MTV News Tribute to Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead

MTV News special report to the passing of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

[@BbqMikeG]

When Jerry jammed, he played the feeling of that night and brought the audience into that feeling. Each concert was unique.

[@rvmcwhorter]

It also seemed they played songs to cater to the weather, or the city , or the type of country they were in . The best ever in my opinion at that sort of stuff . Only real deadheads could understand .

[@EliCosper85]

​@@rvmcwhorter totally apart of the magic. Nobody can do it like that. Like you said city the weather events.. so much correlation

[@bradtodd3832]

⁠@@rvmcwhorter only burnt out smelly hippies understand how special they could turn a 5 min song into a hr and half. Got it

[@JRastafari007]

@@bradtodd3832 lol settle down, Brad Todd. Plenty of things you don't understand in this life.

[@bradtodd3832]

@@JRastafari007 you are correct why would any human want to smell like fucking patchouli

[@slimdaniels3322]

“I’m sad future genreations didn’t get to see him”

[@evertking1]

The music made me a better person.

[@kodykindhart5644]

🤙

[@kodykindhart5644]

Same Music has saved me countless times

[@kodykindhart5644]

Check out super secret band from Pdx Also lost ox and Jay si proof

[@peterbetts858]

so it was 29 years ago that Jerry passed away . i play him every week and some times 4 or 5 days a week ,sometimes for hours . theres constantly new shows on the www . he mite not be here , but he;ll never be gone . wave that flag .

[@D-Fens_1632]

I still listen to at least one Dead show every weekday. I've worked my way through 1966-1980 many, many times. And it never gets old.

[@rvmcwhorter]

This was so fresh at the time , these poor people were still in shock and grieving , you can see it in the faces of the interviewees.I still cry over it when I’m reminded of how he changed my life.

[@chloejessie1975]

Wow only 53!!! He sure packed it in for those 53 years! Love this band something fierce he was a hell of a musician

[@2023snow]

this MTV special really was emotional. I started getting sad, even though it was almost 30 years ago

[@traebee333]

I was only a teenager when Jerry passed and my own dad was battling terminal cancer at the time, but now I deeply mourn for the fans back then, how they must have felt and how we all feel to this day in his absence 💙⚡❤️

[@joeyattaway756]

MTV was actually good in my youth!! Man!!

[@ImTheSlime]

Saw the Dead on my 18th bday, my 21st bday, and a handful of times after that. Now I’m 54 and the Spirit of Jerry still lives on. It’s been a long strange trip ✌️

[@chop6604]

Thanks Jerry …Changed my life forever GBNF The music never stops

[@iiCkabodcrane]

I didn't realize he was only 53. Damn. He had a lot more music left in him!

[@BillKinsman]

Still miss Jerry so much even after almost 30 years.

[@danceswithdogs2041]

30 years ago and I still shed the tears. My own 53 birthday felt surreal... And now I'm 64.

[@traviswoodall6547]

I remember the day this news came out. Now I’m 49, barely 4 years younger than Jerry when he passed. Hard to believe.

[@robertdrawdyjr5498]

I hear that man. I was 13. I'm 42. Closer every day

[@robertdrawdyjr5498]

Jerry would want us to be healthy.

[@mosesgarner2404]

Same age. I remember watching this back then too.

[@D-Fens_1632]

I had that realization when I reached the same age as when he had the coma in 86. Made me really aware how young that is to be that fragile. And thinking "I could be gone in 9 years." It's scary. Even us heads who were baby faces at the time are old now. Yet we still see our 18 year old selves every time you go see any band that plays GD music. It was something special. Something built to last.

[@jackrussell108]

There was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.

[@zacharyjohnson6453]

Jimi Hendrix, Bob marley, and Jerry Garcia impacted people in ways that was personally and socially moving. They for all walks of life together to enjoy music in harmony

[@wantabeu2ify]

Imagine all the music he still had to create and share. So sad. I still miss him.

[@user-sg6ni3wd3v]

I miss the Grateful Dead WITH Jerry Garcia!!❤ JERRY changed my life for the better right from the start of hearing and seeing his 🎶 Music 🎉 💞 God knows, I loved that beautiful man ❤❤ From 14 yo to 36, I followed him everywhere! 😅😊❤

[@golds04]

Brilliant man- grateful -that the 4 winds blew him towards music and composition. Heaven knows had it blown him towards quantum physics or architecture. Thanks fir pushing me to music school❤❤❤

[@finzfan47]

Some of these songs and performances are similar to the greatest cathedrals ever made in my opinion. It's a stew of life put into a story with color and life and sound and then performed in a wild setting. Pretty cool stuff.

