Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy - Live/Dead

[@simonharris1776]

I never got to see the dead before Jerry passed, but man oh man, d and c played this in 21 @ deercreek and the energy, the crowd, post covid shut downs, its hard to describe in words. What i felt. Tyeing up a phil tribute shirt on my bday the day after his passing....shits heavy.

[@moussetache1815]

I am an average French dude born in the late 70's. Live Dead was the first Grateful Dead album I ever listened to and even if Dark Star was so good it was almost a mystical experience, this blues right here made me feel like few musical performances can. Very, very dark, heartfelt song by a guy who happened to be dead just a couple of years before I discovered his music. Of course, as times marches on, anybody can feel the impact of this song much harder. Stay safe people, enjoy what's left.

[@garyhess189]

I would say you are above average.

[@matthewcrooks510]

Right on brother, time marches on indeed. The fact that we all have consciousness in the relatively narrow window to appreciate this art is a miracle

[@TheRockstar1962]

Eternity is left bro. Death exists bcs of sin, original sin. Something that never eluded the dead. Daily rosary, penances, etc please. Jerry loved the Latin Mass. Mystery incense, chant, candles, etc.

[@tdhayes1]

0 dislikes is right! This is the best single song ever performed in my lifetime. Slowly consider the guitar parts while you begin your day/evening/morning/night! You'll find no mercy in this land! Jerry was at his best and I remember him intently everytime I here this tome! Thank You, GD, for this! T

[@MarkSkarzynski]

One of the best renditions ever, and certainly within the top 3 of all performances of all time. 🍻

[@mikec2250]

totally agree

[@justincutts9529]

Only blues song that really hits home and got me to tears. I lost this tape and wish I had the dark star that proceeded this.

[@bretmandu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4nMlGB5fa6hm80

[@tylerbrandon4781]

Its from 2/27/69 fillmore west you can stream it on the archive (~;}

[@jameswilliam904]

This song and feedback and we bid you goodnight was from march 2 1969. Check out wall of sounds channel he has the whole show from soundboard on it.

[@annonymost9318]

Come on and testify felles....; no one does the spooky acid blues.....like the Dead could 65-71; my favorite Dead years...........oh...and 73 too....

[@benringenberg6265]

I love how intense Jerry's guitar sounds, spooky kind of

[@dalastejas]

the 'Whaaaaaa!" at 8:00 I love you , Jerry!!! the best song arranger America ever birthed

[@pascalpoussin1209]

This version of this classic is truly great.

[@jahtom]

.Captures the essence of the San Francisco sound of the time. Converted me to the Dead forever

[@mr.mandarino]

Avevo 18 anni quando ascoltai per la prima volta questo brano, era registrato su di una audiocassetta di un amico, e subito mi innamorai della potente sofferenza del contesto musicale, ogni volta che andavo a trovare questo amico insistevo perché me lo facesse ascoltare, tanto che qualche anno dopo, non trovandolo in vendita presso i rivenditori, si consideri che si parla dei primi anni 80, questa persona mi regalo questa registrazione, e negli anni successivi la ascoltai tante e tante di quelle volte che il nastro si ruppe più volte, e taglia e ricuci taglia e ricuci alla fine fui costretto a gettare nella spazzatura la audiocassetta, invano per i trent'anni successivi tentai di rintracciare questa registrazione presso i vari rivenditori, non ero neanche sicuro che questo brano appartenesse ai grateful dead perché la videocassetta da 90 mins su cui era registrato il brano, era una una cassetta replicata in casa, e su di essa erano registrati più brani di diversi gruppi musicali, più volte cercando di trovare questa canzone credevo di aver trovato il pezzo, salvo poi rimaner deluso perché i tratti salienti mai corrispondevano a ciò che ricordavo ed amavo...., circa tre anni fa, e casualmente ascoltando musica per radio mentre guidavo l'automobile, ebbi la "grazia" di ascoltarlo nuovamente, sperai che al termine del brano lo speaker dell'emittente radiofonica desse ragguagli sul gruppo e sulla titolo della canzone ma.., niente da fare, probabilmente lo speaker aveva dato i queste informazioni all"inizio della trasmissione, ed io purtroppo mi ero sintonizzato troppo tardi. Due anni orsono ho scoperto il mondo dei social network, si.. sono uno di quelli che ha sempre evitato la tecnologia dei computers e derivati, sono dovuto arrivare a 52 anzi 53 anni per possedere uno smartphone, e mai prima ho posseduto ne imparato ad usare un pc.., ebbene ho scoperto che su KZbin esisteva la possibilità di cercare brani musicali, e cerca che ti cerca, ascoltando le registrazioni dei vari concerti, dopo tre anni sono finalmente riuscito a ritrovare questa stupenda esecuzione, halleluia!!!! Chi la dura la vince si usa dire in Italia.. Proprio come la sensazione che questa canzone sempre mi ha suscitato ed ispirato, la vita è spesso uno enorme sforzo, ma insistendo e perseverando nella fatica, spingi e spingi alla fine ottieni risultati.., conosco ben poco la lingua inglese, e ciò che mi esaltava ed ispirava questo brano musicale era questa precisa sensazione, cosa che del resto è alla base del blues, sforzo e liberazione!!!!!! Grazie infinite "grateful dead'!!!!

