Grateful Dead & Etta James - Hard To Handle 12-31-1982

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Grateful Dead w the Tower of Power horns & Etta James perform New Years Eve 1982.

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  • The Great Etta James She has Left the building!

    RIP Baby We LOVE you!

  • @coyote023 are you saying then that Etta is tripping her face off during this clip?

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  • is this the only song she sang for them that night?

  • Wow! What a killer version of Shakedown. Very funky indeed. 

  • @EasyAce go listen to a Shakedown Street from 79 and then tell me the Dead can't play funk. try 1979-10-25, on archive . org

  • they dosed etta

  • All I know is Jerry and the Dead could back any great singer that lived and were happy to do it and now he and Etta are probably up there with Stevie, Jim, John and all the others just singing and having a good ol' time, laughing at all of our obstinence!

  • I was just talking to Grateful Dead personel about this show with Etta on Facebook. May be the number one Musical High for the Dead as well as Dead Heads.

    Way above playing with Dylan.

    Grateful Dead turned many people onto our American heritage musical roots then any other main stream artist. From Robert Johnson & Rev. Gary Davis to Hank Williams & Merle Haggard, etc. Artist, I know myself & 80% other Dead Heads would never had come accross otherwise! Ledgends Everyone!

  • @modcraft13 Bro, backstage this night was so off the hook you could count the people that didn"t drink a huge puddle on one hand.That was then and to have that much fun at just about each and every nite those was the days and boy do i miss "em

  • Hard to believe it, but I was there, I actually got to shake Bill Grahams hand that night. I believe John Cipollina was around that night as well. RIP Etta, John, Jerry, Brett, Bill, and everybody else who has not made it this far.

  • The fat lady has sung. Now it's over :)

  • Oakland...I have a friend who says "that Etta show wasnt New Years Eve.. it was 12-30-82, the night before New Years. I remember because I went to every show of that run at the Oakland Auditorium EXCEPT New Years Eve. (Couldnt get tickets) On NYE I listened to the show outside the venue - Bill Graham had set up loadspeakers outside. The band had an off night anyway. The night before was the one with Etta doing this song." but i don't know, i wasn't there myself

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