[@golds04]

@@finzfan47 in my opinion the only problem is a Hunter doesn’t get a fraction of the acknowledgment that he deserves if you think about it people remember Hunter lyrics much more than most of Jerry solos. Bless them both.

[@Acolis]

Thank you... FOR A REAL GOOD TIME!

[@augustwest5273]

So hard to watch without shedding tears

[@fuji4202]

Jerry energy still alive and strong 💪.We all miss u

[@DrinkerOfWindex]

I've seen the dead hundreds of times but never got to see Jerrry.

[@lemmedoodis1296]

Proud to say that that is me with the perma-grin at minute 11:10 My favorite Jerry shirt I ever had, the best devil sticks I ever owned

[@boopah4365]

Man i cant believe how old he looked when he was 45.

[@carlfolcojr.3497]

I seen him play in the short couple years from 91-95 i got to see a good handful of times including the last show in Chicago. The cops were giving away empty nitrous tanks in the lot on the way out. We took 3 or so back to my state. The older kid i was with ended up with them. I should have kept one for gp. But i remember my stepdad waking me up that morning and telling me that Jerry passed. He was one of the biggest heads in my home city. The world changed when he left us.

[@D-Fens_1632]

I can't believe this was almost 30 years ago. It feels like a different lifetime. I also can't imagine how different my life would be without that man and his music, I'd be a totally different person. Godspeed, Jerry.

[@2FRESH-4U]

What a different country we used to live in it wasn’t the way people want you to think it was it had its problems but it was beautiful

[@GoddessAmongstU111]

#777 This was my era with the Grateful Dead The dressing 11:45 and style of everyone . The freedom and elevation What a time to be crated for to experience this with all my high school friends from here( LasVegas) to Cali Arizona Utah. So grateful 🙏💯🪷☺️🕉️♾️✌️

[@secondarymachine7521]

I was in Eugene Oregon the day he died. The whole city stopped..

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

so amazing......SO amazing that MTV had the nuts to interview Timothy Leary😮 WOW. im shocked he even spoke to them.

[@hippiehillape]

I am forever grateful for the times we share The music never stops Our love will not fade away

[@jamesmckeon9139]

I remember watching this as a kid and being pissed music wasn’t on

[@D-Fens_1632]

Your future was about to get even bleaker. The music videos stopped what, 8 years later? Feels like it was gone by 2005. I do remember late night videos circa 2003. So sad what MTV became. They would never do anything like this today.

[@gesundheit602]

Grateful Dead is the only concert I went to but never saw. Late 80s, rode to Atlanta with a car full of friends and got separated near the Omni. Couldn’t find them after walking around for two hours through thousands of people and had to take a bus back home. (Unfortunately one person was holding all our tickets) It taught me a valuable lesson- always carry your own ticket. Of course if we’d all had cell phones like today the story would’ve turned out different. 🙂

[@davidmotlagh9779]

I got separated from my buddies in Alpine alley. Fortunately for me, I ran into some other buddies that I went home with. Rained the whole weekend it was either 88 or 89

[@peterbetts858]

allways carry yur own tic.

[@gratefuljr]

I got separated from my friend at RFK after running on to the field from the stands. Nothing left to do but listen to the music

[@charlesshepherd2004]

😮 pre cell days were a bitch. It's a miracle any of us survived. I took a solo road trip once, about a 1000 miles. With just a map and directions. Guessed about where to sleep and payphones. It was fun. I had a shitty car, I cannot believe my parents were cool with that. Granted I was about 19, still an adult. But what 19 year old boy has any brains

[@peterbetts858]

@@charlesshepherd2004 gOIN Home , goin home , by the riverside i will rest my bones , Listen to the river sing sweet songs , to rock my soul ,

[@hdrake1000]

Their crews really depended on them for a livelihood so they toured as much as they could. Very thorough documentary.

[@Joesdifferent]

Miss him so much Thank God for the tapes and videos 📹 🙏 🙌

[@user-gc6dv4ji1k]

I miss him !!!!!!!

[@Been.Here.Since.2007]

I was lucky enough to start following them in 92 and caught the west coat tours. My friends went to SF to attend the memorial and are in a picture featured in Rolling Stone magazine. Thanks for the memories!!

