First Time Hearing | The Grateful Dead | Touch Of Grey | 3 Generation Reaction

[@stevedavis5704]

The story I heard is that when they filmed this video they just announced at one of their concerts that anyone who wanted to help the band out could stay after the concert to do so. That was how they got the crowd for the video and the fans got some fun times with the band.

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Cool

[@kevinmclaughlin8975]

Correct

[@hitchhikemike1]

I was there, I think it was alpine valley

[@hitchhikemike1]

Thanx! Love the dead!

[@j.frankparnell]

It was Laguna seca in 1987. We camped out for three days for 2 shows. Around midnight after one of the shows some folks from the dead came around and started asking people if they wanted to see the band play and film a video. Some said they announced it earlier but we just heard them and of course everyone awake followed. We thought it would be a bunch of jamming, but it was hours of them replaying and just a recording playing touch of grey while they manipulated and filmed the skeletons "playing". Still very cool

[@brandonjones1349]

I followed the Dead from 91 to 95. Best years of my life. Its a lifestyle and cultural phenomenon. Ty lasses! ⚡️💀⚡️....☘️🇺🇲

[@ChrisJones-cs2zd]

The bus came by and on climbed Donna, Kathy and Lulu, that's when it all began....

[@dennisbrooks8566]

If they get confused , just listen to the music play . 😂😂

[@michaelmoore5220]

Thanks!

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Thank you so much

[@bobschenkel7921]

1980 to 1995 were the best years of my life, because that was when I was following the Grateful Dead on tour as much as I could. Maine, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, and many points in between. The video was shot at Laguna-Seca Raceway near Monterey, California, after a show. Other goodies from The Dead: "Shakedown Street", "Sugar Magnolia>Sunshine Daydream", "Truckin' ", "Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower" and "Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain". Welcome aboard the bus.

[@tenjed4224]

Technically the only song that hit near the top of the charts in the Dead's 30 year history. They came to fame from live performances, of which they performed over 2,000 shows across the world - the most for any rock band. After they broke up in 95 they played in different variations for the next .. well, they are still playing - just not as the Grateful Dead. The reason this video was done the way it was to show this band, with all it has gone through, still survives. RIP Jerry Garcia.

[@christopherbako]

This really is a beautiful song. Thank you.😊

[@WilliamFiler]

"I see you got your list out, say your peace and get out, I think I got the gyst of it..."

[@lalapo5304]

Hey now. Opened a can with this one. Thousands of us followed this band across the country for decades. Myself in the '88 fall tour then on to New Years in Oakland, topping it off with the LA Forum. Way more than just a band. It was a lifestyle and for some, life period. I believe they still hold the record for the most money made in live shows beating out even Michael Jackson.

[@JulioFG-l3u]

Hello girls, 3G Luku, Donna, Katty 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Jerry Garcia & Company..... GRATEFUL DEAD

[@teddtarr]

"In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is guided by the grateful dead" ...passage from the ancient 'Egyptian Book of the Dead'

[@joelgibbons5586]

I urge to keep reacting to the Grateful Dead. You won’t like all of it but you’ll love what you love. Warning…. It’s like going down a rabbit hole.

[@paulfadeley3496]

I will agree with an earlier post Truckin, and add Sugar Magnolia, and Terapin Station!!! They were the longest continuing to tour band ever and the Deadheads followed like a band of gypsies!!!!!

[@damonhines8187]

Best video, great great song. Witty lyrics. Really strikes a chord 36 years(?) later. 😊🤙🏼🎶🔥❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊

[@harpergras]

This has always been my favorite song and video by this iconic band.

[@williammark4563]

A good one to do is "Truckin".

[@DAVYMAC]

William... True from you! Truckin'

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Excellent choice!!!!!!!!!!

[@GodOfFire334]

First reaction I've ever seen for this track. This is probably my all-time absolute favorite music video, for obvious reasons...should give you an idea of how my yard is decorated year-round. Love how they managed to capture the exact look and mannerisms of each of the guys...in skeleton. I grew up with this record as a little kid, literally. I remember being about 4 back in 1990, with a full mustache, listening to this non-stop to the point where I knew all of the names of the members of the band. I still remember where I was when I heard that Jerry had passed a few years later...

