Right there with ya! Fellow 80's hippie. Most of the people I knew in the 80s were hippies! Of course, it helped being on the Dead tour for the first half of the decade.
Hearing Mickey say he loves Pentangle is sort of the most gratifying moment to stem from my years listening to Dead music. This is delightful; we're lucky to have this footage!
This is the Hollywood music festival at Madeley near Newcastle Under Lyme in England. Its about 10m away from where I live. I happened to attend this and a couple of days later I ordered Live Dead. Never looked back
Pigpen really was quite the sweetest man. It's a trip to look back into this movie and watch him talk and just be. He was a unique, integral aspect of the band that never returned once he checked out, they never had the same energy that they had when pig was alive. God rest pigpens soul
Pigpen was a great guy always smiled when Jerry and Pigpen would drive past with the VW bug in Marin. Went to his house for birthday parties cool guy, I was the kid at 21.
I’m so thankful to the people who had the presence of mind and a camera to film these moments of history. Ken Burns found some precious treasures buried in the archives in his Film about “Jazz” and it’s a priceless gem.I’ve never seen Mickey play guitar.This is literally over a half a century old now.
It wasn't really presence of mind. It was a planned documentary. That's why these segments were filmed and why cameras were on hand. It wasn't a coincidence or done on a whim . The camera crew were literally hired to film these segments.
I saw Mickey holding an acoustic guitar. Strumming here and there, sort of like if it was me doing it. Which means it should be in someone else’s hands (someone who plays). Still, this was fun. Really brings out the personalities of each original member of the band. They really are a humble bunch of guys. You want rock n roll ego? This is NOT the film to watch. Very refreshing.
I'm really glad I stumbled on this great snapshot in time. This is a nice, intimate, unrehearsed look at our favorite R&R band in real time. What I focus on is how everyone in the band is trying to be nice to each other and their hosts, and being patient with all the hassles of travel, endless questions and uncertainties of being strangers in a strange land. The Candyman rehearsal is priceless, giving us a feel for what goes into the preparation for a song's performance. Musical talent doesn't happen magically...but comes from hard, repetitive work. Pigpen's interview was fun. He never put himself in the spotlight. I sense he was pretty shy underneath it all. Weir seems so young. Lesh is goofy. Jerry is Jerry, spouting articulate, unintended wisdom with every utterance. What fun! -Jim
This is so moving, a portal to the past, now years later a peak into the band's souls, innocence, ambition, certainty. Forever grateful for the contribution and the invaluable memories.
A priceless Time Machine here. After decades of listening, listening, listening, and imagining what it might have been like to be there (with the precious few filmed moments we had all seen up to now), here we finally see so many more extraordinary things. I think seeing Pig in the trailer and hearing him converse is one of the highlights of this footage but it’s all incredible. Thank you!
Jerry's comments about 25-30 minutes in about Altamont vs Woodstock, the Jefferson Airplane modus operandi, Zappa, New Riders and other touchstones is fascinating... articulate and in-touch
All of the pop and rock world, stars -( Lennon,McCartney, the dead,stones,doors, Buffalo Springfield,Jeff Beck,Clapton,page,eventually made the pilgrimage to frank Zappa’s house to hang out
Absolutely amazing to see these musicians interact with each other and with the surrounding press. Keep in mind Jerry is 27 yo. Seeing a conversation with Pigpen who looks well. What a treat to see this. Thank you
I enjoy the look into the early work of the band on the road. I see Sam Cutler who managed the tour. Weir really flirted with the interviewer. I love how it shows the traveling, rehearsal and setup of the band on the road at that early stage of the Dead. I loved how it ended with the studio version of the Wheel, the band was a constant wheel turning and making music to make people smile and be happy. I love the sound of the 70s Dead. Thanks for this drop.
freakin brilliant..just wow..if the camera crew was dosed its why this footage is soooo real and naturally shot!! Just flows and the audio is superb! THANKS
I remember seeing Pigpen and I thought he could really beat me up if he wanted to. Now I find out he was a good guy. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing a rare one.
I've already commented once, but damn, this video is so fun to watch. This pretty much sums up as to why I have loved this band for the past 45 years. Thank you for posting this gem!
This...could not have surfaced at a more, opportunistic time, immediately after the passing of one PHIL LESH...But grateful am I that it did...nice to relive the good old days and grateful shall I remain...Thank you. This has become part of my ever-growing GD Archives...
1970 to 1974 were magic years for the Dead, and New Riders of the Purple Sage, with Jerry playing Pedal Steel in both groups, as well as Banjo in Old & in the Way, with David Grisman, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, etc. Jerry was a beast, making jam band/psychedelic, Country, Bluegrass, Jazz music
@@missujerry1 We all need to pay more attention to the fall '72 tour - we never had much until the Betty Boards came out. Every night was a massive Dark Star or Other One, and pretty much every first set closed with a 20+ minute Playin'. I think it may be the best run they ever played.
I like that Pig Pen interview, tough outside, but so sweet inside, a good guy. A totally amazing film, I was a 14 y.o. teenager at the time and Truckin' (on the FM radio) was my invitation, probably in early 1971. For the most part, the soundcheck, the interviews, and other dialog are all sides of the band we normally don't see. R.I.P. Jerry, Pig, Phil, and anyone on the crew that passed away since this May 1970 Newcastle England gig was filmed. Thank you very much, Garloo, for posting this cool film.
At 58:22-58:24, cameo of John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne with his woman at that time. Would've been fresh out of the debut Black Sabbath self-titled debut LP and probably in the works of the soon to be Paranoid album set for release in the fall of that year. Really weird to see Ozzy around a bunch of dead-head hippies at that time, since he was so anti-hippie even from the start. This is also in England, so checks out that it is him all the more. At first I couldn't quite tell, but I paused the shot just to be sure and Ozzy's wearing the same leather jacket he had on in a poster I had of Sabbath from that same time frame. Pretty awesome!
