Grateful Dead - To Lay Me Down - Radio City NY, 10-30-1980

[johngalt23g]

I miss Jerry

[randeezydizzle]

there's a lot of so-called "love songs" out there....but THIS. this is a real love song. damn.

[TaperTomStrizak1959]

These shows will always be one of the highlights of my life.

[puretheorygirl]

thank you so much for this :)

[emadrizc]

love you DEAD forever



[Hl212345]

this cut makes me cry every time

[TheClassicMusicMan]

You my friend LoloYodel, you are a true hero to every DeadHead around!

[SamuelAging]

Beautiful.



[smn9ac]

I wish i could like this more than once.

[TheCoramitch]

RIP Jerry!

[Helms113]

you always make me feel better jerry.. every time bro... every time

[blueapplejuices]

Let the world go by, in that moment where fear and time dont exist, just warm hearts beating together

[bulkeater11211]

Phil drops a bomb @7:20

[MrsPossumly]

I was looking for a song for my Sarah's b'day this friday. Thanks for the upload!! Perfect..she loved uncle johns band ...we played it at her funeral but I can't remember much else. The shock I guess. We were at a gather when we got the 911 in the woods that nite. 13 years ago. Couldn't do much rainbow after that every thing was so different. Hard to explain. I like this one instead of Uncle John.

[MrsPossumly]

I was looking for a song for my Sarah's b'day this friday. Thanks for the upload!! Perfect..she loved uncle johns band ...we played it at her funeral but I can't remember much else. The shock I guess. We were at a gather when we got the 911 in the woods that nite. 13 years ago. Couldn't do much rainbow after that every thing was so different. Hard to explain.

[pcburgh01]

This will be played at my funeral. I know it's not a reference to death, but I want it played none the less.

[EliCosper85]

this tune has touched me closer then any other sound in my life. thankyou Garcia for the searching of your soul

[cahill157]

tears in my eyes, cold chills on my arms jerrys the only musician that can make me tear up.

[MrRobbynick]

this is to be played at my final resting place, just so everyone knows, My dead ass will be pissed if this is not played at my funeral

[BigTeste]

Happy Birthday J. Garcia

[73alaire]

happy early birthday jerry :)

[LoloYodel]

you could add Stella Blue (see 74 Winterland video), So Many Roads (1994 Vegas vid) or perhaps Peggy-O ...

[murphy4trees]

Took my 11 year old son to the mann to see further tonight.. Band was fairly tight and had us rockin' for a while, BUT.. I was disappointed with the set list.. Might as well have been singing Cumbaya.. all fluff..no heart.. I was trying to explain that to my son.. came to youtube to find him an example of a GD song with heart.. Probably start with this one.. Have china doll, broken down palace, looks like rain, birdsong, comes a time, he's gone on the list.. any other suggestions??? Thanks..

[nlandess]

@murphy4trees I think my suggestion would be to not try and control it so much. I saw a lot of disappointing Dead shows in the early 90's - really they just made the ones "...with heart...", as you aptly put it, that much more special.

I remember making some Dead mixes for some friends who were interested, and then giving them some bootlegs, and they were entranced with the stuff from the shows I would never have thought to put on a mix. The music is "organic," so should our experience be.

[murphy4trees]

@nlandess I guess.. still its Ok to be disappointed.. I may not have liked the set list of that last show.. still grateful to have been touched by this music.. I grew up on the dead and it is part of me now and always..

[coreyagraph]

i love the way some of the 80s+ groups claimed they 'invented' the UNPLUGGED. it looks they actually were a little late!

[ahclem13]

@coreyagraph . Pete Townsend was the most egregious for that when attacking Eric Clapton by claiming he'd done it 1st on the Secret Policeman's Ball (late 70s i think). The Dead, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young (both with and without CSN) beat him by YEARS

[coreyagraph]

@ahclem13 nice to see a band just playing.....no big production

[nlandess]

@ahclem13 That version of Won't Get Fooled Again is friggin awesome, though. And the experience is a little different - Townsend took a song that was a full on rock anthem and turned it into something entrancing and acoustic - the Dead, and Neil, and Dylan were usually working with material that, even if it was not identified as acoustic, it wasn't much of a stretch to play it in that environment - as opposed to, for example, what Clapton did to re-work Layla.

[barzinniml]

makes the hairs on my neck stand up :) thank you for the memories

[beachdog67]

So long, Bear.

[appraiserjv1]

@beachdog67 ahh... bear was the chemist that supplied them with LSD

[beachdog67]

@appraiserjv1 Among other things, yes.

Also a major force (he would have said THE significant force) in the development of the infamous "Wall of Sound" PA system and a pioneer in the development of archival recording of live shows.

He died in a car crash a couple weeks ago; hence the salutation.

[estimatedeyes]

Some days it just hits you like a ton of bricks....goddamn, I miss you Jerry. :' (

[TheEhce]

Garcia + Hunter = solemness

[slammyjammy38]

I love this song. And acoustic.... I just get chills. So beautiful.

[SeaSharkGull]

One of the best! Great live version.

Thanks

[nugs4all]

Its nice to finally see what ive been listening to all these years on Reckoning. Pure Beauty.. O how i miss Jerry

[4BiZ20]

<3

[millaman24bb]

THAT WAS HOT!! I want Jerry back!!

