The Beach Boys & The Grateful Dead - Okie From Muskogee (Live 1971)

This is from a live performance at the Fillmore East on April 27th 1971. Pretty cool to hear these two essential American bands share the stage together, if only some video from the show existed. Enjoy this awesome cover of Okie, both bands absolutely kill it.

[@waynesoojian3961]

I was at this show. My 16th birthday. $3.50 for a ticket in the second balcony. Seven hours from the New Riders open til the encore. Wow.

[@levibarton9707]

Lucky!

[@petestaint8312]

Awesome! 👍

[@hannahs1683]

Amazing, that’s so cool!

[@JenniferAdkins-ue6es]

What a prize!!!

[@pleun315]

Lucky sumbitch 😂

[@Shivaho]

I Have a Cassette from the Beach Boys Playing in Syracuse at the Manley Field House & mention getting to play with them the week before...

[@AprilShowers1955]

This is new to me! Absolutely love it! Wasn’t aware the BB’s did country especially with the GD! This is absolutely awesome! Only wish they had done at least one country album!😊❤

[@colepepper43]

Mike Love of The Beach Boys actually recorded a full country album in 1978, called Country Love. It was never officially released but you can find it on youtube

[@AprilShowers1955]

@@colepepper43 Thank you! Will try and find it! Can’t understand right now why it was never released! They should have done a few of these albums because they are really fantastic with country too!

[@jonhenson5450]

So cool, the obviously different backgrounds could turn in it off a minute, and just rock out

[@daltonagre]

Here in Brazil, I like this video.

[@annakutschewa4567]

Mein Respekt gilt auch dieser😮 hervorragenden Plattform mit ihren guten Mitarbeitern, die solche Schätze ausgraben und bewahren...

[@clarencebonner1523]

I bet that really screwed with the heads of those tripping in the audience.

[@lukehall8151]

acid is such a sweetheart; this is actually one of the most glorious songs on acid. It makes you feel like such a simple person, proud of your place in the world.

[@lukehall8151]

Plus, the fact that Jerry is playing guitar and they're singing about "white lightning": funny linguistic-alchemical transmutations always happen when the dead play traditional songs.

[@waynesoojian3961]

FYI, I was tripping in the audience for this show. It was my 16th birthday. Some kid from Jersey. Didn’t bother me at all. I spent $3.50 to see the Dead. I saw the New Riders, the Dead, and The Beach Boys. Seven hours of the best music you could imagine. Oh yeah, my dad grounded me for a month when I walked in at 6:30 am.

[@petershulman4024]

@@waynesoojian3961 I'd say you earned it

[@pleun315]

Awesome performance ❤❤

[@user-xu4ow3bu6f]

Of the several songs they did together that night this is the best along with Johnny B Goode which follows. The Beach Boys individual performances of Good Vibrations and I get around where terrible, and the two band version of Help Me Rhonda is an absolute disaster. Love both bands and listen to them everyday, and just making an honest assessment about what was good and bad that night. This song just works on every level and Help Me Rhonda would have if they had rehearsed it

[@sivartkralc7609]

This just made my day🤣

[@GaryMarshallellis]

This Is a collaboration I would have never dreamed of... I read the only Merl Haggard song done at Wood Stock was the Grateful dead doing mamma tried... The Dead doing this song not a surprise, But the beach boys?????? It is nicely done, by two great bands... Check out predivorce paranoia, and girls weren't design to pump iron, a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll... 21 songs i wrote..

[@antebellumstage]

The beach boys had a hippie/ cool phase in the early 70s. Lasted from about 1970-1974. Their music from this era is cherished among fans as their golden age.

[@GaryMarshallellis]

@@antebellumstage Favorite Beach boys. songs.. Surfer girl, Good Vibrations, Help me Rhonda..... But I never met a Beach boys song I didn't like... I have a greatest hit c.d. 30 songs but it is still missing 4 hits....

[@wakeoftheflood2]

Garcia loved the Beach Boys, he championed them when the public and the record companies were basically shunning them.

