"Although some early versions of Iko Iko appeared out of Drums and Space, by 1984 it was primarily a set opener, both the first and second sets. Whenever those opening notes of Iko Iko opened a first or second set, it felt like party time was starting, and a fun set was coming up." - David Lemieux
So lucky to have been a part of this. Truly a unique thing that transports me back with ease- getting up on the day of the show with anticipation and excitement. The community of true original deadheads was/is incomparable to any other musical experience. A true phenomenon, back then I didn’t think it was anything more than really digging the scene and once Jerry would play and all cares just drifted away and the dancing began. I feel really bad for people that didn’t get it.
I followed them up the East Coast of the US in the 80's as a teen, paying my way by selling Tye Dyes and other things. I will never forget it. It's carved into my bones. One of the best experiences of my life. It ended in Saratoga NY. Which wasn't fun. but it had nothing to do with the band and all to do with Authorities.
Want to see some great stink eye? Check the Loser from Crimson White & Indigo. Bobby has some whacky guitar sound going and Jerry looks at him like "What the fuck are you doing to my song ." Priceless!
Something about seeing older Jerry play wolf just seems mythical. It’s like “I know that guitar but that doesn’t look like it’s master. I also know that master but that doesn’t look like his guitar.” So used to seeing grey Jerry with Tiger. Love Wolf! Love Jerry!!
For me, Brent and Mickey made this particular era of the Dead special. Of course, it took all their various strengths to make the special music they made, but during this era, Brent brought those giant build-ups and washes on that Hammond (as well as the fat plunky-funk seen here throughout), and, while Mick could be overbearing at times, he got behind those buildups and used those toms and cymbals to make us feel it even more (and his passion was always so evident). Sure, Jerry was the man, and Bob always provided the choppy, dance-able rhythm, and Phil brought his bass style that, in fact, made the band what they were, but, during the late 80s--particularly 89 and early 90--it was Brent and Mickey whose musical voices really helped to push them up to that late-era peak. And what a peak it was!!!!
You can see how much fun the boys are having, its written on their faces. This is them at their late era best. So great to see the smiles, you can hear it in the playing🙂.
For me late era best starts mid to late 87 and ran through summer 90. Peak being Summer 89 to Spring 90 but that whole period was one high ridgeline of peaks and no valleys, just mountain tops during tours and ridges/crests between shows.
alot of fun, except when bob misses the chorus of "hey now" and jerry looks over like "wtf?" you can tell by bob's body language (pointing the back of his head towards Jerry), that he was equally upset at Jerry grimacing, and even at one point looking at the camera like "wtf camera dude, you caught all this, get the effin camera off me" yes, even peace loving hippie cool bands like the dead had struggles internally sometimes they were probably over it almost immediately, the entire "tension" lasted like all of 10 seconds llol
@@cemzafir3568 one tour down and another to go....wait..😢😭😑🙂😀🥳🤡...someone has to keep the music going though I do miss the atmosphere and multigenerational crowds, the one positive thing towards the end when things ran amok.
Must've been Bobby looking in his mirror that he attached to Billy's kit. Maybe drinking some beverage so he can spray with cobra like accuracy and distance. Of course Weir still here for ya Bob.
I’m finishing up a CD project which is been a total bummer, like whoever wants to work in a studio again after this pandemic! Anyways, I told the producer that I wanna have a party once the CD manufacturing is done, but the New Orleans funeral march party! And then low behold Iko pops up on my TH-cam feed, thank you Jerry!
Yes, this pandemic is horrible. But I am just thankful that we will have a steady stream of mRNA vaccines for the next 5-10 years. Also, we are protected by wearing two masks as well as a face shield in addition to rigorous social distancing. I religously watch my TV news every night, eagerly awaiting their next piece of advice. #DancingintheStreets
Sorry you've been having a rough time. We just cut a track with Joe Krown (NOLA keyboard master) that I hope y'all will be able to see. Recording this winter kept me sane. This song, even with Jerry's weirdass sax solos, kills.
The second to last West coast show before they headed back East for the third time that year. I saw them on all three legs in the east. Greensboro, Cincinnati, Louisville..... Then that summer, Foxboro, Buffalo .... And then that fall I got to see the infamous Warlocks shows in Hampton as well as the Charlotte coliseum shows.I was going to school in southwestern Virginia which put me right smack dab in the heart of a lot of their East coast touring, and I lived in upstate New York which put me back home for the summer when they played foxborough andn Buffalo
I was at a good few of those same shows as I too was in college in VA at the time. What a great time to be 19-21 years old...so many great memories for a lifetime!