[@vibing2471]

Thank you Jerry 🙏🏻

[@christyethridge3821]

I am in NC and just met a lady from CA that saw the ambulances going to the rehab when it happened…. she went on to tell me someone had brought him some tainted treats … 😓💔 sad to learn that’s for sure… i had thought for all these years he had had a heart attack bc of getting clean…. what a long strange trip it’s been 💔💙

[@wantabeu2ify]

News to me. Please elaborate

[@markscialdone6936]

Thanks for posting this

[@aleclobel2953]

long live the grateful dead

[@2FRESH-4U]

Rest In Peace Jerry the world was never the same without you

[@coreysautter1335]

i almost got kicked out of college for painting a mural of Jerry in my dormitory the night he passed. didnt help that the spray paint set off the alarms at 3 in the morning and the whole building had to evacuate 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mannyjackson1048]

The 🎶DEAD🎶 WERE ONE AND ONLY. MISS THEM DEARLY.

[@joshdesmond968]

RIP Uncle Jerry!

[@starangel123deluca-harbour4]

LOVE❤️⚡️💙 Jerry💫💫💫 Always in our Hearts💜NFA🌟!!!⭐️ Star123⭐️

[@hallucinati]

Its amazing how the chili peppers commented on his death on august 9, 1995.

[@Type-zg8mu]

I miss Jerry Garcia

[@mr.apollo5609]

Just listen to Weens song so long Jerry 😥 best song to remember him by

[@patswayze7359]

As I get older the more I realize the good do die young😊

[@JohnClarke808]

RIP Jerry

[@checkpointchecky9665]

I remember that day I was like 27 years old😅

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

That's kinda fckked up to mention the whole 27 thing dude

[@joeyattaway756]

He was only 53!!! What!! I forgot about how young he was.

[@StaceyMacQuinn-vc6fo]

❤❤❤I miss him😢

[@justinmcgonigle5587]

53? Wow Jerry….❤️

[@williambotner2317]

Miss u

[@Karmalize]

Alison Stewart! Brings joy to WNYC too :)

[@Goatchild90]

R.I.P. Jerry Garcia

[@lewislocklear1629]

Now that I am 67 Hair , and beard lot whiter Have a lot people tell me I could be his twin My only claim to fame R. I. P Jerry

[@dkonciousblkfemknightman]

I remembered as a kid when he died .didnt know a lot about him till i got older and thats when i got into Grateful Dead...

[@dprice81]

same. I listened to a crappy studio album as a teen and thought they were terrible as a result. But two people I knew both told me they were deadheads and caused me to checkout a live show on KZbin. Been hooked since

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

He was the love of my life + he loved me because he told me when I was with him ! So he told me he came looking for me but went to the wrong island of Stoneington Maine ! He said he enjoyed himself because to them folks they didn’t know him so that was great for him so he stayed there for 2 weeks ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹😢😥😰🥵🥶😶‍🌫️🥰😍😘🪽🕊️💀☠️👽🪐🚀💥⚡️🌟☄️🪽Angel wing !

[@vicvega3614]

You knew Jerry?

[@danielosullivan3110]

Heroin, cigarettes, cheeseburgers, ice cream 😂❤ love this guy. No apologies ✌️🚬

[@stk931]

Anything else you would like to add?

[@nathantorres8951]

Everybody has their flaws nobody fucking perfect specially with having the weight of 100,000s of thousands of peoples life’s on your shoulders people that had nothing else in there life still had Jerry an the Grateful Dead to call home image being the “leader” of that

[@SEPHICHI420]

7:39 This kid was checking his emails 😂 That's kind of trippy to hear in such a gritty old video from 1995. 😮He even looks more like a modern day hipster than a 80/90's hippy. Crazy world yeah?

[@Themarynewman]

Happy that those are able to boogie with Dead & Company and have a good time. However, it also seems that the mega-arena corporate scene has never been so invasive as it is now. The whole scene, shakedown, everything feels rather corporate. I love the fact that the band wants to play on & I absolutely adore these guys. But the scene is so far removed even from the arena scene in the late 80's and early 90s. (loved Furthur). What a long strange trip it's been.

[@chadheydt8221]

💔💜💔

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

I remember when I was Jerry Garcia

[@phil.d-roll6393]

🌹❤️‍🔥

[@tomdietz6210]

After hearing the mideval description I say its not the end of the dead. there will be another name and they will carry on

[@jarrettschauer6404]

bbq you are unique bro

[@dafug8896]

fuck man I had to stop at 7 min mark to stop the tears and I only got on the bus in 01

[@mannyjackson1048]

Watching this put a tear to my eyes. 🌴✌🌴✌🌴✌🌴

[@ARDG89]

6:10 wow 😍

[@Weedeater58]

Horde festival 95 was in Old Orchard Beach at the ballpark, not Portland. Cool footage though.

[@doodahman2995]

I was there. Remember the rain storm and the mud in the ballpark. Oh no wait, that was FurthurFest 96 .

[@Weedeater58]

@@doodahman2995 fuzzy memories...