[@RullVox]

I've always liked how they change it from I will survive, to we will survive, at the end.

[@JulioFGX]

Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhh The Grateful Dead. Live......hello girls🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@realamerican5813]

This video was done so cool! I liked the dog stealing the bone from the drummer! Thanks for the fun reaction, ladies!

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@panpdx8919]

I was there that night . they did a full concert at the Greenska which is surrounded by the campgrounds which everyone was at well after it had gotten dark we could see the lights go back on at the arena and the doors were open and on a smaller stage than the mainstage they did the video. They would do one part of the song And then while the technical people were making adjustments they would do three or four other songs just like a regular concert. Recall it lasted most of the night and the sun was just starting to come up when it was over.

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Awesome

[@tenjed4224]

Although there are many recording session songs from which to choose, go live as much as possible when listening to the Dead. Their live performances are untouched. They float between rock, country, blue grass, blues, Jazz and eclectic world music all within the same show. And although they did over 2000 shows while as the grateful dead, they used no setlists. 16 - 22 songs each night they just thought of to play while on the stage. And they have a library of original and covers to choose from.

[@michael-1680]

The Grateful Dead are one of the longest-lasting rock bnds, being together for exactly 30 years, starting in 1965, and ending only with the death of the bandleader, Jerry Garcia. In that time, "Touch [of Grey" was their ONLY top-ten hit, making them, technically, the most enduring of "one-hit wonders"! I love them.

[@Bluesbabesrv]

One of the concert venues I work at has a sculpture of Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 -August 9, 1995) the lead singer and guitarist. Every year for his birthday there is a party with a couple bands, food and drink and Jerry’s statue gets covered in roses, one of the symbols most associated with the Grateful Dead. It’s gorgeous 🌹🥀🌹

[@firedoc5]

The Grateful Dead and their Dead Heads was/is their own sub-culture. One of the greatest bands with few awards to show for it.

[@mattjohn4731]

Casey Jones, Dire Wolf, Truckin', Dark Star, Doin' That Rag, Rosemary, Cumberland Blues, Sage & Spirit, Help On The Way, New Speedway Boogie. Edited out of Woodstock film, they played in Festival Express film instead 🎸☮️🍄

[@tenjed4224]

@@mattjohn4731 Festival Express is a definite for anyone wanting to get into live Dead.

[@tonichappell7596]

The dead are currently playing The Sphere in Vegas till mid August

[@keithsimpson6563]

Hey guys here is another GD song if you liked that one. The name is West L.A. Fade away give it a listen

[@mikeadair3341]

Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream is named after the Grateful Deads lead singer Jerry Garcia.

[@herbie1234567890]

Was going to mention this, but I figured someone must have beaten me to it. 😉

[@wildmouse5888]

The Dead were portrayed as skeletons, yet Jerry still had his man-boobs. That kind of self-deprecating humor is just SO Grateful Dead. They stayed humble and never saw themselves as above or different from the fans; other than having more responsibilities at a gig.

[@janna2245]

We're those filled with birdseed? They somehow made Jerry fat... as a SKELETON! Also, that was a real concert audience.

[@trentbresler3179]

They just played the sphere in Las Vegas well everyone minus pig pen, jerry and phill. They are still rocking

[@brheinfeldt]

Massive huge fan base! Very little radio play, mostly word of mouth, and famously long jan sessions! They create a lot of songs during their jam sessions! And when Jerry Garcia passed, his ashes were released in outer space during one of NASA's Space Shuttle missions!

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Hello to three beautiful Texas ladies a awesome video of a classic rock band for donnas and chads time from the grateful head opps I mean the grateful dead now I want some pizza lol. Wintersun Alex in Texas ❄️❤️

[@mikefitznb1]

it is a concert but redone into a music video....the dead and the dead-heads (followers) loved LSD...so that made this video much more special

[@bobmessier5215]

You should watch a live performance of "Eyes of the World" by The Grateful Dead. It's long, but worth it!

[@billc.5861]

Being a San Francisco Bay Area native & the Grateful Dead being from the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco late 60s I have heard and seen and been around the whole Grateful Dead scene most of my life. I have a friend of mine, who plays in a Grateful Dead extension band with some of the members Their colt following of their fans is absolutely crazy. Pick any popular musician of today and the Grateful Dead has them beat. Those fans would follow them around the country just to see their shows.

