One of our favorites for sure 💀 have to credit Little Feat founder and producer extraordinaire Lowell George who produced this song and album, and helped craft the funkier than usual sound. Patiently waiting for a dark star next.....
Which live version of Dark Star do you recommend to a beginner? I’ve spent the past week with Dick’s Picks 3 and Shakedown Street and I’m ready for more :)
Jamel, I stopped in to view this vid - for 2 reasons. 1st.. b/c it is you. 2nd b/c its the DEAD. There is indescribably more to this band than we ever believed to be the case :)
But also one that’s hard not to get off your behind and shake a little dance a little, poke a round and that little hollar that he just got right in the end. The ‘Woo’ the one thing every deadhead has done soo loud at one point or another that memory off all those beautiful people joining along together is so special it touches my heart every time:)
No one could possibly get into the Dead from hearing this atrocious shit. If that guy was at a show, he'd be freakin out trying to get to the exit 😂😂🤮🤮🤮😩
Ah yes my dad’s signature dance move, the bob around and FEEL IT 🤣 I hated growing up on Live Dead recordings but I am jealous now of what he got to experience at those shows!
Fair warning: You have not yet BEGUN to experience everything the Dead brought to the table. Their styles changed from album to album and year to year and even set to set in one night. Everything from folk and bluegrass to jazz and funk to what-the-hell-is-THIS (with a grin as wide as the cosmos). Keep digging, you WILL be blown away.
Yup... a completely different experience could always be expected from that band! They were the best. I remember philosophizing with some tourheads on tour one night in 1993 summer tour abt how the correct parting b4 a show was always enjoy YOUR show and not the show... because the experience is all abt you and your state of mind!
Please do yourself a favor and do Terrapin Station, the whole studio version and then Scarlet Begonias...”Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places If you look at it right” One of the finest lines ever written! Amen and God Bless The Grateful Dead! RIP Jerry ✌️
😂 I love seeing that shoulder shimmy come to life. The 70s stabilized their beat but never robbed their spirit. Welcome to infinite hours of great music!!! Love like a hippie buddy!!!
The vibes I experienced going to Dead shows in the early 70’s still reverberate in my psyche. The Grateful Dead and all it’s iterations is a HUGE rabbit hole!
Oh my lord, we’re getting the Dead again?!! 🙏🙏🙏 So grateful I was able to experience them live once, and the and the whole tailgate/vendor/community. What a trip! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🖤🤍🤎
If you want to dive in deep with the Dead, you can't go on your own way without listening to the greatest "Robert Hunter" (The songwriter for the Dead) composition ever written for the Dead, the one and only song "Terrapin Station." This is the Dead's Magnum Opus and should not be missed. Terrapin Station is also an album but I'm talking about the song itself.
My preferred Terrapin Station (track 13) is on Dozin’ At the Knick, preferably with tracks 11 and 12, Uncle John’s Band and Lady With a Fan before it. They fit it all together in a way that is totally awe inspiring.
Yesssss Great request. I think he will like it if he lets himself go.. .” I can’t figure out ..is this the end or beginning? ...?” No other song like this. No other band like them. Terrapin will take you up slowly feeling it swirl in your core lifting you up and up off the earth and then it will bring you down gently to earth.
Oh..THANK YOU...I love watching your heartfelt reactions to the Grateful Dead and other bands. I am a long time deadhead and enjoy new perspectives on old tunes...Shakedown is an iconic song from the Dead and has become the name for the outside parking lot areas where tshirts, food and art is sold...where people gather before the show....your ears are welcoming and your heart is HUGE...all of us in the Dead community love you......hard to suggest tunes as there are so many but you may enjoy " Help on the Way" "Throwin' Stones" and "New Speedway Boogie"
What a terrific video delight. Your reaction to Shakedown Street, (that used to be the heart of town) is yet another validation of your compelling skill set and the entertainment value of what you do. Naysayers abound yet don't tell me youtube aint' got no heart, ya just gotta poke around. Bravo! ;-)
I love the Grateful Dead and was lucky enough to see them live with Jerry, but Phish has played around 850 different, unique songs in concert with about 300 originals Edit - Phish pulled off an amazing feat a few years ago with the Baker’s Dozen at Madison Square Garden. 13 shows in a row at MSG - no song repeats - and they gave out specially prepared donuts every night and themed the songs around the donut styles. There’s video of Metallica talking to each other about it - and they just sat speechless for a while.
I’ve been listening to the dead since 93 and never quite took the time to actually listen to this songs entire message until this video. Dang, nice video 🫡
I have a dear friend, this is his favorite group. I was into disco, R & B, and classical rock. Heard of them but not their music. He took me to see Further, who was founded in 2009 by Great full Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. First time hearing it live was amazing. Take it from me, hearing the audio, has NOTHING on seeing them live. The energy is something you definitely should experience. Like church!!!
After the song and album's release, "Shakedown Street" became the affectionate term for the "lot" scene (tailgating), with its tents, vending, etc. The thing to do in the 80s and 90s was to show up several hours before the doors opened, and hit up Shakedown...
I remember Cleveland, March, 1993, when it was blizzarding outside and like -35 wind chill. We really had to poke around that day, but even so we found an alright scene!
wrong ! NOBODY called it shakedown..further more, there was no "IT"..people sold food, stickers, t-shirts out of backpacks and trunks of cars w the occasional coolers and grill serving egg rolls or falafel..it was a wandering vendor thing to get tix for next show, gas or weed etc...there was no LOT..there was no VENDING AREA..that was only after the late 80's and the whole scene got discovered and ruined. I started in 1980..not one single person said shakedown..again there was no area to even CALL shakedown..people didn't say BUSTOUT, mother ship or any iof that other hokey shit. that was all after the touch heads and fish creeps showed up..ruining everything
Bro, that groove you were feeling is what Grateful Dead Family have been living on for years. That energy is in almost every song they play. Sometimes it's different from song to song, but the spirit of the music is in there. So glad you get to enjoy it for your first time.
