Grateful Dead 5-3-68 Low Library Plaza Columbia University, NYC

Cryptical Envelopment
The Other One

[@spencerdawkins]

Keeping in mind that this set was basically guerilla theater during the Columbia sit-in, and the band had to smuggle their gear onto campus in order to play in support of student protests, that sound quality and camera work are among the best I've seen for a Dead live recording, especially before 1970. And this is by FAR the most fun I've seen Micky Hart having while playing. The only mystery for me is how Bill Kruetzman managed to have his groovy aviator shades disappear and reappear while he was playing at full speed ... 😁

[@cp26plus]

the hat flew off of Mickey's head that's when it all began

[@anthonyinsani9914]

No doubt

[@embeleshow]

8:08 - "Did I ever tell you about the time I sat in with the Grateful Dead when I was 8?"

[@moonbeamskies3346]

This was so much more wild than the Stones or the Beatles.

[@Mrbeahz1]

No comparison!

[@dylanwesley3964]

Apples to oranges to grapes

[@omarcapaso7156]

Dylan Wesley exactly lmao I hate when people compare bands, they’re all great on their own

[@peterbetts858]

@@omarcapaso7156 Strengths an weaknesses . But these guys seemed to have a StrongeR Groove ! ! . And Their Getar Player seemed to Play DiffeRent .

[@mexicanamericanmojo4520]

on so many levels

[@brendennichols296]

Love the little boy just getting his face melted about 7 mins in

[@gdpacnw5126]

Haven't we all been there, at least once?

[@janeseamore1370]

I think he’s the perfect example of getting the cosmic fire in hand and then showing the exact stages in order of how ones Face is stolen.

[@francisbaxter4663]

I’m sure that kid was minding his own business when he noticed free kool aid was being given out, the rest was history.

[@charlesameyer1]

Wow. I’ve seen this video before, but here the audio is not only the right song, but well synced. Thanks! The kid at the end always cracks me up.

[@sfchris]

Yes, some of the audience reactions in this film was used for the song Hard to Handle. Don't know for sure what the real audio was.

[@Mrbeahz1]

Someone tried to dub "The Eleven" over this!

[@Heretic_Hero]

It is the right song but the audio is wrong.

[@thegroovypatriot]

How can there be such awesome, clear footage of this early stuff? Look at the crowd's faces...some are grooving, but many are in wonderment, or suspicion...it's definetely something new!! Once they figure out the dancing part, it'll really be on.

[@julla1416]

I believe the sound was run into a mixing board and recorded from there, rather than using a mic in the audience.

[@MarkMasters...]

If they only knew....WE KNOW.......

[@rb3166]

They've never heard this before! This was all new and they were checking it out for the first time.

[@kbbl102.5]

Imagine hearing this music with no context of what rock and roll would become post-60's.... these people got that. Lucky bastards.

[@haikat4]

These old film reels were high quality and can really last if preserved. Digital recordings aged a lot worse than film from the 60s.

[@thejoritube]

So raw and filled with energy. Sheds some light on pigpens tasteful and perfectly timed keyboard riffs and fills. Underrated piece of the early gd puzzle of sound

[@francisbaxter4663]

I just got into the dead, the pig pen organ puts them over the top. So heavy.

[@Mrbeahz1]

Ron's organ playing was so under appreciated by the band at this time.

[@anthonyinsani9914]

No doubt

[@ervbefelnareik7604]

Something interesting I just found out: Jimi Hendrix was recording Voodoo Child (Slight Return) on this same exact day AND only 5 miles away (about a 20 minute drive) and supposedly those sessions were filmed too! After his death the film was stolen apparently.. :(

[@golds04]

8:07 - an unsung guest appearance by ? : playing the cymbals 😂. Only the dead would delight in an audience participation like that. What- a clip. Ty for the beautiful syn ❤👊💯😊

[@richardgreen3353]

Pigpen, Bill, and Mickey played as if there was a war going on..........

[@joebaby555]

Jerry and the boys go into overdrive hyperspace at around 5:00. Raw ,powerful and wonderful....Thanks Voodoo ❤️

[@chloefire6810]

this is a classic clip. what a treat. the dead as they should be remembered....Micky is feeling it for sure....thanks for the upload.

