"Starting in 1987 after the Dylan & The Dead shows, you could count on Bob Weir singing a Bob Dylan song at the majority of Grateful Dead shows, usually in the first set. The three main additions were When I Paint My Masterpiece, Queen Jane Approximately, All Along The Watchtower, and Memphis Blues." - David Lemieux
I really really wish they would put out another dvd/bluray boxset, a part 2 to all the years combine, withe all these unreleased concerts they've been using for this series.
Stuck in 2023 with the Jerry blues again... Thanks to the YT time machine I can relive those wonderful days of touring with the GREATEST band EVER!!! ✌✌🐯🐯🌹🌹⚡⚡🔥🔥
This run were my first West Coast shows. 17 years old, dancing, singing & screaming for 3 straight days. Yep, it was fun keeping the old, sleepy CA hippies awake.
This 1989 selection is such a QUALITY video!!! %Thank you so much...Bobby in short shorts...oh, it seems SO LONG AGO. :>( RIP Brent...and always...dear Jerry. xoxo
Another great clip, Dave. Thanks! I love and buy all the box sets they put out. But NOTHING would make me more excited than another ALL THE YEARS COMBINE-type set. Watching Grateful Dead shows is still my favorite thing to do. It becomes even easier (when watching it) to immerse yourself in the music. Unfortunately, there seems to be less of a market for purchasing video material than there used to be. But a DVD or Blu-Ray box set (or even just single releases) of Dead shows would be a fan's dream come true. I love going to the MEET-UP AT THE MOVIES shows, but often, we see those at the theater one time and then can't watch them again. Regardless, thanks for putting this clip out! Us fans definitely appreciate it.
My favorite band playing one of my favorite songs (and one of the few I’ve learned with my three fingered chord strumming.) Bobby caught the feeling of the lyrics the same way I do, which just says that Dylan’s genius transcends personal experience. Brent really tore a strip off in this one.
The first time I heard this song was on summer tour of 88. I heard it a few times that tour. I went around singing it all the time. Those sure were some fun times.
Good stuff fer shur.. Bobby in peak form-Jerry and the boys cookin up the choogle. I have a vague memory of going to a buddys place in Laguna to watch this show on Pay-per-View? All the years combine :--)
Yeah, I learned this song many years ago, out of Dylan's Songbook... So Good.....So Much Fun!!!!!🎶🎵🔥🎵🔥🎵🎶 the Post Office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked!!
So much to see and hear, from Jerry stepping forward to set up his guitar effects after he knows what Bobby has chosen, all the while throwing off little licks keep the song moving as everybody else caught up to Billy throwing a crazy look during Jerry's full solo. Jerry builds in so many little guitar phrases throughout the song leading into versus coming out of them that propel everything along. Bobby found a way to add theatrics at the microphone well beyond his dramatic vocals. Phil, like the rest of the band, is scaling up as the energy progresses, adding in little extra bits here and there and then sliding back to the basics. Throughout the band is taking the desperation that Dylan built into the lyrics and turning it into something so much more tangible and infectious. And still I wonder, Not sure if Jerry was intentionally joining each verse just a little behind Bobby to produce an echo effect or if that's just the way it worked out. And what about Bobby glancing over at Brent, or is he smiling at whoevers standing in the wings? And finally, what price do I have to pay….
I imagine Billy was catching a past glimpse into the 25 years that preceded this - each little phrase, tone, or nuance to a song or instrument spirals back a different dimension of the GD's seemingly endless tour. Nice write-up. One of my favorite Dylan songs, and these guys do just a jamming rendition.
Oh, the ragman draws circles Up and down the block I’d ask him what the matter was But I know that he don’t talk And the ladies treat me kindly And furnish me with tape But deep inside my heart I know I can’t escape Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley With his pointed shoes and his bells Speaking to some French girl Who says she knows me well And I would send a message To find out if she’s talked But the post office has been stolen And the mailbox is locked Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Mona tried to tell me To stay away from the train line She said that all the railroad men Just drink up your blood like wine An’ I said, “Oh, I didn’t know that But then again, there’s only one I’ve met An’ he just smoked my eyelids An’ punched my cigarette” Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Grandpa died last week And now he’s buried in the rocks But everybody still talks about How badly they were shocked But me, I expected it to happen I knew he’d lost control When he built a fire on Main Street And shot it full of holes Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Now the senator came down here Showing ev’ryone his gun Handing out free tickets To the wedding of his son An’ me, I nearly got busted An’ wouldn’t it be my luck To get caught without a ticket And be discovered beneath a truck Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Now the preacher looked so baffled When I asked him why he dressed With twenty pounds of headlines Stapled to his chest But he cursed me when I proved it to him Then I whispered, “Not even you can hide You see, you’re just like me I hope you’re satisfied” Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Now the rainman gave me two cures Then he said, “Jump right in” The one was Texas medicine The other was just railroad gin An’ like a fool I mixed them An’ it strangled up my mind An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again When Ruthie says come see her In her honky-tonk lagoon Where I can watch her waltz for free ’Neath her Panamanian moon An’ I say, “Aw come on now You must know about my debutante” An’ she says, “Your debutante just knows what you need But I know what you want” Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Now the bricks lay on Grand Street Where the neon madmen climb They all fall there so perfectly It all seems so well timed An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again
to this day still amazes me that tie dye clothing is strongly associated with the dead but i have never seen any of the dead band members wearing anything tie dye....
