Jerry Garcia Band - Don't Let Go 9/1/1990

Jerry Garcia Band - Don't Let Go 9/1/1990

[@willieculkin3952]

This is the one that's stuck in your head five hours later while you're laying in bed trying to fall asleep.

[@MyFEELGOODWay]

Don’t let go, don’t let go!

[@yourmomma2995]

just let it go bro.🤣

[@Improvise1013]

you somehow described the past 2 months of my life

[@jhkapral]

This is what you play when you and your baby each snort 30 mg of 2 CB 🎶Just hold me close and dont let go🎶 Dont let go dont let go

[@milestickler4953]

Absolutely

[@AnvilOfTheGods]

I love how Jerry took the simplest melodies and turned them into launching pads for deep sonic exploration

[@thejamnasium6447]

that's what makes him the best

[@johnmcminn9455]

Jerry is a creative genius

[@cicadagodking]

I don't know if ya'll play the instrument, but I find Jerry to be one of the most difficult players to keep up with. If one tries to play along with him, pretty soon he'll be leaving you behind, scratching your head. I'm not the biggest Dead Head, but I'm an absolute fan of Jerry Garcia's guitar skills.

[@johnmcminn9455]

@@cicadagodking absolutely, Jerry technically knew scales but associated the sound of blues ,country , and the dorian/mixolydian jazz approach to playing with the feeling of the sounds. All great guitarists seem to have the ability to reject the common cliches, and go thier own way. it doesn't really matter if they are fast or slow, that is not what makes them great . Some of my buddies who play metal and hard rock and also some jazz actually reject the Dead and Allman Brothers . it's actually funny Jerry looked at fame as a necessary evil, that he didn't actually like, he was able to see through the BIZ and just play. A players like Page Beck, Blackmore and Iommi also have the ability to play riffs you have never heard before

[@DouglasF68]

Jerry had an open mind to every style and culture and never stopped learning.

[@thedudeabides2968]

My favorite part of the song is 0:00-15:43

[@eggman615]

Gonna have to agree with you there

[@jdascout]

@@eggman615 me x3

[@Jl-en1cd]

I've tried to like this comment so many times only to realize I already did

[@uncleebenezer8599]

I hate the part at 15:43 where it ends

[@messiahmoose]

I dunno man, that crowd noise from 15:41-15:43 is kind of a bummer.

[@nancychace8619]

Wow - no rain in the Bay Area for months and on this day, Jerry's 80th birthday, I stumble onto this recording and it starts to drizzle -

[@claymationwaves]

i swear this is the best shit on the street

[@lauriemarquez4527]

OMG! When Jerry and Melvin play back and forth the looks on Jerry's face❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@qqcdeanbressman758]

Ran into john scher at chevy dealership few years ago love u man

[@SoFloPatriot]

Amen

[@1spindrah]

This was my birthday show, and I was there! The show was incredible, a night I will never forget. Was woken up by barking seals the next morning somewhere on a beach near Monterey Bay.

[@gaylelau001]

1spindrah ✨🌛✨🌝✨WoW !!!!!✨☀️🌬💨🌊You lucky Human, You ! You have described what the transition into Heaven would be for me ! Right down to waking up on the beach in Monterey; only difference is, as I am waking up, I am opening my eyes and they are slowly, soft-focusing to a friendly, playful, cutie of a seal ! I am totally tripping on how calm the bay is! It’s like 5:46am and the colours of the sky is playing off and reflected by the water. I am standing now and my new friend, the sweetest, adorable little [ relatively ] seal is there beside me totally insinct with my wonder of how 🌻✨Beautiful!🌈✨ everything is ! I look over at my friend and he/ she is so cute and seems like they are smiling, I would say even gigiling with me too! I am so Blown- Away that I start thanking God, that He can just take me now, life can’t get any better than this !... Then my friend interrupts me by transforming into some theatre guy in long robes, no it’s Saint Peter, no its John Cleese as St. Peter, no it really is St.Peter [ who looks exactly like John Cleese & really sounds like him, too ] and he says we are on the precipice that opens to Heaven. He pulls out this pinky/ mauve, velvet satchle, and He shakes it up and asks me to draw out a question from the bag. If I can answer it, my little friend and myself will be entering paradise today. [ There are more animal souls than human souls in paradise! ] I hand him my lot and He asks me, “ what is your favourite colour ?” I say that’s it, I can say anything? He says, “ Sure.” That’s all I can remember. Sorry about my drawn out story. I really dreamt that, I was so tripping when you mentioned this. And it really happened to you ! Man, that is so WiLD !!! ~ Take Care! [ By the way, I dreamt this shortly after Jerry passed. I was so stressed, I was dreaming so many really intense, and so vivid dreams that are burned into my brain. They were like medicine me; I felt giddy & hopeful, even though I woke up to reality. ~🌼✨Keep- the-dream, Bitter-Sweet✨🌼 Love & Blessings!🕉🙏🏼☯️☮️♒️✨⛅️🌤☀️🌈✨⚡️

