I think that it’s amazing that Jerry’s been gone for 25 years... and yet somehow , his essence still is alive , and always will be . You said it man .. “Love” that’s what it’s all about .. that’s what the Grateful Dead is . The expression of the human existence through music .. brothers and sisters .. music with no net .. alive , searching , lost , and found . I think Jerry would be very happy to see what you’re doing . You can tell when it’s from the heart ..
Garcia was/is/will forever be the most honest musician I've ever had the pleasure to see. It was never about how many notes he could cram into a measure of music. It was always about that moment in time. The emotion of that last second. He knew there was as much emotion in the quietness as there was in the aggression. And when he was REALLY ON, the transition between it all was blended effortlessly.
You say honest, I say genuine haha, regardless, he was the master of doing exactly what was appropriate, when able to, and knowing what was not appropriate in the moment with no warning
I'm shaken. I have listened to thousands of hours of Grateful Dead, I've listened to this version countless times....and yet I was just brought to tears listening to this sitting in front of my computer. Why do I listen to the Grateful Dead?...uhh, that is why.
It takes my emotions to the lowest of lows and brings me back up to a new all time high every time I hear this. This is sadness and happiness in one package. It is perfect and will live forever.
I've been a Deadhead since I first saw them in Boston in 1967. Barton Hall was one of the many 1977 concerts I went to. I also have a modest collection of about 4,000 cd's worth of Grateful Dead stuff.
It's A Beautiful thing, was still too young for that show. Didn't start see them till the early 80,s but I must say that is one of the best. Great Year for the Grateful Dead
My daughter is an accomplished musician and she said what Michael said: “You can’t write that..” My daughter was blown away by 5-8-‘77’s Dew and this is a 25 year old who’s been listening to the GD her entire life. Yet this time we just listened to it in the car. Loud. For the first time she really heard/listened intently to what the Boys were capable of doing and she loved it!
My 1st show was 1988 at Madison Square Garden...I was 8. My dad was a taper. We sat right behind front of house. After that night I was hooked to say the least. My dad took me to see them 40 times after that before we lost Jerry. I knew from that moment on I wanted to be a sound guy. And that's exactly what I do now. This band changed my life in so many ways. Thank you for this video. Brought me right back to being at the show listening to what they do best.
My favorite Dead song bar none. IMHO we owe the power of Cornell to Phil but the layering and weaving that the whole band did that day was beyond epic. It was really cool to see you react to this version of the song. This version has the power to take you to a very special place that I think everyone needs to get lost in so they can come out the other side a truly changed traveler. I wish you all the best in the new year and thank you for the amazing videos. Be well.
Many songs have appeared in my life as "song I'd like to hear last", but none have made that list more than this one. Thanks for reminding those of us who know this song well, what it looks like to hear it again for the first time. You're awesome, Michael-- and we appreciate you bringing your musical talents to the "internet community". Blessings brother.
How many other bands can you say this show or that show this decade that decade when listening to one song haha. I had the pleasure for being a tour rat for the last 4 years of Jers run. I have seen the world but still mark those days some of the best in my life as each day each show was an island on to itself. There were days, there were Days and there were days between. Cheers!
Thank you, Michael. I wish there was a heart button instead of a thumbs up button for this song. It was the song that made me love the Dead back when I was a young lad of 17 oh those many years ago. This song has stood the test of time since those heady days of 1967. Such a wonderful present you have shared with us. The Cornell Concert in 1977 is such a stand out.
In all the best performances I've heard of this tune through the years, there's a feeling that it's constantly a millisecond away from disintegrating completely. Like the couple in the landscape of the lyrics, the band barely clings to a remnant of normalcy. A walk, or a tune, performed in the midst of and in spite of the End. This take is like a dream - thanks for checking it out.
I'm not a musician, heck, I'm lucky that I can play the radio, but I can certainly tell that you went on one hell of a bus ride with this gem. Being an old Head, I saw you taken away. From bobbing your head to the rhythm, to that expression that Jerry was taking it a bit far right before he pulled it back in, to bopping to the beat, to the surprise with the "vibrato" of the band, to the wonderment of exactly where they were going when the music seems to fade to the background, to the 1,000 yard stare when you realized where you have been, to the excitement when the band was bringing it back up from the precipice of death, to the wide eyed acknowledgement when you realized where you were going, to the anticipation of getting there, that my friend is the essence of the Good Ole Grateful Dead. Congrats dude
Yeah man, your discovery of the dead is what made me discover you. The dead was/is such a huge part of my life that I had lost touch with for a few years. Thanks for bringing me back. I am enjoying all your videos and being one of your guitar students, but most of all knowing that we are connected by a deeper understanding. Hope to meet you someday.
