Phil is unlike any other bassist in rock history. That’s the problem. He literally plays the bass like a horn. It makes him outside of the area where most bassists are evaluated. He is more melodic than any other bassist in classic rock.
This performance is the essence of everything I love about the dead. As a musician, I should really hate the chaos and disorganized sound at times. But I can’t help having a smile listening to these guys feel it out. Everyone is absolutely going for it with no net. It gets chaotic, but when it comes together it’s a thing of beauty.
I swear, Bob Weir knows chords that haven't been invented yet. I have wished I could separate his playing out from the rest of so many songs and just listen to the incredible things he does.
Bobby has said that he plays as if he is the left hand of a pianist while Jerry was the right hand playing melody. With the full band, he’s hard to pick out, but once you figure it out, you realize what a big part he was to their sound. If you haven’t already, poke around and find some Bobby/Jerry acoustic duets. He’s a totally different player.
Owsley Stanley set this band up with a sound system that allowed each of them to hear what each of the others was playing. This hadn't been done before. All the improvisation required the players to listen carefully to all of the onstage inputs, which offered an unprecedented audience experience.
Garcia pitched a no-hitter on this particular day. When they elevated to this level, they were cosmic leaps & bounds ahead of any other conceivable live experience
And on a stock Strat that holds very little significance outside of this show. Pretty much considered the “other” Strat of 72. As a guitar player, 72 was ALL about the Alligator Strat, yet he’s sounds f***ing amazing on what’s probably a stock Strat -and with a whammy bar w! Grate stuff ;)
Jerry is mesmerizing to watch play the guitar. He doesn't have to search at all. The notes are flowing straight through him; just how Bill played when he was by himself. No drag or hesitation.
The notes are easy and the pattern is memorized I can play all them I know what mode he’s in Sounds like a ass thing to say right? The difference isn’t the notes it the improvised melodys he comes up with in that parameter it blows my mind how melodic him and Phil could just improve like nobody else on a good night When I play I’m copying Jerry I’m unoriginal and I don’t care I love ol Jerry
That’s the mark of a great player though. What he’s actually doing is listening, which is the easy thing in theory, but in practice, for 30 minutes, no easy feat to do at all, much less with the emotion and melody displayed here.
I turned 57 week before last. I got on the bus at 18. I've been many worlds since and lived loved and lost many many times. The Grateful Dead are always right there when I need them. I've been in a really fucked up funky place the last few years. I discovered this just this morning. Not the Dead or Dark Star but this version of it. On video no less. It'll cure what ails you. Nothing less nothing more. Seems I got lost but knew I've been here before. So I'll trip around let the day bring me around. Hope my dog speaks to me I'd love to hear him say. El Paso is nice but Terrapin is where we oughta be then I'd take him to the beach and teach him to not talk no more cause I'm losing it all over again in the way I came in lost through the side door Help oh well I guess I gotta go back to the hotel and see what happens with my head and I will be there for the first time in a few days and I'm going to be able and help me get back to the hotel and I'll be home around noon if I can (Sorry fent and meth had an interlude there?) Nothing left to do but smile smile smile. God loves a fool a drunk children and me I guess? Lol Gotta love it. 😂
I love the 72 stuff so much, and after thinking about this for the past 20 years I think there are two main reasons. 1. Nothing against Mickey Hart who I think is fantastic, but I think the groove has more of a drive to it with just Bill. 2. Jerry playing strats.
Plus Keith on Piano, people here may disagree about but Keith > Brent, not saying Brent is bad I just hate Cheesy 80s electric keyboard sounds. Jerry also sounds way more full and dynamic with fender amp and strat and Bobby on the Gibson which helps the band really have each instrument heard. The natural overdrive Jerry gets too is WAY better then his 1979- 1995 overdrive sound which sounds way to thin and unnatural
couldn't agree on both points more...bill swung hard as their solo drummer and mickey dragged them...Jerry strat hell yes...and Bobby on the 345 snappin those cowboy on acid chords
Phil is 82 today! Amazing footage from 50 years ago! Sometimes I find myself feeling like I missed out on this music era. Then I begin to feel grateful to have it all now. So easily and this band is absolutely timeless. Keep sharing. Can't stop. Won't stop. Madd props to the original tappers! Never would have the amazing library we all enjoy today. XoXo
Like it was said In The Beginning: find your own bliss wherever you are. SF just points you in the direction. It's up to you So don't cop an attitude. .
