, and they flirted with lots of other sounds, too.
jfulbright 1 year ago 3
ohhh myyy amazin
SativaBeliver 1 year ago
Live Video from 67, this is classic, thank alot!! They are still the best!
avi15891 1 year ago
ahaha jerry cant be much older than i a right now in this video, that's very very sic
free6your7mind0 1 year ago
I don't know who filmed this but it couldn't have been anyone from Pennebaker's crew. Aside from the fact that they refused to let those guys shoot during their set, the film is completely different. Pennebaker & co. shot in gorgeous 16mm (as you can see from all the other Monterey Pop footage). This is just muddy Super 8. Maybe friends of the band or something?
deyoungparker 1 year ago
Y r people arguing about the GD? who cares what kind of music its called. Its just great mind blowing music that will never die. This is 1 of my favz too. well from the early days anyway.
DRKSTR86 2 years ago
Probably my favorite Dead song!!
A friend of mine has a lot of Warlocks music. Classic stuff!!!
Pinkiecharlie 2 years ago
@Pinkiecharlie: You are aware that The grateful Dead changed their name from The Warlocks because another band had already taken the name.
WhatFuckingUsernameI 1 year ago
FILTHY BRIT
Kramnosnits 1 year ago
@Kramnosnits: How did you guess?
WhatFuckingUsernameI 1 year ago
they came a long way.............great band
donveill 2 years ago
OMG
juliyjacke 2 years ago
Bob Weir looks like Jim Carrey. Or Dick York.
Bopalena 2 years ago
I didn't go to this concert. I sure do regret it. My girl friend and some other friends did.....
IExposeMormonism 2 years ago
@IExposeMormonism ...... :(
Superfreak69ing 2 years ago
he was probably blazing on acid
itsallwright 2 years ago
someone should really sync this up with the cleaner soundboard recordings out there...there has to be a way...
rockyracoon667 2 years ago 9
@rockyracoon667 I consider we're lucky that they had cameras rolling and kept the film of this performance.
skovie23232 1 year ago
billy looks like hes struggling so hard to play
rockyracoon667 2 years ago
that ritalin sound of early dead - mighty
longlivejerryg 2 years ago
Thank you YOUTUBE for letting us see Pigpen and the old dead
lovellt285 2 years ago 3
i like that les paul
airnsmke 2 years ago
wheelman is the shizza
meatazzsandwich 2 years ago
WTF QUALITY ,?
hamamaamiia 2 years ago 3
it was recorded in 67....?
elkbeard 2 years ago
awesome live !
hamamaamiia 2 years ago
So wish there was more of this show...DAMN Love the way Mr Lesh could sing back then
twingats16 2 years ago
so legit
skaterocknroll 2 years ago 3
so true to music
skatespom 2 years ago
the way i understand it was the media created the term hippy to define the concept.before they were known as hipsters.the so- called hippies burnt an effigy in golden gate park and declared it the death of the hippie, in 1967.they said from that day forth they would be known as freemen. that was later shorten to freaks.hence freak bros. comix.
Zendishwasher1 2 years ago 4
@Zendishwasher1 Bless you for trying, but that is some of the most mangled "history" I've ever read. :-)
beachdog67 1 year ago
@Zendishwasher1 Hippies were used in the 1950s about white kids coming around to black jazz clubs and trying to act hip, in fact over the top hip. So initially it was a sarcastic term, which later got into the media in the 1960s when they needed a label. The beatniks were the 1950s and somewhere the hippie term caught on and then that is the bus everyone jumped on to identify themselves once in the media. Original "hippies" did not use the term, it was media and advertising again.
bjcpc0337 1 year ago