I was lucky enough in 92 and 93 me and 2 other friends did Dead tour both years in the summer.I would finish my last exams in college then roll out.Saw alot of the U.S and met a bunch of cool people.Some of my greatest memories and ive always love playing Jerry songs.His solos remind me of raindrops hitting a tin roof.
Yup!! The memories we created nearly 30 years ago are still burned in my brain as some of the best days in my life. It’s beautiful and a little sad at the same time as it hard to find things as emotionally satisfying as meeting folks in the lot, seeing/hearing Jer bend time and space then getting a nut brown ale and a grilled cheese at the end of the night. Feels like yesterday brother!
Finally!!!! But I'm really interested for Jack Straw of all of the Cornell, I think it will be one of your favorite Dead songs, if you don't know it already. It's my all time favs, and Cornell - the best version EVER
Indeed. Those late 70s jack straws got really dark, and let’s face it, it’s a lyric as dark as they get. It’s almost like it took all those years of insanity and redemption and more insanity from ‘72-‘77 for the musicians to really walk hunter’s lyric.
THANK YOU for playing the song through. Im 51 and I discovered the Dead in 1984 when I was 15. We are grateful that we found you. You are a young man with a son and I can understand the emotion listening to Jerry sing and play this masterpiece. I wish you could have experienced Jerry in person. It was magical.
Epic example of the band slowly stepping up the intensity ladder from sweet and subtle to a ferocious catharsis. I used to see this sort of thing just rolling off the stage in thick waves over our heads. The band was just saying, "Oh, ya like that? Well here's comes some more times 2, times 10, times 50." They pushed the music to places most musicians can't even begin to contemplate. And we were grateful for every moment of it.
So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago. Until then I literally hadn't picked up my guitar in like 3 years. I got the itch again and damn it feels so good to scratch it. Keep doin what ur doin dude !
THE morning dew. This song brings a tear to my eye every single time. Happy holidays everyone. DID YOU SEE THE PHISH ANNOUCEMENT!!! CHESS IS BACK!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for this! I had it cranked, and was laughing out loud as I saw the expression on your face as the intensity built toward the end! I hope you will do another video on it where you unpack what is happening musically in this. I don't play any instruments (alas) but I always learn a lot from your breakdown of the music.
I love when another person gets to feel something like this. Most never encounter or cross the paths with this situation. The dead still move me as they have for years. Glad you got to feel this too.
Thank you! I really needed a boost today and watching someone listen to this recording or the first time was pure joy. I had tears running down my face and a grin from ear to ear. This is one I go back to over and over again. There is so much to take in that every time I listen I get more from it. This version makes me feel all the feelings.
I like to comment on every dead song you do... what you said at the beginning about it finding you at the right time in your life is so true. I love your videos! thank you. This cornell 77 series has been an absolute treat. Happy holidays and thank you!!!
"When it comes together -- you could never write that, plan that." And that is the essence of Dead, Dead on a great night that didn't happen every night, but when it did, and it did often enough--then you're hooked.
I was never a big Grateful Dead fan until I started watching you Michael! I am so crazy about your videos brother that I find myself lost in them. I play along and try and keep up with you which is next to impossible for me. I so appreciate what your doing and that you bother to take the time to walk us all through these iconic songs. I have a banjo that I break out just for fun and pluck along. Once again Michael thank you thank you. Happy New Year to you and yours. The Muleman.
You in this video perfectly encapsulates how I feel every time I hear this beautiful masterpiece. The full portion of this set is St. Stephen>Not Fade Away>St. Stephen>Morning Dew, and the whole thing is an absolute monster. The St. Stephen>Morning Dew is so natural and perfect that every time I hear St. Stephen I now expect it to go into Morning Dew. My favorite thing about Morning Dew, and this one in particular, is just what you said: how every instrument is just as important as the other and they all take turns sharing the spotlight
I love that people are still getting on the bus after so many years. Your speechless moment, sums it up better than any words could. Hope this new year, is better than the last. (~)}:}
A silver lining to this crazy year... and a legacy of the message in the song that takes on extra weight during times of great sorrow and foreboding... Thanks for sharing your reactions with us this year !
Was in a hurry this evening to pick my daughter up from gymnastics practice after a terrible day at work and heard this song for the first time waiting in the carline. This song transported me to another place, a better place. From watching you, I think it had the same effect. How have I gone this long without hearing this?? I guess you I heard it exactly when I needed to
Michael, this is the Holy Grail 😇.... This is by far my favorite live performance and the jams here are the absolute best. Great job, glad you played it straight through w/ no interruption. Take care 😁✌🍻
I was one of the thousands of people who were hounding you to do this song from this show. So glad you followed through! What an amazing piece of art. Everybody is playing their hearts out on this one!
