1974: The Year The Dead Broke (Documentary)

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3 ай бұрын

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@deadcoroner 2 ай бұрын

CORRECTION: 4:00 and 13:39 Jerry is interviewed by KENNY WARRELL not "Lance Burrell" (thanks again to BAMTV for sharing this mega-rare interview!) Also, please be advised: Journalistic lens aside, "Money Money" slaps.

@phatstax2011 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for delving into the Grateful Dead history that gets glossed over by both official Dead histories and mainstream biographies. The Dead's true peak was the Seventies and it sucks that there's so little in the way of historical perspectives on this time period.

@stuphiladelphiapa7680 3 ай бұрын

true peak? Hardy har har.(Nyuck, nyuck)

@hazelmoore4754 3 ай бұрын

Sorry but their peak was after Jerry's coma and before Brent's dearh..watch any interview with Jerry and Bobby also were they reference those years as the tightest and best they had ever been and the bands popularity was off the charts at that time ..

@direwolf6234 3 ай бұрын

absolutely .. 1970 - 74 .. eight albums and a few dozen iconic tunes .. small venues youthful energy audience bootlegs ...

@JJ-fb8sz 3 ай бұрын

68=79 were the peak years IMHO. 89 was pretty good. But most of the 80s that I saw them in and definitely the 90's were much weaker than the 70s shows and material.

@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg 3 ай бұрын

@@hazelmoore4754 According to Phil, Jerry never fully regained his spontaneous fluency on the guitar after his coma. From everything I've heard, I would agree. I imagine their unexpected popularity took a lot of pressure off them, financially, and let them live in style after 22 years of grinding it out on the road without a big money payoff. They definitely sounded like they were having fun in the 87-90 era, and that counts for a lot, but I'll take the 20 minute Playings, and 30 minute Dark Stars and Other Ones of 1972 any time.

@bean-spiller 3 ай бұрын

I grew up in Novato California in the 1970's. The Dead's business headquarters was in San Rafael back then. The Novato tape storage facility didn't exist then because we would have known about it. I saw Jerry in the grocery store once. Met Grace Slick and Jorma in a park. Played Softball with Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie & Steve Miller. Was at the closing of Winterland with the Dead and The Blues Brothers playing till dawn. Backstage at Led Zeppelin in '77 (my girlfriend's father played cards with Bill Graham). Dozens of other amazing shows, all before I hit the age of 19. Buying bootleg records at the Marin City hippie flea market, partying in the houseboat community in Sausalito, hanging out behind the record plant late at night listening to the muffled sounds of bands like Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, and Steely Dan recording inside. It wasn't like we were in the studio, but the proximity to our heroes made us giddy. And of course KSAN FM 95...the soundtrack of my youth!

@SamuelGriffin 3 ай бұрын

Too bad cali is now a craphole.

@tonyaharmon1383 3 ай бұрын

Awesome Memories!❤

@bean-spiller 3 ай бұрын

@@tonyaharmon1383 Thanks Tonya. I was an unsupervised teenager with cool, wealthy parents living in Marin County in the 70’s. They knew if I didn’t come home at night I was crashed out in the back of my van. I’ll always be grateful for growing up pre-internet and pre-smart phone. Kids today can’t even imagine.

@RiverRat_1977 3 ай бұрын

KSAN was the best! They were the only station that played live concerts.. MC'd by Bonnie Simmons and Ben Fong Torres...

@bean-spiller 3 ай бұрын

@@RiverRat_1977 I used to record those live concerts to cassette tapes when I was a kid. Now many of them are right here on YT in 2024. KSAN was the best!

@sandiaYpescado 7 күн бұрын

Adam Curtis will be proud of these docs. Are you planning any more beyond ‘73 & ‘74?

