What an amazing gift we were given by this man. I’m sad he’s gone but grateful for the moment in time I got to share in his genius.If you got to see Jerry play live consider yourself one of the luckiest people on earth. I know I do !
Thanks for the earliest Jerry version of this song I’ve heard the first non 80s version I always wondered why he didn’t cover it sooner and I’m glad to find out he did
Dylan's words, Jerry's playing, or Jerry's singing - any of the 3 can take you from heartbreak & that aching in the pit of the stomach feeling to the euphoria of redemption in a matter of 2 frickin bars. Words of despair become enlightening. A weeping guitar becomes rich in hope. A broken verse becomes a hallelujah. They must've picked that up in a theory class, right? RIGHT? How the f? Thankfully recorded immortals, thank you.
what's amazing to me is one of the things he did best was take covers and not only made them his own, but he had this ability to become the song & the story teller, really no matter what he was singing. It's a unique trait.
Yeah. . . I came here to find out who the hell that piano guy was. . . hopin' it was Keith. . . but it wouldn't disappoint if it were . . . DAMN YOU OLD AGE!!!!!! that guy who the Stones used when they needed some melodic keyboards. . . EDWARD!!!!!
Are far as I know they played together for just that one tour in 75’. There was an album release with that particular configuration, but I don’t remember the name. It has Sitting In Limbo which has some of my favorite Nicky Hopkins playing.
"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." F'ING. WILD. Never again will we witness genius like this again. The lyrics, the guitar, that piano. Absolute Legends. Respect for the upload.
that's real truth. it was safer when he was alive. he knew it was getting weirder and worse but it got way darker when he left. I never really felt scared before he died. now am scared almost everyday. its true what you said. I think he was God
I'l always remember that night at Soldiers Field. The wind in his hair blowing, the times were tough. He was fumbling lots of tunes and then he gives us a Visions of Johanna flawlessly. The stars shone over Chicago that night even though the end was near.
My oh my did he ever belt that out. From the very depths of his aching soul too. Nothing can ever top that version. Neither this one, nor Dylan’s very own epic ‘66 live version from Sheffield, England. Jerry Bear dug deep down for that one that night. Glad you heard it live. I woulda wept like an infant. We all knew the end was near. He wore it all over his face. Some of the saddest days I’ve ever lived through. If Jerry hadn’t passed then I very well might have from my own heroin addiction. I didn’t want to end up like him. So, many years after ‘95 I finally cleaned up myself. I sincerely thank Jerry as one of the people who helped me through it. God I miss the guy!
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 freeze 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.
Is there more beautiful music than this I do not think there is poignant elegant makes one think makes one drink this music should go on forever and ever it makes me feel loved
The lyrics, the melody, and from the mid point of the song makes me think of days gone by... filled with a breezy melancholy... Can't imagine a better marriage - words, and music by one of the true geniuses of music... RIP Jerry...your legacy continues to inspire...
It takes a beautiful soul to sing like this, I close my eyes and can see him in the studio on a bench with a Cheshire cat smile on his face and a sparkle in his eyes. I miss him so damn much. Addiction sucks dic. Peace to all be safe
This song knocked me back 13 rows to my knees at Soliders 95 I want to say RIP Jerry but I really feel like saying keep on rocking out in heaven we will see you
Never heard this 70s version until today. So many Dead gems I still discover on youtube. THANKS for posting this. Dylan didn't know it at the time but he wrote these tunes for Jerry, the boys and the heads.
Me too I'd like to think I'm a pretty solid head. I too had never heard this or even aware that it existed. A real gem man. Thank you for sharing this. This my go to song when I'm fixing a jerry jones, feeling stuck in contemplative state or oddly feeling really really content or happy...I go to it and I never regret it
Yet another excellent rendition of a classic Dylan tune done with the kind of soul & passion only Jerry could have performed it with. Simply put it's lyrical & musical perfection at its best!