I decided to go see them at the old Omni. The police were arresting the tent city people. That was so unnecessary . However, once I headed in, the followers were disgusting. I had to step over and around people who had vomited and pissed on themselves. Once I got to my seat, l had to listen to fan’s talk the whole goddamn time. Then I had to wait for the band talk to themselves for about ten minutes to decide what they would play. I later learned that Garcia was in a dieabetic coma most of the time. It was one of the worst concerts I ever saw. I only stayed about an hour. Such bs
I would postulate that this is not Bobby covering Dylan, By this point the whole band had weighed in on how to approach the song, timing, dynamics, vocals. They had collectively put their imprint on this one. This is the Dead.
Just can't get this from dead & co. sadly. I loved the dead don't get me wrong, but its like they took shots of thorazene its soo damn slow but boy he could belt out a song like this & kill it bury it unbury it & kill it again back then. This is just a ripped , shredded, killer of a tbsiamwtmba, version always loved hearing it ya knew it was gonna be a good nite...like a sampson & delilah wrecking ball as a opener throw in a crazy fingers ect destroy it all at the end w/ a fire to burn that 2nd set down. Ahh good times !!!! I mean no offense to d&c, just miss the younger Bob & well this right here. 😕 all of it, shakedown I sold everything I could to make it to next show always went w/ tix xcept twice got in 1 of 2 times caught 1 of I think only 2 "gentleman start yer engines" due to that too in pittsburg Hated selling my 72 westfalia pop up in 95, but it was over touring wise. Hell I lived in it homeless @ a time. It took me all over usa/canada for shows never met shitty peoples never left me standing, & I never let a cop in either, cant go back soo im moving on. Had to switch to bmfs tbqh, bobs played w/ him as well. Soo kinda passing the touch, guys a panic to watch tbs
"Starting in 1987 after the Dylan & The Dead shows, you could count on Bob Weir singing a Bob Dylan song at the majority of Grateful Dead shows, usually in the first set. The three main additions were When I Paint My Masterpiece, Queen Jane Approximately, All Along The Watchtower, and Memphis Blues." - David Lemieux
Thank you!😎😀✌️🙏
sounds like four main additions!
Desolation Row
@@donaldmueller5235 Yeah😎😂😂😂
I really really wish they would put out another dvd/bluray boxset, a part 2 to all the years combine, withe all these unreleased concerts they've been using for this series.
Stuck in 2023 with the Jerry blues again...
Thanks to the YT time machine I can relive those wonderful days of touring with the GREATEST band EVER!!! ✌✌🐯🐯🌹🌹⚡⚡🔥🔥
Bobby always did an amazing job remembering all the lyrics to the Dylan songs. I love how Memphis Blues builds. Was always great live.
So true, but yet he forgets Truckin lyrics 😆, love it! I wouldn’t change it for the world!
How did he do that,super.
Nobody ever narrated a Bob Dylan story like Bob Weir. Nobody.
💯
.....with the exception of perhaps Jerry Garcia. Have you heard Tangled Up In Blue?
Bob & Jerry Have The Greatest 2 Part Harmony On This Tune ~
God Bless Brent 🎹🙏
You have to be sober to know all those lyrics of Bob Dylan. I am enjoying this version in 2023.
Its just a real Joy everytime i can see and hear them😀✌️✌️✌️✌️Thank you🙏
Ten yrs ago i met my wife at the first DarkStarOrchestra Jubilee. Her name is Joy. 😃 😃 😃.
@@bobdylan3013 Wow!😀Thats just such a beautyful Story...thank you😀🙏❤️
always enjoyed this tune at shows...Jerry's backing vocals on the chorus always make me smile 😁
Picture quality is awesome.
Haha, brilliant. First time listening to their version
Nobody covers Bob better than Bob, ....except Bobby!!🎩🐺💯🔥🤘🏾❤🙏💃🎶💃
& Jer 😁👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Jimi would like a word...
