Grateful Dead - Sugaree

[@AliIKarimi]

This song always conjures the strangest images in my mind: girls I've broken up with, friends I never see anymore, the fall of Saddam Hussein. The song is both cowardly and powerful, in some ways optimistic in others negligent, it is contemplative and yet arrogant. Like all the best Dead songs, it can become the soundtrack to your life - on your best days and your worst.

[@twotams1532]

Fukkin agree

[@MRFUCR]

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[@cxm2687]

This must have been an awesome show/set....I've seen some other great jams from this show floating around

[@stephanlarsen8169]

You're phawkin phunky righteousness. Looks.waht it jah.conjiured I Man no hear.no crazy.no crying shed no.tears.phor I Man.. just love you bridda Jah love I Walk with i.talk.wid I I shall.walk down through the valley of the shadow of.death don't hav no mercy I Jah. phear nuh.evil spread.the light.and lay da love down thick and phat. One.step.forward, two step backwards and then.we.die . remember the.ancients.ancestors.indigenous brother.sister mother.father Gaia friends we have Lost.and good.friends we have. Okay now I.glad trod on trod along

[@salvadorferrandopujades1266]

F

[@ToldAlthea]

We were lucky people. I am a self described fake dead head who saw them 35 times. This music got me through some REAL REAL tough years. Through all the turmoil, sickness, death --and just the regular shit that life throws at us. It just brought me "up" Gave me something to look forward to. Isn't that what we all need ? Just something simple to look forward to ? Well --THEY were it for me. Still are.....

[@nukkastyle]

+wuss81 Amen. All the best to you bud!

[@armandoolivares9814]

That's it! Uplifting stuff. Joyous!

[@JasonDebly]

wuss81 Yes! The music of the Grateful Dead is uplifting even though the lyrics are often melancholic and the mournful at times. Jerry's upbeat, resilient and non-judgmental spirit resonates with us.

[@DennisCampbell777]

Morbid at times. El Paso, Me and my uncle.

[@JasonDebly]

Dennis Campbell Yes, many of the themes in their songs are dark, yet the music is somehow uplifting. A good example is Morning Dew, Friend of the Devil and Sugaree. All great mournful songs!

[@wangson]

Hands down, my absolute favourite version of Sugaree ....it's recorded and performed just perfectly!! And I thought that Jerry's first solo was.....oh man!....then I heard where he went with the 2nd solo.....

[@davidmaslow399]

Just Wonderful!!!

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

May 22, 1977 is also pretty insane

[@abdoulayedabo7592]

10/16/77, Baton Rouge is also pretty sweet.

[@josephvengen9989]

Jerry's Sugaree solo from Egypt '78 is my choice of choices...... when he picks on that one note for 2 minutes straight and then bends up even higher..... really love that!

[@wangson]

@@josephvengen9989 I know exactly which part you're talking about!

[@edmundcarrington4719]

His solo is absolutely wild - could watch this over and over and never get tired of it.

[@wangson]

+Edmund Carrington I KNOW!!! man alive is he ever ROCKING on this one! i loved his first solo, but then came along the second one and it just blew me away!! so damn lovely!

[@photoslum]

i love when he does that!!!

[@dominickmicale5413]

that's jerry for you brotha :)

[@heinrichhellgrafson835]

mir geht es heute noch so

[@johndrotar8346]

NEVER CAN GET TIRED OF ANY jERRY SOLO

[@olbrantz10]

What really is amazing is this is one of the better sugarees out there and it's on film.

[@aliciakenerley2119]

My dear friend of 41 years just shared this with me. We saw the Dead 41 years ago, Spring of 1980. I love being teleported back to that beautiful Summer. I was blessed to make a friend for life!

[@jimfladwood4393]

I’m 74 years now and miss the time’s and talent of the past. Especially the Grateful Dead😢💔💜✌️☮️ Thank you for the post ❤

[@theamazing39]

Great concert. I was lucky to be there.

[@evelyngill5134]

One of my favorite bands Jerry Garcias vocals and his sweet melodic guitar playing. I could listen to this all day long .❤

[@baronsonics]

im crying this is so good

[@josevillarreal9920]

Ball it! Just don't tell on me.

[@ladyttoesmcgee5106]

Just heard it for the first time yesterday ☺️🎸🎹🥁

[@nhogendorp3856]

My first time i heard the dead in rockpallast more than 35 jears ago and addictit to this song and band forever. Heard it now more than 1000 times and cant get enough of it. What a band and jerry forever in my memories ❤

[@PMH5001]

That’s the spirit…

[@uliwagemann8399]

same for me !

