Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2020 Remaster) [Full Album]

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  • The Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is out now. Shop the Workingman's Dead store on dead.net below or click here lnk.to/WD50
    "This was, sort of, stepping out of our spacesuit and coming down to Earth and putting on a pair of Osh Kosh and digging the furrows ... we would have to bring the music in, to support the texts: Hunter's Holy Grail" - Mickey Hart
    The three-CD set featuring the original album with newly remastered sound, plus an unreleased complete concert recorded on February 21, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY.
    The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser, along with restoration and speed correction by Plangent Processes.
    If it's vinyl you're after, the WORKINGMAN’S DEAD: 50th ANNIVERSARY VINYL PICTURE DISC, limited to 10K, and Dead.net exclusive colored vinyl has just 2000 copies available. Both feature the newly remastered version of the original album.
    Tracklist
    0:00 Uncle John's Band
    4:44 High Time
    9:57 Dire Wolf
    13:13 New Speedway Boogie
    17:19 Cumberland Blues
    20:36 Black Peter
    26:21 Easy Wind
    31:21 Casey Jones
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 846

  • @PicoRiveraCalifornia
    @PicoRiveraCalifornia 3 роки тому +267

    0:00 Uncle John's Band
    4:44 High Time
    9:57 Dire Wolf
    13:13 New Speedway Boogie
    17:19 Cumberland Blues
    20:36 Black Peter
    26:21 Easy Wind
    31:21 Casey Jones

    • @zeussierraalex
      @zeussierraalex 3 роки тому +10

      Thanks m8

    • @PicoRiveraCalifornia
      @PicoRiveraCalifornia 3 роки тому +15

      @@zeussierraalex No problem!

    • @richdanielsdaniels4840
      @richdanielsdaniels4840 3 роки тому +8

      Hi y'all are you still trippings today as we were then

    • @zeussierraalex
      @zeussierraalex 3 роки тому +4

      Rich Daniels Daniels well considering I’m only 21 (well not til tomorrow at least) I am not tripping today as I was then. However I probably would’ve been tripping then as well

    • @tonymiller6847
      @tonymiller6847 3 роки тому +3

      @@zeussierraalex No worries Cody. The Grateful Dead were notoriously inconsistent in concert.
      They were wasted at Woodstock and my future wife had to convince me to attend dead concerts in the 70's.

  • @jeffdawson2786
    @jeffdawson2786 3 роки тому +623

    A long time ago, when I thought the Dead were stupid, I became a baker. I came to the café to start rolling the dough for the breads and make the cinnamon rolls and pastries. Someone had left a cassette tape next to the little stereo on the counter, Workingman’s Dead on one side and American Beauty on the other. Reluctantly I put it on. I tell you the truth, I haven’t stopped singing along to these songs for 35 years. 🌹

    • @chrislamberto5443
      @chrislamberto5443 3 роки тому +25

      When I was an early teen my older brother introduced me to the Dead and I didn't care much for most of it at the time, except for American Beauty and Working Man's Dead. The rest grew on me over time, but it took years. Today, I consider the collective work as an American treasure. Hope you're still baking. Cheers!

    • @jdub1922
      @jdub1922 3 роки тому +16

      Agreed! I was a punk into some country and jazz, go figure, but thought the Dead were wasted space. Then one day I heard a song I had heard as a kid, and was like I love that what is it?? Turns out I had been listening to Workingman's Dead as a kid without knowing who it was! My neighbor gave us his records when he moved, I was like 8, and loved this album. Then I forgot. Then I was reminded. I LOVE THE DEAD!!!! But not all of it... But this album is one of the great albums of all time!

    • @classicrocklover1234
      @classicrocklover1234 3 роки тому +14

      I swear that’s how everybody starts, my buddies dad followed the dead and my buddy always was trying to get me into the dead and I didn’t care for their music besides American beauty workingmans and europe72 (he has those on vinyl) but it all grew on me and now there’s no date or dead era of shows I’d refuse to hear it every show from every year has something beautiful to offer no matter if they were on fire that night or not

    • @classicrocklover1234
      @classicrocklover1234 3 роки тому +10

      The imperfection of a not so good night blended with the few moments of magic that still happen to slip out during jams is enough to
      Keep everybody around at least that’s how I see it

    • @danielbennette7247
      @danielbennette7247 3 роки тому +29

      I'm a Muslim convert who stopped really caring too much about music 30 years ago and was never a Grateful Dead fan. I wouldn't say I am now either. I have no connection to the community and probably, despite some definite overlaps here and there, wouldn't agree on very much with the band if we talked politics or philosophy. I have no cultural or peer-pressure reason to say anything good about this. But I'll tell you what... this record is one of the very few I've consistently listened to all my life. It's just a solid piece of music and even non or anti-fans will admit this if they listen. For me what sets this apart is something about the emotion in the voices and melodies. It feels like you're sitting down with a real friend. Even if you might roll your eyes at his stories sometimes, you can't help but feel empathy and want to hear him out.

  • @MichaelA-dj1rb
    @MichaelA-dj1rb Рік тому +29

    My school bus driver turned me on to the Dead & NRPS in 1972. I was a sophomore in high school. He was about three years older than me and knew I smoked pot. We both played guitars so after school after everyone was dropped off we'd go to his apt, get stoned, play guitars and listen to tunes and jam. We're both still alive and best friends to this day 50 + years later

    • @atravelerofbothtimespace4172
      @atravelerofbothtimespace4172 2 місяці тому +3

      That's the best comment I've ever read that's the greatest bus driver in the world the fact that you're still friends was the icing on that cake god bless America and the Dead

    • @moosey62
      @moosey62 2 місяці тому +3

      I'm from Finland. I'd come and see you but I'm too poor! Much love guys xx

    • @stephenhendry7551
      @stephenhendry7551 Місяць тому +1

      I too have a friend for 60+, aren’t we blessed

  • @Rickm71
    @Rickm71 3 роки тому +289

    The Grateful Dead may be the most American of all American rock bands...blues, bluegrass, country and pop all melded together into this amazing stew of Americana.