The first time I saw The Grateful Dead was at the Fillmore East in 1968! I went to the late show which started at 10 o'clock. The show went on until 6 o'clock the next morning!!! We stumbled out of The Fillmore squinting and giggling in the morning sun. There was no shortage of chemicals drifting through the hall, and the music carried us all away to a better place. Pig Pen was still alive, and they could go from funk to rock to country to folk to outer space at will! Jerry Garcia was a guitar giant. He had a very unique style. The next time they were in town I took my High School sweetheart to the early show!
You totally "got it" right from the rip. Always great watching someone fall into that feeling. You nailed the vibe of the song too. Shakedown is even the area Deadheads gather before the shows to buy, sell, eat and partake in all sorts of things. So many might see the scene as negative but if poke around a little bit you are bound to find the love that keeps everyone coming back.
Dude, I love your expressions/mannerisms! You're like, "OK Grateful Dead, I see you work!" You seem just like a genuine guy who loves and understands music and lyrics. You're real, and these videos make my day!
If he loves the album version of this song OMG he would be in HEAVEN on a live version...might I suggest one? even if only to listen to for fun Shakedown Street (Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 26, 1979) ua-cam.com/video/tuqfvX0lVjw/v-deo.html
thankful the bus stops for anyone who wants to ride. I was only 7 when Jerry passed, and didn't discover/get in to the Dead until after i found Phish in my early 20s.
Loved your reaction to Shakedown St. Shakedown St is a area of vending at Dead concerts so you got it totally correct man. Glad you liked it. I've been a fan since 76 and still truckin
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart When I can hear it beat out loud! At live Dead shows, Shakedown St was the place you could go and buy handmade goods, garlic grilled cheese sandwiches, and pretty much anything else you needed to enjoy the show........wink wink
Yeah, you could say the Dead covered a lot of musical ground over the years. Disco Dead didn’t go down so well with some of the faithful, but you gotta give the band credit for rolling with the changing times. And this is one funky groove. A concert highlight for about 20 years. Great 2nd set opener!
Yup. I remember in the 80's Deadheads calling this the Disco album. Workingman's Dead is great, and it's pretty much straight country. Indeed, they could do it all.
It’s just the tip of iceberg my friend. There’s a reason many of us are still and will forever be obsessed until the day we die. It’s the lot before the show FYI.
Shakedown was a special occasion in the latter years of the Grateful Deads shows. From '87 to '95 they played it only 2 or 3 times live. Everytime they played in Chicago Shakedown was all but guaranteed and it never failed to please. Such an amazing song.
This is one of my favorites. Live or studio versions. From a girl that would sell her wares when I followed the Grateful Dead on tour, this would always get us jumping! It was so fun watching you discover it. That’s my favorite part of the legacy. Watching new people find out just why I love them like I do. Wish I could post a pic of me on Shakedown at the lot. I did hair wraps, sold dresses I made and sold water after the shows. It means a lot of things but the Deadheads made their living on Shakedown Street. ✌️❤️⚡️💙
This song got a lot of hate when it first came out, from people who had a fixed idea in their mind of what THEIR Grateful Dead sounded like. I'm sorry, they were just wrong. The Dead could play and did play whatever they wanted to, and anybody who tried to place a limit on that just didn't get it. "Shakedown Street" is The Dead, no ifs ands or buts. And check out this Deadhead miracle: My first Dead show was in southern California, in the soccer field at Cal State Dominguez Hills. 18 years later, I got a T-shirt FROM THAT VERY CONCERT in a thrift store in Oklahoma City. (I hadn't gotten an official shirt at the concert, because I bought two tie-dies in the parking lot on the way in.) My wife couldn't understand why I was so freaked when I found it, she just thought I'd lost my damn mind in the men's shirts aisle.
Don't remember if Jamel did a reaction yet to Marshall Tucker Band's "Fire On the Mountain", but both are great songs while totally different. Comparing would be a bit of a brain-twister.
I like to ask people a musical question. If you were stuck on a deserted island and could only listen to one artist or band for the rest of your life, who would it be? My answer is Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. The variety is insane, from bluegrass to blues, funk to jazz. Sometimes slow and sometimes fast tempos. A little bit of everything. Jerry's side projects; Reconstruction, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Old and In the Way, and Jerry Garcia Band all sound very different. From each other, and from the Dead. You'd probably like the Jerry Garcia Band a lot. Like going to church. ;) Check out "Brothers and Sisters" from 9/1/1990. It's on the UA-cam. If you want Grateful Dead funk at it's finest, check out the live version of "Dancing In The Streets" from Cornell 1977. Absolutely amazing. People often use the phrase "Rabbit Hole" to describe one's introduction to a new catalog of music. Jerry's music goes as deep as anyone, dating back to music made popular in the late 1800's! Songs so old that the author is unknown.
First of all I loved your video !! Second, the thing about the GD is that they did so many genres of music. Also, having seen them 30+ times you never knew what they were going to play on any given night. Most bands play the same set list night after night. I saw them 4 nights in a row at the Philadelphia Spectrum and they played different songs all 4 nights. Third, Before and after the shows the parking lots were mind blowing. Almost like a carnival itself. People dancing, selling jewelry, t-shirts, food, good drugs like pot hash and acid, never saw a fight, argument or hassle among Deadheads. I don’t know if the world will ever have anything like it again God Bless The Grateful Dead
@@charlespolenzani2219 I'm partial to RFK 91. Was there and when Phil hit those bass notes. Felt like the place shook. But One From The Vault is killer.