@@ericwoodard1103 where did you go to school? I was down at Radford from 88 to 90 before I dropped out. Largely because I spent most of 89 following the Dead, and trying to start my own hippie-centric criminal Enterprise. And yes to be 19 years old in 1989! Oh if only I could go back
@@markbeebe125 I am a native of Roanoke; I was at Hampden-Sydney College at the time from 87-91. I made it to most of the shows in mid-Atlantic, though I often hit one or two of three or whatever. Between 89-91, we hit Greensboro a couple of times, Raleigh, DC (several times, including the Ripple night at the Cap Center), Louisville, Charlotte (I think), and, of course, Hampton for the Warlocks (Night One only--though I hate I missed the dropping of Dark Star, my girlfriend at the time and I were up front, on the rail, for Night One and Help-Slip-Franklin's which was ecstatic. I think of these time often, both nostalgically and gratefully. In 88 and 89, I managed to experience the last days of a true Shakedown Street out in the lot and enjoyed a number of nights sleeping in the lot in the car. I continued to see them, with somewhat less frequency, until Spring of 95 at Charlotte, where I honestly left knowing the magic was if not over, diminishing very quickly. That summer I intentionally stayed away and, coincidentally, caught my first Phish show at Walnut Creek in Raleigh--one era was closing and another was just opening up!!!!
One time I astral projected at shoreline and started hovering towards the sky during playing in the band and I could in fact see the steal your face from space, pretty cool!
1986 5 year affair ended, dumped. No job, waiting misdemeanor sentencing. Bro said come to Cali. Flew down, fuck it all. He's at a dead concert Bay area. His friend picks me up. Ray comes in singing Iko Iko. What a weight was lifted. Been in NorCal since. Saved my life. He's gone and bless him. I am still IKOing.
Great Iko (a fun song that could at times feel a bit uninspired IMHO)! I love how the delay on the vocals comes through on this recording--gives it a more real "live" sound! Oh, and how animated is Jerry!?!?! Too, this sooooooo reminds me of how much I enjoyed Brent on that Hammond!!
It’s a midi patch. They experimented with them in the late 80s. Modern equivalent would be to buy a MIDI pickup or a Roland guitar. Tho I’m sure there’s pedals like the EHX (maybe) POG which would get you somewhere similar
Hey now hey now Iko iko I'm dead Jackamo be no other man Jackamo be my man It's about the town herbalist from New Orleans a long time ago, he was all dressed in black and had a skull face
Aloha Bobby it Joe Graham. Make me remember the best times and shows of my life. I hope to get a Gmail from you again. I know you're busy, so if and when you can Blessings,❤ n Aloha from Maui, Hi.
"Although some early versions of Iko Iko appeared out of Drums and Space, by 1984 it was primarily a set opener, both the first and second sets. Whenever those opening notes of Iko Iko opened a first or second set, it felt like party time was starting, and a fun set was coming up." - David Lemieux
One of the most fun songs ever! Many thanks! ⚡️✌🏽😀
5 nights at anyplace, open the 2nd set with or out of drums/space , this will set your ass on fire. Jerry's majic guitar pumpin the sax sound
Indeed. Dos Ikos started yo show of right!
Please consider uploading these with a picture in picture option for us cell phone streamers. ❤️❤️❤️
Laissez Les bons temps rouler!!
Never mind the MIDI effects….Brent is TEARING IT UP on the organ! Great stuff!!!
Anyone that has ever been to a Dead concert knows it's an experience of a lifetime.👍👍
I was lucky to have seen the Dead 150+ Times,and it was a experience of a lifetime.
So lucky to have been a part of this. Truly a unique thing that transports me back with ease- getting up on the day of the show with anticipation and excitement. The community of true original deadheads was/is incomparable to any other musical experience. A true phenomenon, back then I didn’t think it was anything more than really digging the scene and once Jerry would play and all cares just drifted away and the dancing began.
I feel really bad for people that didn’t get it.
you guys are making me jealous
I followed them up the East Coast of the US in the 80's as a teen, paying my way by selling Tye Dyes and other things. I will never forget it. It's carved into my bones. One of the best experiences of my life. It ended in Saratoga NY. Which wasn't fun. but it had nothing to do with the band and all to do with Authorities.
1:10 when Jer gives ya the stink eye :o)
Oh yea. How cool man. Bobby...why aren't you singing????
Want to see some great stink eye? Check the Loser from Crimson White & Indigo. Bobby has some whacky guitar sound going and Jerry looks at him like "What the fuck are you doing to my song ." Priceless!
he told bobby "get yo bitchazz up here"
"Hey Weir, start singing or I'll 'set your ass on fire'."