OMG Thank you Michael this was my first time hearing it too, like you, the dead found me only a couple of years ago and I’m so happy I did and your thoughts and explanations helped me see
This is my present. Thank you. How about them drummers 🤙 had the cassettes in 88 onward and still get goosebumps at various moments. It is a time capsule and thank God it is a Betty Board.
You explained it perfectly at the end. There really are no words for it and how it makes you feel. You can analyze it and look at it from a theoretical standpoint but nothing can explain the magic of the moment. All the different personalities and styles meshed together with the energy in the room from the crowd and the snowstorm outside in the middle of springtime forming a beautiful concoction of emotion pouring out of those amps and off the drum heads. It will raise the hairs on your arms and bring tears to your eyes. Thank God for the soundboards that captured this show. Truly grateful.
I have been listening to the Grateful Dead since before I was born, literally from the womb. This version still makes me weep like a toddler with a skinned knee. It is my happiest of happy places.
I grew up in Eugene, Oregon during the late sixties through the early eighties. Ken Kesey certainly played a role in my, "formative" years. Jerry played my high school. Ken brought the boys to an epic 3 night stand being the first "rock" show in the building. Ken warned us to behave so we could get them back for more shows. So many years later, I'm still running through those shows. Oh man...
@@joeynice123 It's a blurry memory, lol, but I'm fairly certain I was at the first field trip in 1972. My mother loved the yearly Renaissance Faire. She's a goofball from Germany and this, along with the Saturday Market were a huge draw and I was always eager to go. The difference in the next decades appearance was the addition of Psychedelics. Shows were very different after that...memories!
I must say that September 3, 1988 at Capital Centre is my favorite Dew performance. Phil's bass was turned to 11 and he drops massive bombs during the crescendo.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Old timer Deadhead here (first show at age 13 in December 1969 at the Fillmore East). Thanks for the enthusiasm you bring to the Boys, all versions of them, and providing fresh ears, insights and knowledge about the music that had added immensely to my enjoyment and clarified why the Dead are special, unique and forever. In 100 years much of the music we listen to will be a memory but I have feeling Grateful Dead will still be being played. Just as importantly, you have introduced me to so many musicians, bands, styles etc and your Reacts/Breakdowns are incredible and something I’ve come to need on a regular basis. So THANK YOU. Shit I don’t play guitar, never had an interest until I started watching your channel, but I’m going to pick one up this spring and subscribe to your lessons... and now a request/suggestion. GD Rockin’ the Cradle Egypt 78. It gets panned a lot. But the Estimate/Eyes is one of the best ever recorded. The Eyes of The World especially. It’s a long one but there’s never a dull moment.
Thank you...as a fan it is so much fun to watch you take this (and other stuff) for the first time and see your genuine reactions. It def. reminds me of back when I first got into the Dead and Phish...so watching your reactions is heart warming. As a guitarist (wannabe...lol) it is very educational. So thanks again...keep it up.
Love those explosive Dead endings!!! back in tha'day, the concert hall would be erupting so fantastically and magnificently as they would brilliantly throw those song finale's our way.. I'm hard-pressed to come up with another band capable of those layers of buildings&textures and crescendo's!!!!just awesome and btw, you did a very classy presentation, great job!!! It really does make me feel happy younger generations are reaching out & giving the Dead a chance to be as special to them as they have been to folks like me!!! Cheers
Cornell Morning Dew is the superior version in my book. The tightness in which they are playing, the guitar work from both Bobby and Jerry, and Jerry's voice is so beautiful and soulful when he sings this song. You simply can't beat this version. Cornell 77 and Veneta 72 are in the list of the greatest shows they ever played. So many of the song performances have been stapled as definitive versions. And for very good reason. The band was just ON for these shows. Another great run of shows is late October 74 when they played (it was either 4 or 5 nights, can't remember right now) Winterland in San Francisco. These were the last shows they played before taking their almost full year break and worked on Blues for Allah. But those Winterland 74 shows are just phenomenal to me. Some of the best Dead I've ever heard from their entire 30 year run.
God this and the tony rice video litterally have me crying in my room right now at my dads house. Thanks for the great content i love you. This music is so emotional and inspirational. ✌🏻❤️
I love being aurally seduced. The Dead have that down in spades. Michael, you really should try to score an interview with Betty Cantor Jackson who captured this recording. It would be a nice addition to your work.
Yeah, I'd be curious to hear what betty has to say about this show and the Dead in general. As a recording engineer myself, i'm also rather curious about, for example, all the drums and percussion stuff by the '80s must have taken up a fair few channels, how was that all handled? How much gear was she using to make these recordings? How did her setup evolve over time? I have many questions for Betty.
