Grateful Dead Rehearse "Whiskey in the Jar"

[00richardoo]

@epicsstacko when did they play the Tower in Philly? NEVER just like this song never played live. you never saw the Grateful Dead anywhere!

[ChubblesTzakos]

And men don't need to grow beards. It has to preserve the good things from the 60s, and ditch the irrelevant ones. Psychedelic self-exploration with LSD and DMT, transcendentally beautiful art like the Dead, intelligence, ecological responsibility, and a new anti-materialist worldview = transcendence

[caerphillykid]

Is that Irish, I think I heard someone say. Damn right it's Irish. Though Jerry's holding back here. God Bless the Dead.

[65jackstraw95]

There's no way he could remember that song?!!! Are you fucking crazy? thats fucking Jerry Garcia,not some rookie, If he says He Just remembered it, he just remembered it. and he's playing with a bunch of Musicians who have been playing together for 25+ years. If they can't play a Traditional song, there is something wrong!! and from what I Know about the dead, they can improvise,

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Love it.

George Vreeland Hill

[zombifiedpenguin]

This is from "The Pizza Tapes" Jerry, David Grisman, and Tony Rice in Jerry's basement. How it got circulated was, they ordered pizza and when they delivered it they didn't have enough money for the tip so they gave the guy the tape. Then it was out! It's a great album if you have the time to listen I recommend it

[danielmagan]

@zombifiedpenguin -- No, it's not.

[phishinvan]

@danielmagan He's right. It's from the last disc of "So Many Roads". I am a bold deceiver....

[buddyiodine]

This is one of my favorite tunes the Dead ever recorded. It's beautiful how they just fall in and do what they do, no rehearsal..

Nevertheless Garcia is a jerk when he responds to Weir; clearly no longer the lion in 1993 that he was in the 70's and there's no way he could remembered the song ("whole song, words and all") if David Grisman hadn't reminded him a week before. Poignant. That's not my insight, that's David McNally's, but see the evidence in the Grisman version.

I miss them.

[DChico91]

i love the song but the third picture is kinda creepy

[VulturesAwait]

"I havent heard that song in 30 years" ......Jerry-"I havent either" .......(as he plays it word for word note for note).......What a genius.

[shermski77]

hahah jerry makes me giggle thanks for sharing i loved this, makes my night! all night let their be whiskey in the jar

[CrizzleSnaps]

such acid wrought mavericks.

[epicstacko]

"I just remembered it" hahaha

they popped this out on st pattys in philly the night before they played the first of 5 nights at the tower (which i attended and was fantastic).

never gets old, always makes me smile

[danielmagan]

@epicstacko Never played before an audience.

[julianlweisser]

"That's Irish?"

"I hope so!"

[jjejeep]

 Jerry's still alive

[classicrockNo1]

i kind of like all three. metallica is when you're at a frat party. garcia's is when you're relaxing on your back porch. lizzy's is when you're in an all irish bar.

[LinedanceOpiAndy]

i like it

[JimmyPage97]

haha I love phil lesh

[paschal421]

at my bigbluevoice because i have trouble with computers and may soon destroy reply why the f doesn't reply work? anyway love your ears one of jerry at his best check out dave rawlins/gillian todd snider hayes carll shooter jennings but jerry is the man and miss him hey you got good ears

[jrogers71]

Thanks Daniel!

[mybigbluevoice]

@myself bigbluevoice *David Grisman

[mybigbluevoice]

OMG I Love you Jerry!! listening to him sing this song is the ultimate to a Dead Head Irish girl...especially when we hear him talking about it RIP ---I want to be there in the studio to do the 1-2-3-4 claps between choruses xoxo and ps the Garcia- David Grisham version is timeless art THANK YOU to whoever posted this, you made my night!!

[paschal421]

@mybigbluevoice one of his best and my fav version the man playing off the cuff i really don't think it gets better keep your good ears check todd snider hayes carrl wanda jackson shooter jennings all my best

[paschal421]

@mybigbluevoice

one of his best

love your ears

[paschal421]

@mybigbluevoice 

[tschuba35]

Thin Lizzy's version was sort of like this, a bit of a laugh. They didn't even want it released because they were trying to promote their original songs. That didn't stop them from constantly calling the radio station to request the song once it was released!

[hydfawr]

check out  The Dubliners for something a bit more real!!!!!

[casualtySR]

@hydfawr doesn't get any more real than the Dead sry..

[phishinvan]

But the devil's in the women, and they never can be easy....

[cskittle615]

acid

[65jackstraw95]

Grateful dead, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, I love all of those bands. The dead version is best in my opinion, but, the other versions are great too!!!! 1st version I heard was Metallica's. love Metallica, Thin Lizzy Is awsome,but, I have to give credit were credit is due!! The grateful dead!!!!! 

