Grateful Dead 8-30-70 KQED Studios San Francisco CA

Setlist:
Easy Wind
Candyman
Casey Jones
Brokedown Palace
Uncle John's Band
"Calebration" broadcast on KQED-TV San Francisco with FM simulcast.
A Brokedown House Production

[@WolfDaddy420]

Once upon a time in an America that no longer exists and I thank you very kindly for this one...🍷🌹🇺🇸🖤✌🏼

[@edwardspencer3906]

The Dead sang about America (Kerouac's) that was disappearing in front of them.. think they're lyrics could outlive this Incredible Music..Saw them in 71, 72,74,77.. and am a PigPen fanatic!

[@Pun2404]

Nothing makes me happier than seeing a dark headed hair and bearded Jerry from the late 60s and early to mid 70s. Happy Bday big guy! Miss you. Aug 1st 2018

[@Pig45Pen]

I'll say the same for Pigpen too. I wish somebody could 'clean' up this clip, if it were possible

[@robinreece920]

This puts a BIG smile on my face! Pigpen was a gifted bluesman! Thank you for sharing!! 😀💗

[@shemsuddinmillard3172]

damn skippy! watch Pigpen and I think of Bon Scott. They both flat out owned their bands. Subsequent iterations of each band were good, but lacked that coiled carnal verve ever after.

[@catdaddy3302]

He sure was. He should’ve been in the Mississippi Delta.

[@naomiradtke7433]

So sorry I missed Pigpen

[@naomiradtke7433]

1st show Winterland’69

[@stephentmarksberry4484]

@@shemsuddinmillard3172 hey brother, I think I expressed that exact sentiment. I have been a Lighting Hopkins fan since I was a kid,living in Philly from 68,69,70. I saw so many of the musicians and became aquatinted with some. They were the founders of the music and social revolution that took place from 1960 on. I did see the freaking fab 4 at S. Stadium ,in the Bronx. I have come to know Grace Slicks bff from the 60s and two of the women that were married to or had affairs with one the Airplanes drummers,Spencer Dryden. I have been in touch with David Gans,for years.Jay Blakeburg,famous GD Photographer. Shemsuddin,my friend,you were exactly correct about the lost vibe of the Pig, but the music never stopped and still rolls on,happily for the universe. The right wing killer’s have been at their bloody business since the sixties,what else is new? Hang in there folks,time to ride the Tiger. ⚡️🖖🏽⚡️🎸

[@patzimmer1052]

Still the best Easy Wind I've heard

[@jensandersen7011]

True, The Dead did give off easy wind.

[@thomasbedell4770]

@@jensandersen7011 😂👍

[@CurtisLoew63]

ITS BY FAR!!!! the best version I’ve EVER heard. Hands down. Maybe my fave song…

[@adamwatson6916]

May 15 1970 from the fallout from the Phil zone live album is the best .

[@marksaltveit]

Definitely. Two other good ones are 3/21/70 (late show, Capitol Theater) and Winnipeg 7/1/70 which is also on KZbin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaCtemasmth4ZsU

[@dreamwell2020]

I love this glimpse of Weir playing his part at the beginning of "Easy Wind." No one else will ever play like that.

[@TheRealForrestGeorge]

According to the Grateful Dead calendar, this was the first TV broadcast with an FM simulcast.

[@CurtisLoew63]

Correct…

[@lorenzo6mm]

Some real shredding and jamming going on here. Early Dead the BEST.

[@xianshep]

Love the Dead - especially the playing of Weir, Lesh, and Kreutzman - but shredding is not a word I'd ever associate with them.

[@lorenzo6mm]

@@xianshep IMHO The Allman Brothers and Greatful Dead we're instrumental in shredding their all their band's instruments every way possible in theri intense Jam sections. Its not a question of some Alpha Male Mongolian String Bender*** blazing away like Jimi Hendrix in a solo section for endless periods of time. Its primarily a tempo and drummer driven sound. *** Frank Zappa pointed this all out to a young Steve Vai. Steve Vai is a consumate "Shredder" in every sense of the word.