What a gift that this incredible performance was filmed along with crystal clear audio. Weir especially is up front in the mix and at times leads the way for that other guitarist…
This has been my favourite show for years. It's the little things that, as a musician, make up those special moments. Like looking at Jerry all blissed out, like he doesn't know where he is, not making the "guitar solo" faces that so many other guitarists put on, yet he still notices that one of his strings is slightly out of tune at 8:11, and the way he tunes it doesn't sound at all out of place with the rest of the song (which goes to show you that he knows EXACTLY where he is). Or the way at 10:12 where Jerry plays a little downward part and Bobby is right there, immediately adapting to what Jer's putting out. Or the many ways that as Jerry and Bobby are the waves on top of the ocean, Billy and Phil and Keith are the currents beneath the surface. Each set knows how to follow each other, and they all are part of this collective mind that knows where to go in the big picture. It's never too much (well...maybe some of the stuff at the very end gets to be a bit chaotic for my tastes), and it's never out of balance.
What an overwhelmingly beautiful gift these guys gave us, their cosmic sonic exploration will never be forgotten and will reasonate throughout time and space 🙏
The entire concert at the future home of the Oregon Country Fair is a great representation of the Dead when they had reached a certain maturity. Hahahaha whatever that means. To me who had been following them since '66 the band was now a working, gigging band instead of a primal psychedelic force, which don't get me wrong, that period of 66-69 is my favorite even though you never knew what you were going to get. One thing you always got was Jerry Garcia the master guitarist. Here he is at age 30 and before smack dominated his playing. A reel artist. A real signpost for human potential. Ultimately, by all accounts of people I knew who worked with him, one of the nicest people they ever came across.
Phil's solo in the middle of this is just everything. I've rarely been knocked sideways by a bass solo (I'm a bassist myself), but this is one of maybe two or three. And the way he's just watching Billy and reacting to how he moves and what he plays is pure musicianship. It's that perfect combination between musical skill, knowledge, feel, knowing the people you're playing with, and reacting to whatever is thrown at you. I love it so much!
To say one solo is best is as impossible as saying one woman is the most beautiful. If you enjoyed Phil’s on this, you might like this, too: th-cam.com/video/AxZWvhGE7CM/w-d-xo.html
Around the 17 minute mark is the phrasing I love the best from Jerry - staccato, alternating groups of chromatic notes cascading like a downpour of rain. Also at about the 22:30 mark. I think I just had a flashback!
@@davidleblanc1811 I want to be a phishhead, I really can't get into it. I was told to listen to a Live One and New Years '95 and there brand new one but it didn't immediately draw me in like the Dead did. I wish I was alive for Jerry.
@@NLT-pm4sq I feel the same as you and I have been to many phish shows over the years, and they are fun great crowd fun to dance but I just can’t fully get into them
@@davidleblanc1811 between the time of leaving that comment I went to the orange beach and raleigh phish shows and now phish and the dead are on equal level for me
@@davidleblanc1811 definitely man, I am too young to have seen jerry but I love the recordings and soundboards. It's what got me into jam rock, phish is special because they're still going really strong in 4.0
Was such an amazing awesome show, my 25th Birthday Bash, was talking to Jerry prior to the show about my plan for when they first played at Folsom Field Boulder. We had hired The Boys to play at The Glen Miller Ballroom Boulder April 13th, 1969. Fun times indeed 🕉️☯️☮️
You can see in Jerry's expression the focus he has in this composition. He's listening to every nuance and responding. These guys are geniuses. Only Miles could ever compare.