    • @billhicksmcgee1181
      @billhicksmcgee1181 3 роки тому +9

      No question about it....

    • @davidryan7386
      @davidryan7386 3 роки тому +16

      you left out jazz n world music lol

    • @davidryan7386
      @davidryan7386 3 роки тому +5

      they were the first to more or less be able to play all the americana before them. esp 70-4 perhaps. after that it was a new sorta journey in my mind.

    • @seankrause1891
      @seankrause1891 3 роки тому +4

      Yes siree!!

    • @Rickm71
      @Rickm71 3 роки тому +1

      @@davidryan7386 yes i did...an oversight on my part.

  • @JohnSmith-fq7hj
    @JohnSmith-fq7hj 3 роки тому +81

    This is how you get non dead heads started on the dead. Both my parents and neighbors complimented on my fine choice of music, the look of shock on their faces when i revealed to them it was Grateful Dead was priceless lol.

    • @francescaa8331
      @francescaa8331 2 роки тому +3

      This and blues for Allah got me hooked in 76

    • @mctavish23
      @mctavish23 2 роки тому +3

      @@francescaa8331 Same here exactly.

    • @francescaa8331
      @francescaa8331 2 роки тому +1

      @@mctavish23 that's very cool. ☮️

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah...I've used it too. Funny, but before this album I was just a casual listener. I remember telling my friend "Wait...before you put on Oxamoxxa, let's smoke a doob first" I hadda be stoned to listen to previous tunes. THIS changed all that.

  • @tracyhill6166
    @tracyhill6166 Рік тому +7

    Where does the time go? Indeed! Yesterday I was 17 listening to this album in my bedroom. Now I'm 52, listening to this album in my bedroom. 🙂
    God damn, well I declare!

  • @jasonbauer5488
    @jasonbauer5488 Рік тому +25

    The Grateful Dead isn't just music to me. It's the soundtrack to my life. It's always on in my head.

    • @gingerli5820
      @gingerli5820 Рік тому

      This particular album is significant.

  • @beatificdreams
    @beatificdreams Рік тому +43

    Such a bittersweet album to listen to now. So many good and kind memories. And so many people and friends lost over the years, so much aching from living the life. The memories of my family and friends live in these songs.

    • @marcinfo3099
      @marcinfo3099 Рік тому +1

      Amen🙏🏼

    • @phoenixmode6909
      @phoenixmode6909 10 місяців тому +1

      That's how I feel when I listen to "Uncle John's Band". That song has always had that sort of feel to me, but now that I'm almost 60, I definitely understand the feeling even deeper. Good stuff. ✌🏻❤️✨🌻🎶

    • @skippergrundy5248
      @skippergrundy5248 Місяць тому +1

      Further your knowledge...
      Pick up the book titled:
      The electric Kool aid acid test...Eye opener!

    • @beatificdreams
      @beatificdreams Місяць тому

      @@skippergrundy5248 I read(and very much enjoyed) it over 30 years ago! 💜 This also lead me down an adventure of reading Ken Kesey and a lot of beat poets. The rabbit hole is deep!

    • @bensmyth450
      @bensmyth450 22 дні тому

      To me this album is very new, it symbolizes a life ahead to be lived.

  • @Steve-vy6kg
    @Steve-vy6kg 3 роки тому +50

    I'm in tears. Doesn't this resonate with the soul especially now? Yes, yes indeed!

  • @vudu8ball
    @vudu8ball 2 роки тому +24

    I heard this when I was 19. I had a job as a construction laborer and made enough for an apartment and later a car. I was very proud to be a working man and played this album over and over.

    • @curtiseverett1671
      @curtiseverett1671 11 місяців тому +1

      there is pride in being a real man who actually works for his money

    • @curtiseverett1671
      @curtiseverett1671 11 місяців тому

      there is pride in being a real man who actually works for his money

  • @sergeytoropin6428
    @sergeytoropin6428 3 роки тому +311

    This is immaculate. This is it, that's the best studio Dead, in my opinion! As much I love live versions of these songs, this is untouchable. Happy birthday, Workingman's Dead, and let's celebrate it, my fellow heads! I'm from Russia, and I grew up on this album, and it was the first Dead experience in my life.

    • @geroldfirl
      @geroldfirl 3 роки тому +3

      Yes - their best work.

    • @Whitman1819
      @Whitman1819 3 роки тому +3

      Right on brother =)

    • @davidryan7386
      @davidryan7386 3 роки тому +5

      agreed! warmest greetings to russia!
      i also spent last years of highschool in early 1980's listening to the Dead as the missing earth element to all the amazing british prog of Yes, Genesis, Krimson, FLoyd, etc....
      years later I discovered Fairport Convention which was englands grateful dead interms of folk rockand imrpov and deep roots. (and depth!).
      but the deep 'americana' of the dead digested the British invasion of stones, beatles etc, then doubled up on the roots like nobody's business.
      check out Old and in the Way if you have not yet! harcia, greisman and friends in 1972/3 bluegrassing it up hard.
      the early eagles don't fully get context till you hear workingmans dead either.

    • @wtwrva
      @wtwrva 3 роки тому +4

      GD used this studio time very wisely, think Jerry wanted to give new label something endearing to wider audience, really managed the studio time well, they wanted this well received by a wider audience.....also digs back to his material/flavoring from the bluegrass circuit, can hear the West Virginia hills in them songs?
      well it really worked, nothing more mainstream, more American.

    • @dakotablueskies
      @dakotablueskies 3 роки тому +3

      Best album... tough call so much goodness 😌
      These songs are very playable and singable.
      I think they were at their very best with Keith and Donna. Jerry loved working with her.

