Not only might this be the most passionate, emotive version of VOJ of all time, but despite a few mumblings here and there, not only might this be Jerry's best performance of the truncated 95 year, and maybe some sort of clarion call, or pre-cursor of things to eventually come, but maybe one of his best vocal performances of the entire 90's
I agree. I get emotional everytime I hear Jerry sing this song. Dylan's lyrics hit something really deep down within me. And while I can't quite explain what it is or why it is; this song resonates with me like few others do. It's one of those that makes you smile and cry at the same time.
I still love Jerry as much now as I did in 85 through 95= I am a Jerry kid. Love you forever Jerry. We will never forget how much you changed our lives for the better.Thank you.. Peace, love and The Grateful Dead Family
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ? We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind. In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane Louise she's all right she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place. Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall Oh, how can I explain ? It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn. Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower frieze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze I can't find my knees." Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel. The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Saying, "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him." But like Louise always says "Ya can't look at much, can ya man." As she, herself prepares for him And Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes everything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
One of Bob's absolute best, performed by one of the very, very few who could do it justice. Jerry does this song with love and respect, while still giving it his own imprint. Beautiful.
Phil Lesh said later that during this particular performance, he wanted to stop playing and simply watch. Every one knew Garcia was absolutely nailing it.
z lstpedestrian Put on some "Where'd You Hide the Body" by James McMurtry. If that doesn't give you someone new to believe in, then you need more help than I can offer.
As the story goes (thanks to Phil Lesh), Garcia decided to finally take advantage of the teleprompters (which nobody in the band liked to do) for this song and I for one am glad he did. A tremendous version that Bob Dylan himself said "that was what I heard in my head".
When the world around seems all crazy and out of balance, this is where I come. This is what salvation must be like after awhile..... It's given me unspeakable peace and joy. Beautiful.....thank you Jerry & Bob for making this a better world. Lots of love to you.
I was lucky enough to be front/center for this show. Given this was '95, there was a lot of talk about how Jerry was fading fast. I recall that near the onset of the opening song, Jer broke a string. He was obviously really upset about it, got help and got back on it. My thought was "well, seems like Jerry's still here to me". This version of Visions proved that. It's cool that Phil included this version in "Fall-Out from the Phil Zone" a CD of highlights. On the liner notes, Phil states he felt that Jer's solo in this version of this song was one of his best ever. Wow! It sure is one hell of a soulful Visions!!!
me too, bro. I got a ride from Park City and was dropped off and into 15 seats back and I was blown away by this. Sadly he had to read it from an early pad cuz his mind was going. And it BLEW MY MIND
Even the croakiness and weariness of Jerry's voice, well was a detriment during these last few shows, somehow worked here, and just brought something extra special to these words.
On some occasions Jerry could surpass his croakiness with pure expressions of emotions, other times he did sound like a frog, That's what keeps me coming back, those brief visions of perfection Jay
+Cleo Fierro Whoaaa easy there cowboy. I wouldn't say half assed.. This is an excellent version of an excellent song by an excellent writer. Ain't no time to hate.
I needed this so bad right now, thanks for the music guys, y'all helped me thru the good times but carried me thru the bad and for that I'm forever grateful
I was at this show. What a strong and poignant performance. Jerry was near the end, but still able to wring emotion from every word, every phrase, every note. I remember not even liking it then, thinking it was boring, wanting Morning Dew instead, but what did I know then. Since, I've learned the chords and am learning the words, and have come to appreciate Dylan's poetry (this is from his most poetic album ever, Blonde on Blonde) and Jerry's interpretation.
I felt the same way! I thought, why not Dew or Standing... what IS this song anyway? Now I find it to be right up at the top of all the primo Jerry ballads; I don't try to rank them. One of the best aspects of the Dead is that process of growing to really appreciate & love songs that first strike you as boring! A lot of more "poppy" music lacks that depth. It's that deep well that the Dead have always drawn from! At the show, we weren't there *yet*, we were still in the process of getting there! :)
garyshow2005 this. such poignant interpretation that its almost other worldly. Wonderinng if he felt it was near his time to go. The peace brings me is hard to put into words I know he had so much more to give. I pray there's peace where you are. Miss and love you.
One of Garcia's favorite songs "sure got alot of gall to feel so useless and all Check out China Doll I miss my brother so much To the Dead on their farewell 50'th Santa Clara Chicago Just a box of rain and Ripple in still waters Na ahoo ee
This night, 3/18/95 was a Rex benefit show. I traded my front row for the next night to get my girl in. Looking back, I missed the first unbroken, but this Visions is possibly the last great, great Jerry thing he ever did
The boys taught me all that I know. Once in the middle of Joshua Tree i laid down to sleep in my tent and off in the far far distance I heard a soft subtle sound. So enthralled I woke up and wandered through the desert and landed at a camp site where some guys were singing with the acoustic VOJ. Hearing is float though the rocks and desert was magical. Turns out the guys were on a Bach party and their plan was shop for a weeks food. I just finished a school camping program and had a weeks worth of food left over. In the am I gave them all I had much to their surprise. It was VOJ that brought us together and VOJ that got you reading this. God bless the Grateful Dead. You all get it. I tear up thinking about it all and what life would be like without it…….miss you Jerry. More than words can tell.
hey folk hippie get 5-26-1995 nothing to be sad about that night. He was strong vocally and high in the mix and they killed that night. Ill put that fire up against any including 5-8-77
Jerry had so much heart, so much affectation, so much emotion that burst through every line he ever sang; he put you in the place of the song's protagonist and set the mood of a tune better than anyone else I have ever seen, or heard, here not only doing amazing justice to Dylan's music, but lifting the 'visions' to new levels. Sorely missed, ever mourned, Jerry Garcia will remain an iconic and mythologized god of rock and roll until civilization grinds to a stand-still; Zeus to the rest. RIP.
