Grateful Dead, free concert on Haight Street, SF, March 3 1968, live

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  • 16mm footage of the Grateful Dead playing on the back of a flatbed truck on Haight Street, March 3, 1968. Thanks to Steve Brown for the audio that was recorded by him on the same day. Also included are scenes of a Peace & Freedom gathering in Golden Gate park and street scenes of downtown San Francisco from the same era.

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  • @kurtzwar729
    @kurtzwar729 Місяць тому +11

    I was lucky to catch the early Dead band twice in 1968, at Golden Gate Park and Stanford. Love to hear Jerry and Pigpen trading leads. God Bless the Grateful Dead. RIP Jerry & Pigpen.

  • @patrickpeel3374
    @patrickpeel3374 Рік тому +105

    In 1967. I worked with the light show at the Straight Theater as shown in this video. We had a 3day concert with the Dead. And the Son’s of Chaplin. First time with Micky as 2nd drummer. Used to sit with Jerry and puff. He got me the job working liquid lights. And using my artistic talents to draw a sign that was projected on a screen in back of the stage. We had to get a permit for the show. Which the city banned. So we got a dance class permit instead. Acid and peyote dreams . Ozly best. Cool aid test. I lived in San Anselmo later. Used to see the boys around all the time. Sleeping Lady cafe. Long strange trips. Peace and 💕 to all that hear the music.

    • @paulnolan4971
      @paulnolan4971 Рік тому +5

      Owsley tabs man. Far out.

    • @tomk169
      @tomk169 4 місяці тому +1

      what was the scene in fairfax like?

    • @doubled3962
      @doubled3962 4 місяці тому +4

      Wow Man ❤ I always wanted to know the lava light project person , so glad I read this , dude your work is always amazing 🤩

    • @ClueSign
      @ClueSign 3 місяці тому +1

      Thank you for sharing your memories, from a fellow Marinite (Sausalito) just a bit too young to have made the Haight scene (I was 12 in '67) but appreciative of its place in the culture.

    • @jasonbauer5488
      @jasonbauer5488 3 місяці тому +3

      Dude, what an awesome time you must have had. Liquid dreams and love your way. I'm only 41 but my dad filled me in on those times. It's weird to be nostalgic about things you never actually experienced. But I know I sure am. Peace and love to all the dead heads. And to people who say Phish is just as good. Lol, you will never understand. No hate, just no understanding...

  • @mythoughts1................1
    @mythoughts1................1 11 місяців тому +34

    This film is a very important part of the history of music in the U.S.A..

  • @darrellminx5459
    @darrellminx5459 Місяць тому +6

    I love the Dead
    They used to play fast it was great. I was a kid but loved every moment.

  • @imanalien2222
    @imanalien2222 3 місяці тому +18

    Man those P90s into cranked JBL loaded Twins is pure thunder from the heavens! Thanks for the post. 12 days before my baby ass arrived in this world…so I had to catch the next one…or fifty. ;)

    • @charlesshepherd2004
      @charlesshepherd2004 3 місяці тому +1

      Man. You know what you're talking about. I'm a dumb ole drummer..

  • @tonetone7572
    @tonetone7572 3 місяці тому +13

    remember when this was live on the Tom Jones show my
    mom loved him and Janis too like we all did . when they did this duet my whole
    family was up and dancing jumping up and down in the living room except for my dad who just sat drinking his beer laughing and enjoying the whole scene .those were great
    times a very special time, i really miss those days.

  • @tbone1365
    @tbone1365 4 місяці тому +15

    Only 25 and recently discovered them. I love the early years, especially 1969. I couldn't imagine how mindblowing this would be when it happened, cause it blows my mind today

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      Glad to see ya dig them, In "87" my wife and I took our three years old daughter to an out door dead show I had my daughter on my shoulders down in front of the stage, they hit Jerry with a blue light and he was all blue, my daughter starts clapping and yelling "papa smurf" Jerry starts laughing and points down at us, I remember that like it was yesterday,

  • @mythoughts1................1
    @mythoughts1................1 11 місяців тому +17

    I cannot believe, as a Deadhead, that I stumbled across this video, and that it doesn't have more views!!!! Thank you so very much!!!