  • @GratefulZen
    @GratefulZen 2 роки тому +38

    “Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait.” Good ol’ Grateful Dead

  • @filbertrocko
    @filbertrocko 2 роки тому +17

    43 years later i think this is their best work besides american beauty i listen to these two albums at least once a month and never get tired of THESE ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE PIECES OF WORK!!! A dead head from philly pa

  • @kevincaldwell9202
    @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +28

    The Album that drew me to them forever in '70 (at 14 yrs old). Now, looking back, the Bands music has become bookmarks in my life.

    • @mikegalvin9801
      @mikegalvin9801 Рік тому +2

      Summer 1970 I was 15 (going on 16!). Not quite old enough for dating so pretty much all my allowance and money earned mowing neighbors lawns went to the record collection. Years later I found an old receipt from the record shop in my suburban village's downtown that showed one day I bought this, Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart and Let It Be. Wish I could be that kid riding my bike home eager to hear this for the first time.

    • @turturis
      @turturis 9 місяців тому +1

      @@mikegalvin9801 - you still are that kid. just look.

  • @calebbernstein5163
    @calebbernstein5163 2 роки тому +16

    Easily one of the greatest albums of all time!!

  • @Talldude88
    @Talldude88 3 роки тому +22

    This album will live forever. Every song is a Dead Masterpiece.

  • @rodneyvaneck7865
    @rodneyvaneck7865 3 роки тому +86

    I'm 68 and still uncovering gems. The great bands didn't die, they just rode into the sky and kept on rockin'. Take me back to Yasgar's farm. Yeah!

    • @saramcgaha1406
      @saramcgaha1406 3 роки тому +3

      43 and still listening

    • @sarahc.malarkey6396
      @sarahc.malarkey6396 3 роки тому +1

      I was there, too! It's never left me...

    • @johnm3152
      @johnm3152 3 роки тому +3

      63 years mold & still listening to ergot 🍄music 🎶

    • @saramcgaha1406
      @saramcgaha1406 3 роки тому +2

      John M poison is you’re problem not anyone else’s.

    • @saramcgaha1406
      @saramcgaha1406 3 роки тому

      John M have a nice Saturday night.

  • @Directorkey718
    @Directorkey718 7 днів тому +1

    On one hand, I'm mad that I've been on this planet for 43 years and no one told me about this great album...on the other hand, I'm so happy that I discovered it today and can have it for the rest of my life!

  • @aspringwind
    @aspringwind 2 роки тому +29

    If you ask me this was a genuine break through album. The Dead landed from the cosmos and put their feet on the earth, focusing on developing vocals and exploring their American Roots through the songwriting. And developing their studio production skills. A masterpiece on so many levels. For those of you who don't "like" the Dead give it a listen. Nothing else like it.

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +4

      All due to moving out of the Haight/Asbury area and moving to the California Hills and becoming Cosmic Cowboys

    • @rockingranny5278
      @rockingranny5278 Рік тому

      That's it exactly!

    • @aprilriddle4740
      @aprilriddle4740 Рік тому +1

      Alan Springwood : On point observation🙌❤️🙏love this album!!!!!!!😎🫶

  • @HughTerry69
    @HughTerry69 3 роки тому +106

    Wonderful record, steeped in Blues, Country and Humanity. The singing and playing are some of their finest.

    • @mikegalvin9801
      @mikegalvin9801 3 роки тому +5

      First Dead album I bought. Had this and American Beauty and really liked them for just the reasons you gave. But it was when I first saw them in concert in fall 72 that I finally got it.

    • @ericmeacham9532
      @ericmeacham9532 Рік тому

      @@mikegalvin9801 , you must’ve seen Pigpen in the Grateful Dead ⚡️🌹⚡️

    • @mikegalvin9801
      @mikegalvin9801 Рік тому +1

      @@ericmeacham9532 He had left the band that summer as he was already dying.

    • @ericmeacham9532
      @ericmeacham9532 Рік тому

      @@mikegalvin9801 , I’ve always wondered about the timeline. Did Pigpen go to Europe, I know he played in France. But I don’t know if that was part of the Europe tour. We may have even met and talked if you toured the East Coast during the mid 80’s , that’s when I started following the Grateful Dead. I was 17

    • @mikegalvin9801
      @mikegalvin9801 Рік тому +1

      @@ericmeacham9532 I believe he was in the whole European tour. He quit that summer but I think he did his last show in Bay Area then. I'm sure the serious Deadheads know all that stuff. My first concert was either end Aug or early Sept, '72 at Folsom Field just before I started my freshman year at CU Boulder (a magical time and place though I know everyone thinks of their youth as such). We didn't save ticket stubs as it didn't occur to us to do so. Also concerts were cheap so we went to lots. I did find an old stub from a concert earlier that summer in my old desk at my childhood home - the Rolling Stones with Stevie Wonder opening, Gen Admission $7.00. LOL. By the 80s I was in San Francisco in my working 60 hour week phase and didn't have time to follow the Dead although we used to go to their New Years shows in Oakland. I had friends who lived in the Adams Point area there and we used to walk down to the old Stadium I think it was called. All perfectly safe in that more innocent era.

  • @davidsiracuse6672
    @davidsiracuse6672 2 роки тому +18

    The Dead played such a major part in my life growing up. I miss those days. To this day the music still puts me in a different place.

  • @staceylazarus4337
    @staceylazarus4337 8 днів тому +1

    Bought this album when it was still new, always loved it, for around 54 years now ❤

  • @Chris-ot1ze
    @Chris-ot1ze 3 роки тому +37

    I was a awkward teen feeling out of place in life and this album gave me comfort and opened me up to not only the music of the grateful Dead but the spirit the vibe. I honestly believe many times when I was very depressed that this album saved my life.

    • @Whitman1819
      @Whitman1819 3 роки тому +1

      amen to that =)

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому +2

      Magic...
      Glad you're here, for now

    • @iadorenewyork1
      @iadorenewyork1 2 роки тому +1

      Me, too. Way back when ... and now.