@@NealMiskinMusic I'm presuming you know of the discovery of the 'Bettyboards' ...one of the greatest musical finds of GD music. Here is a pic of Betty at work offstage...she recorded these shows onto her Nagra IV-S open reel portable media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/03/16/gd-gettyimages-453967204_wide-5c1bd95d5c06385ec379f0c082b10647232cd317.jpg I wonder if she still has that in her possession. Look at the size of those cans on her head!
@@2ChukBuk Oh yes, I am aware. I can also tell a Betty reel from a Healy mix, as the Betty Reels tend to have punchier drums, and nice bright guitars, and Healy was known for putting weird delays and stuff on Weir's voice, at least in the mid-late '80s.
very cool, such a beautiful way to end the year. BTW i got hip off of YT reco when i saw '..guitar teacher reacts to Morning Dew' back in like march '20. look at you now 212k and rising. congrats you put in the work and deserve it! keep up the great work, cheers!
Nobody discovers the dead. They find you when you most need them.
the bus came by, I got on, that's when it all began.....
Well said!
Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
This is so ture.
Indeed. One in ten thousand that come for the show. I perceive it as something that's part of my spiritual or musical DNA.
I think that it’s amazing that Jerry’s been gone for 25 years... and yet somehow , his essence still is alive , and always will be . You said it man .. “Love” that’s what it’s all about .. that’s what the Grateful Dead is . The expression of the human existence through music .. brothers and sisters .. music with no net .. alive , searching , lost , and found .
I think Jerry would be very happy to see what you’re doing . You can tell when it’s from the heart ..
Hello Bobby :)
Love you Bobby! Thanks for everything! Dead, Dog, Kingfish, TOO, Furthur, etc. P.S. thank you for bringing Mr. Mayer into the fold.
Jerry will forever be Alive in our Hearts and ears ⚡ Grateful Dead will always be a living and breathing Spirit, long after Weir gone💀
Thank you.
Jerry and the boys built something. Like the pyramids. It's astonishing to see the pyramids or hear the Dead.
This is probably the best live show ever recorded on the planet.
Grateful Dead- Fillmore East - 2/13/70. Give that one a listen.
wasn't this one added to the National Registry in the Library of Congress?
@@jeffsimons2009 yes it was
Garcia was/is/will forever be the most honest musician I've ever had the pleasure to see.
It was never about how many notes he could cram into a measure of music. It was always about that moment in time. The emotion of that last second. He knew there was as much emotion in the quietness as there was in the aggression. And when he was REALLY ON, the transition between it all was blended effortlessly.
Great observation. Lovely. He was one of a kind.
You say honest, I say genuine haha, regardless, he was the master of doing exactly what was appropriate, when able to, and knowing what was not appropriate in the moment with no warning
Jerry searched for magic, not music.
Very well said. Thankyou
I'm shaken. I have listened to thousands of hours of Grateful Dead, I've listened to this version countless times....and yet I was just brought to tears listening to this sitting in front of my computer. Why do I listen to the Grateful Dead?...uhh, that is why.
Same I'm sobbing right now and I couldn't tell you why
that's why! me too
Everytime I hear this song I sob like a newly orphaned child.
I'm shedding tears of joy and sadness all at once. This version does it to me every time.
Man Sugaree can cause the sniffles from time to time
The way Kieth trickles into open the finale jam is so perfect
Amen!! Although I didn't run off on tour til '88, I've always been a Keith guy. Always wonder what goto heaven would sound like with him on it.
It takes my emotions to the lowest of lows and brings me back up to a new all time high every time I hear this. This is sadness and happiness in one package. It is perfect and will live forever.
I've been a Deadhead since I first saw them in Boston in 1967. Barton Hall was one of the many 1977 concerts I went to. I also have a modest collection of about 4,000 cd's worth of Grateful Dead stuff.
the ARK.
@@UHollis I did go to the Arc in 1969. The 67 concert was at the Psychedelic Market behind Fenway.
Let me know if you plan to sell any of them. 🎸💿💿🇺🇲
Thank you!! Beautiful job Michael! Cornell 1977 is the best!! I did one lesson on Grateful Dead Sugaree
Nice!!!! I’ll check it out for sure :)
@@charlierichman2669 i saw bob talking about that. What's the deal?
It's A Beautiful thing, was still too young for that show. Didn't start see them till the early 80,s but I must say that is one of the best. Great Year for the Grateful Dead
Dew is a Less is more kinda jam⚡
My daughter is an accomplished musician and she said what Michael said: “You can’t write that..” My daughter was blown away by 5-8-‘77’s Dew and this is a 25 year old who’s been listening to the GD her entire life. Yet this time we just listened to it in the car. Loud. For the first time she really heard/listened intently to what the Boys were capable of doing and she loved it!
