Setlist: Morning Dew Hard To Handle China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Deal Black Peter Sugar Magnolia Sing Me Back Home A Brokedown House Production
The Dead created far more music than I can get to, even after being a lifelong Deadhead in my 60’s I’m so grateful for the technology that provides access to this priceless archive, and for all you folks who present it to me , Thanks!!!
Thought this was nice to read while listening - from Jerry Garcia: "We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried. We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great."
0:00 Morning Dew 6:36 Hard to Handle 15:45 China Cat Sunflower-> 20:50 I Know You Rider 26:34 Deal 31:50 Black Peter 34:23 Sugar Magnolia 40:30 Sing Me Back Home :)
I was in a band called Bubastis (I was previously in the band East of Eden) and we were booked to appear at the Festival which was rained off. We ended up staying in the Chateau d'Herouville with the Grateful Dead for several days. Phil Lesh and Bob Weir were very friendly, although Jerry Garcia didn't say much, but he did jam with us in the recording studio one afternoon.
Geoff, this must have been the tail end of your days with East Of Eden, or maybe you had moved on already. Have a couple of albums, including Snafu, which was recorded when you were the lead guitarist. Lp's not so easy to find here in the states
I never realized how important Keith's piano was to China Cat until listening to this version without him. Still sounds great, but that piano totally rounds out the jam.
@@royferguson3909 What a stupid ignorant comment trying to be edgy like a stupid kid. I completely agree with the man. It was the years when Pig Pen was strong and the Acid Dead were at their most dynamic and impactful. You probably like the burned out mellow depressed mediocrity of 1972 to 1975 before the y found creativity again with jazz rock and Blues for Allah. Go back to the Beach Boys.
Welcome, Brother! In addition to the fine offerings of youtube, I'd also recommend archive.org. They have basically every recording there is of the Dead there, including early acid test recordings, studio outtakes, and both soundboards and audience tapes.
Je viens de découvrir grâce au concert de Mélany Gardot de 2018 l'existence du Château d'Hérouville et de sa magnifique histoire avec la musique. On doit ce lieu à ce cher monsieur disparu tragiquement après un suicide Michel Magne. IL semble avoir investi beaucoup de sa vie et son être mais que malheureusement par sa grande générosité et surtout les alinéas du business et du rendement financier même dans le domaine musical et artistique lui ont fait vivre quelques déboires, ce qui lui sera fatal psychologiquement. Mais grâce aux archives pour preuve sa mémoire perdure.
@@AnthonyMonaghanJerry was the heart & Pigpen was the soul. Jerry said he had thought that it was all over when Pigpen died. I don't know if he ever clarified if that meant something he was afraid of at first or if it was just how he felt.
Jerry Garcia’s talk reminds me why he is still one of my favorite philosopher/saints. A government can bomb and kill but this is not true power. True power is about building something good and beautiful. Over 45 years later Jerry’s words still shine like diamonds. Thanks voodoonola. RIP Jerry.
Working my way through '71 shows and I love this year. Possibly even better than '72 because it is even fresher despite the greater development in the following year.
@@CosmicClaire99 Well said; it was a major shift forward. I detected a brilliance then through '72 and then they slowed down more for some reason in '73-'74. They talked and joked with the audience more before '74 as well. There were moments of greatness later, but that flash of energy and great new songs back then was unmistakable.
@@namcat53 Yeah, that arc from after Altamont to Pigpen dying is a discrete period in its own right. A new departure from the primal Dead of the late sixties into what for me is the golden era of the band.
@@CosmicClaire99 Exactly right. Their evolution reached a peak then, incorporating all that came before. All those musical influences and experiences each band member brought into this amazing band flowered at one point. I'm glad they didn't fire Bobby and Pigpen. We're lucky people recorded so many shows during that time; so many other groups didn't and those of us who were around then are lucky to have experienced The Grateful Dead in person. Even now it seems unbelievable and difficult to describe. What a band! I didn't see Miles Davis in a small cub in 1958, but I got to see the Grateful Dead in 1972. Pretty cool.
@@christopherlaskoski189 manufactured insanity it is, indeed! Be brave! Lots of flailing idiots out there pretending to be thinking adults. Glad I have my family, cannabis, and a healthy dgaf attitude.
The band were supposed to play at a festival in France, and stayed at the Chateau Herouville, a mansion/recording studio. The Festival was rained off so they did an impromptu show on the mansion grounds instead.
J'ai eu la chance d'assister à ce concert improvisé par le groupe après le festival raté pour cause de déluge de pluie à Auvers sur Oise la veille...Un très bon souvenir de musique et de ma jeunesse.....de 21 ans....
vous été lá? wow, ca devait d 'etre un reve, quel souvenirs dans ce cas. Meme il y a une BD sur ce concert et sur le Magne et le chateau. ps: desolé, mon clavier c'est pas francais.
Gods. This, right here? THIS is the band I fell in love with all those years ago. Well, actually I'd fallen in love with 'em about five years earlier, but this is just about when it all peaked.
50 years ago today. One of the most amazing eras for the Grateful Dead. The quintessential quintet. Make that guitar sing Jerry. Pure tone healing the souls of so many. I feel so fortunate to have seen them ten times that year. And now we are Old and in the way. Looks like the band couldn’t “Keep off the Grass” that night. France 1971? I’m willing to bet someone helped to fix their hash. I must be another dopeless hope fiend.
You are all crazy ... First of all , I love the grateful dead. These guys showed me a new light in music when I was down and discouraged and felt the guitar was all used up. However, being a guitar player of many years this performance makes me cringe, and I bet the hell out of it that if Jerry and Bobby heard how bad their guitars were out of tune, they would cringe with me. You can't for one second give these guys the benefit of the doubt and I'm sure they would agree. From what I've read and heard in interviews, Jerry was a super perfectionist. Really it just sounds like Bobby was out of tune.... I can never understand why people think it's okay to over see a guitar being badly out of tune.. It really can make or break the performance. But I can understand if you were not a musician and were not privy to these things.
