Jerry Garcia gets heckled for playing Country Music..

[mikeincalifornia]

Best description of the Dead I've ever heard: "It's country music, except the country is Mars."

[venniey]

Love it!!!!!  Jerry, your voice is so sweet.

[yoshortyb]

I highly doubt that they would be heckled for playing country music in Texas...

[sunshinenblues]

i got my taste for eclectic guitar music in the late sixties. i was happily living out the hippie generation with the Dead, my friends, and anyone i bumped into in Santa Cruz CA. if anyone refuses to acknowledge (good speller since second grade)..then it is their loss and not the Grateful Dead's poor taste. i always loved these guys because they played for themselves and anybody who wanted to listen, the true mark of musicianship

[Kangiwitko]

Kelli112387 get over it. A lot of what the Dead played could fit easily into "Country" Sorry if this is bad news to you but Mama Tried is a Merle Haggard tune and El Paso is a Marty Robbins tune. S' Even worse than you thought: "Shake Down Streets" is a Disco tune. Real musicians are always listening to what is happening and reflecting it. They're above being stuck in one genre. Except for Opera. That shit is just rap for the menopausal. JK

[thisdudebert]

This is country, just look at Bobby's guitar!

[kelli112687]

this isn't country you retards, its good old jerry bluegrass.

[nathanalexander28]

haha always thought bob weir sounded like tommy chong...

[BerkLeeDrm]

this is from Bears Choice 1970

[MyAccount4TrollingU]

@TheCyberShinobi FUCK ISLAM

[5teve0o]

Beautiful song with great rhythm

[Jerryjeffelvis]

The guy in audience said "Play a Song", because he was in a big-ass hurry to hear more,more more.

[PinkFloydrulez]

:)

[sqweezel]

Rock has roots in country.

[ripplemeinwater1]

All in all being i could not hear what the person in the croud was saying i cannot comment on weather it was heckeling or not, However if you know the band as of now some of the best tunes were of a country nature. And before jerrys passing he was doing some of the best work I feel he ever did in the studio with NOT FOR KIDS ONLY, And all the blugrass, Folk and country music that some dead heads did not like, OH WELL thats their bad taste and luck.

[folkhippy]

Wow I am loving 12.26.69 right now. Great sound quality and spot on UJB vocal harmonies. Thanks for the tip. If it was a heckler, he or she might have been expecting to hear the super-charged electric Grateful Dead as heard on the "LIVE/DEAD" album that was released only a few months before this. The Dead's "country" debut was right after that release, and perhaps this surprised some people. I don't really think of this as country music, but the Dead's own unique brand of Americana/folk music.

[upsidetheflipside]

i don't know who the troubled soul is who is writing the negative comments to whom it may concern, dont waste any seconds of your life reading the remarks by MyAccount4TrollingU. every one else is pretty chilled, just like the music

[MyAccount4TrollingU]

You fucking dead heads. Get a fucking job, and a life.

[MrShplatz]

@MyAccount4TrollingU

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[pauly2xs1]

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[MyAccount4TrollingU]

@pauly2xs1 So?

[pauly2xs1]

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[MyAccount4TrollingU]

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[MrGrevy]

@MyAccount4TrollingU We have jobs. Not too bright are you?

[urbanexplorer1996]

@MyAccount4TrollingU you need to get a life and stop liveing in your mothers basement

[urbanexplorer1996]

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[MyAccount4TrollingU]

@urbanexplorer1996 "Liveing"? Too much acid?

[MickeyLove01]

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[MyAccount4TrollingU]

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[MickeyLove01]

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[itsstillfriday]

Sounds like it..?? ...Is this the same performance where some lady in the crowd shouts some...unintelligible comment....about Jerry's beard.. (or maybe he had shaved at that moment).. Almost like she said "Hey Jerry did you eat your beard..?" And Jerry's response from the stage was a firm "Oh SHUT UP!!" :-O I really like the fact that Jerry had a good EDGE to him!! :-)

[PinkFloydrulez]

wtf @ the sound at 2:43 or so

D:

[zambiland]

@PinkFloydrulez

I think someone hit a button they didn't mean to. Either that or Phil plugged in his bass. Too bad he didn't play with them.

[PinkFloydrulez]

man, I can't get enough of them playing these old folk songs

[Mtdeadhead312]

gotta love it when Jerry plays the acoustic.

[ClaireSapphyck]

Of course they're not heckling, everyone loved Jerry, he could play whatever he liked and it would go down like sweet candy, I think the header on this is just an affectionate joke:-)

[456subway]

Just a couple of thoughts: I saw the Dead in concerts from 70 to 74, and Garcia a couple years beyond that. My impression back then was that their attitude was "we'll just play what we feel like playing, but we'll certainly give you your money's worth." My sense (by listening to and watching tapes) with the big new following they got in the 80's with younger people, that actually more of a rapport was created between the band and the audience, as in the singing along to "Not Fade Away."

