This song always conjures the strangest images in my mind: girls I've broken up with, friends I never see anymore, the fall of Saddam Hussein. The song is both cowardly and powerful, in some ways optimistic in others negligent, it is contemplative and yet arrogant. Like all the best Dead songs, it can become the soundtrack to your life - on your best days and your worst.
You're phawkin phunky righteousness. Looks.waht it jah.conjiured I Man no hear.no crazy.no crying shed no.tears.phor I Man.. just love you bridda Jah love I Walk with i.talk.wid I I shall.walk down through the valley of the shadow of.death don't hav no mercy I Jah. phear nuh.evil spread.the light.and lay da love down thick and phat. One.step.forward, two step backwards and then.we.die . remember the.ancients.ancestors.indigenous brother.sister mother.father Gaia friends we have Lost.and good.friends we have. Okay now I.glad trod on trod along
My dear friend of 41 years just shared this with me. We saw the Dead 41 years ago, Spring of 1980. I love being teleported back to that beautiful Summer. I was blessed to make a friend for life!
Hands down, my absolute favourite version of Sugaree ....it's recorded and performed just perfectly!! And I thought that Jerry's first solo was.....oh man!....then I heard where he went with the 2nd solo.....
Jerry's Sugaree solo from Egypt '78 is my choice of choices...... when he picks on that one note for 2 minutes straight and then bends up even higher..... really love that!
We were lucky people. I am a self described fake dead head who saw them 35 times. This music got me through some REAL REAL tough years. Through all the turmoil, sickness, death --and just the regular shit that life throws at us. It just brought me "up" Gave me something to look forward to. Isn't that what we all need ? Just something simple to look forward to ? Well --THEY were it for me. Still are.....
wuss81 Yes! The music of the Grateful Dead is uplifting even though the lyrics are often melancholic and the mournful at times. Jerry's upbeat, resilient and non-judgmental spirit resonates with us.
Dennis Campbell Yes, many of the themes in their songs are dark, yet the music is somehow uplifting. A good example is Morning Dew, Friend of the Devil and Sugaree. All great mournful songs!
+Edmund Carrington I KNOW!!! man alive is he ever ROCKING on this one! i loved his first solo, but then came along the second one and it just blew me away!! so damn lovely!
This is a great version. For those so inclined, GD 5 19 77 is outstanding, as is JGB 12 21 79. The whole shows are some of the best and the sugarees are exceptional.
My first time i heard the dead in rockpallast more than 35 jears ago and addictit to this song and band forever. Heard it now more than 1000 times and cant get enough of it. What a band and jerry forever in my memories ❤
Me too, but it’s with Perpetual Groove that make the magic happen whilst playing. I dig the Dead, but us youngsters associate more with Perpetual Groove and their ability to keep everything LIT!
1981 was a fine year overall. The more i hear the more exceptional it is. Jerry really dug in on solos and the whole band seemed to follow. Saw them in 1979 but then missed these years and by 90s these long explorations were over. Still great music but nothing like 1981...or this Sugaree! ⚘🎸✌
Often, I'll find myself coming back to these songs of Freedom that are played by Jerry and his friends. They're not anything special, maybe written during particularly great days or sung through moments of desperation. Although, whenever I hear them, I'm reminded of how quietly momentous our each and every decision can be in order to see our lives blossom. Confined only by our wildest and boundless desires...(Nick, 5/11/2024)
Top 5 version, hands down. Jerry is all over it. The drummers are also really locked in here, and also throughout the whole show. This is the top show of 1981, which is a supremely underrated year (for me personally, it's the best post-1977, pre-1989-90 year).
Indeed that’s what I did here, I remember the sound on the radio simultaneous with the picture on BBC2. Then about 15 years later I found a pirated VHS tape with horrible sound. After another ten years I found some more of the footage on the net, spliced them together and then replaced the sound with my original cassette recordings that had spent most of their lives in the glove compartment of various cars. Had to adjust the speed of the film faster to sync with the soundtrack, so it’s not perfect. But not bad either, at the time. However you can now find the whole show on YT with pretty good sound.