I enjoy this show but yeah, this seems like they were just having fun and letting loose - many shows there's so much tuning especially between first set songs and before each set. I can enjoy this for what it is though. It's a party.
Amen brother Jerry finally tuned at 3:10. I can't stand it! What do you hear before an orchestra plays? Hello! The people who can over look it are having their minds blown with drugs and all the bends and passing tones Jerry throws around anyway.
BW's guitar is mixed better than usual, one can clearly hear the interplay with JG's lines - vocals sound acceptable, bass was EQ weakly and drums/cymbals lacking in quality too but the performances are really excellent and inspired.
OMG, you who posted this! I have had this on cassette for many, many moons and have recently lent out and not got back....This one contained my favorite version of Sing Me Back Home by Merle Haggard....It's so beautiful....and so are you! Thanks!!!!
Thank "God" for someone posting this !!! We Seriously do NOT have enough video footage of Pigpen !!! I missed him by about 3 years :( :( :( My first show was at Hollywood Bowl in 74 ! I was only 12 years old ! :) Well,at least I got to hear ThE Wall !! :) :)
no, jerry garcia was really against drugs of all kinds. he had this mindset of "my body is a temple", and he heavily avoided drugs, alcohol, and junk food
Glory hallelujah. Are you kidding me?! I've ached to see this show for 40 years. Pig at the wheel; the band in perfect form; honoring roots music with a psychedelic kick. Extended golf claps for the poster. Thankee. Peace out.
Fantastic footage! I am especially pleased to get some color Pigpen footage on HTH. Anyone else keep mentally adding Donna's parts into the chorus of "Sing Me Back Home"? I have listened to the Veneta version so many times that I hear her parts automatically. (I do the same when I hear post 70's LLR versions.)
+Derrick Mims I personally like Donna. A lot of people here om youtube bash her and thats fine, everyone's entitled but the way that i see it is her and Keith were in the band around 7 years give or take and if Jerry didnt like her singing she wouldve been gona and im sure Keith would've stayedm wife out or not. I really dig 2 things about Donna, 1) she sang Bob Weir's love song's like Looks Like Rain beautifully and 2) she showed respect to Bob and Jerry and always sang under them, meaning not trying to overpower them. Now somewhere around '78 her drinking and cocaine use REALLY started to effect her voice but let's face it, Jerry started using heroin in the spring of '77 and he started to have nights of a crackling voice and how about Bobby's screaches at the end of Sugar Magnolia's or how many times did he forget the lyric's to Truckin' (his own song) or he was famous for coming in at the beginning of a song too early. now im not knocking them cuz i love them to death but my point is they werent perfect so i dont get all the "let's throw Donna under the bus" from a lot of people. One more thing, this band toured A LOT! As well as played 4-5 hour sets. That shit HAS to catch up to you, pharmacuetical help or not! lol. Anyways thats just my opinion. God bless you Donna! Thanks for that sweet voice more times then not. May you all be kind and keep on Truckin'!
+Douglas Fernandez Although I agree that while Jerry, Bobby, et. al. were periodically (maybe cyclically or perhaps perpetually) unrefined, they were much more integral pieces of the band. It always seemed to me like when Keith came to play, Donna was part of the package deal. A take it or leave it sort of thing. I think ultimately the band realized Keith would never be Pigpen, and that's what they wanted. Ergo Brent. That being said, I never thought much of Donna until she performed for the Move Me Brightly gig. She was totally on...vocally, and that more intimate setting made me appreciate HER appreciation for her role in the band.
im pretty sure pigpen was on the way out despite his illness. The guys were going in another direction, away from blues and wanted more range on the keys at that time.
Their togetherness on this one to me is a perfect example of how LSD can put musicians on a higher level of connection. They change so perfectly together because their communication with each other is pretty much telepathic. All you true dead heads will know exactly what I'm talking about
Jerry Garcia tells the story: We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried. We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great.
Rosie McGee (friend of the band/former photographer) also was talking about this (and many other things) today (8/2/2020) on a Q&A with fans.com over here: ua-cam.com/video/TWCkcIX13tc/v-deo.html
Magnifique, dire que le concert aurait duré 6 heures. Et vu que le studio mobile appartenait au château d hérouville et a mr Magne don propriétaire il y a des chance que tout soi filmé.
Thank You Voodoonola for this unpolished gem...just how I like my Dead......raw upasteurized sonic assault....a 30yr acid test........leave your baggage at the door.....the music will transport you to another dimension.......
🐖 he was a 💎 type PROTO ONLY one he and bobby in reno let me sit in as a teenager AND this i owe them. Bob encourages a young hippie that i did GREAT i said na really? He smiled n said yes me and pig phen just wrote it that's HOW i know i know guys who played WAY LONGER than you you kept up didnt miss the chord changes this is what you were meant to do keep playing man so i SHURE DID THANKS SO MUCH BOB WEIR. ✌
I somehow missed out out on Grateful Dead while growing up. I got Pink Floyd but I have only recently caught up with Led Zeppelin and now this. I was brought here by a BBC article www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35152716 which provides great background to the video. I have to imagine that Dave Gilmour was listening to this. I could listen to it all day! Going to continue now with my Dead Head education!
Hawkwind....the British alternate. in my opinion. just a thought love organic- music. it only truely works live....need to be there in the moment . that's what i say. what your opinion. we all have one. - it's nice to share- love from Canterbury. U.K.