[@bobbrainard2866]

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[@eliashoed1938]

esistono radio in Italia che mandano i Grateful dead?

[@mr.mandarino]

@@eliashoed1938 solo occasionalmente i grateful dead vengono trasmessi in Italia, le emittenti in questione sono : Radio città futura ; e Radio onda rossa ; sulle frequenze di queste radio talvolta accade il miracolo.. 😉

[@peacekisses]

I was randomly listening to this song when I found out my uncle died of cancer...sad and crazy actually...

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Happens to us all..sorry for your loss.

[@philipmoan8520]

sorry to hear that, my dad been dead heart attack 26 years ago at age 43. I'm 41 now, anyway the grateful dead is truely an awesome back and I also listen to frank zappa too but I'm more into Grateful Dead! Anyway sorry for loss...

[@3243_]

I'm sorry for your loss. May your uncle rest in peace, and may the Lord be with, comfort, and heal you.

[@sebastiansanders2262]

The recent developments have made this song more relevant than ever... Love to you all! Take care of the family as much as you can and keep yourselfs healthy in the meanwhile!

[@GinjaNinja77]

New found love for this tune after watching the first episode of "Long Strange Trip!" Can't wait to see the rest!

[@donjordii]

all is released (: it's amazing, and sad... how it ends, but yea we all kinda knew how it would end

[@GinjaNinja77]

jordi de wolf I've seen the whole thing twice over now, and learned so much! Beautiful, sad, and funny.. A truly epic American story. Cheers!

[@bobhuber]

That opening credits scene is great

[@rufio.5961]

I remember seeing furthur play this at wanee right after levon died, one of the most powerful performances I've ever experienced. followed into the wheel; all my real heads will understand how incredible that was to hear those first riffs of the wheel out of the lament of everybody(including the band) just crying their eyes out. truly transcendental. rip all the dead homies fr

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Just about as good as any electric blues band from the era. There's a phenomenal amount of feel and dark energy to this masterpiece reworking of the Rev Gary Davis classic. If this is what death feels like, we have nothing to fear children.

[@paulawheeler7936]

I don't remember the dead sounding so bluesy and this great.

[@keyoke69]

Its Pigpen.

[@matthewfields1652]

liz billy wheeler that uuu?

[@IndyDefense]

When they lost Pigpen, they became a different band. He gave them a certain energy that they just couldn't muster once he was gone.

[@ljswack]

for real

[@julietv3863]

That’s because it’s the 1960s

[@sachureedas]

Play this at my funeral.

[@JeremyIlenin-pc4pk]

Nooo ! Play it now

[@rebuttalc2075]

When I was a young man I went briefly to a rinky dink midwestern lib arts college, I dated this girl for a bit that I liked alot then I got in trouble and her dad(some computer ceo) tried bribing me with cash to stay away and I said I wont take your cash but I will for your lesh and pigpen signed vinyl of live dead. A deal was struck I never spoke to her again and still havent(hope you are well Kim) but 10 years later(10 years ago) my daughters mother threw the record away when she changed the locks so all I got is this story.