[@GaryMarshallellis]

@@wakeoftheflood2 The beach boys own the songs of summer.... Not even the Beatles can do that.... The beach Boys were all over the radio in 1963 and threw my teens.... I was a rocker watching, the Johnny cash show, the Glenn Campbell good time hour, Hee Haw... I was destine to be in a country oldies band.... I know every song on the oldies channel, and almost every song on Willies road house.... I am blessed with music.. You tube is as close to fame as i ever got.... Shake it sugary....

[@ronsaunders7294]

@@antebellumstage the unreleased Smile, Smiley Smile, Friends and Surf's Up are all very hippy influenced albums

[@LudiCrust.]

Gawd I love the sound of Jerry Garcia playing that there geetar 😮‍💨

[@veggiedisease123]

SoCal, Norcal, and Central California together as one.

[@jacksonshelby2460]

I love this

[@johncollins7062]

The bravest sailor in American history, Ernest Evans. - For years I have told a self deprecating explanation of how we Okies deserved our 'Grapes of Wrath' depiction. Steinbeck was right. Paul Harvey and Will Rogers took so much out of the Oklahoma intelligence pool, their was not much left for the rest of us to share. Because I came back to Muskogee just to graduate a 'Rougher', and I had just told this anecdote for the hundredth time, I wondered, on my drive home, if the two biggest things Muskogee was known for could only be the father of the Brady Bunch and Girl Scout Cookies. Certainly there had to be more. As I scanned the Wikipedia list of 'Notable People', as former radio broadcaster, I knew Chubby Checker was not from Muskogee. I clicked on the 'blue' citation and discovered the truly forgotten hero, Commander Evans. Because their stories are so similar, my inquiry grew to naming the 'Taffy Three Memorial' football stadium and renaming Muskogee High to Commander Ernest Evans High School; which also included changing the equally eponymous Checotah High to 'Paul Henry Carr High School'. There is no sensible reason why Checotah High can be located on Paul Carr Drive and not be named for Gunners Mate 3rd Class Paul Henry Carr. The ground swell is so slight in Muskogee you wouldn't be able to see it from the back of a horse.

[@chadgilmore5046]

Central Park 1971 you can find the video of them singing this live and in colour.

[@Seoulsmoke]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2jbZX2XYtqVjdk well worth watching to feel the era and a great testament to how much better Phil Lesh is on bass than about anyone, even on a song he probably learned on the fly and played just once live

[@derekbullene3834]

I love the way that's sound's ohh yah friend 🐸 Derek your friend

[@jarredbahr1714]

Love ya, Derek. Have a great day!

[@mcaivano581]

Is that Billy Graham on the far right?

[@jamesriendeau128]

Yes

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Yup. Counting dollars in his head.

[@gradyh9871]

Cool

[@MrJansj1958]

Have it on a boot cd.

[@ivansbacon]

Awesome, a song that is pretty much a negative commentary about the hippies, performed by hippies and suffers. That say so much about the open mindedness of the group of people that were derided by another group of people.

[@astroworms]

This is so funny

[@sprancho669]

Crazy to think this really happened and has not been AI generated. Who would have thought?

[@ThePageNo1]

Is that Mickey on the sax?

[@pleun315]

No its Hillary 🎉

[@cozmcwillie7897]

I'm puzzled as to why they'd sing these lyrics without sending them up. I must be missing something. Had the sheriff & his deputies just walked into the theatre?

[@CthuluRisin]

What you're missing is a sense of humor. And you don't change The Hag's lyrics without asking permission

[@cozmcwillie7897]

@@CthuluRisin Yeah, would it have qualified as humor if I'd written that I imagined the band began playing this song when a 'redneck' sheriff & deputies walked into the theatre? After briefly looking looking into the song in Wikipedia, it seems that it was parodied by quite a few people (one stands out for a closer look- Chinga Chavin's "Asshole from El Paso"): although it doesn't mention if Merl Haggard's permission had been given to any; contrary to your opinion.

[@wiltedjourneys]

It’s because it’s funny. Even if police had walked into the theater, I’m not sure playing this song would’ve obscured what was actually going on 😂

[@brianduffy2361]

For John Bonck & his Retirement !! Thank you and trust the science!! “And White lightnings still the biggest thrill of all”.