@drewbonsall384 3 ай бұрын

QVC was like 100 feet from my high school my friend Jimmy was the maintenance man and he said he would look over this wall right in the changing room and look at the models and another friend Chris was the dishwasher Chris was a dead head and probably quit the job to go on tour They did have a lot of gold in the vAult

@SleeperMatt 2 ай бұрын

Don't drop the marbles, man

@RareGrassPlug 3 ай бұрын

I can’t even believe how ridiculously good this is. Truly innovative in dead documentaries.

@bonzey1171 3 ай бұрын

I hope you keep making more of these, they're fucking cool

@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to make this. I've read a lot of Dead history books and watched all the documentaries. I always complain that they spend 75% of their time talking about 65-69, then allot the remaining 25% of time (if that) to 1970-1995. When the Long Strange Trip documentary came out and I heard it would only be 4 hours long, I knew it would follow that standard format. Thank you for filling in some gaps on the heroic and challenging year of 1974. I'd like to add that Bay area musician, John McFee, played pedal steel on Pride of Cucamonga. McFee would later play the lead guitar part on Elvis Costello's tune, Alison, from his debut album, My Aim is True. Great tasteful player. I can see why Garcia admired him.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! Very interesting to learn about John McFee. Phil's Mars Hotel tracks won a special place in my heart working on this, and "Allison" was my introduction to Elvis Costello as a kid :)

@paulferranti8536 3 ай бұрын

The tie in with George McCraes “ Rock Your Baby “ is mind blowing and appropriate….I grew up in that era and it was all blended together….truly magical….we loved The Grateful Dead and we loved K.C. and The Sunshine Band and it was all groovy.

@Zumacove6200 3 ай бұрын

This is absolutely fantastic. Amazing work - love all the archival footage. Simply wonderful stuff.

@dour96 3 ай бұрын

Here we goooooo!!! Thanks DC !!!! Righteously Righteous dude !

@ctcards2636 3 ай бұрын

I still meet people/Heads who dont know what the song "He's Gone" is REALLY about. Lenny, Mickeys father went MIA with all their money. They got back some of it, not much. But the band as in the video explains had hired Lenny to manage. BAD mistake. Made Mickey leave the band. I can understand Billy not being for Mickey returning. But ya had a lot of members of the Dead who hated conflict, thus some bad decision making was made on the business side as they chose to ignore the obvious. But to a degree im glad Mickey re joined. But there are DEF shows where... Billy and Mickey are not on with each other. For sure. But when they are on which is most of the time, its awesome. But go listen to some of those shows without Mickey after he had left the band. Billy was a BEAST !

@trevgrooves 3 ай бұрын

This is fantastic. Please make more documentary style videos like this. Bravo.

@allentenderfoot8712 2 ай бұрын

Very cool video. Thank you for making it, and posting it. Very informing and fun to watch, and it answered many questions. Is it possible for you to repost your video about 1973. I looked on your lists, and it is not there. Sounds like it would be fun to watch. Thanks again for this video. 😊

@allentenderfoot8712 Ай бұрын

Found it, in the list there. Two Towers. Thank You.

@LucyLennon20 3 ай бұрын

Fabulous! DC Cat! ✨️📼 🎧✨️📝 still have my list plus 6k hours on tapes ✨️🌹💀🎸✨️🎶💀📼

@InService77 3 ай бұрын

I've been reading about the Grateful Dead for 44 years or more. I learned some new stuff in this video - which is rare. Thanks!!

@Tom_Emody 2 ай бұрын

Still waiting to see how the the bit about the Florida music scene plays into the rest of the movie here…. 10:48 I am on the edge of my seat…..Tom

@joshevans3452 3 ай бұрын

This and 1973 are easily the best documentaries of the band that I have ever seen. It may not have the technical editing of a high budget production, but the knowledge and sensitivity of the subject is second to none. I really hope you keep doing these. I have been a fan of the Dead for, quite literally, all of my life (my first recorded words are on the blank space of a cassette that my dad was transferring his vinyl Workingman's and American Beauty too). These are the first sources where I have learned anything new in a long, long while. Great work.