Assuming you’re British, as far as I can tell the Dead never really captured the UK like it did the US. Have met very few people here who even know who they are. Though the The Other One Netflix doc may have helped with that
I am a musician, 12+ yrs classical/jazz piano + other instruments. This is rare, mostly color footage from 1971, (Garcia 28 yrs old) ... Ya have to appreciate it for what it is... Having an occasional raw, 'out of tune' sound was what made the Dead a great band.. They played 200+ nights a year for decades.. you can't go 4-5 with 2 HR's and 5 RBI's every night... This is amazing, clear footage with close ups of the guys... effin spectacular!
The Chateau d'Herouville has an amazing musical history starting with Chopin. Rainbow, Elton John, Bowie, T. Rex, Pink Floyd, Bad Company and Fleetwood Mac all recorded there and many others.
Mickey was kinda cool before his hiatus but after 3 years of Bill holding it down he made the drums sound sludgy and lumbering. He should have never come back
Another account..."Those years were like a dream. It was magical to sit in the studio and watch these great artists like Elton John and Pink Floyd play. It was only many years later that I realised how lucky I had been," she says.The Dead concert stays in Marie-Claude's mind as a highpoint.Michel Magne was reluctant to use police as security, so the mayor agreed to lend the local fire brigade. Unbeknownst to the firefighters, the wine they drank had been lightly laced with LSD.Many of them were later seen cavorting naked in the swimming pool. "The next day we got up. The Grateful Dead had gone, but before they went they had cleaned up the entire garden. They were such nice guys," she says. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35152716
"He has all the negative power, the power to kill. Which is actually the absence of power, because it cannot build up." Says Jerry at about 55m. What a smart man he was. Seldom heard him talk in such a "sober" and simple way. Must be a genius to be able to do so.
the relevance of how his words transend to the current situation is amazing. I remember hearing once someone say "you can change the world with peace but destroy the revolution with violence"
"Sing me away, and turn back the years" Many thanks for posting this fabulous jam in the garden. Also liked Jerry's comments about negative energy "One way or another this darkness has got to give"
Phil’s bass is also a bit sharp. Not sure if Jerry’s guitar is in tune either. At 6:14 he reaches for a tuner, so he’s aware of it, but still didn’t bother to tune in between songs. Lol Probably influenced some of the wonky vocal harmonies too. But if any band can pull off being out of tune it’s the Dead.
RIP Jerry and Pig Pen, your music will live on forever. As a 16 year old, I'm surrounded by friends who listen to what I consider (and in the words of Bob Dylan) artificially made music. Quite frankly, I can't stand any of it. Hearing the Dead sends shivers through my body, they were so into the music. Watching and listening to them makes me want to shit all over this generations eletronica horseshit and hop in a time machine and go tour with Jerry and the gang. Your music will always be with me
I'd be interested to hear your takes on the current state of music now that you're in your mid-20s. Obviously there's still a lot of garbage music, but the good stuff is slowly working its way back into the mainstream
I'm 19 now and its got even worse at time went on; do you know what its like to be on acid and have your friends play juice wrld over bob weir singing Jerry's 50 memorial? Not fun.
A year before their much celebrated 1972 tour of Europe which I managed to hitchhike to no less than 7 glorious gigs in England,including the rained down historical unique Bickershaw Festival with the New Riders of the Purple Sage "cloud clearing magic",among the outmost countercultural illuminates,there was the Dead,still steaming with Pig Pen's full throbbing soulfulness funk!
Bon dia E., quina sort vares tenir d´esser hi ...bé, millor dit, la sort es busca i tu sempre has buscat, doncs llavors no es sort sinó cerca, quelcom de diferent... aprofito que soc el visitant 1954, any de la meva matriculació com deia el vell amic i mestre Mario L. per congratular me de la difussió que fas en red de concerts històrics i pioners, adients per el joven que trepitja darrera nostre i que no va tenir ocassió de estar en aquelles mogudes. Per la meva banda tant sols he gaudit dels Dead via vinils, però ara , gràcies al difusor internàutic de Castellfollit, visualitgo frames mai vistos per els meus ulls... està bé, també ho es pensar amb el cor i escoltar amb la ment, no creus , je, je, ? Demà seré per el matí a la capital empordanesa , Fira del Joguet obliga, sempre es veuen coses interessants, velles andròmines, i demès... agafa a la R. i dona un volt si et convé. Salut ! i canya al mono... r-net
+Eliseu Huertas Cos I read a 17 year old Elvis Costello was in attendance of that concert also and he stated that the Gratefuk Dead left a huge impression on him, although his music isn't my cup of tea but that's irrelavent. Eliseu i envy you being able to say i was there. I'd give my eye teeth :) cheers!
Amazing that this is available, I'm very grateful to everyone involved in preserving and presenting this! And I love the wizard of oz-ish black and white into color...
in the hard to handle after the band gets together in a peak, it seperates into some graphic stuff and you hear a tiny st. stephen tease before that kinda lovely 71 esque second movement. this is an awesome predecessor to that godly version on 08-07
make no mistake... the Hollywood Paladium performance of HTH is absolutely godly. been searching for one that matches is caliber ever since i heard it. Great callout on this predecessor!
I love the "sing me back home" the end. I'm always curious about hearing Ron playing keys, and I can hear him on this one. Sounds great. So heartfelt. How cool would it be if he was singing harmonies too
There’s a tape out there of a very early Viola Lee Blues where pig sings bobs part, but is too drunk, keeps messing up and leaves, which is why bobby sings on it. A studio version of On the Road Again from the early days also has him singing in the backup harmonies and playing perhaps the meanest sounding harp he ever played
Sometimes I forget just how Great the Dead back then. Man I Love the Dead.Thanks so much for sharing. This is truly great footage. If the world just listen .