  • @whathappenedtofreethinking6902
    @whathappenedtofreethinking6902 3 місяці тому +6

    I would like to take a moment to appreciate and applaud those who documented these great moments in time
    So those of us not able to be there can now enjoy it. The Dead are a movement unto themselves. This is so cool. Imagine having a life you can look back on moments of because other people filmed you giving them a hell
    Of a great time. Who needs photo album? The world made your photo album for you. Wild!

    • @ScarlettFire341
      @ScarlettFire341 2 місяці тому +1

      Who needs photo album? The world made your photo album for you. Wild!

  • @darrellminx5459
    @darrellminx5459 3 місяці тому +3

    I am 66 and Born in SF and this is how I grew up. Long strange Trip 🎉

  • @stormydude3
    @stormydude3 Рік тому +40

    Watching this clip is like going back in time for real! Thank you so much for making this publicly available.

    • @susanmartin5617
      @susanmartin5617 Рік тому +9

      I looked so hard for myself in this clip. I was dancing my ass off as i recall. But didn't find. Thanx for posting, and thanx for this pleasant memory of a summer well spent

    • @diamonddave16
      @diamonddave16 7 місяців тому +2

      Jerry jammin

  • @donaldgehre5964
    @donaldgehre5964 Рік тому +16

    A little less than 3 weeks later the Dead would play on the first day of Spring, the Vernal Equinox, in Golden Gate Park with the Airplane. I had a test at State College and coudn't go. My buddy Bob went and told me the Airplane never showed up, but the Dead played for four hours straight. Many years later I saw photos of that day Jim Coyne took. It was there for the first time Garcia was growing his beard. Those days were magic, but by the Summer of '68 the scene was too big, too many bad actors . For awhile it was like time was standing still there was so much magic in the air.

  • @bonnieknight8045
    @bonnieknight8045 Рік тому +9

    Gratitude for this historical footage -- at true treasure!! I was a teen in SF when these films were made and the authenticity here brings me into a nostalgic haze! Fantastic music from the brilliant Dead, and a glimpse at the aura of a great almost-end of an a magical-but-short era in 1968.

  • @johncopeland3826
    @johncopeland3826 Рік тому +18

    In my opinion the two finest Band's i have ever heard are The Band and The Grateful Dead ! Two groups who i would say epitomised the musicianship and understanding of what being a Band was all about . No frontman hogging all the limelight , but if one member did not pull his weight then it affected the whole overall quality of the product . Those two groups were also in it for the enjoyment and also for the music .... Oh , originality is seeping out of their every pore .

    • @mythoughts1................1
      @mythoughts1................1 11 місяців тому +2

      NOOOOO Doubt about it. Those 2 bands are the leaders of Freedom in music.

    • @danamaguire4285
      @danamaguire4285 2 місяці тому +3

      Throw the Allman Bros in there for the trifecta.

  • @archstanton_live
    @archstanton_live 8 місяців тому +3

    Thank you, Don. Thank you for grabbing your camera, for your friendship with Steve Brown and your symbiosis with Viola Lee.

  • @edwardgonczy3170
    @edwardgonczy3170 17 днів тому +1

    Yes indeeeeedeeeee. One of those magical days when heaven reached down and touched the earth.

  • @romancareca9630
    @romancareca9630 8 місяців тому +4

    Going back in time to wonderful 60s

  • @haikat4
    @haikat4 5 місяців тому +12

    Imagine not only being there, but being the center of attention... These guys lived a crazy ass life.

  • @Bunbeck-pf9iw
    @Bunbeck-pf9iw Місяць тому +3

    Yes thank u very much for this classic ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹☀️☠️💀🔥🕊️👽🛸🪐🚀☄️💥⚡️🪽🪭love with all of my heart !

