My Uncle ~ Mexicali Blues - Grateful Dead - 10-31-1980 Radio City, NY set2-03

Oct 31st 1980, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Acoustic Set : The Grateful Dead had put down their acoustical instruments around 1970 ... only to bring them back up here in 1980. Initially, it was a 15 night stand at the Warfield Theatre, SF, Ca (Sept 25th to Oct 14th). Then a 8 night stand in New York City (Radio City Music Hall) from October 22nd to THIS Oct 31st concert which closed the whole thing. (You can find official recordings on "Reckoning" and an official Vault DVD for parts of this show). But it was indeed a delight to see to the boys play acoustic at the time !
Electric Sets : at the time, it was arguably "another" transitional period for the Dead. Many of "us" were STILL into the 1974-1978 mode and not yet onto par with the "Go To Heaven" LP songs like Shakedown, Don't Ease, Lost Sailor even Good Lovin' ! ... In retrospect though, this was a hot period too for the Dead. Great fun and new energy. Brent Mydland was just 1 ½ years into the band ...
And the band keeps rollin' on !
Some of the uploads come from the TV Simulcast and others from the official video.
Set 1 (acoustic)
introduction (with Phils bass amp fucking up !)
Heaven Help The Fool
Sage & Spirit
Little Sadie
Monkey & The Engineer
Must Have Been The Roses
Cassidy
Bird Song ~
Ripple
Set 2 (electric)
Jack Straw ~
Cold Rain & Snow
Me & My Uncle ~
Mexicali Blues
Ramble on Rose ~
Little Red Rooster
Brown Eyed Women ~
Looks Like Rain ~
Deal
Set 3 (electric)
Don't Ease Me In ~
Lost Sailor ~
Saint Of Circumstance ~
Franklin's Tower ~
drums ~ (not uploaded by Lolo)
space ~ (not uploaded by Lolo)
Fire On The Mountain ~
Not Fade Away ~
Stella Blue ~
Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad ~
Good Lovin'
encore : Uncle John's Band

[@jasondiablo7426]

love these songs, nothing like the Dead

[@obiwil]

Miss these boys too ....watched them from 1979 till 1990

[@MrOlib74]

giggle while i smile...can't get enough of this song...ever... i mean does it get any better than this?

[@stylianparthemos5245]

No, it doesn't

[@MrsDrGonzo1971]

Agreed, no it doesn't 😺

[@trishden]

omg! I was at this show and about 3 more nights before this. My friend would joke that we did this every night, driving into the city about an hour each way. It was a good young memory. My brother who drove all of us in a van & was the biggest deadhead has Alzheimer's now. It is sad, but bittersweet.

[@davidheiman8581]

I’m sorry about your brother. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s very sweet of you . I lost my brother way too young .

[@MrOlib74]

favorite tune of all time

[@hotajax]

Great song to latch on to

[@horwitch]

My favorite show of all time!!!

[@monopolymike1]

Uncle was most played. 605 times, that we know of.

[@DeadZeppelin822]

Followed by Sugar Magnolia, Not Fade Away, and China > Rider

[@waynej2608]

I know that I never tired of hearing it.

[@billbeliakoff5589]

I heard that it was "Mama Tried" but it wouldn't surprise me if it "Mexicali".

[@lilac321able]

i have seen over 175 shows..in my life,just hit me that Jerry had the best band ever to unleash his scales..yes I have heard Bob on a bad nite,but the other boys were always there

[@TheVideoBarron]

Best combo

[@marcelocm07]

LMAO @03:05 at that dude groovin' + bootlegging this show on his recorder... he then realizes he's on camera... his face is priceless.

[@MrOlib74]

answer is a resounding yes it just keeps on getting better!!!

[@kb9788]

Damn, Weir is fired up great version

[@patrickdelaney2299]

Love cowboy dead!

[@thelatenightbar]

Hell yeah. that was great. Thanks for sharing. !

[@aaronwimberleymbamsf5776]

classic & timeless & priceless=]

[@direwolf8124]

I've been in Mexico for a week and have jammed dead the entire time.

[@singersongster]

Me and My Uncle is best known by the Grateful Dead. Bob Weir had the voice to carry it over. John Phillips was so drunk when he wrote it he actually forgot that he wrote it. Joni Mitchell does a nice version, as does John Denver. So I listen to the altogether. Weir and the Dead. Joni Mitchell. John Denver. John Phillips. Then I cover my own version. I have never seen the Dead Live. I saw Bob Weir play with one of his bands and he did Uncle and it was great. Mexicali is great too.

[@ForbinColossus]

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[@stephanlarsen8169]

Real good shit. Acdc Pink t LED Zeppelin the stones who. Count never do cowboy music. I live in Tucson

[@MyMomo17]

Love this Bobby song.

[@Tummysticks315]

50 years of the dead!!

[@johnmichaelbarone2338]

timeless

[@MrOlib74]

this rocks mexicali blues

[@Travelin_Man]

Primo Bobby👌✌️

[@shipdog6]

😎 thanks #middaybluesbreak

[@joelalexander4513]

Not complaining - I just wish the horn lines were on a guitar, chorded out and pinched with fingerpicks. Love Mexicali Blues. My favorite Weir tune!

[@direwolf6234]

now go see joni mitchell's version on you tube from 1965 ..!!

[@mc.fancy.soul.5357]

✌💜

[@lindatheobald7789]

Mule sez---what an era----takes Mule back into simple daze @ GOOD fun--not great response to real life--YET it was real life to so many fine people

[@skybluebye]

Has a totally '80s feel.

[@joelalexander4513]

yeah, huh? lol

[@svenolley]

nice LoloYodel.

[@Pauwelaguy]

Great versions of both songs but the the hell filmed it? There is Jerry playing these long amazing solos and the cameraman has the back of the drummers head or Bob's shoulder. A few times you can see him play. Still glad to have the footage...

[@waynej2608]

Yeah, you'd think given the prime venue, the camera crew would not have done a fairly shoddy job of it. They ought to have more shots of Jerry wailing on lead, like you said. But, I also agree that both songs were kickass!

[@thomasmuscheck1987]

The boys learned well from the folksingers like Joni.. hoped they thanked her.. but probably not. Changed the traditional lyrics up nicely, too. We all should've been better people in the Sixties.. but we were having such a good time. No time for chivalry. Too bad. And so the story goes..

[@LoRentAssMan]

look at the crowd, the people on shrooms are all teh ones staring off into space with that blank look in their face... the people on acid are all the ones dancing their asses off with a big grin on their face. :)

[@HONORB0nd]

looks like jerrys about to pass out..

[@waynej2608]

Looked to me that he was sizzling on lead.

[@sbbudj]

Who is the stranger that he shot? Girls dad? Maybe her pimp? I just wonder who the stranger that rolled into town to take her... Either way killer tune.

[@skelter1153]

Wait. . . so he presumably killed his own Uncle, just for some stolen Gold ? Or was his Uncle wounded during the escape from the Cowboy shootout, and succumbed to the wound on the side of the road?

[@ForbinColossus]

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[@JayRiemenschneider]

That key sound just doesn’t work on the country tunes like Keith’s piano did

[@jamesmerrick7030]

Why do they keep playing the same song over and over again? German Exchange Student who got a Miracle!

[@direwolf6234]

'uncle' needed a verse about hookers (billie jean ??) so i wrote one: 'walked up to the cat house picked out a tart hung up my pistol she did her part as soon as my head cleared and i could think went back to that bar room for another drink and it was then that out good time began to sink ..'

[@BrandonMobley614]

Better with Bob and a simple drumbeat. Too complicated with the what, eleven members of the band?