[@MrJylong]

A magic night with Sugaree, Althea & Grateful Dead...I´ll never forget...

[@wangson]

oh man! they played sugaree too? what an amazing show!

[@lindarobison7830]

I miss him. Nobody can do what he did with the heart an soul

[@charliehaa]

I really miss jumping from shoe to show what wonderful times they eeere great people great music I'm 52 now and still cherish those timed

[@williewhite7065]

wouldnt the world be a better place if we could just go back to listening to great music and partyin

[@grouperhooper]

Me too, but it’s with Perpetual Groove that make the magic happen whilst playing. I dig the Dead, but us youngsters associate more with Perpetual Groove and their ability to keep everything LIT!

[@teresagross2306]

This was a old favorite of mine & my HS sweetheart,, we would kick back , lay back after school & listening to this song & others off this Grateful Dead Lp.. a million times & more..I will never forget this..& we had some of the best memories together in the 70’s… listening to music wherever l were.💕🎶💕🎶

[@williamchristian8389]

Fantastic!! I just love Sugaree, one of the best songs ever!!

[@dominickmicale5413]

i love everything in the world jerry. but this has to be some of his absolute best work ever.

[@marceibel1131]

This is masterful.. Heard this first, when i was 13 years old.. I nearly cried, how beautiful it was..Miss this time..

[@greatesttoysevermade3693]

This would bring a tear to a glass eye, superb!

[@wangson]

what a great solo! he's on fire here!

[@christopherarmitage1030]

The band sounds spot on. Even Jerry's vocals and the backup vocals sound as good as they ever did.

[@anthonynasti1783]

Top 5 version, hands down. Jerry is all over it. The drummers are also really locked in here, and also throughout the whole show. This is the top show of 1981, which is a supremely underrated year (for me personally, it's the best post-1977, pre-1989-90 year).

[@herbythechef7624]

1987 was also a fantastic year. Jerrys voice rough after the coma but his guitar playing made up for it

[@wangson]

Phil shows up here too!

[@tjenks1st]

I just met a guy who is in his forties and he reminded me about this song. Now it's our song

[@Feedurehed]

+theresa jenks Sweet song....lucky guy.....x

[@herbythechef7624]

Phil lesh after 3rd verse. Totally groovin while everyone else is mellow. He was the man.

[@darinhill3773]

No argument with that. The Phil zone was always there, regardless of anything else.

[@mikecurtis389]

Jerry " follow me I know the way" and he so often did...

[@TheSkuns]

Still puts on a fine show

[@Rockstarstatus420]

We need more Love, Peace, and Grateful Dead in this world we live in today 😎 ✌

[@Yourlastnerve]

❤

[@caseylou5377]

Straight fire. Possibly the best Sugaree.

[@wangson]

my favourite!

[@johncarden8985]

This went out live all over Europe. The BBC broadcasted it here in the UK. I recorded it from my radio onto my cassette recorder.

[@PMH5001]

Indeed that’s what I did here, I remember the sound on the radio simultaneous with the picture on BBC2. Then about 15 years later I found a pirated VHS tape with horrible sound. After another ten years I found some more of the footage on the net, spliced them together and then replaced the sound with my original cassette recordings that had spent most of their lives in the glove compartment of various cars. Had to adjust the speed of the film faster to sync with the soundtrack, so it’s not perfect. But not bad either, at the time. However you can now find the whole show on YT with pretty good sound.

[@johncarden8985]

@@PMH5001 I think the radio and the TV sound gave you stereo? This Sugaree is great, see how Weir and Lesh are involuntarily dancing to the sound.

[@PMH5001]

I may be mistaken, but I don’t think TV was broadcast in stereo in the UK until about 1986. In any event, I was staying with my parents that night and they certainly never had anything stereo for another twenty years. So I watched it on their TV and also had a ghetto blaster the size of a suitcase which included a stereo tuner and cassette recording. Probably I connected the line out socket straight to the mic socket, I really can’t remember. Anyway, that’s what you’re listening to here.

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Nice Jah Herb Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters Jah Trey Jah Duane Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I Jah

[@freakypete8421]

me too, it was on the tv for an hour or so. then an all night jam with bob marley and the who. was the first time i heard them live. went to the show in edinburgh in sept on their opening night of the next leg. tripping my tits off with the most beautiful woman in scotland we hitched from aberdeen and a bunch of mates were there.. a night to remember. show can be found on internet archives.

[@TolyTheTolerBear]

This was AWESOME!!!