Ozzy wasn't anti hippie it's just cool to sing about awful shit, even the Dead knew that. Ozzy took plenty of acid etc and the Dead were at their best torturing the audience and freaking everyone the fuck out. The hippie movement was always bullshit but the psychedelic movement is what's up because its terrifying to the ego. Nobody's scared of hippies but everyone's scared of seeing reality dissolve around them (well, almost everyone lol)
Ozzy was a pot head and an acid head so I don't know how anti hippie he was . Besides Its hardly weird to see a rock singer at a festival hanging out with other artists. Sabbath played festivals all the time . An Anti hippie long haired pot head acid taking rock singer? This idea doesn't hold water
It's fun to see the Dead playing in the UK in 1970. They're such an American band -- a total blend of American music styles. Obviously a lot of people went to these shows, but I wonder what English people thought of the music and how they related to it. I feel like you have to have lived in the USA for a big part of your life and experienced various corners of America to really understand the vibe of the Grateful Dead and their musical roots. Maybe this is true of a lot of American bands, and maybe the reverse is true of some UK bands (maybe The Who?), but the Grateful Dead have always struck me as having a very deep rooting in some traditions and communities in America. I think that's part of the reason why their serious fans didn't just think of them as a music group but rather as the anchor of a community and an identity.
thanx so much! this is behind the scenes stuff from their best era. 'GRATEFUL DEAD', the double LP live record, and of course, 'AMERICAN BEAUTY'. Jerry's SG period. I always like to catch Jerry getting back to bluegrass, or acoustic playing, if you will. hearing him noodle w/ an unplugged SG, is just terrific. nobody sounds like that! whether it's the USA or the UK, they're still the DEAD.
The history is fascinating. To me, tracing the history of a Grateful Dead song (whether an original or cover), reminds me of tracing the history of a thoroughbred racehorse. In both of those studies, one can get a sense of the time period from which they originate, the condition of the world, generally and in depth, and most of all, it takes me to the people and gives me sense of connection, an intimacy even, to them and their unique situations.
😅😅😅 Illustrious? LOL OK. Great band, for sure. But generally a bunch of degenerate drug addicts that were freaked out by 'deadheads', hated tie-dye, and wouldn't ever hang out with the weirdos that spent a lifetime following them around. Garcia not even mature enough to go for a checkup or cut back on cigarettes and milkshakes, didn't even make it past 54 years old. Nice. What a role model.
@@Anndee4Palestine I'm not the huge music part of it, but I do know tons more than the regular person, as I've read several books about them, history of dead, Jerry's biography by the mates, and know how to play several songs by them in different bands in my life, but some songs are just not my thing, but that said, I could say the same about blues music before I learned how to play it, then all a sudden it got interesting 😂 but the sad droning songs and sloppy style was always a turn off to me, but then when they are on, they crazy tight, so they just played by their own rules, and looked at music differently than anyone else, and the traveling family around them, then the extended circus of ppl all making a living from just being in the tribe is a wild story in itself, all culmination of Jerry being godlike and especially after death, no other band in history has that kind of legendary tale
There must be something to it... I mean, look at the extensive archive associated with Grateful Dead. How many musical groups can you retrieve a recording of a concert perhaps you attended 20 years ago and actually listen to it today (or maybe even a video exists of that day to watch)? Grateful Dead were a peoples band who offered freedom of expression and inclusiveness. Everyone was welcome and they were , in a unique way, very generous to their fans, they supported the communities they lived in and in so many ways they gave and gave . Of everything Jerry Garcia may have been, nobody could say he was greedy. I do not believe Jerry perceived himself to be a role model "his job is to shed light, and not to master".
From my unique perspective, I grew up in the Bay Area and my parents were Grateful Dead fans from early on (mid-sixties) so I never had to discover the band and their music has always existed as far as I knew. As a rebellious teenager I avoided it like the plague ,turning to harder stuff and punk rock until I went to a GD show in my early 20's. I was shocked at feeling so comfortable amongst the crowd and how familiar the music was to me like I knew most of those songs they were playing and I understood most of what was happening around me (although the "Spinners " kinda freaked me out). Im not sure what Im getting at except that the Grateful Dead , and Jerry in particular, played a significant supportive role in the communities that make up the Bay Area and I identify with them in that way also. That is my perception of them. Now I enjoy having access to all those shows and deciphering the bands history and contemplating the lyrics and analyzing the music etc etc.... Its Grate Fun!
It's great that you're able to see all this stuff on the internet considering that they're all lost. I've never seen so many lost things before. It's wonderful!
Such an amazing era for the band.... Behind the scenes Mickeys dad was fixing to rip them off, out front they still had Pig, and back in the jam room they were about to release a few albums that would set the course to an amazing decade of music.
Wow! What a fun flick! Thank you for posting. Interesting hearing 'The Wheel' at the end . I love the pedal steel . Anyway, I feel pleasantly surprised. and happy after watching this film. Cheers!!!🍻
Can’t believe that nobody has mentioned that at the 60 min mark with Pig in the trailer you can clearly hear the Stones playing Midnight Rambler outside onstage. Epic.
The pigpen years were the best. I liked the band with all Gibson equipment, they had a rockier and more powerful sound. ok even after 74 there is a little bit of gold here and there on stage but they also started playing the songs slower and the sound of the band became cleaner. 1965 - 1974 best years
Tempo wise I find 77 the exception to the slower temp latter years. 76 was kind of slow clunky and much too loose. In 77 they get much tighter and they speed up the Tempos to more of a pre 76 state but then in 78 they really start to transition into that slow plodding Tempo which fully develop in 1980 and stay that way untill the end although they did speed up the tempos a little bit in 1987 to 1990 but not near enough. There is a bounce in 77 they didn't have in any other year post 1973.
This is so awesome an intimate, indepth look at the band their mannerisms and personalities thanks for posting. Love Jerry's vodka and orange juice haha!!
This snapshot in time is liquid gold, felt like being a groupie along for a quick trip. Pig was looking good, all were just enjoying the experience, no egos, just real raw in the moment quip .
loved the parts between 20-30min with Cutler explaining shilling amd pence for a tip. The interview Jerry gave to some journalist was very interesting on so many things. I was very impressed with how Jerry's diction in particular. Great find!!
First time I (and presumably most of the crowd) saw the Dead live - Hollywood Festival, near Newcastle under Lyme - May Bank Holiday 1970 - baking hot weekend - I fell asleep shirtless on that hillside and discovered the difference between sunburn and sunstroke! Great to come across this and hear some of the gig again - more appreciative now than I was then - Bickershaw two years later was when I really took off with the band. Mungo Jerry were the breakout stars of the show. The only way the organisers could get the audience to stop calling for more was to promise they'd play again the next day. Ginger Baker's Airforce were next on - cries of "fuck off Ginger Baker". Great festival.
With all the endless smoking drinking drug taking it’s a miracle that so many of these guys are still here, Phil Lesh God bless him is like 84 years old
I obsess on this concept everyday there's days or weeks or months or years I don't get out of bed .... I just hope they keep coming... A few months ago on here I saw footage of Tony Williams Lifetime in Color and I couldn't believe they found the lost 55 year footage ... They're emptying those vaults out it's all we have .... Because all the new stuff even shit many call good I'm not convinced....