I saw this band four times: twice at the Lyceum in London, once at the Wembley arena and once at the Bickershaw festival. I regret not going to more gigs!!!
so gorgeous "There is balm in Gilead, To make the wounded whole; There's power enough in heaven, To cure a sin-sick soul." and there's also Dark Star !
that's so rippin', in the middle i swared i wuz trippin' !!! thanks as always to the people who post these indescribably delicious vids, this is 36 minutes that shows off the deep conscious connection that music can make with a place inside of us that we may not have known existed without it. god bless the good old grateful dead and the extended family (us)
Either that's a different guy grooving at the top of the pole behind Jerry, or the naked guy from earlier in the day (see Bird Song clip) put a wrap on. Great camera work captured Jerry switching pick ups, from middle/bridge blended to just the bridge pick up. Later on it looks like he went to just neck pick up (all before El Paso). Great any way he slices it.
That was a very pleasant half hour!. Fantastic footage. . They were in the prime and becoming brilliant improvisation ally. Still psychedelic but with a never ending rhythm growing. And then the animations caught me off guard. That was a treat! Thanks
Ohmygod ill just never get over that this is on video! Jerrys run (and really the whole jam) from 22:00-23:30 is so so sick, and then jerry absolutely melts the universe away, coming up with these the most emotive chromatic little cinema moments...ahhhhhh!!
I was born aug 30 1972....this is as close as i can ask for the perfect into the world this was the vibe around the time i took my first breath..deep thoughts. 🙏
WHEN I WAS 14, MY GIRLFRIEND AND I LISTENED TO THIS SONG RELIGIOUSLY.... OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THERE IS A NEW UFO/PLANE CALLED THE "DARK STAR"; NO ONE WILL SURVIVE IT; HOW PROPHETIC, JUST WITH A BEAUTIFUL TWIST. :)
Drum gibberish - one of the few times in that era Kreutzmann had the set really tuned well. Wish he would have used this set and/or tuning more. All sounds killer. Rogers I think?
Sadly the whole show isn't available, i mean it was probably all filmed, but the DVD only released certain songs, thankfully this Dark Star was among them
Oh shit it's WOS himself, love your uploads man. That's definitely not me who did the visuals haha, this is an excerpt from the Sunshine Daydream movie and i just uploaded it as is.
@@SnowTheJamMan nice, it's been years since I saw that, looks like I'll need to watch again. Sound on this is unbelievable, btw - is that from the movie too, or is that you?
@@WallofSound65 It's from the film as well, this show was mixed differently than any other show in '72 as far as i can tell. Keith is solo on the right channel and Bobby is in the middle and i think it's much better this way, you can clearly hear every note Keith plays, as opposed to other '72 shows where me's mixed in the middle and buried in the mix (especially the Europe shows) and Bobby cuts through and sounds great (his tone in '72 is my favorite he's had). Definitely one of the best boards i've heard.
I don't listen to El Paso often, but, when I do.. it's after a 32min Dark Star.
You sound like you're the most interesting man in the world... or at least Texas!
haha love it. but it's the perfect transition!
Hahaha yesssss!
Talk about a dichotomy of two songs, one about a West Texas Cowboy and the other about clouds of illusion.
@@1669martin Dark Star is what the cowboy experiences after he dies... or something!
RIP Phil! Listening and appreciating.
This is live, improvisational music of the highest order.
Phil Lesh is a criminally underrated bass guitarist.
Not by anyone with a brain
great bass! lesh philling!
Lesh happens.
Phil is unlike any other bassist in rock history.
That’s the problem. He literally plays the bass like a horn. It makes him outside of the area where most bassists are evaluated. He is more melodic than any other bassist in classic rock.
No, he’s widely regarded as one of the best
this is the definition of the music playing the band. just pure music, no ego. a thing of beauty
YES! YES!! YES!!!!
I have Never seen LSD live before , but iv dropped The grateful Dead a few times.
Yes
😂
Well said
I'm pretty loyal.
I always chose to combine the two...grate results
Hearing the first chords and words of El Paso after that jam was like someone turning the lights on at the end of an ayahuasca ceremony.
Wouldn’t know…I’ve only smoked dmt. Which is like getting punched in the face by God.
Smoking changa and dmt crystals is where it’s at.