I am reading Bill Kreutmann's book, "DEAL", where he details this trip to France, among other crazy fun stories about his long strange trip with the Dead. So great. He calls this their first "French Acid Test"...
PIG was getting sick here, I wonder if he kept drinking? Most do....My stepfather did, However he was a WWII NAVAL HERO with over 8 battle stars. BIG DIFF NO? As you can see his weight loss was already in full swing. GREAT SHOW!
Same place where Jethro Tull tried to record A Passion Play, but it turned out it was a disaster all around. They abandoned it and re-recorded the album at Morgan Studios, London.
Listen to Hard to handle from about 10:30 to 15:00. It is an example of gifted musicians playing at the highest level. It is why the Grateful Dead were not only the best at they do but the only ones to do what they do! On the bus.
The Dead created far more music than I can get to, even after being a lifelong Deadhead in my 60’s I’m so grateful for the technology that provides access to this priceless archive, and for all you folks who present it to me , Thanks!!!
Thought this was nice to read while listening - from Jerry Garcia:
"We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried.
We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great."
Dale Campbell Love stories like this.
+Chris Horton Me too!
+Dale Campbell Thank you for sharing this story!
+Dale Campbell ur the man... thanks for posting this bit
+Joseph Caldwell
agree, such a nice story... wish I was there pretending to play guitar.
0:00 Morning Dew
6:36 Hard to Handle
15:45 China Cat Sunflower->
20:50 I Know You Rider
26:34 Deal
31:50 Black Peter
34:23 Sugar Magnolia
40:30 Sing Me Back Home
:)
I heard a st Steven teaser during hard to handle
cheers mate!
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An impromptu Dead show in the backyard of a French chalet in the early 70's.
Tough one to beat.
So cool.
True
there : 49° 6'6.30"N - 2° 8'0.06"E
Imagine the wine was sweeter inn France
@@eaguera2 circa aya
IMHO .... This is the purest show ever.... on many levels...
I live few miles away from there and I can still feel it's waves overall in the house.
Absolute Great Greatful Dead....that's free rock.....fantastic!
The hard to handle jam is absolutely superb. What a great fucking video, how can you not love this stuff.
Search me?
you bet your bippie.
AMEN!
I was in a band called Bubastis (I was previously in the band East of Eden) and we were booked to appear at the Festival which was rained off. We ended up staying in the Chateau d'Herouville with the Grateful Dead for several days. Phil Lesh and Bob Weir were very
friendly, although Jerry Garcia didn't say much, but he did jam with us in the recording studio one afternoon.
Geoff Nicholson record anything ?
Wow.
Geoff, this must have been the tail end of your days with East Of Eden, or maybe you had moved on already. Have a couple of albums, including Snafu, which was recorded when you were the lead guitarist. Lp's not so easy to find here in the states
I'm here to see and hear Pigpen McKernan. He's my hero.
Same! I envy him so much haha.
The Pigpen years were the best Grateful Dead years! Coincidence or..????
he was the the leader of the band
@@daskitten1 probably about 70% pigpen, and 30% because cocaine didn’t really start to creep in until around his death
the pig was the band.....way underappreciated!!
I never realized how important Keith's piano was to China Cat until listening to this version without him. Still sounds great, but that piano totally rounds out the jam.
Agreed.
One of, if not THE BEST, video clip of the Dead I've ever come across 🎵🤘🙏 thank you!
69-72ish is really the sweet spot for me when it comes to the Dead. Pigpen, one drummer, more of a blues sound.
yeah....just keeping your comment alive. so random. so unimportant
Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Derek and Dominos also :)
Agreed
I mean, that I agrees that the 69-72 wuz the sweet spot, y’all
@@royferguson3909 What a stupid ignorant comment trying to be edgy like a stupid kid. I completely agree with the man. It was the years when Pig Pen was strong and the Acid Dead were at their most dynamic and impactful. You probably like the burned out mellow depressed mediocrity of 1972 to 1975 before the y found creativity again with jazz rock and Blues for Allah. Go back to the Beach Boys.
Listening to this gives me the first legit smile I've had in days...this stuff keeps me going in these fucked up times
Well put ,,listen to the 🎶 play in the confused times ...🔥🌹
Amen!!
I'm right there with you brother.....fucked up big-time
@@scottkratochwill86094R 4R 🎉❤🎉😂❤🎉❤
I've had this on bootleg cassette C-90's from around 1974. Nice to see if with video! Excellent!
It's absolutely fascinating to watch Billy play with eyes closed. These guys were in the zone during those years
Unbelievable hard to handle. SOme of the best GD I've ever heard-- with crazy good video to boot. thanks so so so much!
NOT...It was great but not the best. Come on man.
On video it's the best I've seen.... happy to see another
Kieran Taylor Nice comment and I agree, for that era, SOME of the best I've heard.
Damn youre right...i think its the best version they ever played.
@@auestwest9602 its the best
I am 55 and first time taking time to listen to these guys as they weren't that big in Australia
Welcome, Brother! In addition to the fine offerings of youtube, I'd also recommend archive.org. They have basically every recording there is of the Dead there, including early acid test recordings, studio outtakes, and both soundboards and audience tapes.
Check out 11-14-73 and 11-7-71 two of my personal favorites welcome on the bus 🤙
Je viens de découvrir grâce au concert de Mélany Gardot de 2018 l'existence du Château d'Hérouville et de sa magnifique histoire avec la musique. On doit ce lieu à ce cher monsieur disparu tragiquement après un suicide Michel Magne. IL semble avoir investi beaucoup de sa vie et son être mais que malheureusement par sa grande générosité et surtout les alinéas du business et du rendement financier même dans le domaine musical et artistique lui ont fait vivre quelques déboires, ce qui lui sera fatal psychologiquement. Mais grâce aux archives pour preuve sa mémoire perdure.
