Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir On Why They Let Fans Record Their Shows | Letterman

[@cerebralcaustic]

"I was gonna apologize for not having any memories" - Jerry was a funny guy

[@jcedwards8363]

"I'm pretty sure it was fun though".....

[@stephenlippmann7514]

Ashtray line was gold, too.

[@aoxomoxoanthem]

Garcia was a joy to listen to - such a great mind.

[@brentcraft4340]

They both were.

[@Frankenstein-sc8rc]

@@brentcraft4340 garcia was the most articulate

[@itschucky12345]

Worst music I’ve ever heard idk how my dad likes it

[@walkerpercy8702]

​@brentcraft4340 heh neither. They were an accident of history.

[@searing7549]

"If the head fits...wear it!" Bob Weir

[@tedoff]

Jerry's intelligence, perception and wit are on full display here, what an honor it is to have heard his voice and the music. Bob seemed reeeeeeealy high on something, but it was very interesting to see how he snapped into focus with Dave's question about being isolated. They both connected with that question and instantly got past the awkwardness into an honest conversation. Dave was/is a master of his craft, make no mistake. That was a hell of a question he asked, I wish they had stayed on that topic more.

[@cactaceous]

3 of my favorite people to have existed. Thank you Dave. Long Live the Dead.

[@goldcanyon340.]

Truer words were never spoken.

[@steveeddy6876]

Bob Weir gave me a ride hitch hiking in Portland OR in 1975 on I 5 to Cototi California ! Steve in Olympia Wa

[@dharmabeachbum6330]

I was pretty naive and I didn't follow The Dead when this was first broadcast. I didn't realize that Bobby was tripping. How did I miss it? LOL I love these guys now. Just listened to some solo Weir and some Bobby & the Midnites before finding this channel. Wish I would have been a Deadhead back in the day. Must have been a blast.

[@ellobo768]

It is...and you can!

[@berrycrawford5579]

Bobby wasn't tripping. That is how he is 24/7. Seriously.

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

I don’t think Bobby was twisted here. Maybe worn out and coked up, but not too weird. I don’t know him personally, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.

[@energyasylum997]

He was tripping for sure.

[@ryanandrew-allen2887]

They have so much love in their hearts and it is inspiring.

[@likehell5803]

Garcia was a bit of a dck when it came to hip hop

[@chaim5397]

@@likehell5803 I mean what he said about hip hop is technically true

[@newusernamehere4772]

​@@likehell5803incorrect. Jerry never said anything about hip hop. He said rapping as a art form is not a type of music which is true. Hip hop is still music and he was smart enough to make the distinction.

[@miko3895]

Miss those days ☺️ flying high and tight! Now I'm a senior and still wearing tie dye 😄

[@WillieDuitt1]

Let your freak flag fly!!

[@miko3895]

@@WillieDuitt1 hiya, thank you for the reply. I let the flag fly inside my head. Yes, As I gently go into the future!

[@BROKENTEETH-55515]

Holy smokes!!! At 5:02 Bob Weir catches a glimpse of Bigfoot.

[@chadharter9788]

LMAO!!!

[@izzytoons]

I noticed that. His eyes pop open really wide a few times, even when he's singing.

[@tommydegerlia4106]

He’s like super concerned then he’s just like ok ignore that

[@trapperdan]

"More fun than a frog in a glass of milk"

[@rayjohnson2387]

That's so weird...when I was a kid my grandmother had a coffee mug with a frog at the bottom...the first time I ever saw it...she gave me milk in it lol

[@edgarfoerster9831]

@@rayjohnson2387 I bet she was a lovely lady too! Three cheers for grandmas! 🍻🥂🍻

[@mma1st105]

@@edgarfoerster9831 hell yeah Grandmas rock!

[@benhall2235]

Some of the words , well done.

[@johnstallings4049]

"Acid heads speed heads and grass heads turned into Deadheads!" ...' bout right! The 'X Chemistry ' happened alot in the early '80's!! ❄️🔥💖😂✌️🌎❄️

[@erlendolsen7172]

Greetings fellow deadheads!

[@BuddeFtw]

✌️❤️

[@Wayzor_]

💀🌹⚡

[@ellobo768]

🍄🙃👋

[@susiefairfield7218]

✌💙⚡❤💀🌹

[@searing7549]

What's up!?!?!?!

[@AlienTrees]

Jerry was only 39 here, and Bob was 34.

