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
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
@@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.
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.
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. 🌹
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
In 1992 i was 18 and had a 1988 Mustang GT that had Workingman on constant loop in the tape deck. My buddies were listening to Pearl Jam and NWA at the time and hated riding with me. I said it then and I'm still saying it....fuck em and their shitty music lol!
Nothing wrong with pearl jam or nwa. But in your car, you are the DJ. Poor fellas, they may not have realized it at the time, but it probably did them a world of good to get a ride in your car. 😎
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.
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 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!
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
I'm getting commercials after each song! And they feature Trump!! This is a travesty!! Please do not foist this disgusting creature upon me when I'm trying to enjoy the Grateful Dead.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
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
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.
My parents turned me on to the dead. My mom had in the dark on on a cd which I heard alot when I was about 5 years old. Then I got into their old tapes and albums. Found an old tape of long strange trip. Then I got my own stereo setup. Receiver, tape deck, turntable, and a nice JVC 8 track player. Soon I amassed a solid collection of my own music. I bought long strange trip, reckoning, and of course working mans dead. From then on, the music never stopped. The dead kept me alive. Now im in a good place. I feel like smiling every day, and I do! Love the dead! Love yall! ❤☮️👍
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 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⭕💠💮
Workingmans Dead war die erste LP von Grateful Dead für mich. Das war vor über fünfzig Jahren.Und immer wieder muß ich die LP auflegen und sie zu Ende anhören.Danke schön an alle Deads.
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.
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...
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love Cumberland blues. 5 generations of my grandfathers came from Ireland and were miners in the coal fields of NE Pa during the time of the Molly Maguires I think how hard they worked. My one ggfathers died in a roof collapse in a mine. I think if them and wish I was able to meet them. I only knew my one grandfather and he died when I was young
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
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 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...
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 =)
I'll bet ive listened to this album well over a thousand times in the last 40 years...and it gets better every listen . Black Peter jerks tears from me peepers every time. Best studio dead album of them all. Flawless.
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! (~);}
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.
Oh my goodness, I haven't heard this album in it's entirety for quite some time. What a TRIP down memory lane! So many of these lyrics seem permeate my floating awareness as a semi-councious lyrical truth. Always bubbling a way in the background. So nice to return to the source and remember. Thank you for posting this amazing re-mastered version of this gift from the universe album. Grateful indeed. ✌️☮️
The two albums that the GD put out in 1970 were the best that they did. Dead Heads may say Europe 72 or Live Dead but Working Man's Dead and American Beauty really speak to anyone.
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.
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.
@@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.
The album that introduced me to the wonderful world of the Grateful Dead when I was 15. Been listening ever since! 35 years and counting. Many are called, few are chosen.
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.
At first, it was Dire Wolf... then it became Casey Jones. But now, cemented forever as my favorite American bluesrock song: Cumberland Blues. I thought I'd missed any chance to feel what the Dead were originally all about, since I was born in '90. Didn't think to pore through their albums to check if they ever competed with the likes of the Beatles and Nilsson, etc. Workingman's Dead is the tightest album ever. I'll admit that I haven't heard every album ever made, so tightness-measurement is an utterly subjective practice, but dammit man! Best album ever. I use it as therapy on my commute to work, especially in the summertime.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
From the glen in 73 to the platinum ,Dillon statum, ect. You were in for a treat to see them live , six hour of great music and then you got more!!! They never disappoint got your money's worth. Jerry RIP we still will never forget !!! Peace the Ripple is still in the Water 🎶✌️😎
A lot of things on the internet don't allow comments these days. This album here does and wow this is what comments are about, thank you people for being awesome :)
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
We used to coke while listening to this great album a few years ago with my buddy. He's now married and stopped snoring, is up to me now haha cheers from Guatemala! Enjoy life!!
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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
Thanks m8
@@zeussierraalex No problem!
Hi y'all are you still trippings today as we were then
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
@@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.
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.
No question about it....
you left out jazz n world music lol
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.
Yes siree!!
@@davidryan7386 yes i did...an oversight on my part.
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. 🌹
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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!
LOl Sorry!
This was born my B-day! 1971 I think! Hows this song go! nI was born this 1957!
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
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
I'm from Finland. I'd come and see you but I'm too poor! Much love guys xx
I too have a friend for 60+, aren’t we blessed
You have your own Neil! And you are both still on the bus! Thanks for sharing the story.
You would need NASA to calculate just how awesome and heart warming that is God bless the both you brother!!!
The Grateful Dead isn't just music to me. It's the soundtrack to my life. It's always on in my head.
