Grateful Dead Herouville, France 6/21/71

Grateful Dead
Chateau d'Herouville (a.k.a "The Honky Chateau")
Herouville, France
June 21, 1971
Multi Camera Pro-shot
Partial Morning Dew (B&W)
Hard To Handle (Color)
China Cat Sunflower (B&W)
I Know You Rider (B&W)
Deal (Color)
Partial Black Peter (Color)
Sugar Magnolia (Color)
Sing Me Back Home (B&W)
Interviews
The group's most exotic gig in 1971 was a one-shot in France.
"We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers sure Oise, which is where Vincent Van Gogh is buried. …" Garcia said.
"We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great."
-Jerry Garcia-
Some of the Grateful Dead show at Hérouville were broadcast in France by the "The Second Channel" of the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) on the July 24, 1971 edition of the rock program "Pop 2"
A second part of the show has been broadcast in Black & White ( don't know why !) on the November 27, 1971.
Audio has been captured in Mono
The interview conducted with Jerry is really interesting but overdubbed in French.
That overlay doesn't allow English speakers to truly hear all that's being said. Of course, if you speak fluent French then you might be able to understand all that Jerry is talking about and all that the translator dude says afterwards.
Btw, if you don't speak a little French : shame on you !
The Band
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Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Phil Lesh - Bass, Vocals
Bob Weir - Guitar, Vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - Drums
Video:
Lineage: VHS master } Roxio VHS to DVD } iMovie'08 7.1.4 } iDVD 7.0.4 } PAL
Audio: (shnid 94356)
SBD -} Master Reel -} Dat -} CD
Transfer Info:
CD -} Samplitude Professional v10.1 -} Adobe Audition v1.5 -} FLAC
(2 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)
All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
[e-mail]
July 18, 2008
Complete Setlist for show:
d1t01 - Truckin'
d1t02 - Loser
d1t03 - Me And Bobby McGee
d1t04 - Next Time You See Me
d1t05 - Morning Dew
d1t06 - Me And My Uncle
d1t07 - Hard To Handle
d1t08 - China Cat Sunflower -}
d1t09 - I Know You Rider
d1t10 - The Promised Land
d1t11 - Deal
d2t01 - Playing In The Band
d2t02 - Big Boss Man
d2t03 - Black Peter
d2t04 - Bertha
d2t05 - Casey Jones
d2t06 - That's It For The Other One -}
d2t07 - Wharf Rat
d2t08 - Sugar Magnolia
d2t09 - Sing Me Back Home
d2t10 - Johnny B. Goode
Audio Notes:
-- Disc change is seamless
-- The intro to Truckin' is cut
-- First few notes to Me And My Uncle are cut
-- Thanks to Rob Eaton for the discs
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction
Notes
- Video assets courtesy of hbtoulouse from PAL version seeded at TTD.
- SBD audio courtesy of the LossLess Legs.
- Audio synchronization by Kevin Tobin using Adobe Audition to compress/expand the audio in multitrack mode to match the original audio.
- Video patches created with Ulead VideoStudio 9 by Kevin Tobin.
- Multiplexing via TMPGEnc MPEG Editor by Kevin Tobin.
- DVD authoring via DVD Architect 4.5 by Kevin Tobin.
Audio\Video Faults:
I'm not going to begin to document the massive number of cuts that I found in this amazing video - the POP 2 editors did a fairly good job in most places where the cuts were almost seamless but when compared to the Miller soundboard, large chunks of every song were missing. Morning Dew and Black Peter were left incomplete, however missing footage between existing clips were filled in to allow for the music to flow and short lead-in or lead-out footage was added. The rest of the songs are now complete. I spent almost 40 hours matching the existing video and filler with the intent of making it as close to possible - this was after the time I spent syncing the existing video to the Miller soundboard. I enjoyed and appreciate the original footage supplied by hbtoulouse and have made these modifications with his blessing. I also put the songs in the correct order and moved the Jerry interviews to a seperate section. I only hope you enjoy this as much as I do as it doesn't really get much better than this.
This is the un-encoded PAL version.

