Hey, Happy New Year's to you and yours! 2021 is going to be awesome. Please consider reviewing Miyavi. I think I like him as much if not more than Stevie Ray Vaughn. He plays all styles of music all uniquely. I just watched him play the superbowl and then go straight to the Tokyo Dome. But, d*mn the man can rock and funk. Actually, it is mindblowing. He created a style of playing that is truly his. ua-cam.com/video/QYXL0OA2K9M/v-deo.html
Happy new year man! Always enjoy your reactions. Can never get enough. You've shared music I've never heard before as well as bring back songs I've almost forgotten about over the years. Would love to have you take a listen to Julie Fowlis. She has a wonderful voice. ua-cam.com/video/9qaQpjRpDr4/v-deo.html . You'll definitely need to look up the translation for this song as it is sang in Gaelic.
Donna Jean Godchaux is the woman singing...part of the history of not only JGB, but also the dead. Along with her husband Keith who played keyboards...love ya man!
I can’t tell you how much joy you’ve brought us this year, watching your reactions to such great music, and now that you have tapped into the Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band, I have actually been brought to tears watching how much joy this music has brought you! So, as the years continue to roll on, their Music Never Stops!! Thank you, take care, and here’s to another year full of musical discovery and enjoyment for us all✌️
I think I have to agree with this. One of the best things I've watched over the last year. Reminds me of my own journey that started way back in '85 or so. Enjoy the trip, Jamal.
Many casual fans don’t realize that in addition to his virtually nonstop touring with the Dead, Jerry was ALWAYS playing and was involved with many side projects. From his own JGB, to the New Riders of the Purple Sage, to Old & In The Way, to Legion of Mary, to many guest studio and live performances. As ubiquitous as the Dead were, even they couldn’t keep up with Jerry’s seemingly insatiable hunger to play all the time.
Right up until just about the very end, no less --was just reading the outtakes from Blair Jackson's Garcia bio about his session work in '95, with people in whom he'd taken an interest, and then had a feast for the ears
There's an interview with Bob Weir where he talks about needing a break and saying he doesn't know how Jerry constantly tours. He says it in a pretty funny way. I'm having a hard time remembering exactly how he worded it
@@Spacecowboy42 There was a dark side to it too though. In the "Long Strange Trip" documentary Bob says that they often thought about taking more breaks from touring because to help Jerry get sober, but they knew that it wouldn't matter because he'd just keep touring with his side projects.
Yes that’s Donna with the straight hair. The other vocalist is Maria Muldaur, who had a big hit in ‘73 with the jazzy “Midnight at the Oasis”. She was a fixture in the Greenwich Village folk scene along with Bob Dylan way back in the early 60’s, and had also been in a folk group with Jerry’s mandolin buddy David Grisman.
She was smoking hot back in the day. She used to play for tips in all the little coffee houses and beatnik Hangouts in Greenwich when Dylan was honing his craft doing the same. Man I would have loved growing up in that scene.
Check out some of the shows Jerry did with hammond organ player Merl Saunders. You will be blown away'. Jerry did so much music outside the Grateful Dead. Its like there were 3 Jerrys. There is even some great acoustic music that Jerry performed including playing in the the bluegrass band "Old And In The Way" One exclelent acoustic disc is called The Pizza Tapes with David Grisman and Tony Rice who just passed away a couple days ago. Here is Shady Grove ua-cam.com/video/5aCeFzCni_w/v-deo.html
We somehow got Merl to play our New Year’s Eve party for Y2K. Rounding out the crew was Leo Nocitelli from the Meters, and this amazing drummer from New Orleans, Derrick Freeman. Picked them all up from the airport and hung for a few days before and after. Minus the parts I forgot from being hammered, it’s a time I’ll never forget
@@squigtonianmayhem4602 my first JGB show was in a church in Philly and at setbreak, there was an NA meeting letting out of the basement, or taking a break, and when everyone went back inside, a few of them went upstairs, not downstairs. A very strange mingling of crowds
@@kbbl102.5 I appreciate you sharing this memory of yours. Do you remember what city it was in? Lots of heads are in 12 step rooms . Me included for over 14 years now💀⚘⚡
His side projects were something special. Jerry played with so many great musicians over his life, and he considered every one of them an influence on himself. He didn't consider himself a great. He just loved to play with friends. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Jamel. Happy New Year!
Some of Jerry's solos are like old locomotives chuggin up a mountain. A slow rhythm and not sure we're gonna get there sense, but without the anxious feeling. We just ride.
Funny story I met her back in 2006 at a farm party that Boombox was doing a special show. My friend invited me for cool with those people. Her son is Zion who fronts boombox, anyways decided to take a trip and was hitting hard. Went inside the house chilled on the couch in walks Donna and introduced herself. I had so many questions haha. She was the sweetest and knew I was on my own adventure. She talked a lot about playing in the band. Was awesome
The young lady is Donna Jean Godchaux. That’s her husband Keith on the keyboards. They played with the Dead from 71 until his death in ‘79. If you do Dead from that period you’ll see/hear her. (You would’ve heard her on the Scarlet/Fire you did from 77.) She also sang backing for Elvis on Suspicious Minds.
Pre-Dead, Hunter (bass) and Garcia (banjo) played together in the Hart Valley Drifters, an American Folk Revival group formed in 1962 along with fellow future New Riders of the Purple Sage's Dave Nelson (guitar).
