Los Lobos (w/ J. Garcia) 'Born On The Bayou', 'Suzie-Q' 1989

[@imanalien2222]

Gotta say 15 yrs later I’m grateful this video is still up and I found it. I’m I big Jer and LP fan, so watching him navigate that guitar to a sound somewhat familiar to his own “preferred” guitar is a fun watch…and from the first note it’s identifiably Garcia!

[@Macintosh-333]

Same here man

[@aprilglaspieable]

How many bands ever had two singers as good as Cesar Rosas and David Hiddalgo?

[@adamgrasso3292]

Maybe just one: The Beatles

[@coyote023]

How many times do ya get to hear garcia play a les paul? I just got into the bay area the day of this show on an extra long flight and got a little sleep and went over and it was well worth it.The strange thing was when we were leaving garcia was just getting to his car and we commented on his les paul sound and he could not stop laughing and told him we would catch him the next day in oakland.

[@gawdpdx]

Love this. First saw Los Lobos when they opened a Dead show sometime in the 80s. Been seeing ever since. Just about the best live show around.

[@lgndnhswnmnd]

Arriba Boyle Heights! Thanks for this post! Grateful for KZbin!

[@fgar1776]

Jerry Garcia. Awesome guitarist. Gone too soon. Wish I could have seen him in concert. Thanks for the posting.

[@manhattanc]

thank you so much for posting this! Jerry has a HUGE smile the first 30 seconds or so.

[@robertperrella4194]

jerry garcia jamming with los lobos!!!!!!!!THIS IS BETTER THAN PERFECTION !!!!!!!!!!!1

[@tangoseven2]

@truegangsteroflove Your comment will be on top always !! I would have paid top dollar to see these music icons perform this live!! What a treat to the to the many fans of Mr. Garcia & the wonderful band Los Lobos...ear candy at its best !!

[@chukcanuk]

Los Lobos rawk. Jerry rawks too. Thanx for posting this. It is totally real and totally great.

[@delaroan]

Vintage....Jerry's riff is classic as is his dash of the stage at the end...Love the video...Thx...

[@itsstillfriday]

OMG!! So cool to see Garcia playing an Les Paul!! Great Video!!

[@keefek]

You've said it, eloquently. This is a unique combination of musicians and song.

[@TheGokitchen]

This was a precursor to summer tour when Los Lobos opened for them. Iko Giants stadium rain show!

[@geoson4582]

Thanks so much for posting!! Long time deadhead who fell in love with Los Lobos in the early 90's. Never knew of this collaboration! WOW - Thanks again!

[@SoFloPatriot]

wow now this is what i get for hanging in the lot when the opening bands were on..i live in tn. but a of cajun blood and this would have set me off and i missed this one nor do i have any bootleg copies...oh those were the good days

[@Jayhawkga]

This is the first time i have ever seen Jerry not using is normal rig. HE FLAT OUT KILLS IT!

[@gatheringofthevibes]

What a special set you have up here! Wish I could have been there for this!

[@LSommer]

Just met Conrad a few weeks ago. What a wonderful person. Did any of you hear the rumers in '96 that DH was going to join the Dead at one point?

[@rdvgraaff]

God I love this,

[@bartman4556]

I always believed Bobby should have done Suzie Q as one of their many cover songs,I would have loved to see him belt it out.

[@chumsk8]

rock-n-roll will never die....

[@anotherheadx]

Jerry never seemed to lose his place in the context of whatever particular song was broadcast from the stage . . .

[@BartholomewCounty]

Los Lobos is the most spiritual band out there. When they play mother mary must be listening.

[@monstermovieman]

Holy shit this video is old! God they sound amazing!

[@traceling]

I wonder if Jerry was remembering the Les Paul he played on stage with the Dead in the late 60's? His heavy-on-the-tremolo solo here reminds me of his playing from that period.

[@nav700]

A mi me parece una muy buena actuación de Los Lobos un grupo de gran experiencia en el ramo musical mexico americano.

[@AvirtualSwitzerland]

@amdarkstar .....He use to play THE SWEETWATER in San Rafael and THE INN of the BEGINNING in Cotati, Ca...

[@jonathanzabel5363]

RIP Jerry : We all miss you , Bro .

[@khaliph22]

@truegangsteroflove excellent observation,cant put it better!

[@seanod7157]

Jerry on a Les Paul, sweeeet.

[@AvirtualSwitzerland]

This is the most animated Jerry had been in years....Even for a brief moment, that weight was off his shoulder.