@christopherjolicoeur9001 3 ай бұрын

What's the link to the "1973 documentary"?

@joshevans3452 3 ай бұрын

@christopherjolicoeur9001 Just look at DC Cat's video history. It was released in the last couple of months or so. This video is really just a continuation of that one.

@allentenderfoot8712 Ай бұрын

Titled "The Two Towers".

@lisica8458 2 ай бұрын

Always preferred a Kreutzmann-only Dead; Mickey just added too much clutter.

@finnmcginn9931 3 ай бұрын

Big Bad Mama is available for free (KZbin movies) if anyone is interested in a hicksploitation flick with a Grisman soundtrack

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

hicksploitation: "A genre of exploitation film that relies on the stereotypical (and often negative) depiction of rural whites. Basically killer/psycho/evil hillbilly movies or just hillbilly movies in general." -imdb.com Thanks for sharing this!

@mikeb4256 3 ай бұрын

Bob Baker needed to lighten up.

@Sawdust5764 2 ай бұрын

Great work, the only logical next step is a video about the 78 Egypt tour

@HappyBirdGenetics 2 ай бұрын

What a gem, great job Brother! Thank you for taking the time to create this 'content gold'!

@thomaskotch4770 Ай бұрын

This is an amazing documentary. Thank you.

@mickeydoodle69 3 ай бұрын

Dude…Great job. This is truly spectacular.

@wheresthedogstar 3 ай бұрын

That was fucking great and wildly, entertaining and informative! The greatest scene was probably the last few minutes with Parish and I say thank you very much for your excellent work and good production values and God bless the goddamn Grateful Dead ❤🎉😊

@DJBaronMind 2 ай бұрын

You really don't like Mickey, do you?

@thomasjones5307 3 ай бұрын

.... thank you for making this best original dead related piece of content i've seen on KZbin

@jakeolthof 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact. I was in the front row in Oakland yelling hey phil unbroken chain the year before he did it.

@charlesandrews2360 3 ай бұрын

In the book that Phil wrote about his time in the Grateful Dead he said that they were just about to play unbroken chain when you requested it and they decided not to do it because of that.

@jakeolthof 3 ай бұрын

@@charlesandrews2360 The guy next to me was incredulous, he said yeah right you might as well ask for Saint Stephen. I believe they brought that one out on the next tour as well but I don't think I had anything to do with it.

@riceflatpicking4954 3 ай бұрын

Phils son who I think was about 10 years old at the time asked his dad if they would do it which prompted Phil to talk to the band and then of course they brought it out in 95.

@ryanmoore2779 3 ай бұрын

@@riceflatpicking4954incorrect. Phil’s son was 8 years old when Jerry passed away.

@davemo65 2 ай бұрын

@@charlesandrews2360 lol! Nice.

@mdell7131 2 ай бұрын

Steve parish in a suit, well you can never un-see that. Parish is the best and this video is very cool ,thank you

@HaydenFromHell 3 ай бұрын

I would really love to see you do an in depth video revolving around the ‘curse of the keyboard player.’ Love the videos! Please keep them coming! 🤘

@ghostexits 3 ай бұрын

Forgive me, but what does the TK Records story have to do with anything?

@TPsynth 3 ай бұрын

This was confusing to me as well. Was assuming there would eventually be a connection made 🤷🏽

@SpareChange-d1i 3 ай бұрын

.......man don't let the marble get out ........

@thomaskonicke2974 3 ай бұрын

I don't get it.....super strange timeline jumps...TK records...whaaat??..its all stolen images...sorry....is the narrator the loose change dude?

@lizardman7364 3 ай бұрын

Wut

@gratefuldad8278 3 ай бұрын

Whoever is reading the quotes and doing those voices, you are amazing. Keep doing what you do.

