Grateful Dead - Let It Grow (Philadelphia 7/7/89) (Official Live Video)

You're watching the Grateful Dead perform 'Let It Grow' at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on July 7, 1989 from the DVD 'Crimson White & Indigo'. Set Design by Jan Sawka.
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[@PortsmouthCherokee]

Jerry died 27 miles of where he was born. He traveled the globe. He been everywhere. 27 miles from his birth place. Man life is trippy

[@TheKhaibear]

This version of 'Let It Grow' is an absolute monster.

[@bozzaa]

And it's the same old story. If Phil's on, the bands on. Phil's power is such a large factor in all the music. That guy is a Master. I love Bob's rhythm nuances too. Their all Masters at their art.

[@michaelinhuman8967]

@@bozzaa jzzgsqhgvqvgqhezyyrrrrrrr rest zzzzzzzrrar you can t 5 uy 5 uy free aetd

[@haveaniceday5693]

YaaaàaaaaaYeeeeer

[@liamsdad33]

Picture perfect

[@andyg120]

I went into this show barefoot. Went around the floor saying to everyone, "The earth longs to feel your feet, the winds long to play with your hair! (kahil gibran)" This was the last show for our dearly departed JFK. It was an awesome way to go out - dancing barefoot with the Grateful Dead. I miss them terribly.

[@olivermiller4197]

This is a sick version of let it grow… I got to see Jerry in highgate vt a few shows before he died- The Prophet is one of my favorite books

[@staggerleee1053]

This was amazing and tbh I cherish those years ….I was on from 80-95 and …well yeah. And sometimes…sometimes … D&C is “there” the way it was back then but not all the time for me. Can’t look at JM but Bobby and Micky and Bill connect me to “it”. Was at PL&F recently and wow ..being in the same space as PL and the “thing” was there and yeah just beautiful thank God.

[@MrYatesj1]

Brent was such a beautiful addition.

[@jennifermurray6245]

Omg. Brent is life.

[@kip4966]

@@jennifermurray6245 seriously

[@Andrewtalksalot]

Miss him and miss these days. Summer tour was rough. A lot of one night stands, but always fun.

[@matthewpielet9320]

Luigi at Dead and Company says this is his favorite song of his favorite show ever.

[@thaynetuason]

Thank you again for plucking the plastic dollar store flowers from my Little Free Library and throwing them on the sidewalk. Just days after I got new ones in honor of spring! You know why nothing good ever happens here? Because you won't allow it to. You kill all my seeds before they grow.

[@Bridgeknapek]

Seeing these guys preform is an experience that can not be created!

[@sunsheyn29]

I was at that show too. Hopped the wall from the seats with my now ex-husband to get as close to Bobby as possible :D Thanks for posting! Brings back great memories!

[@anikamurray5227]

Exactly a year before I was born

[@kakolykia]

Love Bob's heavy metal guitar.

[@jennifermurray6245]

This is the goat

[@garyshow2005]

This was the last tour with Jerry playing Tiger, and he played that beast like a m'f'er! This song wouldn't be the same when he started using the MIDI. Seeing and hearing videos like this makes me wish I'd gone to more shows back in the day. BTW, I wonder what Jerry was saying to Brent when he came over at about 0:15; he had a little smile going.

[@mikeagent6616]

Jerry said My backstage room or yours to shoot up again....... Just saying.......cocaine 70's Uncle Jer was the best...

[@kirkroberts6214]

We'll play blow away next

[@TerpeneScorcher]

I wish I existed sooner to experience this

[@thaynetuason]

Once I was walking along the trail down by the river and saw this young lady picking lupines. This might have been fine under other circumstances but being a botanist and knowing it was the only lupine plant for quite some distance- the rest of it being weeds mostly and non-natives- I told her to not pick the wildflowers and leave it for other people too. She looked at me with spite in her eyes for even having the nerve to tell her what to do and said, "Just because you said that I'm picking all of them!" And proceeded to pick every last flower that poor plant had. Every one of them.

[@bradgurley4854]

Next to Estimated Prophet, this is my favorite Bobby song. And Barlow's lyrics are so perfect. Listen to the thunder shout,"I am, I am, I am. I AM!!" Yes!!!

[@michaelallan7178]

Yeah, the fat man rocks! Love this song. One of the best 1st set closers.

[@lembesi68]

There is nothing like a grateful dead show.