It's 2021 as I watch this. Who needs a ball drop when we got Jamel to ring us in proper!? Health and prosperity to you and yours my friend! ✌🏼This is fantastic!!!
Thanks, Jamel. Great to see you enjoying these treasures. I HIGHLY recommend to you to check out Jerry Garcia Band from about 1988 to 1991, when they were in their peak with Melvin Seals playing the Hammond organ and the two doo-wop sisters. Try “The Harder They Come” cover or “Stop That Train”, maybe “Lucky Ol’ Son”. It is seriously like going to church.......the BESt, and I’ve been a Deadhead for about 35 years. Seeing JGB (Jerry Garcia Band) at the Warfield Theatre in SF in 1989, 1990, and 1991 was seriously magical. Check it out.....I KNOW you will LOVE it. Cheers.
Brother Lover of Music, My name is Michael T. I have collected various genre of music on 78 rpm, 45 rpm and 33 1//3 rpm vynals, cassette tapes, as well as CDs. Having lived nearly 70 years, I have been exposed to almost every type of music recorded. Also, I have the desire to do so because it makes me feel good. Since I have been observing your reviews (via UA-cam and online) you have rekindled so many memories that music has embedded in my soul. I throughly enjoy your comments. Comments that have enlightened me, saddened me with the pleasantry of memories, lifted my spirits, and excited my soul - lifting it like a hawk floating on an airstream. I kid you not!! At your age the innocence and excitement you display when listening to a variety of music, generally unknown to you, is very refreshing. And, I am pleased to say I feel the innocence and excitement right along with you. To say music is the universal language is an understatement, it is the language that surpasses the Visable Universe. Enough said. Thank you, Jamel/ Jamal and may you be blessed and stay blessed. Your Brother in Music, Michael T
The woman is Donna Godchaux. She’s the woman you hear doing back up for 70’s Grateful Dead concerts. Her husband is the pianist at the time. Also, the song isn’t about Jerry. It’s about a man who is basically homeless and needs to go to the mission because of how bad his life has been
Yes and no, Jerry had been quoted multiple times stating that the song is essentially Hunter writing about Jerry's heroin addiction. In an interview with Blair Jackson in '91, Jerry said that Hunter wrote the song to be semi-autobiographical for Jerry.
@@korilazarus6652 For sure! And yeah the line, "Ten years ago I walked these streets, my dreams were riding tall. Tonight I would be thankful for any dreams at all" is in direct reference (along with a few other verses) to Jerry becoming more and more consumed by that damn Persian heroin
The two female vocalist are Donna Godchaux, whose husband Keith plays keyboards in the band, and Maria Muldaur (of Midnight at the Oasis fame). Killer song and Happy New Year !!!! ✌️😁❤️👍👏
I told you yesterday, Jamel, that NYE was Grateful Dead time. We had a station in Chicago that would broadcast them every year on NYE. Jerry Garcia in his prime is the next best thing, and no better than Mission In The Rain. Thank you! Happy New Year!
Great to see someone really get turned onto something special, like Jerry. He was special. His music will live forever thanks to guys like you. Great job brother!
Simply my favorite melodic improviser on guitar ever. Couple that with his uncanny, orgasmic ability to build a musical and vocal crescendo and then drop right back down...I guess what I am saying is, yup.
I always thought the Mission was a Spanish Catholic Mission for years until I was in San Francisco visiting a friend. We were walking along (in the rain) and he said, "This area's called the Mission". Oh, I get it! My favorite version of Mission in the Rain is by the Grateful Dead on 6-12-76, Boston Music Hall. Jerry's guitar playing is stunning.
Wholly shit 😂😂😂..got it on cassette and CD...blasted it in the parking lots back in the day, until jg died. Not again. Favorite..thanks😢..always got the 'where / when the hell is this from?'...dead only performed this a few times.
This is a masterpiece! Great to see a happy Jerry on top of his game. The first time I heard this song I got so overwhelmed I couldn't bare listening again for a week. Bittersweet ❤️
It's a joy to see you enjoying this beautiful and magical music! As an old hippie Deadhead once said to me, I will say to you, too: "Welcome to the Family!" Thank you for sharing your reactions with the world! Please check out Grateful Dead's Franklin's Tower, 5/9/77! It's a great song for releasing the old and bringing in the new!