This performance is the essence of everything I love about the dead. As a musician, I should really hate the chaos and disorganized sound at times. But I can’t help having a smile listening to these guys feel it out. Everyone is absolutely going for it with no net. It gets chaotic, but when it comes together it’s a thing of beauty.
It is like the most amazing spectacle and they did it literally all the time. Improvisation is the best thing ever
@@hippiecheezburger5457 i agree 100 percent!
I could not agree more. Damn. I love this moment in time. Thanks for sharing.
It works, and then it doesn't, and then it comes back. It's glorious overall. This is really the best of the Dead jamming.
I swear, Bob Weir knows chords that haven't been invented yet.
I have wished I could separate his playing out from the rest of so many songs and just listen to the incredible things he does.
There is a couple isolated Bob tracks out there. Just look it up on youtube. His playing sounds really strange without the rest of the band though.
There's an 89 Greek Theater show video of isolated Bobby. It's pretty cool in my opinion. Check it out
Bobby has said that he plays as if he is the left hand of a pianist while Jerry was the right hand playing melody.
With the full band, he’s hard to pick out, but once you figure it out, you realize what a big part he was to their sound.
If you haven’t already, poke around and find some Bobby/Jerry acoustic duets. He’s a totally different player.
He credits much of his playing to jazz pianists…. It starts to make a lot more sense when you view it as a different instrument
U will keep listening
Owsley Stanley set this band up with a sound system that allowed each of them to hear what each of the others was playing. This hadn't been done before. All the improvisation required the players to listen carefully to all of the onstage inputs, which offered an unprecedented audience experience.
The perfect marriage of jazz and rock, with a slice of country/western. It doesn't get much better.
The Grateful Dead: the apotheosis of American Music.
This is on fire
Absolutely! 72-74 is pure magic, nothing like it. Never understood them before or after and 80s/90s “dead” is just horrendous imo
Jazz/rock/blues/c/w: Premium Americana ;)
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Sprinkle in some LSD! shit's perfect!
Pretty awesome how the stage was facing directly towards a sunset.
Garcia pitched a no-hitter on this particular day. When they elevated to this level, they were cosmic leaps & bounds ahead of any other conceivable live experience
Formless reflections of matter......
They had something no one else has ever had. I feel lucky every time I listen to them.
It really is worth reflecting on. "Rock" bands never even consider attempting group improvisation on this level. The Dead were one of one.
No-hitter? Perfect game! With 27 strike outs. EPIC.
And on a stock Strat that holds very little significance outside of this show. Pretty much considered the “other” Strat of 72. As a guitar player, 72 was ALL about the Alligator Strat, yet he’s sounds f***ing amazing on what’s probably a stock Strat -and with a whammy bar w! Grate stuff ;)
I'm very grateful for the humans that recorded this show.
23 minutes into it and I was so far out in space that I forgot it was dark star..What a masterpiece.
RIP Phil 📦🌧 Your contribution to the Dead has forever changed my life. Grateful Dead Forever.
It is so important that this footage exists. It's a net add to humanity.
A haunting dark star...headphones full blast alone in the dark at 3 am. Wow
It’s such a collage of sounds all syncing it’s like a soup, really amazing improvs
Alone too listening to soothemy dancing soul
Sounds like 5g in silent darkness 🙂
Jerry is mesmerizing to watch play the guitar. He doesn't have to search at all. The notes are flowing straight through him; just how Bill played when he was by himself. No drag or hesitation.
Right.
The notes are easy and the pattern is memorized I can play all them
I know what mode he’s in
Sounds like a ass thing to say right?
The difference isn’t the notes it the improvised melodys he comes up with in that parameter it blows my mind how melodic him and Phil could just improve like nobody else on a good night
When I play I’m copying Jerry I’m unoriginal and I don’t care I love ol Jerry
100%.
That’s the mark of a great player though. What he’s actually doing is listening, which is the easy thing in theory, but in practice, for 30 minutes, no easy feat to do at all, much less with the emotion and melody displayed here.
love jerry, but there are many moments here where he is just vamping on a phrase...with no idea what to play next
Everytime I pull up something like this vintage dead, I fall into that zone.. God I love it!..I'm 66 ..