Some videos I can't understand why there's even one thumbs down. I can understand being indifferent to it if you don't like the grateful dead, but clicking the thumbs down implies that the person was expecting fire but got rain. But this is where it's at if you like the grateful dead. Some ppl just don't like anything after go to heaven came out.
They're either trolls who don't like the music in general, or "just another picky Deadhead". Everyone who is into music with a mind and soul knows, there is nothing to compare with or like Jerry, and a Grateful Dead concert. Later on, there were a lot of iffy shows. But do you stop loving your spouse because not every time you make love it's fireworks through the roof? I never felt conned no matter how much he fucked it up.
Don Henley didn't like the Dead, but who cares, that's just his sensibilities. He's a great songwriter and singer, but he just didn't get it. Hornsby tried to turn him on...I was at a show of his in Malibu where he explained what happened when he took him to a show. I get where he was coming from but don't agree. But then again as much as I like the Eagles, I wouldn't bother to see them live anymore...yaaaaaaaawn. Might as well listen to a record.
Such a sense of finality to this version. Rewind to 4/22/1986 Berkley Theater--Earth Day. The set 1 Visions of Johanna on that day is so lighthearted. The contrast in energy between 86' and 95' version s staggering.
My first show was amazing in 1968. The 70's rocked all the way. 80s brought the "Touch heads" and great shows from the middle to the first of the 90s. JMHO, from personal experience, and we all experience things differently. Peace and music.
Only got to see the dead with Jerry about a dozen times between summer of 94 and summer of 95. This wAs my favorite memory of him. He looked to me as if he was growing out of the stage ....lol. ...this brought tears to my eyes that evening I couldn't shake the feeling like it was the end of the ride , and it wasn't too much longer that it was. . Rip buddy., You gave so much to so many people we will never forget.
+ Cleo fierro what are you talking about dude? Dylan himself was quoted saying "nobody plays Dylan like the Dead". Gee whiz, some people ain't got a clue.
@@Preston_McKnight the final years of JGB were the absolute best of jerrys performances imo. i think i can concur about getting bored and not caring about the songs he played and sang for the previous decades. newer and/or different material with jgb was super refreshing and i can see how much more passionate overall jerry was while playing with jgb in the end versus the dead which is great in its own perspective but there is something really special about the final jgb years.
@@Preston_McKnight What?? He was using a teleprompter. "He was all about Bob Dylan.". Do you have any clue what Jerry and Bob Dylan meant to each other over the span of their lives as friends?? WTF?
@@landonmccalmon7121 he still cared enough to get it all right?? Like the original comment said he was trying to do fire on the mountain the amount of care significantly drops. Plus JGB shows were practically Dylan cover shows
I love how in this video Jerry starts off shrunken shoulders and looking frail. Then by 1:20 or so he starts feeling like his self and gets into it. He knew he was on fire right there and then.
I think he's smiling 'cause the words are blowing his mind once again, ("seems like the very first time") "Inside the museum, Infinity goes up on trial."
This whole show was hot, best Ramble on Rose from that era, hell quite awhile at that point.Really inspired spring tour as a whole.Then that summer...what a shame.RIP brother Jer-Ber
I cant believe how many people, after how much they say they love GD, and that they "know there music" still hate...if you KNOW anything, you know that every preformance, good, bad, sad, or mad, was special beyond believe and cannot/will not ever be replicated in TIME...FOREVER GRATEFUL FOREVER DEAD
I was at this show.. the whole run was a frantic BC of the unbroken chain break out. I was 14 I don’t even remember this on my set list the just??? for it. Maybe 15 years later I was in Chile alone for months and I had the lyrics pretty right by the time I hiked out at least 1/2 of them it a long a song. Little boy lost takes himself so seriously …. likes to live to live dangerously… I don’t know how I remember lyrics I don’t remember hearing 20 prior. I don’t understand what happened in those shows but somehow the band was telling me what was coming. They always have I won’t be alone ever cause this band, thank you
Jerry was indeed tired, frayed, even disillusioned in the Spring of '95...but he was far from musically defeated. This version of this rare, delicate Dylan Gem matched the first time they played it (which I saw) back at Hampton in the Spring of '86. Thanks for posting.
Who filmed this ? I am so grateful that they did, this is my absolute favorite piece of video of all time. I owe whoever taped this an infinite thank you.