I'm from San Rafael Marin county San Francisco I pledge allegiance to the grateful Dead but I love Jerry Garcia band even more and these black and white videos from 76 1980 along with legion of Mary are the best sure grainy footage sound quality this is a wonderful version thank you Jamal and to the dead family for recommending this too. Might as well rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert yes I keep on keeping on keep up the good work tomorrow love you brother
Jamel I have been following your journey through music you have never heard before starting with metal. Your taste in music is like mine, all over the place and I love it! I started back when as a kid with the Beatles, Stones, the Who etc and never stopped listening all the way to Slipknot. But this was cool. Went to many Dead shows and this just felt so good. Thanks for what you do. Happy New Year brother and to everyone else here. Hope it's a better one then 2020. Peace
So glad you are checking out Jerry Garcia Band, it's church to me and many others. One of the shining jewels of their repertoire in my opinion is "I'll Take A Melody", a cover of Allen Toussaint's masterpiece. Allen is one of New Orleans' most beloved R&B, soul, jazz, funk, gospel if you weren't already aware, and has been described as "one of popular music's greatest backroom figures". Truly incredible and moving piece of work that instills so much simultaneous sadness and power, but gives so much hope and beauty. Allen was an accomplished pianist and composer and both his and Jerry's band's renditions have the most BEAUTIFUL piano, combined with Jerry's obvious guitar genius -- when I showed a longtime dedicated Deadhead the video, he said Jerry's guitar lines and melodies were among the most unique he had ever heard him play, and that's coming from a true fanatic. Give it a shot if you'd like brother. Thank you for all you do for the music. So much love. Listening to this again with you hit me in a very powerful way. Loved your enthusiasm, music is wonderful and an amazing thing to be able to share with another like that - what a gift. ua-cam.com/video/4Bl_BdGGicY/v-deo.html - James
Those late 95 "So Many Roads", knowing now that the end was near, are almost too much for me to take, even now! I've been after him to do really good versions of "Wharf Rat" and "Stella Blue" for a while. Hope he gets around to it! I think Stella might bring him to his knees!
"You know when you say beautiful and sad at the same time ..." I have read interviews with both Jerry and - probably more relevant to this comment because they are yes, his lyrics - and Robert Hunter where they talked about trying to express "the bittersweet" - the dichotomy of sadness and joy. I love how well you manage to tap into the emotional heart of these songs so quickly and directly. This is one of my favorite Hunter/Garcia compositions.
To have any dream at All praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ San Francisco San Rafael Marin county California Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari
It's that dichotomy of life , showing both the light and darkness, that to me is the essence of the dead. This is one of my favorite Garcia\Hunter songs as well, and the JGB '78 versions are so beautiful with Maria and Donna s harmony on the chorus, Maria taking the high octave and Donna the low. Love how Jamel picked up on that right away.
Jerry band, acoustic and electric, provided a different, intimate look at where Jerry's head was. It's probably not fair to the Dead scene, but Jerry shows sometimes seemed like getting to eat at the grown-ups table on Thanksgiving. I feel that missing piece in life, but tripping across your reactions is a great reminder.
Rubin was only played 4ntimes with the dead a bunch with jgb. If you liaten to audiemce recordings of the dead when they play rubin and cherise the crowd goes insane!
yes, yes, yes, 100% agree!!! Please check out an 80's version when you do as well. You absolutely need to experience Melvin! I'll throw a Lucky Old Sun in there, too. If Melvin's Hammond solo doesn't touch your soul......... ua-cam.com/video/GXRQmCNGyB8/v-deo.html
Hes also playing his travis bean guitar it has that trademark T in the headstock of the guitar and sounds amazing. Wolf was getting some work done. This guitar has a bell sounding quality. Hunter wrote the words for sure. Thank you man.
One of my very favorite JGB songs. And when you start reading about Donna Jean I always say”if Jerry liked her who are we to say anything” He let her write 2 songs on Cats Under the Stars.
Yes, yes, yes! I was just practicing "Simple twist of fate" on guitar which they also do a great cover of. But this song! I already know this will be a great video.
For some reason this Jerry Garcia makes me feel so good! Maybe listening since childhood. Maybe it was the roses. Thanks Jamal for keeping it alive! Thanks to my parents for introducing me to Jerry.
Jamel, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your kindness and love of music. You sparked a lot of joy for me in 2020, a year that had little joy within. Bob Weir preformed with RatDog the evening of Jerry's death in August 1995. He opened with these words. "So our departed friend, if he proved anything thing to us, he proved that good music can make sad times better. We've got our work cut out for us this evening." You did that for all of us last year. Hearing music new to me and reintroducing old music to hear again made my life better. It would be a blast to catch a live show with you, no doubt. Looking forward to your offerings in 2021. Peace, Brother
That’s Donna Jean Godchaux. Her n her husband, Keith(keys), played with the dead in the 70’s. And she sat in with JGB sometimes, too. And Legion of Mary(another Jerry/dead side project in the mid 70’s. VERY funky era)
Hey buddy, you are one of the UA-camrs that I have been following and enjoying this year. So glad to have discovered you. I hope you stay healthy and have a wonderful time in 2021. All the best.
This is my favorite version of one of my very favorite most cherished songs of all time. It brings me SO much joy watching you hear this haha. Really takes me back these are so beautiful
Just pure Garcia magic. The fact that someone back in 1978 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic N.J. was smart enough to get a film crew and record this show, maintain the tapes all these years, edit something together like this and put it out to the masses, even if it's Black and white, is nothing short of a miracle. Try looking into the Garcia/Saunders album Live at Keystone from 1973. The songs Like A Road, My Funny Valentine and Someday Baby are real standouts. Almost jazz, almost rock, almost soul...but totally amazing. Boy, doing a Garcia Band reaction once a week or more would make for an awesome 2021!
I have black and white photos I took of this lineup the same year but out on Long Island. My first show. 9th grade. We arrived at 2:00 for an 8:00 show. Robert Hunter Band then New Riders and then Jerry. Show went on until 4am! Thanks for this great memory!!!
There were two women singing. The one with the long, straight hair was Donna Jean Godchaux, who was a member of the Dead for most of the '70s. The one with the thick curly hair was Maria Muldaur, who had a solo hit (reached #6) with "Midnight at the Oasis", and was a member of the JGB for a while as well.