My 1st show was 1988 at Madison Square Garden...I was 8. My dad was a taper. We sat right behind front of house. After that night I was hooked to say the least. My dad took me to see them 40 times after that before we lost Jerry. I knew from that moment on I wanted to be a sound guy. And that's exactly what I do now. This band changed my life in so many ways. Thank you for this video. Brought me right back to being at the show listening to what they do best.
I first heard this show on tape 30 years ago. It makes me happy knowing that 30 years from now I will listen to it again and I’ll get goosebumps then.
The way the whole thing builds and builds and builds along with how all the pieces fit together and play off each other is just musical perfection.
And just when you think they can't build any more, they build even higher!!!
Tony Rice Died Christmas day he recorded with Jerry Garcia a few time as a bluegrass fan you should do a video on this Guitar legend.
Agreed. Fil, the Wings of Pegasus guy, just did one from an early Merlefest...........
Just listened to The Pizza Tapes and toasted Jerry and Tony. Loved the acoustic stuff Jerry was doing with Grisman the last few years
I saw Tony with David Grisman Quintet c. 1975 Catalyst, Santa Cruz...both ends of that tour. Astonishing musicianship...
I was totally awed by Tone Poems with Tony Rice and Dave Grisman, such sweet arrangements and solid mixes...🙌
The Grateful Dead brought us all together, The last year has been a blast!
This was my most listened to song in 2020 on Spotify
My favorite Dead song bar none. IMHO we owe the power of Cornell to Phil but the layering and weaving that the whole band did that day was beyond epic. It was really cool to see you react to this version of the song. This version has the power to take you to a very special place that I think everyone needs to get lost in so they can come out the other side a truly changed traveler. I wish you all the best in the new year and thank you for the amazing videos. Be well.
Many songs have appeared in my life as "song I'd like to hear last", but none have made that list more than this one. Thanks for reminding those of us who know this song well, what it looks like to hear it again for the first time. You're awesome, Michael-- and we appreciate you bringing your musical talents to the "internet community". Blessings brother.
"this is a song written by Bonnie Dobson of Toronto, Immortalized by the Grateful Dead"...Robert Plant 9/15/2002
The Allman Brothers did a stellar version also 🍄
Check out Devo's version.
How many other bands can you say this show or that show this decade that decade when listening to one song haha. I had the pleasure for being a tour rat for the last 4 years of Jers run. I have seen the world but still mark those days some of the best in my life as each day each show was an island on to itself. There were days, there were Days and there were days between. Cheers!
Yes they were!
Thank you, Michael. I wish there was a heart button instead of a thumbs up button for this song. It was the song that made me love the Dead back when I was a young lad of 17 oh those many years ago. This song has stood the test of time since those heady days of 1967. Such a wonderful present you have shared with us. The Cornell Concert in 1977 is such a stand out.
❤
HE FINALLY DID IT!! :D
In all the best performances I've heard of this tune through the years, there's a feeling that it's constantly a millisecond away from disintegrating completely. Like the couple in the landscape of the lyrics, the band barely clings to a remnant of normalcy. A walk, or a tune, performed in the midst of and in spite of the End. This take is like a dream - thanks for checking it out.
Loved the cradled guitar swaying throughout Jerry's solo, really warmed my soul to witness. You get it man. Thank you for the content Mike.
That was so awesome watching : listening with you!! Tears rolling down and big smile. The boys whipped it up!!! Shimmers and spikes yes!!!
I'm not a musician, heck, I'm lucky that I can play the radio, but I can certainly tell that you went on one hell of a bus ride with this gem. Being an old Head, I saw you taken away. From bobbing your head to the rhythm, to that expression that Jerry was taking it a bit far right before he pulled it back in, to bopping to the beat, to the surprise with the "vibrato" of the band, to the wonderment of exactly where they were going when the music seems to fade to the background, to the 1,000 yard stare when you realized where you have been, to the excitement when the band was bringing it back up from the precipice of death, to the wide eyed acknowledgement when you realized where you were going, to the anticipation of getting there, that my friend is the essence of the Good Ole Grateful Dead. Congrats dude
Yeah man, your discovery of the dead is what made me discover you. The dead was/is such a huge part of my life that I had lost touch with for a few years. Thanks for bringing me back. I am enjoying all your videos and being one of your guitar students, but most of all knowing that we are connected by a deeper understanding. Hope to meet you someday.
This is it.....The Dew Of Dews. They are so tight. The way they build this up. Keith is amazing. What a Band.
I was lucky enough in 92 and 93 me and 2 other friends did Dead tour both years in the summer.I would finish my last exams in college then roll out.Saw alot of the U.S and met a bunch of cool people.Some of my greatest memories and ive always love playing Jerry songs.His solos remind me of raindrops hitting a tin roof.