  • @aeonsbeyond
    @aeonsbeyond 3 місяці тому +3

    I was Born March 1st 1968 in Binghamton New York. conceived in the summer of love but only born in time to for the band leave the Haight wow

  • @jeffreyschmid6920
    @jeffreyschmid6920 4 дні тому

    Thank you for filming and sharing this piece of history

  • @user-qo6uz9fw7i
    @user-qo6uz9fw7i 3 місяці тому +4

    I was😅 in the crowd was going to school there and working in the library. SDS Mark Rudd smoking the Dean’s cigars . Drank some koolaid and stood there with out moving watching this Black dude dance …without moving. Had no Idea I was tripping

  • @josephscionti4680
    @josephscionti4680 8 місяців тому +5

    Wow! Just shy of a year after their debut self titled album. Awesome rendition of Viola Lee Blues. Lovely footage. I was only 15 and 3000 miles away in New York. Would have loved to experience it in person. Thank you for posting this amazing video! 🌷

  • @eaaivazian
    @eaaivazian Рік тому +8

    This is amazing. Thank you sharing this fine historical footage. It looks great...and I'm so glad you made the effort to find the audio to sync to it properly. You have really served music fans and history by keeping and sharing this incredible footage of this amazing band at such a relatively early date in their history.

  • @jamandtoast4tea
    @jamandtoast4tea 2 місяці тому +2

    Absolutely fascinating many thanks for sharing ❤

  • @jasonbauer5488
    @jasonbauer5488 6 місяців тому +3

    That was awesome! I've only seen pictures and heard stories about this show. Thank you so much for sharing. And thanks Don for grabbing that camera!

  • @bruceveary1758
    @bruceveary1758 8 місяців тому +2

    Nice!...captured the feel of the times and the moment...context is always important!

  • @bruceveary1758
    @bruceveary1758 8 місяців тому +2

    Studying the action in the street scenes is both fun and insightful. Plus seeing the cable cars using the mid-street turntable, and the late-Sixties-paint-scheme Muni trolley buses, was a gas.

  • @rgbeee.1826
    @rgbeee.1826 8 днів тому

    Don, this is so great, thank you for sharing this! ❤

  • @TK-fk4po
    @TK-fk4po 3 місяці тому +3

    What’s kind of amazing is that none of those completely high people up on the rooftop and telephone pole didn’t fall down and break their necks.

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 6 місяців тому +2

    ❤⚡💙💃🕺Music Never Stopped
    🐷🎩👌🏼
    ✌🏼🙃thank you for sharing this

  • @wantabeu2ify
    @wantabeu2ify 5 місяців тому +2

    Wow! I've only ever seen stills from this event! Unfortunately, I wasn't even born yet, but I got my fair share of the boys in the 80's.

  • @jcmartin868
    @jcmartin868 20 днів тому +1

    What a trip. No one works downtown anymore.

  • @peterbroderson6080
    @peterbroderson6080 Місяць тому +2

    When we had flowers in our hair and thought we could change the world!

  • @michaelcasty
    @michaelcasty 10 місяців тому +4

    Hey now ! Nice footage of Garcia playing a Gibson Les Paul with P 90 pickups ! Viola Lee Blues can jam for twenty minutes! Great stuff Don, Aloha from Hawaii 🎸☮🤙🏝🏄🏻‍♂🍄🌋🐠🐬🐙🌺🌊🎹🐳

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      Aloha, peace ✌ out my friend, from Sacramento, California

  • @user-qu4fo3ke8j
    @user-qu4fo3ke8j 4 місяці тому +3

    Thanks for keeping it real.

  • @user-cz9uz5sv6g
    @user-cz9uz5sv6g 7 місяців тому +2

    Greatest Rock band & Sweet nostalgia tbh

  • @postshanna
    @postshanna 10 місяців тому +3

    Absolutely unreal footage. Thanks so much for sharing.

  • @songsfrown5941
    @songsfrown5941 3 місяці тому +2

    me and my buddy, we all got lifetime there!

  • @homecookinmusicAZ
    @homecookinmusicAZ Рік тому +7

    Amazing footage!

  • @daveguitarnowski4402
    @daveguitarnowski4402 10 місяців тому +3

    Thanks man. This is pretty damn cool.