[@SuperLoveskate]

This might be my favorite GD footage ..legendary

[@RioParadiso]

Anthem of the Sun lives

[@juless3808]

Thank you for sharing, big thanks to whoever recorded this and synced the audio and the person who shared this! Thought I'd share my story here because so many people have such beautiful memories of discovering them much earlier than I did. But I want people to know that people are still finding the dead! Long after Jerry died and without awesome family to show them. I discovered the dead when I was 18 in 2008. I come from a southern baptist christian upbringing and my family never listened to good music, in my opinion. When I was about 16 I downloaded some music from limewire onto my ipod, not the Dead yet but one week later my dad literally freaked out and ripped my pictures I had printed from our home computer off that I had posted INSIDE my closet of the bands I started to love like The Doors, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Floyd, etc., and said they didn't want me to turn into a "stupid druggie'. When I was 18, I moved out and I was dating a boy named Russell who burned me a cd of The Grateful Dead. From there on, I loved them. I went on to travel the country listening to bands I love, seeing Furthur in 2011 in Simpsonville. South Carolina, and most recently the Jerry Garcia 75 birthday celebration at Red Rocks, in Morrison, Colorado. I wish I could've seen Jerry and whoever got to see Pigpen is incredibly lucky but I love how Bob Weir carries on the legacy, the music. I'm so lucky to be able to see him and Lesh and Krutz and the rest! Thank you so much for sharing this video and I hope you enjoyed my story of discovering the Dead too. :)

[@dlparker]

Wow! I'm 72, had a Southern Baptist upbringing, was a brainiac and a jock in HS, jock in college but a brainiac who never studied and almost flunked out. Discovering the Dead in '68 and seeing them for the first time in '69 was part of my own "Long, StrangeTrip". This clip takes me right back to those days. You can strip out all the peripheral BS that accompanied that whole scene and boil it down to one basic ingredient - the music.

[@francisbaxter4663]

Just stated listening to them as soon as covid 19 started. Loved going to see live music and refueled to listen to the dead because I would never see them live, but being I can’t see anything live now I said why not, and dove in... happy I did.

[@spencerdawkins]

That is a great story - thank you for sharing it!

[@sacluvsBM]

Thanks for taking this 63 year old back to when he was 16. Excuse me please. Pig Pen and I are going to go share a couple of bottles of Ripple.

[@williammeier4534]

This is the very essence, the very template of "That's It For The Other One," the opening track for Anthem Of The Sun! I love this footage! Thank you for sharing it!

[@musicianu7124]

This is easily one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. I just graduated from Columbia and the campus looks pretty much exactly the same. Kid @7:35 says it all. Thank you for sharing!

[@grizzkid795]

I like the kids helping with the drumming.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Great channel. Especially for people who saw the Dead early (like me). To a little snot nosed kid they were kind of scary. Pigpen especially. But the music was the best in best and worst of times. Thank you.

[@gergsport]

WOW!!! This is a gem. Such great quality. Everything the dead did seemed to be of the best quality at that time or was cutting edge.

[@timlawder36]

This was 3 weeks before their first appearance in St Louis, May 24-25, 1968. My brothers band opened for them, Public Service Blues Band.

[@danmacdonald9375]

My father's office was right across the street when the Columbia University protests were going. He definitely sided with the students. He wasn't a Dead head, but did appreciate the music when I would play cassettes in the car.

[@kimnabi3988]

Fantastic organ

[@gankmore]

Absolutely stunning. Thank you.

[@robie.v5164]

This should have over 10 million views! 🌈✌🎶

[@billc6087]

We (and they) were all so young once!

[@tgproductions97]

Damn Bobby put that mic any closer to your mouth you're gonna swallow it

[@LonePigsyAndCub]

Wow! I've never seen this synced up before--thank you!

[@voodoonola]

+LonePigsyAndCub You're welcome. That's why I made it.

[@doctorspacebass]

I ended up here bro and found you of course ... One Love Master Hoss

[@victorwong9622]

AMAZING to see this activity synched!!!! Thanks!!

[@maxferver4902]

@@voodoonola is the audio from the synced part from the same date as the film?

[@newusernamehere4772]

@@maxferver4902 yes lol

[@21stcenturydead96]

thank you so much!!! i've always wanted to see what's going on in the heat of things in these Primal days, and this is so revealing

[@KentokkilHome]

Voodoo, you're making my everyday life brighter by a large and fine dose of the Grateful Dead. - - A big hug from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

[@danleedonian]

That kid near the end(of the song) does indeed "get it" and that's how I was the first time I heard the Grateful Dead, and that's how I felt last summer when I did 2 hits of blotter

[@voodoonola]

This was actually on the terrace of Ferris Booth Hall, the student activities building at Columbia. But since it is known as the Low Library video, I'm keeping the title as it is. Thanks to Steve Goldfield for the info.