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +2

      that sentiment is literally a verse in one of their songs.....about when the world gets too weird, "♪..Just Listen to the Music Play.."

  • @NicholasOsella
    @NicholasOsella 3 роки тому +72

    Only the Dead would do this.
    I love them so much.
    Peace.

  • @peterkorbet1457
    @peterkorbet1457 3 місяці тому +3

    ...ahh, early 70,s I got a pair of headphones and really got lost in this album. Favorite.

  • @tylerthompson1842
    @tylerthompson1842 3 роки тому +7

    Working man’s Dead and American Beauty in the same year. Garcia and Hunter were just warming up. 🥀

  • @gelubatir9794
    @gelubatir9794 2 роки тому +2

    Personnel on Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead album =
    Grateful Dead
    Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, vocals, lead vocals on all songs except where noted
    Bob Weir - guitar, vocals, co-lead vocals on "Cumberland Blues", lead vocals on the reissue live bonus track "Dire Wolf"
    Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - keyboards, harmonica, vocals, lead vocals on "Easy Wind"
    Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
    Bill Kreutzmann - drums, percussion
    Mickey Hart - drums, percussion (absent on discs two and three of the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
    Tom Constanten - keyboards on reissue live bonus tracks "Dire Wolf", "Black Peter", "Easy Wind", "Cumberland Blues", "Mason's Children"
    Additional musicians
    David Nelson - acoustic guitar on "Cumberland Blues" Side one
    No. Title Length
    1. "Uncle John's Band" 4:42
    2. "High Time" 5:13
    3. "Dire Wolf" 3:13
    4. "New Speedway Boogie" 4:05
    Total length: 17:13
    Side two
    No. Title Length
    1. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) 3:15
    2. "Black Peter" 5:42
    3. "Easy Wind" (Hunter) 4:59
    4. "Casey Jones" 4:24
    Total length: 18:20

  • @danielmoore7332
    @danielmoore7332 2 роки тому +3

    Hitchhiking through Cheverly MD about....50 some years ago, a guy in a VW bug with a macaw picks me up. 'Uncle John' was playing and I asked him "which country station is that?" As I'm fending off the macaw from biting my ear he says "It's the Grateful Dead. They're playing at GW University in a week or so". Best 'country music' I ever heard!

  • @golds04
    @golds04 3 роки тому +12

    No pitch correction machine- just hard work. Timeless.

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +1

      Watch #2 (of 6) of LONG STRANGE TRIP documentary and you can see the three of'em (Jerry/Phil/Bobby) practicing vocals for this album....Bobby really needed a lot of help. Lol

    • @golds04
      @golds04 2 роки тому +1

      @@kevincaldwell9202 needs more now. Playing in off broadway Dead cover band…a bit sad. They will run that car into the ground.

  • @ariannaellie3087
    @ariannaellie3087 3 роки тому +24

    0:00 Uncle John's Band
    4:44 High Time
    9:57 Dire Wolf
    13:13 New Speedway Boogie
    17:19 Cumberland Blues
    20:36 Black Peter
    26:21 Easy Wind
    31:21 Casey Jones

  • @913KCED
    @913KCED 3 роки тому +6

    In the late 70's, I attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. It was a "hippie" college and the campus would be empty whenever the Dead played anywhere within 200 miles. I wasn't particularly a fan at the time.
    Well, I did some announcing at the campus/community radio station (KAOS), including every other Friday night from Midnight to 4AM. The guy who followed me was named Martin and he WAS a Deadhead, so his show was always three hours of Grateful Dead tunes. One morning after I got back to my off-campus apartment, my radio was tuned to KAOS and Martin was playing some acoustic stuff recorded at a barn somewhere in Oregon. The music was BEAUTIFUL and even though I really needed some sleep, I stayed awake to listen to the whole set.
    I never became a Deadhead myself but ever since listening to Martin's show that morning, I've appreciated what they brought to the table, especially the Americana stuff on this album and "American Beauty," and how they understood that there is so much more to music than just selling albums.

  • @frenchchefkyle
    @frenchchefkyle 3 роки тому +40

    Simply amazing nothing better for the head then the dead. Remember they are not the best at what they do they are the only ones who do what they do.

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 2 роки тому +3

      We are everywhere. We are the real Eternals. Peace.

    • @gdpacnw5126
      @gdpacnw5126 2 роки тому +2

      "Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it."

  • @J1ZZB0SS
    @J1ZZB0SS 3 роки тому +14

    even with a remastered 50 year old album the dead still produces sounds that still cant be heard anywhere else.

  • @justsayknow7632
    @justsayknow7632 3 роки тому +18

    This album is what got me hooked on the Grateful Dead.
    Was living in a hippie crash pad in the Haight listening to Pig ballin' that jack as we tossed empty champagne glasses in the fire place that the old Victorian house had.
    Those were indeed the days! The best days of my life! (~);}

    • @markfreeman-uv7si
      @markfreeman-uv7si 2 роки тому +1

      Just "coming on" driving a '62 red Chevy top down looking at the fluffy clouds.

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому

      Thanks for sharing, the magic...

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 2 роки тому

      Yeah: destructive acting-out are "best days".
      Why not go all the way and celebrate the "freedom" heroin addiction?

  • @krisking5510
    @krisking5510 Рік тому +4

    I was 15, now I'm 68. They sound as good now as they did then, but I was a lot closer! The same guy was my first, plus turned me on to the Dead, it don't get better than that! He taught me about love, they taught me about music.

  • @gregmohr8927
    @gregmohr8927 2 роки тому +17

    We wore the grooves outta this album in late '71-mid-'72, when I got my first apt. out of high school and was working as an apprentice floor coverings installer. Good times. Thanks a billion for posting this!

    • @tonymiller6847
      @tonymiller6847 2 роки тому +3

      i WAS ALSO WEARING OUT sTICKY fINGERS, lOW sPARK, dOORS FIRST ALBUM , wHO'S nEXT, ETC.
      sORRY ABOUT MY TYPING SKILLS OR LACK OF THEM.