"Alligator" Strat before serious alterations and the iconic sticker of course. A gift from Graham Nash
Pigpen by far had the best voice in the band...effortlessly soulful. So great when he steps out from behind the keyboard and takes that mic.
I'll always prefer Jerry....not "perfect" but magical
@@fcamiola IDK Weir's Sinatra voice pulled the band down the road .
"Pigpen was the musician in the band" -Jerry Garcia
@@gratefulguy4130 He certainly was...until he started to fall apart. I feel like Pigpen was the soul of the first incarnation of the Dead. Cheers.
@@AnthonyMonaghanJerry was the heart & Pigpen was the soul.
Jerry said he had thought that it was all over when Pigpen died. I don't know if he ever clarified if that meant something he was afraid of at first or if it was just how he felt.
Jerry Garcia’s talk reminds me why he is still one of my favorite philosopher/saints. A government can bomb and kill but this is not true power. True power is about building something good and beautiful. Over 45 years later Jerry’s words still shine like diamonds. Thanks voodoonola. RIP Jerry.
early seventies dead when pigpen was still alive is my favorite era. this is a real gem, thank you for posting.
Amen BROTHER
Working my way through '71 shows and I love this year. Possibly even better than '72 because it is even fresher despite the greater development in the following year.
@@CosmicClaire99 Well said; it was a major shift forward. I detected a brilliance then through '72 and then they slowed down more for some reason in '73-'74. They talked and joked with the audience more before '74 as well. There were moments of greatness later, but that flash of energy and great new songs back then was unmistakable.
@@namcat53 Yeah, that arc from after Altamont to Pigpen dying is a discrete period in its own right. A new departure from the primal Dead of the late sixties into what for me is the golden era of the band.
@@CosmicClaire99 Exactly right. Their evolution reached a peak then, incorporating all that came before. All those musical influences and experiences each band member brought into this amazing band flowered at one point. I'm glad they didn't fire Bobby and Pigpen. We're lucky people recorded so many shows during that time; so many other groups didn't and those of us who were around then are lucky to have experienced The Grateful Dead in person. Even now it seems unbelievable and difficult to describe. What a band! I didn't see Miles Davis in a small cub in 1958, but I got to see the Grateful Dead in 1972. Pretty cool.
I was at this gig. probably the high lite of my musical career and it was totally by coincidence
How the hell did THAT happen???
@@eaglewingpalaceConcert cancelled, they performed in front of their hotel.😅
This shit saves lives. Peace everybody. Stay alive!
Because you damn well know that masks and v's and all that manufactured insanity ain't! Peace comes by being brave in the face of some pure bull++++
@@christopherlaskoski189 manufactured insanity it is, indeed! Be brave! Lots of flailing idiots out there pretending to be thinking adults. Glad I have my family, cannabis, and a healthy dgaf attitude.
just my fav version of the band: and love that Pigpen on organ and vocals/harmonica. This is IT!.
Playing on a grass lawn. Looks to be a house party or close. Intimate atmosphere. Clean sound and mix. Hold it near as it were your own.
The band were supposed to play at a festival in France, and stayed at the Chateau Herouville, a mansion/recording studio. The Festival was rained off so they did an impromptu show on the mansion grounds instead.
J'ai eu la chance d'assister à ce concert improvisé par le groupe après le festival raté pour cause de déluge de pluie à Auvers sur Oise la veille...Un très bon souvenir de musique et de ma jeunesse.....de 21 ans....
vous été lá?
wow, ca devait d 'etre un reve, quel souvenirs dans ce cas.
Meme il y a une BD sur ce concert et sur le Magne et le chateau.
ps: desolé, mon clavier c'est pas francais.
Oui, Pablo, un super souvenir....
Amicalement.
jerry jerry jerry just stay with the strat
my favorite of all his guitars. the alligator
Has seemed to be searching for a better strat sound throughout the course of his entire career whatever the gear.
Phil rockin' the Bill-Gates-Circa-1989 look.
Bill Gates rocking the Phil Lesh look now haha
@@kingdomrhye1180 fuck bill gates
Eerie ain't it?
I thought that as well. But we know our Phil is smarter than Bill
Gods. This, right here?
THIS is the band I fell in love with all those years ago.
Well, actually I'd fallen in love with 'em about five years earlier, but this is just about when it all peaked.
Happy 81st BIRTHDAY Phil ! And many more!!
Thanks Voodoonola. Awesome. Never heard of this gig, despite 35 years of 'headdom'
yeah... best 58 minutes i ever spent on youtube.... i must agree with @Mr. Tulip though... "hard to handle" jam is my favorite
Joseph Caldwell BAAAAAAAAAABY!! Take my hand
50 years ago today. One of the most amazing eras for the Grateful Dead. The quintessential quintet. Make that guitar sing Jerry. Pure tone healing the souls of so many. I feel so fortunate to have seen them ten times that year. And now we are Old and in the way. Looks like the band couldn’t “Keep off the Grass” that night. France 1971? I’m willing to bet someone helped to fix their hash.
I must be another dopeless hope fiend.
I'll get up and fly away!
Weir everywhere
I can barely believe my eyes! Incredible upload!
I am seeing a lot of whining about out of tune guitars, come on just enjoy this magic that will NEVER exist again!!
Mantra Mouth I agree the tuning and constant tuning is what separates real musicians
agree
You are all crazy ... First of all , I love the grateful dead. These guys showed me a new light in music when I was down and discouraged and felt the guitar was all used up. However, being a guitar player of many years this performance makes me cringe, and I bet the hell out of it that if Jerry and Bobby heard how bad their guitars were out of tune, they would cringe with me. You can't for one second give these guys the benefit of the doubt and I'm sure they would agree. From what I've read and heard in interviews, Jerry was a super perfectionist. Really it just sounds like Bobby was out of tune.... I can never understand why people think it's okay to over see a guitar being badly out of tune.. It really can make or break the performance. But I can understand if you were not a musician and were not privy to these things.