[@debrahudson1047]

I have always searched for anything with pigpen. Thank you

[@clancykobane9102]

will you marry me

[@ronvanhanswijk1555]

Great!

[@wilvio28]

Same

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I was lucky because I picked up 3 bags of garbage & got 3 tickets for the next day ! Boy was it hot there ! But I saw Pigpen , wow is all I can say it was so good ! It was raining sweat ! It was over 100% hot so everyone was hot this was @ JFK stadium in Pennsylvania packed down on the ground , I was as close as I could get ! 🌹🌹❤️❤️🥰☮️🎶💀☠️😱🙀🥳🙏🏻😇😵‍💫😅🪐👽

[@scke3717]

'71 and '72 no bad shows, no bad songs, no bad jams.

[@namcat53]

That's right.

[@bluesfanman1]

Outstanding. Jerry on a Strat. Phil with his little boy hair cut. Bobby shredding the rhythm. Billy laying it down solo and Pig. Say no more.

[@rayanrahbari5619]

I’m pretty sure that’s also alligator before the stickers and the mods, it’s got the black knobs and the wood color

[@wigdaddy]

​@@rayanrahbari5619it definitely is

[@wigdaddy]

It's funny. Bob is out of tune but it doesn't matter

[@kensaft1523]

Thank you. Its like watching the Dead play in your friends backyard for his 18th birthday blast.

[@bradleydavis5198]

This concert is unreal

[@nickwade443]

love ya pigpen,keep on keeping on

[@mcdaniels6188]

The Grateful Dead was so many different bands. In this incarnation (the original 5), six years on, they were red hot. Firing on all cylinders! Look at Phil's intensity, and Jerry's vocal delivery, let alone his playing. Pig nails Hard to Handle. Wished i could have seen this assemblage of talent. Born too late.

[@davids6652]

Agreed, they were so dynamic and unique. I love this era, before Mickey came back and there was so much subtlety and space in their music- Garcia really had room and shinned -cheers

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I’m still a hippie after all the years gone by ❤️🌹☮️🥳😥😱☠️💀👽🪐👻🎶🧚‍♀️🧚🏿‍♂️🧚🏼🙏🏻God bless u Mr. Tobin !

[@saulgoodman9403]

Pigpen was the Blues Soul of the Band! Was never fortunate enough to see them when he was alive😢 Thanks for the excellent footage! Love live the GD and JGB!!❤

[@leesenger3094]

The color video of Pigpen singing Hard To Handle is absolutely sublime!!! Stay Grateful Fam!!!!

[@wigdaddy]

Otis baby

[@thelatenightbar]

What an incredible bit of history. Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I love this so very much ! Thank u for finding this rare footage ! ❤️🌹🎶☠️💀👻👽🪐😥🙏🏻🤩🥰😢🥲😘😍🙏🏻☮️

[@erinkarschner8349]

I can't believe I found this...it's wonderful!!!!!

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

It’s surprising that they went to France in 71 for this and then came back for the big Europe 72 trek just months later.

[@clancykobane9102]

probably a test run i'm thinkin'

[@etiloyon3681]

No, they were supposed to play in a big festival in France, so they came. But the festival was canceled due to poor meteo. So Michel Magne a famous figure of the French pop scene at this time, who had one of the best studio of Europe, in the castle of Herouville , invited to stay a few days to relax at home. They loved it, enjoyed a lot in particular, the studio and offered a free concert to Magne and friends. Magne was very special, did not bother with the Parisian show-business top notches ; instead he invited the local peoples, farmers, little near village inhabitants, etc... My god, I wish I would have attended this concert (peoples were seriously high, sometimes not knowing what they had received with the punch) and the firemen finished naked in the swimming pool!).

[@michaelworse6034]

@@etiloyon3681haha this sounds like a fantastic night ! Would have loved to be there !

[@michaellapetina4623]

It’s confirmed!!! This is the coolest thing on KZbin 😊

[@kb9788]

Pigpen had presence, wow. Sorry I missed seeing him. I think it was a different band with him.

[@longislandvic4589]

I was writing an alternate history story where Jerry died early and in your face brash Pig pen took the reins and besides just touring they really impacted history like John Lennon( who actually teams up with him at one point, uh , in the story). Well hilarity ensues but the world as we know it is much different, as in sans I showed up trophies or cancel culture.