Yes yes yes! I am SO happy to see you 1st time groovin' on the real vibe...yes, now YOU are Gratefully Deadicated! I have danced my ass of to this song live and the joy we all had to this one~` GOLDEN!!
Jamel you would have a helluva time at a Dark Star Orchestra concert. They play recreations of Dead shows and they sound incredible. Lots of smiling and dancing!
Depends on what you’re looking for, but there are many great ways to hear the Dead’s music live! Dead & Co., JRAD, Darkstar like you said, and countless cover and tribute bands. Well, at least there were about 6 months ago...
Man I hear this song and brought a tear to my eyes. I miss Jerry so much. Jerry was such an awesome guitarist. I am very fortunate, I got to see the Dead numerous times. The Dead like playing the northeast of the country. And I was at Boston University from 1981-1985.
Your reaction is awesome, their concerts were a true spectacular scene. That album came out in 1977 so we considered it the Grateful Dead version of Disco as you described, but with of dose of funk. "Shake Down Street it is the heart of the town"
Ok, now you’ve done it. “To Lay Me Down” “Morning Dew” “Bird Song” “China Doll” OMG, there’s a never-ending list!!!! The instruments on China Doll tho!!! And the words... uhhhh... GD forever ❤️
Jerry Garcia had a side gig playing with the Jerry Garcia Band, they did a lot of covers and got into soul and funk also. This cut sounds more like Jerry Garcia Band as much as the Dead. He also in a BLuegrass Ban Old and in the Way.
@@ronaldowens5025 Memorial Day 5-26-73 The Dead did a concert with thee NRPS and Waylon Jennings. BUddy Cage and Jerry on the stage watcddhing Ralph Mooney on the Pedal Steel enjoying a master of the Instrument.
I know you hear this a million times from Dead Heads, but you gotta go with the live version man. Studio Dead does not capture this band in their greatest form. Even the Dead know their studio work _attempted_ , mostly to no avail, to capture their live sound as best as they could. Their studio work is more of a like an advertisement for the songs as opposed to the song itself. The song itself is heard in a live setting with the band. It is a living, breathing spirit and energy that they tap into when they're actually playing the songs. Always changing, never the same way twice. That is what gives you the best of the Grateful Dead. The best versions of every single song they ever wrote and recorded were done in a live show.
So true. Everything you wrote is so true. Since 1978 I have been checking these guys out, and I've been to so many shows I've lost count. Everything you just said Is Right on the money.
@@foundatlanta Well, Mr. Charlie, I think I must agree with you there, Shakedown is absolutely one of the better studio Dead songs for sure. Songs from American Beauty and Workingman's Dead aside, Shakedown Street is definitely a solid studio track. I'll throw Help->Slip (but not Franklin's Tower) on there as being good studio tracks for the band as well.
my go to grateful jukebox song....love seeing people bobbing their heads and jamming to it. then i come around and tell them its the grateful dead...shocked always!
@@kristiwheels9381 I'm partial to the NYE Eyes of the World with Brantford ua-cam.com/video/2S7ZvaWLsmA/v-deo.html but of course this Nassau Eyes what where that particular magic happened ua-cam.com/video/TO4YV185orE/v-deo.html I know you know this Kristi, just though if @jamel_AKA_Jamal wanted to know about this 'Marsalis' stuff
Thank you so much for doing Shakedown Street! You totally understood the song. The shoulder dancing you were doing was perfect! You would fit in at a show and would love it!! When Dead and Co starts playing again, you should catch them.
I posted this much earlier i know lots of request, no worries, I can relate, just letting you get another remminder. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, I'm not sure if you have heard of her, she was before Elvis and many others I think before Chuck Berry, thus blast from the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. Making her known as “the original soul sister” and “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll.” Songs form her. ua-cam.com/video/M4hRGNkhN1s/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/jOrhjgt-_Qc/v-deo.html Big Mama Thornton, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. Thornton's other recordings included the original version of "Ball and Chain", which she wrote. Hound Dog. ua-cam.com/video/frsBq9MCNVg/v-deo.html Ball n Chain. ua-cam.com/video/vypSOetzlQo/v-deo.html Her last performance of ball n chain. ua-cam.com/video/vbdUjHmCHA4/v-deo.html
Shakedown always got the crowd going. It’s got that universal beat and everyone just loved it. Nice to see you get off on it too, and notice the marriage of lyric and song. It’s what makes it a truly great song.
This is some fun Dead. Keep doing more my man! Try some Jerry Garcia Band, you’d love his version of “I Second That Emotion” or any other Motown covers.
Anything from that spring tour of '77 is simply magical but that entire 2nd set of that night at Cornell is one of the greatest sets in Dead history. That Scarlet Begonias->Fire on the Mountain is insane. My friends and I wore out more than one copy of that show on cassette in the 80's and 90's.
Anything from Cornell 77 is fire. He should def listen to that whole show... especially dancing in the street. That’s one of the best versions of all time
I personally like “Fire on the Mountain” the best but there are so many good songs from this band. I use to follow them around from concert to concert in my teens.
I would suggest anything off their “Europe 72’ album to start when it comes to live dead. It’s can be hard to navigate the never ending archive of live shows and for a beginner Europe 72 is definitely a good starting point and a good way to get your feet wet
My folks had taken my younger sister to the record store and somehow a cassette copy of Europe '72 was in her bag. This was around '74. I was 13 and had not heard of the Dead. So my initiation was Cumberland Blues. I remember thinking, this sounds pretty good but it sure is a strange name for a Country and Western band. Still on the bus.
I love seeing videos like this, I grew up listening to the grateful dead, although I’m too young to have ever seen them live, My dad instilled a love for the grateful dead in me when I was a child. I love this music and I love seeing people loving this music.
This makes me so happy, and the vibe is Universal... Shakedown Street was where you could get anything....from clothes, food and "substances" ...it was the hub, of love Peace and understanding...
