Grateful Dead - Dire Wolf - Deep Elem Blues (1981-05-07)

[commonground1975]

is he saying don't murder me?

[rpooch88]

WHere's my finger? this shit is getting philthy

[rpooch88]

where is my finger? that shit is getting filthy

[tightpants2]

4:58 "what is that? oh fuck im high"

5:02 "haha nevermind"

[BluesHonkey]

i wish they'd toured more on acoustics. Would be a blessing to have those tapes.

[thebunnyudontknow]

i became inspired - my hippie ass!!!!!!!!!

[Mcgolfin187]

what song opens this segment, from 0:00 to about 0:15?

[asshat72]

@Mcgolfin187 "I Need a Miracle" is the name of the song!

[21susan59]

I sang my babies to sleep with Dire Wolf and Ripple. Now my Grandbaby will fall asleep to GD tunes. And the circle of life goes on.......

[Ksimp9]

I love this song

[brotherbuttcrack]

What a bouncy deep elem. Never heard it like this b'fo. Thumbs up!

[gbmike99]

cut my deck to the queen of spades,

but the cards were all the same.

best band ever

[hoya2001]

Don't murder me!

[custymaster]

great how they introduce it as deep elem blues and then proceed to open with dire wolf, lol nice!

[slimticket]

I went down to Deep Elem , now my preachin' days are through.

[LowRoller420]

good shit

but i still don't care much for mr. weir

[LowRoller420]

good shit



[FredThaHead]

Now I love me some Dead, more specifically I like Jerry teamed up with David Grisman whether it be Old & In The Way...or the Pizza Tapes with Tony Rice. But it is true there are many "more technically advanced pickers" than Garcia, such as Tony Rice himself...but few can capture people's spirit in the way Jerry Garcia did. And that is a talent all in itself. It's not a matter of how many notes somebody can rip out, it's about connecting with people. Most "guitar wizards" are never known.

[FredThaHead]

P.S. BTW, I don't have a lead bone in my body, but Jerry did slightly fub-up the lead break on Dire Wolf with this performance. But I don't care...it still a great tune. And I'll spend the next three days just trying to work out a solid rythym for it.

[StoneFredFlint]

Absolutely. It's called "soul."

[heylelshalem]

as a country hippie...whatever the fuck that means...i enjoy the greatful dead..they didnt just play country..they covered a wide swath of musical styles. still though whoever posted that slight against "hillbillys" doesnt deserve to listen to good music like this. because this is the roots of american music laid out by a band who love all kinds of american music.

[Shotgunnova]

Great set. Reckoning is one of my fave GD records, actually -- gotta love acoustics. <3

[FishLocal]

If the wolf came in I would grab a deck of cards too :) :) :)

[skydiva1973]

Love ya and miss ya Jerry.... and you too, Tom Snyder!!

[odinmchaggis]

Thanks for posting. Greatness of the dead. Deep Ellum Dallas Texas is the inspiration.

[gamesayer]

@xvoy2002 You contain so much musical knowledge that you decide to hang around this thread and harp on twangy guitars and country story-telling- the roots of American music including blues, ragtime, jazz, and gospel- yet you reference not one single example of your geniuses. The Grateful Dead listened to and were influenced by pop, rock, jazz, bluegrass, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and on down the line. Mickey Hart is a celebrated Musicologist and Phil Lesh studied under the same teacher as Reich.

[jcurt76]

At their best!

[highjinxwillie62]

who wrote deep ellum blues

[Cabinator]

The greatest band in the history of the f*kn UNIVERSE - 

[xvoy2002]

Interesting how someone can wear the same glasses since geting them at 14 years of age! This is like a horrifying version of some local garage band led by uncled ed and his beer drinking buddies!

[blightlv]

@xvoy2002 Hey dip shit if the ban is so bad why do you keep going around posting this same shit on every video? Go watch one of your hipsters play songs they don't know shit about.. Nothing worse then a butch of fucking new york yuppies trying to play bluegrass..

[aoxomoxoa88]

@xvoy2002 No one hears through glasses. You need to get some ears, that way, when you start losing your sight, your glasses wont slip off your head.