[@xianshep]

@@lorenzo6mm Hendrix was not a "shredder," either, a term I believe only accurately applies to Vai, Malmsteen et al (not to mention every other KZbin guitarist these days), and which is a subgenre of rock guitar playing which generally bores me to tears (I'd take Zappa over Vai any day). So I stand by my assertion that the Dead were very far from shredders, and am as familiar with the ferocity of some of their late 60s/early 70s jams as anyone.

[@lorenzo6mm]

@@xianshep "Shredders" (tearing up waves on a surfboard) was a 1970's SURFING term adopted by many other people for basically ripping up your instrument what ever that was. It was transplanted into music in the 1980's metal heads and single line soloist of speed and dexterity.

[@xianshep]

@@lorenzo6mm Semantics.

[@SleeperMatt]

Garcia rocking the Gibson SG. Seeing this really drives it home how the band really took one hell of a turn when Pigpen had to step out. He was after all, the heart and soul of the band.

[@johnmcdonald9304]

I love all the 1969 "Dark Stars'' because Jerry played them using the SG.

[@janeseamore1370]

That guitar ever goes to public auction I’ll sell my house

[@RobHollanderMusic]

When Pig left in ill health, the Dead got jazzier and more ballad-driven which was itself not a bad thing, but they lost his rough and tumble funkiness and erotic charge.

[@austinharvey9116]

@@janeseamore1370you best have a big house..

[@adamwatson6916]

​@austinharvey9116 it's a 67 SG and they are worth much less money than earlier Gibsons . Any Gibson Post 1964 are still accessible to non collectors

[@cwctube]

Easy Wind is off the hook!

[@rincondaver]

Best version I’ve heard

[@GratefulZen]

And how about Kreutzmann’s drumming on this !

[@hammer44head]

My own opinion is they were at their best when Pig was squealin, the band just cooked on r &b and blues songs that Pig loved performing. This performance of Easy Wind is my favorite song of all. Peace!

[@HoofHearted6]

Definitely off the hizzle!!

[@bluecollar825]

@@hammer44head I may have to agree lol. The jams they played behind his Good Lovin raps were so impressive. Lovelight, Smokestack, Midnight Hour, etc...🤯

[@stephentmarksberry4484]

I Met these dudes March of 71 Jerry let me sit behind the amps where Bear dosed me and I sat behind Pig tripping my noodles out for the entire show. I hooked up with Bear and spread his goods around the tours. There was nothing better than tripping with thousands of people at a show and that’s something I really miss. You can see how Jerry interacted with Pig in the mix,a little easier not always being the front man. Still a blues band plus the new tunes from American Beauty. They never sounded like this after Pig passed.No more blues harp end of the era,period. So at this point all the money from the sales of his creations went into the next step in the evolution of concert sound reinforcement The Wall Of Sound. Got to say that at the just exactly perfect spot away from the stage where the stereo effect was balanced and tripping on some of Bear’s magic Dew, you were totally enfolded in the music. Personally this was my favorite point in the band’s sound systems. I got to meet Uncle BoBo but not Kesey. I have taken acid at every show I’ve ever been to over fifty years. I also have a Gibson SG like one he played in this era.just saying for you guitar nerds out there so Keep the faith sisters and brothers like the man says,go on a steady pace. 🖖🏽

[@joejupille9100]

Bear was in prison in March 1971. He was in from summer 1970 - summer 1972.

[@stephentmarksberry4484]

@@joejupille9100 My Meeting Jerry Bear Ramrod,Rex Jackson and the other guys in the band was March 71, springtime. I hooked up with Bears dealers so the supply never dried up plus I met some people from Berkeley that had vast amounts. ⚡️🖖🏽⚡️

[@jimpowell6789]

@@joejupille9100 hi Joe!

[@yojimboeastwood5602]

Check this man’s shoes

[@bjbhehir]

@@stephentmarksberry4484 LOL

[@MattHamann89]

Some of the best live footage of them ever. Love how much they all had to look at each other to make sure they were singing the right lyrics and on the correct beat. Raw and real. SG Jerry- Great era for the band.

[@thomaskrug4328]

I don't think they "had" to get any cues from each other visually - it's just that when you're playing and things are coming together (call it bleshing if you will), you instinctively look each other's way.