[@stevemaloney8278]

absolutely sweet..........who cares what shorts are on or who is dinging a piano..........this shit is awesome......way to go!!

[@jennifermurray6245]

Their best year in my opinion

[@Bridgeknapek]

Grateful Always

[@theqster1962]

Love Jerry's Sneakers - 89 is when they were at the peak - Every 89 show was a great one.

[@maxwelter8611]

They were all so perfectly in zone on this. It blows my mind every time I watch it.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

Easily debatable. (Not the sneakers part.) I'd say '78 was their height. But every year, they propelled themselves higher and higher. That year was like being with them on a mountain, one with a fire sometimes burning. Some years had bigger peaks than others.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

'95 was an especially potent, fresh ascention

[@johnholland723]

Since I recently discovered Bobby Ware I have come to realize what an anchor he was

[@jennifermurray6245]

Weir

[@GratefulRich]

wow what a year 89 was, saw every show but 2 miss the fat man, still makes me sad 15 years l8r that i will never see him play again live. This video is a great reminder of what was and the best Jam band ever

[@greggnewman157]

Blows my mind all the time how i miss someone who i dnt really know

[@phillipallen3879]

I Am...I Am....I Am....amen

[@TheKhaibear]

Saw 16 shows on the 89 and 90 tour. Changed my life as all Dead shows did to us heads. Sorry I missed this one though.

[@sconrey7]

Ouch

[@Bridgeknapek]

I will not let it go

[@Alwaystuned]

Beautiful in every sense of the word. Brilliant. Gods.

[@michaelb.42112]

I love this song, and Shakedown Street a lot.

[@TaperTomStrizak1959]

What a fine recording and video. An impeccable performance! Can't believe I saw over 40 Dead shows at the Spectrum and never made one at JFK. So grateful we have so much of this fine music recorded!

[@TheKhaibear]

After 3:56 anything can happen and it happened beautifully here.

[@Alwaystuned]

One of my favourite tours--89-90'

[@cherylann7096]

outstanding audience recording

[@maxwelter2469]

+Cheryl Ann Borne (My Bariatric Life) Pro-shot.

[@joel46n24]

Max Welter she felt like she was in the audience

[@Bridgeknapek]

This a fantastic video

[@evilmale2612]

This was great! Thanks for posting! Now i'm gonna find 7/7/89 and watch the whole show. Jerry played good.

[@davidgronseth9873]

Totally awesome - the 7/7/89 show was 'epic' :-)

[@noogie3784]

Geez, probably the best later day Dead version of this song. So much Jerry. It was his band, magical conductor. See you on the other side.

[@rayanrahbari5619]

Ooohhhhh

[@ecobro2008]

Thank You for this video !! The magic still lives !!!

[@jironthunder7519]

food for the soul! thanks Bob!!!

[@TadekTedWilson74777]

I believe that was the start of operation Looking Glass

[@thaynetuason]

But you just tell me how much love we were sharing while you were taking advantage of 2 year olds in Wyoming. How much?

[@geraldgriffin6397]

So much love and Lucy there....

[@thaynetuason]

Montana sure does love its crested wheatgrass though!!

[@jerryboogaloo6375]

love love love

[@todd291022]

My 1st Dead show!!

[@AALONSO1962]

Thanksss...!!!

[@Alwaystuned]

MAGIC.

[@johnnybennett100]

I had an awesome time at this show one of the best of my Dead experiences.

[@thaynetuason]

One day I was up on Stevens after God had started talking to me-very few days did I see, but that day it was fresh powder, but they hadn't quite gotten all the lifts running yet. Everyone was running around trying to get some powder, and it was all tracked, so I started hiking the ridge. I looked behind me and there was a guy who was following me. I thought, "I'm not going to let him get first tracks," and just hiked harder up the hill with my board in hand. But the guy kept gaining on me, and on the drop in to the bowl we were headed I recognized him. It was another guy who has been sponsored by the exact same board shop as me in Seattle, at least before his arm had been shattered (by Mission Ridge) and my life had been taken from me by God aka mental illness. We laughed and enjoyed the ride down together, knowing each other. But otherwise I still would have wanted to beat him and him me and neither content.

[@carinchanning9388]

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@jonathanshampine9948]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@markrinella49]

Bucket opener so bad ass

[@thaynetuason]

The trees here are still naked. Like skeletons whose arms are all broken or bent. The soil full of as much clay as my parents soil was sand, but its a clay full of uranium and radioactive particles. Hard for a potter to get into despite my initial hopes. But we'll see how watering a place that has drainage issues goes after I plant things that need irrigation and the oncoming grasshopper plague...