And Bobby comes running, like oh shi**!
Jerry, Bobby & Brent seeming very happy and having some fun. Man, how I LOVE The Grateful Goddamn Dead!!
This video/song SAVED me tonight. I’m depressed but i knew that this magical band could save me. It did. I’m forever grateful.
Something about seeing older Jerry play wolf just seems mythical. It’s like “I know that guitar but that doesn’t look like it’s master. I also know that master but that doesn’t look like his guitar.”
So used to seeing grey Jerry with Tiger. Love Wolf! Love Jerry!!
I'd never seen Jerry play Wolf through the midi, I remember the Strat for his trumpet solos for Mexicali but Wolf for a a sax solo is new to me.
The boys having a good time on this one! Iko was always a show fav of mine and guaranteed to get every one up & dancing.
Just try and watch this without smiling, especially Brent on the organ. 😁 Saving this one to watch again on a rainy day.
Fooking BRENT man 😊
Sooooo much fun ,so appreciate the sharing ✨✌️❤️🙏🎶✨
For me, Brent and Mickey made this particular era of the Dead special. Of course, it took all their various strengths to make the special music they made, but during this era, Brent brought those giant build-ups and washes on that Hammond (as well as the fat plunky-funk seen here throughout), and, while Mick could be overbearing at times, he got behind those buildups and used those toms and cymbals to make us feel it even more (and his passion was always so evident). Sure, Jerry was the man, and Bob always provided the choppy, dance-able rhythm, and Phil brought his bass style that, in fact, made the band what they were, but, during the late 80s--particularly 89 and early 90--it was Brent and Mickey whose musical voices really helped to push them up to that late-era peak. And what a peak it was!!!!
You can see how much fun the boys are having, its written on their faces. This is them at their late era best. So great to see the smiles, you can hear it in the playing🙂.
For me late era best starts mid to late 87 and ran through summer 90. Peak being Summer 89 to Spring 90 but that whole period was one high ridgeline of peaks and no valleys, just mountain tops during tours and ridges/crests between shows.
alot of fun, except when bob misses the chorus of "hey now" and jerry looks over like "wtf?" you can tell by bob's body language (pointing the back of his head towards Jerry), that he was equally upset at Jerry grimacing, and even at one point looking at the camera like "wtf camera dude, you caught all this, get the effin camera off me" yes, even peace loving hippie cool bands like the dead had struggles internally sometimes they were probably over it almost immediately, the entire "tension" lasted like all of 10 seconds llol
@@davidr1676 spring 87 was straight fire!!
Thank you for a big smile here at 7 a.m. Great way to start my day!
Horn section brought to you by Wolf
Midi magic
Why, why did he go away from that guitar?
@@jp783 Wolf was retrofitted with Midi. Jerry would go full time with Midi with Rosebud, which was a much lighter guitar.
@@jfr597 I understand all of that - all of his guitars until that last dreadful one were heavy, but he always played so well with Wolf
And this is why Jerry is probably one of my favorite guitarist of all time.
Brent ! Great job !
Phil laying it down like no other ! I wish I could hear him isolated on this.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE GRATEFUL DEAD AND 2-18-71! 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.
I MISS YOU ALL.
50!
@@cemzafir3568 Damnit!:) You are right of course. Bad Jack. Math good. I don't care about no stinking math. I just shot my buddy down!
@@jackstraw4129 well, one man gone and another to go...
@@cemzafir3568 one tour down and another to go....wait..😢😭😑🙂😀🥳🤡...someone has to keep the music going though I do miss the atmosphere and multigenerational crowds, the one positive thing towards the end when things ran amok.
1:11 - God Damnit Bobby
Jerry gives "the look"
Bob: oops!
Must've been Bobby looking in his mirror that he attached to Billy's kit. Maybe drinking some beverage so he can spray with cobra like accuracy and distance. Of course Weir still here for ya Bob.
@@davidr1676 that’s hilarious dude - I often say “I love Bobby” and “Bob is such a tool” multiple times a day
@@davidr1676 Yea that. Or fiddling with some amp knob that he fiddled with a million times before.
I like how Bobby kept looking the other way. No chance we was going to look back over his left shoulder. If looks could kill.
I was there and too high to remember. So many wonderful moments lost to the ether. C'est la vie! Iko Iko all day!
Like they say:
If you remember a GD concert ... you weren't there
Sad drugs had to ruin for you
oh, sometimes it was alcohol, too ;-)@@mse1576
Jamming hey now!!!! Iko iko thank you we all need to be grateful! Awesome 🥳❤ this is for Tracy Jean love you! 1982-2019 🌻❤
Ahh shoreline one of my favorite places to play.