[@sagarpokhrel5357]

i used to watch this whole show every night at dinner

[@sammack1564]

Then I think you'd enjoy this new 4k version. Clarity is off the rails! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnLEeGxrbq92d6M

[@wangson]

NICE!! Perfect dinner music man!

[@jimfladwood4393]

I miss the time’s and talent of the dead! I would not trade the time of my life and heart for the past....☮️ AMAZING ❤

[@pondus5002]

The most powerfull musikvideo I have ever seen !!!!! I remember I taped it and I still have it, one off the best solos off Jerry, fantastick !!

[@davidgonzales6749]

My favourite Dead version of Sugaree, I wish I would have seen them live.

[@leonardsanchez6547]

i like it more than ever

[@sagegoodwin1]

Great performance! A+++

[@bethosting4488]

You can say I am a old deadhead saw Jerry's last show in Chicago. Which was amazing I have had some of the best times of my life at there concerts with all my friends it will be a time I will never forget. I feel I was so blessed to see the dead in there prime Just want to say thank you for such great music that I still enjoy

[@MrWallybones]

I've watched three times now and all I have to say is Holy enchilada! Great sound.

[@PMH5001]

Thanks again!

[@GratefulZen]

Jerry Garcia- Master of timing & dynamics!

[@marieladaza9060]

we saw them in phoenix az comptom terrace in 1988 it was the best concert of our lives, god bless jerry,s soul

[@GrantKloulubak-bf7bm]

Just love this song great performance

[@wangson]

holy cow!! that really could be his best solo i've ever heard!! lovely! and weirdly fast for this song!

[@carlossolano226]

The powerful Grateful Dead...!

[@jimfladwood4393]

I miss Jerry, I think this is the best version that Jerry did on this one! Thank you for the amazing post. R.I.P. to the members gone 💔☮️🙏🎶👀😌

[@jimfladwood4393]

I printed album covers for Grateful Dead. As a lithographer they were amazing and my favorite too work with!! Must have been all the, COLORFUL colors ❤☮️😊🎶

[@PMH5001]

My pleasure, and very glad you enjoyed it.

[@jimfladwood4393]

@@PMH5001 Thank you 😊

[@srgbuffalobuffalony7112]

I love this! Sound is incredible. Thank you!

[@jimmyoliver3141]

Wife passed she love this, 34 years together ,I'm lost

[@PMH5001]

@@jimmyoliver3141 I am very sorry to hear that. Words can’t say. But I think of Box Of Rain. Keep strong, friend.

[@marysuewardell516]

The loss is so great. No words can express that sorrow, but still your simple words expresses it. I’m sorry. Live on, I think she would’ve wanted that. And when our time comes for whoever goes on first I hope I can heed my own words. May God bless you in your sorrow and keep you tight

[@venyerniu939]

May the fond memories of your loved one bring you comfort during this time of sorrow. Sending you a big hug.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I’m so sorry I’ve lost to many but Jerry was the hardest on me because of the love 💕 we had for eachother !

[@bethbockus1395]

Jerry, Bob , and the Guys! Masters

[@markv2811]

Thank you❤

[@PMH5001]

My pleasure, glad you like it. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@PMH5001]

Glad you liked it, one of my faves indeed.

[@josevillarreal9920]

Good Audio! Best sounding version put up, thanks.

[@pondus5002]

I have this konsert on a VHS kopi from the original konsert. One of the best performens of this band

[@TantraForLife]

It's just so good! So incredibly good!!

[@BDB78]

The guy was plugged into the heavens themselves!

[@jimfladwood4393]

There will never be another great man like Jerry 💔

[@benicetoanimals8471]

One of my top dead songs, what a treat! And who’s the only band to see live more than ten times?

[@wangson]

Agreed man! And this version? It's divine!

[@gregorythomas2674]

1981 was a fine year overall. The more i hear the more exceptional it is. Jerry really dug in on solos and the whole band seemed to follow. Saw them in 1979 but then missed these years and by 90s these long explorations were over. Still great music but nothing like 1981...or this Sugaree! ⚘🎸✌

[@andrewptob]

Best Sugaree ever. Brent's keys lend something extra too

[@nellienelson2111]

This is a out there

[@wangson]

It really is the Best Sugaree that I've ever heard.

[@mikecurtis389]

Brent andJerry fit together like two pieces of a puzzle, in their playing one leads the other then switch and blends magically.

[@jtracy8412]

I love this guy

[@thelatenightbar]

fantastic.. thanks for sharing !

[@PMH5001]

My pleasure entirely.

[@MrRatherino]

best version...