Never ever gets old.
Fuckin' A!
I turned 57 week before last. I got on the bus at 18. I've been many worlds since and lived loved and lost many many times. The Grateful Dead are always right there when I need them.
I've been in a really fucked up funky place the last few years. I discovered this just this morning. Not the Dead or Dark Star but this version of it. On video no less. It'll cure what ails you. Nothing less nothing more. Seems I got lost but knew I've been here before. So I'll trip around let the day bring me around. Hope my dog speaks to me I'd love to hear him say. El Paso is nice but Terrapin is where we oughta be then I'd take him to the beach and teach him to not talk no more cause I'm losing it all over again in the way I came in lost through the side door
Help oh well I guess I gotta go back to the hotel and see what happens with my head and I will be there for the first time in a few days and I'm going to be able and help me get back to the hotel and I'll be home around noon if I can
(Sorry fent and meth had an interlude there?)
Nothing left to do but smile smile smile.
God loves a fool a drunk children and me I guess? Lol
Gotta love it. 😂
I imagine this as tripping all night on mescaline in the desert and wandering into El Paso as dawn breaks.
😇💕🌸
5:30-5:40.....the interaction between Bobby and the kid that cut across the stage is pure magic.
I don't think Bobby noticed the kid
Reece Schrock he smiled at him and nodded his head
@@reeceschrock396 llb
@@Carson222 Anyone know who the kid is/was?
The kid look like a mini Bob
Love the crowd shot at 29:29. Half are mind-blown, other half don't even understand what they just experienced.
half of them look bored… glad it’s not me!
The child on the stage seems like a natural fit. They are so positive and beautiful that it makes sense.
Every Grateful Dead song is the greatest song ever I swear😭
especially Wang Dang Doodle
@@thejamnasium6447 😆😆😆
I love the 72 stuff so much, and after thinking about this for the past 20 years I think there are two main reasons.
1. Nothing against Mickey Hart who I think is fantastic, but I think the groove has more of a drive to it with just Bill.
2. Jerry playing strats.
Nailed it!!! Spot on!
Plus Keith on Piano, people here may disagree about but Keith > Brent, not saying Brent is bad I just hate Cheesy 80s electric keyboard sounds. Jerry also sounds way more full and dynamic with fender amp and strat and Bobby on the Gibson which helps the band really have each instrument heard. The natural overdrive Jerry gets too is WAY better then his 1979- 1995 overdrive sound which sounds way to thin and unnatural
@@adamdreier I agree with all of this, though sometimes I'm in mood for digital Jer.
@@adamdreier and without Donna ❤️
couldn't agree on both points more...bill swung hard as their solo drummer and mickey dragged them...Jerry strat hell yes...and Bobby on the 345 snappin those cowboy on acid chords
this the best GD line up ever. nothing against Donna, Mickey and Brent. But, yeah. Bill in the pocket, Keith painting on the piano.
Donna was there--you can hear her in the mix of "Sing me back home"
The best line-up was on the Europe 72 tour before this when Pigpen was still there.
@@TwotontessieFor real, the moments where Pig was on organ and Keith was on piano were so cool
Phil is 82 today! Amazing footage from 50 years ago! Sometimes I find myself feeling like I missed out on this music era. Then I begin to feel grateful to have it all now. So easily and this band is absolutely timeless. Keep sharing. Can't stop. Won't stop. Madd props to the original tappers! Never would have the amazing library we all enjoy today. XoXo
Phil Lesh is one of my favorite we got a similar astrological sign
PHIL
Like it was said In The Beginning: find your own bliss wherever you are. SF just points you in the direction. It's up to you So don't cop an attitude. .
Holy shit this is epic! I’m sure I’ve heard this but never saw video, this is jamming at its finest!
Phil Lesh is absolutely killing it here. Love it
Phil Happens :-)
Lesh is more
He takes flight around 20 minutes in. So good
What a gift that this incredible performance was filmed along with crystal clear audio. Weir especially is up front in the mix and at times leads the way for that other guitarist…
This has been my favourite show for years. It's the little things that, as a musician, make up those special moments.