[@jenniferbloh-michael8662]

Sounds like heaven. Like the entire time I lived in Santa Cruz.......

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Happy Belated Birthday !!!! 🌈

[@krisdemars1355]

A story of a lifetime....cool..🎶🎵🌹

[@charlesholly521]

lucky you

[@brassteeth3355]

The girls are killing it

[@pango-y8j]

Gloria Jones and Jackie LaBranche 🍄🌁🌁🌁🍄🌜⚡🌛🍄

[@deohgeemagnet5142]

i was staying in the florida panhandle around winter 93 or 94 and met some heads hitchin down 30a picked them up turned them on to a meal a shower and a roof for the night. what a wonderful night. they gifted me a jgb bootleg and 25 or so years later i still love it. every time i hear this song it takes me back. what a jam

[@krisdemars1355]

Dido right on....🌹

[@deohgeemagnet5142]

@@krisdemars1355 peace thanks for the breakfast tune! chills this early in the day bode well. all tore up skippin some shows this week but rocking soon enough. jerry's not playing but when the music and light and scene hit me right the band can still make me feel like im falling in love for the first time.

[@dementedpuppy]

Miss you so much Jerry. Every day.

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

Hear that whistle, it's ten o'clock Come on baby, it's time to rock I'm so happy I've got you here Keeps me grinnin' from ear to ear Ooh wee This feeling's killing me Oh, shucks I wouldn't stop for a million bucks I love you so Just hold me tight and don't let go (Don't let go, don't let go) (Don't let go, don't let go) Thunder, lightning, wind and rain Love is humming inside my brain There's one thing baby, that keeps me crying You been keeping your lips from mine Ooh wee This feeling's killing me Oh, shucks I wouldn't stop for a million bucks I love you so Just hold me tight and don't let go (Don't let go, don't let go) (Don't let go, don't let go) (Don't let go, don't let go) Hound dog barking upside the hill (Don't let go, don't let go) Love is dragging him through the mill (Don't let go, don't let go) If it wasn't for having you (Don't let go, don't let go) I'd be barking and a-hollering too (Don't let go, don't let go) Ooh wee This feeling's killing me Oh, shucks I wouldn't stop for a million bucks I love you so Just hold me tight and don't let go (Don't let go, don't let go) (Don't let go, don't let go) Someday baby, I'll get you yet (Don't let go, don't let go) I'll be hollering, soaking wet (Don't let go, don't let go) One thing baby, I'll never stand (Don't let go, don't let go) Your lips kissing some other man (Don't let go, don't let go) Ooh wee This feeling's killing me Oh, shucks I wouldn't stop for a million bucks I love you so Just hold me tight and don't let go (Don't let go, don't let go) Hold me tight and don't let go (Don't let go, don't let go)

[@nyxypyxy]

Love this. One of the songs my husband sent me when we were dating. He sent it to me again today 💖💕💘

[@kennewicksheri]

Don't Let Go !! Speakers cranked...... Grinnin' from ear to ear...

[@JulieRobus]

I'm not waiting for you. I have you in my life already. You give me all I need and want. You are a blessing and I'm grateful for you just the way you are or I would have left you years ago... You are right with me and I failed to see. Took you for granted and I am sorry. You are the best thing that happened to me and I Love You R. ❤❤❤ You are enough for me JUST THE WAY YOU ARE... SO BEAUTIFUL... YOUR SOUL IS FIERCE As a Lion and Pure as a Puppy !!!

[@cousino36]

My go to, when I am depressed

[@charlie.something]

don't let go, cousin

[@buddersmith]

Or, as I just found out, to tune your guitar!