This has always been my favorite Jerry cover of Dylan. It's just such a special tune to begin with--such cool lyrics. There's a message in this song. I've never 100% figured it out, and that's kinda what makes it so fun. When you take Dylan's lyric and sprinkle Jerry on it...it makes for a very cool and very special moment. I especially dig the way Jerry slows it down a bit, and throws such a tasty solo over it. Brilliant!
I mean, there can't be a better song than VOJ. Every verse is topped by an ever better one, it's Dylan's masterpiece. I mean, every single line can launch you into a spiral. The point is that I can't explain this song at all. But throw Jerry into it, you have to listen to all 16 mins.
I feel like this is Dylan's version of Sartre's No Exit or Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Some sort of existential holding pattern that is at once incredibly confining but at the same time made incredibly beautiful by the artist and their art. "We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it"
this is very easy listening...the best quality recording i've heard on youtube, vocals and instruments, but i like the later live versions better for pure emotion.
@@drewl9330 i know, i know enjoy now for what it is, we may all be dead tomorrow...but i wonder how much of what we hear in a song is coloured by what we know of the back ground story... did willy nelson, or johnny cash, who i cant stand as singers, sound any better as breathless old men on death's door, or did they sound better knowing we wouldn't have to put up with their crap singing for much longer...hhmmm...
Miss you Jer Today is Blue Ron's 50th Happy Pig Pen Day 3-8-23 Dylan's just played FOTD, Bobby is amazing, so is Phil & Mickey & Billy.. you'd be so proud Miss you more than words Kahn tell 😢 Thank🕺♥️⚡💙💃You
The angels are circling my speakers. it's a beautiful sound to them. Jerry. so poignant. covering Dylan. imo. sounds good here. THANKS JERRY. THANKS DYLAN. This is what salvation must be like after a whie......
Garcia how we all miss u like I tell people u either feel it or u don't u wanted to be remembered as a compatin musician but you were a legend to me .......Uber Dave
Stillfknmissm. Never heard this studio version before. Freakin gives me chills. Aw fuck, Jerry, did you really have to leave? My dad, my son, my Jerry, what a load. I'll never really get over it. Thanks for posting Jeff.
mar 2019 "Visions Of Johanna" 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.
The best Dylan song sung by the best interpreter of his tunes...I love this and Positively 4th Street, as done by Garcia. The man could always evoke a tear or ten from those sad ballads he loved to sing so much. Is that Nicky Hopkins on piano? That is outstanding keyboard work. Wow!! What a "masterpiece." ;)
If that's Nicky, the engineer ought to be flogged. What a waste of a brilliant piano player. The piano is damned near the only variation audible in sixteen minutes. I think I'll go listen to "Pig's Boogie"...
I grew up in the Village in NYC and when I was young and heard the BYRDS doing Dylan my life changed. The song Mr Tambourine Man was coming out of the Bleeker St Record Store. The Byrds, Dylan and the Band were all over down there. We saw all those dudes regularly.
OH DUDE. HE WAS JUST OPENING this when I read your comment. crushing. its like what is that feeling between my heart and head. that stuck. bubbling. racing. mourning forever. even though its okay. I broke my ear once listening to him. only when it finally rupture days later did I understand this song. I never miss Jerry. Hes with me every second. I am sure, I will not let it be not, hes with all us but oh God I miss him and oh no not 20-40.... 120-140 and have kicked ever electronica into the river of compassion. he would have destroyed electronica. owned it. okay. peace and love man.
@@janeseamore1370 Sorry Jane :( It is sad. The first time that I got really emotional about Jerry's death was the first time I listened to Stella Blue after he died. It was right when the last solo of that song started. The one from Steal Your Face. I still cry.
Agree with your comment! But about your name tag? If you think playing commie is so cute, try asking the millions who survived getting out from under it, or the millions more who never made it. But stick around, your dictator, Beijing-Biden, is already shoving Amerika down that drain.