@Haasenpfeffer 3 ай бұрын

In 74 I was going to Winterland and hitchhiking to Pt Reyes w/the GF. Go Bears. Thanks for this!😅

@r_jd279 16 сағат бұрын

Awesome. This has the depth that Long Strange Road was sorely missing. Much appreciated. It would be interesting to see a part 2 in the same style on up to Touch of Grey's explosion and a part 3 on their eventual legacy.

@adamwatson6916 3 ай бұрын

Vancouver 73 was an amazing show and we are blessed with a killer Soundboard and a great audience tape . Spring 73 had many fantastic gigs .

@VixCrush 3 ай бұрын

I remember when they played Unbroken Chain the first time in Philly. Mind blown.

@clarkewi 3 ай бұрын

This was their peak in my opinion. Saw them twice, once at Hollywood Bowl. Awesome time.

@charlesandrews2360 3 ай бұрын

That video of Commander Cody doing Hot Rod Lincoln is the only live video that I have been able to find of them from that era. I saw them in 74 and they were really good. About 30 years later I saw Kodi several times and small bars around Chicago still banging on them keys, smoking like a chimney, and drinking like a fish money is around 70 years old.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

I picked Hot Rod Lincoln for its recognizability but there are at least a few other songs from that shoot out there. I am hoping to find some recordings of full shows from 1974; I hear they were amazing in their own right!

@what1111000 3 ай бұрын

Good video, but what's up wit the kc and sunshine band stuff?

@matthewmaguire3554 3 ай бұрын

So much is focused on the mud that the lotus is forgotten. If you were blessed to be there when the stars aligned…the alchemy was right and briefly the lotus surfaced from the muck you got to experience losing your virginity again, falling in love for the first time and being a five year old on Christmas morning all rolled into one fleeting time…You lucky rascal.🏄🍿🎭

@davidlilker2747 3 ай бұрын

This is awesome. If you are flexible enough, give yourself a pat on the back

@Microtonal_Cats 3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't be surprised if it was the feds selling bootleg Dead albums.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

FOIA requests...?

@rossr6616 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking Warner Bros!

@rossr6616 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking Warner Bros!

@krisscanlon4051 Ай бұрын

Hunter was not a fan of certain sounds...liked his AM Dylan Stones sounds which is odd since Island records really nurtured certain progressive bands.

@brandenmiquelas3319 Ай бұрын

This is awesome, I've always been so curious about this period in the bands history. Also didn't know about the piracy issue they faced with wake of the flood

@drummer78 3 ай бұрын

John Coltrane had Rashid Ali and Elvin Jones as double drummers around 1966. Apparently, Elvin Jones wasn’t happy with the set up.

@peterjonas4971 Ай бұрын

I love the Dead, but I also agree with these rock critics. Punk had to happen, and, thank God, it did.

@DougMold 3 ай бұрын

27:22 spot on impression lol

@jameskovic7146 3 ай бұрын

I think the concept for this documentary is good but it needs a lot of work.

@MrLeebaxleyjr 3 ай бұрын

Wow! I had little to no knowledge of Leonard Hart's wrongdoings. Wyf? How did Mickey afford the studio? Very interesting... 🤔 Great documentary 🎉

@jimhayes8675 3 ай бұрын

i think i read the producer alan douglass was involved w/ the studio

@rossr6616 3 ай бұрын

and his retreat to the Clergy 😂 Classic move!

@TheLordsofMidlothianRVA 3 ай бұрын

He'll steal your face right off your head.

@MrLeebaxleyjr 3 ай бұрын

@@TheLordsofMidlothianRVA noice!

@QuaaludeCharlie 3 ай бұрын

This is a Great Documentary . I had not seen this in full , just clips Here on youtube . I sure hope this stays up on Here for many Years , Thank You :) QC

@kowalski3769 3 ай бұрын

Really great work here! You dug deep and found some really good old stuff that I've never seen before. Keep them coming!

@Gratefuldeadgriffin Ай бұрын

I cried when I saw the wall of sound at the sphere and it warp into a loop I saw this literally happen in the 70s

@MrForestExplorer 3 ай бұрын

Nice work. Would love to see more years documented like this...

