Story about the song "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead interviews by Bob Weir, Robert Hunter and more....
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@traderjoe1415 жыл бұрын
Let us never forget Robert Hunter who wrote so many of the wonderful lyrics for The Dead over their entire career.🙏🇺🇸
@calmclinomania5 жыл бұрын
joseph mendozza 😭😭😞😞
@TechWithSean5 жыл бұрын
RIP
@skuvet5 жыл бұрын
May his memory be a blessing!
@justaname24224 жыл бұрын
damn it's already been over 2 months. RIP you stellar son of a bitch.
@zorroonmilkavitch18404 жыл бұрын
That's not Robert Hunter that's the guy from The Carol Burnett Show that really bad comic what's his name
@kernriver196712 жыл бұрын
Been my life since vietnam.... just trucking from day to day... traveled much in this life time, haven't set any roots..... now I am old... no bagage, no regrets...
@vicbonett77726 жыл бұрын
Keep on trucking !!!
@ChuckImania6 жыл бұрын
hell yeah brother!! I just got into grateful dead music in my 20s, and it's more than music... it's my religion now lol.
@awickedtribe5 жыл бұрын
My GF and I have 258 shows combined under our belts.... my once and her 257
@jennifersman79905 жыл бұрын
In some ways I envy you but I’ve put down some roots and for the most part I’ve been happy. Going through a rough patch now but life’s never a smooth ride
@devonkripaitis44904 жыл бұрын
And what a looooooonnng strange trip it has been
@davesthedude5 жыл бұрын
Rest in piece Jerry Garcia. And Robert Hunter
@calmclinomania5 жыл бұрын
daves the dude yes I get very sad when I think about Jerry... So Young to die
@George-wx9dj4 жыл бұрын
Dva Main I heard their starting a new band up north. 👍🏻🙏🏻😎
@richardspikman71165 жыл бұрын
my god, anyone who was blessed to be a part of those times... what a gift
@kukukev5 жыл бұрын
200+ shows over a 22 year period, never had such a good time in my life before...
@dianareynolds8003 Жыл бұрын
See them over 100 times and cherish every show, hour, and minute of all of them. One sticks out in my mind, it was at Madison Square Garden, I think, and I was sitting on the wall, which came about up to my butt, ass, whatever, and I was dancing sitting down. I don't know how good of a idea that was cause I danced my way right off the wall, went down IDK how many feet and landed in some guys lap. He asked where I came from and all I could do or say was up there as I was pointing up. I guess the guy was higher than I was cause he thought I meant heaven and really kinda lost it. He threw me off his lap and was telling the people next to him I was from heaven. I tried to explain that no I came from a couple rows up. Idk if he finally got it but I went to look for my husband and dance in the hall ❤😂
@Bignarfin4 ай бұрын
@@kukukev damn im jealous id kill to ever be able to see a grateful dead concert in my life
@darykinnaman23195 жыл бұрын
I am 64 and my long strange trip is still going on. I miss the band and the better days.
@michaelcannella27775 жыл бұрын
Dary Kinnaman 22 years old here, only had the opportunity to see Dead and Company, but the music lives on :)
@michaelcannella27775 жыл бұрын
Dary Kinnaman 22 years old here, I’ve only had the opportunity to see Dead and Company. But the music lives on, and Jerry and the gang with it :)
@markrigsby24255 жыл бұрын
Good Memories
@dirkevans34435 жыл бұрын
We're the same age and apparently the same mindset but i keep sticking to the same Mantra I've had for all these years, "Keep on Rockin', you slowdown and th' bastards'll catch ya" so far it's served me well.
@darykinnaman23195 жыл бұрын
@@dirkevans3443 - It is nice to know some else has made it this far. We never thought we would make it past 30, we showed them huh? 😊
@davidscott10524 жыл бұрын
Jerry Garcia said it all ...he knew that the deads music would have no commercial potential outside of the their community ...but that was ok because the music had meaning for the community they inhabited....words of a true artist I am a jazz musician and my music will only have a limited appeal to the small community of jazz followers ...but thats ok !!!!!