Rip Joe Jaggi 3/2023 Palm Desert Calif Joseph A Di Giacento kind person great singer, great at the Piano and Accordion and he liked to joke and laugh "love me little love me long"
Dylan, the genius...Garcia...MASTER of illusion.....great mixing, thanxxx wikipedia and youtube for sharing some of the best music..in the world...Feb 14, 2016-Richie
Was fortunate to be at the breakout in Hampton 3-19-86. Search out the video, on TH-cam. Head full of Gooney Birds and blown away🤯 Walked out and my tour buddy said... "What the fuck just happened in there"🥰
Nicky Hopkins didn’t play on any of Jerry’s studio projects it’s either Kieth or Micheal Omartian. Are you sure it’s Kieth it sounds like him but I don’t know what Omartian sounds like. Let me know if you can please ant thanks
@@codyagans1894 it sounds like Micheal Omartian check out ‘without love’ on Run for the roses. I also think his voice sounds like 82 more than 70s the guitar solo doesn’t sound like 82 but the studio stuff is tricky but I do believe it’s Omartian on piano. Let me know what you think.
Danke Herr Kingfish. This is really beautiful! Special not just because God took human form for a few short years to entertain us. But also because Jerry chose to play another Dylan song. And this time he gets all the lyrics right.(He must have used a cheat sheet.) And he plays the whole song, and it sounds so good. God bless Jerry. RIP Thanks for posting Jeff. From Vienna, peace.
Jerry hated that crap. Jerry was a man with talent. That's all. Doesn't mean I don't love what he creates any less but that god crap rubbed the man wrong.
This is why I am and Jerry is always a live performer !... I can't be sitting around the studio and just trying to get everything sterilized perfect man I got a flow with it just like the Grateful Dead
@@marttram2183 Not a close neighbor but Marin County neighbor. He had a short marriage after he divorced Carolyn and lived with young wife and their child in Marinwood which is close to Novato where we lived and where Mickey Hart had a ranch where the Grateful Dead had a studio a few miles from us. I think Bob Weir lived in Mill Valley but was in Novato frequently to work at their studio . Our daughters worked at Jack in the Box in S. Novato in the early to mid 1980s next to Marinwood where Jerry came thru the drive thru on his motorcycle regularly and came inside to order once when our younger daughter was working there and waited on him, but didn't know who he was until another waitress told her. He was always in our local news. True next door neighbors around 1990 who you may have not heard of was Eric Martin, who had played backup for Journey when their group was called 415 before called The Eric Martin Band.. Eric and his wife and Dave Meniketti and another member lived next door to us. Some housemates formed group called Y & T who played some street concerts right on our block.
@@jillschoenfeldwhite5534 those are great memories. A time that I, as a 27 year old, will never experience. Jerry is the one guy I wish I could've seen live, especially in the late 60s/early 70s period. I haven't yet found modern music that makes me feel quite like how the classic rock age makes me feel, and Jerry is the heart of it all to me
What an amazing gift we were given by this man. I’m sad he’s gone but grateful for the moment in time I got to share in his genius.If you got to see Jerry play live consider yourself one of the luckiest people on earth. I know I do !
amen
Yes, absolutely.
✌️🙏🕺🌌
Amen sista ✊🏽✌🏽🫶🏼
Truly blessed ❤⚡️💙
Speak the truth brother! NFA
If you can only listen to two songs for the rest of your life, this would be both of them.
This would definitely be one for me too. This version.
So true... although I may add The Dead doing Desolation Row
I read this comment as I hit play and chuckled at the wit. Near the end of tbe track, I realize you were serious and I agree.
❤
My favorite song >
It hollows me out and fills me up at the same time...
Thanks for all the great comments on this track 😃
Thanks for the earliest Jerry version of this song I’ve heard the first non 80s version I always wondered why he didn’t cover it sooner and I’m glad to find out he did
It amazes me how Jerry remembers the words to so many songs.
With Visions he actually used a Teleprompter lol. Can't says I blame him ...
Yep. So many songs.
I was thinking about the same thing
Yes, beyond amazing
Lots of times he didn't ha ha!
The grateful dead totally changed the course of my entire life and I've never looked back, once.
100% agreed. I am a better person for having them as my permanent soundtrack. Jerry & The Boys are beyond description. Safe Travels.✌️👍🕺🌌
Same here. They changed me.