Jerry was on record stating that Mission was the most biographically personal song that Hunter ever wrote for him. It's a pretty pointed warning from Hunter about the potential being wasted due to Jerry's life choices. The lyrics are all about missed opportunities, and doing things “half way”. It’s always been interesting to me that Jerry always sang it triumphantly. He was comfortable pushing the boundaries and understood the risks. He was a genius *in spite* of his addictions. NOT because of them
I once heard Joan Osborne talk about Jerry's singing voice. He doesn't have the greatest voice but the songs just seem to play themselves through him. That Mission in the Rain just plays itself throw him with all the feeling its meant to have... Man is that good...
it's a triple entendre: The Mission District, being on a mission, but also the Spanish Franciscan Missions (missionary churches) that are some of the oldest buildings in California, stretching from Southern CA all the way North. 'The bells are not for me'...
I got into Jerry before I got into the Dead. I waited until my 40's to really begin listening to him/them because I knew that would be it. I have XM for one reason, Grateful Dead Channel, I never turn it off. Jerry seemed happiest doing his solo stuff and it shines through. Remember, always play it loudly.
I feel the same way about the Bay Area rain whenever I visit... Jerry Garcia Band in the late 80s/early 90s with Melvin Seals on organ is also an excellent and new sound for the JGB... very gospel and funky. Very worth checking out, and Melvin Seals is still very active around CA with the JGB to this day.
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Hey, Happy New Year's to you and yours! 2021 is going to be awesome. Please consider reviewing Miyavi. I think I like him as much if not more than Stevie Ray Vaughn. He plays all styles of music all uniquely. I just watched him play the superbowl and then go straight to the Tokyo Dome. But, d*mn the man can rock and funk. Actually, it is mindblowing. He created a style of playing that is truly his. ua-cam.com/video/QYXL0OA2K9M/v-deo.html
Hey man pls. do a review on America songs specifically the "Right before your eyes" song. Hope you see this brotha 🙌
Happy new year man! Always enjoy your reactions. Can never get enough. You've shared music I've never heard before as well as bring back songs I've almost forgotten about over the years. Would love to have you take a listen to Julie Fowlis. She has a wonderful voice. ua-cam.com/video/9qaQpjRpDr4/v-deo.html . You'll definitely need to look up the translation for this song as it is sang in Gaelic.
Happy New Year! This is the same theater where I saw Metallica in November, 1986, in Passaic, NJ.
I would love to see you check out Tom T. Hall...Old Dogs and Children.
Donna Jean Godchaux is the woman singing...part of the history of not only JGB, but also the dead. Along with her husband Keith who played keyboards...love ya man!
Donna and Maria Muldaur
Donna Jean is from Muscle Shoals and sang with Percy Sledge and othes in that inspirational place
Alabama sweetness ❤️
that looks like Maria Mauldur singing with her...Bay Area regular...
Can't forget Maria Muldaur ♥️♥️♥️
I can’t tell you how much joy you’ve brought us this year, watching your reactions to such great music, and now that you have tapped into the Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band, I have actually been brought to tears watching how much joy this music has brought you! So, as the years continue to roll on, their Music Never Stops!!
Thank you, take care, and here’s to another year full of musical discovery and enjoyment for us all✌️
Peace & Love Mark ✌🏾🧔🏾✌🏾
I think I have to agree with this. One of the best things I've watched over the last year. Reminds me of my own journey that started way back in '85 or so. Enjoy the trip, Jamal.
Many casual fans don’t realize that in addition to his virtually nonstop touring with the Dead, Jerry was ALWAYS playing and was involved with many side projects. From his own JGB, to the New Riders of the Purple Sage, to Old & In The Way, to Legion of Mary, to many guest studio and live performances. As ubiquitous as the Dead were, even they couldn’t keep up with Jerry’s seemingly insatiable hunger to play all the time.
Right up until just about the very end, no less --was just reading the outtakes from Blair Jackson's Garcia bio about his session work in '95, with people in whom he'd taken an interest, and then had a feast for the ears
There's an interview with Bob Weir where he talks about needing a break and saying he doesn't know how Jerry constantly tours. He says it in a pretty funny way. I'm having a hard time remembering exactly how he worded it
@@Spacecowboy42 There was a dark side to it too though. In the "Long Strange Trip" documentary Bob says that they often thought about taking more breaks from touring because to help Jerry get sober, but they knew that it wouldn't matter because he'd just keep touring with his side projects.
Yes that’s Donna with the straight hair. The other vocalist is Maria Muldaur, who had a big hit in ‘73 with the jazzy “Midnight at the Oasis”. She was a fixture in the Greenwich Village folk scene along with Bob Dylan way back in the early 60’s, and had also been in a folk group with Jerry’s mandolin buddy David Grisman.
Not sure if mentioned yet but Maria was dating the bassist John Kahn during this time. I love her voice with Donna’s 😍
Midnight at the Oasis is worth a listen.
@@douglasleinbach6313 That album has always touched me in ways I don't quite understand! lol
@@daveguitarnowski4402 I think I understand. 😉 🌠
She was smoking hot back in the day. She used to play for tips in all the little coffee houses and beatnik Hangouts in Greenwich when Dylan was honing his craft doing the same. Man I would have loved growing up in that scene.
