"From Jerry's first solo album, released in 1972, Bird Song was an exploratory part of Grateful Dead live shows 1971-1973, after which it disappeared from the repertoire. To everyone's great surprise, and joy, it returned in September 1980, played acoustically at the Warfield and Radio City shows in the Fall of 1980 to celebrate the Dead's 15th anniversary. A month later, it returned to the touring setlist in its electric form, where it would stick around for the next 15 years." -David Lemeiux
It's a shame that this doesn't include at the end of the song, Bob saying "We're really having fun now." I love that moment as well as the slight smiles by Jerry and the look of Bob's face at the end at the end of the Jerry solo
Jerry i know you are still around ❣️ Jerry Bobby Bobby Jerry.. seriously this is a MASTER PIECE AND THANK YOU FOR this recording acoustic/electric ⚡ thanks for working so hard towards n to perfection every time yall play 🤍♾️💯 % sherry it rymes with Jerry Garcia 💃
Many years ago, my parents said to me “okay, you’ve been raving about this band, the Grateful Dead, for so long. Play us one song and we’ll tell you what we think.” I popped in this song, from the Dead Ahead release, into the VCR. The best, most beautiful representation of the band I could find. Their response : “this is boring.”
Had the same experience many years ago, on a road trip in New Mexico my folks said ok, put a tape in let's hear this stuff, Well 2-26-1977 San Bernardino Set 1 went in, their response ok pretty good!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ACOUSTIC VERSION OF 1 OF MY FAVORITE SONGS ALSO ALTHEA, STELLA BLUE AND I CAN GO ON AND ON THERE ALL GREAT. BUT IT'S NICE WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A VARIETY OF SONGS TO PICK FROM. THERE ALL MY FAVORITES .❤ THIS BAND SO MUCH AND OBVIOUSLY JERRY'S NOODLING😅 AND BRENT'S HAMMOND AND THE ENERGY IS OFF THE WALL. I GUESS THAT'S WHAT A SPEEDBALL WILL DO TO YOU( RIP BRENT MYDLAND & JERRY GARCIA, ALSO VINCE WELTNICK WHO PASSED AWAY FROM A SELF INFLICTED KNIFE WOUND WITH A JAGGED EDGE. MAN OH MAN. THAT'S SO SAD AND I PRAY THAT HE IS FORGIVEN AND ALLOWED INTO THE (PROMISED LAND). WE'RE WELL ALL BE TOGETHER FOR EVER AND EVER IF WE MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND 🌄🙏🙏🙏❣️&🕯️TO ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP ESPECIALLY THE KEYBOARDIST'S THAT HAVE ALL PASSED AWAY. TO ME I THINK IT'S EITHER A BIG COINCIDENCE (WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS MANY COINCIDENCES IN A ROW BUT WHAT DO I KNOW. I DON'T THINK IT IS A CURSE EITHER!!! JUST A LOT OF BAD LUCK AND WHEN I SAY BAD LUCK. MAN OH MAN THEY REALLY HAVE SOME KIND OF DARK CLOUD HANGING OVER HEAD. 😢 IT'S VERY HARD TO GET OVER THE LOSS OF ONE FRIEND AND A BAND MEMBER. I KNOW THAT THERE DEATHS WERE ALMOST A DECADE APART AND KEITH PASSED AWAY FROM A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT & IT WAS ALMOST A YEAR AFTER KEITH & DONNA WERE ASKED TO LEAVE THE GROUP. AND BRENT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PASSING AWAY AFTER PLAYING WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD FOR A YEAR LONGER THAN THE UNUSUAL 10 YEAR RUN WITH THERE KEYBOARDIST 🎹 I MISS THEM ALL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO VINCENT TO SLASH OWN THROAT WITH A SERRATED KNIFE THAT'S WHAT IS SUSPICIOUS TO ME. ANY WHO I SAID MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD.
This is the best Greatful Dead Concert Ever!!!!...the Beat to this song is Fantastic 😎🌈...it shows we no longer have music 🎶...this Generation in 2022... will never have the Quality of this!!!!!
Well then don’t watch Doc Watson, Richard Smith, Jerry Reed, Tommy Emanuel, or Chester Atkins. These players make me think my finger picking is no good.
