Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead

Known as counter-culture legends of the 1960s and beyond, The Grateful Dead were at the center of it all. Learn about their influence and world and time they inhabited with a haziness of reality and intrusions from the CIA, CHAOS, Charles Manson even and more.
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[@theatrixentertainment]

My high school Engish teacher turned me on to The Dead in 1977, with "Working Man's Dead". In 1978, I gripped on their concert at The Summit in Houston (and discovered Uncle Sid at the same time). In 1979, my roommate in Santa Fe, with a Saab 900, made "Shakedown Street" a part of my life's sound track, as we cruised the Basin Road on mushrooms and watched thunderstorms from above. In 1982, I saw them at Red Rocks from up in the Flagship, while happening with Red Dragon blotter. Several years late, I was working a show in Galveston, when my soon-to-be 2nd wife came to do time at the dorm. The local radio station was featuring a midnight full disc of The Dead, and I looked at my squeeze and said, "Wouldn't it be great if they played Terapin Station?" And they did. In fact, The Dead figure into many of my most memorable moments in life, and Uncle Sid was almost always with them. I suppose I have to thank them for cracking my skull wide open, and to you guys for bringing that all flooding back in to my mind 10,000 miles and a 1,000 years away from those times. Cheers~

[@jimmyb4728]

If a teacher would have done that these days especially in conservative run states people would have lost their minds. Here's to better times. 😎✌️🌅🌈🐢🐻💃🕺

[@theatrixentertainment]

@@jimmyb4728 Ir was an all-male Catholic high school that held a liberal arts education above all The real problem today is a confusion of definitions. In those days, Thursdays were skeet club, and there were about 200 shotguns and a palette of ammo in school. Never had a problem, even when we toked up under the bridge before first bell. My teacher had a rockin' sound system and we gathered there in the mornings for prayer and meditation. Oh yeah, all of this was in Texas and no one lost their minds - ish.

[@Jordan__Sloan]

@@jimmyb4728 there has to be balance bro, not everyone is going to be into LSD and not taking baths.

[@jimmyb4728]

@@Jordan__Sloan that's your problem Sloan and the problem. It's your presumption that people who listen to the Gratest American Band ever are all dirty dope heads. The only dope I see is you. Now go read a boom and not some book from your local church a real book and TRY to have an open mind.

[@bobschenkel7921]

The intro was actually from The Great American Music Hall, also in San Francisco, on 8/13/75, from their release One From The Vault. It was Mr. Bill Graham, the man, the myth, the legend. The 26,400 Watts of amplification on The Wall Of Sound was provided by McIntosh Audio. The amps were purchased just before The Dead's concert with The Band and The Allman Brothers Band at Watkins Glen, N.Y.. Tom's last name is pronounced Con-stan-ten. i met him at one of his shows in Pennsylvania and was talking to him for about ten minutes, oh yeah i got his autograph too. And BTW, my Dad's next door neighbors in his freshman college dorm at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. was future NBC newsman Roger Mudd and author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Mr. Tom Wolfe.

[@anonymousowl72]

Yup 🎉

[@bobschenkel7921]

@@mobiditch6848 I followed them for about 15 years, 1980-1995, but only saw about 50 shows, and I did know most of what he was talking about. Just like hearing about the boys.

[@billsadler3]

The Dead were that way, drawing so many disparate elements into something more than human. Good book, MTH.

[@davidr1676]

@@queral58 Sam Cutler has commented that the band stopped being in "the red" at some point after he had been road manager or I think he said as much. Of course, we know that they made the most money from touring. Some groups went broke on tours with all the dancers, pyrotechnics, caviar and coke and champagne type of living. The Dead did only officially draw a salary, submitted purchases through the band as something like a corporation for tax purposes. Jerry obviously made the most, from his side projects, but Rock Scully had written how Jerry shoved alot of checks from shows in his glove box or under the seat and such. Jerry was generous and didn't do it for the money for himself. As anyone with a habit, money is necessary but I'm sure that cash collected from promoters did go to generously pay his band and even tipped the waitresses in the clubs as "Deadheads didn't buy drinks but expected free water and wouldn't even tip" just an approximation of the quote. The Dead did take care of their employees/friends and dump a ton of cash into their equipment. There are other things wrong in this interview and some correct. I also believe that Jerry was Spanish, Swedish, and perhaps Irish descent and I never heard German before.

[@NeutronDance]

Epic intro

[@gerifridriksson9366]

I saw these guys on the bus in the park in Boise, Idaho. It was an incredible culture shock to a young country girl. Love this memory. Saw Grateful Dead about 6 times. So fun. I also do not regret the past, or shut the door on it.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Ha/ good one Geri!