Like looking at Jerry all blissed out, like he doesn't know where he is, not making the "guitar solo" faces that so many other guitarists put on, yet he still notices that one of his strings is slightly out of tune at 8:11, and the way he tunes it doesn't sound at all out of place with the rest of the song (which goes to show you that he knows EXACTLY where he is).
Or the way at 10:12 where Jerry plays a little downward part and Bobby is right there, immediately adapting to what Jer's putting out.
Or the many ways that as Jerry and Bobby are the waves on top of the ocean, Billy and Phil and Keith are the currents beneath the surface. Each set knows how to follow each other, and they all are part of this collective mind that knows where to go in the big picture. It's never too much (well...maybe some of the stuff at the very end gets to be a bit chaotic for my tastes), and it's never out of balance.
I think Jerry told himself to stay out of the way of his hands. They are doing just fine on their own. True channeling of the creative impulse.
What an overwhelmingly beautiful gift these guys gave us, their cosmic sonic exploration will never be forgotten and will reasonate throughout time and space 🙏
I remember those beautiful speaker cabinet covers changing through the shows...it was nice.
The entire concert at the future home of the Oregon Country Fair is a great representation of the Dead when they had reached a certain maturity. Hahahaha whatever that means. To me who had been following them since '66 the band was now a working, gigging band instead of a primal psychedelic force, which don't get me wrong, that period of 66-69 is my favorite even though you never knew what you were going to get. One thing you always got was Jerry Garcia the master guitarist. Here he is at age 30 and before smack dominated his playing. A reel artist. A real signpost for human potential. Ultimately, by all accounts of people I knew who worked with him, one of the nicest people they ever came across.
Supposedly they were going to go into Morning Dew but then Bobby busted out the El Paso lmao
I was at this happening,my first G D experience,still a fan, listen to them every day ⚡⚡⚡😁
RIP Phil !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Legend!!!!!
This makes me want to hug Jerry. After he showers though he looks pretty sweaty rn.
Phil's solo in the middle of this is just everything. I've rarely been knocked sideways by a bass solo (I'm a bassist myself), but this is one of maybe two or three. And the way he's just watching Billy and reacting to how he moves and what he plays is pure musicianship. It's that perfect combination between musical skill, knowledge, feel, knowing the people you're playing with, and reacting to whatever is thrown at you. I love it so much!
He plays the cosmos
To say one solo is best is as impossible as saying one woman is the most beautiful. If you enjoyed Phil’s on this, you might like this, too:
th-cam.com/video/AxZWvhGE7CM/w-d-xo.html
Ever listened to Jaco Pastorius?
@@trackie1957 I didn't say it was best, I said it was everything. There is a difference. ;)
@@Joshua-se4qp Yeah, and I like Jaco enough. There's no denying that he's a legend. But I just don't connect with it the way I do with this.
Fascinating and waaayy out there....love this version
This is the best version I've ever heard. Billy and Phil took it to another place, and the video sure was a great depiction of that time/era
Around the 17 minute mark is the phrasing I love the best from Jerry - staccato, alternating groups of chromatic notes cascading like a downpour of rain. Also at about the 22:30 mark. I think I just had a flashback!
In a perfect world we'd all be in bands like this. Oh, who am I kidding? There are no bands like this.
@@davidleblanc1811 Phish is good. Doesn't have the allure or the swing of the Dead.
@@davidleblanc1811 I want to be a phishhead, I really can't get into it. I was told to listen to a Live One and New Years '95 and there brand new one but it didn't immediately draw me in like the Dead did. I wish I was alive for Jerry.