I enjoy this show but yeah, this seems like they were just having fun and letting loose - many shows there's so much tuning especially between first set songs and before each set. I can enjoy this for what it is though. It's a party.
Amen brother Jerry finally tuned at 3:10. I can't stand it! What do you hear before an orchestra plays? Hello!
The people who can over look it are having their minds blown with drugs and all the bends and passing tones Jerry throws around anyway.
BW's guitar is mixed better than usual, one can clearly hear the interplay with JG's lines - vocals sound acceptable, bass was EQ weakly and drums/cymbals lacking in quality too but the performances are really excellent and inspired.
That's the way it was in 71-72, you could always here Bob and they both played through Twin Reverbs so their tone is all in the family.
OMG, you who posted this! I have had this on cassette for many, many moons and have recently lent out and not got back....This one contained my favorite version of Sing Me Back Home by Merle Haggard....It's so beautiful....and so are you! Thanks!!!!
Thank "God" for someone posting this !!! We Seriously do NOT have enough video footage of Pigpen !!! I missed him by about 3 years :( :( :( My first show was at Hollywood Bowl in 74 ! I was only 12 years old ! :) Well,at least I got to hear ThE Wall !! :) :)
This is the stuff my dreams are made of❤⚡💙
I've always loved "Sugar Magnolia" and I love Jerry's energy in this whole concert. Was He in an altered state, maybe?
no, jerry garcia was really against drugs of all kinds. he had this mindset of "my body is a temple", and he heavily avoided drugs, alcohol, and junk food
Glory hallelujah. Are you kidding me?! I've ached to see this show for 40 years. Pig at the wheel; the band in perfect form; honoring roots music with a psychedelic kick. Extended golf claps for the poster. Thankee. Peace out.
Captain Beefheart on drums and a young Bill Gates on bass!
Or a 70s porn star on drums….
Ah… to just be there. So laid back. A moment in time. Almost, like a wedding band. Ha.
A rare treat for any head.
Hop hop hop .....There was at least A french pure fan in the crowd ....I met him ......
thumbs up for the young and NERDY PHIL!
Who goes to work as a bassist dressed as a bank teller. my man Phil.
looking like Egon from Ghostbusters.
Not long before he had a Mephistophelian Psychedelic Blonde Surfer look.
Fantastic footage! I am especially pleased to get some color Pigpen footage on HTH.
Anyone else keep mentally adding Donna's parts into the chorus of "Sing Me Back Home"? I have listened to the Veneta version so many times that I hear her parts automatically. (I do the same when I hear post 70's LLR versions.)
+Derrick Mims I personally like Donna. A lot of people here om youtube bash her and thats fine, everyone's entitled but the way that i see it is her and Keith were in the band around 7 years give or take and if Jerry didnt like her singing she wouldve been gona and im sure Keith would've stayedm wife out or not. I really dig 2 things about Donna, 1) she sang Bob Weir's love song's like Looks Like Rain beautifully and 2) she showed respect to Bob and Jerry and always sang under them, meaning not trying to overpower them. Now somewhere around '78 her drinking and cocaine use REALLY started to effect her voice but let's face it, Jerry started using heroin in the spring of '77 and he started to have nights of a crackling voice and how about Bobby's screaches at the end of Sugar Magnolia's or how many times did he forget the lyric's to Truckin' (his own song) or he was famous for coming in at the beginning of a song too early. now im not knocking them cuz i love them to death but my point is they werent perfect so i dont get all the "let's throw Donna under the bus" from a lot of people. One more thing, this band toured A LOT! As well as played 4-5 hour sets. That shit HAS to catch up to you, pharmacuetical help or not! lol. Anyways thats just my opinion. God bless you Donna! Thanks for that sweet voice more times then not. May you all be kind and keep on Truckin'!
+Douglas Fernandez Although I agree that while Jerry, Bobby, et. al. were periodically (maybe cyclically or perhaps perpetually) unrefined, they were much more integral pieces of the band. It always seemed to me like when Keith came to play, Donna was part of the package deal. A take it or leave it sort of thing. I think ultimately the band realized Keith would never be Pigpen, and that's what they wanted. Ergo Brent.
That being said, I never thought much of Donna until she performed for the Move Me Brightly gig. She was totally on...vocally, and that more intimate setting made me appreciate HER appreciation for her role in the band.
im pretty sure pigpen was on the way out despite his illness. The guys were going in another direction, away from blues and wanted more range on the keys at that time.
Douglas Fernandez people that do that bash women in general I’m sure. Donna JEAN baby how can you not? Like that?
Joseph Garrahan lmao Pigpen out, only way he left was in a box man. Pure BS bro. Kick the member that is most badass? No
This is one of my fav dead lives, can't really explain why.
Maybe it's the improvised place, maybe it's pigpen still there. who knows...
Their togetherness on this one to me is a perfect example of how LSD can put musicians on a higher level of connection. They change so perfectly together because their communication with each other is pretty much telepathic. All you true dead heads will know exactly what I'm talking about
Kyle Bukoskie Guess it doesn’t MATTER!!anyway😉👍🏼👍🏼
Bro your parents probably weren’t old enough to dance yet, check yourself. I’m pretty sure Ron aint Trippin’.
a very sweet time capsule with embryonic versions of deal & sugar mag .. weir on a les paul and lesh adding the high vocals ..
Jerry Garcia tells the story:
We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried.
We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great.