[HapSki34]

BEST version of "Whiskey In The Jar"

[robbieshell]

Well,

I gotta say,..... this was part of my favourites, that I haven't referenced in quite some time. . . . . . But hearing it again, it is simply remarkable. "The 'Bold Deceiver' song",... nuff said.

[borntrippin]

Jerry at his best!!

[gratefuldank]

at 1:09 look at the picture it looks like bobby laughin at the lyrics

really u just remembered it the words and all

good stuff

[rupertdaniels55]

my friend played me this song on a tape he had about ten years ago and i could never find it again. thanks for posting it

[Zendishwasher1]

one of my all time fav dead tracks, nuff said.

[bojanks15]

@Zendishwasher1 its not the dead just jerry

[wmereslag]

for the daddy OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[bdhact1]

The traditional name of this song is actually "Gilgarra Mountain".

[gtz1975]

LOL Looks like Bill Kreutzmann! 3:44

[gtz1975]

TOO BAD Bruce Hornsby wasn't in the picture...  1:40

[gtz1975]

better than Metallica's verson

[BristolPalinsBabyDad]

@gtz1975

Disagreed

[krispysmurf]

Beautiful. The Maestro does work.

[aerlingus32]

The irish yanks would have loved this at roseavelt stadium in jersey in 69

[fluic]

my goodness what a beautiful song, thank you so much for posting this!

[tommytheboy14]

Classic Garcia......

[derfsanderson]

great cartoon haha

[flutebh1]

This recording was not a soundcheck...it was a rehearsal. They did, however, soundcheck it in '93. P&F perfromed it in the summer of '99

[SVTDEMON420]

Yes this did make it to concert.LMAO This also isn't from a studio,it is a rehearsel from Club Front 2\16\93.From the so many roads boxed set.

[danielmagan]

Okay, "LMAO"....1)  what concert did it make it to? send link from deadbase 2) If this is from a rehearsal at club front, and club front's not a studio, what was it? A disco where they played?

[SVTDEMON420]

FYI. Club Front was/is the Grateful Dead's own studio (I know Phil & Bob still use it & I would assume so do the others). Located in San Rafael, CA. Still it was played live in concert during the arrangement of Liberty.

[danielmagan]

Yes, I knew that about the studio. It was a rhetorical question. So if WITJ was played live in concert during the arrangement of Liberty, on what dates? I can save you a little bit of time here because it didn't happen. Gdead never played this live in a concert that you can cite/prove/document. Also, thanks for pointing out to the rest of us that it came from the So Many Roads boxed set...that's kinda why I put that in the info box of the post.

[epicstacko]

@danielmagan i was talking about 2 weeks ago phil and the boys played it on st pattys. didnt mean to cause an argument. yikes.

[bellablue108]

@SVTDEMON420 Great tune, never played live...only here with the boys, also played with Grisman on Shady Grove (never live w/Grisman either)....this is from the studio. Obviously not a "rehearsal"....cause no one knows the song, just Jerry fooling around...."I just remembered it". it'd have been fun to hear, not really GD style, maybe with Grisman at the warfield, but it never happened. I was there.

[SVTDEMON420]

@bellablue108 @bellablue108 #18. 5/7 Denver, COWhiskey in the Jar 18

[bellablue108]

@SVTDEMON420 The Grateful Dead never played Whiskey in the Jar live.....the 5/7 show isn't a GD show....leftover dead.

[pbl1]

funny seeing Deadheads argue..."well, that's just like your opinion, man". Lebowski would be proud.  - the Dead abides.

[MrGrevy]

@SVTDEMON420 No, retard, it was never played in concert. Why are you a retard?

[danielmagan]

No it wasn't.

[taste4phree]

This was a soundcheck

[beadingnutritionist]

Would have been so sweet live!

[gegolay66]

it was

[beadingnutritionist]

In your dreams?(:

[timsamuels1971]

It whoud have been cool to hear this on tour!! :)

[keystonelite311]

...Dead playing it seamlessly

Phil: What IS the name of that?

Jer: Whiskey in the jar its called.

Bob: Yeah, I haven't heard that one in 30 years!

Jer: Yeah, I haven't either....I just remembered it.

Phil: Haha..the whole song...words and all?

ALL: Wack-Fol the Daddy-O. Hahahahaha

Of course he did...it's Jerry Fucking Garcia...absolutely priceless - a pitty they never played this in concert. It's a great song

[DearHenryMusic]

beautiful song

[nickgui]

Jerry's Mom's family was old SF gold rush Irish. Great tune.

