Grateful Dead Live at The Matrix Club on 1966-12-04
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2018
- Set 1:
01. New Minglewood Blues
02. Betty and Dupree
03. Next Time You See Me
04. I Know You Rider
05. Big Boss Man
06. One Kind Favor (See That My Grave Is Kept Clean)
07. Alice D. Millionaire
08. Me and My Uncle
09. "We Can't Agree on the Words"
10. Me and My Uncle
11. Cream Puff War
Set 2:
01. You Don't Love Me
02. Beat It On Down the Line
03. Hurts Me Too
04. On the Road Again
05. Yonder's Wall*
06. My Own Fault*
07. Down So Long
08. Cold Rain and Snow
09. Viola Lee Blues
Set 3:
01. Deep Elem Blues
02. Something on Your Mind
03. Big Boy Pete
04. Death Don't Have No Mercy
05. Lindy
06. Dancin' In The Streets
07. Me and My Uncle
* with unidentified guest vocalist
That’s gotta be the coolest picture of the dead
Absolutely fabulous early Dead recordings. Love to hear Garcia and Pigpen counter punching each other with leads and rhythm. "One Kind Favor" is the kind of musical brilliance and spirit lifting gift that all true lovers of music treasure. I was lucky to see them 3 times in 1968. San Francisco at Golden Gate Park and Stanford and in Seattle at the Arena. Six White Horses. Yeah take me home. The Dead never die. Church bells tolling and Garcia and Pigpen tearing it up right now. Wherever these vibes carry. God Bless the Grateful Dead. We surely do.
Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!!!!!!! Wow, never new they already had "Me and My Uncle" and Outstanding "Creampuff War"!
"more beatniks than you can shake-a-stick-at...," and more comedy- greatest Dead show ever!
"more beatniks..." Hah! That's funny. Wish I'd seen that. Goatees and short hair. Probably not a lot of dancing, but definitely a lot of contemplation! ;)
An archealogical treasure - I dug it!
Dope brother treasure it is 100%
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What I really love about this period of their music is PIGPEN keyboards are so predominant !! RIGHT up there WITH Alan Price or Ray Manzarek !
Booker T disciple for sure
You said the name pig,god bless you and yours my grateful friend.
@@gratefuldrifter6588 He indeed said the name. Pigpen is my main man.
Pig Mob represented 🙌🏼🙌🏼
dont like the dead as much after pigpen died.
Full Setlist
Set 1:
Minglewood Blues
Betty and Dupree (Only time played)
Next Time You See Me
I know you Rider
Big Boss Man (5th time played)
One Kind Favor (Last time played)
Alice D. Millionaire (Last time played)
Me and My Uncle (2nd time played)
Cream Puff War
Set 2:
You Don’t Love Me
Beat It On Down The Line (5th time played)
It Hurts Me Too (4th time played)
On The Road Again (3rd time played)
Look Over Yonder’s Wall (1st of only 2 times)
My Own Fault (1st time)
Down So Long (last time played)
Cold Rain And Snow
Viola Lee Blues
Set 3:
Deep Elem Blues (1st time played)
There’s something on your mind (1st of only 2 times)
Big Boy Pete (2nd time played)
Death Don’t Have No Mercy (3rd time played)
Lindy
Dancin’ In The Streets (4th time played)
Me and My Uncle (3rd time played and second time in same show)
Fabulous recording -- a rare warm-up for the first - and best - album. A fast Cold Rain & Snow, and a great Viola Lee Blues. I'm just finding this and I am a happy guy! So original and good, and Jerry's singing style cracks me up. Love it.
Like dope brother,stay loaded its the Dead
@@gratefuldrifter6588 I took a boatload of pharmies
@@johnstallings4049 jack and jills brother ever pill,bet ya had glorious time bro.Speaking of pills i got to go,take care its a jungle out there peace brother
Great 👍 66 show I’ve never heard before
I LIVE for recordings like these! As an old time punk rocker I tend to gravitate towards pre 1968 GD recordings, and this is a good one. Thanks for posting and sharing.
I here ya my dead friend 60s were glory,peace
Me too!
Ditto.
You should check out 11-19-66 from a few weeks earlier if you haven’t heard it before. It was my 1st taste of 1966 and made me fall in love with the primal Dead era, wore out the cassette of this one back in the day…
@@thefamilydog3278 I'd love to hear it. I'll keep my eyes and ears out for a good copy. Thanks for the tip.
