Billy Strings - "Wharf Rat" from The Capitol Theatre
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- Billy Strings live from The Capitol Theatre - "Wharf Rat" by the Grateful Dead
January 18, 2020 in Port Chester, NY | Video by Relix / FANS
NEXT MONTH: Billy Strings returns to the Cap for a 6-night run, coinciding with the same 6 dates that the Grateful Dead performed at The Cap 50 years ago, in 1971. The shows will be live streaming on February 18, 19, 20, 21, 23 & 24, 2021.
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Been sober near 20 years now. This song still hits home.
ODAAT❤️🔷️🔺️🙏🏼
33!!
Hope u still is
I never dared dream I'd be sober more years than I drank , I owe it all in large part to this song. Sweet rendition Billy, you done Jerry right with this one!!!!
Amen brother. Not many people can pull this one off. Billy must be an 'old soul'. Love it.
@Javion Alan you spy on your " girlfriend" ?...no ,we dont care, except maybe to warn her shes with a chump.
@Javion Alan nope noone gives a shit
I love hearing that!
Wharf Rats Are Good People. Perhaps the best you'll ever know.
You see the great thing about this is… Jerry was a bluegrass guy first. He literally drove across the country to festivals learning the songs Billy plays from the guys who actually wrote them.
The fact that Billy grew up playing bluegrass, found the Dead and Jerry, and is reinterpreting one of Jerry’s most beautiful songs back to bluegrass is just… I don’t even know.
But it makes SENSE.
Yes it does❣️🌹
I really wish Jerry could have made it long enough to play music with Billy, I think some awesome music could have happened between the 2 of them. Actually beautiful music did come from both of them just not together.
Big wheel keeps on turnin
We are in remarkable universe.
FULL CIRCLE
One week sober!! this song helps
Rock on fam 😎 ☮️👍🌈⚡️🙏💕🌎
I don’t know how there’s not millions of views. I alone am responsible for a few thousand I think
SAME HERE!
Billy covering the Dead is so freaking awesome.
Love it⚡
Billy sings from the soul,as did jerry!!! beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
I spent doing time for some other f-ers crime!!!!!🌺🌺🌺🌼🌼🌼🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈✌️✌️✌️✌️☮️🌻🌻🌻peace and love to all 💔 sunshine 🌞🌞🌞🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄
Oh man I still remember hearing it for the first time on the skull and roses album. Still sends chills. 🥰
I concur.
I am trying to get TH-cam presenter Jamel AKA Jamal to do a Billy Strings reaction.
If you subscribe to Jamel AKA Jamal on TH-cam start hitting him up with Billy Strings requests, it will help Billy as well, as Jamal is heading towards 1Million Subscribers. Turn on a few more to get the Bands spi s on Spotify up and coin in their pockets.
I don't recall a cover that did it such justice nor anyone who covered The Dead with such integrity.
Hands down the best cover of Wharf Rat ever. Billy is the greatest thing to happen in music for a long time
Yes, yes sir he definitely is…That first time i saw him play dust in a baggie on that couch was eye opening to say the least…
You are not wrong
Real story telling and an equal amount of emotion. Thank you, Billy, for helping preserve some of our history.
Billy is a complete blessing to our ears & soul🫶
Give a listen to the version by Jon Wayne and the Pain..... Epic! No shade on Billy, he kills it too. Such a great song!
For God's sake we need to keep this guy away from Harley's, Helicopters and Heroin. Long live the music !!!!
3:45
big facts!
A buddy gave me his code to watch this. First id ever heard of billy strings. I was drunk and shaken. I've been on a nightmare roller coaster since then. Billy's been a part of my life ever since that day. I'm now sober. Good Lord willing I'll stay this way.
Blessing to you1❤️
One day at a time.
Met a dude in the Charlotte airport this weekend hanging out at the bar and watching the masters, eating airport sushi, talking about taking too much edibles, learned about Ol Billy Strings and now I’m absolutely hooked. Thanks brother, hope you caught your flight.
That's fate for you.
