To see Jerry's face appear on the screen and Trixie crying as she watched her Dad sing was overwhelming as well as Phil being honored by having his son Graham on stage performing. I feel both Jerry and Phil were respectfully honored.♥️
I miss my old friend Jerry Garcia every single day. Playing and recording with Jerry was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had in music. To see this performance, with him singing along with Sturgill and the band, moved me to tears.
Tears when I saw Jerry. Tears when I saw Phil with his son performing. Outstanding and just reinforces how much the Grateful Dead mean to me. Still listen every day since 1967. Proud old man Deadhead.
Englishtown was my first show as a 16 year old. Now 63 and listen to Jerry every day. Love seeing Rick Mitarotonda of Goose. You can still find great music
@@roobotix And every time someone replies to my comment, it brings me back to this. And it's just as stirring and emotional as the first time I watched this. I knew there would be people covering Dead tunes, so I had stepped outside for a smoke, but through the door I heard what was unmistakably Jerry singing. It was a true WTF moment I tell ya.
@@jedwardmac Think what sets him apart is he is SO humble. Goes about his business....making music. Not only extremely talented.nust steal sweet, genuine guy from what I know. Hey all, be blessed and enjoy things if you can And Don't let these days get you down 🙏💙🎶🎸🐴🌹🤠
My father passed away two months ago, and he was a Deadhead. He would have been so happy to see the band at the Kennedy Center Honors. My dad loved music, and we heard many different music genres, especially the Grateful Dead when I was growing up. Dad even took up bass guitar lessons. I heard Grateful Dead sometimes in the background, but I've started getting into it since Dad passed. I know I'll think of him whenever I listen to the Grateful Dead. Music is one of the many ways I keep my dad in my heart. ❤I miss you, Dad. I bet he's having a jam session with Jerry Garcia, Ron McKernan, and Phil Lesh in heaven.
So sorry for your loss friend. That’s rough. Happy you are taking solace in the Grateful Dead’s music. I find it incredibly healing for many different reasons. There is SO much good stuff to sift through.
Tears immediately. I was not ready for Jerry to start us off. I was Born on 8/1/98. Every birthday was never my birthday, but Jerry's. I'm super Blessed to have shared it with him. Sturgill is my favorite Artist at the moment this is one of the best videos ever! RIP PHIL AND JERRY THEY WOULD BE SO PROUD
I’ve been on the bus since ‘77 and have watched this clip more than 20 times since it was broadcast. When Rick turns, when Trixie grabs Bill’s hand and later wipes away tears, Bob’s wife’s reaction after seeing Jerry and Grahame singing in front of Phil’s image. These events together made the moment Perfect! If I knew the way, I would take you home….
Sturgill freaking crushing it! I mean does this get any better?!?!? Sturgill singing “Ripple”, with Jerry starting it off…. I don’t think so! Saw Sturgill a few weeks ago in DC. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to!
Absolutely one of the best out there making new music right now. Saw him a couple of months ago and without question one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. 🔥🔥🔥
So beautiful to hear Jerry’s voice coming from stage again. He’ll never win any singing contests from a technical perspective but boy he had a way of getting right to the emotion of a song.
seeing how jerry singing with the band and then seeing his daughter,Made me vary emotional. for someone who wasn’t even born in a time where I could have seen the full band together, and still finding a way to finally feel like myself. Shows that the Grateful Dead and just the “family lifestyle” won’t go away anytime soon
Feel very fortunate to have witnessed this performance of Jerry singing "Ripple" back on Halloween Night 1980. He was in Radio City Music Hall in New York, and about 1500 other fans and I were in The Orpheum Theater in Boston, watching a live Closed Circuit broadcast, with a concert quality sound system, and a big screen. It was my second Grateful Dead experience, had about 50 more before Mr. Jerome John Garcia passed. All were really great. RIP Phil Lesh and Brent Mydland, and thanks for letting Graham Lesh fill in. I saw Graham when he was a baby, on the side of the stage, back in the day. Sturgill Simpson does a nice job here.
