The Grateful Dead 04/18/1970 Full Show

[@owenwilberforce6138]

Their folk roots come out so clear here. The sweetness of the music belied their irritation at Owsley, goofing up the pa duties. By ‘70 they were old hands who had got far out on the fringes of psychedelia and THEN turned around became the best little country blues outfit, west of anywhere. Showed CSNY how it could be done! Deep Elem here is so country blues it completely sounds different to what it became. They seem like they played constantly for the sheer love of it, and it makes sense how their fan base grew organically. They were jammers with cosmic soul, and comic grace too.

[@harrismulnick3188]

Just the best show from the west coast I ever heard! It is a magnificent example of what was going on in the year 1970! and so many shows were beyond great!....This one is so clear and just great music! The Dead were on....Ron was exceptional!!!!!!💥🌹👍🏻💥

[@FourWimdzS]

Song isn't from the show

[@mayolsen1942]

This show is amazing. The sound quality, comical stage banter, Jerry’s voice. Just so much goodness. Forever Gr8ful!!! ❤️⚡️💙

[@stacyblue1980]

One of the best shows I have ever heard. I cried when it started. That first one hits pretty close. Beautiful. Thank you.

[@mudslide_slim]

Made me cry too. It’s been a tough few months, finally got good news today and stumbled on this show. Feeling ever-more grateful. “March winds will blow all my troubles away”

[@mudslide_slim]

For another good acoustic set I’d also suggest 03/04/1981 @ Club Front, San Rafael, CA - no Pigpen (rest in peace), but you can feel Ron’s spirit shining through the band.

[@stephentmarksberry4484]

@@mudslide_slim I sat behind Pig for the first time I got to hear the band live. Jerry let me sit behind the amps. March of 1971. I met all of the guys in the band and Ramrod , also Bear , their sound man who dosed me with liquid acid from his murine bottle. I hooked up with Bears acid dealer and helped spread his acid . The money went to help build The Wall Of Sound. Hope you had an opportunity to hear it.⚡️🖖🏽⚡️

[@mudslide_slim]

@@stephentmarksberry4484 I’m in my twenties so I sadly never got to see the Dead in earnest. The closest I have is Deadeye, Austin’s cover band (I’ve seen D&co but the whole thing’s become far too commercialized for my taste). I love hearing people’s stories that got to be there, and be a part of the long, strange trip that the Dead led so many on. Thank you for sharing that with me!

[@deschutesmaple4520]

@@mudslide_slim Dear Fart, don't worry about never seeing them. I mean they were good, but a bit overrated to be honest. They became kind of a cult band by the 1980s, with a motley following. A lot of seedy dishonest 'deadheads' selling fake shit if you know what I mean. As with so many acts, it was good in the beginning but later became too popular and a lot of undesirables flooded the shows by the late 80s-early 90s.

[@edwardgonczy3170]

I saw them at Fillmore East one month to the day of this date. How lucky to have been alive at this point in time and to have witnessed what I did. I have lived 10 lifetimes in just this one.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Me too my friend of the Gratefuldead ! ❤️🐰🐇🕊️✌️🌹☠️💀⚡️🧖‍♀️😶‍🌫️🪽👽🪐🛸🚀Outerspace is very spacious !

[@scottmichaelawaken]

Amen!

[@tonycarmody5574]

Also saw them at Fillmore East, I was 14 yrs old, started young. 68 now, what a long strange trip it's been!!!

[@josephscionti4680]

This show was during my favorite Dead era (Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty) with their acoustic vibe. Love how they “introduced” “Friend of the Devil”and “Candyman” a little over 6 months before American Beauty was released. I only wish I was there to see this stunning performance in person! ❤️

[@ThadCashin-h5d]

To Whomever: "Grateful"ly appreciated for sure. Thank you much. Later, Peace ✌️

[@donaldgehre5964]

I attended a number of shows on the Great Highway. It was easy to do since I lived less than half a mile away on 46th eve. My studio costs $82 a month and I could have my dog taboot! The acoustics, since the place was so small, were excellent. The only gig I can recall was Garcia playing pedal steel and my friend Bob was doing the sound. Might have been...hahahahaha! Once In in a lifetime trips.

[@joblo6394]

Wow man, special times. 🙏🏼🤙🏼

[@GarlTsagan]

mustve been bob mathews

[@donaldgehre5964]

@@GarlTsagan It was Bob Musslewhite a school pal friend.