This is happening to me at work where I meet people from all walks of life and from all around where I live. Invariably I ask about music as my auto sales job requires me to fill time and entertain, and MAN do I love it when I meet someone that knows who Billy is.
Yup same thing with me and Frank Zappa in NOLA
but have you been to a show yet?
@@iamPROTOTYPE just saw Billy in San Diego… whoa 🤯 🫡
Getting 7:06 old at 58 living in Ontario Canada, but I sure hope I can get the money together to go see Billy. What an inspiration!
Billy Strings is the best thing that ever happened to music in my 73 yrs on this planet ❤️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He is a treasure.
Amen
Sometimes I swim 45 minutes nonstop listening to this song on repeat.
Curious, what gear do you use swimming?
@@notfadewaway I’ve used 3 swimming mp3 players. Shokz OpenSwim $150ish sleekest design, lowest volume but good enough. Bone conduction. Not much bass.
Flowmotion M1- mp3 player $75ish a bit clunky but good and has bass! Bone conduction. Has Bluetooth for non water activities. They get really loud.
SEWOBYE mp3 player $59 in ear buds with cord that clips to mp3. Attach mo3 to goggle strap. Works really well. No bass but clear in ear bud sound.
The bone conduction headphones I’m always moving around readjusting them. The ear buds are cheapest and I put them in and forget about it. You could use another headphone out of the pool and maybe get more sound.
if you ever saw the dead you know the breeze blew even when the air was still , i feel the breeze sitting at my desk right now what a fantastic job
Oh yes, and the music literally moved everyone like they were hypnotized. Never saw anything like it. Every now and again I see the music move people and it's almost impossible to explain to anyone.
@@billyd8401 Nothing like a cool misty breeze and watching a crowd get turned into liquid
“A wind not of air but of spirit”
I too was moved when hearing the integrity in Billy's Dead covers. When someone's cover is almost better than the original, and it feels mildly blasphemous to say so lol.
Man, when Billy plays the dreadful wind and rain...... I'm so glad I found this man as I was too young to ever see Jerry!
Grateful to be sober, free, and alive today. Thanks Billy and the boys.✌️🇺🇲
Congratulations!
This is a spectacular 8 minutes of music. I have played it literally 100 times
I've played this shit so much....I absolutely love this masterpiece of music
me too
One of the greatest version of this song ever. The vocals on this are so damn hard, not many can pull them off outside of a studio. Bookmarking this page to listen often. (sober for 25+ years Wharf Rate here)
Congrats on 25 years dude! No small feat
On and off the last few months I've been struggling. 2 weeks booze and coke free. Song always bring tears to my eyes
@@joeyk4658 That's so good!! Don't give up, deep inside you can do it. Try weed on the really craving days; it really helps.
This is the new picker that crosses into all genres. Jerry would appreciate
When I imagine a great America, this is what it looks like.
Amen, brother!
Trump Free, and having fun.
Seems about right from Europe.
They found the heart in that one for sure. I was at the Capitol in February '71. I'll never forget that night.
I hope the neighbors like this song I played it so loud so many times they should know all the words by now
Exactly how I learned the Doors in college!
I’m loving Billy Strings, especially coverering the Grateful Dead 💀, saw Wharf Rat and it made me smile so big, Billy is fantastic!! I may be getting old, but I know great musicians when I see them & I’ve been watching and listening to a lot of Billy Strings. Thank you TH-cam!!❤❤❤❤❤ Jerry would love this, makes me think of Jerry’s bluegrass roots 😊
Update 4.19.24 We got tickets to see Billy Strings open the Outlaw Festival at the Gorge in August, he’s opening for John Mellencamp, Willy Nelson and Bob Dylan ❤
I was there with you brother! Kind of a tease of a Billy show. Billy sitting in with Willie's family was epic though! Love you!
Anybody that gives this one a thumbs down needs to get their damn ears checked
Short of Jerry.....some of the best we will ever hear
Fuckin A
Amen brother 🙏blessings to all
Got damn right boi
Real deal, feeding the soul...TY Billy!