One of our favorites for sure 💀 have to credit Little Feat founder and producer extraordinaire Lowell George who produced this song and album, and helped craft the funkier than usual sound. Patiently waiting for a dark star next.....
Woa Jamal, you got GD channel to respond? Hetty bro...
Which live version of Dark Star do you recommend to a beginner? I’ve spent the past week with Dick’s Picks 3 and Shakedown Street and I’m ready for more :)
Congrats 🎊
Right on Cat!
Jamel, I stopped in to view this vid - for 2 reasons. 1st.. b/c it is you. 2nd b/c its the DEAD. There is indescribably more to this band than we ever believed to be the case :)
Seeing a non-deadhead react to the dead like this makes my heart filled with joy. May you continue down the road of gratefulness.
Andrew Durdunas slowly his face getting stolen.
Came to say exactly this. Gave me goosebumps.
This is so good
But also one that’s hard not to get off your behind and shake a little dance a little, poke a round and that little hollar that he just got right in the end. The ‘Woo’ the one thing every deadhead has done soo loud at one point or another that memory off all those beautiful people joining along together is so special it touches my heart every time:)
Well said Andrew.
Produced by my father, Mr. Lowell George!
Forrest George Respect ✊✌️❤️
Miss your dad. His music makes me feel good. Its timeless! Got to see him live and I was hooked from then on. He is missed
Yo pops is a legend !
Your father had the greatest voice love Little Feat!
We lost your dad and Lynyrd Skynyrd while I was in high school. Still bummed I never got to see them live.
We were waiting for him to get into the Dead. He just had to poke around.
4:12😎
Totally
No one could possibly get into the Dead from hearing this atrocious shit. If that guy was at a show, he'd be freakin out trying to get to the exit 😂😂🤮🤮🤮😩
Don't tell me Jamel ain't got no heart... :-)
I love how he dances like a head without even knowing the culture and everything🤣 Definitely one of the coolest Deadhead youtubers. This is awesome!
Ah yes my dad’s signature dance move, the bob around and FEEL IT 🤣 I hated growing up on Live Dead recordings but I am jealous now of what he got to experience at those shows!
Yay more grateful dead! They did lots of genres, and this was the rare disco dead section. Keep doing their songs! I say do Franklin's Tower next!!!
Help->Slipknot->Franklin's Tower
Yeah, Franklin's Tower from 5/22/77
@@brucegrossman3531 That's the proper way to do it!
I suggested SDS and FT over on instagram months ago. I’m so happy he did one of them. Hopefully he will do Franklins Tower too.
@@brucegrossman3531 absolutely! Must do HOTW/SK/FT. Only way to hear it.
Grateful Dead will put you on a journey brother. Althea, bird song, jack straw, Cassidy, sugaree, and list goes on and on and on
Totally agree man 100% ... Can't argue w any of your suggestions lol... named 1 of my kids after your first one lol, Althea 😎✊
I wish i could like your comment more than once.
@@rvnfan115 lol my daughters name is Emily....you should get that brotha
He don’t know what he’s in for lol
Althea is simply an amazing song!!!!!!
Fair warning: You have not yet BEGUN to experience everything the Dead brought to the table.
Their styles changed from album to album and year to year and even set to set in one night. Everything from folk and bluegrass to jazz and funk to what-the-hell-is-THIS (with a grin as wide as the cosmos).
Keep digging, you WILL be blown away.
So right, it's what I enjoyed the most.
Yup... a completely different experience could always be expected from that band! They were the best. I remember philosophizing with some tourheads on tour one night in 1993 summer tour abt how the correct parting b4 a show was always enjoy YOUR show and not the show... because the experience is all abt you and your state of mind!
@@emr6153 no doubt
Beautifully said, Don.
I know you know but you left out, they were one hell of a blues band for a good chunk of the 60s
Please do yourself a favor and do Terrapin Station, the whole studio version and then Scarlet Begonias...”Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places If you look at it right” One of the finest lines ever written! Amen and God Bless The Grateful Dead! RIP Jerry ✌️
Best Ever!!!!!
Hear, hear!!!
Weather Report Suite/ Let it Grow are worthy of review by him too.
😂 I love seeing that shoulder shimmy come to life. The 70s stabilized their beat but never robbed their spirit. Welcome to infinite hours of great music!!! Love like a hippie buddy!!!
The vibes I experienced going to Dead shows in the early 70’s still reverberate in my psyche.
The Grateful Dead and all it’s iterations is a HUGE rabbit hole!
And a wonderful one too. (~):-}
late 80's early 90's (after Jerry started getting healthy, and before the relapse) were some really good years as well.
@@markgarber3465 Scuba diving Jerry was a happy Jerry
I don’t know what I would’ve done or who I would’ve been without them. ☮️
@@leesvideopage So true. It’s why they did all those Miami shows! The Keys are right down the road. Scuba Jerry. I 💙Scuba Jerry. 🐠🐠🐟🐠🐠
Oh my lord, we’re getting the Dead again?!! 🙏🙏🙏 So grateful I was able to experience them live once, and the and the whole tailgate/vendor/community. What a trip! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🖤🤍🤎
If you want to dive in deep with the Dead, you can't go on your own way without listening to the greatest "Robert Hunter" (The songwriter for the Dead) composition ever written for the Dead, the one and only song "Terrapin Station." This is the Dead's Magnum Opus and should not be missed. Terrapin Station is also an album but I'm talking about the song itself.
With the way this dude listens to tunes, a Terrapin reaction would take like a hour. It'd be amazing.
I think Jamel would dig the studio version. All the suites. The studio version has that disco vibe to it. To my ears that is.
Amen- I just requested that song before reading the comments. Great minds...
My preferred Terrapin Station (track 13) is on Dozin’ At the Knick, preferably with tracks 11 and 12, Uncle John’s Band and Lady With a Fan before it. They fit it all together in a way that is totally awe inspiring.