[@KenOatridge]

This was my hitch hiking tape in the 80s with my old Walkman. Used to get rides back then. Thanks for the road memories

[@hendrix1ish]

The sun will shine in my back door,stay kind and my heart is still with the Pen🌹🦩🌹

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I was in full bloom at this time , even went back to school to finish my diploma ! Done in 1972 went to London on our class trip ! First class to ever leave the USA ever ! Because of my love of the Beatles at an early age ! But I got the Dead fever in the 60 s !

[@dlm9293]

Gotta love those '70 acoustic "Rider's". Such a different vibe, so folksy and somewhat melancholy compared to it's electric counterpart. Beautiful set from my favorite year of the Dead

[@paulmaggiar2596]

Love the cumberland blues version, wish there were more of their acoustic stuff out there. Thank you.

[@AA-nt5qw]

What a GEM Classic Dead unplugged! Pure & True Thanks for the posting 🥰

[@squishybuffalo]

second show I've listened to today from '70 that was absolute bliss. God bless the Dead

[@johnskiotis5492]

I've definitely been sleeping on '70. Great shows.

[@dlm9293]

@@johnskiotis5492 some of the BEST, in my opinion. Definitely my fav year of the Dead

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Just u bless the Dead not god ! Jerry didn’t like god in a sense of the meaning of it ! I know this from him ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹😶‍🌫️🧖‍♀️✌️💕

[@yochevedbrachasimon4979]

This is such an awesome gem... a new take on GD music that I've heard for years. Real roots. TY

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I’m so greatful for all of this so much that I feel young again ! So long ago , I wish I could go back !?

[@namijnebruhtra7683]

I've just discovered this and I love it ❤

[@lesliedixon9225]

I may have been there this night, I went to the Family Dog ON the Great Highway many times in the early '70s. Also saw Commander Cody there

[@namijnebruhtra7683]

Excellent show 😊

[@larryluv8879]

I love the purity of this recording and that deep elm was in the turn of Black Peter was in California last week saw the 710 house Janis house for sale Hendrix house is a dog grooming house😢 the times they are a changing….Stopped by saw PIG lefted him some southern comfort now and forever……

[@ZephsVoid]

Love the harmonizing on Me & My Uncle, one of my favs

[@christophernash1846]

Could be my favorite me & my uncle ❤️

[@billc6087]

Ah, this was my era. So glad I lived in San Francisco then.

[@joefelice5062]

Never heard a set with Pig doing more than 2 or 3 solo songs. This is magic...

[@mattyhilts3163]

What a lovely little show 🤠

[@jerrys_middlefinger3360]

Thanks for sharing. Very Unique Show.

[@bunchotube]

This is killer. Such a cool version of me and my uncle! Thank you.

[@squishybuffalo]

instantly became one of my favorite versions

[@michaelcdupree2981]

Tasty! Thank you!

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Oh my this is the best my uncle I’ve ever heard ? This is so clear , perfect vocals ! 🤣😂❤️🐰🐇✌️🌹🕊️💀☠️🪽😶‍🌫️💕👻

[@peggy2360]

this is a fantastic show! if you love Pig, you're in for a treat

[@gratefulguy4130]

He doesn't get a fair shake these days. The Sirius channel don't even play his tunes on his birthday..

[@archstanton_live]

I love this show!!!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@geoffreyyoste45]

Good friend just forwarded it to me, 54 secs in I know!!!! Listen to this show 😎✌️

[@artphotovideo2011]

I am the copyright owner of this image that I took at this event

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

Oh wow, thank you so much! This is my first day on Earth!

[@cozmoruckaz]

Pigpen died on my birthday exactly 4 years before i was born. I always found that interesting. Great show.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

and this show is on my actual birthday…which is how I got here :)

[@edwardlafferty4216]

This show is magical fo sho!

[@michaelmoser4537]

i was born eight days later. (The sun will shine in my back door someday :-)

[@georgerebic1240]

This was also the era in which many of their family members died, Pigpen git sick, and the New Orleans bust. The bore up and kept going. Kudos to these life rangers

[@AraCod]

What a gem. Thank you for the upload.

[@davidmccaffery7977]

Acoustic brilliance

[@arthurking5612]

Don't think I ever heard the rub before thank you

[@crypttonite]

i like how it comes in on this verse, longer version is out there

[@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109]

love the acoustic me and my uncle

[@danosullivan7239]

Legendary!!

[@earledward5763]

I was there on one of the nights. There was not many people there because I believe Jimi Hendricks was playing at the Fillmore or somewhere in the city. Charley Musslewhite said that even though there was not many people we were going to have a hell of good time. That night the Dead were billed as Mickey Hart and the Heartbeats. It took a little while before the audience realized the it was the Dead on stage.

