Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace - 12/31/1980 - Oakland Auditorium

Recorded 12/31/1980 - Oakland Auditorium (Oakland, CA)
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[@garyhunt609]

This was played at my Dad's funeral. He loved the Grateful Dead and I loved him.

[@emmagentry4219]

Same here ❤

[@thebeefinator535]

'Someday in the distant future, when words matter again, people will celebrate Hunter as one of the great poets of the modern world' - Some guy on an old upload of this video

[@nickrimmele2837]

My high school English teacher (2006) had pictures of the Beatles albums and Pink Floyd on the walls. “They will be remembered as the prolific poets of our generation”

[@BDB78]

Agree. Hunter will someday be revered as one of the best of American Poets. Up there with Whitman if you ask me.

[@prilljazzatlanta5070]

@@nickrimmele2837 i prefer robert hunter

[@thatchickenman8140]

U are quite intelligent yourself for making such a true to the heart comment about this song . Brings me to tears cause you know they’re are folks out there living it

[@thinkandbefree9398]

If there is such a thing as fate, it certainly guided Hunter and Garcia along intersecting paths. The best thing about Hunter's lyrics is that they stand in a timeless American mythology - ripe for individual interpretation. And because that fucker died and never told anyone exactly what his words meant we are free to do with then what we will

[@dsstephen2173]

I played and sang this song to my beloved sister in our last conversation before she took the escape hatch away from the agony of cancer. I kept it together somehow throughout, and it was a fitting end to our wonderful lifetime of music and partying. I will never hear the song the same again. RIP Laurin, 12/18/58 - 6/11/24. "I love you more than words can tell. "

[@rachelprescott7379]

💔💔💔♥️♥️♥️

[@EctomorphEcstasy]

@@rachelprescott7379 Thank you so much!

[@rickbigelow1168]

❤️❤️❤️😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏

[@dsstephen2173]

@@rachelprescott7379 ⚘️❤️

[@dsstephen2173]

@@rickbigelow1168 ⚘️❤️🏞

[@JeffMountainPicker]

My wife, Carol, a lifelong Dead fan, just died yesterday 😢 morning. She loved this song. I'll play it for her at the gathering/sendoff.

[@jcavilia1]

So sorry for your loss. Peace to you. My wife died 6 months ago, after 47 years of marriage. She was not a Dead fan before we met 50 years ago, but she became one. When I shared this video with my siblings on Facebook I said that Jerry's solos at about 3:30 and 5:00 sounded like the guitar was gently crying. It sounds like what I hear in my heart. I listen to this song when I need my sad tears of loss to also be happy tears of sweet memory and gratitude for the blessing of having her in my life for so long.

[@garymurfee4290]

My deepest condolences

[@Brucer42O]

Fare you well.

[@redwingsphan]

Fare her well

[@CatfishCheese]

this song will definitely rip heart out an make cry like a baby. my only true one passed 2yrs ago. at 45. I love her more than words can tell.

[@rebeccamaker3084]

Playing this song for my friend Daryl who finally was able to break the chains that held him to this mortal coil. There is no other song- EVER- that expresses the love, respect & glory of death. May we all, in our own time, be able to leave this Broke Down Palace. Many Blessings and Thanks Jerry- as it was and as it shall be- I love you❤

[@tommyfogarty]

This song belongs in the “American Song Book” alongside anything Guthrie, Dylan or Townes Van Zant created. The striking thing about this version is how much Brent Mydland added to an already timeless and seemingly unimprovable piece.

[@mortenandersen2264]

Interesting

[@ivyjlayman5568]

My favorite song.

[@glenndynner4640]

Love the organ. Beautiful vocals to a timeless song.

[@disprogreavette8545]

Brent Mydland sure knew his way around the keys.

[@thinkandbefree9398]

@@disprogreavette8545 And this is very early Brent -

[@rb6338]

The perfection❤! The vocal harmonies, the organ and the guitar...so beautiful, subtle and delicate 😊!

[@seans594]

I don't care if it's cliché, this is the song I want played as folks are walking out of my funeral

[@jag6183]

It'll be my last hymn at my funeral.