Yup!! The memories we created nearly 30 years ago are still burned in my brain as some of the best days in my life. It’s beautiful and a little sad at the same time as it hard to find things as emotionally satisfying as meeting folks in the lot, seeing/hearing Jer bend time and space then getting a nut brown ale and a grilled cheese at the end of the night. Feels like yesterday brother!
@@MrYatesj1 Don't be sad it's over, be glad it happened.
Jerry G
Finally!!!! But I'm really interested for Jack Straw of all of the Cornell, I think it will be one of your favorite Dead songs, if you don't know it already. It's my all time favs, and Cornell - the best version EVER
Yes!!! I love jack straw
Y E S
Indeed. Those late 70s jack straws got really dark, and let’s face it, it’s a lyric as dark as they get. It’s almost like it took all those years of insanity and redemption and more insanity from ‘72-‘77 for the musicians to really walk hunter’s lyric.
I’m a big fan of 4-12-78 Jack Straw
10/29/77 without question
THANK YOU for playing the song through. Im 51 and I discovered the Dead in 1984 when I was 15. We are grateful that we found you. You are a young man with a son and I can understand the emotion listening to Jerry sing and play this masterpiece. I wish you could have experienced Jerry in person. It was magical.
Epic example of the band slowly stepping up the intensity ladder from sweet and subtle to a ferocious catharsis. I used to see this sort of thing just rolling off the stage in thick waves over our heads. The band was just saying, "Oh, ya like that? Well here's comes some more times 2, times 10, times 50." They pushed the music to places most musicians can't even begin to contemplate. And we were grateful for every moment of it.
So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago. Until then I literally hadn't picked up my guitar in like 3 years. I got the itch again and damn it feels so good to scratch it. Keep doin what ur doin dude !
Same. What a great feeling!
THE morning dew. This song brings a tear to my eye every single time. Happy holidays everyone.
DID YOU SEE THE PHISH ANNOUCEMENT!!! CHESS IS BACK!!!!!!!
Went to one "chess move" show in Cedar Rapids, IA...95 I believe. Great time!
I have been waiting for this! I had it cranked, and was laughing out loud as I saw the expression on your face as the intensity built toward the end! I hope you will do another video on it where you unpack what is happening musically in this. I don't play any instruments (alas) but I always learn a lot from your breakdown of the music.
I love when another person gets to feel something like this. Most never encounter or cross the paths with this situation. The dead still move me as they have for years. Glad you got to feel this too.
This is the best reaction video ever filmed. Thank you.
One of my favorite dead songs!! Merry christmas, Michael!
Thank you Michael and Merry Christmas
Thank YOU!
Those are some powerful sounds! Rips your soul out. GD4Life
Not Curtis from Texas
Thank you! I really needed a boost today and watching someone listen to this recording or the first time was pure joy. I had tears running down my face and a grin from ear to ear. This is one I go back to over and over again. There is so much to take in that every time I listen I get more from it. This version makes me feel all the feelings.
This song is absolute fire.
I’m so happy that you listened to that all the way straight through.
Michael with that secret smile, I'm right here with ya brother
Jer just rips it outta ya
Merry Christmas! Thanks for your videos! They are always so informative, and eye opening!
I like to comment on every dead song you do... what you said at the beginning about it finding you at the right time in your life is so true. I love your videos! thank you. This cornell 77 series has been an absolute treat. Happy holidays and thank you!!!
"When it comes together -- you could never write that, plan that."
And that is the essence of Dead, Dead on a great night that didn't happen every night, but when it did, and it did often enough--then you're hooked.
Best band in the land🤙☯️☮🕉
I was never a big Grateful Dead fan until I started watching you Michael! I am so crazy about your videos brother that I find myself lost in them. I play along and try and keep up with you which is next to impossible for me. I so appreciate what your doing and that you bother to take the time to walk us all through these iconic songs. I have a banjo that I break out just for fun and pluck along. Once again Michael thank you thank you. Happy New Year to you and yours. The Muleman.
That was cool. I've recently started listening to more dead and finding little gems like this is why I like your channel.
Found your channel at the right time, thank you for these breakdowns, happy new year to you and the family.
You in this video perfectly encapsulates how I feel every time I hear this beautiful masterpiece. The full portion of this set is St. Stephen>Not Fade Away>St. Stephen>Morning Dew, and the whole thing is an absolute monster. The St. Stephen>Morning Dew is so natural and perfect that every time I hear St. Stephen I now expect it to go into Morning Dew. My favorite thing about Morning Dew, and this one in particular, is just what you said: how every instrument is just as important as the other and they all take turns sharing the spotlight
Thank you michael! Awesome the greatest dew ever! Peace and happiness in the new year!
I'm so happy for you Michael! What a treat to be able to witness you listening to that for the first time.
I love that people are still getting on the bus after so many years.