Yesssss Great request. I think he will like it if he lets himself go.. .” I can’t figure out ..is this the end or beginning? ...?” No other song like this. No other band like them. Terrapin will take you up slowly feeling it swirl in your core lifting you up and up off the earth and then it will bring you down gently to earth.
This band changed my life in so many positive ways ⚡ went to my first show when I was 13 the summer of 84.. been on the bus ever since 💀
Amen to that same here 👍👍✌🏻
Oh..THANK YOU...I love watching your heartfelt reactions to the Grateful Dead and other bands. I am a long time deadhead and enjoy new perspectives on old tunes...Shakedown is an iconic song from the Dead and has become the name for the outside parking lot areas where tshirts, food and art is sold...where people gather before the show....your ears are welcoming and your heart is HUGE...all of us in the Dead community love you......hard to suggest tunes as there are so many but you may enjoy " Help on the Way" "Throwin' Stones" and "New Speedway Boogie"
What a terrific video delight. Your reaction to Shakedown Street, (that used to be the heart of town) is yet another validation of your compelling skill set and the entertainment value of what you do. Naysayers abound yet don't tell me youtube aint' got no heart, ya just gotta poke around. Bravo! ;-)
The Dead could do a lot of styles.
But still sound like the Dead.
I call it "Dead Rock" , "Dead Blues", "Dead Jazz", etc. They took every style and made it their own.
thats what real bands do. They survive for decades bt evolving .. Not so much anymore
Jerry's rifts are the glue in their magnet.
The Dead played over 400 different, unique songs in concert over the years, a record that will never be broken.
sadly you are most likely correct think about how cool it would be to see a record like that broken
Would be a huge milestone for live music, to see somebody do it.
I like to think no one in the world has played music on stage more than bob weir either.
I love the Grateful Dead and was lucky enough to see them live with Jerry, but Phish has played around 850 different, unique songs in concert with about 300 originals
Edit - Phish pulled off an amazing feat a few years ago with the Baker’s Dozen at Madison Square Garden. 13 shows in a row at MSG - no song repeats - and they gave out specially prepared donuts every night and themed the songs around the donut styles. There’s video of Metallica talking to each other about it - and they just sat speechless for a while.
Phish has played more than 800 songs in concert.
I’ve been listening to the dead since 93 and never quite took the time to actually listen to this songs entire message until this video. Dang, nice video 🫡
I have a dear friend, this is his favorite group. I was into disco, R & B, and classical rock. Heard of them but not their music. He took me to see Further, who was founded in 2009 by Great full Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. First time hearing it live was amazing. Take it from me, hearing the audio, has NOTHING on seeing them live. The energy is something you definitely should experience. Like church!!!
The whole reason I ever subbed was because you did a couple of Dead songs. Please keep exploring and you will dig it!
Same.
Lowell George of Little Feat produced this album. That’s probably why it’s got the funk!
Never bought their studio albums after Europe 72. Didn't see the point if it wasn't live but this is good.
Mickey Hart had a lot of influence with all the music he was listening to at the time.
Still hope to see a reaction to Little Feat-Spanish Moon off Waiting for Columbus album
Wow. I had no idea that Lowell was the producer. How did I not know that?
Love the studio outtake of him singing Good Lovin'. He sounds amazing!
ESTIMATED PROPHET! Must do that one!
St Of Circumstance
After the song and album's release, "Shakedown Street" became the affectionate term for the "lot" scene (tailgating), with its tents, vending, etc. The thing to do in the 80s and 90s was to show up several hours before the doors opened, and hit up Shakedown...
I remember Cleveland, March, 1993, when it was blizzarding outside and like -35 wind chill. We really had to poke around that day, but even so we found an alright scene!
No shit
Before and after the show, just had to poke around to find it. ♡
3 day shows at soldier field.miles of shakedown. 100000 people. Fkn awesome. Best times.
wrong ! NOBODY called it shakedown..further more, there was no "IT"..people sold food, stickers, t-shirts out of backpacks and trunks of cars w the occasional coolers and grill serving egg rolls or falafel..it was a wandering vendor thing to get tix for next show, gas or weed etc...there was no LOT..there was no VENDING AREA..that was only after the late 80's and the whole scene got discovered and ruined. I started in 1980..not one single person said shakedown..again there was no area to even CALL shakedown..people didn't say BUSTOUT, mother ship or any iof that other hokey shit. that was all after the touch heads and fish creeps showed up..ruining everything
Bro, that groove you were feeling is what Grateful Dead Family have been living on for years. That energy is in almost every song they play. Sometimes it's different from song to song, but the spirit of the music is in there. So glad you get to enjoy it for your first time.
I love that he got in the position when he's going to pause it, but then just backed of because the groove is so good!
It has begun!!! It makes me so happy to see you enjoy this
Long live Jerry! ✌🏼❤️
If you haven’t heard it, check out Uncles John’s Band. I think you would like it.
Serious dancing!
The first time I saw The Grateful Dead was at the Fillmore East in 1968! I went to the late show which started at 10 o'clock. The show went on until 6 o'clock the next morning!!! We stumbled out of The Fillmore squinting and giggling in the morning sun. There was no shortage of chemicals drifting through the hall, and the music carried us all away to a better place. Pig Pen was still alive, and they could go from funk to rock to country to folk to outer space at will! Jerry Garcia was a guitar giant. He had a very unique style. The next time they were in town I took my High School sweetheart to the early show!
You totally "got it" right from the rip. Always great watching someone fall into that feeling. You nailed the vibe of the song too. Shakedown is even the area Deadheads gather before the shows to buy, sell, eat and partake in all sorts of things. So many might see the scene as negative but if poke around a little bit you are bound to find the love that keeps everyone coming back.