I may be mistaken, but I don’t think TV was broadcast in stereo in the UK until about 1986. In any event, I was staying with my parents that night and they certainly never had anything stereo for another twenty years. So I watched it on their TV and also had a ghetto blaster the size of a suitcase which included a stereo tuner and cassette recording. Probably I connected the line out socket straight to the mic socket, I really can’t remember. Anyway, that’s what you’re listening to here.
me too, it was on the tv for an hour or so. then an all night jam with bob marley and the who. was the first time i heard them live. went to the show in edinburgh in sept on their opening night of the next leg. tripping my tits off with the most beautiful woman in scotland we hitched from aberdeen and a bunch of mates were there.. a night to remember. show can be found on internet archives.
You can say I am a old deadhead saw Jerry's last show in Chicago. Which was amazing I have had some of the best times of my life at there concerts with all my friends it will be a time I will never forget. I feel I was so blessed to see the dead in there prime Just want to say thank you for such great music that I still enjoy
This was a old favorite of mine & my HS sweetheart,, we would kick back , lay back after school & listening to this song & others off this Grateful Dead Lp.. a million times & more..I will never forget this..& we had some of the best memories together in the 70’s… listening to music wherever l were.💕🎶💕🎶
We are lucky we had Jerry as long as we did,he could of gone sooner like Janice,Jimi Hendrix,on and on,Godbless the Dead got me through many hard days.Thank You ❤️ peace ✌🏻 balloons 🎈 🐻 long strange trip.
had to visit today this site in honor of the last shows in Chicago and the band I spent a lot of time being entertained by the GD vinyl albums and hours of playing along stealing Jerry's licks and a few shows not always the best technically, but still a major musical and social influence.
First Heard it done by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi which they did a amazing rendition at their live shows which brought me over to where the Dead did the original which was on a solo album Jerry Garcia released in 1972.
Hard to say this is the best version of Sugaree, but I cant say its not either. I go into a flowing floating hypnosis when I listen to this version and dont want it to come to an end.
I printed album covers for Grateful Dead. As a lithographer they were amazing and my favorite too work with!! Must have been all the, COLORFUL colors ❤☮️😊🎶
Best Sugaree ever goes to Hartford CT , 7/80 at the Bushnell . Hard to find , but well worth the effort . Blows this away , and that's saying something !
I think this is the best Sugaree with a close #2 at the Sportatorium in Florida. Nothing beats JG's solo's on this..sheesh the whole band was feeling that Gestalt linkage during the 2nd solo. To have the best Althea and Sugaree in one show though? Amazing!
In 2012 I was occupying the Federal Courthouse with some other activists and every day for 55 days I went to the library and listened to this song for 8-10 hours constantly for 55 days in a row.
This song always conjures the strangest images in my mind: girls I've broken up with, friends I never see anymore, the fall of Saddam Hussein. The song is both cowardly and powerful, in some ways optimistic in others negligent, it is contemplative and yet arrogant. Like all the best Dead songs, it can become the soundtrack to your life - on your best days and your worst.
Fukkin agree
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This must have been an awesome show/set....I've seen some other great jams from this show floating around
You're phawkin phunky righteousness. Looks.waht it jah.conjiured I Man no hear.no crazy.no crying shed no.tears.phor I Man.. just love you bridda Jah love I Walk with i.talk.wid I I shall.walk down through the valley of the shadow of.death don't hav no mercy I Jah. phear nuh.evil spread.the light.and lay da love down thick and phat. One.step.forward, two step backwards and then.we.die
. remember the.ancients.ancestors.indigenous brother.sister mother.father Gaia friends we have Lost.and good.friends we have. Okay now I.glad trod on trod along
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What really is amazing is this is one of the better sugarees out there and it's on film.
Great concert. I was lucky to be there.
I miss him. Nobody can do what he did with the heart an soul
The powerful Grateful Dead...!
My dear friend of 41 years just shared this with me. We saw the Dead 41 years ago, Spring of 1980. I love being teleported back to that beautiful Summer. I was blessed to make a friend for life!
The guy was plugged into the heavens themselves!
Hands down, my absolute favourite version of Sugaree ....it's recorded and performed just perfectly!! And I thought that Jerry's first solo was.....oh man!....then I heard where he went with the 2nd solo.....
Just Wonderful!!!
May 22, 1977 is also pretty insane
10/16/77, Baton Rouge is also pretty sweet.
Jerry's Sugaree solo from Egypt '78 is my choice of choices...... when he picks on that one note for 2 minutes straight and then bends up even higher..... really love that!
@@josephvengen9989 I know exactly which part you're talking about!