Truth
This run were my first West Coast shows. 17 years old, dancing, singing & screaming for 3 straight days. Yep, it was fun keeping the old, sleepy CA hippies awake.
Ahhhh .. My stair climber song. Thanks guys!!
Thank you Jerry!!!!
Phil is ON!! (And thanks from Italy!)
I ate it up then and I'm still loving it today.
It's definitely a pick-me-up when I get to revisit a show, thanks for the sharing of our memories
Love the smiles. Happy Jerry
This 1989 selection is such a QUALITY video!!! %Thank you so much...Bobby in short shorts...oh, it seems SO LONG AGO. :>( RIP Brent...and always...dear Jerry. xoxo
I so positively LOVE ❤ how the Grateful Dead take this Epic Dylan Tune and do it Their Way !!
Soooo Good 👍!!
Awesome time capsule✌
I'm crying right now!
Thank you!! This show was so good. It was fantastically fun! Wonderful memories 🥰
Dylan's lyrics must have been tough to memorize....good job Bobby.
Another great clip, Dave. Thanks! I love and buy all the box sets they put out. But NOTHING would make me more excited than another ALL THE YEARS COMBINE-type set. Watching Grateful Dead shows is still my favorite thing to do. It becomes even easier (when watching it) to immerse yourself in the music. Unfortunately, there seems to be less of a market for purchasing video material than there used to be. But a DVD or Blu-Ray box set (or even just single releases) of Dead shows would be a fan's dream come true. I love going to the MEET-UP AT THE MOVIES shows, but often, we see those at the theater one time and then can't watch them again. Regardless, thanks for putting this clip out! Us fans definitely appreciate it.
My favorite band playing one of my favorite songs (and one of the few I’ve learned with my three fingered chord strumming.) Bobby caught the feeling of the lyrics the same way I do, which just says that Dylan’s genius transcends personal experience. Brent really tore a strip off in this one.
My 1st DEAD show was the WATCHTOWER bust out!!! 6/20/87!!!
Phil is just locked in on this one.
The first time I heard this song was on summer tour of 88. I heard it a few times that tour. I went around singing it all the time. Those sure were some fun times.
See kids, that's how you do it. Bob doesn't miss a line NO IPAD!!
In later years bob used a prompter often. Ive heard jerry was more hesitant to use it, but that bob did
Godamn this one is hurting me in the heart.
Just out there living their best lives!! Now we get to relive it!!
Great Dylan tune and IMO....the boys do a great job..."smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette" 😎✌️
My favorite lineup👀👍
Great upload
Nice to see Jerry alert and lively! 🙂
Phil always on it!
Good stuff fer shur.. Bobby in peak form-Jerry and the boys cookin up the choogle. I have a vague memory of going to a buddys place in Laguna to watch this show on Pay-per-View? All the years combine :--)
Yeah, I learned this song many years ago, out of Dylan's Songbook... So Good.....So Much Fun!!!!!🎶🎵🔥🎵🔥🎵🎶 the Post Office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked!!
❤❤❤
This is great 👍.. thanks
Thanks for sharing this!
Love weirs voice. ❤️
Love this so much
So much to see and hear, from Jerry stepping forward to set up his guitar effects after he knows what Bobby has chosen, all the while throwing off little licks keep the song moving as everybody else caught up to Billy throwing a crazy look during Jerry's full solo.
Jerry builds in so many little guitar phrases throughout the song leading into versus coming out of them that propel everything along. Bobby found a way to add theatrics at the microphone well beyond his dramatic vocals. Phil, like the rest of the band, is scaling up as the energy progresses, adding in little extra bits here and there and then sliding back to the basics.
Throughout the band is taking the desperation that Dylan built into the lyrics and turning it into something so much more tangible and infectious.
And still I wonder, Not sure if Jerry was intentionally joining each verse just a little behind Bobby to produce an echo effect or if that's just the way it worked out. And what about Bobby glancing over at Brent, or is he smiling at whoevers standing in the wings? And finally, what price do I have to pay….
The ride's free this week. Enjoy.
I imagine Billy was catching a past glimpse into the 25 years that preceded this - each little phrase, tone, or nuance to a song or instrument spirals back a different dimension of the GD's seemingly endless tour. Nice write-up. One of my favorite Dylan songs, and these guys do just a jamming rendition.