I knew the guys who did. I was a taper in those days, moved amongst the elites & the wannabee's pretty effortlessly (I was an Amalgam of both). I am going to write a whole story & possibly post it here. I got good Stories, gotta be careful to not use specific names / dates / locations to protect the Innocent, but far more the Guilty. lmfao. I used to help them out, via carrying their equipment into venues via my Taper ticket (Dear God, I don't think Marine basic training was as Rough as Rucking all their gear, plus my gear, the miles & miles to get into some of the big stadium gigs). Also helped them out when I traveled to faraway runs via plane, when I didn't bring my entire audio taper rig, via helping "protect" their operation / look out for security (video was STRICTLY banned, & the band had their own roadies looking for Offenders, & they knew the best locations / etc), & in many subtle ways difficult to explain (for example, us Elders taught these Younger guys to "Always focus on Jerry during his ballads & when he's shredding on guitar", as we were pretty Disgusted with the "official" videographers (various pay per views, stadium gigs, etc), who would often focus on something trivial whilst Jerry was doing something Epic, like Mickey's foot or Brent's Rolex (my FUCK BRENT'S ROLEX!!!!! post-stadium-gig Rants were the Best!!!!!). So, you can sorta thank me too. My "Sideshow" moniker is kinda Appropriate. Oh, I'm also an Asshole, as most of us Tapers were back in the day ;)
@@sideshowbob Haha I can attest to the tapers being "assholes", in the most affectionate use of the word. Many a time I was around and amongst the tapers. They were definitely protective of their equipment and space 😂
@@tflyer98 Jerry was Infamously humble & shy. I have a strong suspicion the band's aversion to being video recorded stemmed from Jerry himself, & Jerry may have even directed the "official" videographers to NOT focus so much on him. It always struck me as quite Odd what choices of "cut aways" they made. Possibly a Method to their Madness . . .
I miss Jerry (and Brent Mydland too...sad story there).......a sweeter soul there never was...He just didn't take care of himself....a shame really . He gave it all to make sure that the extended family,roadies, employees GD enterprises , etc. wouldn't get laid off. (plus he didn't want to let the fans down either ) looking back on it now he and the rest of the band really should've taken a few tours off and recuperated from all the drugs and booze and other assorted madness of the untold years of road life.... wish we had Jerry Now god bless Capt. Trips
They worked him to death, beyond his graciousness, he didn't want to play the big arenas. He always said how great it was to open as The Warlocks in a small venue. they pressured him into playing big arenas, cause he's a sensitive dude. They were greedy and used him. He wanted to go to New York, one September and "they", wouldn't let him. Someone met him at the airport in Europe and "they" wouldn't let the dude see Garcia. Garcia made private plans and TOLD "them", "F** you." I saw cockroaches coming out of the woodwork", Jerry said, analogizing folks surrounding him.
sad stuff indeed ,however it's all overshadowed by Jerry's music and wonderfully generous soul . I'm so grateful...no pun intended..to have been alive to witness a great artist of the caliber of Coltrane or Mingus live in action .Jerry Garcia will be remembered by many as one of the great guitar innovators of the 20th century and a really kind dude too......that's what's important
ChrisAndTommy GoodTimeFolkRockShow I think just the reverse. They are in the caliber of Garcia, live in action. but I don't equate them. Nothing wrong in equating them, just a different way of looking at it. Peace
ChrisAndTommy GoodTimeFolkRockShow I think what might have ultimately been his undoing more than anything might have been the smoking. I know drugs and poor eating and all that, but heavy smoking on top of that is just bound to catch up with ya... I agree that they should've taken some more tours off: they only time they did take off was when Jerry's health was really bad
Love the defiance with which Jerry plays these Dylan "power" chords. This is time capsule perfect. To quote Phil, "unutterably poignant". His last great hurrah? Perhaps. But, as I always say, . . . . . Jerry Lives.
pEOPLE THAT NEG THIS COMMENT LISTEN TO BOTH THEN TELL ME WHICH ONE HAS MORE ORIGINAL AND TRULY IMPROVISED PLAYING. i AM NOT DEGRADING BARTON HALL IT IS AWESOME ITS JUST OVERRATED BECAUSE THE QUALITY IS SO CRISP AND IT HAS BEEN EVEN BEFORE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED US TO CLEAN UP SO MANY SHOWS. tHERE IS NOT A YEAR FROM 1966-1995 THAT DOES NOT HAVE SEVERAL AWESOME SHOWS.
We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
Articulate will never be recognized unless the people that articulatey known geniuses of the world of the music of being on tour that really know Jerry and his rhythm and rhyme of being able to do so much with the orchestration of the sound system that amplified the colosseums that kept us on tour year after year after year after year I am so glad I took the time in my life to figure out who I was and doing it on tour following the music that was in my soul
Inside the musuems, infinity goes up on trial... Jewels & binoculars... hang from the head of the mule... Jeez I can't find my knees These visions of johanna.. Say a prayer for him and louise!
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's all right, she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall How can I explain? It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees" Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" But like Louise always says "Ya can't look at much, can ya man?" As she, herself, prepares for him And Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Bob Dylan
I suddenly found myself in Philadelphia when my dad passed on March 15, 1995. I am here, so I might as well go see the Dead at the Spectrum. They weren't playing NY, Washington, or Boston. I think this show may have set a record for the number of people looking for tickets. I was walking around with a small "Please" sign and this kind guy walked up to me and sold me a ticket at face. YES! This song and Ramble on Rose made it for me. I also was there the next night to hear the 1st "Unbroken Chain".
