GRATEFUL DEAD "TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT" LIVE FILM - 1970 W PIG PEN
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2013
- A scorching, uncut, un edited perfromance by the GRATEFUL DEAD in 1970 of one of their early rave up tunes - The legendary PIGPEN sings and raps on this classic from the 1969 LIVE DEAD album. This is a 10 minute segment from the performance..great psychedelic jamming and glimpses of early DEAD HEADS grooving! Great inspired Jerry Garcia & Phil Lesh interplay
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Pig was exceptional. Love the early period with Pig. RIP Pig, RIP Jerry, RIP Keith, Brent, Robert Hunter, etc.! Peace, all!
Dead performing at the last of the famous Festival Express Concerts - day 1 July 4, 1970 at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I was fortunate to be there near the picket fence at the front of the stage taking in this great performance on that hot July afternoon.
Remembering Ron "Pigpen" McKernon, on what would've been his 76th birthday. RIP, and God bless the Grateful Dead!
Can't believe some people are bitcj=hing about the state of raw footage shot 45 years ago. This is all we got of this folks, deal with it--it's still pretty effin cool.
it is like Dave Matthews nerds hearing their idols owned by a badass band like a early 70s King Crimson performance , so they have to pick at the era's sound and playback equipment
A brilliant star graced us this day in '45. Turn on that lovelight!
Raw enthusiasm in Music, crowd...Listen. Enduring Good Medicine.Thank you.
Just awesome Good Ole Dead with The Man PIG!
Grate day in the morning, how could this not be in the movie? Deadsolid spectacular
Love Light was always my favorite! Thanks for this!
So grateful!
The Festival Express Tour in 1970....Train Tour Through Canada.!.
EXCELLENT.
This is so f*cking awesome! A thousand smiles for sharing it with us....
Damn, do they ever sound fantastic here!
Thrilling a crowd of hundreds. :-)
I wonder how many tens of thousands SWEAR today they were there.
AC Smith : For sure! I wish I had been there. But I wasn't. I was only 5 when this concert happened. 😟
As much as I love the Dead, half of their soul left when Ron passed on.. Rip Pig Pen..
footage is awesome
thank you very much for posting this, I could care less about the editing/cuts because this is historical primal dead. As fascinating as it is entertaining...awesome
YOU ARE WELCOME..LONG LIVE PIGPEN!
Wish this were on Festival Express indeed. Freakin' Phil KILLING it as always in '70! Awesome. (Killer little pull-off riff by Jerry at 6:09 that unfortunately gets cut off...)
LIVE / DEAD made the band make sence to me. The 1st Album was - was what it was - I suppose, but it was this cut inperticular that I loved the most.
It wasn't until 1981 in Manor Texas I saw them briefly before I passed out.
then again in 1983 in the same place passing out about the same time as the last time.
I was a fan from just reading about them from Texas where I did my teens.
The Live Dead album was the music matching the reputation I heard about.
They should have put all The Dead shows from Festival Express on one DVD. The footage exists folks.
Agreed! It must exist. This would make millions if they'd release their entire performances....I wonder if there were Canadian tapers out there...
@@wangson Yes, there were a couple of people making tapes. I wish they were accessible! I could expound, but not here. There's at least one audience tape from Festival Express, of Mountain, who did not allow their footage to appear in the movie. From my Canadian perspective, they should release more footage including that of Canadian acts who were seldom recorded live, if ever, outside this mini-tour. Charlebois and Mashmakhan immediately come to mind. They smoked in this movie, as did Buddy Guy. As a big Traffic fan, it annoyed me that their footage was also excluded from the movie. As a Dead fan, I was surprised to see Bob Weir sticking up for the cops in Toronto. There was a second Toronto show outside the venue to appease the gatecrashers and woulda-been gatecrashers, Not everyone partook. A Mountain fanatic I know has been wondering if that tape is from inside or outside the CNE where the Toronto show took place. There is a Band DVD of a complete Festival Express show, but I think it's from Calgary. Only Rick Danko rode the train, if I recall, from Rock Scully's book.
I remember reading that a lot of the footage shot was lost before the DVD was produced, film canisters literally used as goalposts by kids playing hockey
The whole band is in very rare form here. NOW if we can see all the rest of Festival Express. I'm sure someone has it. WHO?
I heard CBC owns it. Don't know if thats true.
If I didn’t know any better, I would have guessed bits of this were Allman Bros.