This particular album is significant.
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.
Yes - their best work.
Right on brother =)
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.
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.
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.
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!
Wow. Nothing like good blues
....you, too, have seen the light!
In 1992 i was 18 and had a 1988 Mustang GT that had Workingman on constant loop in the tape deck. My buddies were listening to Pearl Jam and NWA at the time and hated riding with me. I said it then and I'm still saying it....fuck em and their shitty music lol!
Nothing wrong with pearl jam or nwa.
But in your car, you are the DJ. Poor fellas, they may not have realized it at the time, but it probably did them a world of good to get a ride in your car. 😎
I'm 63 doing the c same thing. ;),but at the beach.
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.
Amen🙏🏼
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. ✌🏻❤️✨🌻🎶
Further your knowledge...
Pick up the book titled:
The electric Kool aid acid test...Eye opener!
@@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!
To me this album is very new, it symbolizes a life ahead to be lived.
I'm in tears. Doesn't this resonate with the soul especially now? Yes, yes indeed!
Oh yeah.
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!
43 and still listening
I was there, too! It's never left me...
63 years mold & still listening to ergot 🍄music 🎶
John M poison is you’re problem not anyone else’s.
John M have a nice Saturday night.
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
I'm getting commercials after each song! And they feature Trump!! This is a travesty!! Please do not foist this disgusting creature upon me when I'm trying to enjoy the Grateful Dead.
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.
there is pride in being a real man who actually works for his money
there is pride in being a real man who actually works for his money
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
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.
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.
@@mikegalvin9801 - you still are that kid. just look.
I'm 71 and I still LOVE the DEAD...They just ...........
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Right behind you. God love the Dead
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.
A great place to be...
Someday we will all live there.
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.
This and blues for Allah got me hooked in 76
@@francescaa8331 Same here exactly.
@@mctavish23 that's very cool. ☮️
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.
This album will live forever. Every song is a Dead Masterpiece.
Just listened straight through. A time capsule piece for purely American music. Deserves to be on any short list of most important albums.
Wonderful record, steeped in Blues, Country and Humanity. The singing and playing are some of their finest.
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.
@@mikegalvin9801 , you must’ve seen Pigpen in the Grateful Dead ⚡️🌹⚡️
@@ericmeacham9532 He had left the band that summer as he was already dying.
@@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
@@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.
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.
amen to that =)
Magic...
Glad you're here, for now
Me, too. Way back when ... and now.
that sentiment is literally a verse in one of their songs.....about when the world gets too weird, "♪..Just Listen to the Music Play.."
“Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait.” Good ol’ Grateful Dead
Easily one of the greatest albums of all time!!
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
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!
Wise words!
FUCKIN A! PEACE
Especially now a days😮💨😔
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.
All due to moving out of the Haight/Asbury area and moving to the California Hills and becoming Cosmic Cowboys
That's it exactly!
Alan Springwood : On point observation🙌❤️🙏love this album!!!!!!!😎🫶
My parents turned me on to the dead. My mom had in the dark on on a cd which I heard alot when I was about 5 years old. Then I got into their old tapes and albums. Found an old tape of long strange trip. Then I got my own stereo setup. Receiver, tape deck, turntable, and a nice JVC 8 track player. Soon I amassed a solid collection of my own music. I bought long strange trip, reckoning, and of course working mans dead. From then on, the music never stopped. The dead kept me alive. Now im in a good place. I feel like smiling every day, and I do! Love the dead! Love yall! ❤☮️👍
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!
I got on the bus, in 1977 at Cobo Hall, Detroit. What a ride...
You got that right! 💮💠⭕
@@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⭕💠💮
Workingmans Dead war die erste LP von Grateful Dead für mich. Das war vor über fünfzig Jahren.Und immer wieder muß ich die LP auflegen und sie zu Ende anhören.Danke schön an alle Deads.
Schone - NY
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.
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...
Right on man, right on!
Far-out!
...ahh, early 70,s I got a pair of headphones and really got lost in this album. Favorite.
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!
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.
@@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.
@@gregmohr8927 Awesome times. Music's not the same.
man I just started at 38ish 41 now still sping brother!
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!
Only the Dead would do this.
I love them so much.
Peace.
My favorite dead album. As well as american beauty. And terrapin station. And blues for allah. And all the others lol
No no no Mars Hotel! ;o)
Although I agree that these are the two best studio albums the dead made there are many high quality other albums like Mars Hotel!
I like Built to Last. I'm weird.
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!