[@phillinnan.1299]

I love this 😂❤😂 never stop forever 😂😂😂❤️👍so good 😂

[@Feedurehed]

Joyous......Joyful..........Joy..........ENJOY

[@jimfladwood4393]

I’m old now but the music treasure from the Grateful Dead makes it Ok 👌☮️🤔 PEACE ☮️

[@GammaNu955]

Amazing

[@clarkewi]

Love this song.

[@franksessions4346]

Love you Jerry

[@evelyngill5134]

I wish i knew someone who had the heart and soul of Jerry and the talent to play guitar.❤

[@dlbstl]

Check out Toni in the Reine del Cid group. They did this song proud, and Toni makes her guitar sing 🎸

[@nickbyers26]

Would give both nuts to see this show no doubt

[@nukkastyle]

+nick byers Agreed.

[@peterhollom7520]

The whole show, and with decent sound quality, is now on KZbin. No need to donate your nuts, but good of you to offer...

[@jms-wo7dm]

I’d give ‘em to be at the acid tests!

[@herbythechef7624]

if there were a show i could go back and see it would be this one

[@NicholasOsella]

Often, I'll find myself coming back to these songs of Freedom that are played by Jerry and his friends. They're not anything special, maybe written during particularly great days or sung through moments of desperation. Although, whenever I hear them, I'm reminded of how quietly momentous our each and every decision can be in order to see our lives blossom. Confined only by our wildest and boundless desires...(Nick, 5/11/2024)

[@robie.v5164]

We are lucky we had Jerry as long as we did,he could of gone sooner like Janice,Jimi Hendrix,on and on,Godbless the Dead got me through many hard days.Thank You ❤️ peace ✌🏻 balloons 🎈 🐻 long strange trip.

[@jimfladwood4393]

The Grateful Dead’s music 🎶 will stand the test of time! Bob Weir and Jackie Green did a remake of Sugaree. It’s amazing.!☮️😊👌👌🙏

[@jciazza1]

Best Sugaree ever goes to Hartford CT , 7/80 at the Bushnell . Hard to find , but well worth the effort . Blows this away , and that's saying something !

[@simplemanstan7826]

I can't seem find a show from Hartford in 1980, you wouldn't happen to have any links would you? I love me some early 80's Sugaree.

[@NickBigsmoke]

nonsense! this is by far the best version

[@wangson]

yes. jerry; s two solos are hotter than fire!

[@ericcigna8951]

They're all great. #gdfam

[@brkfstchmp]

May 26 1977 in Hartford is my personal favorite

[@nukkastyle]

Jerry looking like a badass as usual.

[@OldEMGStrat]

had to visit today this site in honor of the last shows in Chicago and the band I spent a lot of time being entertained by the GD vinyl albums and hours of playing along stealing Jerry's licks and a few shows not always the best technically, but still a major musical and social influence.

[@michaelluther123]

I went and saw these guys outside of Austin and I was trippin so hard I could hear the sound of wind passing by my ear louder than them.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Is it odd that I know that exact feeling?

[@alana9832]

Ah the good ole days trippin' the light fantastic!

[@1cshearer]

Great.love it!!!!

[@stevenhashim1417]

A Friend of the Devil Love the dead they let me spin round and round and make me float. Maybe I better take another toke :) sit in my chair,close my eyes sing-a-long and smile. Whether it's shouting it out to,Fire on the Mountain or singing,you know you got such dark eyes Woooo.... Shaking it up with Sugaree and asking her to please forget she knew my name or telling Bertha Don't you come around here any more. I could always get a little dizzy spinning round and round with the girl that has rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes... I knew right away she was not like the other girls. Or go Trucking with the do-dah-man what a long strange trip it's been... become the Ripple singing let there be songs to fill the air. Feeling so free,flying with the birds singing their songs...tell me all that you know. Hiding out in a rock and roll band with Uncle Sam wave that flag...we're all confused,what to do. It Must Have Been the Roses got me so fallen in love... all I know is I could not leave her there. Feeling all melancholy Standing on the Moon watching the battle rage below. I watch it roll by, feeling the pain. So sometimes I feel like just Throwing Stones and singing ashes,ashes we all fall down or maybe go strutting with Cosmic Charlie... he's smooth as silk. But where ever I walk with Jerry and the boys I know they will ease my soul because there are So Many Roads. Written by Hashman

[@mikecurtis389]

Amen!!!

[@artbuo]

Really strong vocals on this and Althea.

[@davesher100]

Greatest guitar player ever. L

[@brittanymyers7552]

Hands down!!!

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Period.. Jah love Jah Jerry Jah rastafari praises blessings respectfully Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah

[@donkkong5551]

One of my Favorite Dead Tunes... Great version! Saw them with Mayer in the Fall in Philly and he really does a great job!!