[kindguy420]

@xvoy2002 its obvious that you dont get the love, and cant feel the vibe that was created by the dead. i'm not mad at you, i just feel sorry for you.

[xvoy2002]

@kindguy420 Actually, they were JUST a band, and not a very good one at that. Pop bands do not change anything, or create anything lasting. People who are inspired by pop bands generally do not have much going for them. Have you ever looked at the crowd at a rock concert? Not exactly the cream of society.

[kindguy420]

@xvoy2002 i would love to see things from your point of view but i dont think i can get my head that far up my a55. good day sir.

[mse1576]

@xvoy2002 You don't get it and you never will.

[xvoy2002]

@mse1576 You're right, i don't get it, and i never will.

A garage band is a garage band. You guys ever hear of really great musical geniuses? oh,, guess not, you like garage bands. You won't 'get' the great ones, and you never will. You are of the sneaker , t-shirt wearing crowd who thinks beer is a good drink, and twangy guitar is good music. Culture has passed you by. sorry.

[cjrebouche]

@xvoy2002 haha you're just too classy for us lowly deadheads xvoy. now go away and stop ragging on the music we love - we don't belittle what you listen to.

[BlueRednGrey]

@xvoy2002 Go clean the shit out of your ears. What you're hearing is real music. With a heart and soul. I don't know whatever the hell you're listening to, but when you belittle my music, there's hell to pay. I bet you listen to that new bubble-gummy shit. And I say bubblegum because the music nowadays is like bubblegum: you eat it and it's alright at first, then it loses its flavor and you can't get rid of it. This music is some of the best you can get, if your ear isn't trained against it.

[xvoy2002]

@BlueRednGrey Are you SERIOUS!!?? What beer drinking,, wife beater wearing, trailer living, redneck, low calibre, ball cap wearing, labourer job, pickup driving, dirt road, mullet wearing, high school dropout , level of person are you.??? I'm talking about REAL MUSIC by talented musicians. Not this low level guitar pickin' , grinning hillbillies! But you wouldn't understand that.

[BlueRednGrey]

@xvoy2002 If you must know what type of "beer drinking,, wife beater wearing, trailer living, redneck, low calibre, ball cap wearing, labourer job, pickup driving, dirt road, mullet wearing, high school dropout , level of person" I am, I'd be glad to tell you. The thing is, I'm none of the above. In fact, I happened to be a person of superior intelligence, living in a nice house in the suburbs, I wear no ball cap nor do I wear a mullet, I graduated near the top of my level from a private,

[BlueRednGrey]

@xvoy2002 Catholic high school, I work for my uncle, as a butcher's apprentice, and if you don't mind, I'd like it if you'd stop making baseless assumptions about people you've never met before. I enjoy music with soul. From talented musicians. Both of which I have found in this band. Good day, sir.

[robyankovich1]

@xvoy2002 They actually weren't hillbillies, man. And, if you think Jerry or Bob are "low level guitar pickin", then why are you watching the video?

[heylelshalem]

@xvoy2002 as a country hippie...whatever the fuck that means...i enjoy the greatful dead..they didnt just play country..they covered a wide swath of musical styles. still though whoever posted that slight against "hillbillys" doesnt deserve to listen to good music like this. because this is the roots of american music laid out by a band who love all kinds of american music.

[BiPolarBears1]

sweet

[aBIGdeadHEAD]

lol i swear every video phil lesh is always grinning ....the love

[Sunflower0122Z]

((((Happy Jerry)))))

[iamearthbornami]

so nice~unique and beautiful

[4hockey2is0cool]

at 2:42 that is just jerry at his best amazing camera work

[24pquiles]

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[Thetruetoast]

I was born too late!

Ah well, I've been exposed to the Dead since I was a child, which isn't a bad thing at all. (yay hippie parents) haha.

[joetaska]

Yes I agree it is a very good Deop Elem blues here!!

[greenthumbguy1]

I can't remeber what year it was, but I saw the GD with Little Feat with my mom and dad. Changed my life...