Man the lead stars that Jerry starts at 4:29 is fucking life changing
This is Calgary July 7th 1970 on the Festival Express trip
See the Hard To Handle from the DVD extras and often on YT for a released song from this set. ;-)
The Dead was such a better BAND when Pig was singing, being that he was the only one who could properly sing ('Hey Jude' notwithstanding). Then the rest of the boys could just do what they did best. This is pretty ferocious.
Pig could really only "properly" sing dusty blues songs. Garcia's vocals are much better suited for most of their discography tbh... I can't imagine Pig singing China Doll or Franklins Tower etc. etc.
@@rjmoney9 Well, yeah: songs that were written - or at least introduced - well after his death. But that doesn't change my point that the band played better when he was singing.
@@xianshep That could be for other reasons though... they were all youngest during this period, more healthy, they had different lifestyles (drug use in particular, more acid and less heroin/booze).
Usually a band plays with more energy and gusto when they are younger.
I think most people would disagree with the statement that "the band played better when he was singing"... by all measurables, more people think that 72 -74 or 77 were their greatest years, and pig had a much smaller to non-existent role during those time periods.
I think it all depends on your personal taste. If I want a high-energy rock and roll show, the Pig years are best. If I want the best musicianship, I go to 72-74. If I want the most psychedelic, matured sound I go to 77.
Pig was awesome, but considering the Pig years as the best is a minority opinion.
@@rjmoney9 Sigh. First of all, you're making apples-to-oranges comparisons. Did I write that the Dead was better when he was alive? No. What I meant - but perhaps didn't make clear enough - is that I believe they played better THEN when he was singing as opposed to when he wasn't, and I stand by that - regardless of the many examples to the contrary that I could cite immediately (the best tracks on 'Skull 'n Roses' and 'Europe '72,' for one). But I was not trying to compare the Pig era to later ones - every Dead era has its particular advantages (although I find it pretty hard to defend much after 1981).
Nevertheless, although Pig was hardly "awesome," the band simply had more swagger and balls - particularly Jerry - when he was alive, regardless of whether or not he was the primary reason(s). For example, if you want to try and bring a ROCK fan around to the Dead, you're going to play them a St. Stephen from 1969, rather than a milquetoast version from 1977 - yet Pig had nothing to do with that song. And I wonder if the Dead of 1970, that of the stellar, bluegrassy, Pigless "Friend of the Devil" on 'American Beauty,' would ever have tolerated the dreary, sleep-inducing live version introduced a few years later and which still persists today.
I otherwise respect the points you made, but you lose a lot of credibility with me by citing "majority opinion," which I believe sucks, more often than not, in whatever field or genre one is expressing opinions. If my lauding the Pig years puts me "in the minority," great: I'll wear that like a badge of honor.
I was always the one after a show arguing that how they PLAYED was more important than the setlist (i.e. I'd rather hear a well-played show with an unsurprising setlist than a sloppy show with an inspired one). But most of my fellow Heads seemed to feel just the opposite. Heck, I was a Deadhead back when ALL of us were "in the minority" (i.e. pre-"In The Dark"). I was practically the ONLY Deadhead at my high school in the mid-80s, and got mocked and derided for it plenty.
As for their best musicianship and playing, I would argue it is to be found on the unfairly maligned 'Go To Heaven.' (Yet another example of my minority opinions!) 'Althea' straight through 'Saint of Circumstance' is very close to perfection.
(And BTW: there was nothing "psychedelic" about 1977.)
@@xianshep i agree with you man, it seems that with Jerry singing, the band was just kind of following wherever that magical guitar floated to and they all floated off together, but with Blue Ron on vocals, he led them, COMMANDED them, and they knew just where they were going, so things just HIT stronger, y'know?
mickey hart boss with his huge joint!!!
ravajju not sure if it was a joint or a large cigar. Either way, totally agree.
Flaming pixels, in the jumbo-tron of the eye-panel.
This is Festival Express indeed. Wonder why it's not on the DVD... Maybe because of mono audio?
This can be found in a better version as Festival Express 💀🕉☯️
This 'GREAT' song isn't even on Festival Express so STFU & Enjoy !
I just nailed this drum solo on the arm rests of my computer chair to a ' T '.... Blown away..... All I can say is if you dig this, Check out 8/23/24/68 TWO FROM THE VAULT
lmaoo
Ab-so-Lute-Ly!