I saw the same show at the tower theater in philadelphia. my first show. I was living in an ashram and snuck out with a couple friends to experience "the world".
Glad Billy was sitting next to Trixie when Jerry's face and voice popped up. Then seeing Grahame playing and singing in front of his Dad's pic...will be honest, took me out and this is one of my favorite songs period, Not just Dead song, any song, and this as just become a very well regarded version. BTW, I'm an old biker, takes a lot to get me that emotional...
I entered the world four years after Jerry left it. Somehow, I still miss him. This video’s going to be a daily watch for sure, and shout out to Rick! Hanging with the big boys.
There is no non relative I miss more than Jerry. The lyrics sung with such tone and emotion. This grown man tears up after watching for the 20th time. Thank god I got to see them live.
PURE GOLD TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE. That was beautiful , the way they had Jerry sing the open lines,....Omg I am a crying mess typing this.. My 1st show MSG 9-16-88 ,, Took the Bus to Last Cali Shoreline 95 June shows....Talk about adventure and trouble !!! LOVE LIGHT HAPPINESS DANCE AND LAUGHTER TO US ALL LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT MUSIC AND SOUL OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD !!!
This song never fails to give me the chills. I still remember the first time I heard it, I was in an extremely bad place mentally and I just listened to it over and over again and felt some strange form of calmness that I hadn't felt in a long time, that song along with the rest of the American Beauty record somehow took me through it all. Sturgill did it justice, and man, when Jerry appeared above them I got some heavy goosebumps
Amazing!!! To hear Jerry's voice and then they take on the rest. I really got teary eyed here. Phil's son... geez. Most beautiful song I've heard in a long time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ We need more of this!!
What an amazing performance! So deeply touching. She is an extraordinary interpret, but song writer as well. I can’t wait for the release of her new album (early?) next year!
Oof that shit got me when Jerry popped up, Trixie started crying and Bill grabbed her hand and gave her that look. Then Grahame singing in front of Phil. 😢 💀🌹⚡️🤘🏼❤️ Great tribute and I love Sturgill. Always have, but now even more so that he is in the Grateful Dead’s orbit.
I’m not crying 😭, to see Trixie and Jerry singing, oh my Grateful Dead 💀 heart ❤️. They are my all time favorites and have been since I awash 12. Have seen them so many times, and JGB and Ratdog and Dead and Company. Love Ripple, American Beauty is golden.✨👏👌🎸🥰✨
I don't like country music at all but I do like Sturgill Simpson the first time I saw him on Saturday Night Live and he went crazy I've been a fan since then... he lit it off that night
💖Love this from Grace so sublime I’ve got it on loop because it’s so mesmerising even intoxicating so soul searching 🎤🎵🎶💖❤️💖the raw emotion from Grace is so strong you feel every word 💖❤️💖
I’m 21 years old and have no memory of my first time hearing the dead (and no, it’s not for the reason you might think lol). Like many kids of my generation, I was raised by a deadhead, so my official first time hearing the dead was when my mom was pregnant with me. My mother, who has been to like 20+ shows (not one without Jerry), is the only school teacher I know with a dancing bear tattoo. She’s the one who turned my dad into a deadhead when they were dating, she raised two baby dancing bears who are now grown adult deadheads, and according to all her friends and cousins, she’s the one who introduced them to the Grateful Dead lifestyle back in the 80s. Edit: Along with all this, my mom and I have never done any drug or even smoked a cigarette or anything ever in our lives (never will). We just love the dead and as cheesy as this sounds, their music is the only drug we need
I worked for Randy Baker M.D in college in the 90s at UC Santa Cruz, had no idea who Jerry Garcia was, even put him on hold once or twice. Randy got me into a few shows, and I've been hooked ever since.