    • @gregmohr8927
      @gregmohr8927 2 роки тому +2

      @@tonymiller6847 We also wore out American Beauty, Tapestry, Elephant Mountain (Youngbloods), and a couple of Cat Stevens albums. My roommate played guitar and picked up a lot of Cat Stevens tunes. I also had a couple of Creedence albums, and some John Mayall and Cream from earlier times. Money was tight, and FM radio was a godsend.

    • @mctavish23
      @mctavish23 Рік тому +1

      @@gregmohr8927 Awesome times. Music's not the same.

    • @BitterBuffaloPhoto
      @BitterBuffaloPhoto Рік тому

      man I just started at 38ish 41 now still sping brother!

  • @bookmedia67
    @bookmedia67 3 роки тому +39

    This is what started it all for me. Bought the first edition on CD when it came out based on the recommendation of a record store owner. I've been on the bus ever since. The Dead created the best music that America has produced!

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому

      I got on the bus, in 1977 at Cobo Hall, Detroit. What a ride...

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 2 роки тому

      You got that right! 💮💠⭕

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 2 роки тому +1

      @@ellobo768 8 November, 1979 I saw the Dead for the first time in Largo, Maryland. My first concert wasbthe summer of 1973. When we went to see the NRPS open for Leon Russel. Playing as a guest with the New Riders was Jerry Garcis who perforned on peddle steele for us. And my last show was the Dead in 1988 at BuckEye, Ohio.
      Jerry is God. LSD saves.
      💮💠⭕NFA⭕💠💮

  • @charlesoliva8174
    @charlesoliva8174 3 роки тому +9

    Jerry really stretching to reach those notes on “High Time” - love it.

  • @Redburg
    @Redburg 3 роки тому +43

    I’ve been listening to the dead my whole life so about 16 1/2 years. My dad is the one that introduced me to them so technically I’m am a full blooded Grateful Dead fan. Edit: Grateful Dead music is pretty much flowing through my veins.

    • @direwolf58
      @direwolf58 3 роки тому

      You are “on the bus,” Ross!

    • @johnhall5690
      @johnhall5690 3 роки тому +2

      It's part of your DNA. Ya either get it or ya don't.

    • @quartzimaging
      @quartzimaging 3 роки тому +1

      Nice. May you increase in kindness.

    • @beadingbusily
      @beadingbusily 3 роки тому +3

      Same here, but I'm 47! Hahaha! My mother had an impressive LP collection that included a lot of Grateful Dead and the Beatles, as well as the Dead Kennedys, Laurie Anderson, and tons of Roots Reggae. I'm sure I'm leaving a ton out. Hahaha. Eclectic tastes. A blessing, not a curse.

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому +1

      Thing that blood with a little LSD25.
      Purifies the thought process and fine tunes the music...

  • @robertcubinelli4961
    @robertcubinelli4961 3 роки тому +21

    Once a deadhead always a deadhead.😎😎😎💞💞💞☠️☠️☠️🤟🤟🤟💖💖😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @writer125
      @writer125 3 роки тому +1

      Robert Absolutely. Longtime Deadhead 39 yrs & counting. Deadhead Forever. This still sounds phenomenal. Thanx for posting this.

    • @robertcubinelli4961
      @robertcubinelli4961 3 роки тому +1

      @@writer125
      Being a deadhead and on the bus means a lot to our generation and it should be handed down to the younger generations just like brother Jerry (ROCK IN PEACE) did with his kids.

    • @mkwilson38
      @mkwilson38 3 роки тому +1

      writer125 , it sounds so phenomenal because it’s a brand new extraction from the mater reels, as well as new mix and new mastering, too. Can’t wait for it to arrive and hear it on the hi-fi system.

    • @nealbledsoe9302
      @nealbledsoe9302 3 роки тому +4

      Has anyone EVER meet or even HEARD of an EX-head? Nope! Ain't no such'a thang, my friend . . . nuttin' to see here . . . keep on truckin' ✌

  • @rickwild5695
    @rickwild5695 6 місяців тому +3

    Dear you tube algorithm. Do not interrupt songs in the middle. Every good DJ plays the whole song before commercials. Also if a person puts on an hour long album likely they want to hear the whole album and not pause in the middle for no real reason Thanks

  • @dirkevans3443
    @dirkevans3443 3 роки тому +26

    Ain’t nothing better than that good Ol’ Grateful Dead to sooth my soul
    Lotsa of that needed now a days
    Y’all stay safe.....and GRATEFUL!

  • @relars52
    @relars52 3 роки тому +10

    The first Dead song I heard was in 1970: "Box Of Rain". I'm 68 and still listen to the Dead regularly...and yes - I saw the Dead WITH Jerry at his Prime. First in '73, last about '78. About 11 or 12 times. I never saw more loving, well-behaved audiences. Nothing ever went wrong.

    • @chrishelms5061
      @chrishelms5061 3 роки тому

      The best years for the Boys in my opinion.
      Were you at any of the Wall of Sound shows?

    • @relars52
      @relars52 3 роки тому +1

      @@chrishelms5061 I think so. At the Hollywood Bowl for sure. Universal Amphitheatre was in summer of '73 and I don't think they were using the Wall Of Sound yet. I never saw them after about 1978.....moved to Colorado and my new job consumed all my time...

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому

      First show, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan...1977. Jumped on the bus. Never got off.
      What a long strange trip, it's been...

  • @overtonesnteatime198
    @overtonesnteatime198 3 роки тому +90

    My favorite dead album. As well as american beauty. And terrapin station. And blues for allah. And all the others lol

    • @2ChukBuk
      @2ChukBuk 3 роки тому +2

      No no no Mars Hotel! ;o)

    • @tonymiller6847
      @tonymiller6847 3 роки тому +2

      Although I agree that these are the two best studio albums the dead made there are many high quality other albums like Mars Hotel!