Choice! Thank you.
Cool beans😍🔥
grateful drugs
wow !!!!!!
AWESOME video... But I could do without the watermark and timer, though.
Do you have any more unreleased footage of the Dead from festival Express? Please post if you have it this was awesome I love primal dead
😎 thanks #middaybluesbreak
this is only in mono and in the left channel only. please fix the audio. if you need the perfect board i got it.
You have a soundboard recording?! Of the song, the whole show?! Pleeeeeaasssee let me know I'd love to hear it
dlm9293 seconded
Thirded 🙋🏽♀
Think it's 7-4-70 McMahon Stadium Calgary, CA
Isn't this just footage from Festival Express? (not that there's anything wrong with that) -- wish the front 3 had stuck with the lavender t-shirts -- nice look for the boys.
oops -- i meant July 5th. (thinking of the month -- and ya can't edit in this thing)
it's erroneously listed some places as the 3rd but it was the 5th they played there on that trip.
Scorching but not uncut and not unedited and yeah, lose the watermark (and time counter) What there is though, is appreciated. Thanks for posting.
4:19 “cuz she got box-back nitties, great big ole thighs, workin undercover with a bo-hogs eye”
this is in canada prolly most of these people it was their first time seeing the dead. and its from 1970 not 1969
PIGPEN
***** Yeah, um...what?
MinorThreat 82 That was my point.
😂Yes. Pig did add some serious grit to the Dead an glad seen him a couple times😂
Phabulous with a capital F. I was only 10 my parents wouldn't let me go
my mistake, i thought this was woodstock. this looks like something from Festival Express. which show is this?
4:17
You'd think they would have had a camera facing the stage. That being said it is still a rare moment, when there was joy instead of greed, before really anyone knew that they should be filming these things.
Didn’t need to put that watermark on there for me to know that this is historical
why is there no sound?
Where is that guitar now? The one Jerry is playing? And where is the warehouse that stores Weir's 16 million guitars. Hangar 19?
part of Bob guitars were sold a few days ago
My right ear feels lonely
Silent Film With NO Sound ! ?
Huge Watermark and no right speaker audio!!! Sweet
:D
Answer: In case one of them falls asleep!
Mickey Hart is such a badass. Too bad you can't hear Bobby at all, this video might actually be tolerable. WHERE IS THE WHOLE THING?!?!?!
I can almost see Pigpen through the watermark/logo...ALMOST>>Drumz>>ALMOST.
Too much crowd, too little pig. And when Jerry is soloing we mostly we get to see his back. This is the kind of video that makes me long for a single camera video from close to and in front of the band, with the camera person focusing on who is singing and or soloing. I think of all the times in some videos that Bobby is soloing and the camera is focused on Garcia! Often the director has not a tad of a clue what is going on. The watermarking and production info make it even less viewable. And of course too many GD videos are ruined by the cheesy, unnecessary psychedelic effects being added. If I want psychedelic visuals, I'll take some acid!
I wonder how much he was drinking, to die at 27? was it just booze for the most part? I bet he had other health issues that they did not know how to discover back then. Dude,was the real deal
what a coincidence, I was just reading about pigpens death a few mins ago - "congenital biliary cirrhosis, a rare autoimmune disease that is unrelated to alcohol use."
@@envy928 wow, yes. Liver diseases often are caused by other things than drinking. some hereditary, some happen to people that never even drank hard. At 27, I had a feeling there was more to it than,"The psychedelic era was kicking in,along with experimentation" " he died from years of hard drinking" that seems to be the webs say about it.
Sorry but this is speeded up and I own festival express on video. People do not do this manipulation. Yes, they played fast yet I’m sorry this video is bullshit= too much pitch( keep it tasteful at least! You know I’m right asswell⚡️⚡️God Bless the Dead 💀
ugh. cant watch it. horrible cuts, and the camera is pointed in the sun. oh by the way, no pig pen yet he sings.
Get to about 4 mins in!
MAJOR edit at 2:10.... why? Probably some pointless aimless guitar 'jamming' that renders the term 'scorching' less than accurate ?
It gets plenty scorching later if you give it a chance. (And if you can't dig Jerry, just try dissing PHIL - the "musician's musician" of the Dead, who'd been playing bass a mere four years here.) And there are plenty of "edits" (i.e. drop outs) in this film, which I seriously doubt were due to any musical concerns.