[@nickyd5427]

Bob was only 5 years younger? I didn’t know that..

[@newwavepop]

thats always so weird to think of, sitting here as a 49 years old im still looking at Jerry thinking hes much older than me. because i always saw him as an older generation than me and i guess my mind still just automatically see them as older than me. but i mean if Bob is only 34 here how old is Dave, he doesnt really look any younger to me but he is talking to them about the 60s as if he werent there too. yeah not in their circles but he was still there.

[@SpaceWrangler0]

It has always blown my mind how hard Jerry aged during the 80s

[@jamesroof6150]

​​@@SpaceWrangler0Heroin will do that😢

[@exodus6996]

that guy on the right looks like he’s in his 50s

[@DelightLovesMovies]

So many of these great interviews were made before I was born. Thanks for sharing on youtube Letterman.

[@MrGonzoDT]

Let it sink in that Jerry was 39 years old in this clip...

[@gregarnold1696]

1982 oh lord what a time to be alive or greatfully dead for that matter

[@mitchlauner9355]

I was in the audience for a show they did in 1989...it was in the fall

[@LucyLennon909]

Bless the "Tapers" and "Tape Traders" ❤ kept me outta trouble for many years. I still have my 6,000 hrs. of "Live Dead" on XLII tapes. 😂

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

The Grateful Dead weren’t the best at what they did, they were the ONLY ones who did what they did. Can’t wait to see Dead and Company this summer.

[@bhunt372]

How was your show?

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

@@bhunt372 As good as we knew it would be. (~);}

[@jasonbell4670]

WE MISS YOU JERRY!!!

[@stevepeters3961]

Jerry’s only question “do you have an ashtray?😂😂😂😂😂

[@dompavicmusic]

I’ve never seen somebody look so high and tripping as much as weir in this video lol

[@charlenemack7040]

I hate being 71 years old. But I do get to say there was some awesome music in the 60s in the 70s in the 80s! 😊❤

[@rodrigorafael9514]

You are lucky to be 71 , I'm pretty sure you had much more life experience than youngins today

[@alexgraham2927]

Weir's clearly tripping during this. It's just priceless.

[@ashtree3006]

A barrel of fun!

[@brentcraft4340]

Not necessarily. He always looks and acts goofy and smiles that way when he was young in other videos.

[@stilldead1347]

He wasn’t tripping. Just Bob being Bob.

[@firstname7330]

Bob's not tripping. He's just not that smart.

[@constipatedlecher]

If you think he wasn't tripping you're tripping

[@infiniteuniverse9528]

I'm sure Jerry and Bobby made a bet backstage on how soon Letterman would ask them about the "Drug-Culture" in Frisco. It was the Grateful Dead's ingenious idea to allow fans to record and circulate tapes of the concerts that built a world-wide army of Dead-Heads. RIP Jerry, Pig Pen, Brent and Vince.

[@chrisconley8583]

No need to bet. Someone from the show comes into the green room before the show just to talk, from that comes Dave’s (or any late night host’s) questions. It’s done to tip each other’s hands, so the interview goes more smoothly. It also a way to have Jerry and Bob not get asked a question that they might not want. This has been going on since Carson to say the least.

[@GodfrayShmikel]

They did the show in Texas? Or Colorado I forget where the heck is this Frisco and how many SQUare miles Is iT ANd WHY oH wHY oH wHY dOES FRItzgo keeP tAk eng Ang.....? anG My DSL bAcKWaRDS🌀💊🎸☮️🦸‍♀️

[@jonc.5310]

No love for Keith 😂

[@infiniteuniverse9528]

@@jonc.5310Sorry I missed the great Keith Godchaux. RIP to all of the Dead's family members I failed to mention.

[@danielkeene3852]

RIP Robert Hunter as well.

[@scallaghan2118]

How we miss you. And those times. 'Nuff said. The music will never end.

[@matthewhunter1285]

Bob seems like the most happiest contented guy in this 🤣

[@frankmacleod2565]

three words.. el es dee

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

@@frankmacleod2565 Is good for you!

[@joebarr725]

@@frankmacleod2565 Vitamin L

[@joetierney2]

He’s high off his ass lmao

[@greengiant9739]

I miss Jerry soooooo much... And got love the fact that is..... Jerry has one heaven if a big smile full if gratitude..... That the remaining members and friends still keep the spirite alive ... 🤠👍🤗

[@GreenMountainVelvet]

Will somebody please get Jerry an ashtray?