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

+Don K Kong I agree!! Mayer does a great job with the band. I wz listening to Mayer, solo, covering Dead tunes and I dug it, really did. Then I saw him with the Dead and they were back on track, to me RIGHT ON!!!

[@donkkong5551]

Yea i always respected him as a player but never liked his attitude. I must admit i bought the Continuum Album and almost every track is good. I would go see his solo stuff in concert once. He pulled Jerry's tone and style of playing off really well i mean right down to the envelope filter. Rock on! I like your page you have a excellent taste in music. I am a old soul myself..

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Don K Kong Rock on! and thank you. Us 'old' souls gotta stick together I liked Mayers' music/talent, from the beginning, but then it was like, if you said you liked John Mayer, people walked away from you ...... really liked his quartet, was it? Thought their music was great. Obviously, the boys saw a good thing coming their way. I'd like to see how/where they're performing, now.......catch a show?

[@donkkong5551]

Ha ha, Agreed, Well better get moving at the rate the old guys are passing away these days, Bobby could be next? I gotta see Jeff Beck one more time before he croaks.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Don K Kong Jeff Beck, when (not the name of the record) The Pump came out, thaz all I listened to for about a year. I called for tickets at Ronnie Sott's , in NYC, they must've sold out in about 30 mins., the woman on the other end made me feel like I wz nuts asking for tickets. I'd love to see Steve Winwood! He looks so young, maybe he didnt do all those drugs, after all or clone those genes!!

[@jackstraw6760]

Well said Mr. Garcia, Bob Weir was right there with you.

[@lindarobison7830]

What cant talk....jerry is to flowin....MAGIC....woooooo

[@wdhpr625]

Excellent

[@jring3058]

Hard to say this is the best version of Sugaree, but I cant say its not either. I go into a flowing floating hypnosis when I listen to this version and dont want it to come to an end.

[@peterhollom7520]

Thanks for your comments. Saw Fare Thee Well at the Wimbledon Odeon on Monday. Loved it but felt very sad at the same time.

[@Steve-vy6kg]

Perfect.

[@davesher100]

Yes he's really blasting it.

[@davesher100]

Jerry at some of his finest guitar/vocal work. This is the stuff that made him a legend. Better than Hendrix. Better than Clapton. Better than anybody as far as I'm concerned. Still my go to man even though he's been dead 20 years. Great hair and beard style too. Bobby (Weir) does a very nice complimentary job too. Good all of them, sober, early 80's. Red rocks '82, '83. Auditorium theatre, Chicago, Stella blue, you coulda' heard a pin drop. Lock.

[@herbythechef7624]

I would say far from sober here but still awesome. Im sure they were flying high for this show. They played super fast that night. Also the who was there so they definitely partied.

[@andrewptob]

@@herbythechef7624 He definitely nods in the second set during a few songs. Far from sober indeed.

[@herbythechef7624]

@@andrewptob it was pretty well known they were all high during the early 80s you can see it in their performances and hear it in the music

[@krisenger4410]

Awesome! Jerry was the man.

[@hotfintuna]

Nice work!

[@suazot]

I think this is the best Sugaree with a close #2 at the Sportatorium in Florida. Nothing beats JG's solo's on this..sheesh the whole band was feeling that Gestalt linkage during the 2nd solo. To have the best Althea and Sugaree in one show though? Amazing!

[@Samuel-b]

Don't forget about 5/28/77.

[@tompoynton]

Samuel Black Yeah the Hartford version is utterly *savage*, 19 minutes

[@jg1576]

Man Jerry could play like a hero

[@johndrotar8346]

the greatest 9 finger lead guitar player EVER,,,,anyone else with 9 fingers,,would be lost,,but not Jerry

[@sammack1564]

Well Tony Iommi does all right too!

[@PasjaMusic]

Thank you camera man. God Bless

[@irishrootsbluesman7044]

I followed them for 30 years now I follow dead and co

[@michaelterranova8672]

Well done!

[@evelyngill5134]

My fav band my fav song❤

[@Birky_]

Weir and Garcia were groovin'

[@mbrand19971]

First Heard it done by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi which they did a amazing rendition at their live shows which brought me over to where the Dead did the original which was on a solo album Jerry Garcia released in 1972.

[@mikemccoy3430]

Tiger had such a tight, knife cutting through air sound. So different from Wolf.

[@edsmearman1879]

garcia had the midas touch with any instrument. when he said "anybody can play like me", the response was "where are they?"

[@williamchristian8389]

OMG!!!