[@scottieruck]

I love Brokedown Palace, so, so much. I love that each time they played it, it was a little broken. One reason why I love GD is that they were true artists who were raw and imperfect.

[@brijsmith]

Authentic

[@atown4434]

This is so true. And it's what sets them apart. The music is alive. It's the only music that truelly matters. I love all kinds of music, and listen to a great deal of different bands and styles, but what's there is what's there with other bands and music. The deads music grows and changes with us. It's as relavent and alive today as it was in 1970 at this concert. (At least that's the way it is for me)

[@Throwawayjim119]

Feel the same way about UJB. It’s always a bit fragile but it’s so endearing

[@chrisgamble4939]

My favourite song

[@dannypound7626]

Beautiful to see Pig still strong and healthy, doin' it up. Awesome.

[@babyj1996]

Pigpen KING OF THE BLUES !!!!! R.I.P..

[@safuna170]

Taped this on reel-to-reel and listened to it fifty times. At the time of this recording "Candy Man" and "Brokedown Palace" had yet to be released on record. I was disappointed when the record version of "Candy Man" was sped up and made lighter on "American Beauty."

[@DavidC96]

That set was actually performed and broadcast from the KPIX Channel 5 studios in San Francisco. I went a friend's home to watch the simil-cast and we set up 2 stereo systems (each tuned to a different FM simil-cast station) to get the 4 Channel stereo effect. Great Set. :-)

[@bamadeadhead]

David Castro that is so fkn cool. I bet whoever listened to this live on the radio this way had NONSTOP eargasms👍🏼😎👍🏼

[@direwolf8124]

Man that's amazing, you are blessed. This is music as it's intended to be. I went to a few shows in mid 90s, I was 15. The experience of the show changed my life.

[@rayaugustine6908]

That's interesting, since I was always wondering how this worked? Because, you know why it's called "Calibration", which by the way, was done with the Airplane and Quicksilver also on the show as well? Because it was intended to test Quadraphonic. Yet, it seems you guys were using your heads! Given, that nobody had equipment using a common commercially available retail F.M. receiver that was capable of producing the Quadraphonic signal that was being broadcast? Did either KQED and/or KPIX announce ahead of time that your methodology is what was needed to be able to get the full effect? I too agree, 'Easy Wind' is truly mind blowing for a blues tune, and I always thought that it along with 'Slipknot' and the "Ace" version of 'Playin'' in the Band' are the best studio jams Grateful Dead ever did! Moreover, I used to fantasize that Robert Hunter would have performed that live with Grateful Dead but obviously that never happened? This seemed plausible to me, because I once using a crappy mono tape machine (since this was one of my earliest attempts, that is before I actually got some good equipment, at making a concert recording) taped Robert Hunter, doing that song in 1978 at "The Whiskey A-Go Go " in Hollywood. Augy, San Diego

[@davidhillis3160]

Yes, my gang did that too! They broadcast two channels on one FM station and the other two on another (KSAN and KQED-FM ?). We had one stereo system in the living room already, but had to haul the other one from a back bedroom and set it up. It was so cool they never did it again!

[@DLinberg]

Such a cool little window into early electric Dead. Jerry's vibrato on his voice is amazing.

[@Preston_McKnight]

Vocally I believe Jerry was best 70-71 but I could put 77-78 in there too.

[@marktoner6886]

@@Preston_McKnight His vocals on the final verse of Candyman are Jerry at his very best. Just incredible.

[@JimzAuto]

Wasn’t the band always electric from the mid-60s onward? When were they not ‘electric’?

[@thomasbedell4770]

This is not early electric GD. That would be ‘65-‘67. By mid ‘67 on into this era they were filling out their musical shoes completely.

[@jrbjrb5791]

This is such a precious upload, I know it doesn't have the high quality that we are used to nowadays but you've the original 5 plus Mickey in the most beautiful time of theire careers other than when Mickey's dad screwed everything up and they kicked him out of the band for a while, but I saw them in Boston with the new riders right around this time and pig pen actually just took over the show with easy wind and turn on your love light and the place was going absolutely bonkers. He was actually the showman of the band until... and I was a young teen at the time, just got my license, hadn't gone to too many concerts yet, but what a beginning this was!! amazing

[@jasonscorse8896]

Make America Grateful Again

[@BBell777]

Easy Wind has so much damn energy, the drumming is 🔥, & Jerry just rips!