Just because things aren't to your liking it doesn't mean we're living in dark times. There have been many, many, way darker times than now throughout history. Stop listening to Fox News.
Right, right, and being a teenager watching the draft lottery on TV to see if you were going to get sent off to die on the other side of the planet was so much better. Lol
@@davidcollin1436 Yep, that ought to slam shut the mouths of all those who call him a wasted dopehead. I would love to hear or read some of his conversations with Hunter...
Sam Cutler... And "Oh, and I cut my toe". This is really well directed in my opinion. The camera does it's job. And then there are all the rough edges... the sound guy... tap-tap, whenever he gets in shot. Brilliant.
Very cool, I was 17 in 1970, was at the Hollywood Music Festival, but unfortunately I must of been having such a great time I can’t remember much about it now. Black Sabbath played and Mungo Jerry with In the Summertime which became a big hit. The Grateful Dead were just one of many bands that played! 🎉. To think this is 52 years ago and now I’am 70. My hair was long and I already had a regular job and had to wear my hair in a pony tail. I was more into Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin who I also saw in 1970, I already had Anthem of the Sun which I loved and found it very quirky compared to most bands at the time! Lesser known bands I saw a lot were Stray and Quintessence, usually at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm London
Did you happen to see Jim Morrison and the Doors around that time? I used to think their music was a bit strange, weird vibe, but musically and lyrically very interesting.
@@soundshaper Yes, saw the Doors at the Isle of Wight festival along with Jimi Hendrix the Who, Joni Mitchell etc. What we all noticed about Jim was how powerful his voice was! Checkout the live Doors in New York album January 17/18 1970, it’s the best live concert I’ve heard by them imo!
Excellent, I had things to do but will start em now. That was an amazing last tape/movie. I enjoyed the interplay with band and family that was there. Didn’t see much of Hunter tho he was there. What fun. I love this band. And ending it with Garcias ‘The Wheel’ was ice9 on the cake. 😂
Thanks for posting this gem showing the Workingman's Dead... (is that St Stephen/China Cat Sunflower after the jump-cut at 1:37:40 ?)... as ever a band in movement with a growing repertoire. (A pre-Alembic bass Lesh too)...I saw them at Wembley in (was it?) '72 by which time they mostly solved the sound issues by bringing their proper tie-dye road gear over to Europe.
Thank you for posting this! Back in those days you could smoke anywhere. Jerry was very intelligent, being aware of all the stuff happening. Interesting, reading about Altamont. I didn’t realize that Meredith Hunter had a pistol, and was going to shoot someone or many. Didn’t realize how much Bob Weir was an integral part of Jerry. They played very well together! Bob did a ton of the riffage! Jerry did a lot of the rythm Until it came time to solo.
Pieces of this have been showing up for the last year or so. There's a scene in Long Strange Trip where Bobby and his wife discover this film in the vault. Sam talks about this tour in that film, as well. Said the film crew was unprepared to deal with the Grateful Dead, saying that no one told them never to drink anything around the Grateful Dead and they all got properly dosed and pretty much screwed up the film. Looks like it's slowly being put back together.
The wheel keeps turning. Thanks for this, unscripted & real, gives you the vibe like your there with them. Shame the sound guy fu**ed up the onstage recording.
Wow what a different era ! Everyone was smoking (tobacco) all the time, it is a wonder any of them made it past the age of 40. That stage show - absolutely no thought whatsoever to presentation or visual performance, it was all about the music. But when they began to play it was magical and you really did not need anything else. I was born 6 months after this festival in the nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK and I have been a Dead fan for 30 years now !
Amazing!!! At an hour and 5 minutes Parliament Funkadelics 1969 Doin’ Our Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing is playing in the background! Awesome! That made my day!
@@rossatlan5348 yes I listed below some of the groups there. Funkadelic hadn’t made it across the pond but their music had! Mungo Jerry, Black Sabbath and Traffic was at the festival though.
I Love when Jerry tells the somewhat pretentious interviewer “I was there at the thing I’m not really interested in seeing the film” referring to Woodstock.
Yeah, that quote makes me think of today's kids and how all they care about is watching video clips of past things. Nobody just enjoys the moment anymore.
At roughly 1:08 in the film as Bob Weir is being interviewed you can hear from the stage the song "WOODSTOCK" and Stephen Stills singing. Since Woodstock was in August 1969 and this English festival was in May 1970 this is probably one of the first performance of that song
At 1:06:54 Bob Weir is talking about "our new album coming out" ..... was American Beauty! Wonder if he had any idea how iconic that album would become1
The run through of Candyman is really beautiful to watch and listen to. In May of 1970 I was a year old going on two. Nevertheless, I feel so much nostalgia for this period of the Dead.
Really good to see the G.D. as individuals (which they were of course) . The rehearsal bit looking for some sort of perfection while keeping it loose. But thinking back, the telling scene was early on, Phil, who had been in England 3 days prior (making the "right" connections?) cladestinely showing his little bottle of ??? and making the Shhh...keep it under your hat, sign. Life sure was wide open and a lot more fun back in them thar days. Thanks for the video!
"What am I doing here, what does it all mean?" - Bobby Weir, always the philosopher Thanks for sharing, what incredible footage of the greatest band in the land
I didnt get on the bus till about 1977-78 American Beauty was the Album i fell in love with. Dont know why, i just did. I've been in love with the band ever since. Ive dosed, many many times, only makes me want more Grateful Dead. I cannot get enough. In the middle 1980's i turned off the radio and played Grateful Dead for years straight. Come the late 80's when touch of grey became a hit, i looked at my people and said been there done that. I had heard live years before touch of grey. Obviously dosed out of my mind. Ive seen things and been there, just wish all àre well, miss all who cant be here, only wish they could. What a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there.😊
70 was such an interesting time for the Dead. Moving from strictly heavy, acid-fueled rock in 68-69, they were getting their feet on the ground and expanding their music, in sound and lyrical content. Bringing full acoustic sets and sweet new songs, their set lists went from the Dark Star and Cryptical sets to literally anything. Look at the Capitol Theater sets from 70 (Port Chester)… so much invention and reinvention.