⚡❤️🤍💙⚡🎶🎵🥀🌝
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Saw the Dead and never looked back! Such an amazing band. R.I.P. Mr Jerry Garcia, may I see u again. oxoxoxoxo
Dylan's words, Jerry's playing, or Jerry's singing - any of the 3 can take you from heartbreak & that aching in the pit of the stomach feeling to the euphoria of redemption in a matter of 2 frickin bars. Words of despair become enlightening. A weeping guitar becomes rich in hope. A broken verse becomes a hallelujah. They must've picked that up in a theory class, right? RIGHT? How the f? Thankfully recorded immortals, thank you.
🖤
Jerry makes things better.🙏
Jerry sings the songs of my soul. Everything is going to be ok, because nothing really matters.
True words
There is no other artist that can compare to all the heart and soul Jerry gave through his music and life time career
Agreed, thank you!
David Potts, best cover ever!
David Potts I'm glad you enjoyed this gem
what's amazing to me is one of the things he did best was take covers and not only made them his own, but he had this ability to become the song & the story teller, really no matter what he was singing. It's a unique trait.
Well said.
My favorite Dylan song. I had no idea Jerry covered it. I like it.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. . . . you're wrong. . . you LOVE it!
I like it but hes trying to sound like dylan too much and nobody can sound like dylan
@@jennifertroy476 Nobody EVER tried to sound like Dylan. Great songwriter, but worst singer of all time.
@@ChokeOnHamburder i knew it was a dylan song the minute i heard it
Jerrys gift to the world is telling the story in such a believable way with his delivery and meter. He can make me feel the story.
I've never heard a better sumise if Jerry 🎩
Jerry at his exquisite best here and the band really cooking behind him. The piano work is awesome.
Yeah. . . I came here to find out who the hell that piano guy was. . . hopin' it was Keith. . . but it wouldn't disappoint if it were . . . DAMN YOU OLD AGE!!!!!! that guy who the Stones used when they needed some melodic keyboards. . . EDWARD!!!!!
@@richardhallin6679 Nicky Hopkins
@@johnleehan Thanks so much! That's who I was hoping it was. . MAN DID THAT DUDE PLAY BEAUTIFULLY!🥰
Are far as I know they played together for just that one tour in 75’. There was an album release with that particular configuration, but I don’t remember the name. It has Sitting In Limbo which has some of my favorite Nicky Hopkins playing.
@@richardhallin6679 th-cam.com/video/1_FZAfApEbU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=REvWVCXPoJ7OJfSK
Best cover of the the greatest songwriter of our time.
"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."
F'ING. WILD. Never again will we witness genius like this again. The lyrics, the guitar, that piano. Absolute Legends.
Respect for the upload.
Beautiful ✊🏽✌🏽🫶🏼
Miss you Jerry, the planet is not the same without you being here physically. Thank you for all the music you left behind.
that's real truth. it was safer when he was alive. he knew it was getting weirder and worse but it got way darker when he left. I never really felt scared before he died. now am scared almost everyday. its true what you said. I think he was God
His voice is heartbreaking!
Rest in peace, dear friend...
I'l always remember that night at Soldiers Field. The wind in his hair blowing, the times were tough. He was fumbling lots of tunes and then he gives us a Visions of Johanna flawlessly. The stars shone over Chicago that night even though the end was near.
Well said. I was there. It was a heartbreaking moment but beautiful nonetheless. Fare thee well Jerry 🥀
My oh my did he ever belt that out. From the very depths of his aching soul too. Nothing can ever top that version. Neither this one, nor Dylan’s very own epic ‘66 live version from Sheffield, England. Jerry Bear dug deep down for that one that night. Glad you heard it live. I woulda wept like an infant. We all knew the end was near. He wore it all over his face. Some of the saddest days I’ve ever lived through. If Jerry hadn’t passed then I very well might have from my own heroin addiction. I didn’t want to end up like him. So, many years after ‘95 I finally cleaned up myself. I sincerely thank Jerry as one of the people who helped me through it. God I miss the guy!