[@xianshep]

Weir ripped even more on Easy Wind, and this one was no exception.

[@wangson]

Coolest Easy Wind I've ever heard!!

[@stephenhall11]

This is the Dead I remember.I used to go play basketball at the Fillmore and listen to them jam for Free! So this is what scared Nixon's America to Death? Love Jerry Jeronimo Forever!

[@goldengategirlgoldengategi4449]

Stephen Hall They were C.IA. Linked, believe it or not. L.S.D. Was C.I.A.

[@stephenhall11]

@@goldengategirlgoldengategi4449 Ken kesey and Jerry Garcia were Not CIA. I knew Jerry personally for years.If he was CIA why was his ranch busted by the government? I was there and we talked about it.

[@mikeyj.3605]

@@goldengategirlgoldengategi4449 For you to miss the entire point of the band is sad.

[@andrewmiller6619]

an awesome thing happened on the day i was born long before i was born, awesome! i was born on august 30 91. my mom got to see the dead, and im forever jelous of that. but thankfully the music never stops!

[@dougmisantoni4384]

Sweetness...Jerry/Candyman vocal...Superb...Last days of Jerry/Gibson

[@marktoner6886]

This is an incredible performance. Best Easy Wind ever. But part I love the most is the last part of Uncle John's Band when they harmonize and you can hear Jerry keeping the beat by tapping on his guitar. Amazing stuff. Would love to see a video without all the 60s "effects."

[@paradisedriveofmarin]

I saw them in May 1970, so three months before this recording, an so heard most of these songs then. It was my second Dead concert. Pigpen kicked ass when he sang the blues, he raised the energy in the room just like he does here. But trust me Jerry Garcia was the main reason to see the Dead. It’s nearly impossible to play guitar so cleanly and yet so originally, soulfully and fluidly like he did. And his vocals were cool too. He was one of a kind.

[@joannehack7588]

I do believe the most righteous video I have ever witnessed in 68 years of life

[@clivesmith5659]

Like, Whooooaaa! that is THE single coolest version of Easy Wind I have ever heard! Go the PIG!

[@jeffclement2468]

This is a peak era for them. Good stuff. "Easy Wind"... Pig in his element, and Bobby getting in some tasty lead licks. 😻✌

[@bc3757]

This is a brilliant compilation. Seen quite a few but this is a show within a show. Should be considered for the National Archives or R&R Hall. The guys are hitting on all cylinders in this one.

[@downhillphilm.6682]

Jerry's SG is still my all time favorite sound over all the other guitars and set-ups he played through....it was the defining instrument in the band in this era. Others that played SGs never got that huge sound.....

[@rocknroll4ever7]

Its amazing how much the SG, and any of his guitars for that matter, sound so distinctly like Jerry. It didn't matter the era, guitar, or gear. You're right, he got such a unique sound out of the SG, no other SG player has ever sounded like Jerry does in terms of tone like this.

[@Jeff-S]

@@rocknroll4ever7 Agreed. All his guitars had different tones but Jerry sounds like Jerry on any guitar.

[@rocknroll4ever7]

@@Jeff-S kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6uYapijh5d6ipY check this out if you havent already seen it! You couldn't be more right

[@naomiradtke7433]

I Agree

[@naomiradtke7433]

So easy to agree!

[@namcat53]

Oh, if only someone would please kindly release a crystal clear dvd/blu ray of this before we all die. Thanks in advance.

[@adamwatson6916]

Sadly i don't think the master tape exists any more

[@namcat53]

@@adamwatson6916 After a few cookies ...this seems to be just fine.

[@Spherian7]

I must say, that may have been the best Casey Jones I ever heard - and I've heard a lot. The reaction of the audience is priceless and very unique.

[@bamadeadhead]

Spherian7 the whole set is AWESOME STUFF

[@janeseamore1370]

Check out 10/2/77 Portland Casey Jones opens the set. I just listened to it the other day it’s He most Instrumental one

[@Spherian7]

@@janeseamore1370 Will do - thanks!