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I thank God and The Universe that I was able to appreciate this during my lifetime.
I thank Jerry for it.
This is the best 10 minutes I ever spent on TH-cam
Couldn't agree more
Yup.
Only one word can sum up this performance, "Haunting". Rest in peace Jerry.
or "beautiful"
Not only might this be the most passionate, emotive version of VOJ of all time, but despite a few mumblings here and there, not only might this be Jerry's best performance of the truncated 95 year, and maybe some sort of clarion call, or pre-cursor of things to eventually come, but maybe one of his best vocal performances of the entire 90's
in other words, it might just be the sweetest thing he ever played
That and the 93 Crazy Fingers that comes up on here
Like a person telling you for some unknown reason that they are afraid then suddenly they are gone...only then does it make sense...
@@augie7484
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Definitely! In that Fallout From The Phil Zone disc, this is in there. In the liner notes Phil says comments his amazing Jerry’s solo is.
Damn...tears running down my face.
"Mona Lisa must've had them Highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles!" Love it!
I agree. I get emotional everytime I hear Jerry sing this song. Dylan's lyrics hit something really deep down within me. And while I can't quite explain what it is or why it is; this song resonates with me like few others do. It's one of those that makes you smile and cry at the same time.
The greatest guitarist playing the Nobel Prize Winner's greatest song.
Thanks for uploading!
It so amazing how for so many years this still overwhelms me with tears of joy. Thanks Jerry for all the memories!!
I still love Jerry as much now as I did in 85 through 95= I am a Jerry kid. Love you forever Jerry. We will never forget how much you changed our lives for the better.Thank you.. Peace, love and The Grateful Dead Family
well said sir.
Close to his death, Jerry summons up a powerful, outstanding interpretation / performance of this Dylan classic
Did he know
Just so perfect
IWT
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise she's all right she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
Oh, how can I explain ?
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn.
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower frieze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees."
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Saying, "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him."
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man."
As she, herself prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
Are you kidding me!!???
Louise holds a handful of rain.....
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Seems like veneer.
One of Bob's absolute best, performed by one of the very, very few who could do it justice. Jerry does this song with love and respect, while still giving it his own imprint. Beautiful.
Damn straight.
jokerman, well said .Jerry took on some that only he could do and show the soul and passion as If Dylan won't for Jerry. Amazing funky runs WOW
right on
jokerman Jerry was really struggling by this point, but a rousing performance. Man...
jokerman Jerry was really struggling by this point, but a rousing performance. Man...
Phil Lesh said later that during this particular performance, he wanted to stop playing and simply watch. Every one knew Garcia was absolutely nailing it.
where is this interviw
Phil Zone!!!!!
That’s because Phil Lesh was nothing more than a fan of talented people
@@joefaccio7580 lol nice trolling
Yes!!! Absolutely love it. I can hear Phil saying that... thanks man.
this is likely my favorite Dylan tune.
and the Dead are the only thing I believe in any more.
this cut is nothing but tears for me.
z lstpedestrian
Put on some "Where'd You Hide the Body" by James McMurtry.
If that doesn't give you someone new to believe in, then you need more help than I can offer.
I believe in you
People always thought of frampton talking with his guitar. That's great but no one makes their guitar sing like jerry.
As the story goes (thanks to Phil Lesh), Garcia decided to finally take advantage of the teleprompters (which nobody in the band liked to do) for this song and I for one am glad he did. A tremendous version that Bob Dylan himself said "that was what I heard in my head".
Still flubbed the "little boy lost" verse too
@@brendanmcmahon1162 what part of “lost” do you not understand?
Did he really say that?
When the world around seems all crazy and out of balance, this is where I come. This is what salvation must be like after awhile..... It's given me unspeakable peace and joy. Beautiful.....thank you Jerry & Bob for making this a better world. Lots of love to you.
He was in rough shape at this point but bucked up for this one. He was amazing. RIP Jerry Glad I was around at the same time as you
Well said my friend
Fucking Beautiful! There will never be ANYTHING close to this band. Magic!
magic is the perfect description. I called going to a Dead show 'going to church'
ABOVE BEYOND AND ASTOUNDING GOOD OLE DEAD REMAINS MAGIC!✌👍🎼🎼🎼🎼🙏🌹❤😊
@fosterjameslove - "There will never be ANYTHING close to this band." If that ain't The TRUTH! A phenomenon indeed!
These visions of Jerry are all that remain :-)
wlunsfor we all go on!
well played
I was lucky enough to be front/center for this show. Given this was '95, there was a lot of talk about how Jerry was fading fast. I recall that near the onset of the opening song, Jer broke a string. He was obviously really upset about it, got help and got back on it. My thought was "well, seems like Jerry's still here to me". This version of Visions proved that. It's cool that Phil included this version in "Fall-Out from the Phil Zone" a CD of highlights. On the liner notes, Phil states he felt that Jer's solo in this version of this song was one of his best ever. Wow! It sure is one hell of a soulful Visions!!!