Man, I got the gift of seeing Billy play live... didn't even know who the heck he was prior to the show. An awesome friend of my husband invited my husband and I out with he and his wife...let's just say we're out 6 months feom that show.. and not one day goes by without listening to Billy. This song particularly gets played a couple times a day. Just so soul touching.
Same stage the dead debuted this song on in 71
Feb 18 1971 was the first dead music I ever heard (on cd, I was 6 when Jerry passed). I didn't realize until years later how monumental that show was. First time they played Wharf Rat, first time they played Bertha, first time they played Loser, and I think there were a couple other firsts in that show too. Feb 18 1971 at the Capitol Theatre. that show is burned into my brain.
CD’s in 1971..? 👾🤯
I think the dead scene is extremely inspiring for artist and musicians
This is the first song of BMFS that I clicked on in August of 2023, TH-cam kept suggesting Billy for a couple months, when I saw this, I knew why, it’s so good and I couldn’t scroll past Wharf Rat, I am a deadhead since I was 11,12, at 13 I went to my first Dead concert, unfortunately, the Dead didn’t. I bought tickets again in 1973, for my 18th birthday, but that show got canceled too. In May 1974, my cousins were down from the Bay Area & we were smoking my uncle’s weed up in the bushes above the park where we gathered to celebrate Mother’s Day, my cousins mom died when we were kids, so my mom stood in and mothered them, I being her oldest child, helped her mother them…anyways, my cousins told me they were going to see the Grateful Dead and NRPS in a month, in June, why didn’t I fly to San Francisco, which I did in June of 74. I moved to the Bay Area and saw the Dead so many times and JGB. I am so happy I got tix to see Billy at the Gorge, here in Washington State in August, 2 months away !!!!
So very stunning! What a beauty of a rendition an absolutely stellar song.
@@MaureenVentimiglia agreed 100%!!!!!!!🩷
This man Billy Strings is the absolute best thing on the music scene nowadays!! For a fleeting moment I was taken back to Jerry & the Grateful Dead, tripping my balls off at RFK, Billy Strings is going to be the next Jerry but better, definitely better. A prodigy that has 50-60 more years to amaze us with his phenomenal guitar playing, good voice & great story telling!!!!
Better than Jerry 🤭🫢🫣🫠 lol
Man , we had to wait almost 30 years before someone was able to enterpit the Dead in a moving and genuine way ! Much appreciated....
I looked up this guy to hear the funny song Dust in the Baggy...now I got tears rolling down my face
He's amaizing
Billy is very dynamic and does music the way it should be done...with feeling. I love this guy.
What's funny is that song isn't funny if you know the genesis of it. It's catchy as fuck, but funny it isn't.
Same thing happened to me except first I hot sent this, ignored it cuz " man another dead cover band?"then I went down and saw dust in a baggie I went back to this and the waterworks , I heard him and Molly Tuttle do to lay me down and it was over! I haven't wanted to listen to anything but Billy really sjnce
One of the most remarkable moments in any show I've attended, and I've been to quite a few. We were about 10 feet from the stage directly in front of Billy, and the crowd reaction after the song, not fully captured here, still gives me chills just thinking about it. Little did we know that in a matter of weeks the world would stop.
Hol up
I've watched this video about 25 times and I still get the chills...love it
I'm not following, the world end part?
@@danielhays1967 the Pandemic?
It was an astonishing moment in time & one I will always remember.
Wow! Anyone else feeling a little “Old and in the way”? Goosebumps😎👍
feelin' a little like August, are ya?
Yes everytime I play this-automatic goosebumps!🙌❤️🤷🏻♀️
Yes, absolutely and I love Old And In The Way, have had that album since the 70’s, it’s a favorite of mine, my husband, my sons.