[@PodOfHeat]

That snare drum sound is perfect

[@albinoethiopian3]

The little black kid trippin out around 7:30 had me crackin' up. Awesome video though!!!

[@robsgirl6465]

albinoethiopian3 : Yeah, he be rockin'.

[@Imabeatyouman]

albinoethiopian3 ok, little kid, tripping out. Say that out loud and ask urself if it’s funny

[@alansilverman8500]

Hell yeah! That kid is fuckin' awesome!

[@tonymasiellovids]

Amazing!

[@javahaven1]

this is one of the best things on youtube. (~):} to me this is the best of the dead. dont get me wrong i love all the eras. but this video really does it for me. thanks for sharing.

[@lilacrain3283]

I’m a late 70’s fan but late 60’s Dead really does have something that other eras just don’t have. There’s something primal and raw about it

[@Mrbeahz1]

@@lilacrain3283 In the late 60s and very early 70s they Truly played "without a net".

[@lilacrain3283]

@@Mrbeahz1 They just sounded so limber and dynamic back then. They truly sounded like a young band in the best way possible

[@francisbaxter4663]

It’s called pig pen, that’s what it has, the perfect organ sound, harmonica, another set of vocals.

[@LizRabban]

Thank you!!! it is not at Low tho - it is to the side of Butler Library - Low is in the background up the famous steps. This is sort of between what used to be Carmen, Havemeyer, and Furnald. Love what you did!

[@voodoonola]

+Liz Rabban Thanks for the info.

[@jonthebru]

This is really amazing. So well filmed and then for you to take the time and sync the audio. Thank you.

[@voodoonola]

Audio is from archive.org/details/gd1968-05-00.sbd.currier.5427.sbeok.shnf

[@marcbernicker206]

totally mind-blowing. thanks voodoo

[@rachelanne881]

This is so special. I love you voo.whoever you are!!! :)

[@steinguy70]

1 of the coolest youtube videos I've ever seen. TY @phishlvr

[@bobouzala]

Thanks doo for the rare blend! Smilin' on a cloudy day! 8-)

[@JohnBGood-ry9wj]

Is this one of the performances that was mixed into “Anthem of the 🌞 “??

[@wangson]

Black dude there is really feeling this one... at 6:00

[@ptygmatic8982]

Thank you for posting!!! Great!

[@svenolley]

supery dupery good.Could watch this all day long.

[@randymason8642]

The greatest thing I’ve ever seen

[@TheCarterCO]

wow cool. there is so much great footage from the 80's on (much of it courtesy of you), but this is a real treat to see.

[@alexgomez-ul2mr]

There's that Kid that gets it @ 7:34 :)

[@devanwiech]

+alex gomez That was insane ahhahahahahaha

[@nolovenohope2024]

the other one was causing his face to melt. this is a great clip to begin with and the kid just puts it over the top

[@michaelhunter1093]

+alex gomez PEAK melting at 7;48

[@afauxican_american]

Bobo86 that face wipe he does says it all.

[@xianshep]

Pretty sure that's Branford Marsalis...

[@ManhattanHoosier]

Wow. Thank you for sharing!

[@PTO-t9d]

Billy looks like the guy the mafia sends over to give you a last chance to settle up before they send the guy who's going to kill you.

[@roberatilan5646]

awesome that you have access to this stuff. Its a good thing bobby could sing or he would have been bounced. The early dead were all Pig, Jerry and Phil. Awesome vid and ty. The rest got lucky. Saw the dead at the hollywood bowl in 69. Did not need acid. It was astonishing without it.

[@oughtssought1198]

8:10. Mickey's invited some help with the drumming

[@Mrbeahz1]

Just did some Googly. This was performed 5/3/68. But the album was recorded 9/67 to 3/68. and released July 1968. Unless an audience member had traveled to the West Cost in the preceding year., THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE!

[@YouGotTheMelvin]

60 fucking 8. Otherworldly

[@thatJimwiththenes]

This is legendary.

[@spuddougherty7860]

The kid behind Bobby during Other One reminds me of me at the Cap Center in 1988. 😎😁

[@jimkeogh8552]

Was this the live coming out party for the material for Anthem of the Sun? It makes a lot of sense to me that this material would be central to a sit in for intellectual freedom. Anthem of the Sun ranks as the premiere album among the Magical Mystery Tour/ Her Majesty’s Satanic Request/ musical revolutions by leading rock musicians throughout the world during the decade of the 1960s.