[@treborhi]

Jerry seems like an all-around good guy

[@wendybrugger926]

I snuck out of bed and downstairs to watch this interview!!

[@Beyondtopsecret1]

Man, I could have listened to this all day

[@ruthhancock7665]

Jerry was so hysterically funny, God I miss that man.

[@rgerard5083]

I miss you, Jerry.

[@Wayzor_]

The origin of Weir's catch phrase.

[@nextari]

"I'm kinda new here."😂...definitely going to borrow that one!

[@scallaghan2118]

These guys are such a trip.

[@rossoconnor140]

I love that Jerry dropped a Jungian joke that was too fast for everyone. How Jerry of him! @5:35

[@stevepeters3961]

Love the look Jerry gave Bobby after the introduction.

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

5:02 Bob.. what is going on with you? hahahaha

[@charliestubbs6151]

Tripping

[@jg6698]

@@charliestubbs6151 nah. That scene was long over for these guys at this point.

[@christianraimondi98]

not acid, but definitely cocaine @@jg6698

[@BabyJones-d7v]

Fun times! A barrel of laughs! Love it!

[@hoboroadie4623]

"If the head fits, wear it." -Bob Weir, 1982

[@alexroast]

When the mushrooms kick in: 5:02

[@BabyJones-d7v]

Jerry is hilarious!

[@longstrangetrip8799]

cool that this is officially released

[@fathertime2020]

I saw the dead in concert at least 5 times and I don't remember any of the concerts. They say that if you can remember a Dead concert you weren't actually there.

[@matthewwarner9390]

No, actually that just means you're one of the idiots that wasn't there for the music and dragged the scene down. Real Deadheads can handle their medicine and remember every note!

[@LaGuerre19]

"gestalt linkage" Energy masters. ✨️ 🎸

[@llongdong]

Ole Bobby trippin' the light fantastic here, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaallll ghood!!

[@BabyJones-d7v]

Great use of the word juggernaut! Love some Jer Bear!

[@mediaamerica]

“When we’re done with it, they can have it!”

[@jwm2352]

"You could sense that things were forever going to be changed.."...haha, Letterman with subtext to rattle Weir. Bob is def trippin, anyone who has ever tripped knows what its like to try and hold it together socially when you're going through it. You try to have normal reactions but they are pricelessly not normal. This has been edited but there is more in the full spot, including two performed songs. Watch him when he tries to sing the Monkey and The Engineer and Garcia is laughing at him - haha

[@spacecowboy2993]

Yes

[@camilo1455]

Voice gets slower and deeper

[@berrycrawford5579]

Bobby wasn't tripping. That is how he is 24/7. Seriously.

[@tombstonejones9581]

@@berrycrawford5579 Gigantic pupils...

[@berrycrawford5579]

@@tombstonejones9581 his eyes are always like that.

[@WhiteMountaingirl]

I love Jerry!

[@charliestubbs6151]

Bob tripping so hard

[@Jim_L]

Dave was still so new and awkward at this early stage in the show when he was interviewing his guests. I would have loved to have seen him interview these two about three years later, when he had his confidence and biting humor in full effect. He would have had a field day with them at their expense, particularly Weir. HA!

[@etiennekosa]

Well you're in luck. He interviewed them again in 1989. It's on this site as well.

[@DirtyFrankDahmer]

Definitely feels like a different Dave than I grew up with in the 90s.

[@stephenlippmann7514]

And 1987. But Dave took the clips down :(

[@jasonhorne4533]

Always get my fill of Capitan Trips and the GD

[@bandguy360]

Bobby lookin high as a kite lol

[@bookmedia67]

“I couldn’t say that we mastered it” - you got pretty damn close, Jerry.

[@karlhungus1569]

Always a hoot

[@debbykleinberg8779]

I was lucky enough to be in the audience.

[@jamesverrier3618]

So classic! Bobby looks so high!!

[@jamespriest9658]

70yr old dh to the bone. to borrow a line from the godfather, we are bigger than us steel. DH tribe has been one of the greatest joys of my life. with Phil's recent passing, my heart is still carried by the perpetual love he was so instrumental in generating. Bob carry us home keep on dancing keep on dreaming ✌️,

[@johngalt6838]

Perfect pair.....the complimenting styles float out of their guitars naturally. Awesome.