  • @stuartzoo
    @stuartzoo Рік тому +5

    Thanks a bunch for sharing this!

  • @alansommer
    @alansommer 3 місяці тому +2

    I love you, man!

  • @johnlarrazabal7494
    @johnlarrazabal7494 Місяць тому +4

    I was there in spirit.....i was born in August of '68!!!!!

  • @reverendbarker650
    @reverendbarker650 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful !

  • @robertkelly6282
    @robertkelly6282 Місяць тому +4

    Early dead the best

  • @spahnranchworker251
    @spahnranchworker251 3 місяці тому +2

    GREAT VIDEO !!!

  • @crustycobs2669
    @crustycobs2669 10 місяців тому +3

    Amazing

  • @oldrock9
    @oldrock9 2 місяці тому +2

    I woul like to be there in that time

  • @kimdelong3429
    @kimdelong3429 2 місяці тому +2

    People having good clean chemical fun and not killing each other! Imagine that! Good old 20th Century!

  • @Urbexkc
    @Urbexkc Рік тому +5

    Amazing!

  • @diamonddave16
    @diamonddave16 7 місяців тому +2

    Awesomeness

  • @asteverino8569
    @asteverino8569 10 місяців тому +3

    Good times they were.

  • @touchofdumb
    @touchofdumb 3 місяці тому +4

    Strange to see people living it up without the tech barrier.
    Sure there was a drug barrier, but they seem to be having a better time.
    This is really something, thanks for putting it up.

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 11 місяців тому +3

    Whalen , reading at the theatre , was one of the Beat poets from the decade earlier .

  • @VR-jg3sp
    @VR-jg3sp 10 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for uploading this! Never seen this footage (of course). I have about an hour's worth of their set at this event(surprisingly good quality, too). Let me know if you want any of it to try and sync to your footage...

  • @jongray4828
    @jongray4828 2 місяці тому +3

    Was this before all the smash-n-grabs started in Haight? Looks like a fun time though!

  • @thomasarneson4511
    @thomasarneson4511 10 місяців тому +3

    I was living in an apartment on Frederick and Ashbury at the time. I didn't go to this one, but saw Hendrix in the panhandle.

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      So many free show at that time we were blessed with such talent

  • @ThomasWBaldwin
    @ThomasWBaldwin Рік тому +3

    thanks man! cool scene.😉

  • @davidmanchajr6839
    @davidmanchajr6839 10 місяців тому +2

    rite on man

  • @bigbossman7991
    @bigbossman7991 Рік тому +6

    Please post more if you’ve got it! ❤

  • @user-yh3wy3oc9i
    @user-yh3wy3oc9i 8 місяців тому +3

    03-03-68 / Haight Street ! ~ Set List... Viola Lee Blues Smokestack Turn On Your Love Light Hurts Me Too Dancin’ In The Streets ⚡️ 1968... Carousel Ballroom ✨Avalon Ballroom ✨Winterland Arena ✨Fillmore West ✨The Matrix Grateful Dead 最高 !👍 From 🇯🇵

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому +1

      You named all my favorite spots , I was at winterland the night the dead closed 🔐 it

    • @user-yh3wy3oc9i
      @user-yh3wy3oc9i 27 днів тому +1

      03-07-68 / San Quentin State Prison (Free Afternoon Concert) 03-11 / Sacramento Memorial Aud. also: Cream ! 03-15~17 / Carousel Ballroom also: Jefferson Airplane !

  • @RobotMillionaire
    @RobotMillionaire 4 місяці тому +2

    Pure Americana

  • @BubbaSimmz
    @BubbaSimmz 8 місяців тому +2

    Nice.

  • @pbean2
    @pbean2 Місяць тому +1

    Dope

  • @McMillanScottish
    @McMillanScottish Місяць тому +2

    If it happened in the street today, the cops would be beating the shit out of everybody and hauling everybody to jail. Those were the days, man.

  • @3replybiz
    @3replybiz 4 місяці тому +2

    Did you have a 400' roll of b&w stock and the same in colour? I have seen of those clockwork Bolex cameras adapted to take more than just 100' rolls. Just wondered. Nice work btw.