😂😁
Gosh jerry I thought I was the only one you talk to these days. Cheers folks.
I miss that place this covid snit needs to end now
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jerry you need to come back man, we miss you brother. You made the world a lot cooler😎
Why did you choose to drop this today? Echos of Mardi Gras?
Thanks Y'all! 😊
89 was so on fire it was sick......glad i was there
I’m finishing up a CD project which is been a total bummer, like whoever wants to work in a studio again after this pandemic! Anyways, I told the producer that I wanna have a party once the CD manufacturing is done, but the New Orleans funeral march party! And then low behold Iko pops up on my TH-cam feed, thank you Jerry!
Yes, this pandemic is horrible. But I am just thankful that we will have a steady stream of mRNA vaccines for the next 5-10 years. Also, we are protected by wearing two masks as well as a face shield in addition to rigorous social distancing. I religously watch my TV news every night, eagerly awaiting their next piece of advice.
#DancingintheStreets
Right on brother I’m a healthcare practitioner for my day job!
Sorry you've been having a rough time.
We just cut a track with Joe Krown (NOLA keyboard master) that I hope y'all will be able to see. Recording this winter kept me sane.
This song, even with Jerry's weirdass sax solos, kills.
I was there! Always knew it was gonna be a fun night when you hear that opening beat
Lucky boy.
Miss these days ..
Bravo! A truly inspired version. It looks like they were really having fun with it. Yes, Shoreline, aka 'the garbage dump' was a great place for shows
I'm so glad i subscribed to this. Always looking forward to the new posts. The only thing that is getting me out of bed these days is The Dead! NFA!
Hey GD, you need to do more of these, being back the weekly thing, we know you have the footage!
Hey now! Hey now!
Listen, listen at the back
All our love made our king be born
All our love made it happen.
Always feels like I've found my way back to me...love them.
I Belive that “Iko Iko” is (Originally) “Cajun” “Tune”!
The second to last West coast show before they headed back East for the third time that year. I saw them on all three legs in the east. Greensboro, Cincinnati, Louisville..... Then that summer, Foxboro, Buffalo .... And then that fall I got to see the infamous Warlocks shows in Hampton as well as the Charlotte coliseum shows.I was going to school in southwestern Virginia which put me right smack dab in the heart of a lot of their East coast touring, and I lived in upstate New York which put me back home for the summer when they played foxborough andn Buffalo
I was at a good few of those same shows as I too was in college in VA at the time. What a great time to be 19-21 years old...so many great memories for a lifetime!
@@ericwoodard1103 where did you go to school? I was down at Radford from 88 to 90 before I dropped out. Largely because I spent most of 89 following the Dead, and trying to start my own hippie-centric criminal Enterprise. And yes to be 19 years old in 1989! Oh if only I could go back
@@markbeebe125 I am a native of Roanoke; I was at Hampden-Sydney College at the time from 87-91. I made it to most of the shows in mid-Atlantic, though I often hit one or two of three or whatever. Between 89-91, we hit Greensboro a couple of times, Raleigh, DC (several times, including the Ripple night at the Cap Center), Louisville, Charlotte (I think), and, of course, Hampton for the Warlocks (Night One only--though I hate I missed the dropping of Dark Star, my girlfriend at the time and I were up front, on the rail, for Night One and Help-Slip-Franklin's which was ecstatic. I think of these time often, both nostalgically and gratefully. In 88 and 89, I managed to experience the last days of a true Shakedown Street out in the lot and enjoyed a number of nights sleeping in the lot in the car. I continued to see them, with somewhat less frequency, until Spring of 95 at Charlotte, where I honestly left knowing the magic was if not over, diminishing very quickly. That summer I intentionally stayed away and, coincidentally, caught my first Phish show at Walnut Creek in Raleigh--one era was closing and another was just opening up!!!!
How can this not put you in a good mood ....😁😆😅🤣😂😛🤩😋🥲
Fun fact, the shoreline stadium is actually constructed to resemble the steal your face logo if you were to look down on it!
One time I astral projected at shoreline and started hovering towards the sky during playing in the band and I could in fact see the steal your face from space, pretty cool!
It’s also on Garcia way- I think
It was built on top of a landfill...
@@newgrass interesting
Landfill that still smells sometimes 😎
1986 5 year affair ended, dumped. No job, waiting misdemeanor sentencing. Bro said come to Cali. Flew down, fuck it all. He's at a dead concert Bay area. His friend picks me up. Ray comes in singing Iko Iko. What a weight was lifted. Been in NorCal since. Saved my life. He's gone and bless him. I am still IKOing.