Probably not a popular opinion but Mickey Hart was holding the band back at the time. The music from Portchester until 10/22/74 was amazing. The couldn't have done it with Hart. Hart has his moments after he came back but the music before him could never be duplicated. It's the tightest loosest music I've ever heard. To be fair there's a handful of songs that I like better post '75. But, mostly Mickey is pretty annoying a lot of the time. He like to try and be the center of attention. "Hey look at me with my African monkey skull drum and steel beam." Billy K, is where it's at. Otherwise a very cool look into I used to dream about seeing.
@@darkstar92772 - Too right. During the earlier part of 1971 the band was a tight 5 piece ensemble with only Billy K on drums and Pigpen on keys (organ) as heard on the 'Skull & Roses' LP with Keith joining later that year on grand piano. Billy's drumming was jazzy and came thru beautifully uncluttered without the likes of Hart's regimental style. Like you, I enjoyed some of what they did together with all the percussive instruments, however in the form of a two drummer unit, found them underwhelming esp. when compared say, to their counterparts in The Allman Brothers Band, either of whom Bill could have held hold his own with, but Mickey.....no way.
This is super dope!! I think I had some very bad bootleg footage of this a long time ago. With the high divers in the pool, and a barely recognizable PIGPEN singing onstage from very very far away. The same film of the band looped over and over with an audience recording of the music playing. Lolol. This is soooo much greater. Thank you!!
Very nice video, nice and relaxing. Interesting to think thatt in a few short years they will yield Franklin's Tower, Row Jimmy, Eyes of the World, Terrapin Station, and more...
Nice to see footage of Pig Pen being interviewed ...I saw this band in 1970 and in 1971 without Micky..Billy was really cut loose and the band rocked harder then ever and is my favorite era of the band.. Sorry Micky that's just the way it was...
Which is why Billy was initially very much against Mickey coming back. He didn't want it but got out voted and remained cold to the idea for quite some time after Mickey came back. I would have loved to hear 77 with just one drummer
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Came on youtube tonight to find a marmalade recipe, spent 2 hours reliving my hippie days of the 80s, thanks for this!
Me too!
There were hippies in the 80s? I remember even the punks were gone by the 80s.
Right there with ya! Fellow 80's hippie. Most of the people I knew in the 80s were hippies! Of course, it helped being on the Dead tour for the first half of the decade.
I hope you are still living your hippie days. ❤
@@rashams1605 Minus the body odour. Man, those people reeked.
Citizens of the planet: Let's give our thanks to the person who recorded and restored this film.
You really see it as restored?
PRAISE BE ON HIGH TO THE MIGHT LIGHT IN THE SKY FOR GIVING US SOMTHING TO CALM OUR TIRED EYES
Thank you!
Agreed. We need beauty and divine humanism now, more than ever.
Hearing Mickey say he loves Pentangle is sort of the most gratifying moment to stem from my years listening to Dead music. This is delightful; we're lucky to have this footage!
Bert!
And Traffic!🎉
This is the Hollywood music festival at Madeley near Newcastle Under Lyme in England. Its about 10m away from where I live. I happened to attend this and a couple of days later I ordered Live Dead. Never looked back
Amazing!
Cool!!
And you survived????????? The best new Dead cover band call themselves "The Jerryatrics". :-)
Wasn't it a strange festival with the GD and Mungo Jerry each playing twice?
This appeared in my suggestions...thought I'd catch a couple of minutes and ended up watching it all in one sitting. Great time capsule.
Nice of you Digging it Man,,..lol
Pigpen really was quite the sweetest man. It's a trip to look back into this movie and watch him talk and just be. He was a unique, integral aspect of the band that never returned once he checked out, they never had the same energy that they had when pig was alive. God rest pigpens soul
Pigpen was a great guy always smiled when Jerry and Pigpen would drive past with the VW bug in Marin. Went to his house for birthday parties cool guy, I was the kid at 21.
Too bad he f-ed Jerry's girl and Jerry picked up heroin.
Pig Pen was a serious blues lover too. He studied the DEEP BLUES.
@@IceeDivision something wrong Jacob?
It was a "different" energy after Pig. You could argue that it had more beauty post Pig.
I’m so thankful to the people who had the presence of mind and a camera to film these moments of history. Ken Burns found some precious treasures buried in the archives in his Film about “Jazz” and it’s a priceless gem.I’ve never seen Mickey play guitar.This is literally over a half a century old now.
It wasn't really presence of mind. It was a planned documentary. That's why these segments were filmed and why cameras were on hand. It wasn't a coincidence or done on a whim . The camera crew were literally hired to film these segments.
@@adamwatson6916and🤷🏼♂️. Pretty sure they know what you are saying.
Mickey isn’t very good at guitar. Especially when a great guitar player is standing next to him “shredding”
I saw Mickey holding an acoustic guitar. Strumming here and there, sort of like if it was me doing it. Which means it should be in someone else’s hands (someone who plays).
Still, this was fun. Really brings out the personalities of each original member of the band. They really are a humble bunch of guys. You want rock n roll ego? This is NOT the film to watch. Very refreshing.
Seeing Jerry, Phil and Bob tame Candyman is priceless. Thank you for this.
I'm really glad I stumbled on this great snapshot in time. This is a nice, intimate, unrehearsed look at our favorite R&R band in real time. What I focus on is how everyone in the band is trying to be nice to each other and their hosts, and being patient with all the hassles of travel, endless questions and uncertainties of being strangers in a strange land. The Candyman rehearsal is priceless, giving us a feel for what goes into the preparation for a song's performance. Musical talent doesn't happen magically...but comes from hard, repetitive work. Pigpen's interview was fun. He never put himself in the spotlight. I sense he was pretty shy underneath it all. Weir seems so young. Lesh is goofy. Jerry is Jerry, spouting articulate, unintended wisdom with every utterance. What fun! -Jim
Hi Jim, thanks for sharing your observations…. I couldn’t say it any better, so I will get behind your words. …. Much love and respect to you…Tom
This is a year after I started listening to them. I never stopped. My husband and I saw them between 300 and 400 times . Bobby was just a baby then
This is so moving, a portal to the past, now years later a peak into the band's souls, innocence, ambition, certainty. Forever grateful for the contribution and the invaluable memories.
* peek
Grateful?
I'm overwhelmed and overjoyed that this precious visual account of the Grateful Dead exists 😊🌹💐🌻🤪
A priceless Time Machine here. After decades of listening, listening, listening, and imagining what it might have been like to be there (with the precious few filmed moments we had all seen up to now), here we finally see so many more extraordinary things. I think seeing Pig in the trailer and hearing him converse is one of the highlights of this footage but it’s all incredible. Thank you!
Time machine no doubt! Stay kind my friend!