@@jimrebr 💞
Hell No! There’s a little snow on the roof now but there’s still a hell of a lot of fire in the belly and the foundation has weathered remarkably well for the late nights that became another day of chasing the sunshine across this crazy rock to that next parking lot for several years and several decades playing around with my hillbilly chemistry set and living on everything pharmacological and not very much of anything that was really good for me! Accidentally drank more booze then there’s water in the Mississippi! My last decade required a spoon and the needle and I’ve survived all my self destructive and self inflicted damage and abuse… but brother as soon as I hear a little music ring out… I’m still just 17 and I’m dancing around… to old to care about what the other people think anymore… life’s about being alive and dancing and sharing your love! I’m just a child at 54… unfortunately I stumbled upon the old Grateful Dead and I was dancing around with all my friends and I’m going to be dancing around until the day I fall over dead! I’m not in the way… I’m kicking the beat’s!!! LMFFAO
That D-28, capoed 2 steps up is perfect with your voice! Burn brightly! And carry that torch, its yours to hold.
I have full blown cried about my Dad to this song and my want for him to be here to hear your awesomeness. He would have appreciated your skill and execution. He called it like it was whether you wanted to hear it or not. Good or bad, I loved that Man and you too BMFS.
Very powerful. I too am sober now...still love the wharf rat....see all this time.and still chill bumps.food.job BMFS
OMG what a GREAT underappreciated tune . FANTASTIC VERSION! JERRY IS SMILING!!!
I always appreciate it!!!
Who doesn't appreciate it? 😂
@@scottbegonias313 under appreciated, some would rather hear overplayed Friend of the devil, I enjoy them all. Peace Bro
7 7 89. Nuff said
I saw The Dead play Pine Knob when I was 16 (32 years ago). They played Wharf Rat. Seeing Billy play this is awesome.
The 3:40 mark in this song gets me fuckin stomping around.
This song reminds me of my father’s shortfalls. Thank you for the emotion this song brings to me.
This interpretation of Warf Rat gave me chills- thanks for sharing!
My favorite song EVER covered by one of my favorite artists! I saw Billy last night (6/3/23) in Austin. AMAZING!!! BMFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better than the dead. I can actually feel every word.😎🇱🇷✌️
Billy brings the sadness, redemption, and emotion of addiction in this rendition - “beautifully, but I’ll get back on feet one day”…
one of the most beautiful Dead songs. Thank you Phil, Robert and Jerry.
I don’t know how we missed this concert, but if he comes back, we will not miss it again! Not only is he a fantastic guitarist, he’s a great singer.
Once in a hundred years, we get someone like this!
Jerry's grinnin' from ear to ear!
✌💀👍
There will never be another BILLY.
Billy and the boys are sure making Jerry and Robert proud up in heaven! That is some damn fine pickin there fellas! Can wait for the February shows at the Capitol!!
Hell yeah!!!!!!gotta get back on my feet.........!!!!!!!!!! cannot wait to dance with the tribes!!! peace love from Boulder,CO 🌞🌞❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌞❤️🌞❤️❤️❤️
I always wonder why people think any dead rock stars are in Heaven.
@@richardgray8593 why do you assume there are no dead rock stars in Heaven?
@@BillTheButcher79 Name one who you think is.
@@richardgray8593 It’s not my place to judge, nor is it yours. Romans 10:9 says
- That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
So any “rock star” that has confessed this at ANY point in their life has had their name written in the Lambs Book of Life and is therefore in Heaven with the Father. Have a great day and God Bless brother. ✌️☮️
Admit it. This is just goodness!
Best version I have EVER heard
How does this video not have a billion views? I think I've watched it at least that many times.
If there were ever a time to get goosebumps from a song, this would be it.
Can’t wait for this fncking pandemic to end so acts like Billy Strings can come tour Europe (FR). What a rendition of one of my faves. Bravo!
French too. Waiting for Billy Strings and Dead songs
Same! In american but in the U.K.! So ready!
It’s over if you want it to be. Obedience is the fuel for its engine
Ask and you shall receive! I hope you can make it over to the UK shows. How amazing 💜
my dear departed older brother, loved this song. Not sure if he loved the song, or just like the chord progression.. used to strum it often on an acoustic guitar. As an older deadhead.. just love hearing new life being brought into classic ol' dead tunes.