Your speechless moment, sums it up better than any words could.
Hope this new year, is better than the last. (~)}:}
Thank you!! Nice job on a tune that means so much to so many of us. Well done!! Cheers Michael.
Thank you!!! I loved watching and listening to this with you~
Happy holidays to you and yours, Michael. Thanks for making 2020 a bit brighter.
That's the one!! changed my life forever.... Happy Holidays!!!
Love the videos they’re so amazing
Been a head since 91 and this brought tears to my eyes.
A silver lining to this crazy year... and a legacy of the message in the song that takes on extra weight during times of great sorrow and foreboding... Thanks for sharing your reactions with us this year !
Happy Holidays, man. Love you. This stuff from Cornell '77 is the best. I've never heard a band play that well together. It's magic. On to 2021!
Was in a hurry this evening to pick my daughter up from gymnastics practice after a terrible day at work and heard this song for the first time waiting in the carline. This song transported me to another place, a better place. From watching you, I think it had the same effect. How have I gone this long without hearing this?? I guess you I heard it exactly when I needed to
Other worldly …..one of best moments in rock n roll history and captured for everyone to enjoy forever
And thank you Michael.
Happy Holidays! "Wishing you and yours" has some really deep meaning this year. We all can't see the ones we love right now, but you bring joy to a large community by doing these videos.
In the past, you mentioned something about how Grateful Dead has been overlooked by so many, even straight up kicked to the curb without even a listen. So, for me (and I feel that I might be able to speak for possibly thousands of others), seeing others experience these shows/songs for the first time truly warms my heart, puts a smile on my face, and tickles my brain, quite like just hearing the boys do their thing.
Thanks again. That was a nice treat to wake up to being 10,000+ physical miles away from my people back home.
Have a Happy New Year...... 12/29/77 is another really great show.....one of "Dick's Picks"
Michael, this is the Holy Grail 😇.... This is by far my favorite live performance and the jams here are the absolute best. Great job, glad you played it straight through w/ no interruption. Take care 😁✌🍻
Merry Christmas to you! And THAT is why we still listen after 50+ years! You have your forever music, sir! Enjoy it!
Every time this is played a wrong or injustice in the universe is righted
What a JAM! Thanks for playing it.
I was one of the thousands of people who were hounding you to do this song from this show. So glad you followed through! What an amazing piece of art. Everybody is playing their hearts out on this one!
OMG Thank you Michael this was my first time hearing it too, like you, the dead found me only a couple of years ago and I’m so happy I did and your thoughts and explanations helped me see
Just fantastic, thank you, Merry Christmas!!
This is sooooooo cool. Thank you so much and good vibes brother
Your channel has been one of the few bright spots of 2020. Thank you!
Much love Michael, thank you for these.
Thank you Michael. I have enjoyed your journey with us over the last year.
This is my present. Thank you. How about them drummers 🤙 had the cassettes in 88 onward and still get goosebumps at various moments. It is a time capsule and thank God it is a Betty Board.
You explained it perfectly at the end. There really are no words for it and how it makes you feel. You can analyze it and look at it from a theoretical standpoint but nothing can explain the magic of the moment. All the different personalities and styles meshed together with the energy in the room from the crowd and the snowstorm outside in the middle of springtime forming a beautiful concoction of emotion pouring out of those amps and off the drum heads. It will raise the hairs on your arms and bring tears to your eyes. Thank God for the soundboards that captured this show. Truly grateful.
I have been listening to the Grateful Dead since before I was born, literally from the womb. This version still makes me weep like a toddler with a skinned knee. It is my happiest of happy places.
"That is a perfect capturing, of a perfect moment, of the complete essence of the band and the people that cherish them..." A perfect statement!
Cheers, Michael. Merry Christmas and congrats on 200k+!
This is great content, thank you for sharing!
I grew up in Eugene, Oregon during the late sixties through the early eighties. Ken Kesey certainly played a role in my, "formative" years.
Jerry played my high school. Ken brought the boys to an epic 3 night stand being the first "rock" show in the building. Ken warned us to behave so we could get them back for more shows.
So many years later, I'm still running through those shows. Oh man...
Veneta was a hoot too.
@@joeynice123 It's a blurry memory, lol, but I'm fairly certain I was at the first field trip in 1972. My mother loved the yearly Renaissance Faire. She's a goofball from Germany and this, along with the Saturday Market were a huge draw and I was always eager to go.
The difference in the next decades appearance was the addition of Psychedelics. Shows were very different after that...memories!
Very cool man!
I really enjoy your channel!!
Thanks for sharing Cornell 77! It was my first live show and always moves me too hear it!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Chills and a few tears, can’t lie. I really appreciate you doing this.
