Grateful Dead perform "Cumberland Blues" Alpine 89

Lotta Po man got Dem Cumberland Blues

[@brianolson7820]

Grateful dead out in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Making a hell of a racket. I love it.

[@fostever]

hour and half from Chicago!!!

[@rwdagostino]

87 through 89 Alpine! What a party!

[@damienyuen7718]

I don't know now, I just don't know, if I am going back again. That is how I felt after every dead tour I did. Drugs take a toll. Miss you Jerry and Brent. Take care of your health.

[@pango-y8j]

Take care of your shoes

[@pango-y8j]

Yes they do and there's no getting through your message from me to you I've done LSD and ecstasy and mushrooms the the federal government has deemed me insane I am on disability they say I have PTSD and disillusional disorder I can never do LSD or mushrooms anymore I do drink cheap American domestic beer and I smoke homegrown again like marijuana and tobacco caffeine sometimes ibuprofen that's it that's enough drugs for me if it that's enough drugs for me I am 52 years old if I did more drugs I'd be dead or in prison

[@jimsmith1277]

31 years ago. I was there. I remember this clearly. Awesome show!!!

[@pigasus1226]

The Dead always seemed to play seamlessly at Alpine Valley. There were certain venues at which the band seemed to "feel at home" and always play terrificly. Alpine is one such venue. The documentation of this concert is a wonderful exposition of the band in the last years of their strange long trip as Grateful Dead. I love this video (the Live at Alpine Valley video)-probably as much as the GD movie.

[@bobschmitt7964]

jerry loved alpine,p Acoustics were great because the amphitheater is made of single wood beams instead of sheet metal and concrete. They stopped playing in alpine in 89 Because the people of Walworth County were sick of the heads everywhere. Hell there were people camped on the golf course because of the rain......

[@Whatsinanameanyway13]

@@bobschmitt7964 The closest I've been to seeing a real 'Dead show (sadly never got to see Jerry) was at Alpine with Hot Tuna, Rusted Root, and The Other Ones with 80,000 other 'heads. My buddy had a lower bowl ticket for the show, and I tagged along hoping to find a miracle in the parking lot. Drove up from central IL day of, walked around & experienced the parking lot scene, then found somebody with a lawn ticket for $20.

[@GrayShreds4theLove]

this song makes me want to leave my place here in AZ and return to my home in the hills of Tennessee! Live on making an hourly job and reunite with my lover

[@KDT081969]

Hot damn I love this Cumberland!

[@rudyxrudy]

Best live band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@40ounce58]

My all time favorite! Wish I could have seen them live. Man they sure could play.

[@brianolson7820]

Impossible to sit still during this.

[@jettrink7510]

Let's get funky man.

[@pango-y8j]

Let's get monkey man

[@chinacat2002]

Awesome Jerry and Brent interaction on the 2nd break at 2:00ff I do miss those guys, even 20 years on. What a great version of this song! Wish I was there!!

[@AtmaRising]

Brent loved Jerry and Jerry loved him too. Brothers.

[@ExtraPencil2]

AtmaRising yeah, Jerry smiles and it's like they're having this great conversation through the music. Never saw Jerry like that with anyone but Brent. Must've broken his heart when Brent died. Here's it's like the glory days

[@nerfball222]

I saw an interview with Bobby where he literally stated that jerry took Brent's death real hard. They always had some great chemistry.

[@lazydaze4840]

These guys fill my heart

[@Elephunky215]

@@ExtraPencil2 he was kinda like that with bruce in the 90s

[@williambremner9022]

Love the rapport Jerry and Brent had. Real genuine connection...not just band mates, they were brothers.

[@rwdagostino]

87, 88, 89 Loved Alpine in those days!

[@davidjacuk4286]

Was there , great run great summer tour , Garcia = Like a Boss !

[@jasonhorne4533]

Was always a great venue

[@lizziesangi1602]

YEAH!!!!

[@TNAisWWEv2]

I always loved this song. This is bay far my favorite Dead show. It's a shame that it's so expensive on DVD, when Jerry would probably give it away for free.

[@markgilman1344]

yep :)

[@andygtmo]

TNAisWWEv2 certainly

[@Huelogy]

Argh matey

[@J0NNYBOY]

Just in case you havent gotten it yet - $10.99 on Amazon right now

[@shipdog6]

😎 thanks #iwasthere

[@anneweijs9105]

Thank you kindly indeed

[@fmv6767]

Jerry's stoked @ 2:13 with Brent Bustin'

[@daveleafey9283]

I love it !!!!

[@peterf.229]

BTW the line from the song is "he can't win for losing" just sayin, I know all the lyrics from these songs cause I listened to them about 12 billion times :)

[@rudyxrudy]

BESTLIVE BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rudyxrudy]

I SAW the Beatles and alllllll the intense fame...but they could never do what the DEAD did.....

[@eduardopatino778]

pero mira esas caras, papá. genios.

[@pacosuave64]

I was there :). Loved the Alpine shows

[@musicinfatuation]

Me too

[@gavin4848]

Me too

[@xianshep]

Nothing rocks harder than the version on Europe '72, overdubbed vocals be damned, but this is surprisingly (to me, at least) good.

