Grateful Dead - Cassidy - 10/31/1980 - Radio City Music Hall

Recorded 10/31/1980 - Radio City Music Hall (New York, NY)
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[@mattcouch2965]

Watching jerry play is like seeing a friend that you never met. Familiar but so distant

[@taylah1218]

👏💓😭

[@camerontrainer7614]

Very well said. I was born in 98 so me and Jerry never roamed this Earth at the same time but I still feel a connection

[@NiecieSavo]

Some of us were lucky enough to see him in person 😊

[@dangallagher0072]

​@@camerontrainer7614I was born in 2002 so I feel you. At least we were born in an era where we have access to amazing footage and audio!

[@Livsangel]

​@@camerontrainer7614That's the great thing about great music. It can unite across generations, nations, skincolour and such things.

[@LucyLennon20]

Just one of Bobby's many masterpieces🎶👍

[@Icculu5]

For sure. Black throated wind, El Paso and weather report are up there for me as well.

[@LucyLennon20]

@@Icculu5 hey, now🌹Weir everywhere. Just give us his whole 1972 ACE album ... and Mexicali Blues🎸

[@Icculu5]

@@LucyLennon20 Bob is the man.

[@LucyLennon20]

@@Icculu5 I've seen heads ☔️💀 ☔️💀 at shows down in the front row area holding☔️ ☔️ little umbrellas in case (or even hoping🤞Bobby would spit on them. 😁

[@Icculu5]

@@LucyLennon20 that's wild. Lol

[@winonaalbers9199]

All I want to say is… Thank you. Music heals my soul everyday

[@bigbluebraintrust3194]

My favorite Cassidy ...this was a good couple nights back then ..

[@user-oj2tv5rs2q]

My first introduction and first show got on the bus and never looked back

[@markkindermannart4028]

mine was two days before...still on the bus

[@drogba4evah672]

I love how the jam gets so discordant so quickly, and then boom, back in with the beautifully melodic "flight of the seabirds...".

[@edmcnally4337]

At 5:35? Bob has to pull Jerry back. He’s far far away 🙂

[@smartalek180]

SO grateful for all the acoustic sets we have preserved. Wish we we had even more of them...

[@tygr8fulyoyo684]

Drive that bus 🚌 bro, we're all with you ❤😂🎉😢!!!

[@danno9608]

LOVE Brent's harmonies on this tune! For years after first hearing this on Reckoning, I thought "Wow, Donna sure has settled down and is making the band better" I was wrong of course.

[@LucyLennon20]

Jerry thrived on "never playing a song the same way twice" ... brilliant ❗

[@f.w.309]

for every father and his daughter, be blessed by this song of deep connections lost and found!

[@aaronwimberleymbamsf5776]

classic & timeless=] Let the words be yours- I am done with mine, one of the greatest hooks in modern lyrics.

[@davidcurtis7547]

blow the horn and tap the tamborine , . You and me . Cassady , lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac

[@matttravis3263]

My God.... what a beautiful time in the world of music!!!! God bless Jerry and Brent.jammin in heaven with all my killer b brothers

[@calburge4338]

Can you imagine Jerry n Bob around a campfire singing songs??

[@martinherve2688]

I love this song and this band !

[@GregCherry]

Love the part at 5:32 where Bobby shouts at Jerry to get out of the jam and back to the chorus. Shows how much he grew into his leadership role, and even moreso into the next decade as Jerry declined.

[@paulboni]

Yes. But I think Jerry already knew it.

[@jenvenzke9985]

But I think Jerry looked at him first anticipating it, tbh

[@markkindermannart4028]

It looked more like he was roping Phil back in

[@lilithrogers5204]

Oh, Yeah.....Cassidy!!! YOU ROCK Guys!!😀😀

[@daveguitarnowski4402]

Man, Jerry from 4:45 on.... he looked like he was driving that Cadillac! He was way in there, man.

[@MrAfrodrew]

That is one fantastic version of a fantastic tune.

[@patriciamays8244]

Yes definitely one of the best

[@Nevilsghost]

I have a cousin that looked exactly like Bob ...in college his hair was exactly like bobs ..he sold weed out of a backpack in the mid 1980s...he had some incredible stuff back then ...😂

[@stephenhenion8304]

These videos are great. I appreciate the close up shots of everyone. We couldn't see any of that from the Balcony! 💥🧨💥🧨💥

[@calebbernstein5163]

GROW THE SCORCHED GROUND GREEN!!!