Jerry's comments about 25-30 minutes in about Altamont vs Woodstock, the Jefferson Airplane modus operandi, Zappa, New Riders and other touchstones is fascinating... articulate and in-touch
How cool talking about New riders and Hot tuna…great stuff
All of the pop and rock world, stars -( Lennon,McCartney, the dead,stones,doors, Buffalo Springfield,Jeff Beck,Clapton,page,eventually made the pilgrimage to frank Zappa’s house to hang out
Absolutely amazing to see these musicians interact with each other and with the surrounding press. Keep in mind Jerry is 27 yo. Seeing a conversation with Pigpen who looks well. What a treat to see this. Thank you
Jerry was 27 here, but looked 47. The life drain showed on him already.
@@MyCleverHandle yep, his self destruction was a sad journey to watch.
Awesome. This is why i love the internet. Thank you, everyone.
Correct.......this is the internet gold.....if it's your thing
Thank you for being Kind my friend!
I enjoy the look into the early work of the band on the road. I see Sam Cutler who managed the tour. Weir really flirted with the interviewer. I love how it shows the traveling, rehearsal and setup of the band on the road at that early stage of the Dead. I loved how it ended with the studio version of the Wheel, the band was a constant wheel turning and making music to make people smile and be happy. I love the sound of the 70s Dead. Thanks for this drop.
They invented free-wheeling rock music, experiences at their shows was unmatched
freakin brilliant..just wow..if the camera crew was dosed its why this footage is soooo real and naturally shot!! Just flows and the audio is superb! THANKS
I remember seeing Pigpen and I thought he could really beat me up if he wanted to. Now I find out he was a good guy. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing a rare one.
I've already commented once, but damn, this video is so fun to watch. This pretty much sums up as to why I have loved this band for the past 45 years. Thank you for posting this gem!
This...could not have surfaced at a more, opportunistic time, immediately after the passing of one PHIL LESH...But grateful am I that it did...nice to relive the good old days and grateful shall I remain...Thank you. This has become part of my ever-growing GD Archives...
What a joy watching Garcia, Lesh and Weir harmonizing on Candy Man
I agree. That's about as real as you'll ever get of those guys.
Phil doing poppers is exactly what I needed to see! ty yt recs!
Niceee I was hoping that was what he was smelling I didn't know if it was something else he got on vacation
Thank you for posting. Such wonderful candid footage of this great band.
this is FANTASTIC; priceless treasure as far as I am concerned; thanks so much for posting this!!!!!
1970 to 1974 were magic years for the Dead, and New Riders of the Purple Sage, with Jerry playing Pedal Steel in both groups, as well as Banjo in Old & in the Way, with David Grisman, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, etc. Jerry was a beast, making jam band/psychedelic, Country, Bluegrass, Jazz music
Agreed...71 was the year for me...
@@missujerry1 We all need to pay more attention to the fall '72 tour - we never had much until the Betty Boards came out. Every night was a massive Dark Star or Other One, and pretty much every first set closed with a 20+ minute Playin'. I think it may be the best run they ever played.
I don't doubt what you say, but Jerry himself once said famously: "If you didn't see us in '68, you missed us."
@@chicklets4ever51 I was born in ‘68 😂Saw my share of shows from ‘86 to the end in ‘95. I am so grateful!
@@sunspot6502 Fall 72 is a highlight within a high light.
amazing quality to the video, and jerry's confidence makes this really enjoyable. like speaking with an old friend, or brother.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE!! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! THANKS FOR POSTING THIS HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE DEAD. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Jerry made sure I met all of the dead family in Sanfrancisco in the 80 s ! What a treat it was to b with him as long as I was !
Grist for the mill. 🎉 this is great footage. Audio excellence.
I like that Pig Pen interview, tough outside, but so sweet inside, a good guy. A totally amazing film, I was a 14 y.o. teenager at the time and Truckin' (on the FM radio) was my invitation, probably in early 1971. For the most part, the soundcheck, the interviews, and other dialog are all sides of the band we normally don't see.
R.I.P. Jerry, Pig, Phil, and anyone on the crew that passed away since this May 1970 Newcastle England gig was filmed. Thank you very much, Garloo, for posting this cool film.
At 58:22-58:24, cameo of John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne with his woman at that time. Would've been fresh out of the debut Black Sabbath self-titled debut LP and probably in the works of the soon to be Paranoid album set for release in the fall of that year. Really weird to see Ozzy around a bunch of dead-head hippies at that time, since he was so anti-hippie even from the start. This is also in England, so checks out that it is him all the more. At first I couldn't quite tell, but I paused the shot just to be sure and Ozzy's wearing the same leather jacket he had on in a poster I had of Sabbath from that same time frame. Pretty awesome!
You get the eagle-eye award - thank you! Aw, he's so young...
Ozzy wasn't anti hippie it's just cool to sing about awful shit, even the Dead knew that. Ozzy took plenty of acid etc and the Dead were at their best torturing the audience and freaking everyone the fuck out. The hippie movement was always bullshit but the psychedelic movement is what's up because its terrifying to the ego. Nobody's scared of hippies but everyone's scared of seeing reality dissolve around them (well, almost everyone lol)
Good eye though I had a feeling they'd crossed paths
On second thought I might be anti hippie myself lol but i do love the Dead and even the Deadheads
Ozzy was a pot head and an acid head so I don't know how anti hippie he was .
Besides Its hardly weird to see a rock singer at a festival hanging out with other artists.
Sabbath played festivals all the time .
An Anti hippie long haired pot head acid taking rock singer? This idea doesn't hold water
Is that Ozzy at 58:24? Great Doc!! Thanks for uploading!
Yup.
I saw this once years ago and had a hard time finding it again. Ozzy was a hippy at heart. War Pigs, Crazy Train, etc. I took a screenshot this time.
It's fun to see the Dead playing in the UK in 1970. They're such an American band -- a total blend of American music styles. Obviously a lot of people went to these shows, but I wonder what English people thought of the music and how they related to it. I feel like you have to have lived in the USA for a big part of your life and experienced various corners of America to really understand the vibe of the Grateful Dead and their musical roots.
Maybe this is true of a lot of American bands, and maybe the reverse is true of some UK bands (maybe The Who?), but the Grateful Dead have always struck me as having a very deep rooting in some traditions and communities in America. I think that's part of the reason why their serious fans didn't just think of them as a music group but rather as the anchor of a community and an identity.
Absolutely precious and priceless footage. More than a half century ago.
This is the best thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
Boy, then you ain't seen nothin' yet... I envy you!