[ponchocervantes]

one of the most tender and intimate of lyrics jerry put music to...always kills me.

[chippy783]

Makes the end seem seemless

[kellyrojo78]

Dedicated to Beatriz "Mamacita" Seymour---you will always be with us. I can feel you here now! Gracias por su vida!

[LoloYodel]

Well said ! "you are not alone"

[parkerconleche]

One day. And I don't mean strength either...I'd rather be weak than to do any of that again for strength alone. This is a hellish planet we're all walking on. Perhaps music...this sort of music...will help you find the burst of deep gutteral aching that wants to leap that wall of anger. I am here. I know you are a human behind this screen, and I get it. You are not alone.

[parkerconleche]

The Ehce...Having a piece we fundamentally know fits so perfectly with us then nothing, gone....yes. I want to encourage you to grieve for as long as you need...be angry as long as you need. I have suffered some losses that defy conventional human instinct. You cannot see it now, yet, I know eventually something remarkable comes from these things.

[LoloYodel]

TheEhce : sorry to sense your anger. Can't help you ease that. Courage man !.

[TheEhce]

@LoloYodel It has gotten better since I first posted that yes and yes The Dead has helped

[TheEhce]

Try and love someone for 20 years and have the demon cancer take them from you and see what songs you listen to on a regular basis. Yes I am angry...much more than sad. Missing someone is the worst feeling in the world, and I'd rather be kicked in the damn face

[TheEhce]

Jerry...and my Lauira.....I miss them both

[TheEhce]

@TheEhce

Found myself dreaming of her wasn't cool

[ANDEEDEE1]

So sweet as i cry

[terrapin52]

let the world go by, all lost in dreaming...

This is one of the tenderest songs ever sung.

[tifreire1]

Goosebumps...

[LittleRedKing]

Simply beautiful. Thanks.

[geekorthodox9]

listened to this last night, and the thought came to me (somewhat belatedly) that it took mtv 10 more years to come up with their 'unplugged' idea.

of course, some of my favorite jerry and the dead is the black mountain boys and mother mccree jug champions recordings (very small sample available but highly enjoyable).

grateful dead epitomize american music, they run the whole gamut from tradition to what is yet to be.

[emadrizc]

dedicated to you babe Sharon

[5stringofFernandoSor]

This song was played with so much love, he almost wept while he sang it. One of my favorite recordings of any Grateful Dead songs.

[chasefukuoka61]

Beautiful. Thanks for uploading!

[wstaylor]

7:13

[tduffy2]

For the best version from this Radio City run, acoustic, check out To Lay Me Down from Reckoning. It's just exactly perfect.

[StoneHenge65]

LMAO. Bobbie looks so bored while Phil is getting off. RIP Jerome - to lay me down one last time....

[prophetdude2]

@StoneHenge65 lol, i think i see a little drool, just dripping.....

[silentdreemz85]

ughhh this song is so beautiful

[jibbidywopdo]

There was one day when I went to my first Dead Awakening, it was beautiful... Heaven is on Mother Earth if you just give it a chance, I came to realize the human soul eveyone posses and how universal it is... Jerry's voice cut through the air so clean, he was there for me as my life's demons were exposed... And he and everyone accepted me like they were there before... They all truely understood your soul and how important it is to care... That day my life changed...

B. Nuvamsa

[spiderman196]

Yes (~);}



[LazyFunGi]

@jibbidywopdo Welcome Home Brother

[aztiff]

This concert is showing on MSG network tonight. Not sure how complete or from what source (maybe Dead Ahead)

[VinnyN1026]

love this

[MarcSoRoc]

Jerry !! Fantastic !!

[october1945]

inspired yes....but 'for jesus'..........superstition belittles us all

[waylandsphere76]

LOVE this song and version-thanks for uploading!!!

[skaterchic73]

Back in 95 to 96 I was going through alot of things. I listened to this song everyday. So..." For Me" it brings back memories. Thanks for at least uploading the whole song.

[76mazey]

SWEET. Grateful Dead spirit lives forever!

[skaterchic73]

crying... Thank you .... memories of 1995-96.

[BarriereFreres]

Well, I hope that it's rather memories of 1980 or the early 1980's (from this concert), not 95-96. Anyway, love to you all.

[johnnewmer]

this ones for JESUS

[selasie777777]

POWER!

[Quaaludedude714]

Thank You : ) QC

[KONUSANTILKI]

bu sarkiya hastayim.

[TreyISdeadTOme]

@LittlewillieJr but with no Phil there would be no Jerry... U cant have one with out the others . Though Jerry was great is was the ppl around him that helped mold him into the iconic figure that he is

[willburr]

For those with good bass on your speakers/headphones, dig Phil's line around 6:35 to 6:50 That irreplacable sound...He always held back that view to the bottom of the well until the perfect moments.

[shakedown5000]

does it get any better than this.....i think not. beautiful music.

[67pifpaf]

Thank you.

[twingats16]

FANTASTIC!!

[silentdreemz85]

Best video version by far.

[Braaaad1]

@silentdreemz85 brings tears to my eyes everytime...he always seemed to go to his dark place every night....oh and how i loved him for it

RIP JERRY

[DLEFFEW]

For sure bro, just so smoothly done and beautiful

[EhrmannL]

Very sweet !