[@DAVYMAC]

Ba-Boom! Pretty cool! Lulu! Lulu dressed modestly, exuding class!

[@shannonherb2048]

I love the song. I wasn't a dead head but respect them.

[@BRIANZ969]

Thank you for this reaction to a Grateful Dead. They have allot of Fans. This is relatively late in their career . This song was written in 1987 -The leader of the band -Jerry Garcia -died in 1995. They disbanded after that.

[@davidredshaw448]

Don't worry about the beards or the way they were dressed, girls. The 60s were the age of the anti-star. Bands ambled on stage, played the music and then ambled off. And the great thing was that you could afford the tickets. The music was everything. It's all a long way from the Taylor Swift or Madonna extravaganzas (although I have to say here that Rebel Heart is one of my all-time favourite songs). My ultimate anti-star experience was seeing the first tour of the Butterfield Blues Band in London about 1965. They came on stage with no introduction looking like they'd come off a building site. But we didn't mind, we'd come to hear the mighty Mike Bloomfield - America's answer to Eric Clapton.

[@KevinRCarr]

It was fun to hear you mention Broken Bow, OK. I live in Minnesota, and grew up in Minnesota and North Dakota, but my mother was from Wright City, and Broken Bow came into many of the stories she told of her teenage years. Thank you for bringing a smile. Oh, and great song and fun reaction, too.

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Thanks

[@brianfisher6165]

I was in the audience for the filming of this video. It was blast.👌✌️😁

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

I bet that was awesome.

[@samfulford1964]

We were camping -and listening to other bands, when a rumor spread that the band was coming back out,we went to the stage and this happened

[@fg-cj2ol]

It was a real show, and they filmed it afterwards with the real audience

[@davidcreager1945]

When I was in highschool in the 80's , i knew a guy who dropped out to follow the Dead around the country . Always wondered what happened to him.

[@coils4foil537]

In The Dark is a great album!!!

[@TheHOWLER45]

@ Kathy, Lulu and Donna..The Grateful Dead made this song theirs. It was written and recorded by Robert Hunter. Jerry liked the song , he rewrote the melody.

[@DonDefty]

We had a restaurant called The Gratefull Fed

[@lonniehhenson7925]

I remember seeing this video on mtv in 87 i believe... Just Hilarious

[@DAVYMAC]

Our local top 40 station HAD to play this song! A lot of bad music was top 40 at this time, this is a quality song.

[@donalddixoninlou]

There is a location in Hot Springs as well. never been there tho...

[@camglass4560]

Scarlet begonias live in 1977 - they has a female singer.

[@69zenos1]

Alabama Getaway. I am NOT a deadhead by any stretch. But they did have a couple okay songs.

[@JulioFGX]

Eric Clapton 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Ch1ll_0ld_Dud3]

As a long time head, I’d suggest listening to the studio recording of “Ripple” next, then listen to a live performance of “Morning Dew” after that.

[@allengray5748]

Seen a couple suggestions! TRUCKIN!!! SUGAR MAGNOLIA,,,, and CASEY JONES (you better,,, watch your speed!!!)!! Peace Man!! 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@Zentrix-24]

My most fav song from TGD.

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

And no there were no deep vees for Kathy this time lol. Wintersun Alex ❄️❤️

[@johnwatrous8982]

Ben and Jerry’s has an ice cream named for Jerry Garcia the lead singer (RIP). Truckin is a great song you should do next. Dead Heads and dancing bears forever.

[@kevinmclaughlin8975]

Enjoyed you enjoying the Dead.

[@magekaz6719]

Great reaction! I'd recommend LIVE versions of the following songs: Cumberland Blues, Eyes of the World, Let it Grow, Terrapin, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Lost Sailor, Saint of Circumstance, the Wheel.... just for starters. Stick with anything from the 70's - mid 80's. Then explore further, but be warned, it's a serious rabbit hole!! Enjoy!

[@EricSmaug]

SAW THEM BACK IN THE EARLY 80S LOL!!!!

[@MrWhit30]

I love the Dead but Im a real sucker for the Jerry ballads. Stella Blue, Warf Rat, Mission in the Rain, Brokedown Palace, Ripple, China Doll, Ship of Fools, and so many more.. Something about Jerry's plaintive but emotional voice just gets to me. Plus the magnificent poetry of Robert Hunter, one of the best lyricists to ever pick up a pen.