Awesome stuff
Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block
I’d ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don’t talk
And the ladies treat me kindly
And furnish me with tape
But deep inside my heart
I know I can’t escape
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells
Speaking to some French girl
Who says she knows me well
And I would send a message
To find out if she’s talked
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, “Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette”
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Grandpa died last week
And now he’s buried in the rocks
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked
But me, I expected it to happen
I knew he’d lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Now the senator came down here
Showing ev’ryone his gun
Handing out free tickets
To the wedding of his son
An’ me, I nearly got busted
An’ wouldn’t it be my luck
To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines
Stapled to his chest
But he cursed me when I proved it to him
Then I whispered, “Not even you can hide
You see, you’re just like me
I hope you’re satisfied”
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said, “Jump right in”
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin
An’ like a fool I mixed them
An’ it strangled up my mind
An’ now people just get uglier
An’ I have no sense of time
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon
Where I can watch her waltz for free
’Neath her Panamanian moon
An’ I say, “Aw come on now
You must know about my debutante”
An’ she says, “Your debutante just knows what you need
But I know what you want”
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb
They all fall there so perfectly
It all seems so well timed
An’ here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
I was stuck inside of Mobile with the Frisco blues in'95.Thank God for airplanes.
Wonderful!
Oh what I would give for a time machine
Came for the song and stayed for the OP shorts. And Jerry’s harmonies.
Amazing
I just realized it was almost a year between the last 2 performances of this song... deer creek 94 -> pyramid shows 95
Just F . . . Ing WOW
I always thought Bob looked a lot like Thomas Jefferson. Killer version of this song.
I will say it once again but no one covers Dylan better than Grateful Dead... N.F.A 65-95!!!
Bobby signaling to jerry to take a lead
Love it
Lemmy Kilmister, before he founded Motörhead, joined Hawkwind and played w them 71’ till 75’🤘
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Just look at what that shit does why do people continue to do it god bless u jerry and brent but man enough was enough
Bob sings Dylan tunes a lot better than he sings Jerry tunes. 😆
Hell yeah 🤣
And unlike Jerry songs (or his own) he remembers the lyrics!
🔥
When Bobby first starts singing the sound has that old bootleg tape sound😊
At 6:09 it is the definition of “its not easy being cheese”. Bobby at his best.
This is why I was disappointed when they announced John Mayer. That is too much cheese for one band!
And they buried him in the rocks!
Phil high as a kite!
to this day still amazes me that tie dye clothing is strongly associated with the dead but i have never seen any of the dead band members wearing anything tie dye....
Jerry wore it early on, Phil wore it later on and so did Billy and Mickey, I think
Anyone notice they’re all wearing ponytails?
Yup..
Hey Now I'm a Deadhead in MN facing eviction & seeking anyone who will help me. Thanks
I need to find my two cats one loving home at least temp I'm being evicted in 7 days.
How are you? I hope someone helped !
Everybody is dosed, micro or otherwise
No doubt about that.
I decided to go see them at the old Omni. The police were arresting the tent city people. That was so unnecessary . However, once I headed in, the followers were disgusting. I had to step over and around people who had vomited and pissed on themselves. Once I got to my seat, l had to listen to fan’s talk the whole goddamn time. Then I had to wait for the band talk to themselves for about ten minutes to decide what they would play. I later learned that Garcia was in a dieabetic coma most of the time. It was one of the worst concerts I ever saw. I only stayed about an hour. Such bs
Bobby trying to cover Dylan ! He is awful , only Jerry could cover Dylan songs better than Dylan !!! As Dylan said Jerry Garcia had no equal !!!
I would postulate that this is not Bobby covering Dylan, By this point the whole band had weighed in on how to approach the song, timing, dynamics, vocals. They had collectively put their imprint on this one. This is the Dead.
Ahhhh so soothing
Just can't get this from dead & co. sadly. I loved the dead don't get me wrong, but its like they took shots of thorazene its soo damn slow but boy he could belt out a song like this & kill it bury it unbury it & kill it again back then. This is just a ripped , shredded, killer of a tbsiamwtmba, version always loved hearing it ya knew it was gonna be a good nite...like a sampson & delilah wrecking ball as a opener throw in a crazy fingers ect destroy it all at the end w/ a fire to burn that 2nd set down. Ahh good times !!!! I mean no offense to d&c, just miss the younger Bob & well this right here. 😕 all of it, shakedown I sold everything I could to make it to next show always went w/ tix xcept twice got in 1 of 2 times caught 1 of I think only 2 "gentleman start yer engines" due to that too in pittsburg Hated selling my 72 westfalia pop up in 95, but it was over touring wise. Hell I lived in it homeless @ a time. It took me all over usa/canada for shows never met shitty peoples never left me standing, & I never let a cop in either, cant go back soo im moving on. Had to switch to bmfs tbqh, bobs played w/ him as well. Soo kinda passing the touch, guys a panic to watch tbs
Oh gee, we haven’t seen this one 1,900 freakin times or nothin 🙄
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