These fellas didn't know what awaited them. Fantastic as always. Luv em no lie.
What a dynamite show!!! This 66er has it all!! ☮️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️
I am collecting everything on YT playlists and listen to. Finished Godchaux Years and now am here. I am looking for some crazy instrumental from this era. Had it on tape between You Don't Have To ask and He was a Friend of Mine.
I got a lot of my stuff from archive.org
Was it an intense organ led instrumental? I'm searching for an instrumental from this time period as well.
Yes, there is that squeaky organ loop by Pig Pen /farfissa?/ Jerry' solo is built over it. And, good news I have found it. I am collecting everything on playlists and let me find it again. It won.'t take long. @@IndraYule
@@IndraYule Yes. And I have found it. ua-cam.com/video/huP8Mojt7og/v-deo.html
@@IndraYule Yes, and I have found it. It is called simply Jam ua-cam.com/video/huP8Mojt7og/v-deo.html
Sweet bird 🕊️ of youth, how fast thou hast flown.😊🎉
Thank you, I love The Grateful Dead Blues Band.
the Pig was fortunate to have such an insane rhythm and lead for his incredible blues band
Freaking love it!!!!!
This is the DEAD that I Love! No spacey jams and endless drum solos..just Pigpen leading the way to country funk blues and Great Dance Music! Nothing against the post 72 GD but it's just a different thing.. BTW opening with this NNMB was a Great Idea! Thanks for posting these early shows... it's kinda like going to Pig's church...
Wow...I thought I have a lot, but I ain't got this! Thanks.
There's the actual Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.The legend
Damn that first Me and My Uncle into was sounding so tight until it came apart!
Love 💘 Jerry's endless Noodling on
Cream Puff War.
Yes! And one set of bars close to the end of the song is unlike anything I have heard from him - or anyone.
Jerry this jerry that this was pig pens band
This is the best '66 show I've heard. Not loud enough, but raw fun with rare tunes...Awesome!
Fun and more Fun my bro
@@gratefuldrifter6588 I had fun listening to this recording (~);-}
Hot Damn! I looked like a Hero dancing, listening to this, head-phones on all alone waiting for a bus in Holyoke Ma. It came by, but as I was already on one I let it roll by. Thanks Stephen King.
Hey, hey, hey! When the bus comes by you're supposed to get on! Deadheads know this.
@@jamesvanscoyoc5790 Yes we do.
@@brucemholland6518 he was on the bus...the bus to wormtown in greenfield ,mass.
Hahaha, been there 🤣♥️
what an influence they had on my songs!!im still kicking around a radio station for the last 10 years home recordingyhamks!!
Pigpen's distinctive Hammond playing in evidence here as integral aspect of early GD. West Coast Memphis
Farfisa most likely not a Hammond
@@Elseveno It's 100% a Vox Continental
@@donaldronson1387 Thought hammond for split sec but Vox it is yup
There are damn few people, then or now, who could make a Vox/Farfisa not sound like a pop clown show. Pigpen was one of them.
Pig was a decent keyboardist. I wonder why his talent in this area wasn't utilized
more. Did they really need TC?
This is pretty good for a 1966 rock band. They rocked more back then, bluesier. I prefer this iteration of the GD. Not convinced that 2 drummers was the best idea.
41:55 - 51: 32 Cream Puff War 1:23:00 - Cold Rain and Snow 1:26:33 - 1: 41: 57 - Viola Lee Blues
You nailed the best slots! Bobby isn't singing. ;)
Great, thanks
It’s the drumming. I like Mickey; but Bill was the MASTER. And when Mickey returned in ‘74, things got a bit sludgy IMO. Great shows here and there; but the fierce drive was gone.
100% Team Bill Only here. The sluggish, tennis-shoe-in-the-dryer sound of the late '70s onward did them no favors.
I agree 100%
I'm a Billy only fan too.
I love Mickey to death, but the drums were so much crisper and punchier with just Bill at the kit. He tightened up the band also!
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@@ClueSign Yeah, none of his crap, lame, stupid, way-off-beat style to derail the steady pulse of Viola Lee Blues. At least he was gone for a while because of his good-for-nothing dad. Mickey Hart SUCKS.
Yea. That's why I said earlier that the Dead sweetspot doesn't extend much beyond '72. Too much drums; not enough Pigpen. (I can say that partially because I am a drummer.)
Together though. They were the Romulous and Remus, the Castor and Pollux of drumming.