[@thomasbedell4770]

Pretty darn good video showcasing the kind of light shows that accompanied the Dead, Airplane and others at this time.

[@ultzisakhain]

Thanks, Nola! Spectacular... despite the hateful graphics. :-D

[@jamesingram6133]

I remember being high on acid in Pennsylvania and this came on public TV. Whew

[@newusernamehere4772]

I'd ask why you were watching public TV on acid but if this came on that pretty much answers the question. ESP lol

[@marksaltveit]

0:00 Easy Wind 7:09 Candyman (electric) 14:25 Casey Jones 19:11 Brokedown Palace 22:54 Uncle John's Band

[@bamadeadhead]

Mark Saltveit 👍🏼😎👍🏼🇺🇸

[@brucemerrifield1046]

Hey thanks!

[@cjnav7832]

Thnx, Mark!

[@benmeltzer]

To skip the intro of "Candyman" and cut right to the main song, start at 7:27.

[@StanleyGemmell]

Outta control beautiful !!!! Amazing Candy Man, Casey Jones, and Brokedown Palace

[@Nikthetrip]

Finally sg Jerry in video. Thank you so much

[@pewsterbaby]

@thehorrorgeek1 The guitar is named a Gibson SG model. Why? Who knows? WTF is a Telecaster or Stratocaster?

[@SpiiderOK]

@@pewsterbaby SG stands for solid guitar, as opposed to a hollow or semi-hollow guitar

[@briancullen9575]

Aside from his Strat tone, and not to diss his beautiful guitars (Tiger, Wolf et al.) SG Jerry is my favorite.

[@165Dash]

Those 3-part harmony lessons David Crosby gave them really paid off. He was apparently a pretty tough “all business” coach.

[@kevincaldwell9202]

This was the year (1970) that as a 14 yr old I got turned on to the Dead and got on the Bus... Workingmans Dead did it for me.

[@dameethyltriptwthme3981]

Mopping up the floor with every band in history right here. ...........

[@xianshep]

Standing among them, perhaps, but hardly mopping them all up.

[@dj-demonsarereal]

Wow, i've never seen this. Always a treat to see more Pigpen. Thank you

[@rogerdeacon3431]

Love it. The Pigpen is right up there. Amazing music.👍👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌈🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻

[@gratefuldingus360]

You never cease to amaze me Voodoo. Thanks for sharing. What a tasty treat.

[@freew0rrld]

They should've never stopped doing the humming on the end of "Brokedown Palace", these 70-71 versions are the best

[@robertmurphy5518]

What can I say , You really can,t get too much Grateful Dead , Good stuff , Pig Pen was really amazing!

[@Jeff-S]

History! One of the first color TVs ever with the first jam band in concert!

[@thephilb]

Don't know why I love this lo-fi recording so much. Best versions I've heard of Casey Jones and Brokedown Palace.

[@Billykid514]

This is the rockiest I’ve ever heard the Dead!!!!

[@edgross2031]

this may be my favorite time, maybe most creative! nice rough audio mix, harmonies. jewel.

[@johnstallings4049]

The BEST 'Easy Wind'!!! Jerry on the SG! Ultra dope post! Dig it! Thanks 😊😊🫂

[@thelatenightbar]

Been seeing a lot of great clips lately with Pig Pen, loving it. Thanks for sharing.

[@hobgoblin6659]

Looked like Weir was playing lead and Jerry rhythm in the beginning. Just saw Wolf Bros. and Bobby looks grate; keep on truckin'. ✌💕🕉

[@arlenmargolin1650]

Wow you figured out what I was bitching about I was trying to understand what was happening but I never realized that Bob was that good playing lead back that far back but I was thinking this is not the actual soundtrack that were hearing that we're getting matched up to but I guess that no you figured it out it's that's probably the whole deal there hey thank you very much

[@xianshep]

Yes, Weir always took the first lead on Easy Wind - which is plenty easy to hear on Workingman's Dead. I also find his leads more ripping and more unique.

[@patzimmer1052]

60's film effects gone wild!

[@crazygetup]

I love my old weird Uncle Phil. Bless his deeply decent heart.

[@GoatDust]

Is Phil Lesh your uncle?