Jerry's guitar sound gets so funky with those effects!
Jerry with the sax solo!
I was wondering was Clarence Clemmons there on sax?
I caught a buzz from the music and my body is vibrating.
Jerry survived the 80s Mullet moment relatively unscathed.
He rocked it though
Jerry is truly amazing , can not believe what he can do with a guitar!
Great Iko (a fun song that could at times feel a bit uninspired IMHO)! I love how the delay on the vocals comes through on this recording--gives it a more real "live" sound! Oh, and how animated is Jerry!?!?! Too, this sooooooo reminds me of how much I enjoyed Brent on that Hammond!!
Wooow so much quality ❤️
4:37 Brent puttin' on the cosmic afterburners X 20 speed.
Hey now... How about that horn solo?!
DID JERRY JUST TURN WOLF INTO A SAXAPHONE?
Perfect to.start the day off ❤
GOD how I love this so
He still makes my heart putter patter ☺️
I was there ❤
Brent is on FIRE!!!
I was there and remembered hearing this
Love it and I get made fun of friends enjoy it.
Jerry made his guitar sound like a saxophone, or maybe a bassoon. Like, what?!? So sick with it.
For a minute there I thought Branford was with them!
They opened the 2nd set at my 1st show (6/20/1987) with SPACE>AIKO-AIKO!!!
Jerry looks crackling though I was never a fan of the midi stuff... I always preferred the “low” tech Grateful Dead.
Love other Heads oppion but I must disagree.
Yeah I like it all but the midi bust outs have always proven to be hit or miss for me.
Seems like the real good songs that stick around for years & people sing @ work have the phrase ,"hey now, hey now!"
The "look" at 1:12, Bobby hustled up to the mic after that.
Wow 50 years go by so fast. . .
Tank You Grateful Dead ... " Hommage and Legendaire guitariste Jerry Garcia ". eléis m....
Oui
We love you !! From tuscany
Dig crazy hair Bob! Get to that mic on time Bob!! Haha
Fall 89...Season of the Wolf. 🎸🐺🎷
MIDI and such At it’s best
Is this a rare appearance of Wolf? Beginning of MIDI
The band is in fine form.
God I Miss This
me to.
⚡️😀❤️🕺🏽
❤️❤️❤️
Love 1989 summer onward
I am a child of the Brent era. Never better.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!!
Heavenly
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Thanks In Advance...!!! ;)
At 1:11 Jerry gives Bob a look to get on up to the mic. Or at least it seems that way.
Great song, by Jerry Garcia!!!! Richard Bishop!!!!♥️♥️♥️YC!!!!
IS tha Branford ON THE Sax.?
What’s that sax pedal Jer uses at 2:20
Sahmokin' Brent the human torch. Jer - Gonna fix yo chickn wiyoh.
Jerry at 8:45! Having fun on this one!!
Brent!!!
Anyone know where I can get a horn pedal like Jerry has
It’s a midi patch. They experimented with them in the late 80s. Modern equivalent would be to buy a MIDI pickup or a Roland guitar. Tho I’m sure there’s pedals like the EHX (maybe) POG which would get you somewhere similar
Us boomers had the best rock
ARE any of you heard of the Dixie cups? Thank you Arijit Singh love you
Wolf!! Jerry w the midi sax
Just days before the Loma Prieta quake! So effing nuts!
having trouble hearing bobbys guitar
Its all about Wolf!!! 🎸🐺 🎷
use your imagination. probably just some way overly techy A and D chord inversions that is played with minimal feeling.
I'll fix that for you...give me five minutes.
Jerry playing WOLF!!.
Is Bob's guitar even plugged in???
He is rhythm guitar so his amp shall stay at 1!!
Aaah...living in New Orleans with no dead show. Who can blame them lol?
Jerry on horns!
That tonneee!!! Wolf ftw
Hey now hey now
Iko iko I'm dead
Jackamo be no other man
Jackamo be my man
It's about the town herbalist from New Orleans a long time ago, he was all dressed in black and had a skull face
man smart, Iko smarter.
A bit late to mic there, Gerry glares to say wtf
Gerry lol
Death Don't Have No Mercy breakout on this run too
MIDI blast
hahaha pause it at 1:11 if you want to know what Jerry's face looks like when he is PISSED!!! 😠😄
Aloha Bobby it Joe Graham.
Make me remember the best times and shows of my life. I hope to get a Gmail from you again. I know you're busy, so if and when you can
Blessings,❤ n Aloha from Maui, Hi.
HEY NOW 💀⚡️🌹✌️❤️🎶