I get a real kick out of Jerry dropping in the occasional banjo lick.
Pig pen the glory of the blues!
Thank you. This represents pure history. For over an hour i've been free of an 80 yr old body and returned to a better time. A time innocence, free music in the park, idealism--hoping to build a better society by changing archaic laws, attitudes, and racial discrimination. This was the time before media became involved, before hard drugs, and before the hoards of unwashed masses moved in. Dancing, singing, and freedom from artificial rules of what was proper. So many musicians, artists, poets, students, and those with a desire to bring peace and equality--living and exchanging ideas and dreams. All adding to the stew of life and change.
Well said,I'm with you
Cleaview: were you there?
@@maryannsilva4160 No,i was the right age,but the wrong country.
Which? What was going on there during this time?
@@maryannsilva4160 Sharing IS caring and you are kind.
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Good Ol Grateful Dead !!!
Been turned on since 72
Absolutely crazy M&MU.
I
Love
This
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Thank you, Al G. Rhythm! Good to be back here (~);-}
I love this! Genuine Grateful Dead. On the cusp of greatness. I was 18 when I was turned on to the mix. Laurie Merrill had the magic in her eyes. I saw how much love there was and I wanted in. We lost her to cancer a few years ago but her soul lives in the music.
"down so long, everything looks up to me..." C'mon! This shit rolls... I mean, from an academic perspective.
A wonderful song from LA Woman.
@@brucemholland6518 The Lizard King cribbed that title from the late Richard Farina's near forgotten novel. (Brother in law to Joan Baez as well)
1:26:33 Viola Lee blues
The ending is a bit of an electric shock, but the way the band comes out of the solo bars is cool. Slow and measured. Nice.
Thanks for uploading this!!!
Have to love that 'lurid' lounge 'one hand clapping' atmosphere ... pre fame straight up bar band dead indeed
I've decided to drink Coors and Fireball in honor of this show, again... this vs. later-Dead just demonstrates that progress isn't always good.
when you are young things go different, changing is inevitable.
I was 11 when I started listening to the dead and 1970. I remember thinking back then what a bummer it was that I missed the Grateful Dead in their Prime. Still, I went to a lot of shows in the 1970s during their long descent from their artistic pinnacle.
I'm being slightly sarcastic. I knew back then as a young teenager that I would be telling my grandchildren about getting to go see the Grateful Dead when they were youngin putting out record after record Jerry Garcia doing all that music in 70 unbelievable. It's all good. I basically stopped going by the early 80s but I haven't missed too many Neil Young and Crazy Horse shows in that time. That's another day and I can't wait to tell my grandson. I'll be like dude I saw these guys 16th row Center absolutely blow the roof off the Rosemont Horizon in January of 1991.
But this is a Grateful Dead I fell in love with when I was first listening to some live dead on sunflower records
@@charlesandrews2360 Cheers, Charles! I love this show because the bikers in attendance probably would've beaten -up John Mayer before he could have finished his opening-set.
@@jonprude2557 I only saw the band one time after Jerry moved to another plane of existence. It was in the late 90s. Robert Hunter to the set beforehand that nobody listened to.
It was very sad to see. I only want because the guy gave me a free ticket
Boycott Coors ! They’re a far right wing company.
Wow. Thanks!
This is the KIND !!!
or "da kind." ;)
More evidence that rock n roll sprouted right up from the blues, in multiple locations.
Awesome.
Amazing. So early but tight.
1966 that goes back a few! Nice
March winds will blow all my troubles awaaay.....
Well hey this exists on youtube.
Ok so im editing midlisten. This show is dope dude, the dopest dope
How these random, beautful recordings surface after decades lain dormant is beyond my meager reckonings but I'm certainly glad I was one of the people to find it and listen
Edit2 Im at uncle and its the tits
Edit3 you know its tough to be the sole commentor trying to keep the page legible for the masses but let me sum it up for you. In todays exhibition is San Franciscos' own Grateful Dead crafting carefully selected sonic segments sure to rock your socks right off
Ladies thats Bobby front and center for your crooning needs but papa pigpen is never to be outdone
Years ago Archive.org had close to the entire Dead soundboard catalogue available for download. All I had then was dial up computer connection and it would take about 8 hours to download a show. Then I went to an internet cafe and payed to download shows in 20 minutes. I was able to get a few dozen soundboards of my choosing. I regret not pulling more '66/'67 shows.