Christopher Perry me too😀
Miss u everyday
me too, bro. I got a ride from Park City and was dropped off and into 15 seats back and I was blown away by this. Sadly he had to read it from an early pad cuz his mind was going. And it BLEW MY MIND
Can’t remember if it was here or Denver where he actually walked off stage for a bit after kicking his equipment around.
This song just slays.
I attended 44 of the 47 GD shows in 1995.
Don’t listen to the dodos!!!
Each one was a true gem. ❤
Tears of joy and gratitude. Thank you.
Holy geezus, so passionate yet so fucking tragic.... only 53 but looking like 75. RIP old fella.
Love this performance and song. Truly fantastic.
Jerry the great interpreter of Dylan tunes. His heartfelt licks always added so much depth and emotion to Dylan's complex lyrics.
Truer words were never spoken.
I belong to the church where one of the gospels is that no song has truly lived unless its been interpreted by the Grateful Dead.
What a beautiful, understated and well-recorded performance. So sad to lose Jerry way too early.
Even the croakiness and weariness of Jerry's voice, well was a detriment during these last few shows, somehow worked here, and just brought something extra special to these words.
AGREE. WOULDN'T WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY...
Yes...and also in this period's version of Pretty Peggy-o. So much heart and soul in his beautiful voice.
@@grizzlybear4 as well as the 1974 peggyo's, so quiet and full of emotion
@@grizzlybear4 the shows with the loose blue shirt are always as good as it gets. Also my favorite peggy o and tangled.
On some occasions Jerry could surpass his croakiness with pure expressions of emotions, other times he did sound like a frog, That's what keeps me coming back, those brief visions of perfection
Jay
He was a super cool man.... always nice to me and mine
No words, the beauty of this is blinding.
There's never been a better interpreter of Dylan's songs.
+Angry Gen X'er Have you ever heard about Richie Havens?
+Jakub Wallflower I saw both Richie Havens and Jerry do Dylan. AGXer is right, and I suspect Dylan would tell you the same...
+Angry Gen X'er I've always thought so!
Cleo Fierro OK he's my favorite of all time too, but my comment stands - Jerry is so great at doing Dylan.
+Cleo Fierro Whoaaa easy there cowboy. I wouldn't say half assed.. This is an excellent version of an excellent song by an excellent writer. Ain't no time to hate.
Goosebumbs on this version... EVERYTIME
greatest cover band ever and so much more!!!!!!! God Bless The Grateful Dead.
Briam Stevenson ain't nobody do Dylan songs any better, imho...
I needed this so bad right now, thanks for the music guys, y'all helped me thru the good times but carried me thru the bad and for that I'm forever grateful
Dead tour dead shows the highlights of my life!
this version is so incredible. pure emotion dripping off each note
I was at this show. What a strong and poignant performance. Jerry was near the end, but still able to wring emotion from every word, every phrase, every note. I remember not even liking it then, thinking it was boring, wanting Morning Dew instead, but what did I know then. Since, I've learned the chords and am learning the words, and have come to appreciate Dylan's poetry (this is from his most poetic album ever, Blonde on Blonde) and Jerry's interpretation.
+garyshow2005 Hi garys. Lessons of life can´t be learned in a day
keep on Bobin`
+garyshow2005 well said
I felt the same way! I thought, why not Dew or Standing... what IS this song anyway? Now I find it to be right up at the top of all the primo Jerry ballads; I don't try to rank them. One of the best aspects of the Dead is that process of growing to really appreciate & love songs that first strike you as boring! A lot of more "poppy" music lacks that depth. It's that deep well that the Dead have always drawn from! At the show, we weren't there *yet*, we were still in the process of getting there! :)
garyshow2005 this was long before he left us. Its beyond beautiful and I believe he left his all on that stage. Who could not be moved by this.
garyshow2005 this. such poignant interpretation that its almost other worldly. Wonderinng if he felt it was near his time to go. The peace brings me is hard to put into words I know he had so much more to give. I pray there's peace where you are. Miss and love you.
As of writing, this is one of the most pleasing TH-cam comments pages I've seen.
And yes, this clip shows Jerry still had it right to the end.
Seems to have remained, and yeah, such a lack of negativity is so rare.
Still true.
The Great Jerry Garcia ....
Jerry is so good..Time won't decay his talent
Absolutely grand!! "Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues..."
One of Jerry's last coherent ballad performances...
Miss him everyday....
One of Garcia's favorite songs
"sure got alot of gall
to feel so useless and all
Check out China Doll
I miss my brother so much
To the Dead on their farewell 50'th
Santa Clara
Chicago
Just a box of rain
and Ripple in still waters
Na ahoo ee
Ole Joe got gall!
"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it" gets me every time. God damn Jerry, RIP
He gives me goosebumps
Ditto and aint it just like the night to play tricks on you when you're trying to be so quiet
♥️⚡💙 ..verbatim, I love this comment.
This is a Bob Dylan song, so it should be "God damn Bob". This version here is horrible. Horrible!! So, fuck you Jerry
You have said IT¡
Was this at the Spectrum Philadelphia? I think I was there for this. Poor Jerry, even half dying he was the best.