[taylorfish25]

I also saw the Dead and Little Feat when i was a small child with my parents....Love those guys

[jacxx2222]

Cow is giving kerosene, kid can't read at seventeen

The words he knows are all obscene, but it's all right

I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

[Lennonism123]

The reason jerry smiled so much, was his songs were so good you cant help but to smile while singing/listening to em'.

[vectortemple]

Agreed!

[bishoan]

@Lennonism123  that and LSD

[ajperez123]

the dead werent doing lsd in the 80s

[303boards2324]

@Lennonism123 it was that and the massive amounts of heroin

[skydiva1973]

@303boards2324 You obviously haven't had very thorough drug education. Heroin isn't that kind of drug. Get your shit straight! I am constantly amazed by the amount of people on youtube who have no life and sit on youtube looking at videos that don't even interest them in the hopes that they'll find something that they can rip apart with their uneducated bullshit that is based on nothing more than empty, ignorant opinion. Jerry rocked, drugs or no drugs and you suck drugs or no drugs. Blech.....

[303boards2324]

@skydiva1973 i was joking, chill man

[hnh4]

@Lennonism123 I can't help smiling when I see him smiling:D

[FreepWonk]

@Lennonism123 Yes, that and a steady supply of the finest Mendicino and Humbolt counties' vegetative matter.

[DamonBoykiw]

amen, gondor, my man...my nigga right on. fuck i love the grateful dead. most essential, most elemental band ever. they have existed since before the dawn of time. jerry and phil and the boys just were an incarnation of something eternal

[vectortemple]

Agreed!

[TheMattyz]

god...these guys still make me laff...in a good/great way

[souljahNbabylon]

oh I see em now

[loompa2000]

Nice Deep Elem

[bobshenix]

I love Jerry... anyone notice he can't help himself some having this huge smile at least half of the time. What a jolly guy!!

[sstyblo]

prolly the herion.

[gondor420]

country hippies sure beat inner-city yuppie hippies

[dusblues2]

But Reds are Reds.

[clayhillin]

@gondor420 word

[jbdfc]

@gondor420 idk about this

[ZadTheShotgun]

Rothbury was so awesome.

[pinkfloyd42819]

yes it was

[jazzbobobo]

i know this might shock everyone, but i heard jerry garcia did drugs.

[rambleonrose93]

no wayyyyyy

i totally thought he was a straight edge pioneer

[icenine2]

So did I.

[TheLittleJohnny]

Love the Dead! 

I have one question though, am I the only one who believes Tom Snyder was a heavy doper...

[heyjunky]

admit it or not Donna was awfully out of tune and just plain unnecessary a lot of the time. when she was on she was great but from what ive heard she makes me mad. i wasnt there sure, but i listen to shows a lot and i'll be jammin out and she'll just fucking wail and throw me off. ridiculous. i hate to say it but i wish i could tune her out somehow

[gnarrwhale]

DUDE we all think that, its just that I dont think youre supposed to say that out loud...

[heyjunky]

some people love her ;)

she was great in early JGB!!!

[gnarrwhale]

true...

[rambleonrose93]

dude i agree, but shes great on some stuff.

and to the guy who said we arent supposed to say it, ive seen bumper stickers that say "why donna" on them haha

[scottchristopherband]

The best years of The Dead were the Brett Mydland years...His voice is the perfect ingredient to their vocal harmony!!!

[jimbobby33]

I agree brett myland completed the dead!

[heyjunky]

absolutely. The Jerry/Brent synergy stuff was their highest point as the Dead, in my opinion

[yippierb]

Brent was great on the 88's and the B3, His falsetto vocals were an acquired taste. But let's get serious the Dead was a monster from 65-74. Despite the fact that K and D were there they still sucked and dragged the band down. On his worst night Pig made em work....

[Derubis420]

this band is the epitome of a band how great this is

[caseyjones67]

sounds just like ti does on workin man

[MusicIan423]

To continue the donna debate: I noticed her out of tune during otherwise worthy of album placement songs, this has pushed me away from her

[heyjunky]

Donna was excellent in early JGB 76-78. she had SOME fine moments with the Dead. and her newest band the Tricksters are pretty sweets

[jjquentin]

This is great!!!!I'm Lov'in it!!!!Thanks!!!!