Legend has it unlit cigarette smoking green shirt guy was dancing in the stadium
🤣
You are correct, sir!
I don't normally listen to this genre of music at all but... this guy is hard to deny for some reason. Solid music from the band on up! #Respect
Billy and youngsters like him are the new face of Bluegrass music. Stick around.
One of my favorite dead songs by my favorite current artist its great
Love me some Billy Strings
Hay Billy love the music love from Scotland
Damn Billy, best live version out there
Its wonderful to see young artists picking up these classic dead tunes and doing them justice…This is stunning, Billy really seems to get this song, its one that must be treated gently and with loving care
I went to this bluegrass festival (Planet Bluegrass in CO) in ~2000 and -- at a campfire -- sat with these teenagers who sang and played most of Old And In The Way (and Dead material) for hours... I was reassured that the music was in good hands. Then along comes Billy.
Hunter can never be touched. Rip 😢
I was at the rail, left of stage for this one...I'll be XXVII on 8-12, and I'll be at the Stone Pony on 8-5, to see Billy and Co. blow another room away...It would be awesome to hear this one again...I'm a Wharf Rat and I Got Some Time-One Show at a Time!
Salutes from Southern Germany.
Admiring you all for the team playing and joy.
Best wishes for the future.
PS
Come to Germany😁
❤ the way Billy is all laid back Beautiful song and the way he sings it 😊😊✌️❤️
Billy i got all my freinds from the uk rocking you 🙏
More big love from the British Isles ❤️👍🤠
Spread the news.. this Michigan boy has just begun ⚡ Gonna be legendary.
Everytime I see this video and hear this song I cry because my late boyfriend Greg Lewis of 9yrs would blast this song on his awesome speakers. Bass and everything perfect while we cleaned house on the weekends. I Love the GREATFUL Dead and all of Billy's music. It has truly touched my life.❤️✌️💚
GD-BMFS at it again! 1st heard this 6 months ago and you can't help but feel the overwhelming love and respect Billy and the band have for this song and it's on full display here. So excited for Deja Vu! Couldn't love these boys anymore!!
They are the real deal. No pretences
Gives me CHILLS EVERY time I hear this version❤❤❤❤
I’ve seen Billy quite a few times now and I’ve seen Jerry do this live but there are times that I just have to listen to this rendition! Jerry would be more than happy with this!
Loving the *Grateful Dead* renditions ✌
in general, I watch a few minutes of folks covering Dead tunes, then I turn it off. I actually watched all of this and loved it. Love that Terrapin Station one too where several bands cover it.
Makes sense since this is the best act to come along since the end of The Dead...........
what an amazing cover of an absolute classic. thanks for sharing.
I've heard Billy many times before. This time as I'm listening it hit me that when Billy's singing this, he's reminding me of Steve Winwood in his early Traffic days.
Anyone else getting that vibe, or is it just me? 🤣
His voice and delivery keep getting better (my opinion) as he moves further into various styles and out of his hard country twang.
I’m pushing 500 listens at this point. We love you Billy
This is just what the doctor ordered. Thanks TH-cam algorithm and thank you, Mr. Strings!
More than my wine, more than my maker. Though, he’s no friend of mine.
SOOOO.. WELL DONE BILLY.. INCREDIBLE.. You "re-classified" a classic.
Thank you billy for loving the dead the way that i do
Big support from Europe Billy! You, Guy King, Ana Popovic, Bonamassa... probably me also soon... + several more are actually the ones who will be rewarded for saving REAL music, and real original real-deal old school roots. B.Grass and Blues must be saved! And it is going good! Im glad about that a lot. Hope i will play some Blues and picking one day with you man.. On stage and personal.
Until then, Good Luck man, you are very good! The better You get, harder You work! Cheers from Croatia Adriatic Sea 🍻🍻🦾👌👍
Mark
Thanx B! for everything. This one, Yours Here, our Last Live Show.