Makes me wonder how many shows the band played during this time that were NOT recorded.
sullen pic reminds me of the other "Warlocks" -- the later Velvet Underground
Jerry Pond is the "unidentified guest vocalist".
Source?
@@floepiejane Deadbase
@@4Naturalgreen cool
" if you can't believe me...you make it hard to believe in you." ' My regular occupation...' Iol 2 me and my uncle's in one show!? 😂❄❣️🌎❣️❄
I'd call it a false start.
They were workin it out!
@@pembrokejones3969 hello and greetings from Annapolis Maryland! Hippie 4th of July!❄️🌎❄️🎈😜👌❣️
great
I believe this is actually 12-1-66 🙏😊 I don't think the boys played a show on 12-4-66 ??? Amazing show!! So good, love me some 66 Grateful Dead ✨
agreed
"Down so long it looks like up to me". The Doors.
" Do right woman". Gram
"On the road again." Some sharing going on.
Stuff happens and you can't stop the long strange trip.
This is a song entitled well a huh them 7 is a lousy number blues
Edit thats where I'm gonna make my happy home :)
What if I found 66 dead at 16 instead of 56? Would dice of life roll different? Surely.
I was looking for this at 32. I fell hard for quick silver messenger service and was looking for more. I was listening to the dead but it would be years before I understood who pigpen was.
Most Rockn Version of Rider I've heard
15:40 tunning --->I know you rider 17:14 start
Good lord !
1:23:25 cold rain and snow
Thank you for pointing that out, Andrew. Do you think there are more than a handful of fast, live C.R.& S. recordings out there? Because this is only the second I've heard (and the best).
Thanks -- I love this fast-paced version.
This is The Grateful Dead. Orher iterations are fine, bands mature, but nothing compares to the barroom/strip club days. Gimme a bar show any day.
1:42:09 set 3
I love this era too … but glad it was an era … glad the dead evolved away from heavy pigpen/blues and 60s psychedelic sounds. I like the terrapin station suite and the somewhat coherent lyrical storytelling, as well as even more straightforward songs like wharfrat… I love it all … just especially the 70s stuff
It's true Pigpen was self schooled and a bluesman.He was in on the songwriting though,"Trucking" especially and helpless to do much about it as he'd gotten busted. His fiance, Janis Joplin, and family were among the few that did not turn on him.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was a founder and the front man in the early days, but was not compatible with where Garcia wanted to drive the music. Many of friends wanted to see him leave the band, and become the great blues artist he was.
@@loboheeler He would stay up late and watch horror movies. Incorporating it into the deads marathon "space jams".He went to Workingman's Dead, the first 4 albums. It was really more personal and political. He objected to the new "Good Goody" direction of his MC too, i.e. snitching and working with the pigs as well.He wanted Janis to marry him,had a ring on her finger, but she was tough to tame.She said she might want him if he got the formal jazz and classical level training that guys like Garcia had, and then came Midland. The first of 4 unlucky, jinxed, keyboardists that all croaked as well. Bad Karma, bad luck, what's the difference? Pig was bossy for a little guy,he'd get drunk and tell the "wimps" off a little too much for their taste, and clashed a bit with the new karate trained drummer. That's all I have.(for now)
To each their own but, without Ron, they seem to lose that particular fire that He always brought.. the Warlocks were a "working mans" band, singing about railroads, coal miners and life in the West...post 72 was musically, the great leap forward (saw them 9 times 72-74) and they were Great but, it seemed like it took a while to regain focus.. Sorry for rambling, just hoping that so many fans don't forget Ron..
Weir was still wet behind the ears in '66.
Gotta say this tape so far has been historic, raw, fun, sparkly and interesting but come to Walking Stick? starts to get real down jellie ... and then that next slow blues? ... !!!! ... the stuff raht thr Every one of them right on through that tune. Jer w/ NO cosmic hippy noodle allowed just *fine* firespittin blues. Pig testifyin' and whippin (and testifyin) that harmonica too boy he could play. Is this Lesh? From the sound of it I'd say it'd have to be but don't know their early history much. That's a REAL nice bar band ... yup yup
'66 Dead is the best... bikers, beer and dope; not so much 80's/90's Dead- "new-agey," yuppie sh't...The 70's had there moments, but '66 seems a lot less pretentious. Can't visualize John Mayer hangin' with this crowd.
Sometimes I really do wish that CSNY hadn't taught the guys to sing. The music became more lyrical and vocal, which isn't a bad thing, but when I listen to the later recordings I miss that raw psychedelic feel from the early years.