    • @kind2311
      @kind2311 3 роки тому +1

      I like Built to Last. I'm weird.

    • @ericwid
      @ericwid 3 роки тому +4

      I've mentioned this before but, when I was a kid I thought American Beauty was a greatest hits album.
      Turned out they all are!

    • @vortexofdew8489
      @vortexofdew8489 3 роки тому +3

      My fav too! Their music stays so relevent!😎🎭🇺🇸😇😍❤❤❤
      And of course TERRAPIN!🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢

  • @jdubschub3997
    @jdubschub3997 3 роки тому +37

    My papaw was dying in the hospital, when I was young. I couldn't take it, and my aunt turned me to this CD. I love you everything.

    • @johnhyde8817
      @johnhyde8817 3 роки тому +7

      when my dad died 20 years ago it was broke down palace for me. I want it played when I'm turned under.

    • @markfreeman-uv7si
      @markfreeman-uv7si 2 роки тому +2

      I also find their music to be a tonic for the soul. God bless!

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому +1

      @@johnhyde8817 me too. Brokedow Palace, Standing On the Moon, and Ripple...
      Knocking on heavens door 🚪 😌
      Thank the good ole, Grateful Dead 🙏

  • @michaelulbricht9438
    @michaelulbricht9438 3 роки тому +12

    Along with American Beauty; likely the two strongest works the Dead ever did. Tight songs with great musicianship. Enjoyable; no needless meanderings!

  • @MM-vv8mt
    @MM-vv8mt 2 роки тому +6

    Uncle John's Band started me on my long strange trip as a 12-year old kid back in '71. Dead Heads Untie!

  • @MrRobison94
    @MrRobison94 2 роки тому +9

    I'm a late bloomer (started getting into them in my early 20s) but it's never too late to enjoy some Dead.

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому +1

      Never too late o get on da Bus.... Me? 1970, and this album did it for me at 14 yrs old.

  • @namcat53
    @namcat53 Рік тому +7

    If you were an American college kid in 1970-72, chances were really good this album was being played everywhere on the FM radio, your dorm or place you lived. If it wasn't, it was a great loss and hopefully you moved to a much hipper location.

  • @direwolf8124
    @direwolf8124 3 роки тому +11

    This was my first studio dead cassette and still here jamming.

  • @scottorton482
    @scottorton482 Рік тому +5

    One of the best "studio"Dead ever, an American icon. It's been a long strange trip indeed. Glad I lived it, wouldn't change a thing, so many folks I've known that are no longer with us enjoyed this music, it brought all of us together. I'm still here wondering why God has allowed me to go on. I miss those who are passed on, yet this music is many times over a reminder of who "we were, and who we are" wouldn't change a thing. Glad I am a Dead head. Still love it after all these years.

  • @dannydonnelly8345
    @dannydonnelly8345 3 роки тому +15

    Stunningly BRILLIANT!! Certainly 1 of the best studio productions ever. Could have been recorded yesterday, truly timeless. Bands of Neo-hippies of the 27th century will be groovin' thru the corridors of starships tripping thru space, will be listening to this.

    • @Whitman1819
      @Whitman1819 3 роки тому +2

      Blows my mind when I se 'hippy' kids today...and they are still carrying on...pretty damn cool man. I know this 28 year old chick that just bought an RV and took off across the country to figure out what life is all about with a bag of weed, some shrooms a dead album. haha Hope she has fun...

    • @river-jordan612
      @river-jordan612 2 роки тому

      Right on man, right on!

    • @markharrington7843
      @markharrington7843 9 місяців тому

      Far-out!

  • @raybin6873
    @raybin6873 2 роки тому +7

    My first Grateful Dead album...wore it out...eventually went thru 2 more....
    Thanks for posting!
    😋👍

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому

      Same here Brother......1970 was a great year for us.

  • @bobbarrett127
    @bobbarrett127 3 роки тому +8

    When i first heard it on radio in 1969I knew this would be one of my favorite albums of all time.

  • @nichardrixon3427
    @nichardrixon3427 3 роки тому +21

    First dead album I was ever shown. Vinyl sounded beautiful, but this is just so clear.

    • @markfreeman-uv7si
      @markfreeman-uv7si 2 роки тому

      I asked an audio engineer by the name of Keith O.Johnson what is the best way to hear recorded music. He replied that it is with a fresh vinyl "platter", a Macintosh tube amp and Klipsch speakers.

    • @markfreeman-uv7si
      @markfreeman-uv7si 2 роки тому

      I asked an audio engineer by the name of Keith O.Johnson what is the best way to hear recorded music. He replied that it is with a fresh vinyl "platter", a Macintosh tube amp and Klipsch speakers.

  • @jamm321
    @jamm321 Рік тому +1

    Workingman's Dead...perfectly fitting name for this great album. Maybe my first dead album and I've been working and listening since.

  • @gregvanderlaan
    @gregvanderlaan 3 роки тому +5

    Gee the Drums on Easy Wind are Spectacular! The High Frequency Shimmer is Wonderful... Great Job! BILL K

  • @sh230968
    @sh230968 3 роки тому +47

    Uncle John's Band is an exceptionally good track.

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 2 роки тому +2

      I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Black Peter. 💮💠⭕

    • @sh230968
      @sh230968 2 роки тому

      @@stefanschleps8758 I never paid too much attention to Black Peter. I am playing it on my tab from UA-cam right now. I will have to give it a couple of close listens to really appreciate it. I always knew it as a sad, melodious track on a great album by GD.

    • @jonthebru
      @jonthebru 2 роки тому

      Personally I have always thought New Speedway Boogie was an educational lecture. It explains several life concepts in a short amount of time.

    • @tonymiller6847
      @tonymiller6847 2 роки тому +2

      tHEY USED TO SEGUE FROM uNCLE John's Band to Playing in the band and back again.
      Same with Tennesssee themed tunes.