[@CatheLeiper]

Wow. Great performance! Saw GD 74, 80, 88, 90 and JGB five times general time frame. When Jerry was on, his solos guided us somewhere unexpected; if not for bootlegs/audience recordings we'd never hear them. You must play this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKDdoWWGlKqBeNE "Easy Wind" live January 1970. Weir's best playing, IMO. Jerry smokes--hard acid blues. Exhilerating live TV performance for SF PBS, before an enthusiastic--and probably/perhaps/who knows representative--audience. Really, this is a great Dead recording. A bit too many annoying effects, but plenty of the guys on video. Ducks watched me from trees. Weir and Lesh excel. Essential viewing.

[@lenny3804]

Gem

[@edhayes9037]

Definitely one of the finer Cumberland Blueses, and that's saying a lot!

[@brianolson3865]

what a great performance, and Jerry knew it.

[@scottminton925]

Just think there's a place called the Cumberland Mine 45 minutes down the Ohio River from me and my ancestors were miners but anyway killer tune

[@petercollins5861]

There's a town, Cumberland, on Vancouver Island British Columbia that was a coal mining center. Pretty sure it's not the one referenced in the song, but whenever I drive by there on the Island Highway, I try to have Workingman's Dead playing on my ipod.

[@user-zf6fv2sg1e]

Goo old grateful dead

[@Rave0851]

I love when Brent and Jerry make eye contact and they start jammin' off each other! Coupla junkies!

[@Rockandrollgeerage]

David Schildkraut they definitely snorted a few lines in the beautiful Wisconsin air before the show

[@markgilman1344]

David Schildkraut yep :)

[@gerardokeefe]

Man, that is my favorite part of the video!!!!

[@aaspendlove]

Nice

[@leftoverspaghetti4u]

Grateful

[@andrewptob]

Go Brent!

[@michaelhill2373]

Well on this one... Maher vs Jerry .... love them both ... at any given moment ...both together would be so amazing !!!

[@billbeliakoff5589]

I've only seen Dead and Company on here and all but 4 or 5 Grateful Dead shows in the Chicago area between '80 and '95. Although Mayer is good he seems to be thinking about the notes he's playing where as Jerry just let it flow . Maybe it was because the band knew where each other was going because they were together for so long. But I think that it's not the same without Jerry.

[@michaelhill2373]

@@billbeliakoff5589 it will never be the same as Jerry …. I have heard guitarist who can hit the Jerry notes spot on …but it doesn’t have that Jerry touch and yes seems mechanical to some degree … you have to just close your eyes and see Jerry … I saw them in 77 and got to see Donna and Keith …l got to see Them over 80 times … and solo shows … and where’s all the acid, sigh….

[@billbeliakoff5589]

@@michaelhill2373 I wish that I could have seen them in the '70s. Some of the shows I've heard on the XM Grateful Dead channel are far better than a lot of shows I went to.

[@michaelhill2373]

@@billbeliakoff5589 I saw some classics , I was on the bus my first show …. I have seen some super shows and was only disappointed twice , the audience tape of a show in 1980 at Pine Knob in Michigan was a fav of mine but yea 77 and 78 Were stellar years incredible long jams … that are amazing !

[@paulcanis6297]

hot damn, I think they got it

[@petercollins5861]

Brent and Jerry boogyin'

[@PandaplusMochi]

This was a great show. He does look like spock on drums. I'm also a treky

[@dragmyre]

kool

[@user-zf6fv2sg1e]

From Patti Cornell

[@andygtmo]

I gotta get down

[@jaygold9923]

master po, grasshopper

[@richardsweet9236]

Always succeeded by Maggie's Farm on my setlist

[@MyTallTripod]

Two people are stuck in the mine and can't get out! ;)

[@edsaadi]

Brent is high as a kite.

[@Rave0851]

He can't win or lose.......

[@TheRealGoopyGoop]

This

[@catdaddy3302]

That boy wants to cut loose on the 88s.

[@nycsandhog147]

none of dem miners, but dey know all the same.

[@FuzzyOGKush]

my buddy just told me about sneeeking in a tunnell that got dug in the trees behind alpine..under the wall and up the other side

[@peterf.229]

heh two people didn't get shifts at the mine and died of starvation, or got hit by a train while walkin' the line!

[@lindatheobald7789]

Mule sez--gotta-get-back----

[@mikemoore3050]

I really have to admit right now ! I am a looe soul .not a hippie.? The hippies ? They sid That I was trying to hard or maybe? Not enough. I GUESS THE POINT IS ? THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. GOOD NIGHT. ADMIRAL MCRAVEN WILL SPEAK BEFORE YOU SLEEP. THANKYOU

[@Videographic69]

Even Bieber likes this!

[@billbeliakoff5589]

It's going to take a lot more than that to get me to like Bieber. A hell of a lot more.

[@Huelogy]

@@billbeliakoff5589 he's hot

[@captainashlock]

It never ceases to amaze me how bad bobs guitar sounds. somehow this is so good that it doesn't matter.

[@MakMuk]

who the fuck said shorts were a good idea?

[@steinguy70]

Make good money 5 dollas a day

[@wmagross]

I can't stand those effing short shorts- sheesh

[@chrishorton615]

wmagross you ought to see him in his daisy dukes...lol