[waynesworld517]

sorry donna fans i never could stand her voice

[schrumpfl]

why would anyone wanna murder jerry besides.........well you know

[BigHornCanyon]

these Tomorrow Show sets are acoustic !

wow very special

thanks

[golod]

This has quickly become one of my favorite videos of the Dead. These two songs are incredible.

[johnny576375]

Makes me smile when Jerry raises his eyebrows at 3:36 :)

[legunncat]

Love the acoustic era. Really the crown for the 70's era for me.

[groutdave]

Phil reminds me of Beaker on the Muppet Show.

[ryanpalko]

Buwahaha... totally! Phil rocks my socks!

[aoxomoxoa88]

Reckoning, I remember luxuriating in the warm resonance of this album, tripping. I still love it but can't do the acid anymore!

[tennesseejed69]

ditto to all....Laying out in the quad back in college.

[EchoCannon89]

whenever I go to Deep Elem I put my money in my shoes, whenever I don't I get robbed

[npspec34]

This was a big deal when it happened - at least in my circles.

Remember Keith and Donna had just left the band the year before and 1980 was the year when the dynamic change took force and the Dead got back to being the all guy tripped out rock band that they always had been. They really got it together in the fall of 80 and by may 81 well -

here you have it.

This might be the tightest period they ever had.

love takes many forms.

[AS02474]

I think that Donna leaving was the best thing that ever happened to the Dead. I know a lot of people out there loved her, but I thought that her voice detracted from the sound.

[legunncat]

Donna had her moments, but I have to admit that Brent was the perfect replacement for the Godchaux's.

[stuartashworth]

Of course. That's why boys build club houses and post NO GIRLS ALLOWED outside.

[tennesseejed69]

I respect all dead-head opinions, but a woman's voice adds so much. They even missed it as demonstrated each time any of the boys did solo gigs, they always brought the female vocals

[TheBurgonian330]

Agreed...the female vocals (Donna) on recordings and shows always added a little more wholeness to the sound. Its particularly beautiful when she's there for the vocal harmonies, especially on slower stuff , a great example being brokedown palace. obviously there are tunes that are better without, but in certain situations its magical. just my .02c.

[angus105]

jerrys smile is heartwarming and his songs pure, its so sad he had to go.

[ewesuque]

There will never be another like Him, RIP Jerry, If there's a Heaven you're the first person I want to meet ! ! ! ! !

[kmonaco75]

Man we miss Jerry!

Better Chemistry

[foxinn]

One of the best Elem's I've heard. Like it much better in the acoustic set-up than concert electric. Dire Wolf was good too, though I prefer those with more pickin than the short bit we got to see. Incidentally, Tom Snyder is my co-favorite interviewer along with Charlie Rose. 70s and 80s were a magical time, before technology got out of hand.

[krazybeef101]

One of, if not, the greatest of all the Dead melodies

[ChynaRider]

DW is a deceptive song, sounds pretty simple to sing but there's these furtive little chordy bits Garcia stuck in there that are such a charming bit of craft. Genius in simple rendition.

Always loved this song. IMO, the song writing from this period was the best and most enduring.

BTW, thanks for posting this video. LOVED this.

[twingats16]

GLEET!!!

[SummerCamp1]

siiiicccckkkkkkk....whoooooooo­ooooooooo

cuz ya know prretty ladies

daddy's got them deep elem blues

doo do doo ddododoododo ddoo ddooo

Peace & Love

[mattyz40]

my o my these boys are laffin bout sumtin....o yeah...they happy

[bluenote335]

In all probability, they burned several large ones right before playing on Snyder's nat tv show - while managing to pull off a super sweet, tight set. That's enough to make any man smile :D

[rainbowpagun]

ty twice again

[icculustheprophet]

Long live the omnipotent grateful dead!

Keep the tunes alive!

[NortonYorksterdam]

Dire Wolf is an amazing song long live Jerry

[davidaron]

ty... once again!