[@oldindian]

Hey gangster......You got it man ! Peace a Musician

[@glenbuxton3525]

I wonder if this gave Jerry flashbacks to his time playing gold-top Les Pauls back in '67-'68? Different pickups, but he's kind of getting that late-60's tone here! His later custom guitars had a much more focused, plucky kinda sound that he wanted, but this tone is almost like Anthem of the Sun, or Live/Dead (when he played an SG)!

[@grandbbq]

Sweet.

[@tduross]

Jerry playing a gold top Les Paul! I miss JG.

[@OldBeethowen]

JERRY & LOS LOBOS PLAYS THE GREAT !

[@truegangsteroflove]

There are a lot of dumb people who have access to computers, and just want to blow smoke somewhere. This was Los Lobos and Jerry Garcia jamming on a cover, having some fun. Whatever weakness there is in the sound is due to the quality of the recording. It has a lot of life, which is what music is for. If you have seen John Fogerty lately with his new band, he pretty much phones it in. I wonder how many people who call musicians crappy actually know how to play an instrument, or can read a note.

[@bob733333]

Too cool.

[@amdarkstar]

this is a lot of fun for the shear novelty of seeing Garcia in a small club in '89. Yea, his tone is off a bit and there is a bit of unintended feedback going on here and there but so what. the solo starts out a bit rough then gains a bit of steam then he starts fighting the tone a bit. i have always enjoyed watching him play even if there is an occasional slip or stumble. the guy just rocked...

[@monstermovieman]

@irtimed I know huh? i just noticed your comment was made 2 years ago,but i just found this video now and i thought the same thing! thats a gold top isn't it? i wonder where Jerry's guitar was the custom made SG's?

[@lauriemarquez4527]

Fucking AMAZING ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jennifermarquard-clanton5664]

This is first time Jerry played guitar after the coma...and that is Carlos Santana's guitar--he called Jerry up there ⚡️

[@seanod7157]

Jennifer Marquard-Clanton Not if the date is right. Coma was '86, this is '89.

[@jerry-st7rc]

Not a chance that is true

[@shredsixsixsix9218]

Yeah go Jerry !Not one to copy anybodys SOLO! Improv Master !

[@quartzimaging]

Shred Sixsixsix exactly right

[@irtimed]

jerry on a les paul? 89'? Killer!

[@coyote023]

no that is louie perez playin' drums. the day after this both los lobos and the dead played in oakland and garcia,weir and clarence clemons sat in with john fogerty and his band which blew the deads 2 sets out of the water.

[@coyote023]

@mkthddhd I should have said he did not use strat"s or les pauls exclusively the way he used his doug irwin guitars. The travis bean pretty much was his 1976 guitar .The sound he got out of it was cool but the irwin"s i thought gave a much better sound, it was a deeper,and a more full sound...I now know i need to check my post" for mistakes. I stand corrected be cool bro.

[@coyote023]

@setboy1 If you read my post a little slower i said he did not use them EXCLUSIVELY the way he used his doug irwin"s . That black strat with those horrendous midi sounds was not used in "88 but he did use it after the drums for maybe 10 minutes and even that was way to long. Wherever you got the info about his irwins costing $10,000 that was a little off the mark. Do you know how long it took D.I. to make them? One of jerry"s strat"s was given to him by Graham Nash and he used that one for awhil

[@Slikrik1212]

Jerry Garcia and Los Lobos covering CCR. Wow!! Now I've seen it all. And I thought Marilyn Manson covering The Eurythmics was weird.....lol.

[@stuffbyken]

@Spongybugman Yeah ... it's crazy ... if someone played this and I had no idea what it was, instantly ... INSTANTLY ... two notes into the solo I'd say: "Jerry!"

[@coyote023]

@jab3785 Garcia never used a les paul and as far as the strat goes he never used them either and those custom guitars you speak of are Doug Irwin"s the tiger and rosebud set jerry back a cool $40,000 each after jerry passed "the wolf" and "the tiger' were auctioned off and brought in almost a million bucks each and they both had amazing sounds come out of them up until bob bralove put that horrific midi computer sounds. I cannot listen to a single tape with that noise coming out .

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Ten years too late but Garcia used both Les Paul's and Strats early on.

[@essephreak]

Very cool to see Jerry working in the moment to explore the Gibson's sound. No, the video sound is not good quality, but to me the energy seems to just crackle and pop.

[@1stSaintsFan]

I believe this was during Garcia's Heroin/Freebase Coke years...Is that John Belushi and Richard Pyror I see off stage???