[@Zentrix-24]

So Did LULU like their hair :) just had a touch of grey, lol. Jerry Garcia looked like a biker from back in the day!

[@Miykael1933]

Truckin' is a good song! Casey Jones is funky as heck! Ripple is a masterpiece!

[@williamjones6031]

I'm not a "Dead Head", but I dig this one. There's also a Broken Bow, Nebraska.

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Cool

[@Evertnr11]

Check out ”just a little light” by the dead 😉

[@InkedMisfit]

I have this on 45 I got it from my mom. Only dead thing I own lol

[@donsavignano4396]

The great full dead were from San Francisco California

[@garyarnett1220]

Haven't been to Broken Bow in a long time, so either missed the pizza place or it's newer.

[@shortstuff7959]

There is a Grateful Dead movie!

[@rich1223]

Savianos in Euless on Main ST is the best Pizza in Texas!!

[@danielmarone5757]

You think that was cool you should check out When the Music's Over By the Doors oh my God

[@n5iln]

The original jam band.

[@InkedMisfit]

Well dang Kathy I got them deep Vs you seek. 🤣😊

[@KathyLuluandDonna]

Lol

[@InkedMisfit]

@@KathyLuluandDonna 😁

[@jeffcampbell668]

For something different by the band try "Estimated Prophet" studio version.

[@eclecticNhectic]

Find a live video of Shaskedown Street. I think you'll like it.

[@OldWarriorFella]

The GD only had 2 top hits, this and "Truckin". They hated the studio so toured for like 30 years. Unlike other bands, they welcomed "bootleg" recording of their shows, partly because they never performed a song the same way twice if they could avoid it. They were true legends and people would actually follow them from show to show.

[@philipdickey6460]

Ice cream chain, Ben and Jerry’s has a flavor named after Jerry Garcia… Cherries Garcia

[@uosuaq]

That album came out in maybe 1987? (Some on explain to the kid that that was an actual year that happened. ;) ) Jerry Garcia had recently recovered from some kind of coma, possibly diabetic, and when he sang "I will get by" the audience would explode, although Grateful Dead audiences tend to explode a lot. This is far from my favorite GD song, but asking for recommendations is...a bit foolhardy. People will have a *lot* of suggestions. Even restricting it to shows that were actually caught on film, you've got Veneta '72, the epic '78 New Year's show, etc. etc. etc....

[@krypticalenvelopment]

that ain't Grateful Dead - THIS was Grateful Dead (one out of thousands of nights!) - the night they wandered into playing a cover of The Beatles "Day Tripper" - enjoy kzbin.info/www/bejne/eILFk3elmq-aac0si=FroMU7KFELplp0nu&t=7448

[@tonichappell7596]

RIP Phil Lesh bass player passed away today.

[@billdomitilli8125]

Try 'Brown-Eyed Women' from the Europe '72 LP, or anything else from it. I consider it a high-water mark. Cheers, --bd

[@Cta2006]

Been a long time since you have reviewed a song by A-HA. try Move to Memphis

[@jackmehoff8393]

Did you notice that they had two drummers?

[@spindletopcenter]

Jeez. Um... jeee

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

I know the rent is in arrears, the dog has not been fed in years It's even worse than it appears, but it's alright Cow is giving kerosene, kid can't read at seventeen The words he knows are all obscene, but it's alright

[@PatrickSimpson-nd3er]

"Cows are given kerosene. the kid can't read at seventeen. the words he knows are all obscene..But it's alright!

[@EricSmaug]

OMG UR SUCH A HIPPIE LOL

[@williamyates694]

I like this song well enough. But I tend to be more of a Parrot Head than a Dead Head. (Jimmy Buffett). That hippie mess isn't for me lol. 🍻🤟👏

[@pookiegamer9327]

Please listen to Ripple if you want to become a dead head

[@LoveBandit1000]

Every silver lining's got a ......touch of grey.

[@dggydddy59]

To hear what made Grateful Dead what they were, I think you need to go back to the old stuff, the Dark Star from Live/Dead, Captain Trips era type of stuff. This MTV video was decades later.