[@gratefuled2012]

Until I saw this, I never realized who was playing which guitar parts on this song... this makes it visible that Bobby is playing the primary lead through the verses, with Jerry comping like mad until the solo break. I've noticed the same thing on the 6-21-71 Chateau d'Herouville video where Bobby plays an extended blues lead on 'Hard to Handle.' Sadly, the cameraman is focused on Jerry during Bobby's solo.

[@xianshep]

Yes Bobby's soloing and overall abilities are often overlooked by Dead Heads, nevermind everyone else. But it's actually easy to hear him clearly on plenty of recordings: on all Warner Brothers albums, plus any live soundboards from at least '70 to '73, he's panned to the right, with Jerry to the left. Notable tunes where Weir always soloed, usually first: Easy Wind, China Cat into Rider, Hard to Handle, with the trickiest riffs on the latter two also played by him.

[@janeseamore1370]

Bands who attempt a China rider with one lead guitar and no weir, never do a good job. It’s so driven by him. Weir is also Incredibly important in many other songs like Sugaree for example- all Of them but I really liked when he’d take a high lead in black muddy river etc later on

[@allagoon]

The Dead really were a 1A 1B guitar band, like the Allmans with Duane and Dicky, or the Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green and Danny Kirwan: an absolute guitar god paired with a 2nd guitarist whio was excellent in their own right. I love finding as show that has Bob high in the mix, especially early 70s. Lots of classic Dead riffs you wouldn't think are his, Casey Jones, Wharf Rat, China Cat of course.

[@3243_]

More than that even, with Phil Lesh playing like a lead guitarist himself.

[@cable57]

@@allagoon and as Jorma always says, the Airplane with Kantner’s 12 string.

[@markbreeland6836]

WOW this is the best rendition of this track I've ever seen and heard!

[@craigslistdave2086]

This is an old comment, but I’m curious, which track?! They do several lol

[@richardkellberg9181]

pigpen really gets after it with the vocals and harmonica, i wonder what the dead would have been all those years if pigpen had been around

[@chrisrand675]

Lots more hells angels mixed in with the woodstock types, that's for sure.

[@StDarkstarChina]

Dude, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing...

[@michaelbrantl5543]

Unbelievable so raw so real so tight so loose awesomely UNBELIEVABLE no wonder they are my faves❤

[@kennyselcer]

Good leads from Weir in Easy Wind! Nice stuff.

[@xianshep]

As far as I can tell, Weir always killed his solos on EW (not to mention The Eleven). Too bad the damn cameraman couldn't figure out who was soloing,

[@joefelice5062]

@@xianshep And Hard to Handle & China>Rider back in the day. His slide on the other hand... yikes.

[@darylforster933]

Now he can't play to save his life

[@floepiejane]

@@xianshep I appreciate that they showed Jer rippin up the rhythm. Wow!

[@xianshep]

@@joefelice5062 Are you my brutha from a different mutha?

[@michaelbrantl5543]

The drums are so kickin

[@ronen2501]

Great vocals on Brokedown Palace!

[@milesdufourny4813]

I remember seeing this back when I was 15.

[@gobluebuckeye]

Wow, just an amazing soul moving small set.

[@rsuverk]

Right before my first show, 9/25/70, Pasadena civic - there is a purity to the 70s shows that was never surpassed

[@Kristopherf1]

Right after my favorite albums! Thanks!

[@777jones]

In a perfect world. The source tape for this still exists!

[@adamgill1278]

I'm floored right now🌲🌍☮️✌️

[@veganlaw6599]

Love Easy Wind!

[@klaussmith]

You have done it again Voodoonola, great stuff. Wish they had realized they were documenting history and kept the trippy special effects to a minimum. Love the vocal harmonies, with Phil in the middle. Thanks again, you made my day.

[@jhutch888]

The two drummer thing was a force of nature in this era of The Dead

[@syncret_]

been looking for this full show for at least 7 years, thanks for the upload! love when bobby hands the solo over to jerry during easy wind! such a contrast

[@lungflogger9]

The Pig was the heart & soul of this band.

[@elmoblatch9787]

And yet, the Dead's most transcendent work was after Pig died.