@@jamesvanscoyoc5790 Uh, yeah... the bikers in the bar would have cracked Graham Nash's acoustic over his head after "Our House."
@@jamesvanscoyoc5790 Altamont became a turning point and Jerry was looking for a more lyrical and grounded sound. They reached out to Crosby to help them get there but that was already the direction they were heading.
You smell like a troll
You got that right - the Ritalin sound
26:09 one kind favor
certainly was. thank you for the link to this song, andrew. cheers.
Sounds a lot like "Death Dont Have No Mercy"
Man... Imagine them breaking out with this is '87. They so coulda.
22:03 big boss man
37:38 Me and My Uncle
I had no idea that they playedUncle in 1966. Jerry’s solo is between psycodelica and c&w.
@@garykornfield6048 First time they did it, and it sounds totally different from as we all know it. Sounds like it could be Phil singing it too, not Bob.
31:50 Alice D. Millionaire
I wish you had the full set time list but sometimes this is the only one i need
51:46 set 2
This is 12/01/66
Didn't Marty Balin's pop own the Matrix ? Seems like that was the place to go. I was 6 months old.All the recordings I hear from The Matrix are really good..
The guitar on several tracks reminds me a lot of Alvin Lee's "I'm Going Home" and I wonder who copied from whom? 😉
This is Dec. 1, 1966. They didn’t perform on the 4th.
Jerry had a chance to walk away in the early 80's when this band was still a semi vibrant version of their former selves.
Yo this uncle though edit wtf!
All blues roots and country covers -- No Hunter, Barlow, Garcia credits on this one
Cream Puff War so far...
@@ocoeepicture really good extended jam on that one
@@stevebeers9768 oh hell yeh! Love this version! But it as written by Garcia, apparently with the title decided (by either Weir or Pig) after he wrote it. He then reworked the title into the last lyric. Anywho, thank u for uploading it!!
Ian Hunter on bass
During a virus this is good soul-music... based on intense research from some guy with a degree. I mean, woman.
Wait what?
Edit I think my best comment was my first so be sure to read more the third edit is where it gets good
Wait Stephen King who are you? Im looking at your youtube and this being/entity what have you is one to be highly esteemed
1:19:22
Louder, louDER LOUDER! YeaAUghgyAHG
December 4 or April 12? lol
6:20
51:42
26:10
Too bad David Crosby's influence sent them downhill except for a few gems like Easy Wind and New Speedway Boogie.
When the dead had but one drummer....wasn't lsd still legal???? I say it again .. What if pigpen never got sick?????
Wow first I'm thinking they're doing an Allman Brothers tune but that tune wasn't written until the early seventies and here it is the show's in 66 but then I'm thinking no that's not an Allman Brothers tune but it sounds like one way out was stolen
One way out is Sonny Boy Williamson song predating the Dead and Allmans
and it is You Don't Love Me...not One Way out
37:40
51:40
1:19:10
17:10
26:10
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No social distancing back then🤔
what no body odor ?
There would have been had a novel covid virus swept through the world at that time.
I love the early Dead up through about 71 - 72. It's not that I don't like the later material. I do, but I'm not entirely pleased with the country rock trend of that time. Which, of course, happened with rock generally at that time, not just with the Dead.
"Cold beer-on-tap and a lurid nightclub atmosphere," ...again, this is not an L.S.D. guru band when they were at their best-broke.
I mean, I can visualize John Mayer hangin' with this crowd and having to hide his contempt...
John Mayer. LOL. I had not following the band since the early 70's, and then I see Mayer is with them. How in the world did that happen?
@@joeblevins1058 I think you sold out , hate is not a good thing , change is inevitable, that cat can play guitar.
@@scandalousintent4492 If not in the same stadium...
This show is not very, "woke," compared to, uh, later Dead... maybe they were more into beer and weed.
eh? I feel like they where more into acid induced spastic spontaneity than anything else. Seems more woke to me, but it's all subjective isn't it?
@@spacecaptain87 yeah... that's what I mean, sort of: it's woke, in it's unwokeness. It's a biker/blues band at this point.
@@jonprude2557 yes white men who don't like to acknowledge the black men that birthed their music
@@stevebeers9768 Yeah... Garcia and Pigpen were Republicans, too.
@@jonprude2557 can you maybe just enjoy and leave politics out of it? Pigpen loved black music, was "woke" in his time
6:30