    • @francescaa8331
      @francescaa8331 2 роки тому +1

      I've always thought Uncle John's band was a spectacular song.

  • @Whitman1819
    @Whitman1819 3 роки тому +6

    You know when I see all these comments it's hard to stop reading them. I come back every once in a while and it always brings a tear to my eye. It gives me a lot of joy to see all the people that share the joy this band has brought through so many generations. There is still hope =)

    • @Whitman1819
      @Whitman1819 3 роки тому

      I still think this country can be a better place for everyone...I still think the world can be a better place =)

    • @gregtaggart8610
      @gregtaggart8610 Місяць тому

      RIP JERRY AND THE GREATS

  • @GhostfaceKiller_93
    @GhostfaceKiller_93 3 роки тому +13

    Happy 50th Anniversary Workingman's Dead and American Beauty !!!!! 💀⚡✌❤😎🌹

  • @timothyryan6018
    @timothyryan6018 3 роки тому +11

    Gorgeous re-master, sounds Fantastic.
    I was 9 yrs olde when my older brother got this album in 1971 - my little mind was blown and I began my love affair with The Dead. Finally saw them in 1978.
    Thx again for the Music.

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому

      I climbed on the bus...1977 Cobo Hall. Detroit, Michigan. What a long strange, wonderful trip it's been.

  • @mctavish23
    @mctavish23 3 роки тому +8

    Still have the LP. Thank you for this!

  • @johnnyfrederick01
    @johnnyfrederick01 3 роки тому +19

    First song ever remember hearing was Uncle John’s Band on an “underground “ radio station WRPI Troy NY 1972-73

    • @johnnyfrederick01
      @johnnyfrederick01 3 роки тому +1

      First Dead song I meant

    • @beths7367
      @beths7367 3 роки тому

      Best college radio station ever, back in the day.

    • @LinktoLinkGamer
      @LinktoLinkGamer 3 роки тому +1

      As a member of their rival station WCDB I have to say WRPI was always second best haha

    • @georgemcdowell7153
      @georgemcdowell7153 3 роки тому

      By that time, it was a golden moldy oldie.

  • @Lindy8018
    @Lindy8018 2 роки тому +17

    I would introduce my friends to the Grateful Dead with Working Man's Dead. Like a drug dealer with small doses to get them hooked.
    But what would I know about dealing drugs?

  • @nickwatts7640
    @nickwatts7640 3 роки тому +10

    Working Mans Dead is my favorite studio album from the Dead

  • @brendanwhelton
    @brendanwhelton 3 роки тому +30

    "Gotta find a woman be good to me, won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea!" - RIP Pig the search goes on...

  • @TomG315
    @TomG315 3 роки тому +14

    Such an amazing album. As Jerry told Bobby during practicing Candy man, Sing it out, don't sing it loud. Illustrated perfectly on High Time. One tiny example.

    • @danfuller478
      @danfuller478 2 роки тому

      Another example: Every time he sang Peggy-O. "As we rode ouT from Fennario."

    • @kevincaldwell9202
      @kevincaldwell9202 2 роки тому

      just watched LONG STRANGE TRIP again yesterday where you see this on #2

  • @ArienDH11
    @ArienDH11 3 роки тому +19

    new speedway boogie is still relevant today and i'm feeling what jerrys preachin!

    • @jasonblank617
      @jasonblank617 2 роки тому +1

      All these people dominating the rap, Jack, yet not a single new thing to say 😄

    • @tonymiller6847
      @tonymiller6847 2 роки тому

      @@jasonblank617 Hunter wrote that, huh?

    • @jasonblank617
      @jasonblank617 2 роки тому

      @@tonymiller6847 not exactly? Dunno what you mean. Wrong tree probably.

  • @dannydonnelly8345
    @dannydonnelly8345 3 роки тому +9

    My intro to the Dead. 50 years ago!! A friend bought this album,. First few times I heard it, I thought they sang a bit off key! I was 14, what did I know. Lol

  • @eugeneaxe
    @eugeneaxe 3 роки тому +16

    Y'all posted the full album? Thank you thank you thank you

  • @kevinmulcahy7991
    @kevinmulcahy7991 3 роки тому +10

    Thanks, always my favorite studio recording. 50 years! I guess that makes me real old.

  • @hwjebwlsndqgajsbsksnd
    @hwjebwlsndqgajsbsksnd 3 роки тому +8

    An absolutely amazing album from an amazing band. Thank you very much!

  • @GalacticGoddess420
    @GalacticGoddess420 3 роки тому +3

    Turning 50 this year... this album - full vinyl - one of my earliest memories

  • @v1ncepupp1o7
    @v1ncepupp1o7 3 роки тому +25

    A true timeless masterpiece. ⚡️

    • @stephengiffith1010
      @stephengiffith1010 3 роки тому

      This i agree WITH the lad WHO SAID this is a masterpiece dude the harmonys sound so great oo THIS record it's ALMOST a sounds like Jerry's voice overdubs so on. Key i remember Johnny sennett playing bass when we played this song he loves these good dudes GREAT memories beinng raised in California. Yep even as a young chap

  • @robertjmillerma1059
    @robertjmillerma1059 2 місяці тому

    One for you, Marilyn, big sis, and all your roommates at The Grand House, Macalester College, 1970, Carter, Carl, John & Mary, & all the rest. Thanks for some of the sweetest memories of my life. I'll never forget the game QB Carter and the Scots took out the Gusties with a last second field goal 🙌

  • @donaldsmall9412
    @donaldsmall9412 2 роки тому +2

    As a Deadhead for 45 years, I can say I've seen and heard it all. Workingman's Dead is THE Dead album.

  • @nealbledsoe9302
    @nealbledsoe9302 3 роки тому +10

    Nothing's for certain
    It could always go wrong
    Come in when it's raining
    Go on out when it's gone . . . ⚡️

  • @geroldfirl
    @geroldfirl 3 роки тому +12

    Easy Wind: baddest Dead song ever. Doctor said I better stop ballin' that jack.