[@parkerthompson1069]

Same brother this is always my go to when I’m feeling down something about hearing Jerry hit the first lines “come on baby it’s 6 o clock!” Gets me every time 👍

[@stephensebbesse259]

The call and response between Jerry, Melvin, and the ladies is phenomenal-you can't deny the weariness of working on the land in their voices and the joy found in having a loved one in your life-and the pain that can come from it.

[@hammondOT]

"weariness of working on the land" lmao

[@garydefoe4137]

Hold my hand don't let Go ❤❤

[@teresasparks9194]

aw shucks.......any song that has jerry singing aw shucks is a good, no, a great song!! one of my favorites of all time!!!

[@thomasburrall1789]

indeed

[@spudboyeyesonu5731]

I totally agree and everytime I play it and sing that lyric I just chuckle

[@jonathanshampine9948]

Yesssss!

[@bigbossman7991]

When Jer & Mel start trading licks back & forth @ 4:30 is enough to make me cry. God I miss him!!😥

[@popz2slipz]

Agreed, the smiles between the 2 are priceless

[@Harv4282]

Melvin Seals - organ. Not Merl

[@herbythechef7624]

He said mel. Not merl

[@jrc7660]

Daily bub I'm filled with such great emotions hearing his voice and when he shreds, well I've been known to shed tears of Joy

[@somnium4256]

My thoughts as well so much joy ❤️

[@qqcdeanbressman758]

Miss u jerry rip

[@cwesty9341]

14:03..love it!!!! Jerry's the best at bringing the jam back to the tune that you almost forgot about. ha awesome!!!

[@gregorysantilli8600]

Aw, shucks ♥️

[@albertmiller3082]

Beautiful work here, labor of love. Yes! 😎👍🏻✌️

[@michaelsantore1182]

Awesome show I was there and remember it well, best times of my life

[@madhatter42o]

Much much much love.

[@LeoJBatt]

JGB was better than the Dead! My opinion! LOVE IT!!!

[@Sound_Groove_of_America]

I'm starting to appreciate the JGB more and more. I say the dead is incomparable, but JGB compares.

[@TheCarterCO]

after brent died, JGB often better than the dead.

[@chetcol]

@@TheCarterCO That sounds right!

[@eroldcroft78]

Miles better. Jgb was church. Tighter, looser no bobby anarchy.

[@DriftinAndDreamin]

Two different animals but, Jerry did have more room to groove.

[@kt-tu6jl]

to the thousand or so people at that magical May afternoon at the Waikiki Shell in 1990 with the trade winds blowing thru Kapiolani park, we witnessed music and a vibe that was truly a gift . Thank you Jerry....

[@gaylelau001]

Hermanandmiltonsangeldusteddreams ✨🌈🌤✨Beautiful !🌤🌬💨🌊🌝✨You really know how to use words ✨to bring the magic across time !🌊 ✨& into the Present 🎁🍄🤩👍✨ ✨🌛✨🌈~ Thanks !✨🕉✨🌝✨

[@ICU2HI]

OK THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS

[@George-wx9dj]

Love watching Jerry play the guitar 👍🏻👍🏻

[@thomasburrall1789]

If life has you down, crank this baby ! Gotta love the accompaniment..... ahhhh shucks!

[@tresorngray]

Amen, do"t let go

[@davedranginis4712]

Love this iteration of the band.

[@garycoggeshall9282]

I used to hang around the keystone palo alto in the early 80s and it was so beautiful and interesting to see history in the making...Judy Collins WOW..Norton Buffalo..Yikes ha ha David Nelson and Marmaduke...and Garcia at least twice a month...Bill K. drumming slot .. John Kahn always on point..and being from upstate NY. The gracious wonderful CA girls!!!!

[@TheCatfishcheese]

💀⚘⚡❤⚡⚘💀 Forever Grateful

[@b2theran]

This went from a nice stroll in the park to , someone started running faster and faster into the dark woods and eventually was entombed in the swamp. It really got freaky after the beginning

[@krisdemars1355]

Welcome 🎶

[@miamuh5875]

Dont ya love some of these vids of GD or JGB when its obvious that Jer is having fun? That little sideways grin has always been special to me!

[@ChillyH2Omg]

1st time seeing this. Absolutely made my night! Thanks for sharing ❤

[@oneone5120]

I was at this show....Thank You Jerry......