Shakedown Street one of the best show openers.
I about sprained my finger clicking on this so fast lol
Lmao!! Yes!! I couldn’t click fast enough for this either.
Same!
My finger is in a splint now...
😂
Every song from the Dead is a new adventure!
Nothing we Deadheads love more than introducing Grateful Dead music!!!
Dude, I love your expressions/mannerisms! You're like, "OK Grateful Dead, I see you work!" You seem just like a genuine guy who loves and understands music and lyrics. You're real, and these videos make my day!
Due to what you like about this song, I cannot recommend strongly enough: Mississippi Uptown Toodle-oo.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! 🎵🎶💃🏼🕺🏿
😂
Hello baby I'm gone GOODBYE
None of their songs are underrated per say but I would say if there was an underrated it’d be Mississippi Halfstep
That has been my song of the moment for about a month now!
You need to listen to Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis sitting in.
Now that IMHO is straight up facts, killer jam, luv Branford...peace brother
Yessssss yes
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YES!!!
Yesterday was anniversary of a great Branford GD show
Just get on the bus. You can't fight it.
If he loves the album version of this song OMG he would be in HEAVEN on a live version...might I suggest one? even if only to listen to for fun
Shakedown Street (Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 26, 1979)
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Everything that wheel turns round you’re bound to cover just a little more ground
@@davenunyabusiness4893 steller find thank you for sharing! much love fam!
That's where it all began
thankful the bus stops for anyone who wants to ride. I was only 7 when Jerry passed, and didn't discover/get in to the Dead until after i found Phish in my early 20s.
The most Disco they ever got but damn did they do it great or what
Loved your reaction to Shakedown St. Shakedown St is a area of vending at Dead concerts so you got it totally correct man. Glad you liked it. I've been a fan since 76 and still truckin
Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart
When I can hear it beat out loud!
At live Dead shows, Shakedown St was the place you could go and buy handmade goods, garlic grilled cheese sandwiches, and pretty much anything else you needed to enjoy the show........wink wink
Mark Kozielec miss those days!
helen lewis Me too! So happy I was able to experience it!
Yummi Yummi grilled cheese under the Canadian flag after a show Great times
It still is called Shakedown Street at Dead & Company shows... (although not quite as large as back in the heyday of the GD)
Yes, I saw The Dead 3 times and a couple of Further Festivals. It was always important to show up early and hangout.
Yeah, you could say the Dead covered a lot of musical ground over the years. Disco Dead didn’t go down so well with some of the faithful, but you gotta give the band credit for rolling with the changing times. And this is one funky groove. A concert highlight for about 20 years. Great 2nd set opener!
Always a great opener!!!
I NEED to hear you react to Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed. The live version of course!
Eric, YESSSS!!!
Europe 72 version
EUROPE 72!! ^^^
Giants fan, long beard, cool t-shirt, and likes the Dead. Hmmm. Yep.
Polish your thought jewels...with a bottomless well of quality , heartfelt smiling energy!! GRATEFUL DEAD
The Dead could do it all. Can not not put them in a box.
A band beyond description
Yup. I remember in the 80's Deadheads calling this the Disco album. Workingman's Dead is great, and it's pretty much straight country. Indeed, they could do it all.
Just a box of rain
Help On The Way/Slipknot!/Franklin’s Tower is a must!!
Agreed
Oh yeah, Buffallo 77' thats the sickest in my opinion
It’s just the tip of iceberg my friend. There’s a reason many of us are still and will forever be obsessed until the day we die.
It’s the lot before the show FYI.
True, obsessed at 56
Shakedown was a special occasion in the latter years of the Grateful Deads shows. From '87 to '95 they played it only 2 or 3 times live. Everytime they played in Chicago Shakedown was all but guaranteed and it never failed to please. Such an amazing song.
This is one of my favorites. Live or studio versions. From a girl that would sell her wares when I followed the Grateful Dead on tour, this would always get us jumping! It was so fun watching you discover it. That’s my favorite part of the legacy. Watching new people find out just why I love them like I do. Wish I could post a pic of me on Shakedown at the lot. I did hair wraps, sold dresses I made and sold water after the shows. It means a lot of things but the Deadheads made their living on Shakedown Street. ✌️❤️⚡️💙
My Brother, did you Ever think you'd be sliding to the Dead?
This song got a lot of hate when it first came out, from people who had a fixed idea in their mind of what THEIR Grateful Dead sounded like. I'm sorry, they were just wrong. The Dead could play and did play whatever they wanted to, and anybody who tried to place a limit on that just didn't get it. "Shakedown Street" is The Dead, no ifs ands or buts.
And check out this Deadhead miracle: My first Dead show was in southern California, in the soccer field at Cal State Dominguez Hills. 18 years later, I got a T-shirt FROM THAT VERY CONCERT in a thrift store in Oklahoma City. (I hadn't gotten an official shirt at the concert, because I bought two tie-dies in the parking lot on the way in.) My wife couldn't understand why I was so freaked when I found it, she just thought I'd lost my damn mind in the men's shirts aisle.
I still have my 92 fall tour official shirt that I never bought at a show and ended up at my house from ( I don't know) in 2002.
Congrats on the score brother, I totally love dead head treasure stories like yours,cuz I love pickin in the wild as well....peace
5.5-6.90 were great shows...let the good times roll. The weight. The race is on. Both days are on utube
do "Fire on the Mountain"
this is totally my favorite Dead album.
Heck yeah!!!
Don't remember if Jamel did a reaction yet to Marshall Tucker Band's "Fire On the Mountain", but both are great songs while totally different. Comparing would be a bit of a brain-twister.
Shared the link, hope he plays it!!
12-31-78 or 5-8-77
This just makes me jealous to see someone listening to this for the first time (~);3
What I wouldn’t give to transport you in a time machine back to hear this live, with thousands of us dancing,and let you feel that.