Check out some of the shows Jerry did with hammond organ player Merl Saunders. You will be blown away'. Jerry did so much music outside the Grateful Dead. Its like there were 3 Jerrys. There is even some great acoustic music that Jerry performed including playing in the the bluegrass band "Old And In The Way" One exclelent acoustic disc is called The Pizza Tapes with David Grisman and Tony Rice who just passed away a couple days ago. Here is Shady Grove ua-cam.com/video/5aCeFzCni_w/v-deo.html
Lucky Old Sun! Melvin melts faces ua-cam.com/video/GXRQmCNGyB8/v-deo.html
One Merl & Jerry band is called “Legion of Mary” circa 74-75. I prefer the 75 era more as they’re really locked in
The Keystone Concert albums were killer. Garcia and Saunders with John Kahn and Bill Vitt.
They were on fire on those nights.
We somehow got Merl to play our New Year’s Eve party for Y2K. Rounding out the crew was Leo Nocitelli from the Meters, and this amazing drummer from New Orleans, Derrick Freeman. Picked them all up from the airport and hung for a few days before and after. Minus the parts I forgot from being hammered, it’s a time I’ll never forget
Yes
The “Well” of Jerry is bottomless. There is so much fun to discover!!
Now you’re gettin’ where ya need to be gettin’. Church!
It's actually...choich! Get that OEE to it. 'Cause ya feel it!
@@squigtonianmayhem4602 Lol!😄
@@squigtonianmayhem4602 my first JGB show was in a church in Philly and at setbreak, there was an NA meeting letting out of the basement, or taking a break, and when everyone went back inside, a few of them went upstairs, not downstairs. A very strange mingling of crowds
@@kbbl102.5 I appreciate you sharing this memory of yours. Do you remember what city it was in? Lots of heads are in 12 step rooms . Me included for over 14 years now💀⚘⚡
His side projects were something special. Jerry played with so many great musicians over his life, and he considered every one of them an influence on himself. He didn't consider himself a great. He just loved to play with friends. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Jamel. Happy New Year!
Great way to end the the year, with Jerry’s voice. On to 2021 and better days ahead.
Yes, the Mission! "Walking along in the Mission, in the rain..." You gotta love performers who are so obviously happy to be playing music.
One of these days you need to do JGB’s “Rubin and Cherise.”
My favorite
Yes please!
Absolutely!! Jamel's ready for it now! :)
I say the first version done with the Dead...anybody heard the first rueben and cherise? Its the best one...check it out
Written by Bob Dylan. Hunter wrote very few JGB songs. Mostly GDEAD.
Some of Jerry's solos are like old locomotives chuggin up a mountain. A slow rhythm and not sure we're gonna get there sense, but without the anxious feeling. We just ride.
Donna Jean Godchaux, wife of pianist Keith Godchaux. They were both members of the Grateful Dead during the 70s.
Funny story I met her back in 2006 at a farm party that Boombox was doing a special show. My friend invited me for cool with those people. Her son is Zion who fronts boombox, anyways decided to take a trip and was hitting hard. Went inside the house chilled on the couch in walks Donna and introduced herself. I had so many questions haha. She was the sweetest and knew I was on my own adventure. She talked a lot about playing in the band. Was awesome
The young lady is Donna Jean Godchaux. That’s her husband Keith on the keyboards. They played with the Dead from 71 until his death in ‘79. If you do Dead from that period you’ll see/hear her. (You would’ve heard her on the Scarlet/Fire you did from 77.)
She also sang backing for Elvis on Suspicious Minds.
and the other one would be Maria Muldaur
who scored a hit with
Midnight at the Oasis
@@stevenhershkowitz2265 I didn’t know who she was thank you
Actually her husband didn't die until a year or two after they left the Dead.
Thanks for taking us out of this god awful year with a little Jerry. He lives on as long as we keep listening and appreciating.
Robert Hunter wrote this song as well. He and Jerry were long time life long friends.
The lyrics. Jerry wrote all the music, to all their tunes.
The San Francisco sound.
Pre-Dead, Hunter (bass) and Garcia (banjo) played together in the Hart Valley Drifters, an American Folk Revival group formed in 1962 along with fellow future New Riders of the Purple Sage's Dave Nelson (guitar).
“I’m ready to give everything for anything I take”
It's 2021 as I watch this. Who needs a ball drop when we got Jamel to ring us in proper!? Health and prosperity to you and yours my friend! ✌🏼This is fantastic!!!
16:15 "Beautiful and sad, at the same time" describes virtually every Garcia/Hunter song.
Thanks, Jamel. Great to see you enjoying these treasures. I HIGHLY recommend to you to check out Jerry Garcia Band from about 1988 to 1991, when they were in their peak with Melvin Seals playing the Hammond organ and the two doo-wop sisters. Try “The Harder They Come” cover or “Stop That Train”, maybe “Lucky Ol’ Son”. It is seriously like going to church.......the BESt, and I’ve been a Deadhead for about 35 years. Seeing JGB (Jerry Garcia Band) at the Warfield Theatre in SF in 1989, 1990, and 1991 was seriously magical. Check it out.....I KNOW you will LOVE it. Cheers.
I was there at the Warfield those years! 92 is when Charlie introduced me to Bear and all the doors were opened! Lol
HE smiled at 70s Frisco
Love that Jamel is checking out some core Jerry songs. Keep digging my friend... there's some gold to be found!