@patricias51223 ай бұрын
You never know how many people are touched by your music.
@sandiesing81425 жыл бұрын
In the late 60's, the Grateful Dead was scheduled to play at Modesto Jr. College. I was assigned to illustrate the Grateful Dead poster, and I did not know who they were. I was very articulate with my psychedelic lettering and made the poster with various hip curvy lettering styles. BUT...I made ONE gigantic error which none of my proof readers caught. I misspelled Grateful. I spelled "Greatful" When the gleaming black and white posters came out, I wanted to trash them. I told the director and he did not mind it. They plastered the posters all over Modesto, Oakdale and Turlock, I got my tickets and I was in the front row...next to the gong. I was so relieved that no one from the Dead even recognized the poster. Looking back, I wished I would have save the poster. La de dah, dah dah.
@gsxerwhite4 жыл бұрын
Sandie Sing shit, imagine if you got them all to sign one and kept it!
@PickledEarlobes Жыл бұрын
Awesome story, thanks so much for sharing. What a great memory for you
@df52955 жыл бұрын
I love that Pigpen was in the concert footage!
@kevinjoseph5175 жыл бұрын
they practically kicked him out..made him play congas...he didnt like LSD.
@Jake88579 жыл бұрын
Jerry Garcia seems like he would have been the most generous, and nice person in the world.
@colinlarkin18617 жыл бұрын
Excuse me. HE WAS!
@alabastardmasterson6 жыл бұрын
Colin Larkin depending on what day you caught him
@samirlal43816 жыл бұрын
hahahaha i hope that's true, you might be one of jerry's lost ones
@vicbonett77726 жыл бұрын
and intelligent, like all the Dead .
@blitzedpig16515 жыл бұрын
To those who've had the chance of meeting him, he really was a great human.
@halbie7115 жыл бұрын
1960s & 1970s-Great time to be a young man!!!!!!!!!! I miss the those days. I hate to be a young person growing up today, they will never know how great a time it was grow up during those days!!!
@tomb6134 жыл бұрын
Im my opinion the 1960's was a true renaissance. I was born in 1967 so was too young but my own coming of age in the 1980s-90s was sweet as the world was still reverberating from that renaissance..... Keep On Truckin......
@haileyshannon75482 жыл бұрын
OK Boomer!
@jacksutherland8465 жыл бұрын
It always puts a smile on my face whenever I remember seeing those guys! What great times they were!
@OldWaysFollower12 жыл бұрын
This song is amazing: both as a GD self-story and as a piece of cheerful road music.... "Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings" - that's what most tired, overworked city people dream of... "Set up, like a bowlin' pin, knocked down, it gets wearin' thin, they just won't let you be" - exactly... Greetings from Poland from an old Dead fan!
@Sosu2176 жыл бұрын
Love to hear and see Jerry with a Strat - always sounds so sweet.
@NolalanD5 жыл бұрын
Me too. His sound with the strat was just soul-rending. It cuts right through to the bone. Makes me want to get an albemic stratoblaster.
@ChicoEscuela4 жыл бұрын
DSO just played with it last week, a show recreated from Paris 72
@larkellencircle11 жыл бұрын
this is the song that got me into them in the first place, sitting in a beach chair in back of a VW bus after having a cookie in Humboldt. oh yeah....awesome
@weekendgolfer62073 жыл бұрын
Jerry Looked so HEALTHY AND HAPPY! That's why the early years were so GREAT !
@Jiv_Ing578192 жыл бұрын
Do you know that quirky tune that comes a little after this on the 1965 - beginnings part?
@RATTLEY6712 жыл бұрын
I was born in Melbourne Auztralia and the torch has been passed.I was born in '61.May love and peace be within you and around you always.And the stars of freedom shine forever in your mind.
@stephenhenion83042 ай бұрын
Music IS the fabric of Life!!! This is why I got off the couch and learned to play guitar!!!