Try lots of live Grateful Dead to truly understand the essence of the music. Glad you liked this one Jamel.
I like to ask people a musical question. If you were stuck on a deserted island and could only listen to one artist or band for the rest of your life, who would it be?
My answer is Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. The variety is insane, from bluegrass to blues, funk to jazz. Sometimes slow and sometimes fast tempos. A little bit of everything.
Jerry's side projects;
Reconstruction, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Old and In the Way, and Jerry Garcia Band all sound very different. From each other, and from the Dead. You'd probably like the Jerry Garcia Band a lot. Like going to church. ;) Check out "Brothers and Sisters" from 9/1/1990. It's on the UA-cam.
If you want Grateful Dead funk at it's finest, check out the live version of "Dancing In The Streets" from Cornell 1977. Absolutely amazing.
People often use the phrase "Rabbit Hole" to describe one's introduction to a new catalog of music. Jerry's music goes as deep as anyone, dating back to music made popular in the late 1800's! Songs so old that the author is unknown.
"Estimated Prophet" is also a good one. And Burning Spear did a really good cover of it.
my favorite
Estimated is my fav. hands down. cant say why exactly.
This was all of our reactions the first time we heard this song 💕 will forever be one of my favorite dead jams
First of all I loved your video !! Second, the thing about the GD is that they did so many genres of music. Also, having seen them 30+ times you never knew what they were going to play on any given night. Most bands play the same set list night after night. I saw them 4 nights in a row at the Philadelphia Spectrum and they played different songs all 4 nights. Third, Before and after the shows the parking lots were mind blowing. Almost like a carnival itself. People dancing, selling jewelry, t-shirts, food, good drugs like pot hash and acid, never saw a fight, argument or hassle among Deadheads. I don’t know if the world will ever have anything like it again
God Bless The Grateful Dead
If you liked this, I think you would enjoy "Help on the Way/Slipknot". Also a very funky tune, but I find it more intense.
I'd love to see you react to Terrapin Station, Estimated Prophet, Brown Eyed Women, Samson and Delilah..so many good tunes by the Dead
Or how about a 22 minute Dark Star?🕺🏻
Yes.. Terrapin keeps me calm by playing it in my head handling horrible calls. (My tour name was Makisupa girl) 🚔
Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin’s Tower
This
Please yes do this
THIS! In fact make sure you do the version from "One from the Vault" which is live and is AMAZING!!!
Brak himself a master of many genres.
@@charlespolenzani2219 I'm partial to RFK 91. Was there and when Phil hit those bass notes. Felt like the place shook. But One From The Vault is killer.
Everything about this video makes me smile so wide! I love seeing someone hearing the dead and feeling it. The bus has come by!
Yes yes yes! I am SO happy to see you 1st time groovin' on the real vibe...yes, now YOU are Gratefully Deadicated! I have danced my ass of to this song live and the joy we all had to this one~` GOLDEN!!
Jamel you would have a helluva time at a Dark Star Orchestra concert. They play recreations of Dead shows and they sound incredible. Lots of smiling and dancing!
Depends on what you’re looking for, but there are many great ways to hear the Dead’s music live! Dead & Co., JRAD, Darkstar like you said, and countless cover and tribute bands. Well, at least there were about 6 months ago...
I second this!!! I'll get you a free ticket!
Of all the studio Dead recordings, this song, Sampson and Delilah, and Terrapin Station are my favs.
I think you'd really enjoy Sampson and Delilah.
I love that he said "sounds like it got some funk to it", before the funk broke out ❤️
Man I hear this song and brought a tear to my eyes. I miss Jerry so much. Jerry was such an awesome guitarist. I am very fortunate, I got to see the Dead numerous times. The Dead like playing the northeast of the country. And I was at Boston University from 1981-1985.
Your reaction is awesome, their concerts were a true spectacular scene. That album came out in 1977 so we considered it the Grateful Dead version of Disco as you described, but with of dose of funk. "Shake Down Street it is the heart of the town"
Ok, now you’ve done it. “To Lay Me Down” “Morning Dew” “Bird Song” “China Doll” OMG, there’s a never-ending list!!!! The instruments on China Doll tho!!! And the words... uhhhh... GD forever ❤️
Jerry Garcia had a side gig playing with the Jerry Garcia Band, they did a lot of covers and got into soul and funk also. This cut sounds more like Jerry Garcia Band as much as the Dead. He also in a BLuegrass Ban Old and in the Way.
Panama Red. My favorite thing he ever did was the children's album.
@@ronaldowens5025 Memorial Day 5-26-73 The Dead did a concert with thee NRPS and Waylon Jennings. BUddy Cage and Jerry on the stage watcddhing Ralph Mooney on the Pedal Steel enjoying a master of the Instrument.
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders did a whole bunch of live albums together. Lots of covers.
Gospel, too!!
Mission in the Rain!
I know you hear this a million times from Dead Heads, but you gotta go with the live version man. Studio Dead does not capture this band in their greatest form. Even the Dead know their studio work _attempted_ , mostly to no avail, to capture their live sound as best as they could. Their studio work is more of a like an advertisement for the songs as opposed to the song itself. The song itself is heard in a live setting with the band. It is a living, breathing spirit and energy that they tap into when they're actually playing the songs. Always changing, never the same way twice. That is what gives you the best of the Grateful Dead. The best versions of every single song they ever wrote and recorded were done in a live show.
So true. Everything you wrote is so true. Since 1978 I have been checking these guys out, and I've been to so many shows I've lost count. Everything you just said Is Right on the money.