You must be very young.
Need to get out more
thanx so much! this is behind the scenes stuff from their best era. 'GRATEFUL DEAD', the double LP live record, and of course, 'AMERICAN BEAUTY'. Jerry's SG period. I always like to catch Jerry getting back to bluegrass, or acoustic playing, if you will. hearing him noodle w/ an unplugged SG, is just terrific. nobody sounds like that! whether it's the USA or the UK, they're still the DEAD.
This is amazing it’s the first time I’ve ever heard PIGPEN talk let alone do an interview this is so COOL🟤
Thank you so much for sharing this. So amazing to see them in their peak times.
The Garcia interview on the couch is just amazing.
Oh man what a treat. Watching them work out "Candyman" is my favorite part.
Thank you Garloo for sharing this. Not only have I been addicted to the Grateful Dead, but also their illustrious history.
The history is fascinating. To me, tracing the history of a Grateful Dead song (whether an original or cover), reminds me of tracing the history of a thoroughbred racehorse. In both of those studies, one can get a sense of the time period from which they originate, the condition of the world, generally and in depth, and most of all, it takes me to the people and gives me sense of connection, an intimacy even, to them and their unique situations.
😅😅😅 Illustrious? LOL OK. Great band, for sure. But generally a bunch of degenerate drug addicts that were freaked out by 'deadheads', hated tie-dye, and wouldn't ever hang out with the weirdos that spent a lifetime following them around. Garcia not even mature enough to go for a checkup or cut back on cigarettes and milkshakes, didn't even make it past 54 years old. Nice. What a role model.
@@Anndee4Palestine I'm not the huge music part of it, but I do know tons more than the regular person, as I've read several books about them, history of dead, Jerry's biography by the mates, and know how to play several songs by them in different bands in my life, but some songs are just not my thing, but that said, I could say the same about blues music before I learned how to play it, then all a sudden it got interesting 😂 but the sad droning songs and sloppy style was always a turn off to me, but then when they are on, they crazy tight, so they just played by their own rules, and looked at music differently than anyone else, and the traveling family around them, then the extended circus of ppl all making a living from just being in the tribe is a wild story in itself, all culmination of Jerry being godlike and especially after death, no other band in history has that kind of legendary tale
There must be something to it... I mean, look at the extensive archive associated with Grateful Dead. How many musical groups can you retrieve a recording of a concert perhaps you attended 20 years ago and actually listen to it today (or maybe even a video exists of that day to watch)? Grateful Dead were a peoples band who offered freedom of expression and inclusiveness. Everyone was welcome and they were , in a unique way, very generous to their fans, they supported the communities they lived in and in so many ways they gave and gave . Of everything Jerry Garcia may have been, nobody could say he was greedy. I do not believe Jerry perceived himself to be a role model "his job is to shed light, and not to master".
From my unique perspective, I grew up in the Bay Area and my parents were Grateful Dead fans from early on (mid-sixties) so I never had to discover the band and their music has always existed as far as I knew. As a rebellious teenager I avoided it like the plague ,turning to harder stuff and punk rock until I went to a GD show in my early 20's. I was shocked at feeling so comfortable amongst the crowd and how familiar the music was to me like I knew most of those songs they were playing and I understood most of what was happening around me (although the "Spinners " kinda freaked me out). Im not sure what Im getting at except that the Grateful Dead , and Jerry in particular, played a significant supportive role in the communities that make up the Bay Area and I identify with them in that way also. That is my perception of them. Now I enjoy having access to all those shows and deciphering the bands history and contemplating the lyrics and analyzing the music etc etc.... Its Grate Fun!
It's great that you're able to see all this stuff on the internet considering that they're all lost. I've never seen so many lost things before. It's wonderful!
I used to have to go to blockbuster they had an end cap with rock concert videos.
I see what you did there...
It was formerly lost, bit has now been found. It's not hard
"I've never seen so many lost things before": beware, you might be losing even more...
@@jmsjms296 I'm so glad they're able to find these lost things otherwise they would just stay lost 😅
This vid was so much fun! Thanks so much for posting! I loved Jerry boppin around with his super 8 camera! Thanks again guys! John~ Philadelphia 🌹
Such an amazing era for the band.... Behind the scenes Mickeys dad was fixing to rip them off, out front they still had Pig, and back in the jam room they were about to release a few albums that would set the course to an amazing decade of music.
I was thinking the same thing about old Mickey.
Was thinking the same thing about those few albums.
love seeing Jerry and Phil playing the old Gibsons
Bobby is also playing a Gibson . He's using his mid 60s Gibson ES 345.
Best "fly on the wall" be there now video I've ever seen. Really dig the behind the scenes peek into the picyune of some formative stuff .
Thanks to lack of editing
“That’s close enough for rock n roll!!”
Words to live by!! Thanks for this! It’s wonderful!! 😊
Thanks for publishing this, oh Great Garloo.
Wow! What a fun flick! Thank you for posting. Interesting hearing 'The Wheel' at the end . I love the pedal steel . Anyway, I feel pleasantly surprised. and happy after watching this film. Cheers!!!🍻
Can’t believe that nobody has mentioned that at the 60 min mark with Pig in the trailer you can clearly hear the Stones playing Midnight Rambler outside onstage. Epic.
It's just a record being played between acts.
if you listen closely, you can tell it`s actually "get yer ya-ya`s out" that you can hear being played, note for note...
Yes i see that is so cool man very amazing
NOT the Stones live- they weren't on the bill- must be a recording..
The Stones are sloppy lazy live. Mehh
The pigpen years were the best. I liked the band with all Gibson equipment, they had a rockier and more powerful sound. ok even after 74 there is a little bit of gold here and there on stage but they also started playing the songs slower and the sound of the band became cleaner. 1965 - 1974 best years
Tempo wise I find 77 the exception to the slower temp latter years. 76 was kind of slow clunky and much too loose. In 77 they get much tighter and they speed up the Tempos to more of a pre 76 state but then in 78 they really start to transition into that slow plodding Tempo which fully develop in 1980 and stay that way untill the end although they did speed up the tempos a little bit in 1987 to 1990 but not near enough.
There is a bounce in 77 they didn't have in any other year post 1973.
This is so awesome an intimate, indepth look at the band their mannerisms and personalities thanks for posting. Love Jerry's vodka and orange juice haha!!
This snapshot in time is liquid gold, felt like being a groupie along for a quick trip. Pig was looking good, all were just enjoying the experience, no egos, just real raw in the moment quip .
loved the parts between 20-30min with Cutler explaining shilling amd pence for a tip. The interview Jerry gave to some journalist was very interesting on so many things. I was very impressed with how Jerry's diction in particular. Great find!!