My fav too! Their music stays so relevent!😎🎭🇺🇸😇😍❤❤❤
And of course TERRAPIN!🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
Working man’s Dead and American Beauty in the same year. Garcia and Hunter were just warming up. 🥀
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.
Along with American Beauty; likely the two strongest works the Dead ever did. Tight songs with great musicianship. Enjoyable; no needless meanderings!
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.
I climbed on the bus...1977 Cobo Hall. Detroit, Michigan. What a long strange, wonderful trip it's been.
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.
We are everywhere. We are the real Eternals. Peace.
"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it."
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.
Almost better now. Memories 😊
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.
You are “on the bus,” Ross!
It's part of your DNA. Ya either get it or ya don't.
Nice. May you increase in kindness.
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.
Thing that blood with a little LSD25.
Purifies the thought process and fine tunes the music...
Love Cumberland blues. 5 generations of my grandfathers came from Ireland and were miners in the coal fields of NE Pa during the time of the Molly Maguires I think how hard they worked. My one ggfathers died in a roof collapse in a mine. I think if them and wish I was able to meet them. I only knew my one grandfather and he died when I was young
No pitch correction machine- just hard work. Timeless.
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
@@kevincaldwell9202 needs more now. Playing in off broadway Dead cover band…a bit sad. They will run that car into the ground.
RIP Phil. YOU helped make this masterpiece. THANK YOU....for a real good time!
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.
The best years for the Boys in my opinion.
Were you at any of the Wall of Sound shows?
@@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...
First show, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan...1977. Jumped on the bus. Never got off.
What a long strange trip, it's been...
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 =)
I still think this country can be a better place for everyone...I still think the world can be a better place =)
RIP JERRY AND THE GREATS
Bought this album when it was still new, always loved it, for around 54 years now ❤
I'm a late bloomer (started getting into them in my early 20s) but it's never too late to enjoy some Dead.
Never too late o get on da Bus.... Me? 1970, and this album did it for me at 14 yrs old.
Workingman's Dead...perfectly fitting name for this great album. Maybe my first dead album and I've been working and listening since.
My first Grateful Dead album...wore it out...eventually went thru 2 more....
Thanks for posting!
😋👍
Same here Brother......1970 was a great year for us.
Where else will you see this many comments and nothing but positive feelings?
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.
when my dad died 20 years ago it was broke down palace for me. I want it played when I'm turned under.
I also find their music to be a tonic for the soul. God bless!
@@johnhyde8817 me too. Brokedow Palace, Standing On the Moon, and Ripple...
Knocking on heavens door 🚪 😌
Thank the good ole, Grateful Dead 🙏
I'll bet ive listened to this album well over a thousand times in the last 40 years...and it gets better every listen . Black Peter jerks tears from me peepers every time. Best studio dead album of them all. Flawless.
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! (~);}
Just "coming on" driving a '62 red Chevy top down looking at the fluffy clouds.
Thanks for sharing, the magic...
Yeah: destructive acting-out are "best days".
Why not go all the way and celebrate the "freedom" heroin addiction?
My first Dead Album.. Uncle Johns started the ball rolling and here We all are 40 yrs later STILL digging this Music.. RIP Jerry
Mine too
Jerry really stretching to reach those notes on “High Time” - love it.
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.
and for 15 years after
As a Deadhead for 45 years, I can say I've seen and heard it all. Workingman's Dead is THE Dead album.
Oh my goodness, I haven't heard this album in it's entirety for quite some time. What a TRIP down memory lane! So many of these lyrics seem permeate my floating awareness as a semi-councious lyrical truth. Always bubbling a way in the background. So nice to return to the source and remember. Thank you for posting this amazing re-mastered version of this gift from the universe album. Grateful indeed. ✌️☮️
To the 190 people that thumbed this down.... If you're not A head.... Then You're behind✌
Some just can't get it 😢
This was my first studio dead cassette and still here jamming.
Happy 50th Anniversary Workingman's Dead and American Beauty !!!!! 💀⚡✌❤😎🌹
Uncle John's Band started me on my long strange trip as a 12-year old kid back in '71. Dead Heads Untie!
Gee the Drums on Easy Wind are Spectacular! The High Frequency Shimmer is Wonderful... Great Job! BILL K
The two albums that the GD put out in 1970 were the best that they did. Dead Heads may say Europe 72 or Live Dead but Working Man's Dead and American Beauty really speak to anyone.
An absolutely amazing album from an amazing band. Thank you very much!
When i first heard it on radio in 1969I knew this would be one of my favorite albums of all time.
First dead album I was ever shown. Vinyl sounded beautiful, but this is just so clear.
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.
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.