Agreed...but this studio version kicks ass in a way that other dead studio songs don't. This might be my favorite dead in studio songs actually
@@foundatlanta Well, Mr. Charlie, I think I must agree with you there, Shakedown is absolutely one of the better studio Dead songs for sure. Songs from American Beauty and Workingman's Dead aside, Shakedown Street is definitely a solid studio track. I'll throw Help->Slip (but not Franklin's Tower) on there as being good studio tracks for the band as well.
for years in the early 70s the only time we got to hear many songs were live as they hadn't been put on records yet.....
@@markbrownner6565 And in the case of the Grateful Dead, many of the records never really lived up to the live performances anyway.
Your reaction to hearing this for the first time is so pure. I watch it often just to lift my own mood! Keep great music alive
my go to grateful jukebox song....love seeing people bobbing their heads and jamming to it. then i come around and tell them its the grateful dead...shocked always!
Great stuff. Please do "Eyes of the World".
Yas ! ... live with Marsalis would be nice
My absolute favorite!
@@kristiwheels9381 I'm partial to the NYE Eyes of the World with Brantford ua-cam.com/video/2S7ZvaWLsmA/v-deo.html but of course this Nassau Eyes what where that particular magic happened ua-cam.com/video/TO4YV185orE/v-deo.html I know you know this Kristi, just though if @jamel_AKA_Jamal wanted to know about this 'Marsalis' stuff
Jamel likes to grooove...Give him "Samson and Delilah" from Dead Set.
It is a wonder why no rapper/hip-hop act hasn't already 'sampled' this piece...
Its been done, for sure. Probably not by anyone most of us have heard of, also not likely as a main sample that would be easily picked out anyways.
Check out “Band of Brothers”
Thank God noone has ruined this song
One of my favorites! Grew up with a disco-loving mom and Dead-loving dad, so heard this song a lot. Shakedown street ain't a bad place to be :)
Thank you so much for doing Shakedown Street! You totally understood the song. The shoulder dancing you were doing was perfect! You would fit in at a show and would love it!! When Dead and Co starts playing again, you should catch them.
You have along strange Trip, coming, Jump on board, the Bus is leaving Jamal's House
The dead is infectious, in a good way :)
It’s impossible to not want to dance or bop when hearing them! Welcome to the family
I posted this much earlier i know lots of request, no worries, I can relate, just letting you get another remminder.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, I'm not sure if you have heard of her, she was before Elvis and many others I think before Chuck Berry, thus blast from the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. Making her known as “the original soul sister” and “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll.”
Songs form her.
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Big Mama Thornton, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies.
Thornton's other recordings included the original version of "Ball and Chain", which she wrote.
Hound Dog.
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Ball n Chain.
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Her last performance of ball n chain.
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Yup, i recommended him to check out Sista Rosetta a few times.....but no cigar. A lotta dudes learned from her.
I saw a video where she played the meanest guitar solo that I had to check out more of her videos. All I could say was 'WOW!'
Shakedown always got the crowd going. It’s got that universal beat and everyone just loved it. Nice to see you get off on it too, and notice the marriage of lyric and song. It’s what makes it a truly great song.
Shakedown Street. One of my favs. Thanks for reviewing and listening to great music...and not just the Dead. Live the Funk. Seriously!
Grateful Dead is just a trip, all their songs. I would listen to "China Cat Sunflower" next.
I second this!
This is some fun Dead. Keep doing more my man! Try some Jerry Garcia Band, you’d love his version of “I Second That Emotion” or any other Motown covers.
Sugar magnolia next, and Bertha
Bertha live in '71!
The Other One/Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad & Big Boss Man
Their music had (still has) bounce to it. the beats, the grooves, and Jerry's guitar explorations are what make it so much fun to listen and dance to.
EXCELLENT! You nailed the interpretation. "You know ya got such dark eyes ... " Keep coming with the Dead tunes. Tip of the iceberg!
Bro you need to listen to “fire on the mountain live at Cornell.” Seriously great guitar work
Anything from that spring tour of '77 is simply magical but that entire 2nd set of that night at Cornell is one of the greatest sets in Dead history. That Scarlet Begonias->Fire on the Mountain is insane. My friends and I wore out more than one copy of that show on cassette in the 80's and 90's.
The concert at Rutgers was amazing. 1979
Anything from Cornell 77 is fire. He should def listen to that whole show... especially dancing in the street. That’s one of the best versions of all time
Yoooo, for real!!!! Cornell and Syracuse.
I personally like “Fire on the Mountain” the best but there are so many good songs from this band. I use to follow them around from concert to concert in my teens.
That's a great one 🙂
My fave is "eyes of the world " 🙂
You should check out the Fire on the Mountain Ween cover.
Just like all the other bands this is just the tip of the iceberg. Enjoy the swim my friend
This was my first favorite Dead song. My older brother had this album and i listened to it over and over. I was in 5th grade ...1983
Timeless perfection! Master class!
Lots of brothers and sisters in the comments.
Isn't it great?! 💜🙏🏽🎶
Estimated Prophet next!!!
all of the funk!
That 7/4 funk.
Seconded
Yes!!
Do that one for sure.
I would suggest anything off their “Europe 72’ album to start when it comes to live dead. It’s can be hard to navigate the never ending archive of live shows and for a beginner Europe 72 is definitely a good starting point and a good way to get your feet wet
My folks had taken my younger sister to the record store and somehow a cassette copy of Europe '72 was in her bag. This was around '74. I was 13 and had not heard of the Dead. So my initiation was Cumberland Blues. I remember thinking, this sounds pretty good but it sure is a strange name for a Country and Western band. Still on the bus.
I love seeing videos like this, I grew up listening to the grateful dead, although I’m too young to have ever seen them live, My dad instilled a love for the grateful dead in me when I was a child. I love this music and I love seeing people loving this music.
This makes me so happy, and the vibe is Universal...
Shakedown Street was where you could get anything....from clothes, food and "substances" ...it was the hub, of love Peace and understanding...