[@Darrylizer1]

I loved Pigpen and Keith (Tom C. not so much) but I gotta say Brent was the best keyboard player the band ever had. When he died their decline was precipitous:-( '89 was a very good year!

[@christina_2]

So Jerry

[@himhum2135]

Tiger guitar worth an easy few million today

[@edmundbarker2311]

Y O U G R E E D Y D I R T B A G

[@dmacmusic007]

Edmund Barker What are you fucking gay

[@jenniferg6818]

lol

[@moshe3278]

Nah I say let it die. I get the joke.

[@johnbergstrom1494]

Mickey on that cowbell.

[@TNAisWWEv2]

Also know as Weather Report Suite.

[@V8trickshot]

TNAisWWEv2 nah this is let it grow but they usually play WRS

[@nedrobinson7490]

Let It Grow is a “section” or movement, in a symphonic sense, of the full “Weather Report Suite”, found on the Wake of the Flood record. STRiCtLy speaking, they are not interchangeable 😉

[@TadekTedWilson74777]

yeah Da tak Another show i did another city another tour another Coast another life

[@McC815]

Clean rivers

[@fesquemonkey9784]

Tiger 6 pups? Whoa never realized🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯or 5 with 2 bottom bridges?

[@thaynetuason]

But tell us what you to to those who try to testify, to confess! What you do to them good old boy who knows Matthew in Wyoming?

[@davidgronseth9873]

It was kinda hot too, as I recall - Summer in Philly .....

[@jamesrasmussen1603]

Accountability ...reap what you sow

[@b.bailey8244]

i love this song! one of Robert Hunter's best

[@theqster1962]

Unfortunately it is not a Robert Hunter Song. It is a Bob Weir - John Perry Barlow Song. Like Jack Straw, and Brent's tune" I will take you home".

[@b.bailey8244]

Thanks for correcting me; I always thought it was Hunter. I'm not too up on the Dead so appreciate knowing.

[@argentina2505]

actually it is hunter/garcia

[@DingusTheGenius]

uh...you are on the Internet...use it and you will discover that this is not a Hunter/Garcia composition.

[@jrc7660]

Weir/Barlow

[@Michaeloftheland]

Damn George Washington can really play that guitar

[@TheKhaibear]

@dvssk8er3 Yes. Especially the resurrgence of the band after Jerry's near death experince in 86'. The late 80's Dead is some of my favourite as well. I really like Brent.

[@thaynetuason]

But you met Luke, in the Cadillac, he's still waiting on judgement day.

[@rjbubba203]

What was it a saint outta this?

[@TadekTedWilson74777]

yes i was there u2 know now

[@thaynetuason]

Long ago I gave up my ski area, my Stevens Pass to the crowds, and it was also then I became bitter. But I thought she was mine man, and she really wasn't. But she wasn't theirs either. Obviously. They just kill her more everytime they drive to her.

[@TheKhaibear]

@3:50>>anything may happen.

[@knutbaardsen6437]

Camped out night before and buddy had a little too much nitrous fell, stitches, didnt skip a beat. Had one of his best shows this day. Stadium crumbling as the band played on on. Phil bombs were chipping away at the foundation. It was closed after this show.

[@TheKhaibear]

After 3:53 'ANYTHING' can happen and it did so perfectly here.

[@lysanderdiscutido4044]

I found a lee heavyweight grateful dead hoodie jacket i think it's vintage. Is anyone there know something about what i have.

[@janoswildman]

I can smell the patchouli

[@jordancooper6931]

jerry = life bobby = rockstar 9wanna be) ehh i give em it phil = chest throbber mickey = heartbeat billy = harvest beat Brent oh brent = love baby!

[@CannabisPlanet]

sweet shorts Bobby is sporting.

[@Danthemanfromny]

So tasty!

[@gabepizza]

Retired at 40? Luck you!

[@Bluecollar711]

I remixed this part 4::38

[@thaynetuason]

My psychotic Indian neighbor told me not to look at her again during midday today- when I was on the back of my lot and turned the corner of my garage and really couldn't look at anything else. I just glanced their way. So I wasn't hallucinating the other night when I thought I heard the same combative, "What are you looking at?" out of the darkness. Good to know?? I subsequently sung her a song about how I had the right to sing and dance- without her permission because it was my property and free country. I don't think she heard me, and was not impressed.