[@thejamnasium6447]

@@longislandvic4589 need a collaborator?

[@Gothgirlbear777]

@@longislandvic4589 Cool!!

[@jasonlambert5552]

cancel culture? I think you misspelled Christianity there bud

[@bunnybeckman8029]

Hippie culture !

[@clarkakatiff6787]

This very much like being at the Acid Test. I was there...not France, but Los Angeles, 1966.

[@p8ntballermike]

Thanks for the upload! The whole band sounds stellar during this performance.

[@krautperker]

Just the fact they are standing on the ground ,not on a stage, cool. never heard anything better than this, Great band

[@pamelaroth2468]

Words cannot describe how amazing, delightful, sublime, wonderful this recording is. Here - I guess I just tried. ❤

[@alexeyschezel8641]

OMG the best sounding concert.

[@jtoneal3344]

Big THANK-YOU for posting this. AWESOME.

[@SilverloverFred]

I must have seen the real Dead about 50 times in the 80's. What a great band, what a great community, what a great time. Damn I miss those days. I will say I did see the John Meyer Dead a few times. Did gain some respect for the young man. Sure, Jerry was smiling down on the shows. Happy holidays to you all.

[@sdgakatbk]

Great concert. When Jerry's hair was dark.

[@thegratefulchefnyc9221]

Just what l needed just at this moment

[@bunnybeckman8029]

Thank u so much for this wonderful concert ! I appreciate it so much as I was younger & it makes me feel young again !😂🤣😍🥰😘🙏🏻🎶❤️🌹☮️☠️💀👻👽🪐😵‍💫🤩🙀😱🥳I have to put my emoji,s out there , my favorite ones plus more of them also ! ❤❤❤❤

[@direwolf6234]

this captures that short period from feb - oct '71 .. post-mickey & pre-keith when it was back to the core 5 .. and so so good !!

[@bunnybeckman8029]

They were all so young then , plus haven’t lost anyone in the band yet ! 🥲😢😥😓❤️💥☄️🔥🐇🐰

[@tiredcaballero]

Thank you for the great footage!

[@jordanpufahl8577]

Best year of the dead this is when 🐷pigpen was at his peak right before his disease started messing with his health, and he was happily in love and together with his soul mate janis Joplin. May they be jamming and spending enterinty together on the other side

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I hope to b with the only man I can now say inlove with because others were a sexual thing that I thought was love , a little bit of love ! ❤

[@bunnybeckman8029]

But Jerry is my soul mate , all we had to do was look at eachother to know what was going on with us ❤❤❤🥲🤣💀☠️👻🪐👽🎶🙏🏻

[@maxsno]

Two hearts , they will beat as one ..RM

[@djonni23]

She died in Oct 70.

[@jaysonhanks4290]

My birthday is tomorrow and this is the best present Ill get. I love it! please do more 🙏

[@bunnybeckman8029]

Happy b day to u Jayson ! ❤️🌹🎶☮️🙏🏻👽🪐☠️💀🎶👻♥️😵‍💫🥳🫶🏼🤘🏽🧚‍♀️🧚🏿‍♂️🧚🏼

[@ethwar6933]

My gawd that sing me back home is spot on

[@AmeliaOceanRain]

Thank you

[@sh230968]

Incredible.

[@estebannoslen3899]

Thanks this sounds SO SO GOOD! Mybfav years are 67 to 71 and 87 to 90. I subscribed too - can't wait to delve into that Miles Davis - you just "picked" my weekend music bro!

[@Thad-of7kt]

Some incredible work done there, Thank You much. "Grateful"ly appreciated for sure. Later, Peace.

[@BrokedDownPalace]

There needs to be a repository of these videos outside KZbin so they don't get lost (to the public, I'm sure the band has a collection) when the poster deletes their account or video.

[@philipbarton2634]

UCSC

[@Bob-jn6ys]

Almost likely back in the day just lucky to catch what you can

[@gillesday6898]

Grateful Dead en terrain Français, c'est cool !!