[@davidmotlagh9779]

What a great guy. He should have been PRESIDENT 😊

[@ryanfoghat1962]

Anyone know what show is playing in the backround at 2:36 jerry is ripping

[@mannyjackson1048]

First show i saw them was at the Fillmore East in 1968 when they we're promoting their Anthem of the Sun album. I was 13. Here i am 68 years old now living in S.E. Asia and i miss those guys like theirs no tomorrow and always will. Their music today is as good and as progressive as it was back then. If the World could except peace love flowers and possive harmony. That would be how it should be. Peace up all you 🎶Grateful Dead fans World wide🎶. 🌴✌😃🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️😃✌🌴

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

u can tell some of the ppl being interviewed are trippin BALLS dude😅

[@robertking7269]

At least check out the last minute when Spud and Dawg nail the thrill is gone

[@wealthyvagabonds1779]

5:59 "He touched so many people, and he touched me"😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 That's criminal

[@kenneth6044]

Mississippi half step up town toodaloo

[@AlienTrees]

24:11 "Beavis and Butthead are not role models."

[@newusernamehere4772]

Lol they had to put that in the intro bc parents kept using the TV as a babysitter and then complained to MTV for being a bad babysitter

[@davidmotlagh9779]

That's hilarious. I lived my life like a Beavis 😅

[@ghostwriter1415]

@@davidmotlagh9779 me too! \m/

[@ghostwriter1415]

@@newusernamehere4772 do you remember the first advisory? I can't remember it either, but it was something, "there not even real, but made up by some crazy guy from Texas", and proceeds to "discredit" Mike Judge and the show even further! Rock on bro! \m/

[@peterbetts858]

@@ghostwriter1415 thats hilarious .

[@johnstoner666]

“Beavis and Butthead are not role models”

[@jarrettschauer6404]

slim heroin is bad is hippieness a word?

[@TheCat1dog]

He was busted in 85 not 87

[@richardhincemon]

The Grateful Dead were busted in 1970 and Gerry García was busted starting in 1973 and other incidents.

[@howardrobinson4938]

What are the Dead Heads gonna do now? Go see Grateful Dead cover bands... naturally.

[@charlesshepherd2004]

Hell no. Just spin records and be kinda sad inside. What can ya do, you know? Every Dead cover band I've seen sucks. That's a fact. No one comes close.

[@vicvega3614]

​@@charlesshepherd2004have you heard the dead with John Mayer? If not go check it out, pretty f cking good

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Is low fat frozen yogurt really ice cream though?

[@starangel123deluca-harbour4]

Not really, they flashed that flavor during the documentary, but there is Cherry Garcia Ice cream by Ben & Jerry’s...they showed the yogurt version...🤗❤️⚡️💙NFA⭐️

[@Unfluencer]

theyre even better now with john mayer!

[@doodahman2995]

Said noone ever.

[@wantabeu2ify]

Troll

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

wrong. troll BTCH.

[@dshehiHonestTune]

… Beavis & Butthead are not role models.

[@charlesshepherd2004]

The fans of the late 80s and early 90s... Turned me off to this band. What got my attention was an article I came across about the "Wall of Sound", then I took them serious. These unshowered assholes just wanted to party

[@vicvega3614]

Imagine the smell at those shows 🤢🤮 but when they were tight they were the best band on earth. Never played a song the same way twice, pretty unique

[@williambotner2317]

This piece kind of sucks

[@buttcheeksproductions]

I’m not crying, you’re crying

[@davedavid7061]

I used to mock these fake hippies.

[@jackson9282]

A hero in your own mind.

[@starangel123deluca-harbour4]

And NOW you...dance and sing along ❤️⚡️💙NFA⭐️

[@davedavid7061]

@@starangel123deluca-harbour4 It took me picking up the guitar about 3 years ago to get into them

[@Dollsteak69]

They weren't hippie. They were Deadheads.

[@mannyjackson1048]

No better jam band with style.

[@stevenanthony9563]

I’ll tell you where most Dead Heads went in one word….PHISH❤

[@stevenanthony9563]

And they COMPLETELY changed the Phish scene forever. Not necessarily in a good way either

[@user-hh9qs8tc1s]

Well of course we went to PHISH,they are a great band.I did the Dead from 1981 to 1995,Phish from 97 till now.

[@stevenanthony9563]

@@user-hh9qs8tc1s yes they are my guy. Every inch the heart and soul of The Dead. Just more loose these days and not as tight…bliss-y and melodic with the occasional ingestion of darkness regurgitating black light.

[@mannyjackson1048]

Its a shame how so many good musicians died from smack.