[@beachdog67]

I will continuing to attempt to set the record straight for however much longer I have breath. Regardless of what "official Dead archivists" who were not there may tell you, the name of the venue was "The Family Dog ON the Great Highway." We were located at 660 Great Highway, just north of Balboa and south of Sutro Heights. We were NEVER "Family Dog AT the Great Highway". Never. Just so you know.

[@CmonstoleCmonstole]

Now I can finally sleep.

[@beachdog67]

@@CmonstoleCmonstole LOL

[@dnablood2]

Prepositions prepositions

[@foresttemple1380]

Mahalo for that. Hey Jim Helms picked me up hitchhiking on the big Island recently..He said he was Jim Helms & I said..any relation to Chet..? Indeed..nice guy. 😊 He was younger than Chet , & did a lot of poster event stuff around SF ..helping in any ways he was able ..

[@parttime9070]

@@foresttemple1380 He is indeed Chets brother.. Worked with Jim in Kona for most of the 90's.. Nice guy..

[@Jvader15]

Arguably the best Candyman ever

[@lisica8458]

It's great, although I have always loved Keith's piano on the chorus.

[@mkp108]

This show, with more people on stage than in the audience, was the first time I ever heard Candyman. Couldn't get the song out of my head for weeks afterwards, so rich and soulful.

[@bighupp3081]

thank you

[@johnm3152]

sounds Family Dog friendly - golden stuff 😊

[@robertrindler2080]

Thanks for posting this! I went to college in San Francisco just east of the family dog by the beach. I saw the Dead there a few times in early 1970, I might have been at this one???

[@dlm9293]

Aww poor Pigpen had such stage fright. Ironic for him to have been such a commanding figure behind the microphone, with the full force of the band behind him. But these intimate acoustic sets seemed to have been his bane, as he had to be almost dragged out to perform a number or two. Great to hear him close the set with a handful of his blues renditions. Pig truly was the heart and soul of this incarnation of the Dead.

[@gratefulguy4130]

Or maybe Jerry was always the heart & Pig was always the soul

[@dlm9293]

@@gratefulguy4130 honestly I've always considered Pig as the balls of the band. In all seriousness, they were sort of like a neutered dog after he left, you still love em, but he's just not quite the same and DEFINITELY not as horny lmao. Peace brother ✌️

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Jerry was all of it but Pig was the blues man ! Didn’t live long enough ! I lost my 1 st husband to liver disease at the age of 50 ! We were great friends after the divorce plus I was the last one 1️⃣ to b with him the night before he died + he wanted me to sleep with him but I told him I had to get home to our daughter for the nite but I knew that was it for him + I didn’t want to wake up to a dead man that I loved all the years gone by ! This is y I left Jerry because I couldn’t stand to b with him dead when I knew he was going to die also ! I still cry over the love of my life known as Jerry Garcia who I fell inlove with the 1 st time I met him ! Going to the concerts I went do did no Justice after meeting him + all the rest of the Gratefuldead family ! I wish I stayed in there a little longer now 😢❤

[@haroldconner2645]

Exceptionally groovy

[@Sunshines771]

Love love this thank you God love always your Sunshine ✨

[@Charliemoore3684]

They never shouldve slowed friend of the devil down, this version kicks ass

[@skunk516]

Fuggin'Aaaa Pigpen ❤

[@TucumcariTimmy]

Psssst... The foist song here is: /"I Knows You, Rider".

[@jamesmack3314]

Amazing how they turned from a standard issue psychedelic band to this folk rock country band very impressive turn around thst basically saved their career if you think about it

[@namcat53]

They were always a "folk rock country band".

[@jamesmack3314]

@@namcat53 no they weren’t...started as a psychedelic rock band and you can say they were “ a folk rock country band”for only a brief period specifically 70-71

[@namcat53]

@@jamesmack3314 You missed their beginnings as a bluegrass/jug/folk/blues band. Look it up.

[@jamesmack3314]

@@namcat53 I am aware of their roots but no one really remembers that being a major part of their act earlier so it’s sort of inconsequential

[@direwolf6234]

most of the covers from the 1st album are folky country blues tunes that were 'electrified' ....

[@BubbaSimmz]

Lol. Dammit Bear! Gotta love shoutouts to Stanley.

[@DukeRaul]

Frickin' sweet... ⚡💀🌹😎

[@chadpittman3025]

I know you rider --- my favorite song

[@nobiletravel]

Bob is really busting Bear's stones over the sound. Take it easy, Robert!

[@wantew4666]

They are all higher than fuck... out there in the ethereal world. Tune in...