OMG YES! JGB for life!
That is one of the 50 songs in my top 5 from Jerry!
Touche'! And it will change tomorrow, right? :)
Happy New Year Jamel Mission in the rain is one of Jerry’s best. The whole Reflections Alblum is amazing
Brother Lover of Music,
My name is Michael T. I have collected various genre of music on 78 rpm, 45 rpm and 33 1//3 rpm vynals, cassette tapes, as well as CDs. Having lived nearly 70 years, I have been exposed to almost every type of music recorded. Also, I have the desire to do so because it makes me feel good.
Since I have been observing your reviews (via UA-cam and online) you have rekindled so many memories that music has embedded in my soul.
I throughly enjoy your comments. Comments that have enlightened me, saddened me with the pleasantry of memories, lifted my spirits, and excited my soul - lifting it like a hawk floating on an airstream. I kid you not!!
At your age the innocence and excitement you display when listening to a variety of music, generally unknown to you, is very refreshing. And, I am pleased to say I feel the innocence and excitement right along with you. To say music is the universal language is an understatement, it is the language that surpasses the Visable Universe.
Enough said.
Thank you, Jamel/ Jamal and may you be blessed and stay blessed.
Your Brother in Music, Michael T
The woman is Donna Godchaux. She’s the woman you hear doing back up for 70’s Grateful Dead concerts. Her husband is the pianist at the time. Also, the song isn’t about Jerry. It’s about a man who is basically homeless and needs to go to the mission because of how bad his life has been
Yes and no, Jerry had been quoted multiple times stating that the song is essentially Hunter writing about Jerry's heroin addiction. In an interview with Blair Jackson in '91, Jerry said that Hunter wrote the song to be semi-autobiographical for Jerry.
@@nicholasnewman937 didn’t know that. Thank you for the knowledge!
@@korilazarus6652 For sure! And yeah the line, "Ten years ago I walked these streets, my dreams were riding tall. Tonight I would be thankful for any dreams at all" is in direct reference (along with a few other verses) to Jerry becoming more and more consumed by that damn Persian heroin
@@nicholasnewman937 "...my dreams were riding tall..."
@@jimd7260 Typo, thanks for pointing it out Easy Jim.
The two female vocalist are Donna Godchaux, whose husband Keith plays keyboards in the band, and Maria Muldaur (of Midnight at the Oasis fame). Killer song and Happy New Year !!!! ✌️😁❤️👍👏
Muldaur was dating the bassist, John Kahn.
Donna used to back Aretha down in Muscle Shoals
Happy New Year, Jamel!!!
Thank you for being...YOU!
and thanks for doing a Jerry solo reaction! 💜✌🎶
I told you yesterday, Jamel, that NYE was Grateful Dead time. We had a station in Chicago that would broadcast them every year on NYE. Jerry Garcia in his prime is the next best thing, and no better than Mission In The Rain. Thank you! Happy New Year!
Great to see someone really get turned onto something special, like Jerry. He was special. His music will live forever thanks to guys like you. Great job brother!
Immensely underrated. Belongs right there lyrically with Ripple, Attics, Stella, Brokedown, Comes a time.
Simply my favorite melodic improviser on guitar ever. Couple that with his uncanny, orgasmic ability to build a musical and vocal crescendo and then drop right back down...I guess what I am saying is, yup.
Happy New Year. One of my favorite Jerry Songs.
I always thought the Mission was a Spanish Catholic Mission for years until I was in San Francisco visiting a friend. We were walking along (in the rain) and he said, "This area's called the Mission". Oh, I get it! My favorite version of Mission in the Rain is by the Grateful Dead on 6-12-76, Boston Music Hall. Jerry's guitar playing is stunning.
It actually is one of the Spanish Missions - the Mission District is the neighborhood around the church.
Wholly shit 😂😂😂..got it on cassette and CD...blasted it in the parking lots back in the day, until jg died. Not again. Favorite..thanks😢..always got the 'where / when the hell is this from?'...dead only performed this a few times.
I love that you’ve become a total deadhead. This song has always been a favorite of mine. Wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous new year!
Happy New Year Jamel! Thanks for taking the edge off 2020! - JGB's "Midnight Moonlight" would be good for NYE!
This is a masterpiece! Great to see a happy Jerry on top of his game. The first time I heard this song I got so overwhelmed I couldn't bare listening again for a week.
Bittersweet ❤️
It's a joy to see you enjoying this beautiful and magical music! As an old hippie Deadhead once said to me, I will say to you, too: "Welcome to the Family!" Thank you for sharing your reactions with the world! Please check out Grateful Dead's Franklin's Tower, 5/9/77! It's a great song for releasing the old and bringing in the new!
Happy New Year!
Love my deadhead family✌💜
I'm from San Rafael Marin county San Francisco I pledge allegiance to the grateful Dead but I love Jerry Garcia band even more and these black and white videos from 76 1980 along with legion of Mary are the best sure grainy footage sound quality this is a wonderful version thank you Jamal and to the dead family for recommending this too. Might as well rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert yes I keep on keeping on keep up the good work tomorrow love you brother
Jamel I have been following your journey through music you have never heard before starting with metal. Your taste in music is like mine, all over the place and I love it! I started back when as a kid with the Beatles, Stones, the Who etc and never stopped listening all the way to Slipknot. But this was cool. Went to many Dead shows and this just felt so good. Thanks for what you do. Happy New Year brother and to everyone else here. Hope it's a better one then 2020. Peace
My favorite version of this song that’s on UA-cam. Stoked you’re checking it out. Happy New Year!