[@cheshirecat42]

On mine too..its one of the sadest and most beautiful songs EVER

[@thinkandbefree9398]

Lol after practicing Ripple on my guitar I dropped in Brokedown... which I never learned to play - I just hear it because it follows on American Beauty. Learned it today. I'd like both at my wake.

[@arareanddifferenttune3130]

Hell yeah I’m with you, I’ve got “it’s a far gone lullaby sung many years ago” tatted on my back. This shit BETTER be playin

[@Shannonelizabethmiley]

Ya brother... weirdly enough I just sent a list of GD songs I want at my remembrance

[@lovapanda1]

My first show. Beautiful.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

Jerry's solo right before the end put tears in my eyes! Wow. That's never happened before with just a guitar

[@jcavilia1]

You got that right, and the earlier solo at around 3:20 is equally affecting. Jerry's guitar is crying so sweetly, like the sounds I hear in my own heart. I've been listening to this and a few other songs over and over since my wife died about 3 months ago. She was not a Dead fan when I met her in late 1973, but we went together to one of the "sound check" concerts at the Cow Palace in March 1974, and she became a fan. We were married 47 years before cancer took her at age 70. I have only memories now - but what sweet memories. Fare you well, fare you well; I love you more than words can tell. Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

[@tuckerb2141]

REST IN PEACE BILL WALTON

[@arareanddifferenttune3130]

Oooh la la A Brokedown Palace from 1980 yes please Brent

[@lcarole3131]

Dylan brought me here/ Bless his heart. This is exquisite_I so miss the days of dylan & the dead. By all rights, at least now-the views for this should increase exponentially.

[@jcavilia1]

Have you heard this? Dylan did this song at a concert in Japan recently. I didn't really expect that he could sing this song so effectively, but I found it shockingly beautiful. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGLUaaybnZt1nrM

[@nickrimmele2837]

“On your way out uncle bobo’s provided breakfast” What a time to be alive

[@lcarole3131]

Hearing him say that is enough to bring you to your knees realizing how far we've descended😭

[@crusherverdough8388]

Orange Juice, a banana, and an apple for the road. Could ONLY happen at a Dead show. Made my head spin just holding the bag.

[@lcarole3131]

@@crusherverdough8388 There's a dead event happening in NYC in June I'm seriously considering attending_ just because.

[@WaterKreature]

RIP JG, RH

[@wdm5000]

My favorite live version. This song needs to be played low and slowwww.

[@ItsAaronoffical11]

I listen to this when it's time to shutdown.

[@stevenmeredith4763]

Fare thee well Brother Bill! Happy new years & may the 4 winds blow you safely home...by the waterside I will lay my head

[@W01F10W]

RIP Phil Lesh

[@nducati]

this is the ray charles death tempo grateful dead. i love it.

[@jordanbeauchemin8952]

Fuck thats a good one. I fucking love 80s dead

[@helmanfrow]

My volume doesn't go high enough to make this audible.

[@johnmarkcarsonjr1848]

So don’t listen

[@jrenmo]

Hard 🎸🔥🙏✌🏼

[@justinjonesexperiencejje8444]

Jerry!🎉

[@thomasrobertson9643]

One of the very few older era songs where I prefer Brent to Keith. Brents playing and backing vocals on this track add another level of vulnerability that Keith could not match.

[@robzbuzz]

Epitaph song

[@lenalennon8746]

❤❤🀄🀄🎶🎶🎸🎸❤❤

[@noelbishop5153]

A song for his mum

[@davideboccardo3577]

Ciao Luca

[@bumblebootwiddletoes5185]

Too quiet

[@GammaNu955]

It’s my favorite GD song. Jerry looks dead. This is not the best version by any means. His voice is weak and he looks sick.

[@z1205]

6/21/89 brokedown palace with Clarence Clemons is the BEST!!!!!!!

[@christianraimondi98]

he would look sick during the whole 80's decade. But he kept the incredible abillity to play guitar like no one else

[@marcfine2918]

you are 100% correct, This is the beginning of his 1st really bad physical decline which one would know if they read anything about the Dead

[@elmoblatch9787]

Jerry is only 38 years old here. His aging between 1977 to 1980 was staggering.

[@michaeldematteis3409]

You can’t do loads of heroine,and look healthy

[@jandrewx]

RIP PHIL! Loved Phil side at shows