Mike MakesRight first time they broke out unbroken chain. Great 3 day tour
Anthony Reagoso unbroken was the next night
This night, 3/18/95 was a Rex benefit show. I traded my front row for the next night to get my girl in. Looking back, I missed the first unbroken, but this Visions is possibly the last great, great Jerry thing he ever did
No tampa fla 95
53 yrs 😢 ....as i type this at age 54... my 20 yr old self thought they were so old.. at Phils 50th Bday in Landover
there are no words for this other than beautiful. miss you dearly, Jer.
I feel like this song pretty well describes how I feel at the moment. Nobody understands me like Jerry.
... or Bob, perhaps.
Jesse Greer agreed
The boys taught me all that I know. Once in the middle of Joshua Tree i laid down to sleep in my tent and off in the far far distance I heard a soft subtle sound. So enthralled I woke up and wandered through the desert and landed at a camp site where some guys were singing with the acoustic VOJ. Hearing is float though the rocks and desert was magical. Turns out the guys were on a Bach party and their plan was shop for a weeks food. I just finished a school camping program and had a weeks worth of food left over. In the am I gave them all I had much to their surprise. It was VOJ that brought us together and VOJ that got you reading this. God bless the Grateful Dead. You all get it. I tear up thinking about it all and what life would be like without it…….miss you Jerry. More than words can tell.
😭
What a wonderful experience. So plausible to those of us who are here to comment!
That sounds like a positive adventure.
hey folk hippie get 5-26-1995 nothing to be sad about that night. He was strong vocally and high in the mix and they killed that night. Ill put that fire up against any including 5-8-77
glyn parson I agree !!
72 shows and this was the one that got away.
This song spoke to Jerry.
i remember this performance, it was so intense and a rarely played song, they always blew the roof off of the spectrum
+Oscar Gayer Yeah fo sure on that!
+LIZZIE SANGI Sangi (Lizzie) hi lizzi! (~);}
Oscar Gayer LOLOL YO, Osc! *
Lizzy hit me up on social media Oscar Gayer or Facebook
Oscar Gayer O m'gosh! NOT until I get a bite of that meatloaf
Ten minutes of perfection.
Jerry had so much heart, so much affectation, so much emotion that burst through every line he ever sang; he put you in the place of the song's protagonist and set the mood of a tune better than anyone else I have ever seen, or heard, here not only doing amazing justice to Dylan's music, but lifting the 'visions' to new levels. Sorely missed, ever mourned, Jerry Garcia will remain an iconic and mythologized god of rock and roll until civilization grinds to a stand-still; Zeus to the rest. RIP.
Here I sit, blessed by the presence of genius, Thank you Jerry, thank you Bob.
That's the good stuff right there.
Jeff Clemetson. Absolute BEST statement I ever "heard", in relations to Jerry Garcia. That's it. There's nothing else to add, and nuthin' left to say.
Some videos I can't understand why there's even one thumbs down. I can understand being indifferent to it if you don't like the grateful dead, but clicking the thumbs down implies that the person was expecting fire but got rain. But this is where it's at if you like the grateful dead. Some ppl just don't like anything after go to heaven came out.
Maybe they're just pranksters
Just curious, is a "prankster" the same thing as a friggin' arse-hole?
Thumbs downers on good music usually are Beyonce, Jay z, Kanye and Bieber fans.. they're basically, for all intents and purposes ..Deaf!!
They're either trolls who don't like the music in general, or "just another picky Deadhead". Everyone who is into music with a mind and soul knows, there is nothing to compare with or like Jerry, and a Grateful Dead concert. Later on, there were a lot of iffy shows. But do you stop loving your spouse because not every time you make love it's fireworks through the roof? I never felt conned no matter how much he fucked it up.
Don Henley didn't like the Dead, but who cares, that's just his sensibilities. He's a great songwriter and singer, but he just didn't get it. Hornsby tried to turn him on...I was at a show of his in Malibu where he explained what happened when he took him to a show. I get where he was coming from but don't agree. But then again as much as I like the Eagles, I wouldn't bother to see them live anymore...yaaaaaaaawn. Might as well listen to a record.
I stopped dancing just to watch in awe and the feeling was the same with everyone at the show! This performance had everyone in tears! Always
yeah we all stopped respect
every time his voice cracks, I'm done. Tears rolling.
😭😭
Such a sense of finality to this version. Rewind to 4/22/1986 Berkley Theater--Earth Day. The set 1 Visions of Johanna on that day is so lighthearted. The contrast in energy between 86' and 95' version s staggering.
Agreed. Just played em back to back last night, and Blonde On Blonde too.. sorry, Bob.
"Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles." -- One of Dr. Bob's best images ever, and Jerry does it justice.
I'm only 24. And they say that Jerry's good moments were few and far between in these late years... but man.... these good late moments are so golden
My first show was amazing in 1968. The 70's rocked all the way. 80s brought the "Touch heads" and great shows from the middle to the first of the 90s. JMHO, from personal experience, and we all experience things differently. Peace and music.
YES his skills although brilliant were showing the dark side of the heroin addiction. Still very powerful
Don’t listen to “them”.
I was there more than most. Much more. It was all golden. ❤
Only got to see the dead with Jerry about a dozen times between summer of 94 and summer of 95. This wAs my favorite memory of him. He looked to me as if he was growing out of the stage ....lol. ...this brought tears to my eyes that evening I couldn't shake the feeling like it was the end of the ride , and it wasn't too much longer that it was.