Young lady is Donna from the Grateful Dead. She sang on Elvis’ Suspicious Minds among other classic tracks.
So glad you are checking out Jerry Garcia Band, it's church to me and many others. One of the shining jewels of their repertoire in my opinion is "I'll Take A Melody", a cover of Allen Toussaint's masterpiece. Allen is one of New Orleans' most beloved R&B, soul, jazz, funk, gospel if you weren't already aware, and has been described as "one of popular music's greatest backroom figures". Truly incredible and moving piece of work that instills so much simultaneous sadness and power, but gives so much hope and beauty. Allen was an accomplished pianist and composer and both his and Jerry's band's renditions have the most BEAUTIFUL piano, combined with Jerry's obvious guitar genius -- when I showed a longtime dedicated Deadhead the video, he said Jerry's guitar lines and melodies were among the most unique he had ever heard him play, and that's coming from a true fanatic. Give it a shot if you'd like brother. Thank you for all you do for the music. So much love. Listening to this again with you hit me in a very powerful way. Loved your enthusiasm, music is wonderful and an amazing thing to be able to share with another like that - what a gift. ua-cam.com/video/4Bl_BdGGicY/v-deo.html
- James
I think you’d love ‘So Many Roads’ and ‘Wharf Rat’. You’re connecting to RH and Jerry. Take it deeper my man!
Those late 95 "So Many Roads", knowing now that the end was near, are almost too much for me to take, even now! I've been after him to do really good versions of "Wharf Rat" and "Stella Blue" for a while. Hope he gets around to it! I think Stella might bring him to his knees!
@@tommathews3964 I hear Tom. So Many Roads hits hard emotionally.
Jamel, Thank you for all that you do! Great reaction to a great song 🎵 👏 ✌
"You know when you say beautiful and sad at the same time ..." I have read interviews with both Jerry and - probably more relevant to this comment because they are yes, his lyrics - and Robert Hunter where they talked about trying to express "the bittersweet" - the dichotomy of sadness and joy.
I love how well you manage to tap into the emotional heart of these songs so quickly and directly.
This is one of my favorite Hunter/Garcia compositions.
To have any dream at All praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ San Francisco San Rafael Marin county California Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari
It's that dichotomy of life , showing both the light and darkness, that to me is the essence of the dead.
This is one of my favorite Garcia\Hunter songs as well, and the JGB '78 versions are so beautiful with Maria and Donna s harmony on the chorus, Maria taking the high octave and Donna the low. Love how Jamel picked up on that right away.
Jerry looks like he's havin' a blast :) Nothin' left to do but smile smile smile
Jerry band, acoustic and electric, provided a different, intimate look at where Jerry's head was. It's probably not fair to the Dead scene, but Jerry shows sometimes seemed like getting to eat at the grown-ups table on Thanksgiving. I feel that missing piece in life, but tripping across your reactions is a great reminder.
Salvation army. In San Francisco. Sine .at the salvation army said come again.Credit Robert Hunter.
Happy New Year 2021 to Jamel and all his friends who keep great music alive by watching all his reactions. Keep it going Jamel. Peace out!
Great choice. Thank you Jamal. Please do Cats Under the Stars next!!!
Just the fact that this was cover art and central to JGB...
Check out Cats Under the Stars, Rubin&Cherise and Valerie.
YESSSS
Definitely! Three fine choices!
Rubin was only played 4ntimes with the dead a bunch with jgb. If you liaten to audiemce recordings of the dead when they play rubin and cherise the crowd goes insane!
yes, yes, yes, 100% agree!!! Please check out an 80's version when you do as well. You absolutely need to experience Melvin! I'll throw a Lucky Old Sun in there, too. If Melvin's Hammond solo doesn't touch your soul......... ua-cam.com/video/GXRQmCNGyB8/v-deo.html
@@danielhubschmitt7897 I seen Lettuce play it with Bobby and John Mayer at Lockn in 2018.. they played all JGB tunes.. What an amazing weekend ⚡
You make me smile, I get the same feelings every time, no one like Jerry
Hes also playing his travis bean guitar it has that trademark T in the headstock of the guitar and sounds amazing. Wolf was getting some work done. This guitar has a bell sounding quality. Hunter wrote the words for sure. Thank you man.
thats Wolf he's playing. He got it back late 77
@@andrewbarnes1571 youre right
Jerry smiling is THE best ✌️
Now you have gone and done it.
Great reaction !!!! Yes. Jerry sound was happy and sad at same time ... God bless BROTHER JERRY !!! We miss you Jerry !!!
One of my very favorite JGB songs. And when you start reading about Donna Jean I always say”if Jerry liked her who are we to say anything” He let her write 2 songs on Cats Under the Stars.
Rains a wonderful song, highly underrated
Love how you found that Specialness to LOVE Jerry
His music like this jus melts my stress away, but at a deeper level too.love this meaning and ur reaction too.
Yes, yes, yes! I was just practicing "Simple twist of fate" on guitar which they also do a great cover of. But this song! I already know this will be a great video.
All the Dylan covers they did were great.
Love that song.