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

‘He’s Gone’ ‘He’s Gone’ wasn’t actually written about death. Hunter originally penned the lyrics as a jab at everyone within the Dead family who trusted Lenny Hart, the band’s one-time manager and father of drummer Mickey Hart who absconded with the band’s finances around 1970. But as they tend to do, Hunter’s lyrics began to take on new meaning as the band experienced its fair share of passings. First was Pigpen, for whom the song eventually became a eulogy. As figures like Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland, and eventually Jerry Garcia passed on, ‘He’s Gone’ transformed into a lament for those who had died within the band’s inner circle. Nowadays, ‘He’s Gone’ is less jaunty and more mournful than it was during its initial days on the road. faroutmagazine.co.uk/15-grateful-dead-songs-about-death/

[@disgracelandpod]

Right on.

[@defuse56]

Another great Mark Groubert catchphrase (I was in college in '73) for our generation: "Lysergic Analysis," a technique I sometimes used in my academic endeavors.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Ha.

[@kennycarneal6765]

My friend turned me on to the Dead in 82. I didn't like them because he only has bootleg tapes. He came back from Jamaica with some hash and his great home grown and some Purple Dragon from San Francisco. He was getting it from the same place. Well, about 15 minutes after taking the acid, he asked if he could play a Dead song. I said, "well, just one I guess." It played and I said, "That's pretty good, I listen to them if they all sounded that good!" He laughed and said,"keep listening" After around the third song, I said, "ah shit!" and sit down. I listened to everything I could find for the next 8 years, and sold acid. I tore a sheet in half one time, and took the biggest one to go count laundry at Vanderbilt on Christmas day. LOL I had my headphones on and had the best Christmas up until that point! I lived in Nashville all my life and wanted to play guitar. I stayed on drugs for 40 years, started getting clean 7 years ago. I saw four blood moons and knew it was time. My birthday was 9/7 and I'm 63. 9x7=63. Your body rejuvenates itself every 7 years up to nine times. I moved from Nashville back to Richmond in 2015, on my birthday a week and a half ago, I became complete. My mother died 18 months ago, and my prom date from 1977 came to help clean my house. She broke my 1955 Gibson and instead of getting mad, I thought, time to go electric! But, didn't have time to look for one. I took her back to Nashville and before I could get my suitcase out, I had a burgundy Epiphone landed my lap. Too many miracles have happened since then to put them down here. LOL

[@Nowhereoh]

I was at Miles Davis/Dead. Dead & Neville Bros. Mardi Gras/ Chinese Year were fun back to back shows. Chinese acrobats & New Orleans second line. I saw a few acoustic/electric shows during Workingman period. Tighter band with only Billy K. on drums I loved Pigpen.

[@egreenbery]

The most inaccurate comment in this discussion is about Miles Davis opening for the GD. How on earth could you describe him as being "an obscure jazz musician" in 1970 ? He had already redefined jazz in several directions by that time.

[@gergemall]

Love you guys .. Jon Rice . St. Louis MO. I SAW JERRY Garcia the real Greatful dead band or what was left right before he died. I was in to the Dead before people knew who they were. The towers were impressive and sounded very unique. They always encouraged people to record their shows and always had an area arranged for it . The Dead loved to play the St. Louis Mo. at the fox theater. I remember purple barrel and orange barrel . I was in Mexico and was asked to go see the original Woodstock concert. I was in middle school or so .☮️

[@kennycarneal6765]

That's so wild! I overdosed on cough syrup and was in a coma for 5 days. I woke up and my wife was making funeral arrangements. I have overdosed so many times, and been at every hospital in and around Nashville at least once. Every jail, Treatment center, you name it. But I'm going to practice this guitar and get Jerry's kids out of the rain! I still listen to the dead, and I'm going to change the words to "He's gone and love is going to bring him back!" "I love you, but, Jesus loves you the best, and I bid you good night!" Someone is feeding me concerts every day. They even sent me a track with just Phil's base.

[@floydawaight49]

Not to finish Mr. Groubert thoughts, but I feel I should because of it's important place in the whole story and it's influence and it's manifestation. The "Grateful Dead man", the dead man who is grateful that a stranger paid to respectfully bury his body, he then pays the stranger back by secretly helping them reach their intended destination or accomplish the quest that they were on when they first encountered the Deadman. It later manifested it's self in the lives of the Dead Heads. When your quest is or was to experience this band, you often had to travel long distances and along the way a lot of things could go wrong and often do. Especially if you were among the true Dead Heads that traveled with the band. Many times when on this quest, when all hope is lost, a stranger would manifest a solution. Be kind, always, it may come back to you when you need it most.... PeaceOrElse

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

I never thought any of that. Sorry.