@centralscrutinizer7127 2 ай бұрын

Great documentary but definitely needs someone else to narrate .

@charlielaunder4520 3 ай бұрын

Thank you......Dick knew David is lucky to have the keys.

@zummo61 3 ай бұрын

This was awesomely entertaining! Thumbs up Brother.

@jleftjpl5511 3 ай бұрын

please make more of these videos

@gts447 3 ай бұрын

Great journalism here, lots of wonderful sourcing and such. A couple mischaracterizations, the one about coke being introduced in 73, as another commenter pointed out it was way earlier, and the comment that the Godchaux era was a golden one would be disputed by many many deadheads who considered her vocals a substantial detriment to the dead experience. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a wonderful singer, and she worked well in JGB, but her singing was just overdone overwrought in the dead, and the music improved substantially when she and Keith were fired.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

Fair points all; I hinge the escalation in coke use in early '73 on Jerry's bust(s) in that time suggesting cocaine was beginning to take a presence in the Dead world beyond occasional use. For better or worse, Donna of course famously went on to become its first casualty in the band. Not sure how many others follow before Matthew Kelly's gonads fell victim. Rick James had a good point.

@przybyla420 3 ай бұрын

Is was a golden era, they just had one more vocalist than they needed unfortunately

@finnmcginn9931 3 ай бұрын

@@przybyla420it was such a good era that many could easily overlook her off nights, myself included. Keith and Donna era is primo.

@mikewilkinson4588 2 ай бұрын

I happen to like Money Money........

@veneta72 3 ай бұрын

“Jerry began getting into coke at the beginning of 1973”. Utterly false. They were using coke in the 60s, snorting off beer cans while playing in 1971 and Billy said “I decided not to do coke during Europe 72 and I probably played better because of it” inferring it was embedded in the band at that point at least - too bad the rest I hear here will be taken with a grain of salt, but entertaining none the less

@phatstax2011 3 ай бұрын

They wrote Casey Jones in 1969 and it was definitely from experience.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

"getting into" = making it a semi-regular thing. I'm sure Jerry tried it before The Warlocks.

@veneta72 3 ай бұрын

@@deadcoronerGotchya. It tracks but I’m curious how you came to this conclusion of timing

@raydavison4288 3 ай бұрын

I don't know enough about the Dead to tell the truth from 🐎💩, but this was an entertaining video.

@infiniteXpower 3 ай бұрын

@@deadcoroner They were blowing lines in front of Rolling Stone reporters on planes as early as '69 and Jerry was coked-out through the whole Garcia recording session. "It's pure Merck!" Your documentary is incredible, I will forgive some smudged details. The band is the greatest music but they are ALL scumbags lol! Please continue your excellent work!

@djtdlaw 3 ай бұрын

Oh shock and horror! The Grateful Dead on QVC???!! WTF???!!! I realize this is the early '90s & the stigma/mystique of being a Deadhead is gone but still.... Somebody call me a Waaambulance!!! I'm gonna cry

@charlesandrews2360 3 ай бұрын

I'll bet a lot of the stuff that they bought in those early years on QVC is worth a pretty penny these days. Dead stuff has always been collectible and somewhat pricey.

@deadcoroner 3 ай бұрын

If you haven't seen the full hour from 1998, I must warn you. Even if they are just props (tough to tell due to lo resolution) seeing Gator and Wolf getting carelessly swung around by the hosts is something that cannot be unseen my friend.

@noahharju 3 ай бұрын

We’re playing poly-rhythms

@e.nowbodhi144 3 ай бұрын

that audio of Mickey Hart's 2nd return resembled cats being slingshotted against drums at random

@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg 3 ай бұрын

Some have referred to it as, "sneakers in a dryer."

@spritelysprite 3 ай бұрын

FreeSpeech101, or: "throwing a garbage can down a flight of stairs"... 'Something like that.