[@xianshep]

​​@@elmoblatch9787 If by "most transcendent" you mean "completely lacking balls and no longer even approaching being Rock," then okay.

[@chrisgamble4939]

@@xianshep The Dead were never exclusively a "Rock" band. I think our friend is talking about Unbroken Chain, Scarlet Begonias, etc

[@xianshep]

@@chrisgamble4939 Perhaps. But neither those nor the best tracks of 'Allah' or Side 2 of 'Terrapin' come close to "transcending" Workingman's Dead or American Beauty. And if he/she was referring to their live work, I'd argue its "transcendence" would be more due to age, maturity, and seasoning than to the demise of Pigpen.

[@nape1475]

What a great show! Raw rock and roll at its finest!

[@jggallow01]

Oh, the Dead is peaking and bringing it here....

[@deanallen927]

I live in the Bay Area and I'd like to see KQED do stuff like this now.

[@vladdrakul7851]

Pig Pen Dead was the Beat Hippie Dead! Energetic, inspired and ecstatic!

[@trips4477]

Kind Sweet The Dead Very fortunate to have caught them first time live in 74. LSD Badge of honor

[@ryanoke849]

It's 8/30/22 today And it lead me to a TDIGDH That is beyond a chunk of gold to say the least💗

[@darrencohan9744]

Be forever Grateful man.

[@df5295]

Back then these songs were new!

[@chrisrand675]

Imagine life being so sad that you come here and have the ability to thumbs down such good sounds.

[@melchampion3477]

That's it, this Broke Down...my palace! Now I'm off to the begger's tomb! Thank you vooddoo!

[@dudleyriggs4710]

EPIC easy wind! spectacular!

[@edwilliams4363]

Grateful dead best years 60s through early 70s my favorite anthem of the sun and Europe 72

[@p.quilici9095]

Bob shredding!

[@HoofHearted6]

28 1/2 minutes of musical genius.

[@thecaveofthedead]

Jerry became an even better guitar player. But, for me, he never _sounded_ better than with his SG through a tube amp. That's some glorious stuff.

[@musicofanatic]

Rightthefuckon!! This band with Gibson/Fender guitars and amps is my favorite sound of their career!

[@Jeff-S]

They all have special sounds to me. But I must admit I've been toying with the idea of getting an SG just for this Jerry sound. Plus they're relatively cheap for still being able to say you own a Jerry guitar.🎸

[@musicofanatic]

@@Jeff-S What year was Garcia's SG? I'll bet that particular year does not currently come cheap

[@scottlewis1530]

Definitely a more raw tone, isn't it? I guess the band had a more raw sound overall at this time (Case in point: Easy Wind). I love my SG, though I also like Jerry on the Travis Bean/Mesa Boogie combo.

[@imanalien2222]

@@musicofanatic this SG was a 1966 standard… and the SG played on Live Dead was a 1967 standard. Nothing special there re the axes …just the man playing them. I LOVE this tone too !

[@djaminc]

Hey man,thanks for sharing all these cool Dead videos..this joints for you my man.

[@philtaylor2387]

The more i listen to this pigpen era the more i love it. Jerrys best playing for sure and thats coming from a true fan of the 80s gd

[@marcusteblano6376]

Pigpen looks healthier here than I'm used to seeing him. This period (the 2 1970 albums) and the earlier acid rock period are my favorite Dead eras. Hearing these songs electrified adds a nice edge to the studio versions.

[@sekgvac]

This is outrageously awesome - Happy Summer 2015 everyone!! SC

[@bamadeadhead]

sekgvac HAPPY SUMMER 2015!! Hope it was a BLAST😂

[@charlesandrews2360]

@@bamadeadhead It was not for me. It was an interesting chapter in the story of my life but not a very fun summer at all there's Summer of 2021 looks like it's shaping up to be a real hoot

[@olecranonrebellion9976]

Oh hell yes.

[@lisagopalan1]

Great stuff from the greatest

[@tymathismusic]

Candy man was so beautiful

[@Roger_Clarence]

PURE GOLD!!!

[@Kraflanglanopstuv]

Brokedown palace is so sick

[@davidhagstrom2655]

this is the best early dead video