One of my favorite bands Jerry Garcias vocals and his sweet melodic guitar playing. I could listen to this all day long .❤
We were lucky people. I am a self described fake dead head who saw them 35 times. This music got me through some REAL REAL tough years. Through all the turmoil, sickness, death --and just the regular shit that life throws at us. It just brought me "up" Gave me something to look forward to. Isn't that what we all need ? Just something simple to look forward to ? Well --THEY were it for me. Still are.....
+wuss81 Amen. All the best to you bud!
That's it! Uplifting stuff. Joyous!
wuss81 Yes! The music of the Grateful Dead is uplifting even though the lyrics are often melancholic and the mournful at times. Jerry's upbeat, resilient and non-judgmental spirit resonates with us.
Morbid at times. El Paso, Me and my uncle.
Dennis Campbell Yes, many of the themes in their songs are dark, yet the music is somehow uplifting. A good example is Morning Dew, Friend of the Devil and Sugaree. All great mournful songs!
The band sounds spot on. Even Jerry's vocals and the backup vocals sound as good as they ever did.
i love everything in the world jerry. but this has to be some of his absolute best work ever.
We need more Love, Peace, and Grateful Dead in this world we live in today 😎 ✌
His solo is absolutely wild - could watch this over and over and never get tired of it.
+Edmund Carrington I KNOW!!! man alive is he ever ROCKING on this one! i loved his first solo, but then came along the second one and it just blew me away!! so damn lovely!
i love when he does that!!!
that's jerry for you brotha :)
mir geht es heute noch so
NEVER CAN GET TIRED OF ANY jERRY SOLO
Fantastic!! I just love Sugaree, one of the best songs ever!!
This is a great version. For those so inclined, GD 5 19 77 is outstanding, as is JGB 12 21 79. The whole shows are some of the best and the sugarees are exceptional.
1st show. Atlanta.
Jerry Garcia- Master of timing & dynamics!
A magic night with Sugaree, Althea & Grateful Dead...I´ll never forget...
oh man! they played sugaree too? what an amazing show!
Phil lesh after 3rd verse. Totally groovin while everyone else is mellow. He was the man.
No argument with that. The Phil zone was always there, regardless of anything else.
Jerry " follow me I know the way" and he so often did...
Still puts on a fine show
what a great solo! he's on fire here!
I just met a guy who is in his forties and he reminded me about this song. Now it's our song
+theresa jenks Sweet song....lucky guy.....x
My first time i heard the dead in rockpallast more than 35 jears ago and addictit to this song and band forever. Heard it now more than 1000 times and cant get enough of it. What a band and jerry forever in my memories ❤
That’s the spirit…
same for me !
i used to watch this whole show every night at dinner
Then I think you'd enjoy this new 4k version. Clarity is off the rails!
th-cam.com/video/dAaG959JCAA/w-d-xo.html
NICE!! Perfect dinner music man!
Jerry kills it in this show. Best dead ever!
im crying this is so good
Ball it! Just don't tell on me.
Just heard it for the first time yesterday ☺️🎸🎹🥁
I really miss jumping from shoe to show what wonderful times they eeere great people great music I'm 52 now and still cherish those timed
wouldnt the world be a better place if we could just go back to listening to great music and partyin
Me too, but it’s with Perpetual Groove that make the magic happen whilst playing. I dig the Dead, but us youngsters associate more with Perpetual Groove and their ability to keep everything LIT!
we saw them in phoenix az comptom terrace in 1988 it was the best concert of our lives, god bless jerry,s soul
This was AWESOME!!!
This would bring a tear to a glass eye, superb!
Straight fire. Possibly the best Sugaree.
my favourite!
I have this konsert on a VHS kopi from the original konsert. One of the best performens of this band
Great performance! A+++
holy cow!! that really could be his best solo i've ever heard!! lovely! and weirdly fast for this song!
1981 was a fine year overall. The more i hear the more exceptional it is. Jerry really dug in on solos and the whole band seemed to follow. Saw them in 1979 but then missed these years and by 90s these long explorations were over. Still great music but nothing like 1981...or this Sugaree! ⚘🎸✌
This is masterful..
Heard this first, when i was 13 years old..
I nearly cried, how beautiful it was..Miss this time..
The most powerfull musikvideo I have ever seen !!!!! I remember I taped it and I still have it, one off the best solos off Jerry, fantastick !!