First time I (and presumably most of the crowd) saw the Dead live - Hollywood Festival, near Newcastle under Lyme - May Bank Holiday 1970 - baking hot weekend - I fell asleep shirtless on that hillside and discovered the difference between sunburn and sunstroke! Great to come across this and hear some of the gig again - more appreciative now than I was then - Bickershaw two years later was when I really took off with the band.
Mungo Jerry were the breakout stars of the show. The only way the organisers could get the audience to stop calling for more was to promise they'd play again the next day. Ginger Baker's Airforce were next on - cries of "fuck off Ginger Baker". Great festival.
This was so amazingly awesome!!!!!! I enjoyed every single second! Thank you!
With all the endless smoking drinking drug taking it’s a miracle that so many of these guys are still here, Phil Lesh God bless him is like 84 years old
when you see footage like this, you can really see the dark, dark times we now live in: the curtain is slowly coming down.
I obsess on this concept everyday there's days or weeks or months or years I don't get out of bed .... I just hope they keep coming... A few months ago on here I saw footage of Tony Williams Lifetime in Color and I couldn't believe they found the lost 55 year footage ... They're emptying those vaults out it's all we have .... Because all the new stuff even shit many call good I'm not convinced....
Just because things aren't to your liking it doesn't mean we're living in dark times. There have been many, many, way darker times than now throughout history. Stop listening to Fox News.
Right, right, and being a teenager watching the draft lottery on TV to see if you were going to get sent off to die on the other side of the planet was so much better. Lol
@CarrboroJoe outloets liek what are those words ....
@@allrequiredfields HUH WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT STOP TAKING SO MUCH LSD
Miss you Jerry - thanks for the post
Jerry was very intelligent and well spoken. He spoke more like a scholar than a musician.
He would expound on the great battles of history in depth during some smoke sessions at the Barn. Well read intellectual.
@@davidcollin1436 Yep, that ought to slam shut the mouths of all those who call him a wasted dopehead. I would love to hear or read some of his conversations with Hunter...
The LA Times called him one of the most intelligent and articulate rock stars
He went to University that’s where he met Phil and Jerry went to the army.
Hell of a sense of humor as well
This is some of the greatest documentary footage I've ever seen. NFA⚡️
Sam Cutler... And "Oh, and I cut my toe". This is really well directed in my opinion. The camera does it's job. And then there are all the rough edges... the sound guy... tap-tap, whenever he gets in shot. Brilliant.
This just my day! Don't care what the rest of the day brings. Thanks..no many thanks and keep on keeping on.
This an amazing classic Dead ❤️🎵👍😊. Thanks 🙏 for posting
Conversation with the English journalist is a fantastic culture study of the American underground of the gonzo early 70's.
Wow thanks for sharing this such a Gem of a find!!! Time stamp of a historical Band that I adore!! Thank you!
Very cool, I was 17 in 1970, was at the Hollywood Music Festival, but unfortunately I must of been having such a great time I can’t remember much about it now. Black Sabbath played and Mungo Jerry with In the Summertime which became a big hit. The Grateful Dead were just one of many bands that played! 🎉. To think this is 52 years ago and now I’am 70. My hair was long and I already had a regular job and had to wear my hair in a pony tail. I was more into Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin who I also saw in 1970, I already had Anthem of the Sun which I loved and found it very quirky compared to most bands at the time! Lesser known bands I saw a lot were Stray and Quintessence, usually at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm London
I was there as well. I'm pretty sure that Stray played on the Saturday.
Did you happen to see Jim Morrison and the Doors around that time? I used to think their music was a bit strange, weird vibe, but musically and lyrically very interesting.
@@soundshaper Yes, saw the Doors at the Isle of Wight festival along with Jimi Hendrix the Who, Joni Mitchell etc. What we all noticed about Jim was how powerful his voice was! Checkout the live Doors in New York album January 17/18 1970, it’s the best live concert I’ve heard by them imo!
SO. FUCKING. LUCKY!
Black Sabbath and Grateful Dead on the same bill ? Wow did the hippies in the audience seem to like Sabbath ?
Excellent, I had things to do but will start em now. That was an amazing last tape/movie. I enjoyed the interplay with band and family that was there. Didn’t see much of Hunter tho he was there. What fun. I love this band. And ending it with Garcias ‘The Wheel’ was ice9 on the cake. 😂
Thanks for posting this gem showing the Workingman's Dead... (is that St Stephen/China Cat Sunflower after the jump-cut at 1:37:40 ?)... as ever a band in movement with a growing repertoire. (A pre-Alembic bass Lesh too)...I saw them at Wembley in (was it?) '72 by which time they mostly solved the sound issues by bringing their proper tie-dye road gear over to Europe.
Thank you for posting this!
Back in those days you could smoke anywhere. Jerry was very intelligent, being aware of all the stuff happening.
Interesting, reading about Altamont.
I didn’t realize that Meredith Hunter had a pistol, and was going to shoot someone or many.
Didn’t realize how much Bob Weir was an integral part of Jerry. They played very well together! Bob did a ton of the riffage! Jerry did a lot of the rythm
Until it came time to solo.
The GL jam made my day. Thank you for posting.
EXCELLENT FOOTAGE !!! I never seen this before....thanks for posting this :)
“We’re now experiencing one of the outside waves” -Jerry
Smoking at airports wow . 60s freedom.
Thank you for this, I found it fascinating.
Such an atmosphere that doesn't exist anymore, sad but kinda warm ? Old times are not forgotten.
Pieces of this have been showing up for the last year or so. There's a scene in Long Strange Trip where Bobby and his wife discover this film in the vault. Sam talks about this tour in that film, as well. Said the film crew was unprepared to deal with the Grateful Dead, saying that no one told them never to drink anything around the Grateful Dead and they all got properly dosed and pretty much screwed up the film. Looks like it's slowly being put back together.
@@psst...heyyou6508 Bobby and Mickey were used to it.
Pigpen stayed that way
I still wanna hear the Peter Green tape
The full film has been available for 5 years now as the bonus DVD on 'Long Strange Trip'
I would love to be dosed by Grateful Dead hahaahaaha They had the good Owsley stuff. Most potent LSD ever
The wheel keeps turning. Thanks for this, unscripted & real, gives you the vibe like your there with them. Shame the sound guy fu**ed up the onstage recording.