[@dreadlockbanana]

Bob was fucking frying lmao

[@michaelchapman2312]

can’t believe some guy boo’d at 0:37

[@dj-um7el]

Lol

[@Papa_Jib]

Papa jib endorses this video😮

[@Tomapella]

Not included in this clip, "we're gonna take a quick break so Bob Weir can blow his nose"

[@tombasye1016]

Jerry Garcia Is Beyond Legendary, I Went To There Almost Last Concert In The Riverport Amphitheatre In St.Louis County, Missouri It Was An Excellent Concert, Dead Heads All Around Inside And Outside The Huge Concert, I Will Never Forget That. 😆

[@gdkev79]

Was it, Bob said a guisalt linkage? Jerry said, a union might say that???😂

[@drmlabs]

They always cut out the part where Dave offers to get a tissue for Bob's nose

[@marshall1864]

These are people, I cringingly recall now, who were far more literate, funny and all-around intelligent than the condescending interviewers questioning them. And I think even someone as talented as David Letterman would now, in retrospect, concede that.

[@energyasylum997]

Spot on👌. Thanks for shining a light on that. Rest in peace Jerry.

[@stevefaure415]

I think Letterman was a little starstruck with the boys. You don't often hear him sound deferential and nervous.

[@mountainmandale1587]

Jerry was the shit, man!

[@glitterystar4]

Lol @ “ex-chemistry.”

[@danielwilliam9018]

I have regrets in life. Being a Dead Head not being one of them.

[@bks4203]

What did Jerry do with the cigarette but he never got his ashtray I don't think he could have put it in Dave's coffee cup.

[@johnnyboy55]

He did. Right at the end you can see a red ashtray next to Letterman’s blue coffee mug. Right about 5 minutes 55 seconds

[@Badfilms6784]

Lol. "If the head fits, wear it"

[@TexasChicano]

Bob is looking at Dave like Dave is shape shifting right in front of him. Im sure they had some excellent hallucinogens!

[@CA-me9ie]

"if the head fits, wear it!"

[@stevegraham3907]

Remain calm and Jerry on🍄

[@Kernel4Ben]

Bands that won’t let you record them live do that probably because they don’t want people to hear how bad they are 😬

[@brentcraft4340]

Or maybe they are just weird about the legal part of it. Money BS

[@robgronotte1]

It's mostly bands' record labels and management that was against recording, not the musicians themselves.

[@CorneiliusLibowitz]

@@robgronotte1 Zappa was staunchly against it.

[@bjbhehir]

The Dead were bad on a lot of nights too.

[@jg6698]

@@bjbhehir and the "jams" their 2nd and 3rd generation fans feel obligated to adore were sometimes tedious boredom.

[@robertbarlow3201]

Dave is one of those guy's who would dial 911 because he accidentally ate a pot brownie.

[@kookamunga2458]

Jerry Garcia dropped acid one night at a show and thought that C.I.A agents were lurking in the audience trying to kill him .

[@jumpingspider9]

Bob dances with owls

[@PattiCornell]

Oaky Stanley. Was so cool. I was there from the beginning

[@PattiCornell]

Was there from the start by Patty cornell

[@richalderson6069]

Jerry Garcia has such a boyish voice for a guy that looks like such a bearded grey-haired old guy.

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

magic people

[@bavondale]

4:20 if u wanna ff to answer question in title

[@raleighsmalls4653]

Is Shaeffer constantly on valium ?

[@tambert3897]

Jerry and Bob have been on so many trips that they have frequent flyer points.

[@BabyJones-d7v]

Bob was high as hell!

[@saraabellgayfield59]

Sometimes my hair gets frizzy like Jerry's.

[@genes6703]

They were allowed to smoke on tv back then.

[@WillieDuitt1]

They were allowed to smoke just about anywhere back then.

[@michaelb.42112]

When you could smoke on TV, meaning indoors and nobody had a panic attack or died.

[@floepiejane]

Good day, good people (~);-}

[@AndrewJohnClive]

Phew! Bob?! 🙂 You there?

[@alephtav1901]

If you're not A Head then you're behind

[@myname825]

bn? What does bn mean?

[@User_32]

I got really stressed out waiting for an ashtray

[@jpvdw1961]

Definitely One from the Vault

[@peabody3000]

no intro music from paul shaffer when they walked on

[@2HHB]

4:20 recording