Rosie McGee (friend of the band/former photographer) also was talking about this (and many other things) today (8/2/2020) on a Q&A with fans.com over here: ua-cam.com/video/TWCkcIX13tc/v-deo.html
@@ashleymassett610 Thanks, Ashley, I'll check that out.
Definitely a unique show, needless to say, I'd have liked to've been there.
Magnifique, dire que le concert aurait duré 6 heures. Et vu que le studio mobile appartenait au château d hérouville et a mr Magne don propriétaire il y a des chance que tout soi filmé.
as I said in another post there's a lot of audio of the dead but not a lot of video and this is really a treat not only for me but for the rest of us
This has to be the best solid single hour of dead ive heard. Everyone is just on point. Lsd is an amazing thing
Thank You Voodoonola for this unpolished gem...just how I like my Dead......raw upasteurized sonic assault....a 30yr acid test........leave your baggage at the door.....the music will transport you to another dimension.......
So very true!!!!! :o))))))
Well said... no baggage needed!
This has been my favorite video on youTube for years now. L'chaim, thank you Voodoonola.
Fabulous Grateful Dead, Mighty indeed through and through, this eternal band from the heavens! Thanks and I miss You.
🐖 he was a 💎 type PROTO ONLY one he and bobby in reno let me sit in as a teenager AND this i owe them. Bob encourages a young hippie that i did GREAT i said na really? He smiled n said yes me and pig phen just wrote it that's HOW i know i know guys who played WAY LONGER than you you kept up didnt miss the chord changes this is what you were meant to do keep playing man so i SHURE DID THANKS SO MUCH BOB WEIR. ✌
I somehow missed out out on Grateful Dead while growing up. I got Pink Floyd but I have only recently caught up with Led Zeppelin and now this. I was brought here by a BBC article www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35152716 which provides great background to the video. I have to imagine that Dave Gilmour was listening to this. I could listen to it all day! Going to continue now with my Dead Head education!
Rumphius thanks for sharing the article
Hawkwind....the British alternate.
in my opinion. just a thought
love organic- music. it only truely works live....need to be there in the moment .
that's what i say.
what your opinion. we all have one.
- it's nice to share-
love from Canterbury. U.K.
Assuming you’re British, as far as I can tell the Dead never really captured the UK like it did the US. Have met very few people here who even know who they are. Though the The Other One Netflix doc may have helped with that
@@royferguson3909 this is ur Capt speaking Your capt.is dead .....
With a bonus lesson from Jerry on how to defeat negativity in your space . . . deny it's power! Testify Papa Bear!!!!
Absolutely love this
I am a musician, 12+ yrs classical/jazz piano + other instruments. This is rare, mostly color footage from 1971, (Garcia 28 yrs old) ... Ya have to appreciate it for what it is... Having an occasional raw, 'out of tune' sound was what made the Dead a great band.. They played 200+ nights a year for decades.. you can't go 4-5 with 2 HR's and 5 RBI's every night... This is amazing, clear footage with close ups of the guys... effin spectacular!
Simply brilliant
The Chateau d'Herouville has an amazing musical history starting with Chopin. Rainbow, Elton John, Bowie, T. Rex, Pink Floyd, Bad Company and Fleetwood Mac all recorded there and many others.
To see a young demon in the form of Ronnie James Dio..😈 Fleetwood Mac while they were still a blues band..
@@duanemartin7742@Darrylizer1 Exile On Main Street most famously
The one drummer era was the best in GD history.
This, a thousand times
Mickey was kinda cool before his hiatus but after 3 years of Bill holding it down he made the drums sound sludgy and lumbering. He should have never come back
Hard to Handle is quite the cooker 🔥
Another account..."Those years were like a dream. It was magical to sit in the studio and watch these great artists like Elton John and Pink Floyd play. It was only many years later that I realised how lucky I had been," she says.The Dead concert stays in Marie-Claude's mind as a highpoint.Michel Magne was reluctant to use police as security, so the mayor agreed to lend the local fire brigade. Unbeknownst to the firefighters, the wine they drank had been lightly laced with LSD.Many of them were later seen cavorting naked in the swimming pool.
"The next day we got up. The Grateful Dead had gone, but before they went they had cleaned up the entire garden. They were such nice guys," she says.
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35152716
"He has all the negative power, the power to kill. Which is actually the absence of power, because it cannot build up." Says Jerry at about 55m. What a smart man he was. Seldom heard him talk in such a "sober" and simple way. Must be a genius to be able to do so.
the relevance of how his words transend to the current situation is amazing. I remember hearing once someone say "you can change the world with peace but destroy the revolution with violence"
"Sing me away, and turn back the years"
Many thanks for posting this fabulous jam in the garden.
Also liked Jerry's comments about negative energy "One way or another this darkness has got to give"
And now.....7 years later.......I ask politely that we end this darkness. No mask. No V. Everyone wake up.
This must be before they had roadies who knew how to tune Weir's guitar. Lol!
Phil’s bass is also a bit sharp. Not sure if Jerry’s guitar is in tune either. At 6:14 he reaches for a tuner, so he’s aware of it, but still didn’t bother to tune in between songs. Lol
Probably influenced some of the wonky vocal harmonies too. But if any band can pull off being out of tune it’s the Dead.
Absolutely fantastic music.
Terrible camera work and production.
I suppose it's a product of it's time. Show them playing.. Damnit.
RIP Jerry and Pig Pen, your music will live on forever. As a 16 year old, I'm surrounded by friends who listen to what I consider (and in the words of Bob Dylan) artificially made music. Quite frankly, I can't stand any of it. Hearing the Dead sends shivers through my body, they were so into the music. Watching and listening to them makes me want to shit all over this generations eletronica horseshit and hop in a time machine and go tour with Jerry and the gang. Your music will always be with me
I'd be interested to hear your takes on the current state of music now that you're in your mid-20s. Obviously there's still a lot of garbage music, but the good stuff is slowly working its way back into the mainstream
I feel the same way, but I’m lucky to say I have at least 4 friends who I can share similar interests in older music such as this
I'm 19 now and its got even worse at time went on; do you know what its like to be on acid and have your friends play juice wrld over bob weir singing Jerry's 50 memorial? Not fun.