@@NLT-pm4sq I feel the same as you and I have been to many phish shows over the years, and they are fun great crowd fun to dance but I just can’t fully get into them
@@davidleblanc1811 between the time of leaving that comment I went to the orange beach and raleigh phish shows and now phish and the dead are on equal level for me
@@davidleblanc1811 definitely man, I am too young to have seen jerry but I love the recordings and soundboards. It's what got me into jam rock, phish is special because they're still going really strong in 4.0
What a song for the sunset to hear live! LOVELOVELOVE
Rip Phil ❤️⚡️💙
Was such an amazing awesome show, my 25th Birthday Bash, was talking to Jerry prior to the show about my plan for when they first played at Folsom Field Boulder. We had hired The Boys to play at The Glen Miller Ballroom Boulder April 13th, 1969. Fun times indeed 🕉️☯️☮️
Jerry was about to go into the best dew ever and Bobby said nawwww
Ahah for real sad it didn’t happen but not a bad El Paso
@@marcuscopp1176 oh its definitely a good El Paso i gotta agree there
That’s part of the charm of this epic show and epic Dark Star. A segue into fucking El Paso lol
El Paso was one of my favorite songs to take a restroom break to. Red Rooster as well.
@@NoineNoineNoine I would’ve just pissed my pants tbh
I feel so fortunate to have seen them many a time.🙏🏽🙏🏽
pure sublime psychedelia. This whole set really, is ethereal, and is what it sounds like to tap into the cosmos..
The hippie behind the stage was having the time of his life...
He put his shorts on for this song!
Legend has it he’s still dancing in that same spot to this day……
he was the Security
all of it
Far out!
The Greatful Dead as a band has and was criminally underrated as a band, by mainstream music for years.
Ops Grateful Dead.
Ops Grateful Dead.
You can see in Jerry's expression the focus he has in this composition. He's listening to every nuance and responding. These guys are geniuses. Only Miles could ever compare.
Jerry laughing at 28:00. Mad scientist stuff. So good.
Love it when that kid walks across the stage like it's nothing!!! At about 5:40ish
Nowadays that kid would be thrown off the stage by 3 security personnel
@@thecamman7446 he wouldn't even have gotten that far....
Jerry was like Holy shit did I just see that 😂
Phiiiiiiilllllll!!!!!! Crushing. At 19m plus with Billy. Holy damn shit!!
Today is the 50th anniversary of this gig 8/27/2022
One of the finest incarnations. One drummer, one acoustic pianer plar, no beans on the side - the Europe 72 band, all hetted up.
No Pigpen here thought...
"no beans on the side" is probably one of the funnier things ever said
God damn the tail end of that jam get fuckin weird and I love. It
I’d trade my life to be at this show
Ryan Moore it was 104 degrees and humid as hell. People were passing out. It was not a cake walk lol
As long as you're offering your life, don't sell yourself short. Include Harpur college and the Filmore East run in February '70.
@@georgebethos7890 yeah same with people who wish they were at Woodstock
@@georgebethos7890 were you there?
marT Tram not likely. Just well known lore.
I saw this band four times: twice at the Lyceum in London, once at the Wembley arena and once at the Bickershaw festival. I regret not going to more gigs!!!
this is pretty damn good audio, considering it's a live set from 72
The soundboard has been around since 1993. The full concert is on Spotify and probably iTunes
The Grateful Dead make sense now, thank you! ✨☮️💟🕉✨
truly astounding piece of musicianship and timeless art. thanks so much for sharing. :-D
glad its back, missed seeing bobs tripping faces / @ 9:36
There's a couple of times Bobby looks like he needs a pause.
so gorgeous "There is balm in Gilead,
To make the wounded whole;
There's power enough in heaven,
To cure a sin-sick soul." and there's also Dark Star !
R.I.P Phil, best bassist in rock, period, followed by a tons of jams.
Brilliantly good upload. Possibly my new favourite dark star! Thanks
It’s the best Dark Star ever, so it should be everyone’s favorite IMO
2-18-71 👑
hard to put into words how good this is ... stunning ....
This is elegance, the best we can be
Love this
The one drummer era was truly the best of the GD's career.
I know many who agree
I love Mickey too but he shoulda played Latin percussion instead having two full drumsets, this just sounds so much cleaner
that's so rippin', in the middle i swared i wuz trippin' !!! thanks as always to the people who post these indescribably delicious vids, this is 36 minutes that shows off the deep conscious connection that music can make with a place inside of us that we may not have known existed without it. god bless the good old grateful dead and the extended family (us)
The Grateful Dead touch on grounds that other bands don't know even exists.....