[Zooomabooma]

Fuckin-A, man, lookin for a video and I get a still picture? Isn't this a video site?

[danielmagan]

Feel free to contribute one yourself, Mr. Potty Mouth.

[ascheylus]

wow.. jerry singing just brings chills, goose pimples and tears.. fare thee well friend..

[dopeywonder]

yeah jerrys voice is perfect here- also the version with gris is awesome- da da da da da - ha

[JackStraw65]

This is so sweet to hear the Jerry treatment. Gotta give props to Thin Lizzy though, a great fn band (RIP Phil Lynott) and without whom many of us wouldn't have ever heard this tune to begin with.

[NapoleonLenker]

first version i ever heard was grateful dead and in comparison it made the thin lizzy and metallica versions seem disgraceful.

[LarssaLarsson]

if you want to hear a good verisn of it listen to Thin Lizzy´s insted

[rambleonrose93]

or the garcia grisman version

[KristopherApa]

Thin Lizzy and Metallica ruin Whiskey In The Jar

[irishnightrider]

@KristopherApa

Whiskey in the jar = Traditional Irish song

Thin Lizzy = Irish.

[Lizardmanification]

@KristopherApa Thin Lizzy made that song you deaf pleb !!

[BrokedDownPalace]

@KristopherApa Dude, I love the Dead as much as anyone, but there is no way that Thin Lizzy ruin whiskey in the jar. Metallica, yes, they butchered it. Thin Lizzy may be a different type of music not to your taste, but their version is phenomenal. I like both the Dead and Thin Lizzy equally, however, I think whiskey in the jar is Thin Lizzys best song...

[beadingnutritionist]

Not exaggerating at all about the 30 years!

[smartalek1]

danielmagan, thanks for this -- but you cut off the end a couple seconds early. The track on SMR (where it's the last track on the last disc) ends w/Jerry saying something eerily prophetic...

14 years, and I'm still missing him every day, but especially when the days are getting summer-long. Hope he's happy somewhere, jamming with Jimi, Janis, et al

[rythymd3vil]

"is that irish"

"i hope so"

great video, thanks for uploading

[wolvie007]

Courting women in the morning so early

[JohhnyMost]

Happy St Paddys Day Jerry. Jerry and the Clancy Brothers would have been cool.

[michaelvanuumgungadi]

great video I love the comics. 66-95 are blank cause i was on tour. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[paulbyrne132]

Yeah thats him.

I must look out for it.

I saw a documentry about the two of them doing their music and maybe they were doing the album aswell. Im not sure.

[Bfresh99]

"Grateful Dawg" is the documentary you speak of.

[paulbyrne132]

This is a quality version.

He says he hasn't heard the song in 30 years, and you can tell by the sheer amount of mistaken lyrics.

But he does it really well. Loose and trippy. Just as we'd expect from the Grateful Dead.

I also loved Jerry doing all that blue-grass music he did with this mandalin player.

Can't think of his name at the mo'.

[kimbrobrian1]

lol, um, they were kidding about the 30 years thing...

[shumaked]

they may be exaggerating, but possibly not by much. this rehearsal clip is from the 90's, do the math... the documentary is called grateful dawg

[beadingnutritionist]

Nope!

[toejams33]

i love to come across and listen to rare old grateful dead music.

and the slide show is great also.

nice work.

[debodadon]

very nice thanks for sharing this

[jimrobertseva]

Interesting. "I take delight in the juice of the barley."

Never heard this one; much THANKS!

[deadheadwookie17]

So great. even though the rest of the band still plays, it will never be truly as great with out jerry.

[mandolindude]

so many roads disc 5...

[danielmagan]

Wow, really? Just like I posted in the info section?

[mandolindude]

hey man i wasn't tryin to be a dick. I'm just sick of these dead slide shows. I thought this was footy. sorry bra...

Also, who reads anymore? lol

[danielmagan]

1) I'm not your bra or your bro. 2) If you're sick of the slide shows I've taken my time to put together for people in the hopes they may enjoy them, just don't watch. Your sickness will be eased and you won't be missed here. 3) You're also free to post as much "footy" as you want from your own collection; No one is stopping you.

[cheevakineval]

favorite version other than the Dubliners

[phishinvan]

cause' the devil's in the women, and they never can be easy

love that line

[phishinvan]

i was just listening to this on disk this morning

[Hanksalot]

It's a great pity that the Dead didn't get to Ireland...

All night jam sessions are no problem here-

[seanearnest]

Cool! I once heard that Jerry traded lessons with Irish traditional button accordion legend Joe Cooley

[swed420kid69]

i fucking love thisshit