To see Jerry's face appear on the screen and Trixie crying as she watched her Dad sing was overwhelming as well as Phil being honored by having his son Graham on stage performing. I feel both Jerry and Phil were respectfully honored.♥️
And then to have Billy reach over and take her hand.
@@leobigelow7021this made me so happy but sad it was beautiful
i cried too
Beautiful tribute to a beautiful, momentous force in music, thank you!
need more of this.....
I want, need, an album of Sturgill covering The Dead.
Uhhhh,,,no
I’d like to also do one of Waylon Jennings he looks just like him
Yes
Playing in the Sand is about to happen
@@iceaxe56care to elaborate?
I miss my old friend Jerry Garcia every single day. Playing and recording with Jerry was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had in music. To see this performance, with him singing along with Sturgill and the band, moved me to tears.
heresy....
obvious fraudster!
@@Ghost1126 why are you sure?
lol 🤡
Wait are you the real Bill Cutler? Starlite Jamboree?
@@billcutler8770 yeah, I remember my Aunt Betty bringing home the board tapes and Uncle Ramrod would shoot hoops with me.
Tears when I saw Jerry. Tears when I saw Phil with his son performing. Outstanding and just reinforces how much the Grateful Dead mean to me. Still listen every day since 1967. Proud old man Deadhead.
Me too!!!
Absolutely. What a wonderful tribute to a band beyond description
Gotta say, it caught me off guard! Shed a few!
Englishtown was my first show as a 16 year old. Now 63 and listen to Jerry every day. Love seeing Rick Mitarotonda of Goose. You can still find great music
Tears fell pretty hard
Yeah. Jerry singing. I cried. Unashamed. This was very well done.
Agree…tears too!❤
There’s Strength In Tears
Who was I to think it might just be me
@@roobotix And every time someone replies to my comment, it brings me back to this. And it's just as stirring and emotional as the first time I watched this.
I knew there would be people covering Dead tunes, so I had stepped outside for a smoke, but through the door I heard what was unmistakably Jerry singing. It was a true WTF moment I tell ya.
I am crying now!
Don Was deserves some love here; whenever something great is happening, he is on the stage.
He certainly is ubiquitous...the new Paul Schaffer...
Not to mention his countless recording credits as both performer and producer.
@@jedwardmac Think what sets him apart is he is SO humble. Goes about his business....making music. Not only extremely talented.nust steal sweet, genuine guy from what I know. Hey all, be blessed and enjoy things if you can And Don't let these days get you down
🙏💙🎶🎸🐴🌹🤠
Sounds more like an opportunist to me 🤔
yep, cheers to Don Was!!!
Grahame Lesh singing in front of his dad’s image really got me.
Yes, so proud of him!!!! You could tell it got to him (rightfully so) I was so happy to see those men and sons up there. Very emotional honoree(s).
Phil would have loved this so much. I am crushed that he could not be there.
Sturgill is the man and this is unreal, so well done
Yes. Sturgil is the man with a nod to Billy Strings.
Instant tears when Jerry's imagine was there singing. Sturgill did an amazing job.
Love that they included clip of Jerry at the beginning, what a song, what a band. Glad to see the Dead get the Kennedy Center Honor
Wonder why Donna wasn’t invited
Merry Christmas to all my beautiful brothers and sisters walking their path to the sounds of The Dead.
Same to you!!!
My father passed away two months ago, and he was a Deadhead. He would have been so happy to see the band at the Kennedy Center Honors. My dad loved music, and we heard many different music genres, especially the Grateful Dead when I was growing up. Dad even took up bass guitar lessons. I heard Grateful Dead sometimes in the background, but I've started getting into it since Dad passed. I know I'll think of him whenever I listen to the Grateful Dead. Music is one of the many ways I keep my dad in my heart. ❤I miss you, Dad. I bet he's having a jam session with Jerry Garcia, Ron McKernan, and Phil Lesh in heaven.