Either that's a different guy grooving at the top of the pole behind Jerry, or the naked guy from earlier in the day (see Bird Song clip) put a wrap on. Great camera work captured Jerry switching pick ups, from middle/bridge blended to just the bridge pick up. Later on it looks like he went to just neck pick up (all before El Paso). Great any way he slices it.
Shoutout naked hippie dancing on the like that guy rages 🙌
4:20 Jerry has the look that only the crazed embrace while the sane lament. The best
Kudos to the camera man capturing Jerry’s fingers on the strings. This video is amazing!!!
The crowd is mesmerized...
That was a very pleasant half hour!. Fantastic footage. . They were in the prime and becoming brilliant improvisation ally. Still psychedelic but with a never ending rhythm growing. And then the animations caught me off guard. That was a treat! Thanks
To coopt the Duke Ellington line: Jerry and Bob were two halves of the same heartbeat… this video is INTENSE.
I know nothing is perfect in life, but this is the definition of perfection. Best. Video. Ever. Thank you for the post!
Play it Bobby play that shit bo.People dont realize Bobby makes all the cool sounds man.Holdin it together.
At times it sounds more like miles Davis bitches brew than the Grateful Dead.
This performance is a masterpiece. Just beautiful.
Ah. One little kiss and Felina, goodbye.
Ohmygod ill just never get over that this is on video! Jerrys run (and really the whole jam) from 22:00-23:30 is so so sick, and then jerry absolutely melts the universe away, coming up with these the most emotive chromatic little cinema moments...ahhhhhh!!
I like this era of just Bill on drums...
I was born aug 30 1972....this is as close as i can ask for the perfect into the world this was the vibe around the time i took my first breath..deep thoughts. 🙏
I thank everything and everyone that led me to know and love The Grateful Dead in early 1972 in college.
Shaht aht to Keith, absolutely killing it on those keys. Doesn't get the credit he deserves. RIP my friend.
watching this over and over again today again like i did before. Always finding something new to love
The BEST dark star
WHEN I WAS 14, MY GIRLFRIEND AND I LISTENED TO THIS SONG RELIGIOUSLY.... OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THERE IS A NEW UFO/PLANE CALLED THE "DARK STAR"; NO ONE WILL SURVIVE IT; HOW PROPHETIC, JUST WITH A BEAUTIFUL TWIST. :)
Drum gibberish - one of the few times in that era Kreutzmann had the set really tuned well. Wish he would have used this set and/or tuning more. All sounds killer. Rogers I think?
Great man. Just fantastic. I’d like to see the whole show. But I’ll take what we can get. ✌🏽
Sadly the whole show isn't available, i mean it was probably all filmed, but the DVD only released certain songs, thankfully this Dark Star was among them
Bird song, china/rider are around from this show
I am so glad I was born when I was, so I could hear this music.
it's cool to see the connection between Phil and Billy
This is guitar and piano and drums and Bobby on LSD..best jazz song ever!
thanks for a dose of the Grateful Dead.
How does this not have more views? What you / whoever did with the visuals, starting around 12:50, is unworldly. Thank you for this.
Oh shit it's WOS himself, love your uploads man. That's definitely not me who did the visuals haha, this is an excerpt from the Sunshine Daydream movie and i just uploaded it as is.
@@SnowTheJamMan nice, it's been years since I saw that, looks like I'll need to watch again. Sound on this is unbelievable, btw - is that from the movie too, or is that you?
@@WallofSound65 It's from the film as well, this show was mixed differently than any other show in '72 as far as i can tell. Keith is solo on the right channel and Bobby is in the middle and i think it's much better this way, you can clearly hear every note Keith plays, as opposed to other '72 shows where me's mixed in the middle and buried in the mix (especially the Europe shows) and Bobby cuts through and sounds great (his tone in '72 is my favorite he's had). Definitely one of the best boards i've heard.
This is from a rare film that I have on dvd called Sunshine Daydream, recorded at this show.
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This video is a treasure!! (And I'm glad they got that guy in the background to put some pants on!_
Such an iconic set
trippin so hard rn
I have a mini-museum. Willing to trade a few to grow my collection. :)