@FunNotNuts12 жыл бұрын
My direct and personal memories of U.S. soldiers during the VietNam war was of them coming up here to Canada, all young and fresh faced, and we'd take them in and look after them. All we had to do was put ourselves in their place and it freaked us out. We were compelled to help them stay alive. I don't ever recall the public treating soldiers badly here but I did hear about it happening in the states. We wanted to end war of all kinds. But living in Canada it was easy for us.
@bcdigiart14111 жыл бұрын
This SONG got me into the GRATEFUL DEAD.... a friend lent me AMERICAN BEAUTY the album cover was cool.. it has simulated wood grain and a very cool ROSE on it... i listened to all the songs .. diggin .. Candyman.. brokedown.. operator.. . etc... when I listened to TRUCKIN.. i loved the lyrics.. i listened the song over and over.. writing down the lyrice.. GREAT STORY.. GREAT BAND.. FUN TIMES..
@mikewilkinson45886 жыл бұрын
thanks to the band for the memories......I'll carry these gems into eternity......
@rodneyphillips76195 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said that better my friend✌🤠
@lisica8458 Жыл бұрын
Love Bob Hunter's rich, baritone speaking voice.
@jennifersman79905 жыл бұрын
Oh how I wish I could’ve seen them just once in their prime
@trapperdan4 жыл бұрын
The actual song was written in late March 1970 in the Fort Lauderdale area by Bobby (mostly) sitting by a swimming pool. The band was to have played Sunday and Monday, March 22-23, 1970 at Pirates World in Dania, FL (an amusement park 20 miles north of Miami) but the shows were rained out and finally a show was played on Tuesday the 24th (a soundboard exists). The band was then booked to play a gig between Friday-Sunday, March 27, 28 or 29, 1970 at the Winter's End Festival in Miami, FL. Bobby wrote Truckin' somewhere near Dania.
@scottbaer76985 жыл бұрын
the Europe 72 album was my introduction to the Dead. the whole jam from the end of the lyrics of trucking till/into/thru morning dew blew my mind. I was 14 and couldn't wrap my head around the fact that it was improvised LIVE. then again blew my mind after I dropped acid and was told they did that nightly while tripping for years. was life changing. that was 1993, now 26 years later I've turned my wife on to them. she always thought they were a heavy metal band and had never heard their music. can't find acid anymore but got some good X and put trucking>morning dew Europe 72 on with headphones and let her loose. awesome reaction, a beautiful moment watching her get lost in the music. that's my trucking story.
@nicot93055 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@john121233333333333310 жыл бұрын
What a long strange trip it's been
@KorgKapperi6 жыл бұрын
That strat sound so good
@buckodonnghaile43096 жыл бұрын
That's the one he called Alligator (its a 1957). It was apparently a gift from Graham Nash to Garcia for his contribution to Nash's album Songs for Begginers. Garcia heavily modifies it and there's a pretty good article on the Fender site talking about it.
@FunNotNuts13 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1950 so in 1970 I was 20. During the 60's and 70's the world was full of such positive change. There was so much love for our fellow man. We totally believed in love and our music reflected that. The Dead were embraced and have been in our hearts ever since. Human rights became an issue and changed so much in everyday lives. Please, young people, carry the torch of love into the future. It's the only thing that will save us all.
@jadenr.11 Жыл бұрын
for anyone wondering, this version is from the europe 72 album live in london
@evandean39446 жыл бұрын
Pigpen @ 2:53 is from about 1963 by the looks of him, with his setlist taped to his guitar, practicing in the morning light in his bathrobe. Wonderful footage! So many thanks to whoever shot it, probably his mom
@buckodonnghaile43096 жыл бұрын
Good call, Pig looks young there and I'd love to see the source footage of that clip.
@bigthunder28605 жыл бұрын
It was a joy to live in the best time to grow up in America!!!🍄✌the🐸
@icecoldhubbas15 жыл бұрын
this is one the finest versions of truckin I ever heard
@smartalek113 жыл бұрын
This is brilliance. It's so great to be able to hear their voices as the people they are (were), and not "just" as musicmakers, icons, philosophers, etc, that we're accustomed to from the shows, the tapes, and the vids here & from the Vault. Thank you so much for posting this, and the others that you've shared here. I know you'll know I'm neither kidding nor exaggerating, acidinurmind, when I say you're doing a real public service here.