So cool to hear funkadelic's first album in the background when Bobby's being interviewed
Wow what a different era ! Everyone was smoking (tobacco) all the time, it is a wonder any of them made it past the age of 40. That stage show - absolutely no thought whatsoever to presentation or visual performance, it was all about the music. But when they began to play it was magical and you really did not need anything else. I was born 6 months after this festival in the nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK and I have been a Dead fan for 30 years now !
Amazing!!! At an hour and 5 minutes Parliament Funkadelics 1969 Doin’ Our Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing is playing in the background! Awesome! That made my day!
Love Bootsy and his Funkadelic band.
Excellent catch! ...they must be cranking this between bands... the record came out early 1970
@@rossatlan5348 yes I listed below some of the groups there. Funkadelic hadn’t made it across the pond but their music had! Mungo Jerry, Black Sabbath and Traffic was at the festival though.
@@dbarbour8352Bootsy had not joined yet by 1970. im pretty sure he was still playing with James Brown at this point
I Love when Jerry tells the somewhat pretentious interviewer “I was there at the thing I’m not really interested in seeing the film” referring to Woodstock.
Yeah, that quote makes me think of today's kids and how all they care about is watching video clips of past things. Nobody just enjoys the moment anymore.
I was there man..nuf said
At roughly 1:08 in the film as Bob Weir is being interviewed you can hear from the stage the song "WOODSTOCK" and Stephen Stills singing. Since Woodstock was in August 1969 and this English festival was in May 1970 this is probably one of the first performance of that song
At 1:06:54 Bob Weir is talking about "our new album coming out" ..... was American Beauty! Wonder if he had any idea how iconic that album would become1
this is the best docu of the dead...its so natural
The run through of Candyman is really beautiful to watch and listen to. In May of 1970 I was a year old going on two. Nevertheless, I feel so much nostalgia for this period of the Dead.
Watching the tunning in fifths (to stop the sound vibrating) (42.00) reminded me of the era before tuners.
WOW!! There is some very cool stuff here....Thanks for posting!
This was a couple of years before my first show. Puts a good perspective on where they came from as they expanded their music.
Really good to see the G.D. as individuals (which they were of course) . The rehearsal bit looking for some sort of perfection while keeping it loose. But thinking back, the telling scene was early on, Phil, who had been in England 3 days prior (making the "right" connections?) cladestinely showing his little bottle of ??? and making the Shhh...keep it under your hat, sign. Life sure was wide open and a lot more fun back in them thar days. Thanks for the video!
Arsenault...? Louisiana?
And I agree, it's sad how uptight society has become, and indeed: what is Lesh showing???
@@randalclarke5487 - Massachusetts via Canada (relatives) now much further west. Lesh has been my fave member of the G.D.
It's interesting to listen to Jerry, he's so astute and has a very good memory for detail. I can see why he was such an amazing artist.
"What am I doing here, what does it all mean?" - Bobby Weir, always the philosopher
Thanks for sharing, what incredible footage of the greatest band in the land
I didnt get on the bus till about 1977-78 American Beauty was the Album i fell in love with. Dont know why, i just did. I've been in love with the band ever since. Ive dosed, many many times, only makes me want more Grateful Dead. I cannot get enough. In the middle 1980's i turned off the radio and played Grateful Dead for years straight. Come the late 80's when touch of grey became a hit, i looked at my people and said been there done that. I had heard live years before touch of grey. Obviously dosed out of my mind. Ive seen things and been there, just wish all àre well, miss all who cant be here, only wish they could. What a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there.😊
What a long strange trip it’s been….
70 was such an interesting time for the Dead. Moving from strictly heavy, acid-fueled rock in 68-69, they were getting their feet on the ground and expanding their music, in sound and lyrical content. Bringing full acoustic sets and sweet new songs, their set lists went from the Dark Star and Cryptical sets to literally anything. Look at the Capitol Theater sets from 70 (Port Chester)… so much invention and reinvention.
One of my favorite runs is ‘71 Port Chester. Thanks for bringing that up, haven’t listened to it in a while.
They were spending a lot of time with David Crosby, i.e. which is why American Beauty became the masterpiece that it is.
Probably not a popular opinion but Mickey Hart was holding the band back at the time. The music from Portchester until 10/22/74 was amazing. The couldn't have done it with Hart. Hart has his moments after he came back but the music before him could never be duplicated. It's the tightest loosest music I've ever heard. To be fair there's a handful of songs that I like better post '75. But, mostly Mickey is pretty annoying a lot of the time. He like to try and be the center of attention. "Hey look at me with my African monkey skull drum and steel beam." Billy K, is where it's at. Otherwise a very cool look into I used to dream about seeing.
@@darkstar92772 - Too right. During the earlier part of 1971 the band was a tight 5 piece ensemble with only Billy K on drums and Pigpen on keys (organ) as heard on the 'Skull & Roses' LP with Keith joining later that year on grand piano. Billy's drumming was jazzy and came thru beautifully uncluttered without the likes of Hart's regimental style. Like you, I enjoyed some of what they did together with all the percussive instruments, however in the form of a two drummer unit, found them underwhelming esp. when compared say, to their counterparts in The Allman Brothers Band, either of whom Bill could have held hold his own with, but Mickey.....no way.
@@darkstar92772 imagine having to mic 2 massive drum sets for the Wall of Sound PA. That would have been a feat !
This is super dope!! I think I had some very bad bootleg footage of this a long time ago. With the high divers in the pool, and a barely recognizable PIGPEN singing onstage from very very far away. The same film of the band looped over and over with an audience recording of the music playing. Lolol. This is soooo much greater. Thank you!!
Jerry was so present and engaged and forthcoming here… *sigh*
Very nice video, nice and relaxing. Interesting to think thatt in a few short years they will yield Franklin's Tower, Row Jimmy, Eyes of the World, Terrapin Station, and more...
Candyman is cool warm up. Love the harmonies. Raw and real music.
12-18-22 and loving it! best band ever.
Nice to see footage of Pig Pen being interviewed ...I saw this band in 1970 and in 1971 without Micky..Billy was really cut loose and the band rocked harder then ever and is my favorite era of the band.. Sorry Micky that's just the way it was...
I agree 100%.
I prefer the "Billy only" years myself.
I thought they were tighter and sounded crisper with one drummer.
Which is why Billy was initially very much against Mickey coming back. He didn't want it but got out voted and remained cold to the idea for quite some time after Mickey came back.
I would have loved to hear 77 with just one drummer
"I may be able to hang around for a while...." - Pigpen (never truer words spoken)