[@Grey-Elder]

I arrived in Australia from India December 1974, how time flies. Love this channel

[@gergemall]

Agreed. Mark is a trip and a hidden gem with a boat load of intellectual tid bits and really is part of Americana . His many adventures and god given talents . I can relate to so many of these historical events and the times . JFK led me to this show but oh so much more . Become a member folks . There are many more goodies in there . ☮️. I’m sure Mark and I crossed paths without ever meeting. I listen to many of these Americas unknown Stories a second time or more because there are so many facts . 😊

[@Grey-Elder]

I also still enjoy listening to Christopher Hitchens R.I.P. although I don’t agree with a few things he says.

[@rosebud6250]

Mark …you are the best “ sport” love your humor and you bring a smile, sparkle and many dots to these shows 🎼🎸 thank you to you & Eric…for the fun! 🎸🎼🎉

[@ryanlove7150]

Hey now!

[@Joshua_Hammer777]

KY

[@brandonkindt1205]

A few years ago, Mickey Hart bought one of my bass drums. His sound tech was going to cut it in half and use it as a visual facade for his live performance - the sound of the kick actually coming from an electronic trigger.

[@Linda-M.]

When Jerry died Bruce Hornsby played at North Shore MusicTheater, Beverly Ma. August 29, 1995...10 days after we lost Garcia.❤ I was sooo lucky to be there because he played "I Know You Rider" with a powerful passionate tribute I will never forget... My favorite song too...

[@dylanjohnson-knaup1666]

Pigpen was 27, much love for all this.

[@johnb6436]

He had an autoimmune disease that affected his liver. Sometimes Mark's own BS doesn't quit.

[@jonathanlund6708]

Bobby met Jerry on nye 1964 while walking by a music store, IDK where Mark gets this Colorado stuff he had to know there would be very knowledgeable deadheads watching

[@wanderer85295]

I came into the comments looking for this. Thanks family.

[@peterespada6226]

Saw the Dead in Providence, RI in ‘70 or 71. I had a comp ticket right up to the stage and was as close as you could get to Garcia without actually getting on stage. Unfortunately, some girl near me got sick and barfed making things very uncomfortable.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Hey, shit happens! lol

[@jamesmoore3694]

first saw the grateful dead in 77. i was at the 'fire on the mountain ' on june 12th 1980. portland got an ash bath from st helens second eruption

[@MISSION315]

That was fantastic interesting insight into this legendary band thanks guys 🇬🇧

[@devinisdead4061]

I didn’t hop on the bus until 1986 in Alpine Valley. I instantly fell in love with everything to do with it. Ended up with over a 100 shows before Jerry died. Last one was Deer Creek in 1995 where they had to cancel the second night I believe.

[@dcronin777]

American Beauty 1970 is their most iconic studio album along with Workingman’s Dead 1970, definitely more so than Wake of the Flood 1973. American Beauty had Friend of the Devil, Ripple and Sugar Magnolia. The Touch of Grey thing was in the 80s, In The Dark was the album.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

To each his own.

[@crimsonwolf9099]

@@AmericasUntoldStories Yup. I'm in the "Wake of the Flood" and "Blues for Allah" crowd. "Beauty" and "Workingman's" are important and excellent but "Wake" and "Blues" raised the bar through the clouds!

[@konacoop]

Jerry and Bob met in Palo Alto in 1963. Bob was living in Atherton and attended Menlo Atherton High School. On New Year’s Eve 1963, Garcia had met 15-year-old Bob Weir, future Grateful Dead guitarist, who later described the fortuitous encounter: “I was wandering the back streets of Palo Alto with a friend when we heard banjo music coming from the back of a music store….It was Garcia waiting for his pupils, unmindful it was New Year’s Eve. We sat down and started jamming and had a great old rave. I had my guitar with me and we played a little and decided to start a jug band.”

[@rsbrehm]

Coming back to watch this again. For some reason the Grateful Dead have been on my mind the past 48 hours. I can't get Touch of Grey out of my head. LOL

[@josephcampagnolo157]

Did you know that fundamentally the Dead's Mouse and Kelley art-work (i.e. skeleton with rose wreath, etc.) is directly lifted from the turn-of-the-century illustrator Edmund J. Sullivan, particularly from his work for an edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?