[dosed1dosed1000]

that was awesome thanx for the post

[rotolo]

i am eating two brownies and when he one of the licks i swallowed the last bit of the last brownie and the 2 melded together

[JimmyPage97]

totally awesome

[MrCrittiper]

Awesome recording

[MyInnerEyeMike99]

This is from the Acoustic set from S.M.U., Dallas, Tx.12-26-69. I've had this show for many years, so I'm 100% sure the date is correct. I agree with the earlier post, the crowd isn't heckling at all. In the early days, there was alot of stage chatter, both on and off stage. Often, the banter was between the musicians and people in the audience. This is a good example of that intimacy, which was pretty much gone after 1971, and all together by 1975.

[jerrysknees1]

You are correct. This IS from 12.26.69

Stage banter used to be awesome! Remember the 'Yellow Dog Story'???!

[ChinaCatDeadHead]

@MyInnerEyeMike99 I still see bands today that do the same!

[chardog406]

@ChinaCatDeadHead the band I play in has some of that goin.I think well do this one as were a country rock band

[imsjerrylicks]

Guys, listen to this guitar. it's acoustic. It is not the Travis Bean in the photo. The picture is from 76 or 77, not 73 or 74 when he was playing alligator or the sunburst strat. The crowd is cheering, not heckling the boys. Fillmore is a pretty good guess. Nice song, misleading photo. And sean is right, Jerry stopped talking on stage for the most part post 74.

[crypticald]

Pretty sure this is the smu show from 69 or 70

[PineappleCoconuts79]

sounds like its from the bears choice album, February 13 and 14, 1970 at the Fillmore East

[PineappleCoconuts79]

sounds like its from the bears choice album

[deweypug]

I would say this recording is 1970-1 The photos '73-'74 seems to me...

[seanpgalb1]

this is NOT 1977.  The video is most likely correct. I am guessing that he just used whatever pictures of Jerry and Bob he liked when making the video. If you had ears and could hear the video, you would know that this is NOT in 1976 or 1977. Jerry never spoke much on stage '74 and beyond.

[MrSharkey11]

@seanpgalb1 , I know, there's a big shortage of Dead photos especially Jerry & Bobby! And yes, I can tell this performance was not 70-71!

[MrSharkey11]

It makes me laugh the way some people throw the pictures and music of the Dead together,and then put a label on where they think the time and place was! Also, I don't see where they are being heckled by the crowd? Look at the Dead logo on Garcia"s shirt,and weir's guitar! This was not 70-71,more like 76-77! Check it out!

[grube28]

@MrSharkey11

77 for sure. jerrys second travis bean..

[MrPeggyo]

"Bloomin awful!"

[MrSharkey11]

This was 1977!, Not 70 or 71 , A beautiful rendition I must say!

[killdaclownz]

@MrSharkey11 No it was not 1977

[MrSharkey11]

@killdaclownz , Hey now! The pictures of Garcia and weir are definitely not 70-71! They are definitely 76-77 for sure! I know because I remember when weir grew his beard. I have pictures of the band when I saw them at the capital theater back then. Maybe the music is from 70-71(which I doubt),but certainly not the pictures,and you can take that to the bank! Peace!

[MrSharkey11]

@killdaclownz ,P.S. Phil also grew his beard too at that time!

[1982Col]

@LedZeppelin362 How does he smell?

[nichobo]

heckled?

[bigbuzman]

Many deadheads were not quite ready for this side of the dead in 69 but soon grew to appreciate most assuredly .

[ShapiroJones]

@wisesatyr72 seriously...you've never been to a Deadshow...smart, practical, hip, cultured, tolerant, spiritual foward thinking folks....that's deadheads....the best elements of the living counterculture still...even 15years after.

[ShapiroJones]

@wisesatyr72 fair enough. I'm sorry bro. Some of us are still cool....and for myself....I'm of mixed race, I never encountered racism at the many shows I went to...but if you had a bad time with some fools I apologize on behalf of heads that espouse peace and tolerance.

[wisesatyr72]

@ShapiroJones Thats cool man, No problem, I shouldnt say those things..Yeah I apologized too.. Peace to you Brother..Long Live the Dead !!

[cutis1000]

Where's the heckling?? It's minimal if any. Not sure what your point in highlighting it was.

[lilmspriss]

December 26, 1969 @ SMU

[HippieBuddah]

Ahh, sweet lil video, and thanks for the Living with the Dead video. Never trust a Prankster ;)