    • @Don_Douglas
      @Don_Douglas  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks and no, just the standared 100' rolls. I sold the Bolex not long after this, deciding I'm a still photographer. Still am after all these decades. I admire movies but tend to think in frozen moments when I'm shooting.

  • @BluebirdBridge
    @BluebirdBridge 3 місяці тому +2

    That contrast between the suits and the hippies reminds me that conservatives at the time said the young folks would never amount to anything. It was brutal. I remember having to leave a diner because my hair was long. I guess they say that about all the generations. And, since the new generation always does eventually grow up, conservatives have now decided it's better to dislike the tolerance.

  • @stacyblue1980
    @stacyblue1980 Рік тому +3

    🙏🌹

  • @Mrbeahz1
    @Mrbeahz1 5 місяців тому +2

    The synch make be way off, but hot damn, the video and audio are from long ago and far away!

  • @Tomangel61
    @Tomangel61 9 днів тому

    Some got six months, some got one solid.

  • @BrianWilcox1976
    @BrianWilcox1976 Місяць тому +2

    wow, compare that area then vs now! The hippies lost, Lebowski!

  • @yarlkymcfirblatherington9879
    @yarlkymcfirblatherington9879 8 місяців тому +2

    A pity the sound couldn't be synced, but i suspect that the filming was random and could only be used as clip sequences. Good to see anyway.

  • @yourmomma2995
    @yourmomma2995 11 місяців тому +3

    super cool video, i didn't see bobby at all in the video was he there with them?

    • @Don_Douglas
      @Don_Douglas  11 місяців тому +3

      Yes, he was. If only I had a time machine, I'd go back and fill in the missing parts. A close-up on Ron would have been nice, also.

  • @spacecowboy2935
    @spacecowboy2935 9 місяців тому +4

    Where's Linda? Short Girl, long hair, black top, second row behind Guy in gray. 1:04/8:42. Blonde at her 2 o'clock is Penny. Penny, Baby Bird aka Black Iris sez Hi.

  • @ryanw6626
    @ryanw6626 4 місяці тому +2

    Maybe get Chris Hazard to look at this and see if he can synch the audio better with the video??

    • @Don_Douglas
      @Don_Douglas  4 місяці тому +1

      The footage has been used in a few productions, and I'm sure they have pros to make the sound work better. I have limited software and even more limited skills in this area.

  • @tuckerfamily1402
    @tuckerfamily1402 2 місяці тому +4

    Who else saw the guy on top the power pole 😂

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      Right, I did indeed, 😂 lol, from Sacramento, California peace ✌ out my friend

    • @tuckerfamily1402
      @tuckerfamily1402 27 днів тому +1

      @@williamsnyder1205 yeah I'm just trying to figure out how he got way tf up there I'd break my damn neck trying to climb a power pole like that he must have drank a red bull and flew up Thier 😂

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      @@tuckerfamily1402 hahaha, yeah no doubt

  • @TimDocHarper
    @TimDocHarper Рік тому +2

    Heck guys, if you remember the sixties -- you weren't there...

    • @charleshuguley9323
      @charleshuguley9323 10 місяців тому

      Maybe if you were blackout drunk the whole time.

    • @TimDocHarper
      @TimDocHarper 10 місяців тому +1

      It’s a thing called humor. You should try it.

  • @diamonddave16
    @diamonddave16 7 місяців тому +3

    Lesh is more

  • @brendanfrederick7502
    @brendanfrederick7502 24 дні тому +1

    What song are they playing?

  • @mikexarhis5553
    @mikexarhis5553 9 місяців тому +3

    👁️👁️1 pill made my foot small ?owsley?

    • @susiefairfield7218
      @susiefairfield7218 6 місяців тому +1

      Your hands and feet are mangos
      You're gonna be a genius anyway...

  • @TheJimmyhawk
    @TheJimmyhawk 8 місяців тому +2

    Often copied but never duplicated.

  • @oortobject77
    @oortobject77 4 місяці тому +3

    All that acid and people dancing on rooftops and nobody tried to fly. Makes you think the propaganda might have been BS.