[@elijahwilson1422]

I was in third grade when Touch of Grey played constantly on MTV and it blew my mind.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Keep on truckin bro

[@elijahwilson1422]

@@AmericasUntoldStories now I binge on Robert Hunter's music and so should you as well old head. Stay true and stay Grateful and Deadicated.

[@judycharl1173]

I was lucky enough to be at Vanderbilt University for their concert in Oct 72 on the Alumni Lawn. Less than 15k people. Students had a reserved area right up front and this was a free concert. It was pretty amazing! Over the years I must have gone to 25 or 30 Dead concerts (yes, I was a Dead Head!), but this was one of my favorites because it was such an intimate setting.

[@DtotheK88]

My dad who was at Duke around that time saw them. He had no clue who they were lol. I’m kinda glad he never got into them, went to their shows and took acid or I wouldn’t be here haha.

[@Johnny1.0]

I was so fortunate to be able to see them a few times in the early 90's when I was in highschool b4 Jerry passed. Multi Millionaire's hanging out with landscapers is how I would explain it. No one gave a shit where you came from only that you were there for the journey. I dont think I spent a dime once I went in and it was obvious I was a lil young so many of the old heads eventhough they shared everything with us were constantly checking in on my friends and I to make sure we were OK.

[@jamestakacs]

Jerry said once The Grateful Dead is like licorice, Those who love licorice really love licorice.

[@flouisbailey]

Finally a Kentucky connection to Acid, Wall of Sound, Bluegrass, Grateful Dead, Bourbon, Lord Buckley, JFK, Ruby, Oh, I went to sleep and it played all night. My favorite 😍 OughTube channel. Saw the Last Waltz yesterday 🫠

[@dcronin777]

Wonderful story added a lot I didn’t know, my corrections to details just for the record. Loved this👍

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

This show is amazing, almost super natural…

[@kennycarneal6765]

That's the big book, "we don't regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it"

[@anonymousowl72]

The wood cutting machine was Jerry’s brother chopping wood.

[@anonymousowl72]

@HalideHelix yes, they were splitting wood…Jerry was 4 and think his brother was 8 or 9. Not sure where Mark got wood cutting machine from.

[@jamestakacs]

Touch of Grey was the highest charted record. It is what it is.

[@bruceberman5742]

Love it Thank you so much 🙏✌🏼

[@archiegoodwin9909]

Not to regret the past. 9th Step of AA/ NA.!

[@pembrokejones3969]

“We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness. Let our chant fill the void, in order that others may know. In the land of the night, the ship of the sun, is drawn by the grateful dead.” The Egyptian Book of the Dead

[@frank1387]

Wake of the Flood is not on Warners. American Beauty is the classic studio album. It has many Dead standards. Wake is on GD records

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_of_the_Flood Wake of the Flood and Working Man's Dead were there two best studio albums for sure. Working Man's Dead was on Warner Brothers records.

[@erikherrmann4032]

Cornell may 77 morning dew. Greatest finale to the Greatest show

[@Oldcrow77]

as told to me by David Nelson. If I remember correctly.There was a group of friends that all hung together. And one of them would read peanuts everyday. And then use the lines of the cartoon in actual conversation. David said “we were all walking down the sidewalk and Ron was talking. And the girl interrupted and said something like, no Pigpen you have it all wrong” and every one stopped and laughed and said yeah he is Pigpen. Ron wasn’t amused evidently.

[@foresttemple1380]

Jerry said he saw Lord Buckley once .when he was around 16, at a club in North beach. He said "I Wish I had 20 minutes with him, I know exactly what I'd play " 😻🌹😇🕉️

[@SuperStrik9]

Love the Grateful Dead. They're one of those bands that you either get them or you don't. Thankfully I get them as there is so much amazing music to listen to and explore from the band. My introduction to the band was in high school when me and my buddies would trip out and listen to Dead Set. I'll always have a soft spot for that live album. I love that practically every show they ever played was recorded in one way or another. The Dead are at their best live. That said, I also love their studio albums. Blues For Allah is my favorite. Jerry Garcia will be forever loved and missed.

[@dustydogg]

THE FINGER!!!

[@robertbrown7470]

I've never seen a Wall of Sound like that at 5:45! Amazing!