Often, I'll find myself coming back to these songs of Freedom that are played by Jerry and his friends. They're not anything special, maybe written during particularly great days or sung through moments of desperation. Although, whenever I hear them, I'm reminded of how quietly momentous our each and every decision can be in order to see our lives blossom. Confined only by our wildest and boundless desires...(Nick, 5/11/2024)
I love this!
Sound is incredible.
Thank you!
Joyous......Joyful..........Joy..........ENJOY
Top 5 version, hands down. Jerry is all over it. The drummers are also really locked in here, and also throughout the whole show. This is the top show of 1981, which is a supremely underrated year (for me personally, it's the best post-1977, pre-1989-90 year).
1987 was also a fantastic year. Jerrys voice rough after the coma but his guitar playing made up for it
Phil shows up here too!
Best Sugaree ever. Brent's keys lend something extra too
This is a out there
It really is the Best Sugaree that I've ever heard.
Brent andJerry fit together like two pieces of a puzzle, in their playing one leads the other then switch and blends magically.
This went out live all over Europe. The BBC broadcasted it here in the UK. I recorded it from my radio onto my cassette recorder.
Indeed that’s what I did here, I remember the sound on the radio simultaneous with the picture on BBC2. Then about 15 years later I found a pirated VHS tape with horrible sound. After another ten years I found some more of the footage on the net, spliced them together and then replaced the sound with my original cassette recordings that had spent most of their lives in the glove compartment of various cars. Had to adjust the speed of the film faster to sync with the soundtrack, so it’s not perfect. But not bad either, at the time. However you can now find the whole show on YT with pretty good sound.
@@PMH5001 I think the radio and the TV sound gave you stereo? This Sugaree is great, see how Weir and Lesh are involuntarily dancing to the sound.
I may be mistaken, but I don’t think TV was broadcast in stereo in the UK until about 1986. In any event, I was staying with my parents that night and they certainly never had anything stereo for another twenty years. So I watched it on their TV and also had a ghetto blaster the size of a suitcase which included a stereo tuner and cassette recording. Probably I connected the line out socket straight to the mic socket, I really can’t remember. Anyway, that’s what you’re listening to here.
Nice Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters Jah Trey Jah Duane Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I Jah
me too, it was on the tv for an hour or so. then an all night jam with bob marley and the who. was the first time i heard them live. went to the show in edinburgh in sept on their opening night of the next leg. tripping my tits off with the most beautiful woman in scotland we hitched from aberdeen and a bunch of mates were there.. a night to remember. show can be found on internet archives.
You can say I am a old deadhead saw Jerry's last show in Chicago. Which was amazing I have had some of the best times of my life at there concerts with all my friends it will be a time I will never forget. I feel I was so blessed to see the dead in there prime Just want to say thank you for such great music that I still enjoy
Jerry, Bob , and the Guys! Masters
This was a old favorite of mine & my HS sweetheart,, we would kick back , lay back after school & listening to this song & others off this Grateful Dead Lp.. a million times & more..I will never forget this..& we had some of the best memories together in the 70’s… listening to music wherever l were.💕🎶💕🎶
We are lucky we had Jerry as long as we did,he could of gone sooner like Janice,Jimi Hendrix,on and on,Godbless the Dead got me through many hard days.Thank You ❤️ peace ✌🏻 balloons 🎈 🐻 long strange trip.
Jerry looking like a badass as usual.
best version...
The shakedown and Althea from this show are also so incredible. Jer and the boys were so in the zone on this night. Great stuff.
lots of coke lol
tjw3999 hey, it worked
Just love this song great performance
Jerrys second solo...god almighty is that incredible
hell yah and even his delivery of the second verse before the solo, there's just so much soul and magic right there
+Gary Williams absolutely.
holy smokes is it every amazing!
Good Audio! Best sounding version put up, thanks.
Glad you liked it, one of my faves indeed.
I miss the time’s and talent of the dead! I would not trade the time of my life and heart for the past....☮️
AMAZING ❤
had to visit today this site in honor of the last shows in Chicago and the band
I spent a lot of time being entertained by the GD vinyl albums and hours of playing along stealing Jerry's licks and a few shows
not always the best technically, but still a major musical and social influence.
One of my top dead songs, what a treat! And who’s the only band to see live more than ten times?
Agreed man! And this version? It's divine!
I’m 74 years now and miss the time’s and talent of the past.
Especially the Grateful Dead😢💔💜✌️☮️
Thank you for the post ❤
Really strong vocals on this and Althea.