It was actually in stage air conditioning causing the hair to blow, but point taken on the performance ❤
Oh man, brought me to tears. R I P Jerry Garcia & John Kahn.
Forrest George this is so good!
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 freeze
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.
+Forrest George Thanks for posting George. Needed that information. WWJD.
Forrest is my first name. George is my LAST name, like Lowell George , my father. He produced "Shakedown Street".
@@TheRealForrestGeorge loved your Dad Forrest
I'm not just saying this, but every time I listen to this, I automatically cry. I mean EVERY FUCKING TIME!!! He did this nothing but justice.
Jason Pope going through possibly the worst time in my life this, I keep turning to this it soothes my pain x
bigjohnthered1, I hope you are getting through your crisis okay. Good that you have this support from all that Jerry expressed so movingly.
You Love Jerry!
Me too
When I THINK about this song I cry
Is there more beautiful music than this I do not think there is poignant elegant makes one think makes one drink this music should go on forever and ever it makes me feel loved
C'est juste magnifique. Quelle sensibilité.
I love you.
The lyrics, the melody, and from the mid point of the song makes me think of days gone by... filled with a breezy melancholy... Can't imagine a better marriage - words, and music by one of the true geniuses of music... RIP Jerry...your legacy continues to inspire...
so true so true, long live Jerry ty Deadheads...................... P from Vt usa
It takes a beautiful soul to sing like this, I close my eyes and can see him in the studio on a bench with a Cheshire cat smile on his face and a sparkle in his eyes. I miss him so damn much. Addiction sucks dic. Peace to all be safe
JUNKIES OWN YOU, CUPCAKE.......
So clean, that piano finally gave Jerry a run for his money and it turned out magnificent.
Who's on this piano, Nicky?
This song knocked me back 13 rows to my knees at Soliders 95
I want to say RIP Jerry but I really feel like saying keep on rocking out in heaven we will see you
Say one of best concert moments in 26+ yrs
I have Ryan and we will. OBE experience Ryan.
JERRY WAS ANOTHER HIGHER PLACE AS HE AND HIS BOYS DELIVERED THAT NIGHT!
This is my favorite visions. It flows like water!
Exactly like water
Never heard this 70s version until today. So many Dead gems I still discover on youtube. THANKS for posting this. Dylan didn't know it at the time but he wrote these tunes for Jerry, the boys and the heads.
👀😎👀
Me too
I'd like to think I'm a pretty solid head. I too had never heard this or even aware that it existed. A real gem man. Thank you for sharing this. This my go to song when I'm fixing a jerry jones, feeling stuck in contemplative state or oddly feeling really really content or happy...I go to it and I never regret it
You do know this ain't Dead?
@@henningandersen9027 no it isn't. I did see the dead do this on the east coast in early 90s
Happy Jerry RiP Day Stagger
Hope ur dewin Well. my Friend. Mis u
and think a👢cha!
Elaine relays info anja once in awhile 💚💜💚💜💚💜🎩💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜
The Ghosts of Electricity are howling in the bones of my face.
Her, beautiful lyrics, Dylan and Garcia are/were the best.
You should see a doctor about that.
Beautiful version of such a beautiful song. RIP Jerry you will never be matched
you ain't lying, he was da man
Jerry you’ll always be the man and we’ll never be lost because we found you
The visions have indeed kept me up way past the dawn.
David Hull They are keeping me up right now buddy...
Jackstraw 34 love you brotha loool
I once met a girl named Johanna at Rosemont Horizon GD 1993. We really gelled. Lost contact with her. I still would like to see her😍
@@patrickhume485 damn. Well hell, give her a ring sometime you never know bro
me too
Yet another excellent rendition of a classic Dylan tune done with the kind of soul & passion only Jerry could have performed it with. Simply put it's lyrical & musical perfection at its best!
Stunning studio work Y'all nailed it! Perfect 0! (~);·}X
this is a profound contribution to humanity
Where has this recording been all my life? Holy cow!