[@Nowhereoh]

Jerry Garcia lived in Menlo Park CA. Menlo Oaks school not Palo Alto. Jerry & Bob met in Palo Alto not CO Springs. Jerry & Phil met at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. Ken Kesey worked & tripped at Menlo Park Vets Hospital. Neal Cassady lived in Mente Sereno CA. tiny village near San Jose. Kesey lived in Menlo Park & later in La Honda where Neil Young has his 1,000 acre Broken Arrow ranch. First Acid Tests at Kesey's home in the redwood forest mountains. Bob Weir & first Deadheads at Menlo- Atherton High followed by Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham. Kingston Trio & Joan Baez were big stars from the area late 50's& early 60's. Baez & Dead worked at Kepler's Books. Grace Slick & Greg Rollie Santana singer from Palo Alto. Bill Kreutmann grandson of Clark Shauhnessy, famous football pioneer. Pigpen was 27. He's buried in Palo Alto. Same place as Steve Jobs & Shirley Temple. Robert Hunter hung out at Kepler's Books. Jobs & everybody was there. Warlocks first show at Magoo's Pizza in Menlo Park. Dead name origin at Phil's house in Palo Alto.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

jerry bob meeting correct about palo alto. Was just referring a lot to Weir in Colorado Springs origins.

[@george.s.8491]

@@AmericasUntoldStories would love to know more about Weir, he said he was into a lot of stuff, I know he has been to bohemian grove.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

@@george.s.8491 Bob Weird is what the dead called him.

[@davidcallahan3099]

I do believe Janis Joplin and Pigpen were a couple at one time. Great episode BTW. Brought me back

[@jamestakacs]

I went to over 50 shows. Mostly at Madison Square Garden. Loved taking the train and going to the Garden.

[@Linda-M.]

Watkins Glen N.Y. I was there...thank you for talking about it.....best days of my Dead Head Days

[@rhondahensley31]

Bravo, bravo 👏

[@davidfradin2835]

Weir and Pigpen were out of the band for 4 months, and Pigpen was still quite good on stage, until late 1972. Weir was not 'the lead singer'. He was one of 3 lead singers, Garcia, Pigpen and Weir.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

C'mon man - you can do better than this: "By 1971, his health had been affected by alcoholism and liver damage and doctors advised him to stop touring. Following a hiatus, he resumed touring with the group in December 1971 but was forced to retire from touring altogether in June 1972. " There is no such thing as "3 lead singers." Have you ever been in a band? Lol. Pigpen was the frontman and lead singer for the Grateful Dead. ""He was the guy who really sold the band, not me or Weir... Pigpen is what made the band work." From an obscure source; Jerry Garcia 1993. "he (Pigpen) was the group's original leader and was considered the best singer and frontman." Pigpen was fired in October 1968 but bot he and the Dead knew it wouldn't/couldn't last. He only missed 3 shows. Then returned. Turn on your love light bro! McKernan achieved a new prominence in 1969 covering "Turn On Your Love Light"; initially introduced in 1967, the song gradually evolved into the band's show-stopping finale, often taking fifteen to thirty minutes to complete. He sang as a front man - no instrument - sometimes the harp, but he was a traditional frontman. As Jerry said: "If we had paid more attention to Pigpen, it probably would have saved us a couple of years of fucking around." lol After Pigpen's demise Weir emerged as the lead singer for the Grateful Dead.

[@billsadler3]

@@AmericasUntoldStories Jerry and Bobby traded off songs, throughout the 80's, interspersed with Brent and sometimes Phil, or a guest artist, like Dylan or Bruce Hornsby. Even during Ron's time, the Jerry/Bobby trade off was the norm. An acquaintance, Rita Bixby, who Invited Ravi Shankar to CA leading to the Monterey Pop festival, reminisced to me in 1985 about singing Irish sea chanties with Pigpen, and she was the inspiration for Dylan's song, "Please Crawl Out Your Window".

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

@@billsadler3 Not sure who the inspiration was but the earliest release of the song was in October 1965 by Long Island group the Vacels, on the Kama Sutra label.

[@pembrokejones3969]

@@AmericasUntoldStories Pigpen played organ in the beginning and even when Tom C played piano, Pig played a Vox organ.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

My point exactly. as u confirmed. He was a lead singer for the grateful dead.

[@jameskrupka5105]

It’s funny you got these heady deadheads who know all the shows from the bootlegs… love the dead 💀 my family, like many others, have so much history w this band

[@ericball6000]

I 1st saw the grateful Dead in 1973, I was 15 my friend won two tickets from WBCN FM , we sat almost in the last row in the 2nd balcony, NRPS opened, then the Dead came on and played, and played, when they stoped we got up to go when this guy said that they will be back in a little bit, the show got over after the T stopped running, there where school bus's to take the heads out of the city, still had to walk 2 miles home, say the Dead after I got out of High school in 1976, saw 150+ shows, and 1 new years eve show, met many good people, by 1988,1989 to many people showed up not having tix, then the con jobs, and rip off's, but I would do it all over again, cheers.