    • @alchilds3710
      @alchilds3710 3 роки тому +1

      almost like the ole John Henry

    • @geroldfirl
      @geroldfirl 3 роки тому +1

      @@alchilds3710 If I live five years I'm gonna bust my back - yes I will.

    • @joeblevins1058
      @joeblevins1058 3 роки тому

      Pig Pen deluxe

  • @judasbrooks
    @judasbrooks 3 роки тому +32

    Workingman's Dead = Perfect description of life in 2020
    (Fantastic album, too!)

  • @terrybois5945
    @terrybois5945 2 роки тому +2

    Never could get into early Dead. Heard Uncle John's Band on WBCN Boston when it came out. Been in the fold ever since.

  • @over-educated-sp
    @over-educated-sp 2 роки тому +7

    I’m so lame. A grown man, crying to a feeble song. 😝 I cry to so many songs, I’m just an old blabbing fool. I miss you Jerry!

    • @aaronmoore2682
      @aaronmoore2682 2 роки тому

      So many songs from the GD make me cry! I may be a “big bitch”, but I do not care. All the glory and joy has to have pain or it means nothing.

  • @smwallace2368
    @smwallace2368 3 роки тому +26

    Does Robert Hunter ever get deserved songwriting credit? The lyrics and melodies that flowed from that man's brain are unsurpassed. I love this album.
    What a privilege it was to see GD live as many times as I did.

    • @ellobo768
      @ellobo768 2 роки тому +2

      Listen to Jerry's 1975 interview, he clarifies Hunter's role in the magic.

    • @MrCooperAnthony
      @MrCooperAnthony 2 роки тому +1

      I seem to remember RH said he went to the UK, drank Guinness in old pubs, and rewrote old folk songs the locals sang when shitfaced, or something like that..ua-cam.com/video/uI8KLSR3HZg/v-deo.html

    • @garrukwildspeaker2230
      @garrukwildspeaker2230 2 роки тому +1

      He got inducted into the Hall with the band.

    • @searing7549
      @searing7549 2 роки тому

      Garcia created the melodies.

    • @richardmindemann6935
      @richardmindemann6935 2 роки тому +2

      Hunter was steeped in folk legend and lore, and it informed his sublime lyrics.

  • @vintagewino
    @vintagewino 3 роки тому +12

    This song has gotten me through the last week. Life is so hard rn.

  • @timothyryan6018
    @timothyryan6018 3 роки тому +1

    My first Dead Album.. Uncle Johns started the ball rolling and here We all are 40 yrs later STILL digging this Music.. RIP Jerry

  • @shaolin_tcg4727
    @shaolin_tcg4727 3 роки тому +10

    My favorite album from them!

    • @beadingbusily
      @beadingbusily 3 роки тому +2

      Definitely one of mine!

    • @1978garfield
      @1978garfield 2 роки тому +2

      I go back and forth on this album or American Beauty.
      They are both amazing.
      Europe '72 is no slouch either.
      I have a soft spot for the compilation album What a Long Strange Trip it's Been.
      That was the first Dead album I ever heard.
      That 2 LP set was on permanent reserve at the local college library.
      You could listen to it in the library but not check it out.
      I would set there at the library and listen to it for hours.

  • @Shichman
    @Shichman Рік тому +2

    One of my fav albums of all time.

  • @brienmoylan5652
    @brienmoylan5652 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for this remastered version. My headset is on volume setting 2 and it sounds perfect!

  • @wake24_
    @wake24_ 3 роки тому +10

    god bless the grateful dead thank you for this needed this this morning with troubling times behind and ahead

  • @jaykeddie1659
    @jaykeddie1659 2 роки тому +2

    Love love love the Dead man...far out!!!

  • @tjcolatrella943
    @tjcolatrella943 3 роки тому +4

    Wow! I was up close when The Dead Toured this release at Fillmore East NYC the place was half empty! I remember Phil Lesh played most of the night sitting in an armless rockin chair and Pig Pen was on Hammond and Harp also The Opening act was The Allman Brothers Band..

  • @Talldude88
    @Talldude88 3 роки тому +5

    One of my top 10 Albums. A Dead Masterpiece.

  • @direwolf58
    @direwolf58 3 роки тому +8

    I got this on vinyl indirectly from Ram Rod in 1980 along with eight other albums.

  • @rogerholt1116
    @rogerholt1116 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely fine.

  • @bobschenkel7921
    @bobschenkel7921 3 роки тому +11

    A great big THANK YOU to everyone who made this happen. If possible, it sounds better than new, just amazing. Can American Beauty be far behind? Hope so.

  • @raffaelevalente7811
    @raffaelevalente7811 3 роки тому +3

    One of the first vinyl I got when I was 18, in 1976. Thanks for sharing

  • @trevorfarr529
    @trevorfarr529 3 роки тому +7

    Always love the greatful dead

  • @moosey62
    @moosey62 3 роки тому +5

    This beautiful recording.

  • @RandyFelts2121
    @RandyFelts2121 2 роки тому +2

    Beware when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door. Remember 2019.

  • @badtexasbill5261
    @badtexasbill5261 3 роки тому +30

    Well, the first days are the hardest days!

    • @michaeladdiego7786
      @michaeladdiego7786 3 роки тому

      What does that mean. I know it’s gotten easier over time to put aside my “musical ego” and listen this roots rock music. The Dead are fine👍

    • @ariannaellie3087
      @ariannaellie3087 3 роки тому +1

      Wonderful record, steeped in Blues, Country and Humanity. The singing and playing are some of their finest.

    • @michaellewis3254
      @michaellewis3254 3 роки тому

      There hard

  • @melissasowell9363
    @melissasowell9363 2 роки тому

    Who was there...waybacks album hour...thank you all for the music. Thank you, Doc Watson.