[@ty4arealgoodtime184]

Thank you thank you thank you! Great birthday present I'm getting today.

[@musicandmountains916]

Amazing footage, thanks for posting. I'm very lucky right now.

[@Tom_Emody]

Forever Grateful. Much love to you all.

[@BrokedownHouseProd]

Something that I worked on back in 2010 but worth having my version up on the intertubs

[@Badger40us]

Yes, Thanks Kevin!!! Mucho appreciated!!

[@garyhenderson1717]

Thanks so much

[@mexicanamericanmojo4520]

do you have the entire show?

[@zak-a-roo264]

THANK you for all your effort, this is amazing!!!!

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I love u Mr. Tobin for all the shows u have given us ! They r very special to me since 1969 I have been a Dead head but still had other music ! I used to b party central here on this island because I was the only one for a long time that had a house !

[@6H111G9]

This is amazing, thank you 😁

[@jwaaoxoaa]

thanks Kevin

[@goodkarma1967]

I love to see the guys in 71, so pure, all about the music & in France!! Thank you!

[@MrWallybones]

My love for them only gets stronger with every passing year. 🌹✌🚌

[@v1ncepupp1o7]

Thank you kindly.

[@leprimitif62]

Génial ,le Grateful Dead filmé par notre défunte ORTF tant décrié à l'époque ! Et pourtant ,la télévision de l'état Français pouvait réserver d'agréables surprises .Je n'ose évoquer la télé d'aujourd'hui par charité Chrétienne ...

[@jasedewaldphoto]

love me some pigpen RIP

[@atelierbentoche]

Thank you so much !

[@veek.6463]

That last bit of interview- that advice without giving advice- is exactly what people need. If they just did that this world would be heaven

[@nugentji]

Thank you.

[@shipdog6]

Thank you very much 😎

[@powderthumb5959]

My God this is beyond great. Jerry’s rocking out big time. Such a great groove always in the rhythm section. Phil especially. I saw them around 10 times I think starting in 1975. Man oh man. All in California.

[@philipbarton2634]

really enjoy bobs rhythms during this period. jamming!!!

[@clancykobane9102]

Those r some very cool old photo's at the end of this video.

[@lumaz71]

what a document!!! thanks

[@johnstump148]

Bill is such a different drummer without Mickey.

[@mcdaniels6188]

Frankly the Dead only ever needed one drummer, and that was Bill the drummer.

[@WeirdErnie]

Looser. More space to really groove.

[@chrisbinckes2732]

grateful thanks for this golden upload

[@thomasrender]

Jerry singing us all back home.Brilliant.Thanks for making my night and life.

[@joannehack7588]

I’m not worthy of this video!!! Too Cool

[@musicandmountains916]

wow man, an amazing collection of detail and info, well done

[@seanbeaver2194]

Great Stuff Thanks!

[@mgkingsley2336]

We too! 😎

[@SandsBlack]

Never did want my face anyhoo. Thanks for everything & all thangs.

[@jaydubbz69able]

Amazing video and show! Sacred Sound from a once under eterrrrniiiityyy band beyond description!!! NFA

[@bunnybeckman8029]

Very sacred my friend ! 🌹🌹❤️❤️☮️☮️🎶💀👻🙏🏻😥🥲😢😍😘🥰

[@bunnybeckman8029]

They were all so young then ! 😂🤣😜🤪😍🥰😘☮️❤️🌹🎶💀☠️🥳👽🪐

[@elissasangi-hd9om]

Why would one think overlaying the film is better than the film 📽️ Kreutzman is great! Great upload‼️

[@travelwithcamera]

how cool is this

[@rocpile2517]

This is FANTASTIC

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I’ve always loved Pigpen then Jerry came into my life , my soul mate ! ❤️🌹😥☠️💀☮️🎶👻🪐👽🥰😘🧚‍♀️🧚🏼🧚🏿‍♂️♥️

[@hvillehughes08]

This is fucking amazing!!!!!!!!

[@jamesalexander3943]

fantastic

[@DukeRaul]

Very nice.. 🤗😁🌹💃🕺🎈⚡😎🍄🎼🎶

[@friendofbeaver6636]

Just wow!