[@pembertonvalleydroneservic3105]

Thank you Jerry!!!!!

[@charlie.something]

deserted island, one choice, collected works of jgb. happily ever after alone. i'd tell the rescuers to beat it.

[@matthewboggs9047]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@onthebus11]

BIG COLLECTION

[@jktunney]

endless

[@tonyfitty8580]

charlie .something I second that emotion, fresh water too...😊

[@chrisrutherford3]

Add in little feats library & I'm happy

[@chuckryan6065]

RIP Gloria Jones

[@ilenesullivan3299]

nothing like Live Dead Jerry Garcia Band Rat Dog Shows Rock On It's Timeless Best Shows Ever!!!

[@randypotter7379]

Love the spacey jam on "Don" Let Go". Reminds me a bit of the jam intro to Franklin"s Tower.

[@fingerpeel9977]

What a tasty freaking jam! That interplay is legendary

[@billjohnson8019]

just realized this was 2 months after my last show with Jerry🖤

[@tobithomas1255]

Loved seeing Jerry and family rocking to this song in San Francisco all those times luv ya 🌹😸

[@joshuaunbehaun1407]

I didn’t know this existed. Oh hell yeah!

[@bonnieryan790]

Happy Birthday Jerry! Going around and checking the great music we are grateful you left us! I wish you hadn't let go..😪🌹❤

[@larrywallenjr6488]

Thank you for uploading. The very best...Don't Let Go

[@edjurzenski8602]

We were seeing JGB at Keystone P.A., I kept requesting Don't Let Go , Gar ignored me until I forgot about it. Then he launched into it. What a time.

[@jstantino]

Date?? That would blow my socks off!!

[@RLMUD]

WOW, This jam is so abstract I love it

[@dorisdeacon921]

"Stella blue" 5/13/81 it was my birthday that day! it was a beautiful song! it's a meanin -full song! "bob" u were truckin on your guitar!

[@chrishopkins7442]

Oooo weee this feelings killing me Oooh shucks I won't stop for a million bucks

[@chuckwilliam4746]

big smiles

[@dcfanchris]

This show was on my birthday.Too bad I wasnt born until 4 years later.

[@garydefoe4137]

I most definitely won't let go I have faith in you,,,,,,,,, you showed be for and didn't know what you had to go through to pull it off,,,,,, but you did now I see the strength in your spirit a true warrior I'm proud of you ❤❤

[@williamhanson709]

pure jerry!!!

[@timlloyd1444]

Master craftsmen plying their trade...

[@patrickdoherty8642]

I was there. And kept coming back 🎉

[@Swami650]

I wouldn’t stop for a million bucks…❤

[@chadsams7282]

This song is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DOPE

[@dorisdeacon921]

"lost sailor " l liked it alot, it is excellent to sail! also while u were singing those words r true cause u don't know where u r sailing off 2! "bob" it was a awesome song! then "jerry" joined in! it rocks!

[@gianfrancoghironi7117]

Un grandissimo, che ha fatto la storia del Rock, scomparso prematuramente e immeritatamente sottovalutato dal pubblico. E anche da certa "critica" cosiddetta esperta. :-|

[@rodneykolasa3294]

The master

[@Flyeaglesfly-y3p]

Much respect to Roy Hamilton given from Jerry with this jewel 🤙🤙.

[@gregperez1893]

so so good! boy i miss u jerry !!!

[@rsc1623]

Dang just freaked with that.

[@malcolmdale1136]

funky Jerry

[@isjerryzkid]

I love you for this 💛⚡️💯thank you

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Brilliant!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!!

[@wayneshofar8682]

Yea Boy!

[@edjurzenski8602]

Primo stuff, gracias amigo.

[@Swami650]

Come on baby, it’s time to rock…❤

[@erinsennett7424]

10 days before I was born

[@pango-y8j]

So you say

[@JKSuccess1]

Best Musician around... listen to that solo with the vocal work going on around 4:01 smokes!!!!...and then the trade of with the keys...no one make the guitar sing like Jerry !!!

[@ss06033]

Gloria Jones RIP

[@frankdracman4084]

ya know bout Gloria n T Rex?

[@ss06033]

@@frankdracman4084 This is a different Gloria Jones. I do know about the other Gloria Jones who was with T-Rex and about the tragic car accident.