@davidgardner79742 жыл бұрын
Such simpler times, all the way up to the 90's. The internet ruined everything.
@robertgoracoff86545 жыл бұрын
After 260+ GD & Jerry Shows I never really looked forward to hearing truckin'.. Having said that, whenever they played it or when it comes up on one of the 200+ soundboards that i listen to everyday in the car at work or at home, it always, and I really do mean always, puts a smile on my face and reminds of the early shows I that I was able to see. Thank you guys for all the smiles!
@kukukev5 жыл бұрын
Nuthin left to do but...
@kewlbreez7713 жыл бұрын
... what truly AMAZING journey ...!
@chasefukuoka6113 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for this..
@HippieNiki7213 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to be born in 1972 and I was really grateful to see Jerry before he died. I never seen Brent but my first dead show was Deer Creek the summer tour in 1993. Wow! It changed my life and I finally found what I was searching for and found where I belong. Finally found my family!!! I miss you Jerry!!!! Hippie Niki {~}:}
@Gratefulman1965 Жыл бұрын
Jerry said, It’s not about me. It’s about “it” The musical journey the atmosphere of the Grateful Dead environment was what mattered and always truly will. It never was a money program, it was a movement for like minded individuals that gained momentum the farther forward the dead moved. A self propelled event….. and what an event it was.
@GodStarRevisited6913 жыл бұрын
word bob... we all have been truckin' thanks to you
@parttime90709 ай бұрын
I knew it my friends knew the people who turned me on to the dead knew it.. That we were part of something that not every one liked, and it's still going off into the future..
@budrollin75576 жыл бұрын
"Arrows of neon and flashing marquis down on mainstreet......."
@brownlauren156 жыл бұрын
"Sometimes the light is shining on me..."
@williamdhierpetly93595 жыл бұрын
Other times I can bearly see
@jeanettewaverly25905 жыл бұрын
@@williamdhierpetly9359 Lately it occurs to me
@markbarden41205 жыл бұрын
@@jeanettewaverly2590 WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN!!!
@calmclinomania4 жыл бұрын
He will always be in our hearts 😔❤️
@michealcurrie82725 жыл бұрын
Gerry....Thank you. Love&light.
@johnnyventure13 жыл бұрын
The one thing about going on tour with the dead, was the simple (and freightening) fact that there were no rules or guidelines. YOU had to make it happen. Either you enjoy the fact that it's an adventure that only you are in control of, or you go for the laid out plans of false security and get continually let down because of your expectations. To expect the unexpected and dig it! You don't need the Dead to live your life that way.
@kelnth12 жыл бұрын
Alligator - some of Jerry's best work.
@kevinwaustin1221ka6 жыл бұрын
I wish they would have gone with the original plan of changing out the verses. That idea is genius.
@lipby5 жыл бұрын
That was a common practice with folk music
@bodhichitananda11 жыл бұрын
From Wikipedia: "The making of Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, and American Beauty are described by former members and associates of the Grateful Dead in the 1997 Classic Albums documentary Anthem to Beauty."
@MrGreatfullydead14 жыл бұрын
this dvd anthem to beauty rocks...
@deanmartin66829 жыл бұрын
songs like truckin would never be..if not for chuck berry's lyrical influence..he influenced everyone...he told stories...he was like a novelist...lyrically he was brilliant...so when i hear truckin...i hear the lyric..i think of chuck berry...
@Steve-uv9kb6 жыл бұрын
music begets music - its all a continuum man
@buckodonnghaile43096 жыл бұрын
Dean Martin They covered Promised Land among other Chuck Berry classics For decades, they respected their influences
@tomtheplummer73226 жыл бұрын
Hmm. I have a tin ear, but my taste detects a different flavour?