Hunter/Jerry one of many masterpiece. So many live performances Phil plays it often, Bob play it tons with Dead and Co. Plays it with wolf bros too. I love all the versions, this one is unreal.. all the sudden everyone's like showed we get here.. Bob brings em back around Duane Alman said Jerry could walk on water.. but he was pretty fn high..
Good lord, what an absolute stumble across Whoever uploaded this-->thank you!!!!!!Was looking for Bird Song, to send to a friend but,,,,,,,,didn’t know this was out there
For many years, Bird Song was Hunter and Garcia's hidden elegy to Janis Joplin. In electric shows it was a high point to many first sets, and it was a mainstay of the band's acoustic performances in the early 1980's, offering a sweet, mournful lyric and frequently inspired jammin
The entire 10/31/80 show was released on video as "Dead Ahead" in 1981. The expanded version, released in 2005 contains 5 additional songs from the 10/30/80 show. 1 acoustic set song & 4 electric set songs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead:_Dead_Ahead
This acoustic version is beautiful, really showcases the magic of this song. We made our own version of bird song in case you want to check it out in our channel
Sure Jerry Garcia acoustic lead guitar and lead vocal Bob Weir acoustic rhythm guitar and vocals Phil Lesh electric bass guitar Bull Kruetzman drums Mickey Hart percussion Brent Mydland piano vocals
Yeah, because it (10/31/80) was shown live in selected theaters around the country. Some of it was used in the Dead Ahead video release, while much of 10/29 and 10/30 circulate among collectors, in the same pro shot quality .
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Reckoning healed me.
What a beautiful, ethereal song. I've always loved it and it's wonderful that Jerry and Robert wrote it in memory of Janis Joplin.
Long Live The Mighty Grateful Dead ⚡️💀⚡️
“They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do.”
"From Jerry's first solo album, released in 1972, Bird Song was an exploratory part of Grateful Dead live shows 1971-1973, after which it disappeared from the repertoire. To everyone's great surprise, and joy, it returned in September 1980, played acoustically at the Warfield and Radio City shows in the Fall of 1980 to celebrate the Dead's 15th anniversary. A month later, it returned to the touring setlist in its electric form, where it would stick around for the next 15 years." -David Lemeiux
Tell me, all that you know
Thanks David!!! and it just keeps on spreading that "great surprise and joy" ... dare I say, it's downright contagious!!!
Old friend gave me this on vhs. Now have on disc. Such a treasure. 🥀
God bless the Grateful Dead
Jerry's eyebrows tell the whole story !
It's a shame that this doesn't include at the end of the song, Bob saying "We're really having fun now." I love that moment as well as the slight smiles by Jerry and the look of Bob's face at the end at the end of the Jerry solo
Where can i see it?
@@LoboLopez64518 If you find the dvd of the full show. It's probably somewhere on youtube also
It's at the beginning Must've of Been The Rose's.
What a wonderful acoustic,,,dreamy version jerry loos like a beautiful lion
Jerry i know you are still around ❣️ Jerry Bobby Bobby Jerry.. seriously this is a MASTER PIECE AND THANK YOU FOR this recording acoustic/electric ⚡ thanks for working so hard towards n to perfection every time yall play 🤍♾️💯 % sherry it rymes with Jerry Garcia 💃
One of the many.Huntrr/Garcia masterpieces.. fkn brilliant song all the way.around
Love You,Love You,...Love You Jerry!!!! EXCELLENCE,IN DEED... YESSI. 🥰🥰🥰
Seeing them at Radio City was one of the greatest moments ever.
It's not every day you find Jerry in such good voice, very nice version, I was at Radio City for this tour.
I think Robert and Jerry wrote it specifically so anyone can sing it. Magic
Ohhhh I love this rendition sooo much
💀🌹🕊
That was just fantastic. So excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Great song, great performance.
LONG LIVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Loved Phil’s bass tone (and playing) on this. This was one of my favorite basses of his.
My first show.
This is simply extraordinarily beautiful!
Ensemble playing right here bro.
Many years ago, my parents said to me “okay, you’ve been raving about this band, the Grateful Dead, for so long. Play us one song and we’ll tell you what we think.” I popped in this song, from the Dead Ahead release, into the VCR. The best, most beautiful representation of the band I could find. Their response : “this is boring.”
Should have played them a romping '69 show
no accounting for taste.
Music is art.Sometimes people like it ,dont like it or they dont get it ! Ya?