I’ve been listening to this since high school (1994) and I was just wow’d again. Thanks again Michael
Thanks, Michael. You did find the right words to sum it up pretty well! Morning Dew is certainly at the core.
I must say that September 3, 1988 at Capital Centre is my favorite Dew performance. Phil's bass was turned to 11 and he drops massive bombs during the crescendo.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Old timer Deadhead here (first show at age 13 in December 1969 at the Fillmore East). Thanks for the enthusiasm you bring to the Boys, all versions of them, and providing fresh ears, insights and knowledge about the music that had added immensely to my enjoyment and clarified why the Dead are special, unique and forever. In 100 years much of the music we listen to will be a memory but I have feeling Grateful Dead will still be being played.
Just as importantly, you have introduced me to so many musicians, bands, styles etc and your Reacts/Breakdowns are incredible and something I’ve come to need on a regular basis. So THANK YOU. Shit I don’t play guitar, never had an interest until I started watching your channel, but I’m going to pick one up this spring and subscribe to your lessons...
and now a request/suggestion. GD Rockin’ the Cradle Egypt 78. It gets panned a lot. But the Estimate/Eyes is one of the best ever recorded. The Eyes of The World especially. It’s a long one but there’s never a dull moment.
Heard it hundreds of times and still get those goosebumps, JG- 'Magic is what we do, music is how we do it'
Thank you...as a fan it is so much fun to watch you take this (and other stuff) for the first time and see your genuine reactions. It def. reminds me of back when I first got into the Dead and Phish...so watching your reactions is heart warming. As a guitarist (wannabe...lol) it is very educational. So thanks again...keep it up.
Love those explosive Dead endings!!! back in tha'day, the concert hall would be erupting so fantastically and magnificently as they would brilliantly throw those song finale's our way.. I'm hard-pressed to come up with another band capable of those layers of buildings&textures and crescendo's!!!!just awesome and btw, you did a very classy presentation, great job!!! It really does make me feel happy younger generations are reaching out & giving the Dead a chance to be as special to them as they have been to folks like me!!! Cheers
Thanks for this. You’re the best, Michael!
Cornell Morning Dew is the superior version in my book. The tightness in which they are playing, the guitar work from both Bobby and Jerry, and Jerry's voice is so beautiful and soulful when he sings this song. You simply can't beat this version.
Cornell 77 and Veneta 72 are in the list of the greatest shows they ever played. So many of the song performances have been stapled as definitive versions. And for very good reason. The band was just ON for these shows.
Another great run of shows is late October 74 when they played (it was either 4 or 5 nights, can't remember right now) Winterland in San Francisco. These were the last shows they played before taking their almost full year break and worked on Blues for Allah. But those Winterland 74 shows are just phenomenal to me. Some of the best Dead I've ever heard from their entire 30 year run.
One of the best Dews ever. Such energy and emotion.Bless you for not pausing lol.
Thank you, sir, for sharing that experience with us. It made your experience a shared experience, and that's what they are all about. :) Peace.
God this and the tony rice video litterally have me crying in my room right now at my dads house. Thanks for the great content i love you. This music is so emotional and inspirational. ✌🏻❤️
I’m with you
I love being aurally seduced. The Dead have that down in spades.
Michael, you really should try to score an interview with Betty Cantor Jackson who captured this recording. It would be a nice addition to your work.
Let’s keep it clean, 😆
@@humboldtharry4248 😆
Yeah, I'd be curious to hear what betty has to say about this show and the Dead in general.
As a recording engineer myself, i'm also rather curious about, for example, all the drums and percussion stuff by the '80s must have taken up a fair few channels, how was that all handled? How much gear was she using to make these recordings? How did her setup evolve over time? I have many questions for Betty.
@@NealMiskinMusic I'm presuming you know of the discovery of the 'Bettyboards' ...one of the greatest musical finds of GD music. Here is a pic of Betty at work offstage...she recorded these shows onto her Nagra IV-S open reel portable media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/03/16/gd-gettyimages-453967204_wide-5c1bd95d5c06385ec379f0c082b10647232cd317.jpg
I wonder if she still has that in her possession. Look at the size of those cans on her head!
@@2ChukBuk Oh yes, I am aware. I can also tell a Betty reel from a Healy mix, as the Betty Reels tend to have punchier drums, and nice bright guitars, and Healy was known for putting weird delays and stuff on Weir's voice, at least in the mid-late '80s.
Aw! The look on your face! Priceless! So glad you enjoy doing these videos. I do! Thank you!
Merry Christmas, Michael!
That was great.
'nuff said...
very cool, such a beautiful way to end the year. BTW i got hip off of YT reco when i saw '..guitar teacher reacts to Morning Dew' back in like march '20. look at you now 212k and rising. congrats you put in the work and deserve it! keep up the great work, cheers!