[@VixCrush]

The begining vocals was actially from Great American Music Hall 1975 not 1974 winterland.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

I think the point I made was that Bill Graham said those same words hundreds of times at numerous venues. At least I think that's what I said and/or meant. Five minutes later I think we show a cut of U.S. Blues.

[@VixCrush]

@@AmericasUntoldStories True. He says very similar words many times. The reason I know that is those words are at the beginning of the cd One From The Vault which was one of the first CDs the group ever released of live concert footage. Of course I had a cassette of this show way before that. You saw some really great shows which is awesome. I only saw shows from 89-95 but I caught 63 during that period. Very cool that you tried to help Mickey's son. Great American Music Hall was one of only 3 or 4 shows they played on hiatus in 1975 and it is right next to the famous strip club Mitchell Bros in SF.

[@stephenaskew4346]

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

[@williamdittmar6450]

I know what you mean Mark! And so do alot of other beautiful people.

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

Touch Of Grey had lines in it from Jerry about those interventions on him he hated such as "I see you got your list out, say your piece and get it out"

[@cactaceous]

Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to Touch of Grey.

[@noturnleftunstoned72]

@@cactaceous 50 / 50 with Jerry.

[@cactaceous]

@@noturnleftunstoned72 Jerry wrote the music and Hunter wrote all the lyrics… so, sure 50/50

[@cactaceous]

@@noturnleftunstoned72 Have you listened to the Dead produced Grateful Deadcast podcast series. Listen to it. Find out it was Hunter’s lyrics. As told by Hunter himself. Echoed by Jesse Jarnow. Later.

[@sec808]

Saved by Rumble :D

[@davidfradin2835]

no way did Kesey pay the equivalent of 15-20k for Furthur. It was built in 1937 and it was a mess when he got it.

[@bgarrison67]

Glad to see this is back up on spew tube. Had to finish watching on rumble.

[@libtards1393]

Touch of Gray hit the charts I believe

[@kennycarneal6765]

It was all over the radio in Nashville back in the day

[@patriceodom2553]

I love you so much. "More than you'll ever know" 🎶 (insert AL Kooper lyric/voice)

[@kk3650]

Worst night of My nursing emergency career, was the night the dead played in Oakland.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

They played Oakland 203 times. Which night?

[@scott8xxx532]

@@AmericasUntoldStories 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamestakacs]

Brandford Marsalis played with the Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum on March 30 1990 . Then also joined in at Madison Square Garden on September 16 1990 and Brandford was there. Ron McKernan died at the age of 27 and was part of the 27 club.

[@sanciadrobina5194]

Oh that was super FUN 👏👏👏💗 rocking on in Tassie - big love to you both 🥰

[@theshrubberer]

glad i just found your channel ... looking forward to hearing the other content you have

[@Inisfad]

No one asked me, it Scarlet Begonias was always my favorite Dead song…..

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

A lot of Dead Heads agree with you. Fro me it's Bertha for some reason. mg

[@vids4yourbusiness]

@@AmericasUntoldStories morning dew comes a time for me

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

@@vids4yourbusiness ahhh good one. Post nuclear

[@egreenbery]

It's not a bad choice at all. If you don't love that song, then............. 🤔

[@spindletopcenter]

One of their managers was Courtney Love's dad

[@twentycal514]

"He's Gone" I think was written about Micky Harts father. This show kinda gives the impression it was written about Pig Pen.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Not an impression. Dead closed with it for a year after the death of Pig Pen. That's all.

[@billyselfridge5116]

I was at the Summer Jam. Six of us rode up from Mayfield Hts. Ohio in one of the guy's Mother's new Ford LTD. I do remember some of it!!!!!

[@susanterry3687]

I love R&B, soul and country music. But Paul Simon has always been my fav.

[@carriec.9834]

The two great iconic studio albums I think Mark is referring to is Workingman’s Dead & American Beauty.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

You’re listening to a remastered version of American beauty. The original was flat. Workingman’s Dead was a masterpiece of studio engineering

[@immortalserito774]

Agree Carrie C! Wake of the flood is a not a full studio treatment. MISSISSIPPI half step, Row Jimmy and Eyes of the World are better live.

[@immortalserito774]

@America's Untold Stories your guest screwed up 'American beauty ' is a great studio album, remastered or not. That and Workingman's got the full studio treatment, everything else was pulled together to support the Deads bread and butter, live touring.