[@christianschneider9720]

Filthy huge killer jam that they really get out there on and it never even comes close to sounding like they are lost or on different pages or just noodling its a flawlessly orchestrated rendition of organized chaos slipped neatly into the song dont let go...right before the last verse............for ten minutes!!!!😋😛😜🤪😝🤔🤔🤔😬😬😬🙄🙄🤫🤫🤫😬😬👹👹😈😈👹👺👺👿🤡👹👹🤡👽👽💀💀💀☠☠☠☠😮😯😲😪😪😪☺☺😅🤣🤣😂😅🤣😆😁😄😃😀....must of been the doses!!!

[@warrengdrum1]

Jerbear being Jerbear. All awesome, and surrounded by awesome.

[@chrishorton615]

This is like a religion

[@ljswack]

Amen

[@frankdracman4084]

nothing like a religion, religions have very authoritarian rules, are exempted from payin taxes, are super invested in growth, disingenuous means of recruitment and endless promotion and marketing to raise their head count and pursue achieving self interested political agendas. Tell me how the Dead did any of those?

[@deadexplorations7439]

@@frankdracman4084 couldn’t have said it better myself Frank

[@jenniferbloh-michael8662]

Better , much much better😁

[@garydefoe4137]

I'll never let go of you,,,,,,, unless you want to go I never get it the way of your happiness,,,,,if it looks bad I will tell you but your diseshion I would say be careful no argument,,,,,,,,, hope that wouldn't happen I don't own you love you to much true love I'm here for you as long as you desire okay ❤❤

[@plecofanadam9818]

At red rocks on a whole nother level listening to the wonderful music of furthur with my wonderful wife and her deadhead dad!

[@magdomable]

pro shot shoreline. originally booked as GD before brent death

[@brendanmoir100]

I was there. Had tickets for both Shoreline Dead shows. Really happy Jerry played one of them.

[@Bobby007D]

Sweet video !

[@fannymanson]

Rip Gloria!!

[@jonathanshampine9948]

This is so fire! ❤️

[@5times378]

The smile on Jerry's face is awesome!!

[@vancefyock8962]

Fuckin love jerry!!!

[@danielpaskoful]

I was blessed and lucky enough to see most of this tour. you could tell Jerry had played this song several times this tour and was playing with some new ideas. The back and fourth licks, and the heavy distortion seldom used on this song. so creative, that's how we could stand to see him over and over again. and I did!

[@alfreddorsey8916]

Yes he did.

[@jimbeard2952]

i still cant tell whoes best trey or jerry imimpartial because i loved them both

[@bzfgt1]

This is an outstanding rendition! Sometimes the jam feels a little tacked on since it's not a jammy type song in its core elements, but this version to me seems to flow perfectly...

[@robertdingleton1929]

Interesting. I just heard a 93 version that sounds almost like Dark Star in the jam, and I came here to see if they were all like that.

[@augustwest5273]

“It’s not a jammy song”? The first I’ve heard anyone say that. It’s the jammiest thanks to Jer.

[@chewie2299]

Dat damn Groove..jbg.#24.2

[@biffjohnson7891]

Thank you for posting much gratitude for your Mekong these gems available to us Jerry Saves {~}:=}

[@biffjohnson7891]

Musical perfection From our musical angels Greatest fucking band in history of music From prehistoric to present Other than the Grateful Dead Hmmmmm. I wonder why “I love you so “. 🎼💕 Jerry Garcia Forever {💔}:=}

[@wilsgetchell6420]

It might be Philly, I recognize Jerry's shirt ! hahaha

[@bzfgt1]

+Wils Getchell I'm quite certain he wore black in New Jersey that year...

[@matthewboggs9047]

no no it was dark black!

[@jerryskid78]

That's the best thing I've heard in a while Wils. Hahaha

[@jenniferbloh-michael8662]

@@bzfgt1 😂🤣

[@keithmartin7301]

We can't let go listening to THIS

[@jstantino]

What's the difference in sound between tiger and Rosebud? I realised jerry is rocking out w Rosebud here, that had to be around the time this was a brand new guitar, right?

[@garydefoe4137]

Good morning sweetie I love you

[@sherrihammond3181]

💜

[@SuperJannaB]

Oh yesss those days!!!

[@MrBakersean]

Right after Brent died. Hard to watch for that but oh so worth it.

[@scottt2325]

missing Jerry today