[@rocknroll6396]

😂

[@jironthunder7519]

i was away in the army at this time. i got my girlfriend a ticket, and like a fool sne gave it away

[@jerrymuzak4534]

it was so hot this day, i gave birth :P

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

Lame that "Fire On The Mountain", "Rhythm Devils", "The Other One", and "Turn On Your Lovelight" are all blocked in the United States.

[@gratefuldead]

Links?

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

@@gratefuldead playlist is on my Facebook page. I shared what there is to see on official Grateful Dead page. I should buy the CD / DVD set, if it is still available anyway. At around thirty dollars for 3 CD's and a DVD --- that is a great price.

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

@@gratefuldead facebook.com/forrest.george/posts/2351164758278241

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

Actual playlist is here...kzbin.info/aero/PL9T8iR9IIg7xUHdJ1YGfXuQ4yIbFOmzOE

[@footer317]

@@TheRealForrestGeorge love seeing your comments on almost every dead video i watch haha. i just bought the CD/DVD it's well worth the $30 if you plan on keeping it forever like i do. NFA

[@TadekTedWilson74777]

oh yeah Philly I think they place this all under arrest

[@johnholland723]

Could someone tell me where the show take place?

[@jennifermurray6245]

Philly rfk stadium

[@checkscher3047]

@@jennifermurray6245 JFK....

[@thaynetuason]

But you never meant to torture me? Not one cut of a thousand coordinated with the other- at least consciously with your knowledge- is that correct? Kinda shows proof there of a higher power since you were obviously just another brick in the wall.

[@rocknroll6396]

Thank you Roger Waters

[@thaynetuason]

So you reduced the species from over 150 to 5, is this correct? Well, you got a key? Why don't you try to key me out and see if I match any of your 5 or less known species cowboy. But you don't have a key, do you? And if you don't know nothing, then everything looks like about 5 species, though there could be 150. And then its hard to convince any cattle rancher that rare plants should be preserved. You tell them its on their property and where and what happens Mr. All About Profits?

[@artallen4666]

Q1ilikethedeadsetversinbetter

[@thaynetuason]

Though there is a large proportion of high elevations in the United States that are protected from grazing and timber production, its actually the lower elevations who always produced more (since they didn't have a mountain of snow upon them and were limited by such) and are not only at the most grievous danger, but they play a greater role. Which is more important? A plant that photosynthesizes 3 out of 12 months or a plant who photosynthesizes 6 months or more? I know that higher elevations are certainly purdier to you than sagebrush, but don't kill everyone and the whole planet over your love of beauty and superficiality. Saving Mt. Rainier is not quite enough. Saving the sagebrush (NOT BURNING IT) is. But you don't love sagebrush as much as say, a Grizzly Bear, is this correct?

[@Spherian7]

Better at .9 0x. Closer to original release pace. This version is stressed by too high a rate of beat. .92x would be perfect, but we can't get that.

[@thaynetuason]

When I thought the Grateful Dead were following me, before God showed up and impersonated Bob in 1993 when quiet gold Mercedes and keyboardists whose hair products shone under streetlights still haunted my skateboarding route through town, I thought I overheard Bob say, "Maybe we should kill her before she is famous." Like mentally overheard him talking to someone else, long distance telepathic powers type of shit. For a long time I thought I just hallucinated that or God made it all up. That God lied to me, like it does others who are not so peaceful. But Bob today, he still say, "Kill them before they grow."

[@rocknroll6396]

how true that is

[@thaynetuason]

But lets find out what happens when you just rape Mother Earth (who gave you everything) shall we Little Schoolboys who loveth playing on parallel tracks? Yes you got what you wanted and MORE!! where that came from.

[@jeffs6399]

Time melts on the edge of infinity Once energy is created i live within me astrial Project smith to safe haven in the clutchess of our universe whence I think in ink thoughts of divive who was with me and they who tried to divide thee..........watch unfold yeast im old ha ha the bread box empty. Eat justice right energy defends vengence is b"read" full of mystery my seed of faith i defend mustard? I sew through time fragmented minds heal yourself your answers are nine.....hahahahahhah 48erhear

[@patm5086]

overated rubbish

[@cyclesmoking]

Gotta love 1989 Jerry !!

[@akakakakkakakakaka8438]

Y O U G R E E D Y D I R T B A G