Grateful Dead - It Must Have Been The Roses - 12/31/1981 - Oakland Auditorium (Official)

[@williambuchanan4623]

Wow, Jerry’s voice is just excellent here.

[@daisybrosi8885]

One of my new favorites. So damn good. Just saw a dead and co show at the sphere and it was life changing

[@scottsilver3580]

Love this song so much

[@davidanctil4671]

Unbelievable, probably the most beautiful song I ever heard...Wow.. Thank you Jerry, God Bless you my brother form your fellow guitar player for many years..

[@kelautz]

Ahhhh! I was there! So love Jerry singing a slow song. They sure knew how how to milk a slow tempo.

[@newusernamehere4772]

This is insane right out of the gates

[@dgmisal1979]

My fav Dead tune...

[@johncordes7885]

All good company...

[@michaelsteding2939]

I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!!!!!

[@Onyxluo]

Best version of this song

[@codasteve]

What a gem! Thank you for posting!

[@vwjay270]

Sounds do good!

[@vwjay270]

WTF ☝☝☝ if you know, you know 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@alfredheil4348]

Jerry's at his best when he's tripping out.

[@markbellas6250]

Bob seems to know sign language at the end there!! Xoxo

[@JoeValles]

Phil playing a Fender!

[@maxw.midgett4975]

Not sure what his rig was like in '81, but this year the tiger sounded the best it ever did.

[@matiasilic2107]

Does anybody know who is singing backup vocals towards the end? Sounds like a female voice but I can't place it

[@dansisler3487]

Joan Baez

[@californiatwilightstudio]

▶️💗🙌🫶🎼

[@petermeyer4206]

Where did Joan come from?

[@Stonecrow25]

She was hanging with Mickey at this point. She opened I believe From Amazon on this new Three Disc Set, their 1981 effort. Joan Baez opens the show with the Grateful Dead as her backing band. If you like Joan Baez, you’ll dig this performance. If you don’t like her, this show isn’t going to convert you. Her set isn’t included herein anyhow! The Dead’s first set starts with an incendiary Shakedown Street that gives one a pretty good indication of where this evening is headed. Even the short songs are booming tonight, ‘Cold Rain and Snow’ and ‘Beat It On Down The Line’ being good but not exhaustive examples from the opening set. • There’s a break at the end of the set prior to the New Year’s Countdown. At this point, Ken Kesey, one of the Dead’s first champions, gets on stage and just goes hog wild, blowing on his harmonica and ranting for five or six minutes, injecting a very heavy dose of 1966 into the heart of the Reagan era. When the clock strikes midnight (actually a couple of seconds before), the band launches into a furious Iko Iko to ring in 1982.