Starordinaria versione cover dell'originale dylaniano. Grandissimo Jerry Garcia! :-)
So so beautiful! Mesmerizing!
Favre Dillon and jerry style jer really nails it
A JGB all-nighter for me: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021!
That is really special. The ghost of electricity indeed.
Jerry does the song justice and i feel like that is hard for anyone else to accomplish.
Exactly!
Excellent point. You, fine Lady, win the $78 price. And no ones done that before. Peace.
Definitivamente
even Bob..
agree not sure anyone else can masterfully pull this one off
This has always been my favorite Jerry cover of Dylan. It's just such a special tune to begin with--such cool lyrics. There's a message in this song. I've never 100% figured it out, and that's kinda what makes it so fun. When you take Dylan's lyric and sprinkle Jerry on it...it makes for a very cool and very special moment. I especially dig the way Jerry slows it down a bit, and throws such a tasty solo over it. Brilliant!
Great comment. There is something special here and it's intriguing trying to figure it out.
I mean, there can't be a better song than VOJ. Every verse is topped by an ever better one, it's Dylan's masterpiece. I mean, every single line can launch you into a spiral. The point is that I can't explain this song at all. But throw Jerry into it, you have to listen to all 16 mins.
I feel like this is Dylan's version of Sartre's No Exit or Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Some sort of existential holding pattern that is at once incredibly confining but at the same time made incredibly beautiful by the artist and their art.
"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it"
Goosebumps always.❤❤
This is extraordinary. I never knew it existed. Thank God for TH-cam, and blessed be the uploaders. And God bless the Grateful Dead.
Perfection
Right!? Thank GOD for TH-cam! This shit is just a godsend!
He is so good and truly kind, he is our beautiful angel ❤
YUP, JUNKIES ARE TRULY ADORABLE................
Listen to you Jerry brings love and joy and sometimes tears; thanks for all the good times and company for more than 40 years, RiP mate
JUNKIES OWN YOU...........................
this is . . . . . perfect
Just absolutely perfect.
as only Jerry could
this is very easy listening...the best quality recording i've heard on youtube, vocals and instruments, but i like the later live versions better for pure emotion.
Thou shall not judge the dead.
@@drewl9330 i know, i know enjoy now for what it is, we may all be dead tomorrow...but i wonder how much of what we hear in a song is coloured by what we know of the back ground story...
did willy nelson, or johnny cash, who i cant stand as singers, sound any better as breathless old men on death's door, or did they sound better knowing we wouldn't have to put up with their crap singing for much longer...hhmmm...
Miss you Jer
Today is Blue Ron's 50th Happy Pig Pen Day 3-8-23 Dylan's just played FOTD, Bobby is amazing, so is Phil & Mickey & Billy.. you'd be so proud Miss you more than words Kahn tell 😢 Thank🕺♥️⚡💙💃You
Thanks Jeff. I could listen to Jerry sing Dylan for the rest of my days.
This song has gotten me through many hardships, thank you for posting🩶NFA
Que fantástico!
One of the very few covers I enjoy as much as (maybe more?) than the original.
Awesome version Jerry rip my brother
My box set with this is arriving today I cannot wait!
This, Morning Dew and So Many Roads - poignant, sincere, creative et al. Only Jerry could.
Appreciation also due to all the accompanists.
Thank You
Eccellente. Garcia genio. Non c'è altro da aggiungere, solo tristezza per i dislike.
my God, that is beautiful
The angels are circling my speakers. it's a beautiful sound to them. Jerry. so poignant. covering Dylan. imo. sounds good here. THANKS JERRY. THANKS DYLAN. This is what salvation must be like after a whie......
Garcia how we all miss u like I tell people u either feel it or u don't u wanted to be remembered as a compatin musician but you were a legend to me .......Uber Dave
Yep full blast volume here with 6 speakers.. You can almost feel Jerry in the room..🍻
This Songs been on my mind
Thank you Jeff ✌🏽💓🤠🤙🏾
Happy Jerry Days Between Brotha 🤘🏾🤗💗🎩
Simply beautiful is all I can say.