[@briandippel6829]

Thanks for sharing dude. Sounds very much like something that would have happened to me years ago.

[@williamhobbs3973]

Excellent version of : Death Don't Have No Mercy. Great guitar solo by , Jerry Garcia

[@xianshep]

If Garcia had played like THIS more often, he'd be a guitar GOD rather than merely a guitar hero. His best-ever solos, IMHO.

[@ChrisByrne-dr4gu]

Badass good ole grateful dead

[@joshkreslins7768]

I was front row when DSO play this song live earlier this summer. Melted my face clean off

[@JeremyIlenin-pc4pk]

This one's there forever Once you hear it.... You cannot unhear it

[@DamonHemlock]

Inspiration, move me brightly light the song with sense and color Hold away despair more than this I will not ask Faced with mysteries dark and vast statements just seem vain at last.... 🌹

[@oki5289]

Most touching sobbing blues song of all times. *♡♡♡

[@gratefulkm]

its at this moment that everything vibrates and stays vibrating, And you realise matter does not matter, it's just vibrations causing gravity that then binds matter together , every sound, every word in your head is just vibrations, Hum a happy tune

[@rebuttalc2075]

Kevin Mannix its all energy

[@gratefulkm]

@@rebuttalc2075 but all energy is dormant until the the vibration

[@florianheger3707]

sounds like your acid was kicking hard at that moment;)

[@Livsangel]

This is amazing.

[@mackb909]

After officially joining the GD as a full-fledged member in fall '68, a few months before this was recorded, TC took over most of the keyboard duties, while Ron ("Pigpen") was relegated to congas. TC and Ron got along well, even though their musical styles couldn't have been more different and TC had displaced Ron as the principal keyboardist; both were distancing themselves from the whole psychedelic drug scene by this time. TC later said that he had a hard time working his keyboard work, especially live, through the weave of Jerry and Bob's guitars and Phil's bass, and of course he quit the band in early '70 after less than one and one-half years as a full-time member. Ron, of course, took over the organ for this song, and man, did he play! His blues phrasing and his tracking of/interplay with Jerry's guitar in the instrumental sections are spot on. Unfortunately, Ron became sick with liver disease by the beginning of the '70s, ironically after TC quit and the keyboard slot in the band was re-opened, and ultimately died almost four years to the day after this was recorded (this concert was in SF on 12 March '69; Ron died, on his half-birthday, a member of the sad "27 club," on 8 March '73 at his rented house in Corte Madera). God bless Ron, Jerry, and all of them.

[@hammer44head]

The Dead had been playing this song since the Acid Tests and maybe even earlier according to Phil Lesh, Pigpen was well familiar with it and i would nt be surprised if he turned the others on to it, since he was a heavy devotee of the blues.

[@mikec2250]

I first saw them in 8-67, I think I remember you from back in the day.

[@mackb909]

@@mikec2250 I can only wish. I was 12 in '67 and only aware of any "scene," by reading scare articles about acid in my parents' magazines (Life, Time, Look, The New Yorker, etc.- they subscribed to a lot of them) and in the local newspaper. Didn't see them for the first time until I was a freshman at Berkeley in fall '73 (Winterland, October), by which time, as I am sure you are aware, the scene had changed massively. I envy those of you who knew them and heard them in their earliest days.

[@adnilrummut105]

love it

[@easywind13]

Jerry loved sad songs

[@Antraxto]

the best version

[@bobhuber]

The version on 2 From the Vault is superior, imo.

[@RunnawayTrain]

Song by REV BLIND GARY DAVIS 1961 still no#1 in HEAVEN

[@stonethecrows25]

I first heard this record 45 years ago when friendly hippy at work leant it to me. then i went up to London on the train and bought my own copy, 12 February 1977 I think that was. I loved this song, it obviously took quite a special band to be able to pull this off, the Grateful Dead played to so slow, ten minutes of it! And Jerry is a great folk singer: he may not be the most verstaile singer technically, but his singing is an integral part of his and the whole band's instrumental work. Everything constributes towards the whole very poweful performance.

[@mikec2250]

'hippy' No. 'Hippie' Yes.