Nothing's for certain
It could always go wrong
Come in when it's raining
Go on out when it's gone . . . ⚡️
Yup
Still have the LP. Thank you for this!
Who was there...waybacks album hour...thank you all for the music. Thank you, Doc Watson.
Thanks, always my favorite studio recording. 50 years! I guess that makes me real old.
na =)
Me too...
AGREE TOTALLY....... Live albums ruled mostly
Working Mans Dead is my favorite studio album from the Dead
Uncle John's Band is an exceptionally good track.
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Black Peter. 💮💠⭕
@@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.
Personally I have always thought New Speedway Boogie was an educational lecture. It explains several life concepts in a short amount of time.
tHEY USED TO SEGUE FROM uNCLE John's Band to Playing in the band and back again.
Same with Tennesssee themed tunes.
I've always thought Uncle John's band was a spectacular song.
The album that introduced me to the wonderful world of the Grateful Dead when I was 15. Been listening ever since! 35 years and counting. Many are called, few are chosen.
even with a remastered 50 year old album the dead still produces sounds that still cant be heard anywhere else.
You can feel that steel guitar in your teeth.
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.
Custy
First song ever remember hearing was Uncle John’s Band on an “underground “ radio station WRPI Troy NY 1972-73
First Dead song I meant
Best college radio station ever, back in the day.
As a member of their rival station WCDB I have to say WRPI was always second best haha
By that time, it was a golden moldy oldie.
At first, it was Dire Wolf... then it became Casey Jones. But now, cemented forever as my favorite American bluesrock song: Cumberland Blues.
I thought I'd missed any chance to feel what the Dead were originally all about, since I was born in '90. Didn't think to pore through their albums to check if they ever competed with the likes of the Beatles and Nilsson, etc.
Workingman's Dead is the tightest album ever. I'll admit that I haven't heard every album ever made, so tightness-measurement is an utterly subjective practice, but dammit man! Best album ever. I use it as therapy on my commute to work, especially in the summertime.
One of my top 10 Albums. A Dead Masterpiece.
Turning 50 this year... this album - full vinyl - one of my earliest memories
I am thinking more about You than myself... #1 I am Always next to you as your UNCONDITIONAL FRIEND ❤
new speedway boogie is still relevant today and i'm feeling what jerrys preachin!
All these people dominating the rap, Jack, yet not a single new thing to say 😄
@@jasonblank617 Hunter wrote that, huh?
@@tonymiller6847 not exactly? Dunno what you mean. Wrong tree probably.
the best 🎶💃🕺
Love ur vids man. Wouldn’t expect to ever see you here tho lol
the doc's a deadhead? hell yeah
Even Golf my thoughts exactly!
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. I'm never letting a doctor give me shit for looking like a hippie EVER again.
Love your videos! Knew you were a big music guy, but it's even better to know you're a head!
A true timeless masterpiece. ⚡️
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
Once a deadhead always a deadhead.😎😎😎💞💞💞☠️☠️☠️🤟🤟🤟💖💖😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Robert Absolutely. Longtime Deadhead 39 yrs & counting. Deadhead Forever. This still sounds phenomenal. Thanx for posting this.
@@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.
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.
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' ✌
Dam straight. Life style
Thank you for this remastered version. My headset is on volume setting 2 and it sounds perfect!
First saw them in 71 at Albuquerque, still some of my favorite music. What a long strange trip it's been.
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.
Another example: Every time he sang Peggy-O. "As we rode ouT from Fennario."
just watched LONG STRANGE TRIP again yesterday where you see this on #2
From the glen in 73 to the platinum ,Dillon statum, ect. You were in for a treat to see them live , six hour of great music and then you got more!!! They never disappoint got your money's worth. Jerry RIP we still will never forget !!!
Peace the Ripple is still in the Water 🎶✌️😎
Workingman's Dead = Perfect description of life in 2020
(Fantastic album, too!)
been like this for too long I think man.. =)
....and 2022 for BLACK PETER.
My sister and I have been Dead Heads for over 55 years. We've loved them since the '60's!!!
One of the first vinyl I got when I was 18, in 1976. Thanks for sharing
A lot of things on the internet don't allow comments these days. This album here does and wow this is what comments are about, thank you people for being awesome :)
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
god bless the grateful dead thank you for this needed this this morning with troubling times behind and ahead
"Gotta find a woman be good to me, won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea!" - RIP Pig the search goes on...
We used to coke while listening to this great album a few years ago with my buddy. He's now married and stopped snoring, is up to me now haha cheers from Guatemala! Enjoy life!!