[@tompilling4154]

Jerrys diabetic coma was during the Dylan and the Dead tour in '86 caused by dehydration according to the Long Strange trip documentary. That's when Merl helped him relearn the guitar. The Jerry Garcia: The Complete 1985 "Frets" Interview (HD Audio) on YT does a good job capturing his struggles prior to arrest and coma. John Khan Jerry's partner in crime supplied the H that ultimately took them both.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

He was a heroin addict his entire life. Don't believe the dead dogma

[@anonymousowl72]

David Grisman re taught him guitar.

[@Indrastarshine1]

that's how I lost my hearing the wall of sound

[@dcronin777]

Great stuff, one correction is that Bob Weir and Jerry got together on a New Years Eve in Palo Alto at Dana Morgan’s guitar shop not in Colorado Springs. I THINk I have that right🤔

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

I was referring to meeting John Perry Barlow in high school in Colorado Springs where apparently Weir must have stumbled into some MK - Ultra program. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[@dlparker]

As for the Dead as an integral part of American culture - I've heard several offhand references to them on cable news shows, including last night when one host who was handing off to the next host was plugging his upcoming tour - the next host asked if she could get her a ticket - or was she going to have to sell cheese sandwiches out of the back of her car like at a Dead concert.

[@mardyross2838]

"I do not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it."

[@bgarrison67]

Beezle here....formerly known as bgarrison67😎

[@christophercampbell1677]

Greatest band every!!!

[@jamestakacs]

Deborah Koons was the last wife. She is the one who took charge as you said. She is the one in the row boat on the Ganges River in Egypt and put some of the ashes in. The rest were at Golden Gate Park.

[@johnmcclung7536]

Seen them three times

[@Joshua_Hammer777]

I love you guys

[@carriec.9834]

Spanish and Irish roots. Garcia: An American Life by Blair Jackson is the most well written informative biography of Jerry Garcia & also much about the Grateful Dead.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Her grandfather Patrick Clifford was born in Ireland in the middle of the nineteenth century and emigrated to California, where he married another Irish expatriate named Ellen Callahan. Ruth's father, William Henry Clifford, was born in San Francisco in 1883. In his twenties he got involved in the laundry business and married nineteen-year-old Tillie May Olsen, whose ancestors had sailed to California from Sweden around the time of the Gold Rush.

[@carriec.9834]

@@AmericasUntoldStories right, Swedish. Forgot about that. It’s a really compelling American story, Jerry’s life and the Grateful Dead. Jackson is a great writer and fan.

[@deadphishcheesespread]

Went to my first show in 88 Rochester, NY. My buddy had an extra ticket. He thought he'd ask for $5.00 on top of the $20.00 ticket price. He told this to the first person we came across. That dude turned around and screamed as loud as he could "SCALPER" "SCALPER". It was like we had just murdered someone. They are a band beyond description! Went to 19 shows. I saw over 1000 concerts, but none like The Dead! And It's Augustus Owsley "Bear" Stanley III. Alice D. Millionaire

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

He legally changed his name to Owsley Stanley dropping the "Augustus" part of his name over 50 years ago in 1967, but I guess you knew that. Do you call Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay Ali or something?? mg

[@alexjager4517]

Deadphish, I last saw a girlfriend who was on her way to that Rochester show in 88. She was going with her crew from New haven and stopped in to visit for a day (I was in upstate ny)...she said she was willing to give up her ticket to hang out a bit longer, and to this day I don't know why I didn't take her up on it. But, yup, that was the last I saw her. Your story made me think of that.

[@deadphishcheesespread]

@@alexjager4517 Did she end up going?

[@alexjager4517]

@DeadPhishCheeseSpread _ yes, she ended up going, and that was the last I saw her. I sometimes think back to that with regrets that I didn't take her up on her offer to stick around...don't know what I was thinking...memories. "This is all a dream we had one afternoon long ago. "...box of rain.

[@heynow01]

I knew there was a reason I liked you guys. 🔥

[@michaelcheverie7579]

Wasn't Owsley the topic of Steely Dan's song Kid Charlemagne?

[@scott8xxx532]

Yes, or the song is about a character very much based on him. Really fascinating if you sit down and listen carefully to those lyrics.

[@2dogarageoxo]

You guys do excellent work but this is my favorite show so far, I was introduced to the Bay Area Dead scene in the early 80's and thought this presentation was fucking brilliant, definitely remember the day Jerry died, truly heartbreaking, the end of an era.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

Everyone remembers the Day Jerry Died. I loved him. MG.

[@mattrountree.]

My sister followed them and even I remember when he died, I was sure her world was about to flip. I was like 17 and she had already moved out for years, but I called her up right away.