[@pasuloco]

“I am but decay on the tooth of time...” If you know you know. Happy 420 yall

[@stephentmarksberry4484]

With Bear everything had to be just exactly perfect.Everything. ☀️🖖🏽☀️

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

It was such a great show even back then ! They still sounded better than any other band to me ! Much love to u y’all ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹🪽🕊️☠️💀⚡️🥀

[@davidredshaw448]

Back in 1968 my mate and I working on the UK music papers pondered as to why heads couldn't sing as well as black guys. I think we decided that that was just the way it was. Otis Redding was born with a naturally great black voice (perhaps honed through early exposure to black church music) but whites made up for it with their own nice harmonies. And listening here to Messrs Weir, Garcia and the others I think we were maybe right. All cultures are different but Vive La Difference.

[@gregberry1812]

Wicked cool

[@jamesmoore3694]

the dead around the camp fire... this is sweet

[@jtoneal3344]

WOW JUST WOW . . . All Glory To Pig Pen.

[@russcohen3779]

Awssome god bless

[@youriami9411]

wow

[@stephenilieff7531]

great

[@rickolarsch8413]

Sweet

[@FourWimdzS]

Setlist has new speedway, rider, katie. Other setlist don't have Rider for this show

[@AraCod]

The first song is "I Know You Rider"

[@thomasarmbruster1743]

Acoustic guitar amplification was almost non-existent at the time, putting them into the monitors at any kind of decent level was almost impossible. This would plague them for months.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

This was my actual birthday!

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

And I just visited San Francisco for the first time a week ago! Interesting.

[@Shaabbz]

26:36

[@foresttemple1380]

Would the boys give their sanction to the Short shorts..? Pre- short shorts era 😅

[@JerzyBorowski-ot3ie]

ŁATWO KOCHAĆ GRATEFUL DEAD ŁATWO KOCHAĆ JERREGO GARCIĘ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BOGU za wszystko dziękuję BARDZO

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Thank them for everything not god ! He didn’t play the music the Gratefuldead did ! Oh my u folks just can’t help it about god !

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

It wasn’t god who did it the band was that good from the beginning that did all this beautiful life for us Deadheads plus we loved them back more than they could possibly love us that deep but they loved us enough to keep playing all the years even after Jerry + Brent left us 😢😥😢🥲❤️🐇🐰☠️💀⚡️😍🥰😘🛌I’m in bed now writing this all down ! 🧚‍♀️🧚🏿‍♂️🧚🏼🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧜🧞‍♂️🧞🧞‍♀️👼🏽

[@FourWimdzS]

I can't share this...

[@doughamblin9160]

Is that Bobby singing Silver Threads?? I can't tell...

[@noelstafford7266]

Yes

[@Grateful213]

The best times! Bear passing out the LSD

[@kindcola672]

That he most likely made 👍👍

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

The less I wore the better I felt ! Nothing on my skin was wonderful ! Naked was what I liked better !

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Know You Rider leads off here.

[@josephboyle9915]

Anyone know where I could score a copy of this show?

[@redemptionproductions915]

KZbin 😂

[@cameronbarrows7204]

53:30 and onward is where it is

[@GDTRFBBB]

Would it be that difficult to correct the setlist you took the time to add?

[@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109]

you do it

[@FourWimdzS]

I know you Rider isn't in the setlist?

[@direwolf6234]

is that marmaduke singing on me & my uncle..??

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

He said fucking !

[@108grog]

Who's the "rude" one ?

[@crypttonite]

setlist not accurate

[@johnbrittingham4471]

Pig Pen!

[@pamelaroth2468]

Evidence that - there is a God. 💕

[@123spleege]

I'd rather have a fucking colonoscopy than watch OR hear these dribblers.

[@danielmartens156]

You shouldn't need one as you can just look around! Sorry you never got on the bus! Beautiful ride! 😁👍

[@123spleege]

@@danielmartens156 Negatory...I deaded in 1990 at Cal Expo. I was looking for the "bus". what I got was a Volvo. As the spirit of the whole thing was long gone. what was left was merchandise and pretentious millennials in tie-dye crap.

[@danielmartens156]

@@123spleege yeah by then Jerry was pretty much done. My 1st was '77 before the heroin. No Volvos then! 😁👍

[@raxideezxxx8752]

That would be difficult since you'd have to pull your head out of your ass first!

[@jamesbarta5452]

why did you listen?

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

I love this show + all others that r on here ! ❤️🐰🐇🌹✌️☠️💀🕊️🪽🧖‍♀️😶‍🌫️💕👻👽🪐🛸🚀⚡️🪭candy man oh wow !