Stillfknmissm. Never heard this studio version before. Freakin gives me chills. Aw fuck, Jerry, did you really have to leave? My dad, my son, my Jerry, what a load. I'll never really get over it. Thanks for posting Jeff.
My sister, my mom, my dad, a marriage, my son, and Jerry.. I know I will never get over it.
mar 2019
"Visions Of Johanna"
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.
"She seems like veneer"[IMO]
Beautiful 🌹😎
love this song...I can feel every word as in all their songs but Jerry does this song amazingly well..i am in awe
The best Dylan song sung by the best interpreter of his tunes...I love this and Positively 4th Street, as done by Garcia. The man could always evoke a tear or ten from those sad ballads he loved to sing so much. Is that Nicky Hopkins on piano? That is outstanding keyboard work. Wow!! What a "masterpiece." ;)
also when i pain my masterpiece from the same album of my favorite version of 4th street, garcia does dylan, that whole album is amazing.
If that's Nicky, the engineer ought to be flogged. What a waste of a brilliant piano player. The piano is damned near the only variation audible in sixteen minutes. I think I'll go listen to "Pig's Boogie"...
Masterpiece and 4th Street
I grew up in the Village in NYC and when I was young and heard the BYRDS doing Dylan my life changed. The song Mr Tambourine Man was coming out of the Bleeker St Record Store.
The Byrds, Dylan and the Band were all over down there. We saw all those dudes regularly.
Never understood why Dylan didn’t Marry Joan Baez. Wrote this song about her and she wrote Diamonds and rust.
Thank you. No doubt If Jerry did not pass away, we would have about 20 to 40 more of these jems today and counting.
OH DUDE. HE WAS JUST OPENING this when I read your comment. crushing. its like what is that feeling between my heart and head. that stuck. bubbling. racing. mourning forever. even though its okay.
I broke my ear once listening to him. only when it finally rupture days later did I understand this song.
I never miss Jerry. Hes with me every second. I am sure, I will not let it be not, hes with all us but oh God I miss him and oh no not 20-40.... 120-140 and have kicked ever electronica into the river of compassion. he would have destroyed electronica. owned it. okay. peace and love man.
@@janeseamore1370 Sorry Jane :( It is sad. The first time that I got really emotional about Jerry's death was the first time I listened to Stella Blue after he died. It was right when the last solo of that song started. The one from Steal Your Face. I still cry.
All the best music was written by bob dylan and performed by Jerry Garcia
Agree with your comment! But about your name tag? If you think playing commie is so cute, try asking the millions who survived getting out from under it, or the millions more who never made it. But stick around, your dictator, Beijing-Biden, is already shoving Amerika down that drain.
Absolutely
@@Billw0006 I hate you
@@Billw0006 are you kind?
@@Billw0006 You absolute POS! Shut your hole.
Possibly the most beautifully arranged song..
Very cool! Thanks!
Rip Joe Jaggi 3/2023 Palm Desert Calif Joseph A Di Giacento kind person great singer, great at the Piano and Accordion and he liked to joke and laugh "love me little love me long"
Magnificent! Thank you jerry
Dylan, the genius...Garcia...MASTER of illusion.....great mixing, thanxxx wikipedia and youtube for sharing some of the best music..in the world...Feb 14, 2016-Richie
this is the sweetest thing my ears have heard
super version, wunderbares Pianospiel, meisterlich
ฉันรักคุณมาก ๆ
I love you .
A brilliant display of talent and hard work. wonderful
3 CHORDS TO JUNKIE HEAVEN...............................
Something about this song it makes me so happy
This is a real gem. Love this
One of my new favorite songs
Fantastically , stupendous, great way to wake the day and just fine before you retire for the night!!!!!
superbe! piano, guitare et voix!!
Was fortunate to be at the breakout in Hampton 3-19-86.
Search out the video, on TH-cam.
Head full of Gooney Birds and blown away🤯
Walked out and my tour buddy said...
"What the fuck just happened in there"🥰
I may have just heard the greatest jam ever. The words haunt me.