For some reason this Jerry Garcia makes me feel so good! Maybe listening since childhood. Maybe it was the roses. Thanks Jamal for keeping it alive! Thanks to my parents for introducing me to Jerry.
Jamel, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your kindness and love of music. You sparked a lot of joy for me in 2020, a year that had little joy within. Bob Weir preformed with RatDog the evening of Jerry's death in August 1995. He opened with these words. "So our departed friend, if he proved anything thing to us, he proved that good music can make sad times better. We've got our work cut out for us this evening."
You did that for all of us last year. Hearing music new to me and reintroducing old music to hear again made my life better. It would be a blast to catch a live show with you, no doubt. Looking forward to your offerings in 2021. Peace, Brother
Bird Song........Happy New Year
Jamal aka Jamal bird song is sublimely beautiful.
Live at Radio City Music Hall, 1980!!
Absolutely mesmerizing. Outstanding. Otherworldly.
New Years Eve, Jamal, and Jerry???? Yes, please and one more time on New Years Day!
That’s Donna Jean Godchaux. Her n her husband, Keith(keys), played with the dead in the 70’s. And she sat in with JGB sometimes, too. And Legion of Mary(another Jerry/dead side project in the mid 70’s. VERY funky era)
Hey buddy, you are one of the UA-camrs that I have been following and enjoying this year. So glad to have discovered you. I hope you stay healthy and have a wonderful time in 2021. All the best.
Rain hitting the tin roof of a trailer late at night, never have sleep better.
This is my favorite version of one of my very favorite most cherished songs of all time. It brings me SO much joy watching you hear this haha. Really takes me back these are so beautiful
Your smile says a lot too.
This is one of the best reactions that you’ve ever done. This song is Jerry at his best.
A great choice for welcoming in the New Year! Best Wishes for a Happy and Brave New Year!
Great song to end 2020. Jerry love all the way.
Have great New Years Everyone !!peace and love to all
Just pure Garcia magic. The fact that someone back in 1978 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic N.J. was smart enough to get a film crew and record this show, maintain the tapes all these years, edit something together like this and put it out to the masses, even if it's Black and white, is nothing short of a miracle. Try looking into the Garcia/Saunders album Live at Keystone from 1973. The songs Like A Road, My Funny Valentine and Someday Baby are real standouts. Almost jazz, almost rock, almost soul...but totally amazing. Boy, doing a Garcia Band reaction once a week or more would make for an awesome 2021!
I have black and white photos I took of this lineup the same year but out on Long Island. My first show. 9th grade. We arrived at 2:00 for an 8:00 show. Robert Hunter Band then New Riders and then Jerry. Show went on until 4am! Thanks for this great memory!!!
Love the hat man
Happy New Year. Thanks for listening to Jerry. ⚘❤⚘
I moved to the mission district because of this song...and the burritos!
One of the prettiest songs ever.❤
One of my absolute favorite Jerry songs. Thank you as always Jamel!
I was at this show! That’s Donna Jean Godchaux and Maria Muldaur on vocals.
Lucky sob!
There were two women singing. The one with the long, straight hair was Donna Jean Godchaux, who was a member of the Dead for most of the '70s. The one with the thick curly hair was Maria Muldaur, who had a solo hit (reached #6) with "Midnight at the Oasis", and was a member of the JGB for a while as well.
one of the best songs ever..
Unbelievable. So great! Astonishing. Brilliant.
Jerry was on record stating that Mission was the most biographically personal song that Hunter ever wrote for him. It's a pretty pointed warning from Hunter about the potential being wasted due to Jerry's life choices. The lyrics are all about missed opportunities, and doing things “half way”. It’s always been interesting to me that Jerry always sang it triumphantly. He was comfortable pushing the boundaries and understood the risks. He was a genius *in spite* of his addictions. NOT because of them
Happy New Year! This was a treat to wake up to on New Year's day, thank you!
I once heard Joan Osborne talk about Jerry's singing voice. He doesn't have the greatest voice but the songs just seem to play themselves through him. That Mission in the Rain just plays itself throw him with all the feeling its meant to have... Man is that good...
Garcia, and most of the Grateful Dead grew up in the Bay Area and lived there throughout the GD being in existence.
Before listening, one of my favorite songs all time. 😊...get back to you soon....
One of my favorites!
You get it,this reaction made me teary eyed to see somebody discover the beauty and greatness of the dead. Enjoy this ride there so many great songs✌
"Somewhere in San Francisco, on a back porch in July..."
Garcia and hunter go way back to the early sixties when they were folk singers
it's a triple entendre: The Mission District, being on a mission, but also the Spanish Franciscan Missions (missionary churches) that are some of the oldest buildings in California, stretching from Southern CA all the way North. 'The bells are not for me'...
The smell of rain! Not just the sound!
Bitter sweetness!
I got into Jerry before I got into the Dead. I waited until my 40's to really begin listening to him/them because I knew that would be it. I have XM for one reason, Grateful Dead Channel, I never turn it off.
Jerry seemed happiest doing his solo stuff and it shines through. Remember, always play it loudly.
I feel the same way about the Bay Area rain whenever I visit... Jerry Garcia Band in the late 80s/early 90s with Melvin Seals on organ is also an excellent and new sound for the JGB... very gospel and funky. Very worth checking out, and Melvin Seals is still very active around CA with the JGB to this day.