[@matthewlutes775]

5:35 mark, i love Bobby's subtle indication to Jerry to let loose the seabirds!

[@mattcouch2965]

Lol. Oh so subtle

[@nathangray4601]

@@mattcouch2965You can see how lose in the sauce Jerry was hahaha

[@pennybertsch3353]

Gotta love Neal Cassidy.........

[@TheGunnCat]

There was a nod to Neal Cassady in this, but it's really about Cassidy Law.

[@Karmakatt6]

And anyone named Cassidy 😉

[@martyhopkirk6826]

@@Karmakatt6 Or Cassady

[@davidcurtis7547]

The dudes loved Neal . He was the dude . Died the way he lived . on the road

[@billydudjoc6444]

The song was named after Cassidy Law, who was born in 1970 and was the daughter of Grateful Dead crew member Rex Jackson and Weir's former housemate Eileen Law

[@mysticmama740]

praise the heavens for jerry n the boys

[@VeronicaHernandez-pt7bo]

Simply sublime ❤️💀✌️🎶

[@thomassnell5384]

Anyone out there old enough to say they saw this broadcast on MTV?? I did. I also own 2 copies of Reckoning, the original released album.

[@jstaror704]

grace from god of a soliloquy of musical talent to enjoy

[@butleradamb]

Radio City Music Hall. Midtown Manhattan. A concert being recorded for a record and video. Jerry: Which one are we doing? Bobby: Cassidy. Jerry: Oh!

[@joychapman8248]

I feel very fortunate to have been at shows during this timeframe on the West Coast. Every show was phenomenal.

[@billnorthup]

That jam though. Wow.

[@Stacelicious]

My cat Cassidy loves this song for obvious reasons 💗

[@CoasterMan13Official]

And to think, this is the closest thing we have to an MTV Unplugged performance from this band.

[@gregtunison1866]

In this world, but not of it.

[@lisazonfrillo9674]

Amazed

[@darylforster933]

I was there

[@calebbernstein5163]

The damn jams

[@downtoearthexploring589]

Hey!

[@Karmakatt6]

Is it just me or does that Bob Weir fella seem to be working out?? Understatement of the Century... Go BOBBY GO!!!

[@bws1971]

I just have to say: Jerry Garcia wasn't even 40 years old yet. The man aged like all get-out. It's sad. He died prematurely

[@jcarry5214]

I'm exactly the same age now as he was here, I'm that gray. No heroin involved.

[@idiotglee]

yes

[@ryetim32]

Great

[@derekmtheriault]

#ugottalisten2b4udie #gratefuldead #cassidyhutchinson Speaks his name though you were born to me #Cassidy Come wash the nighttime clean 🧑‍⚖ Come grow the scorched ground green

[@danterry3776]

Jerry

[@scott83074]

The way jerry pulls off notes is awesome. To my ears there's this perfect kind of hesitation it's nano but to me it makes it Jerry...just unperfect enough to be perfect. I feel like his tone is coming off the note vs at striking

[@Susana.Ventura]

Bobby with feathered hair. Oh god 😂

[@bensilverstein5883]

Dean Moriarty on the road baby in a Cadillac I could tell by the look on your face he's coming back

[@mattcouch2965]

Correct me if I'm wrong. But was this Brent's first night with the band?

[@melvinroebuck1160]

No he’d been in the band for a year and a half by then.

[@gradyh9871]

Good Job CIA

[@geoglobalsatellite9590]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. About a very beautiful person - Neal Cassady. When are they going to correct the spelling?

[@andrewtaylor1255]

Neil Cassidy...

[@JohnR22926]

Should name an ice cream after this. Maybe vanilla diversity.

[@cadm1676]

Lmao they made a Cherry Garcia

[@harmoniabalanza]

I never understand why people (fans) who are so devoted to the music of a band drown their playing out with their hollers and screams.

[@garrettsteven1963]

They weren’t there to give you a clean recorded version 40 years later, they were there to watch the Dead light the place on fire. Cry me a river

[@waduhek3988]

ratio

[@lahondafolk4334]

You should go to Beatles show lol

[@markkindermannart4028]

It was NYC!

[@anthonymoitzger]

Haha haha peace Infinitiv 8888 on the road

[@robertmorley4506]

Bobby trippin' here?

[@lisazonfrillo9674]

Ridge wood New Jersey

[@markkindermannart4028]

I think I bought my tickets for these shows in Ridgewood NJ