@johncordes7885 3 ай бұрын

Not 1 but 2 Walls of sound

@mrfish4lyfe Ай бұрын

please tell me the next episode is in the works. please continue this series. it is the best and most honest

@deadcoroner Ай бұрын

Ask and ye shall receive :) Thank you for the kind words

@not_hendrikk7387 Ай бұрын

BIG STEVE

@DickWalz Ай бұрын

I was born in 1974 at St Luke’s in SF. My parents lived in the Tenderloin and the California Hotel is the address on my birth certificate. It’s nice to know I was absorbing the energy of SF at that time as a fetus.

@jamesmoore3694 3 ай бұрын

well bent

@offshores7 2 ай бұрын

I guess journalists hate long spacey jams. 🙄 Thank you DC Cat for this incredible documentary. So much in it was new to me.

@Joemomma6969 3 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@helbitkelbit1790 3 ай бұрын

Dicks Picks ?........Anyone in the know , knows about John Stallings . Johns picks are a wee bit better than anything else

@RiverRat_1977 3 ай бұрын

Cheers man... you're one cool cat!!! Keep on Trucking!! And long dive the lead!!! btw.. got anything from Berkeley?? UC?? The Greek?? Zellerbach?? Community Theater?? People's Park?? New Year's Eve at the Oakland Coliseum with Father Time?? SNAC Sunday?? This was just like having a real live flashback of Owsley's best Orange Sunshine on a beautiful warm day in "The Panhandle!!"

@meowco69 Ай бұрын

Zzzzz...

@mcdaniels6188 3 ай бұрын

I think Revolution Hamstring Blues was their least few times played song.

@carycrediford7036 2 ай бұрын

If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it! Those of us that do like it, don’t care what you think. “Live and let live” 😎✌️🇺🇸

@klep2859 3 ай бұрын

This was a pretty good doc. Unfortunately, the seconal-laced narration was too much to bear.

@freehahahafree 2 ай бұрын

This is absolutely fantastic. I thought that I was relatively knowledgeable about the Dead, but I learned a ton watching this documentary. Excellent job! Thank you.

@dansweeney9377 3 ай бұрын

Amazing!

@archstanton_live 3 ай бұрын

1974..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

@hashburystumble8808 3 ай бұрын

NEVER TRUST A PRANKSTER 💀They might just STEAL YOUR FACE

@autistichead8137 3 ай бұрын

Don’t you just love music critics? The Iowa State fair show is an absolute all timer. One of the great jams of all time and they are complaining about it.😂

@matthewmaurysmith2486 3 ай бұрын

Im not gonna lie though, the , what i assume is Ned Lagin (sp?) electronic music in the left channel before the 50 minute mark is .... well... im just gonna say it's a real challenge to listen to, lol... i wondered if maybe on purpose? Oh well, but still, top notch better than what's on "TV" stuff

@Bobby007D 2 ай бұрын

One of the highlights (for me) was the first riff Jerry would play , after walking on stage. Riffs like some poly phonic, nightmare scream from hell . L O L ...

@TheChknptpie 3 ай бұрын

this is absolutely INCREDIBLE. WOW.

@Aaron-cy7oo 3 ай бұрын

Big Steve could of been a good actor,, he still could be, I was just saying that he always could of and always can be and do

@chaz9839 3 ай бұрын

YESSSSSSSSSSS thank you

@Davesrecordtree 3 ай бұрын

Just when I thought I’ve seen it all….this pops up! Wow! Fantastic to see such a Freaking rarity! Who ever did this video I say thank u very much! What A treat

@ChanalogUnderground 3 ай бұрын

Well done. You ran the gamut of representing the spirit of the band but not sanitizing Thanks.

@riceflatpicking4954 3 ай бұрын

I’ve read and watched just about everything available on this band over the last 35 years and this documentary is incredible. I’m sad that it had to end! It brought back so many show memories and memories of friends who are no longer here. I wish it had been about six or seven hours long! 😀 Thank you for posting this for us!