[@daviddreyer9897]

Asa Deadhead, best ever Dead Story!

[@helloworldRR]

What a long strange trip it's been

[@howardduck2851]

I love the footage of Jerry Garcia and a few others show up back parking lot at Altamont (unclear if they were there to play or just hang out); and someone (maybe Jefferson Airplane member?) tells about Hell’s Angels beating people and causing trouble; Jerry says in his passive tender voice, “Oh that’s not cool”.

[@danfuller478]

He was the drummer for Santana.

[@D-Fens_1632]

I wonder what they did with Jerry's finger? Do they give you the option of keeping the bones? Likely not in the 1940s, they probably just burned it with a bunch of bloody rags and the stuff that they couldn't dump in the ocean.

[@NickRatnieks]

Captain Tie-Dye rules okay!

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

rumble.com/v1l90aj-ladies-and-gentlemen-the-grateful-dead.html

[@thomaslawrence2731]

Film footage is from '69 or '68. Block party. If you view this footage elsewhere you see the maque of a theater. Avalon? Fillnore West? Cant remembet. Music is the first introduction to their new release.. Blues for Allah

[@mikewines7852]

There are a lot of strange things surrounding Owsley and the Dead, as well as the whole 60s counterculture, SF/LSD/hippy scene(even Charlie Manson). Like how was Owsley able to run his lab and pull off the mass production and distribution of LSD that he did without any police or fed interference, while Owsley and his lab were on their radar? Back then cops busted people for pot roaches, yet they're going to let a suspected acid king roam free?? Yaaa ok whatever. Then he then had his stint as sound man for the Dead , who were also at this time also moving VERY large amounts of acid throughout the country during their tours(which the feds and cops knew about as well). Before Owsley was making acid, the CIA had control of the world's entire supply of LSD, and the CIA initially unleashed LSD on the American public. Along side their mind control MKUltra experiments, the CIA also gave it to universities, professors, doctors, and psychiatrists to experiment with( some knowing about the CIA's use of acid for mind control, others not in the know). Its rumored that many of the spokespersons and movements of the 60s counterculture, like the Merry Pranksters, Aldous Huxley, the SLA, and Timothy Leary were also a part of various CIA ops, or at a minimum, pushed in certain directions and funded by others around them, who were CIA. Now whether they were direct CIA ops or if they knew that this puppeteering and funding was a CIA op, I have no idea. But Leary was quoted later on as saying that he most definitely knew the CIA was involved during his time at Harvard. Not to mention, that Owsley as well as others tied into the Dead, the promotion of LSD, and in the early hippie and counterculture movement had been in the Air Force and/or had other military stints, had been in psychiatric facilities, had very WASPy blood lines to East Coast blue blood and military aristocratic families, or they had been involved in the prison and university experimentation of LSD and other types of mind control techniques. Of course this is all speculation and it's very difficult to tie up all of these coincidences up into one big truth........BUT damn if this don't stink to high heaven like the CIA, as well as other police and intelligence agency ops being either the developers of, or being deeply involved in all of this.

[@carriec.9834]

❤️that John Perry Barlow and Ken Kesey are going to get their own AUT shows.

[@AmericasUntoldStories]

They deserve it don't you think?

[@heynow01]

@@AmericasUntoldStories OMG, u guys are hitting your stride running backwards laughing, twirling and spinning like dervishes and strangely never touching the ground while pointing at your competition. Untouchable my friends, f#cking untouchables!

[@pembrokejones3969]

Both of them are extremely interesting characters who defo deserve shows! Cant wait!

[@jeffreystroman2811]

Yeah, Woodstock two, the mud, Phase linear amps and mud, and a girl who took my sweatshirt

[@jamestakacs]

Pig was a big part of the different "roots music". Pig was talented and had a musical background do to his father being a DJ

[@avishy938]

Pig pen never reached 43, he died at 27, And Bob Dylan became religious by the end of the 70th, not by 1987 after playing with the Grateful Dead, he wanted to join them as a member, one of them objected, i bet it was Phil.

[@blewwsviews6346]

"We are Everywhere". I miss seeing that bumpersticker and still miss those shows. What a pleasant surprise! Look forward to offshoots about Barlow & Kesey, etc... I don't go as far back as Groubert, but I caught about 25-30 shows from 1987 and they still played some great shows in that time. '93 in Eugene, one of the funnest times ever because camping all weekend (Fri.- Mon.) at the venue was allowed. Full immersion caused that lifestyle to feel very seductive.

[@B14k3]

Weir Everywhere

[@nurseratched1208]

I’m on the bus to listen to this episode.