Wow! Really beautiful :) Especially dig the understated yet poignant solo that begins at around 7:05. Thank you Jerry.
Well done Jerry
The solo is so soft, so gentle. Not many know how to adapt their playing to fit a particular Dylan song; Garcia was definitely one of them.
Absolutely, he plays and sings this almost as if he wrote it! Thanks for your comment 👍
One for the ages. Thanks Bob, thanks Jerry, for this sublime version. Keith lets it rip........(no pun intended).
So it's Keith on piano? Not Nicky Hopkins?
Nicky Hopkins didn’t play on any of Jerry’s studio projects it’s either Kieth or Micheal Omartian. Are you sure it’s Kieth it sounds like him but I don’t know what Omartian sounds like. Let me know if you can please ant thanks
@@codyagans1894 it sounds like Micheal Omartian check out ‘without love’ on Run for the roses. I also think his voice sounds like 82 more than 70s the guitar solo doesn’t sound like 82 but the studio stuff is tricky but I do believe it’s Omartian on piano. Let me know what you think.
@@trevoringalls2630 oh ppl oh 0l
Damn ! This is almost 17 minutes long !! Love it 😁
Yeah, but you can play it two or three times in a row to make up for how short it is.
Danke Herr Kingfish.
This is really beautiful! Special not just because God took human form for a few short years to entertain us. But also because Jerry chose to play another Dylan song. And this time he gets all the lyrics right.(He must have used a cheat sheet.) And he plays the whole song, and it sounds so good.
God bless Jerry. RIP
Thanks for posting Jeff. From Vienna, peace.
Stefan Schleps you think Jerry Garcia is god 😂😂😂 may the lord cut through your deceptive thinking
Thanks for the kind word!
Jerry hated that crap. Jerry was a man with talent. That's all. Doesn't mean I don't love what he creates any less but that god crap rubbed the man wrong.
I have listened to this about 100 times now and it still mesmerizes me. Not sure why it took me this long to really appreciate it.
Oh fucking yeah! Visions of Johanna kick my fucking ass every time! Bless you ❤
Oh…There are no bad Wallflower tunes either. It lives on.
This is why I am and Jerry is always a live performer !... I can't be sitting around the studio and just trying to get everything sterilized perfect man I got a flow with it just like the Grateful Dead
Never heard a studio version!
This is absolutely beautiful.
Well put.
excellent sound quality really brings this Jerry version out into the stratosphere, it's as powerful as it is silky smooth
What a gem! I'm soooo glad you posted this thank you.
Greatest version of this song besides one of Dylan's by my late ex neighbor in Marin County!
Jerry was your neighbor??
@@marttram2183 Not a close neighbor but Marin County neighbor. He had a short marriage after he divorced Carolyn and lived with young wife and their child in Marinwood which is close to Novato where we lived and where Mickey Hart had a ranch where the Grateful Dead had a studio a few miles from us. I think Bob Weir lived in Mill Valley but was in Novato frequently to work at their studio . Our daughters worked at Jack in the Box in S. Novato in the early to mid 1980s next to Marinwood where Jerry came thru the drive thru on his motorcycle regularly and came inside to order once when our younger daughter was working there and waited on him, but didn't know who he was until another waitress told her. He was always in our local news. True next door neighbors around 1990 who you may have not heard of was Eric Martin, who had played backup for Journey when their group was called 415 before called The Eric Martin Band.. Eric and his wife and Dave Meniketti and another member lived next door to us. Some housemates formed group called Y & T who played some street concerts right on our block.
@@jillschoenfeldwhite5534 those are great memories. A time that I, as a 27 year old, will never experience. Jerry is the one guy I wish I could've seen live, especially in the late 60s/early 70s period. I haven't yet found modern music that makes me feel quite like how the classic rock age makes me feel, and Jerry is the heart of it all to me
La de da
@@jillschoenfeldwhite5534 Are you talking about Eric Martin from Mr. Big? Y&T were an awesome band, they deserved to be bigger than they were.