. Rip buddy., You gave so much to so many people we will never forget.
+ Cleo fierro
what are you talking about dude? Dylan himself was quoted saying "nobody plays Dylan like the Dead". Gee whiz, some people ain't got a clue.
How can I explain? it's so hard to get on. and these visions of Johanna...kept me up...past the dawn
Sitting here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it.
Jumpin criminy I think I know where he's at. Now.
Most excellent!!!
It amazes me that Jerry, especially in '95, could nail all the words to this song but he screws up Fire on the Mountain almost every time
Towards the end I’m sure he was tired of the dead songs and just didn’t care about those lyrics but He was all about bob Dylan
@@Preston_McKnight the final years of JGB were the absolute best of jerrys performances imo. i think i can concur about getting bored and not caring about the songs he played and sang for the previous decades. newer and/or different material with jgb was super refreshing and i can see how much more passionate overall jerry was while playing with jgb in the end versus the dead which is great in its own perspective but there is something really special about the final jgb years.
Jerry used a teleprompter for the long tunes just like Visions of Johanna in the end. That is why.
@@Preston_McKnight What?? He was using a teleprompter. "He was all about Bob Dylan.". Do you have any clue what Jerry and Bob Dylan meant to each other over the span of their lives as friends?? WTF?
@@landonmccalmon7121 he still cared enough to get it all right?? Like the original comment said he was trying to do fire on the mountain the amount of care significantly drops. Plus JGB shows were practically Dylan cover shows
I love how in this video Jerry starts off shrunken shoulders and looking frail. Then by 1:20 or so he starts feeling like his self and gets into it. He knew he was on fire right there and then.
I think he's smiling 'cause the words are blowing his mind once again, ("seems like the very first time") "Inside the museum, Infinity goes up on trial."
One of Jerry's last great performances
There were many many more over the next four months actually
This whole show was hot, best Ramble on Rose from that era, hell quite awhile at that point.Really inspired spring tour as a whole.Then that summer...what a shame.RIP brother Jer-Ber
Jerry killing it and Vince’s piano work for all the haters and Bobby’s mix is heavy on this perfect.
It may not have been tight, but goddamn it was emotive and passionate.
He gave it his all and felt those words on this night
I cant believe how many people, after how much they say they love GD, and that they "know there music" still hate...if you KNOW anything, you know that every preformance, good, bad, sad, or mad, was special beyond believe and cannot/will not ever be replicated in TIME...FOREVER GRATEFUL FOREVER DEAD
Right on brother
I was at this show.. the whole run was a frantic BC of the unbroken chain break out. I was 14 I don’t even remember this on my set list the just??? for it. Maybe 15 years later I was in Chile alone for months and I had the lyrics pretty right by the time I hiked out at least 1/2 of them it a long a song. Little boy lost takes himself so seriously …. likes to live to live dangerously… I don’t know how I remember lyrics I don’t remember hearing 20 prior. I don’t understand what happened in those shows but somehow the band was telling me what was coming. They always have I won’t be alone ever cause this band, thank you
Could make any song his own. Miss him :-(
I heard someone say, "Your favorite hippy jam band will make you laugh & dance. But the Grateful Dead will make you cry."
If you weren’t crying by the 2nd set Garcia ballad you just didn’t have as good a show as you could’ve. ❤
"Jeez, I can't find my knees." Dylan wrote so many deep, meaningful lyrics, but for some reason this is one of my favorite lines of his. 😂
"We're sitting here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it..." Jerry could always deliver the moment. RIP, thx forever brother
Jerry was indeed tired, frayed, even disillusioned in the Spring of '95...but he was far from musically defeated. This version of this rare, delicate Dylan Gem matched the first time they played it (which I saw) back at Hampton in the Spring of '86. Thanks for posting.
I saw both too.
Hampton ‘86 and this one on my 32nd birthday.
Thank you Jerry. ❤
Jerry doing dylan 😊 honey on ice cream . Just perfect 🥰
It's the BEST, Jerry!
THE BEST!!
I was at this show and remember being blown away by this performance.
Thank you very much for sharing.
This is the best video on the entire internet....miss you Jerry.
Love the way Jerry sang this song.
he picked really good notes to go along with , too.
Who filmed this ? I am so grateful that they did, this is my absolute favorite piece of video of all time. I owe whoever taped this an infinite thank you.
I knew the guys who did. I was a taper in those days, moved amongst the elites & the wannabee's pretty effortlessly (I was an Amalgam of both). I am going to write a whole story & possibly post it here. I got good Stories, gotta be careful to not use specific names / dates / locations to protect the Innocent, but far more the Guilty. lmfao.