@alabastardmasterson6 жыл бұрын
Dean Martin Chuck Berry the most covered man in Country music
@titusmcscott58896 жыл бұрын
what rhymes with chuck ? f*ck chuck
@rickberger47976 жыл бұрын
The entire reworking of Tangled Up in Blue on Dylan Real Live is magic. The chance to make Truckin' entirely new....
@sergkaizen53429 жыл бұрын
Miss u jerry 400+ shows werent enough
@blitzedpig16515 жыл бұрын
Niether were my 13.
@DanSVT0313 жыл бұрын
My "Big Uncle Ed" aka "Eddie Hell" traveled with the Grateful Dead back in the 70's. He tells unfathomable stories at family get togethers about his days of heavy drinking, drug experementation, and unprotected sex with countless random women. He now dwells in the woods in his homemade tree-fort living off cat food and PBR.
@nedsnark6479 Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: Hunter wrote this poolside at a motel on A1A in Dania, FL a week after the NOLA bust.
@johnfrank177410 жыл бұрын
BOBBY, YOU'RE STILL LIVING!!!! It's good to see you. For a while I looked but could not find you. Perhaps that little Death Scare reminded you of your Work and it's Manifestation in the World. Best of luck, friend.
@ibefullofme10 жыл бұрын
This was filmed when Jerry Garcia was still alive so I'm not sure it confirms much
@stephenhenion8304 Жыл бұрын
The Thang About Music..... its all in the NOW!!!
@Love18wheelz5 жыл бұрын
Got my chips cashed in...I spent most of my life travelling with a pack and a dog ..now..I'm drivin truck..
@jakethesnake57613 жыл бұрын
I was 2 years old when Jerry passed on, I wish I had the chance to have the memories of these guys they really were a band unlike any other
@INDLIS2 жыл бұрын
I was 10
@SQRAUMPF11 жыл бұрын
Some of us are! My family (not by blood) is constantly trying to spread love. I actually just today talked to my brother for a few hours over coffee about this very issue. The music may be different than it once was but the love is still alive!
@bikerhippy15 жыл бұрын
Outstanding Post
@richerlennon94295 жыл бұрын
Great video
@nh.31885 жыл бұрын
Epic tune !
@delaneyhaley518012 жыл бұрын
such a good film
@dingoswamphead14 жыл бұрын
Poor Rawkus and Traphikk. Hope you can bliss out on the instrumental at the end of this clip as I just did. You can free your mind with the Instant Karma it gives. Once you get a taste of the Dead you can be blesed for life. I'm getting it as I'm winding up from a long day at work. Thanks for putting this one up, Acidinurmind.
@lectricviolin114 жыл бұрын
I saw them open with truckin with pigpen at the felt forum and I was on the beginning of an amazing trip to outer space. An absolutely great night of this unique psychedelic experience comfortably cradled by Jerry and phils bach-like fugue-ing, cutting like a switchblade knife of laser beams and musical fireworks, pigpens words of wisdom, and the bands synergetic jamming perfection in the depths of the effected brain truckin, smiling, hitch hiking and traveling through the universe, period
@daligoddess200612 жыл бұрын
Right on! Keep on Truckin' young folks!
@GDguitarplayer15 жыл бұрын
I think this is also in' the complete annotated Grateful Dead' book. This is really cool & Thank you!
@musicain512 жыл бұрын
thats awesome!!
@Deadbuck735 жыл бұрын
Great jam!
@ehg19626 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece
@nancytreiman5874 жыл бұрын
Lived up the st. from their Lawyer. (No words)
@nancychace86195 жыл бұрын
Hint: Being on the road in America was not solely the providence of young men. 🙂
@NT-fo3me5 жыл бұрын
Hint: Nowhere in the video did anybody say it was solely the providence of young men. He spoke about it as a rite of passage for young men of the time, not exclusively of young men. Being a young man himself at the time, it was the only perspective he could speak from personally.
@billyshane380424 күн бұрын
God bless the Dead!!!