[@captaincoconut8967]

☠️🥀 I love this fuckin song ☠️🥀

[@tippimail1]

R.I.P. Jerry and Pig.9:54,someone in the audience yells ALRIGHT-now,that's what i'm talkin' about!!

[@lindarobison7830]

Jerry sounds so soulfull. Hes playin an voice soooo clean. He was born with it in his soul the day he was born. RIP

[@antoniodias4718]

wonderful!!

[@FrankZappa3001]

No Mistake. Greate !!!

[@roddymoore]

Pig could play at that time. Soulful shit. Compared to the other songs on LD which TC did the organ work on, this is the jive.

[@donjordii]

one of the most underrated members of the band, but he did work maagic on those pipes (=

[@darwinblinks]

listening as the last minutes of Jerry's Death Day anniversary ends for another year...

[@dabble778]

Art :-)

[@berachtdorian6191]

Death is a bitch. Jerry had to deal with his fair share of untimely deaths (starting with his Father). Anyone that has lived through the same can relate to the emotions that he's sharing here. Big thank you.

[@enricorigon1925]

Play it at my funeral

[@JeremyIlenin-pc4pk]

More now Than ever

[@BlackKaweah]

When they lost Pigpen the Dead lost their soul.

[@stonerman5368]

i love a not stable bass play , goood trip

[@elizabethmaloney7844]

Please play it.....so true why?

[@jazzmanchgo]

All honor to Jerry, Pig, and the boys -- but to me, the "best" version of "Death Don't Have No Mercy" I've ever heard is the one Chicago guitarist/vocalist Lurrie Bell did (solo acoustic) at the Chicago Blues Festival a few years back. Lurrie has survived some unspeakable tragedies in his life, and he pours it all into his music. When he eased into this song, the universe itself seemed to stand still . . . and he tore notes from his guitar as if tearing pieces out of his own flesh.

[@garrethenderson9695]

Video?

[@jazzmanchgo]

@@garrethenderson9695 This isn't the spellbinding live version from the Blues Festival, but it's pretty powerful. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKrReKysmLaoiqM

[@wolfkarel]

RIP brother John Bonin

[@StrahaoftheRace]

ALRIGHT!

[@caseymather1957]

12 people did not get mercy from death

[@17lio]

Bad trip RIP Jerry

[@JeremyIlenin-pc4pk]

Cryptic mass The heads know

[@pacoherrera3027]

❤🎉😢

[@davidhigginbotham5451]

In ANY land, Jerry. ok?

[@philipshirk729]

Ego death vs real death

[@strangebrew1231]

Which show was this?

[@dalastejas]

+strangebrew420 pretty sure live/dead is 2/21/69. but bef 69 year

[@MarcEvans]

+strangebrew420 Fillmore West, February 27, 1969

[@joselima1184]

March 2,1969 Fillmore West

[@joselima1184]

@@dalastejas March 2 1969 Fillmore West

[@joselima1184]

@@MarcEvans March 2 1969 Fillmore West

[@billycramer8066]

Puts us in our place right? Hmmm

[@gagealbright]

love it, but why does this version sound so muffled....especially jerry's vocal track?

[@gagealbright]

***** I just listened again and it sounds fine...i'm not sure why i posted that comment, i think it might be my speakers...my bad! great version, thanks for posting it!

[@garnetnewton-wade6254]

@@gagealbrightNo your right, but I think it's the microphone he is using.

[@noneabovethestar76]

This is pigpen singing

[@robertgrosek1124]

@@gagealbright its actually extraordinary for 1969. They were tech front runners for how to record live music. Listen to a live Rolling Stones album from 1969 and compare. There is no comparison

[@gagealbright]

@@noneabovethestar76 no its definitely jerry singing

[@pdondini]

5:36

[@matthewcrooks510]

Jerry 3/2/69

[@Moe_Lester_fromUptwn]

Prefer the original.

[@JimDhindsa]

who clicked on this thinking this gon be from same artist as one in COD WWII

[@theobromine2939]

nah absolutley no one.. culture yourself here. hows the game though

[@JimDhindsa]

Havnt played it yet but already looks better than last 3.