I used to help them out, via carrying their equipment into venues via my Taper ticket (Dear God, I don't think Marine basic training was as Rough as Rucking all their gear, plus my gear, the miles & miles to get into some of the big stadium gigs). Also helped them out when I traveled to faraway runs via plane, when I didn't bring my entire audio taper rig, via helping "protect" their operation / look out for security (video was STRICTLY banned, & the band had their own roadies looking for Offenders, & they knew the best locations / etc), & in many subtle ways difficult to explain (for example, us Elders taught these Younger guys to "Always focus on Jerry during his ballads & when he's shredding on guitar", as we were pretty Disgusted with the "official" videographers (various pay per views, stadium gigs, etc), who would often focus on something trivial whilst Jerry was doing something Epic, like Mickey's foot or Brent's Rolex (my FUCK BRENT'S ROLEX!!!!! post-stadium-gig Rants were the Best!!!!!).
So, you can sorta thank me too. My "Sideshow" moniker is kinda Appropriate. Oh, I'm also an Asshole, as most of us Tapers were back in the day ;)
@@sideshowbob Haha I can attest to the tapers being "assholes", in the most affectionate use of the word. Many a time I was around and amongst the tapers. They were definitely protective of their equipment and space 😂
@@sideshowbob So true how the so called Pro directors and videographers would keep cutting from Jerry at the very key moments of songs.
@@tflyer98 Jerry was Infamously humble & shy. I have a strong suspicion the band's aversion to being video recorded stemmed from Jerry himself, & Jerry may have even directed the "official" videographers to NOT focus so much on him. It always struck me as quite Odd what choices of "cut aways" they made. Possibly a Method to their Madness . . .
I miss Jerry (and Brent Mydland too...sad story there).......a sweeter soul there never was...He just didn't take care of himself....a shame really . He gave it all to make sure that the extended family,roadies, employees GD enterprises , etc. wouldn't get laid off. (plus he didn't want to let the fans down either ) looking back on it now he and the rest of the band really should've taken a few tours off and recuperated from all the drugs and booze and other assorted madness of the untold years of road life.... wish we had Jerry Now god bless Capt. Trips
They worked him to death, beyond his graciousness, he didn't want to play the big arenas. He always said how great it was to open as The Warlocks in a small venue. they pressured him into playing big arenas, cause he's a sensitive dude. They were greedy and used him. He wanted to go to New York, one September and "they", wouldn't let him. Someone met him at the airport in Europe and "they" wouldn't let the dude see Garcia. Garcia made private plans and TOLD "them", "F** you." I saw cockroaches coming out of the woodwork", Jerry said, analogizing folks surrounding him.
sad stuff indeed ,however it's all overshadowed by Jerry's music and wonderfully generous soul . I'm so grateful...no pun intended..to have been alive to witness a great artist of the caliber of Coltrane or Mingus live in action .Jerry Garcia will be remembered by many as one of the great guitar innovators of the 20th century and a really kind dude too......that's what's important
ChrisAndTommy GoodTimeFolkRockShow I think just the reverse. They are in the caliber of Garcia, live in action. but I don't equate them. Nothing wrong in equating them, just a different way of looking at it. Peace
ChrisAndTommy GoodTimeFolkRockShow I think what might have ultimately been his undoing more than anything might have been the smoking. I know drugs and poor eating and all that, but heavy smoking on top of that is just bound to catch up with ya... I agree that they should've taken some more tours off: they only time they did take off was when Jerry's health was really bad
I miss him every day. Sad I'll never get to see a new smile from him
Love the defiance with which Jerry plays these Dylan "power" chords. This is time capsule perfect. To quote Phil, "unutterably poignant". His last great hurrah? Perhaps. But, as I always say, . . . . . Jerry Lives.
pEOPLE THAT NEG THIS COMMENT LISTEN TO BOTH THEN TELL ME WHICH ONE HAS MORE ORIGINAL AND TRULY IMPROVISED PLAYING. i AM NOT DEGRADING BARTON HALL IT IS AWESOME ITS JUST OVERRATED BECAUSE THE QUALITY IS SO CRISP AND IT HAS BEEN EVEN BEFORE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED US TO CLEAN UP SO MANY SHOWS. tHERE IS NOT A YEAR FROM 1966-1995 THAT DOES NOT HAVE SEVERAL AWESOME SHOWS.
Beautiful. Just perfect.
Haunting is a good word for this...kinda sux
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
Trippin'.......
Articulate will never be recognized unless the people that articulatey known geniuses of the world of the music of being on tour that really know Jerry and his rhythm and rhyme of being able to do so much with the orchestration of the sound system that amplified the colosseums that kept us on tour year after year after year after year I am so glad I took the time in my life to figure out who I was and doing it on tour following the music that was in my soul
RIP my honey...
Tear in my eyes wachin' this video..!
I can relate
Inside the musuems, infinity goes up on trial...
Jewels & binoculars... hang from the head of the mule...
Jeez I can't find my knees
These visions of johanna..
Say a prayer for him and louise!
NEVER GETS OLD! FOREVER GRATEFUL
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Bob Dylan
I suddenly found myself in Philadelphia when my dad passed on March 15, 1995. I am here, so I might as well go see the Dead at the Spectrum. They weren't playing NY, Washington, or Boston. I think this show may have set a record for the number of people looking for tickets. I was walking around with a small "Please" sign and this kind guy walked up to me and sold me a ticket at face. YES! This song and Ramble on Rose made it for me. I also was there the next night to hear the 1st "Unbroken Chain".
Rip to your father
Me too
RIP Jerry
8/9/1995