@@NLT-pm4sq sounds like u need new friends
Keep it up, kid; you're one of the good ones.
Am I hallucinating? Bob playing a Les Paul???
damn. deal with pig in the backyard. what a time and place to be alive
Love the switch to color for hard to handle, almost fitting
A year before their much celebrated 1972 tour of Europe which I managed to hitchhike to no less than 7 glorious gigs in England,including the rained down historical unique Bickershaw Festival with the New Riders of the Purple Sage "cloud clearing magic",among the outmost countercultural illuminates,there was the Dead,still steaming with Pig Pen's full throbbing soulfulness funk!
Bon dia E., quina sort vares tenir d´esser hi ...bé, millor dit, la sort es busca i tu sempre has buscat, doncs llavors no es sort sinó cerca, quelcom de diferent... aprofito que soc el visitant 1954, any de la meva matriculació com deia el vell amic i mestre Mario L. per congratular me de la difussió que fas en red de concerts històrics i pioners, adients per el joven que trepitja darrera nostre i que no va tenir ocassió de estar en aquelles mogudes. Per la meva banda tant sols he gaudit dels Dead via vinils, però ara , gràcies al difusor internàutic de Castellfollit, visualitgo frames mai vistos per els meus ulls... està bé, també ho es pensar amb el cor i escoltar amb la ment, no creus , je, je, ? Demà seré per el matí a la capital empordanesa , Fira del Joguet obliga, sempre es veuen coses interessants, velles andròmines, i demès... agafa a la R. i dona un volt si et convé. Salut ! i canya al mono... r-net
+Eliseu Huertas Cos I read a 17 year old Elvis Costello was in attendance of that concert also and he stated that the Gratefuk Dead left a huge impression on him, although his music isn't my cup of tea but that's irrelavent. Eliseu i envy you being able to say i was there. I'd give my eye teeth :) cheers!
thank you and love and miss Pigpen
Eliseu Huertas Cos Some real weather would be nice.
Man, what a time to be alive during this era. Life seemed so much simpler.
It was indeed. I miss it.
Because it was!
It's already on max, but I keep trying to make it louder anyway.
try 11
Amazing that this is available, I'm very grateful to everyone involved in preserving and presenting this! And I love the wizard of oz-ish black and white into color...
so sick! TY for this glimpse into a moment only a few were lucky to experience.
in the hard to handle after the band gets together in a peak, it seperates into some graphic stuff and you hear a tiny st. stephen tease before that kinda lovely 71 esque second movement. this is an awesome predecessor to that godly version on 08-07
make no mistake... the Hollywood Paladium performance of HTH is absolutely godly. been searching for one that matches is caliber ever since i heard it. Great callout on this predecessor!
you guys are great
I love the "sing me back home" the end. I'm always curious about hearing Ron playing keys, and I can hear him on this one. Sounds great. So heartfelt. How cool would it be if he was singing harmonies too
There’s a tape out there of a very early Viola Lee Blues where pig sings bobs part, but is too drunk, keeps messing up and leaves, which is why bobby sings on it. A studio version of On the Road Again from the early days also has him singing in the backup harmonies and playing perhaps the meanest sounding harp he ever played
Sometimes I forget just how Great the Dead back then. Man I Love the Dead.Thanks so much for sharing. This is truly great footage. If the world just listen .
I am reading Bill Kreutmann's book, "DEAL", where he details this trip to France, among other crazy fun stories about his long strange trip with the Dead. So great. He calls this their first "French Acid Test"...
Good lord the holy grail!
Me :
"Time machine.....
6/21/71......
Chateau d' Herouville ; France
Dead concert....
Take me there.... NOW"
......
"Please pretty please"
🌈
🔥🎶
Great quality footage considering..Go Grateful Dead.Thanks Voodoonola,man,respect..
just thinkin' of a French dude in '72 watching this bomb.
PIG was getting sick here, I wonder if he kept drinking? Most do....My stepfather did, However he was a WWII NAVAL HERO with over 8 battle stars. BIG DIFF NO? As you can see his weight loss was already in full swing. GREAT SHOW!
That "Sing me back home" is one of the sweetest songs ever. Really gives ya the feels!
"Memento mori"
That sounds Soo great yes indeed 🎉Love always and forever ♾️ Aman ❤,yah
You couldn't tell the band was tripping balls at the PLAYBOY AFTER DARK set.......you could tell here...
Page 126 Billy’s book Deal - reading about this French Acid Test and just had to tune in to see this - holy WOW! That’s some good old Grateful Dead❤️
Same place where Jethro Tull tried to record A Passion Play, but it turned out it was a disaster all around. They abandoned it and re-recorded the album at Morgan Studios, London.
3rd. of July of that same year Jim Morrison would pass away
just few miles away,
Listen to Hard to handle from about 10:30 to 15:00. It is an example of gifted musicians playing at the highest level. It is why the Grateful Dead were not only the best at they do but the only ones to do what they do! On the bus.
Bill Murray on drums. High as a Georgia pine. God bless him.
And Bill Gates on bass
Kruetzman was way better looking than Bill Murray (complexion, for one).
@@skateboarding118 LOL! Bill Gates on bass!
FAN F'N TASTIC !!!!! thanks so much for these memories - I am EXTREMELY GRATEFUL to you for publishing THIS !!! God Bless You !!!
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