💕 My father gave me my love for music too. He's no longer here but he lives forever in the music. Let there be songs to fill the air 🌹💕
Lost mine 6 months ago today. Really felt for Trixie and Grahame especially last night. So sorry about your dad. May his memory always be a blessing.
So sorry for your loss friend. That’s rough. Happy you are taking solace in the Grateful Dead’s music. I find it incredibly healing for many different reasons. There is SO much good stuff to sift through.
@@blood_meridian There is! There’s even a Grateful Dead yule log for the holidays!
Tears immediately. I was not ready for Jerry to start us off. I was Born on 8/1/98. Every birthday was never my birthday, but Jerry's. I'm super Blessed to have shared it with him. Sturgill is my favorite Artist at the moment this is one of the best videos ever! RIP PHIL AND JERRY THEY WOULD BE SO PROUD
Wiping tears away. . . totally didn't expect to see Jerry there. An amazing tribute.
Yes I cried. I am still a deadhead and to see Jerry singing was a moment of memories, nostalgia and brought hope to an old woman's heart.
I’ve been on the bus since ‘77 and have watched this clip more than 20 times since it was broadcast. When Rick turns, when Trixie grabs Bill’s hand and later wipes away tears, Bob’s wife’s reaction after seeing Jerry and Grahame singing in front of Phil’s image. These events together made the moment Perfect! If I knew the way, I would take you home….
❤ 1971 for me. 😊
Sturgill freaking crushing it! I mean does this get any better?!?!? Sturgill singing “Ripple”, with Jerry starting it off…. I don’t think so! Saw Sturgill a few weeks ago in DC. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to!
He's so good live!! Saw him a while back on tour with Willie
I loved that Sturgill's first lyrics he sang were, "It's a hand me down.." A passing of the torch moment of two men that shaped my musical path.
Absolutely one of the best out there making new music right now. Saw him a couple of months ago and without question one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. 🔥🔥🔥
Sturgill’s 2024 tour was legendary.
So beautiful to hear Jerry’s voice coming from stage again. He’ll never win any singing contests from a technical perspective but boy he had a way of getting right to the emotion of a song.
I second that emotion. He’s my shining star💛
So true, so much sensitivity it was like he was weeping every word
His voice cracks in all the right places
I cried, smiled, sang and danced. God bless The Grateful Dead
💀 🌹
seeing how jerry singing with the band and then seeing his daughter,Made me vary emotional. for someone who wasn’t even born in a time where I could have seen the full band together, and still finding a way to finally feel like myself. Shows that the Grateful Dead and just the “family lifestyle” won’t go away anytime soon
Feel very fortunate to have witnessed this performance of Jerry singing "Ripple" back on Halloween Night 1980. He was in Radio City Music Hall in New York, and about 1500 other fans and I were in The Orpheum Theater in Boston, watching a live Closed Circuit broadcast, with a concert quality sound system, and a big screen. It was my second Grateful Dead experience, had about 50 more before Mr. Jerome John Garcia passed. All were really great. RIP Phil Lesh and Brent Mydland, and thanks for letting Graham Lesh fill in. I saw Graham when he was a baby, on the side of the stage, back in the day. Sturgill Simpson does a nice job here.
🌹
I was at Radio City
I saw the same show at the tower theater in philadelphia. my first show. I was living in an ashram and snuck out with a couple friends to experience "the world".
Started and fell in love with them in 72 never looked back,although Jerrys voice lost something starting in the 80s,fucking heroine again.
That was so special. The way they put Jerry's voice in with the band was just amazing! What a poignant moment.
Sturgill Simpson was perfect for this! Beautiful! 💖
Cannot watch this without tearing up...man, I miss Jerry.
That made me cry. Couldn't hold it.
Cuz it’s over.
im sure alot of us did
Cried like a baby
Sturgill keeps winning me over. This was a solid tribute.