@trapperdan6 жыл бұрын
Most of Truckin' was written by a hotel swimming pool in the Fort Lauderdale area on/about March 23 1970 while the band was waiting out 2 days of rain that canceeled shows and forced a 3rd date for all tickets....see also here lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2015/04/march-24-1970-pirates-world-dania-fl.html
@Parkyurkarkas14 жыл бұрын
My parents lived through the Depression and WW II and they say that life then was so much simpler and easy compared to today. They were the last generation to earn and keep the American dream. And now, I (DOB 1960) say the same thing to my nieces who were born in the mid '80s, despite that I am nowhere near as economically stable as my parents. Young people today will probably have to live (or die) through some global cataclysm. It's anyone's guess what they'll be telling their kids.
@DrUmRbOy6711 жыл бұрын
Yes....he always reminds me of Bill also!!
@PinkFloydrulez11 жыл бұрын
fucking '72 dead is just the most primo shit
5 жыл бұрын
PinkFloydrulez Yes every time I hear it on XM radio and I hear them really jamming and sounding at their best I look to see if it’s from 1972 and it almost always is.
@lancebender492510 жыл бұрын
Keep Trucking! Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia!
@carldietz73494 жыл бұрын
God bless the Grateful dead!!!
@aliasdyln336 жыл бұрын
Primo stuff this story tells. And to borrow from the great's Carroll O'Conner and Jean Stapleton . . . 'Those were the days'.
@catified20815 жыл бұрын
NO glamour in their tunes.... just hard living life and making the most out of a bad situation which really what life is all about.
@clarkewi12 жыл бұрын
One of the best American exports.
@michaelosy4626 жыл бұрын
My favourite thing to do is to hijack the tunes at 4am and put on the Dead and watch my friends dig it. I'm 25 I was born in the wrong generation.
@marilynmacri80836 жыл бұрын
i remember seeing jerry garcia in the motel parking lot in seattle washington before you played at the eagles autorium i sold candy and apples there.
@StephenMatthewMusic15 жыл бұрын
because now you have to get out into whatever workplace (after overpaying eventually for college since the apprenticeship system doesn't really exist anymore) and position yourself and don't forget to "brand" yourself and fit yourself into a category so "they" will know what to do with you. Sad, but the weird world we live in now, and not simple at all.
@richwhitelatch27536 жыл бұрын
Good times
@jimjones31255 жыл бұрын
Was this just a one song interview? Or is there a whole documentary?
@maxperez-stable67965 жыл бұрын
Jim Jones its on amazon prime called "anthem to beauty"
@bodhichitananda11 жыл бұрын
this doc. cut is also from Anthem to Beauty.
@markrigsby24255 жыл бұрын
Happy people
@markoblazney63603 жыл бұрын
sweet+
@clancykobane91024 жыл бұрын
I never knew this was by the Great Full Dead!
@delaneyhaley518012 жыл бұрын
You got it.
@annnavon933111 жыл бұрын
well said
@yabobonob6 жыл бұрын
Funny to see video about Truckin' focused on the lyrics rather than the music.
@allanrpa3265212 жыл бұрын
great video from early 70's.WOW! did anyone catch Jerry on that strat?
@jackfisher936011 жыл бұрын
They were Successful.That no commercial value gig is baloney. I probably spent 10,000 myself on Tix, LP's, etc...... Look now and you see American Beauty actually went platinum.
@michaelcannella27775 жыл бұрын
Anyone got the date for this Truckin? Some shit hot licks from Jerry holy smokes
@itsstillfriday13 жыл бұрын
@rawkus1167 ...Sorry you feel that way... there's part of me that feels that each generation looks to previous generation times...as better... and resent their current era.. as a teen in the '80's I think that was the big motivator in digging up so many of the relics of the 60's and 70's.. (and I think on thru the 90's and 00's we have done a good job at digging up the best parts.. however remember.. the 60s and 70's must have been HELL with all of the areas of contention..and social change..
@stashJ815 жыл бұрын
It's true that he was very ill during this time period, but he was able to summon the strength to play during most of the Europe '72 run.
@registeredsimpoffender77172 жыл бұрын
I love (truckin) but this song had nothing on (the other one) I love that song my fav from the grateful Dead