[@MrBakersean]

Fantastic!

[@kingdomrhye1180]

awesome to have this quality footage from long ago, the dead transend time

[@tylerhornbacj113]

what a gem!!!

[@janeseamore1370]

I'm starting to think this is the greatest thing on the web

[@markhorton3041]

Man! I know there was a lot of blasted minds at this gig.

[@chrisdavis234]

Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you!!!!

[@adamanderson5063]

I cannot believe I am watching this

[@MrEwooly]

Well, aside from not getting to hear Phil do the grATest bass guitar lead-in ever to The Other One when it ultimately became stand-alone, we do get to hear why Phil was so good right out-of-the-gate on the full song....

[@David-mo5jw]

The drumming is immense

[@mr.crowley2939]

50 yrs ago today... pretty much timeless though.

[@musekic4654]

Inspiration shining brightly when the country was even more dysfunctional than now - 2020. (MLK Jr. & Bobby Kennedy both murdered within 1 month of this show, extreme social injustice, rampant police brutality, Vietnam war, cold war, LBJ wire tapping...)

[@v1ncepupp1o7]

My thanks to you voodoo. This is the one ⚡️💜

[@Alzrad]

Hey man. I want to first thank you for the service you provide. Second……I would love to see this synced with an AUD recording

[@voodoonola]

Me too. Find the audio.

[@Alzrad]

voodoonola ahhh, well then. We've all been so spoiled with endless hours of recordings that I just assume everything I want is available.....not true, but pretty close wouldn't you say? Cheers

[@MillCityJam]

Thank you !! Great Vid !! - Pretty sweet at 8:20...

[@robsgirl6465]

MillCityJam : AMEN!!!

[@328ChaunceyStreet]

Is there more of this gig available?

[@jcmahoney3514]

Wow - thanks man

[@thomashumphrey7395]

Bill looks like an angry porn star here. And Bob doesn't look old enough to get into one of his movies. lol

[@arockspaceman3065]

Happy 55th Anniversary 🎉

[@rickyphelps7678]

Wheres the audio Dicks Picks, Daves Picks, & Roadtrips ...ect ?

[@troop1042]

Finally, nice synch!

[@rolandramirez4557]

7:33 Alright, who dosed the kid?

[@el_chief_dannyboy]

Jerry’s solos make me wanna fly away...

[@richardfaucheraux4873]

Extraordinaire document !

[@jpmcgrath3536]

phil is bringing the heat

[@badsister27]

Voodoonola I love youuuuuuu

[@40pass]

I need to learn how to hurl my hat by shaking my head like Mickey does at 4:31!

[@francisbaxter4663]

This is usually what it sounds like when I am peaking.

[@v1ncepupp1o7]

Is there any more footage of this show? Thank you voodoonola 💜⚡️❤️💜🌹🌈

[@buddyiodine]

What show is the audio from? (Could it really be this one… last time I saw this clip there was no sound) Close enough, amazing stuff

[@keithschilhab7759]

The synch seems to improve about half way through, especially after the vocals got going.

[@voodoonola]

+Keith Schilhab Those are the only parts the are actually synced. Besides being some of the longest continuous clips, the vocals made it easy to sync. The rest of the clips would be extremely hard to do. Not only because they are shorter and all instrumental, they could be from anywhere in the entire set. All the parts that are out of sync must come from another song because I tried to fit them anywhere in these two songs.

[@keithschilhab7759]

Dude - you killed it! as far as I am concerned. I figured the vocals were what allowed you to synch, Where did the video come from? The Live Dead and Skullfuck era are my favorites.

[@francisbaxter4663]

Yea when bob comes back in at the 630 mark, shit is perfect.

[@esau0909]

Freaking sweet THANK YOU!!

[@gordoksel]

Oh hell yeah!

[@barryherman325]

Wow. That is all.

[@LindaLee99]

thanks

[@Mrbeahz1]

;6:28 Woman on left: "Ohh M'god"

[@rjmaggio2187]

Jerry's lamb chops.....

[@postshanna]

Unreal footage. I love how bored some of the audience look 😂

[@40pass]

Mickey at 4:45 has got some great energy!

[@nowhereman4041]

Protesters: Wait a minute....why are we all skipping through a Lilly field waiting for cowboy Neil's bus??? Aren't we supposed to be protesting and rioting or something?