This man is pure class. Every cover he does every tribute he does is just as good if not better than the original♥️♥️♥️
To see Jerry Garcia performing that first part was really moving. Ripple is my favorite Grateful Dead song
Glad Billy was sitting next to Trixie when Jerry's face and voice popped up. Then seeing Grahame playing and singing in front of his Dad's pic...will be honest, took me out and this is one of my favorite songs period, Not just Dead song, any song, and this as just become a very well regarded version. BTW, I'm an old biker, takes a lot to get me that emotional...
I entered the world four years after Jerry left it. Somehow, I still miss him. This video’s going to be a daily watch for sure, and shout out to Rick! Hanging with the big boys.
I am and will always be a Deadhead.... Long live the Grateful Dead
Beautiful spirit of Jerry keeps many alive still...
Thank you Robert Hunter ❤
Robert Hunter wrote Ripple and so many others
@@KittyCarlile-490Ripple and Brokedown Palace in the same day if I remember the story correctly.
And To Lay Me Down. That’s one hell of an afternoon.
@@matthewoboyle6010 yes!
Awesome seeing one of your favorite current musicians, and fellow Kentuckian, singing a tribute to your all-time favorite musician and band.
There is no non relative I miss more than Jerry. The lyrics sung with such tone and emotion. This grown man tears up after watching for the 20th time. Thank god I got to see them live.
Crying right along with Trixie & the picture of Phil next to Graham.
Ripple was played at my little brother's funeral so it ALWAYS makes me cry...😢
Played at my Dads funeral.
The next generation, honoring the Dead, and embracing the songbook.
Tremendous job from all involved, tears in my eyes too. May everyone's tears dry on the wind!
To know that they are forever in the musical canon, understood beyond just the timeless music, makes me smile smile smile.
I could watch this 100x over and never bet bored.
Wasnt expecting to see Jerry sing there…absolutely fantastic performance!
So beautiful. Just what I needed for Christmas Eve. The dead’s music will live long past our time here. ⚡️🌹💀
PURE GOLD TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE. That was beautiful , the way they had Jerry sing the open lines,....Omg I am a crying mess typing this.. My 1st show MSG 9-16-88 ,, Took the Bus to Last Cali Shoreline 95 June shows....Talk about adventure and trouble !!! LOVE LIGHT HAPPINESS DANCE AND LAUGHTER TO US ALL LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT MUSIC AND SOUL OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD !!!
😢😢😢😢 I grew up on the Dead..this just put me right over the edge...
Just another that can't help but shed a tear.
What a great tribute to a great American band.
Let there be songs to fill the air🌹
Phil the air!
This was beautiful 😢
Seeing Trixie tear up bought tears to my eyes....missing jerry, and now Phil, more and more as the band goes to Music Heaven.
This song never fails to give me the chills. I still remember the first time I heard it, I was in an extremely bad place mentally and I just listened to it over and over again and felt some strange form of calmness that I hadn't felt in a long time, that song along with the rest of the American Beauty record somehow took me through it all. Sturgill did it justice, and man, when Jerry appeared above them I got some heavy goosebumps
Would you hear my voice come through the music? Would you hold it near.. as it were your own? yes.. I will! oh, how I miss you so much Jerry
Let there be songs to fill the air…✌🏼❤️💃🏼
Damn chills just kept coming with this one.
Ladies, gorgeous tribute to one of our greatest musical legends.
Amazing!!! To hear Jerry's voice and then they take on the rest. I really got teary eyed here. Phil's son... geez. Most beautiful song I've heard in a long time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ We need more of this!!
I got chills Thank the Good Lord I lived the same time as The Grateful Dead
Such a beautiful way to include Jerry and Phil in this performance. Tears all around in our house last night. An exquisite rendition of Ripple.
Thank you C Hazard for all you have done for our community! May the music never stop
Oh man now I want a Cuttin Dead Grass album with him covering Dead songs lol so good
I said the same damn thing this morning
Omg two of my favorites… Sturg and The Dead! We need to start a petition for Sturgil to do a dead album
Sturgill FKN Simpson! Thanks Jerry and Robert!!!