[@seanod7157]

1stSaintsFan Funny but this is right in the middle of his "clean" time, '87-'91ish.

[@essephreak]

Actually, his diabetic coma was in 1986, and he did jam with Los Lobos for his first public appearance after that. However, this performance was three years later. Choice of songs most likely influenced by the AIDS benefit the GD and Fogerty played a couple of days later at the Oakland Coliseum, at which Garcia and Weir backed Forgerty.

[@MrPhillyphil10]

Yeah Jerry gettin' down and dirty for sure F all the haters and 10 dislikes. I actually feel bad for anyone who does not like this video.

[@tonto2009]

David with a beard ??

[@RobertLaberge]

Yes you're right about Eddie Cooper's great cover.

[@pazvato]

According to David they (at least he) got a little tipsy at this gig. Probably why it sounds a bit off. Man, I wish they would bring New George's back. It's been sitting there in various "states" for years now. My studio is just across the street. I walk past it pretty much every day.

[@3chrds]

David Hildago has a beard here, never seen that before.

[@bengreens7878]

Was that the successor to George's 440 Club? (Hell, was that the name?) Spent some time there in the early to mid-'70s, good bar with a good jukebox (Shinin' Star by EWF is the only tune I can remember listening to on it). Anyhow, great to see LL and JG in any context. Thanks for uploading!

[@Spongybugman]

@irtimed Yea, I caught that too.. he seems none too pleased with his tone by all the the fiddling he's doing with the tone knobs and toggle switch. Jerry would sound like Jerry even if he was playing a kazoo.

[@setboy1]

@coyote023 Your info is way off. Jerry did use pauls as late as 1971. The Irwin's didn't cost him 40,000 each. try more like 10,000. He also used strats into the start of 1973. and in 88-89 he had a black strat with that Midi you hate so much for when they played space.

[@blugoo09]

Jerry heard the music in his own way.

[@setboy1]

@coyote023 Not a matter of reading slower. it's matter of not reading your other post taking what you had said back. Here is what you said "Garcia never used a les paul and as far as the strat goes he never used them either" What are people supposed to think when you say this other than that you are saying he never used them? If you read Blair Jackson's book it say that tiger cost Garcia $5,800. and rosebud cost $11,000. Those are no where close to $40,000

[@jahtom]

Jerry on a gold top Gibson?

[@rotolo]

those pickups are running a muck but garcia pulls the high voltage back into an even running machine..

[@muckstar23]

@secoro60 ??? huh

[@TheTestingGrounds]

Aww man, Jerry was just about to rip out another hot lead on Suzy Q when Cesar brought it to an end.

[@LawtyBobby]

Dashing to get Rosebud!Delaroan

[@JABFELA]

i think you may be mistaken

[@aprilglaspieable]

I like the Dead, but this is better Garcia than all the Space Jam bullshit ever. If you want to hear him rip it with more balls than his Grateful Dead moments, checck him on Warren Zevon's Transverse City album. Outstanding.

[@jab3785]

I always wanted to see Jerry go back to a Les Paul or a Strat. It does look strange. I never liked the custom guitars he played from the mid 70's on.

[@johnchurch5101]

He’s trying to find was to turn down that dirt I bet that much distortion was a bitch lol

[@TheWendigo1]

Mescal and Mr. Natural acid....

[@pbl1]

whatever you say, oh mighty arbiter of cool. not a great song for Garcia to be jamming on, but what are you going to do.

[@setboy1]

Maybe he didn't bring his guitar with him

[@AvirtualSwitzerland]

@JimRichter ......I'm willing to bet that if you were there that night, and had a couple ales in you you would have given Jerry a standing ovation of sorts. I'd be willing to bet you'd be yelling...."Jerry, Jerry !" Typical hypocrite...

[@mojorayjones]

Sounds good to me. You try to jump on stage with Los Lobos, unrehearsed. Garcia rocks, so does the Wolf. That's why they like each other and hung, ya know? How will the wolf survive? Off endangered species list, huh?

[@JimRichter]

I'm a major Los Lobos fan and I like Garcia, but these are not his tune. Garcia's playing is a trainwreck.

[@muckstar23]

@RonyMexico go back to cubicle

[@coyote023]

it really does not get any cooler,and if for some reason you do not think so,there is not much chance of you ever being cool.

[@Mike1967b]

JG has obviously hit the shooms a bit early this night... Fail!

[@rmdatv]

Sorry. Not a fav. Kinda a snoozer. But check out the Foo Fighters cover. (Except they botched the lyrics.)

[@Hotes1]

good good, but, not as good as the oringinal credence..