  • @andrewcowin3815
    @andrewcowin3815 2 місяці тому +2

    Pedestrians waiting for the crossing light to turn green? Definitely NOT like NYC. Not even in 1968.

  • @streetvan1997
    @streetvan1997 4 місяці тому +2

    Is it dark of me to always think watching videos like this how most the people in them are either dead or very very old now? Been almost 60 years since. Average age of people in the footage is I would guess 24. Life is too short. I wish we lived maybe 3 times as long. Like to 200. So at age 100 you would look 33. Supposedly they say humans will be living to 150 in 100-200 years. But i dont see how. Can’t slow cell growth. So how can you slow aging?

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому

      We'll live on in another live this is just the beginning, peace ✌ out my friend, from Sacramento, California

  • @cassmcmlix
    @cassmcmlix 3 місяці тому +1

    So this is about a month after Martin Luther King was assassinated.

  • @timothylines631
    @timothylines631 Рік тому +3

    maybe now punk will bring us home. zombies.

  • @azraygun
    @azraygun 8 місяців тому +1

    The SFPD had there hands full with the seedy side of the failed "doper utopia "...a lot of crime spawned from that area.

  • @joesphschramm3754
    @joesphschramm3754 2 місяці тому

    I don’t hate the Dead. But I can never take more of a few measures of their music.

  • @chais1111
    @chais1111 Рік тому +5

    San Francisco ahead of its time in 68, San Francisco ahead of its time in 2023. The left wing capital of America...

    • @conniewolf7300
      @conniewolf7300 11 місяців тому

      possibly the sh..t hole of the world!

    • @StStvNn211
      @StStvNn211 10 місяців тому

      I'm a dead fan to the core of my soul and left wing is not ahead of anything nor is the right or any politics these days for that matter..nor is SF in 2023 ..68 for sure! What is the basis of your statement that left wing politics is ahead of in this year..money devalued the president is a national disgrace and the policies are more taking basic freedoms away than anytime before especially the privacy and freedom of wealth.

  • @brucemacmillan9581
    @brucemacmillan9581 6 місяців тому

    The music is obviously out of synch with the film footage.

    • @Don_Douglas
      @Don_Douglas  3 місяці тому +1

      They came from different sources, as described. I have no experience or skill at synching the two and only basic tools to do it. Watch the movies that use the footage such as Long Strange Trip and The Other One. They did a much better job.

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому +1

      Such negative vibe !!

  • @JonathanGoslan
    @JonathanGoslan 4 місяці тому +1

    Do the Dead have any actual songs or is just hours of noodling? You'd need to be pretty stoned to dig that I think.

    • @oortobject77
      @oortobject77 4 місяці тому +2

      Clearly, you've never heard of jazz. LMAO

    • @imanalien2222
      @imanalien2222 3 місяці тому +1

      Then get stoned. Everybody must. Don’t you known?!

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому +1

      What's wrong with you !!!

  • @Seeklip6T
    @Seeklip6T 3 місяці тому +1

    I saw the dead in the early 80s. The experience was better than the band. Trust me. I'm glad I got to say I saw them but as far as musical tightness, I've seen better. Did I enjoy myself? Well sure but looking at these old films of them they looked and sounded like a more cohesive unit before coke and heroin intered their orbit. Just my opinion. Have a grateful day.

  • @ricklatouch2263
    @ricklatouch2263 10 місяців тому

    Even though I was a “child of the sixties” loving several west coast bands (CJ&The Fish being my favorite), I was never enamored of GD. Music sucked - just listen! Great album covers though, which contributed to (imho) their popularity. Bought a couple and always wished that the music was better.

    • @MrSnappy67
      @MrSnappy67 Місяць тому +1

      Dizzie Gillespie watched them around this time (think it was either the Be-In '67 or here) and turned to Ralph Gleason and said, "man, these cats sure can swing." Like 'em or not, but when Dizzie says that about a band, they don't suck.

    • @williamsnyder1205
      @williamsnyder1205 27 днів тому +1

      The dead was a band you wanted to see LIVE