Sugaree and Ripple made me look at life differently.
It's just so good! So incredibly good!!
Love this song.
I went and saw these guys outside of Austin and I was trippin so hard I could hear the sound of wind passing by my ear louder than them.
Is it odd that I know that exact feeling?
Ah the good ole days trippin' the light fantastic!
fantastic.. thanks for sharing !
My pleasure entirely.
Tiger had such a tight, knife cutting through air sound. So different from Wolf.
Man Jerry could play like a hero
Amazing
Thanks for your comments. Saw Fare Thee Well at the Wimbledon Odeon on Monday. Loved it but felt very sad at the same time.
garcia had the midas touch with any instrument. when he said "anybody can play like me", the response was "where are they?"
There will never be another great man like Jerry 💔
I love this guy
Happy Valentine's Day Jerry!!
LoveYaSir;
Would give both nuts to see this show no doubt
+nick byers Agreed.
The whole show, and with decent sound quality, is now on TH-cam. No need to donate your nuts, but good of you to offer...
I’d give ‘em to be at the acid tests!
if there were a show i could go back and see it would be this one
I followed them for 30 years now I follow dead and co
The Grateful Dead’s music 🎶 will stand the test of time! Bob Weir and Jackie Green did a remake of
Sugaree. It’s amazing.!☮️😊👌👌🙏
What cant talk....jerry is to flowin....MAGIC....woooooo
Love you Jerry
Greatest guitar player ever. L
Hands down!!!
Period.. Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah
First Heard it done by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi which they did a amazing rendition at their live shows which brought me over to where the Dead did the original which was on a solo album Jerry Garcia released in 1972.
OMG!!!
I've watched three times now and all I have to say is Holy enchilada! Great sound.
Thanks again!
Great.love it!!!!
Weir and Garcia were groovin'
'80,'81 , the boys were in the zone.
Yes he's really blasting it.
Hard to say this is the best version of Sugaree, but I cant say its not either. I go into a flowing floating hypnosis when I listen to this version and dont want it to come to an end.
I miss Jerry, I think this is the best version that Jerry did on this one! Thank you for the amazing post.
R.I.P. to the members gone 💔☮️🙏🎶👀😌
I printed album covers for Grateful Dead. As a lithographer they were amazing and my favorite too work with!!
Must have been all the, COLORFUL colors ❤☮️😊🎶
My pleasure, and very glad you enjoyed it.
@@PMH5001 Thank you 😊
I’m old now but the music treasure from the Grateful Dead makes it Ok 👌☮️🤔 PEACE ☮️
Perfect.
Well said Mr. Garcia, Bob Weir was right there with you.
the greatest 9 finger lead guitar player EVER,,,,anyone else with 9 fingers,,would be lost,,but not Jerry
Well Tony Iommi does all right too!
Thank you❤
My pleasure, glad you like it. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Best Sugaree ever goes to Hartford CT , 7/80 at the Bushnell . Hard to find , but well worth the effort . Blows this away , and that's saying something !
I can't seem find a show from Hartford in 1980, you wouldn't happen to have any links would you? I love me some early 80's Sugaree.
nonsense! this is by far the best version
yes. jerry; s two solos are hotter than fire!
They're all great. #gdfam
May 26 1977 in Hartford is my personal favorite
ultimate facemelter, early 80's Jerry
I think this is the best Sugaree with a close #2 at the Sportatorium in Florida. Nothing beats JG's solo's on this..sheesh the whole band was feeling that Gestalt linkage during the 2nd solo. To have the best Althea and Sugaree in one show though? Amazing!
Don't forget about 5/28/77.
Samuel Black Yeah the Hartford version is utterly *savage*, 19 minutes
This is Jerry achieving lift off. If we were there, we'd have seen the man ever-so-slightly levitate off of the stage during his 2nd solo...
In 2012 I was occupying the Federal Courthouse with some other activists and every day for 55 days I went to the library and listened to this song for 8-10 hours constantly for 55 days in a row.
Well, it takes all sorts I suppose.
I wish i knew someone who had the heart and soul of Jerry and the talent to play guitar.❤
Check out Toni in the Reine del Cid group. They did this song proud, and Toni makes her guitar sing 🎸
Nice work!
An den Rockpalast kann ich mich noch sehr gut erinnern. (Vorgruppe waren The Who.)
The Who opened for the Grateful Dead! That must have been a mind blowing show!
drivin that train...