[@atelierbentoche]

The Bee Gees, Elton John went in this castle where a recording studio was

[@joergie6008]

Heady stuff 👍

[@djaminc]

Hehe, jaime beaucoup leGrateful Dead,ils sont super..Jerry Garcia est Lhomme!! thats the best i can do..Great vids man,thanks for posting.

[@classygary]

where was YT hiding this gem 💎 ???

[@yumpinyimbo6612]

Just the Best.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

Jim Morrison would depart a dozen short days after this, in France. Maybe he was at this show? RIP Jim

[@maxsno]

I leave space in the garden for the love you send .. I bid you goodnight..❤

[@robinwembley2578]

The original version of 'Sing me back home' is knocking about somewhere. I've heard it way back when. It was that rare creature - a song without a Garcia guitar break. This has been over-dubbed with another version here. There's a piano backing and a Garcia guitar break!

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I don’t know what u r talking about ? Maybe u need to listen a little closer , but maybe u could b rite but I have to hear the whole thing !

[@robinwembley2578]

@@bunnybeckman8029 'I don't know what I'm talking about . . . I need to listen a little closer but . . . maybe . . . I could be right!' Well, here's the original, true version. Compare the two to see if I'm right or not. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g57RZ2uibc1opas

[@bunnybeckman8029]

@@robinwembley2578 sorry if I hurt ur feelings ? I just love the Gratefuldead so much that I can’t stand anything negative about them ! Sorry ✌️🫶🏼

[@robinwembley2578]

@@bunnybeckman8029 You didn't hurt my feelings, Bunny. But I did want to show that I did know what I was talking about as I'd been thro' this song edit before with the very man who admitted He did the over dub - Sam Cutler, GD's manager in the early 70's. Sam posted the very same song on his FB page. When I made the same comments as I did to this post, he said, in short, 'Yeah, I did it'!

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I’m sorry if I hurt ur feelings ? I didn’t mean to sound like I know everything , I don’t ? I’m still learning which is a good thing ! Please except my apology ?

[@martinmoffitt4702]

This is the real deal....

[@roddymoore]

Bob groovy on the first guitar solo around 9.06. Rare to hear him solo.

[@roddymoore]

I'm not sure the video syncs with the audio but cool anyway.

[@pierreconte3729]

Prestation des Grateful Dead au château d'Hérouville dans le Val d'Oise après le festival raté du 21 juin à Auvers sur Oise ou plus de 3 000 personnes sont restés sous la pluie....

[@bunnybeckman8029]

I was lucky enough to c them with Pigpen @ the RFK stadium for 3 days !

[@namcat53]

Never happened. When they did play RFK, Pigpen was dead.

[@philipbarton2634]

Amazing. What history. More and more 71 pig finding my feed. The only tech that has done me any good

[@bunnybeckman8029]

Jerry is so beautiful ! Love him forever ! ❤️❤️♥️♥️🌹🌹💀☠️🪐👽👻🧚🏼🧚🏿‍♂️🧚‍♀️🤪😜😵‍💫😥🥳😱🙀! Love to all ! ❤️♥️

[@scottdaniels-rx2ql]

Imagine, seeing the Dead in France, in an outside venue

[@gritodolivro-quintal3529]

22:10 most pure music

[@chris7brook]

🔥🚒🔥🚒🔥🚒

[@bobbysbackingtracks]

Tune up guys.

[@geezermann7865]

50 years ago. This looks like it was filmed in someone's back yard.

[@hudentdw2]

Pig Pen was the man.

[@zjamz6546]

flowwww......

[@johnstallings4049]

💗🙏❄🥀🌎❄🥀🙏💗

[@namcat53]

As long as we have these films and recordings from 1966-1974 of The Good Ol' Grateful Dead, we never have to worry about some ersatz cover band ruining anything.

[@maxsno]

Hop to it then mate😅 !

[@bdub1348]

The Grateful Dead were there on June 21, 1971 for one of their most exotic gigs. Jerry Garcia tells the story: "We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent Van Gogh is buried. We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came - the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time - got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great."

[@kollelerevwienviennaaustri4690]

Pig Pen, 1 drummer, Fender Strat