What a beautiful tribute to a beautiful, momentous force of love and music, thank you!
Best thing I've seen in 30 years, since seeing Jerry sing this live ♥️🔥♥️🥰♥️💃♥️🌹
What an amazing performance! So deeply touching. She is an extraordinary interpret, but song writer as well. I can’t wait for the release of her new album (early?) next year!
When Jerry popped up and took the first verse i was in a puddle.
Miss them dearly. A huge part of my life.
This is so good. Just another example on how this music brings us all together.
Bloody brilliant.
You know our love will not fade away! ❤
Yeah.. have no words. Tears flowing. Loving this and missing Jerry.
Let there be songs to fill the air.........
Tears of joy & a wonderful cover of Ripple per Sturgill!
I didn’t think I would get so emotional but I damn sure did!
Very classy love sturgill. Great musician.
Ngl, this is the first time i've ever seen him wear a suit on stage lol
So nice to see Jerry
The is beautiful!!!
This just makes me feel good all the way around. ❤
Epic cover. Maybe best ever in a setting like this. Sturgill is so spot on.
Thank you for the music.
Oof that shit got me when Jerry popped up, Trixie started crying and Bill grabbed her hand and gave her that look. Then Grahame singing in front of Phil. 😢
💀🌹⚡️🤘🏼❤️
Great tribute and I love Sturgill. Always have, but now even more so that he is in the Grateful Dead’s orbit.
Gorgeous tribute, love Sturgill. I am not crying ❤
I’m not crying 😭, to see Trixie and Jerry singing, oh my Grateful Dead 💀 heart ❤️. They are my all time favorites and have been since I awash 12. Have seen them so many times, and JGB and Ratdog and Dead and Company. Love Ripple, American Beauty is golden.✨👏👌🎸🥰✨
Beautiful
Thank you so much for sharing this.
CANNOT Love this Enough ...LOVE the DEAD, LOVE Sturgill ... AMAZING Performance ...IF This didn't move you in some way i Feel bad for you ...
THat got me !!!!! TEARS GALORE!!!!
Grate tribute to a Grate band and a Grate performer.
My favorite dead song
I don't like country music at all but I do like Sturgill Simpson the first time I saw him on Saturday Night Live and he went crazy I've been a fan since then... he lit it off that night
It’s a hand me down, indeed. Well played.
Sturgill is incredible!!! What a great cover!!!
💖Love this from Grace so sublime I’ve got it on loop because it’s so mesmerising even intoxicating so soul searching 🎤🎵🎶💖❤️💖the raw emotion from Grace is so strong you feel every word 💖❤️💖
I Love Sturgills Sound always have
This is so very Beautiful .. Ty
This Is a dream come true.
Papa.. we love you
Jerry Blue Skies. Jerry Forever
I’m 21 years old and have no memory of my first time hearing the dead (and no, it’s not for the reason you might think lol).
Like many kids of my generation, I was raised by a deadhead, so my official first time hearing the dead was when my mom was pregnant with me. My mother, who has been to like 20+ shows (not one without Jerry), is the only school teacher I know with a dancing bear tattoo. She’s the one who turned my dad into a deadhead when they were dating, she raised two baby dancing bears who are now grown adult deadheads, and according to all her friends and cousins, she’s the one who introduced them to the Grateful Dead lifestyle back in the 80s.
Edit: Along with all this, my mom and I have never done any drug or even smoked a cigarette or anything ever in our lives (never will). We just love the dead and as cheesy as this sounds, their music is the only drug we need
Perfectly said
Awesome! Just awesome!
I worked for Randy Baker M.D in college in the 90s at UC Santa Cruz, had no idea who Jerry Garcia was, even put him on hold once or twice. Randy got me into a few shows, and I've been hooked ever since.