Rare Grateful Dead "Blue Suede Shoes" Elvis Cover 12-12-1973

[smarcus1031]

Very interesting. Never heard this before, but it sounds more like a Jerry Garcia Band rehearsal...

@kingoma61 the Grateful Dead never recorded or played Drink Up or Go Home...I made a recording of Jerry, Nelson, Rothman and Dan Healy playing it during a two hour jam session at a Grateful Dead Thanksgiving party in 1986...

[homegrownsmokerbbq]

fuck all Godchaux haters. eat shit.

[AVDiDomenico]

@homegrownsmokerbbq I agree but chill!! smoke a spliff and relax my brother!

[TheGr8tfulred]

very cool. suprised there's not more views. long live rock n roll and the dead. amen

[Marakesh7]

Definately more Carl Perkins than Elvis.

[jerryme72]

blue suede shoes was carl perkins----donna jean was a back up singer for elvis...

[quartzimaging]

this is kind of nice. but it doesn't sound live...more like a studio goof-off.

[rubyrose456]

SWEETNESS!!!!!

[TheElissaS]

Hey I think this is pretty cool.

[kapila013]

damn right BustaLip. the godchaux were responsible for the worst dead years.

[ElvisAudition]

Hello!!!!!!

[TheWhitehall]

More Carl Perkins....than Elvis. An all time great Rock "N" Roll Song.

[BustaLip]

Very cool, i never heard this before and I'm a fan a loooong time. Surprised not more views. I love the GD up till Donna G joined.

[uhhjessicaleighbetch]

@BustaLip she didn't ruin nothin, but she sure as hell didn't do any good

[kingoma61]

In Guitar Player magazine, Jerry Garcia listed Carl Perkins as a major influence on his guitar style. Garcia recounted in "Grateful Dead Documentary" that he first heard Sittin' on Top of the World on the 1958 Carl Perkins album Whole Lotta Shakin': "I originally heard the tune off a Carl Perkins record and he was, like, a good country guy, country guitar player, and he played finger style, and he did a kind of a rockabilly version of Sittin' on Top of the World."

[kingoma61]

Jerry Garcia was influenced heavily by Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. The Grateful Dead also recorded Elvis' "That's All Right, Mama". Jerry Garcia learned "Sittin' on Top of the World" off the 1958 Carl Perkins album Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On on Columbia Records. The Grateful Dead's performance of "Drink Up and Go Home" is also based on the Carl Perkins version. In "U.S. Blues", "Blue Suede Shoes" is referenced ("Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?").

[saintstephen74]

Awesome!

[Aum420]

wow, thank you for this!

one love!