Had the same experience many years ago, on a road trip in New Mexico my folks said ok, put a tape in let's hear this stuff, Well 2-26-1977 San Bernardino Set 1 went in, their response ok pretty good!
If they knew it was about Janis Joplin they mite think differently. Depending on their age. Written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter.
One of the quickest, smokiest Bird Songs out there
My first concert ever..Madison Square Garden , NY NY Im 15...57 now
My fav show the dead has ever played
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ACOUSTIC VERSION OF 1 OF MY FAVORITE SONGS ALSO ALTHEA, STELLA BLUE AND I CAN GO ON AND ON THERE ALL GREAT.
BUT IT'S NICE WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A VARIETY OF SONGS TO PICK FROM. THERE ALL MY FAVORITES .❤ THIS BAND SO MUCH AND OBVIOUSLY JERRY'S NOODLING😅 AND BRENT'S HAMMOND AND THE ENERGY IS OFF THE WALL. I GUESS THAT'S WHAT A SPEEDBALL WILL DO TO YOU( RIP BRENT MYDLAND & JERRY GARCIA, ALSO VINCE WELTNICK WHO PASSED AWAY FROM A SELF INFLICTED KNIFE WOUND WITH A JAGGED EDGE. MAN OH MAN. THAT'S SO SAD AND I PRAY THAT HE IS FORGIVEN AND ALLOWED INTO THE
(PROMISED LAND).
WE'RE WELL ALL BE TOGETHER FOR EVER AND EVER IF WE MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND 🌄🙏🙏🙏❣️&🕯️TO ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP ESPECIALLY THE KEYBOARDIST'S THAT HAVE ALL PASSED AWAY. TO ME I THINK IT'S EITHER A BIG COINCIDENCE (WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS MANY COINCIDENCES IN A ROW BUT WHAT DO I KNOW. I DON'T THINK IT IS A CURSE EITHER!!! JUST A LOT OF BAD LUCK AND WHEN I SAY BAD LUCK. MAN OH MAN THEY REALLY HAVE SOME KIND OF DARK CLOUD HANGING OVER HEAD. 😢 IT'S VERY HARD TO GET OVER THE LOSS OF ONE FRIEND AND A BAND MEMBER. I KNOW THAT THERE DEATHS WERE ALMOST A DECADE APART AND KEITH PASSED AWAY FROM A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT & IT WAS ALMOST A YEAR AFTER KEITH & DONNA WERE ASKED TO LEAVE THE GROUP.
AND BRENT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PASSING AWAY AFTER PLAYING WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD FOR A YEAR LONGER THAN THE UNUSUAL 10 YEAR RUN WITH THERE KEYBOARDIST 🎹 I MISS THEM ALL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO VINCENT TO SLASH OWN THROAT WITH A SERRATED KNIFE THAT'S WHAT IS SUSPICIOUS TO ME. ANY WHO I SAID MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD.
This is the best Greatful Dead Concert Ever!!!!...the Beat to this song is Fantastic 😎🌈...it shows we no longer have music 🎶...this Generation in 2022... will never have the Quality of this!!!!!
Saw two of the shows at Radio City during this run when i was 15. Great memories all these years later.
I saw 2 shows also! I was 17!
😌😌😌 so relaxing. A fine acoustic Bird Song.
Always so glad when I had the chance to hear it live. I heard Stella blue 250 times, but this very infrequently.
I saw them do it at Giants stadium in 1992, great version they also did Terripan Station.
This gives me hope.
I hear the tune...nightly
Magic!
Could be their best Birdsong performance ever, including 1972.
It is right up there with their performance of this tune on 8-27-72 at the Olde Renaissance Faire Grounds in Eugene.
@@wheatleyducks Think this one is even better, the harmonies are CSNY level. Incredible...
It’s interesting how more involved vocally Brent is later on in 89/90 shows.
As you know, he was still very new to the band. Vocal parts evolve quite a bit over time and with trial and error.
@@sesquip6330 of course. It’s just interesting to watch this because I’ve been on a Spring 1999 kick lately. I’m a huge fan of Brent .
@@martyott671 Do you mean Spring 1990? Yes Brent was amazing. Never the same after he passed.
If only Spring 1999
The oldest new guy ever !
Forever Dead 💀 🌹🎵🎶🎵🎶
One of my favorites!