Caught the heat-stroke At the "Hot Fox" 2
It all seems a long long way from a cold night; way below zero the night before Valentines, Solo, & with "I'm With Her" in front of a geriatric crowd of only 400, in Ridgefield, sponsored by 2-Roads Brewing with free beer tasting,(complete with red Solo cups) Everyone else was there for the Fem-fantastic harmonies of song-birds; "I'm With Her"(¬ the great 'fresh-for-the-event' Craft-Brew) No one had heard of ''The Opening Act" Billy Strings.
I asked around not one person or other couple knew......
The doors & their minds were blown open!
Before breakin' into "Tell It To Me" Billy ask these low-pulse, rich AF, old geezers
'"Anybody do Cocaine? I was dyin'😁' trippin'😎 holding back, also not laughing, but dying 2😂
All of these Wallstreet types were so uptight, too 'tightened' to even snicker . . . not a clap! . . .
When, in fact, I'd bet that every one of us in that 420 seat theater had used
The snow was thick . . . Outside, in the parking lot that night.
A`GoNow GnoMe
I’m so jacked up, we get to see Billy perform at the Gorge in 5 days. We are going to the Outlaw Festival this Saturday, I got the tickets specifically because I saw the concert watching this song in April, it’s just bonus that Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are the headliners, love them both so much, but I got the tickets because Billy Strings is incredible, especially the Dead covers, his voice is as beautiful as Jerry’s, and I’ve seen Jerry so many times, I am a Deadhead for sure, have loved them since 1967 when I was 12, and I love Billy, he is carrying the torch forward!!!! 💀
It looked awesome. We're heading to Los Angeles now to see them tomorrow. Peace brother.✌️
@@spencertherren6806Rock on, enjoy. I am originally from Southern California, met my husband in Northern California, his family is from the PNW, we moved here 40 years ago, to have our kids & be near their paternal grandparents. 👍
@@jimrebr Noice. I was born and raised in Chico, CA.
@@spencertherren6806 born in Hollywood on Sunset, raised in Riverside, left right after my 20th birthday. Enjoy Englewood at Billy Strings!! We did, he and his troupe of bluegrass musicians (except Halloween when they go electric, are SO good!
@@spencertherren6806 actually sister, my husband is Jim, I am Rebecca
Sweet faithful cover, tasteful banjo playing
Jerry would be proud!!! Big shout out to Billy Strings - his playing inspired me to pick up the guitar about ten years ago after I saw an old video of a then unknown Billy Strings playing "Dust in a Baggie".. .....thanks to his inspiration, after close to thirty years of simply noodling around, I have come to really improve my flat picking skills and gained a greater appreciation for Bluegrass music in general - an incredible talent to be sure!!!! It has been a lot of fun to watch is meteoric rise over the last decade or so!!!
I am really impressed. Makes it his own but stays true to original to some extent.
Soooo sick
That was awesome! Thank you! I’d love to hear them do Cumberland Blues.
Good shit billy
Damn fine job, buddy! A fantastic rendition of one of those fantastic old songs of my youth!
Psyched for the Capitol run, can’t wait to tune in! Lots of Dead plz!! 💀💀
One of the best Dead songs ever!!! Just awesome
Makes me smile
Great song! Love the band and your vocal is amazing!
What a gorgeous cover of a beautiful song.
Never heard of this it before he is good jerry would-be smiling on this one
let there be songs to fill the air!!!
So fucking good!! 3rd Favorite Dead tune and that cover was amazing
Wahoo Jerry smiling somewhere . Good stuff.
What a fantastic version of this song!
I'm now a fan qny man that appreciates the grateful dead and Jerry this much is a friend of mine!
I think the GD first performed Warf Rat at the capitol theatre in 1972. They always bring it back out of the sheer power and mad respect for Jerry 🤙 it gets me every time.
No joke. This and Terrapin Station are Jerry at his best story telling.
I think it was 71
@@gls3413 yes your correct it was February 18, 71 thanks brother! NFA.
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