I love my people
Every time I think I'm getting good at playing acoustic guitar, I watch Jerry do it and realize I am nothing.
Well then don’t watch Doc Watson, Richard Smith, Jerry Reed, Tommy Emanuel, or Chester Atkins. These players make me think my finger picking is no good.
80 and 81 daddy likey
So sweet
Hunter/Jerry one of many masterpiece. So many live performances Phil plays it often, Bob play it tons with Dead and Co. Plays it with wolf bros too.
I love all the versions, this one is unreal.. all the sudden everyone's like showed we get here.. Bob brings em back around
Duane Alman said Jerry could walk on water.. but he was pretty fn high..
Beautiful!
HAPPY BIRD DAY 2022!!!!
As the character Shrevie, played by Daniel Stern, in the movie Diner shouted, "Jazz! Jazz!"
Awww Hell Yeah!
One of my most favorite Dead songs. Specially from the Uniondale Concert 3/29/90
It sounds like a jazz tune
❤
"Oh, Let's do Bird Song" 0:01
wow, awesome footage !!!!!!!! thanks
Brilliant
Good lord, what an absolute stumble across Whoever uploaded this-->thank you!!!!!!Was looking for Bird Song, to send to a friend but,,,,,,,,didn’t know this was out there
#ForTammyRochon...
For many years, Bird Song was Hunter and Garcia's hidden elegy to Janis Joplin. In electric shows it was a high point to many first sets, and it was a mainstay of the band's acoustic performances in the early 1980's, offering a sweet, mournful lyric and frequently inspired jammin
🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
Ahhhhh groovy! ✌🏽
This is so good. I've been waiting forever to see the full version of this.
If you hear that same sweet song, well you know why.....
Don't you cry
Garcia is the Iceman in this.
41 years ago, today
Thanksss....!!! ;)
6:36 it was at this moment they knew they were gonna have a good night 🥀
This is awesome! Tweet tweet tweeet!
🤙🏻
So nice to hear the acoustic and see so well
Maybe release the video of these concerts or if there are any from the Warfield. Good stuff.
The entire 10/31/80 show was released on video as "Dead Ahead" in 1981. The expanded version, released in 2005 contains 5 additional songs from the 10/30/80 show. 1 acoustic set song & 4 electric set songs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead:_Dead_Ahead
@@mojobone I know. Used to have the vhs. I meant if they have the other nights at Radio City or the Warfield, those would be great to see.
This is from 10/31/80, not 10/30. Same version on Dead Ahead Halloween night.
👌🎯 Thought I was crazy 😜….last night ,right?
This acoustic version is beautiful, really showcases the magic of this song. We made our own version of bird song in case you want to check it out in our channel
you know, its interesting hearing brent on a grand. thats not something that happened alot
But if you do ill wipe every tear
6:32 one of those moments … crowd going off
🐦 🌹 💀
Written for janis
I got like #420.
Song Bird launching on Flare tied to Ripple’s XRP network. What a long Strange Trip it’s been! 😜
Great. Now they’re hooked up with the NWO.
Ajaaaa el Dross 🙊
Ajaaaaaaaa el Dross x2
@@diegogutierrez9357 🤣🤣🤣🤣
for non Dead Heads, who's playing what, please?
Sure
Jerry Garcia acoustic lead guitar and lead vocal
Bob Weir acoustic rhythm guitar and vocals
Phil Lesh electric bass guitar
Bull Kruetzman drums
Mickey Hart percussion
Brent Mydland piano vocals
is this whole show filmed ??
I'm sure it all was but it wasn't released in it's entirety I think. You can see what is if you are familiar with the movie release ofDead Ahead
Yea it was and it’s kicking around somewhere
I remember it was used for a shakedown stream once, you can also rent it on Amazon prime.
Yeah, because it (10/31/80) was shown live in selected theaters around the country. Some of it was used in the Dead Ahead video release, while much of 10/29 and 10/30 circulate among collectors, in the same pro shot quality .
Found it.. It's here on UA-cam posted posted by the grateful dead channel called "Dead Ahead". Amazing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead:_Dead_Ahead
The day glow freaks screaming thru this entire nearly ruin this
Brent...
Long Live the Mighty Grateful Dead⚡️💀⚡️
6:34 it was at this moment they knew they were gonna have a good night 🥀
yup.