Grateful Dead 10-16-81 Melkweg Amsterdam Netherlands
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2011
- Setlist:
On The Road Again
Dire Wolf
Monkey And The Engineer
Bird Song
Cassidy
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
The Race Is On
Ripple
Playing In The Band
Hully Gully
The Wheel
Samson And Delilah
Gloria
Turn On Your Lovelight
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Playing In The Band
Black Peter
Sugar Magnolia
Video Source: Pascal Sloet Tot Everlo
Sound: Marc Tromp
Produced and edited by Pascal Sloet Tot Everlo
Matrix Source: SBD transfer by Charlie Miller
AUD recording by Michel the Belgian Deadhead
Matrix by Hunter Seamons
Video remastering by Hunter Seamons - Hudba
I was at this show on the 16th of OCtober as well as the night before and saw just Jerry & Bobby play at the Melkweg on the 13th when the full Hash Bar was open. Highlight of my Grateful Dead Career. Front row both nights
David T oh my lord no way
Thank you for yer service
Amazing nights, we have been lucky to be there !
@@richardfaucheraux4873 YES indeed! Lifelong friendships were made on that tour.
wat a great show to be at Gloria in to Love light unreal god bless the guy who taped videod this for us all to enjoy
show
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS VENUE TO BELIEVE IT, WE ROLLED THROUGH ON A BIKE TOUR IN :82:..I CRAWLED OUT OF AMSTERDAM, GREAT HASH BAR/SPACE CAKES/TI-STICKS ETC...THIS VIDEO IS A RARE GEM, AND BRINGS BACK A MOMENT IN TIME..MUCH APPRECIATED!!
Dead fans are so lucky. You guys have ten different aud sources and a soundboard for every show they did. Plus a ton of pro shot videos. I never liked the dead all that much, until my friends led me to philly spectrum 94. Well, all we had was 40 dollars and a small tank lol . They got to see all three shows. They also bought me a ticket for the last night, ill never forget it, they were right. Ill never see anything like it again.
bonzo692003 .....ah man, I was at that 94 Spectrum show. My first and only Dead show.....
I was also there. I was lucky enough to see them 27 times. Used to love the spectrum. My bro had a sister who lived right near the arena. Ah the good times we had......... 😁😁😁
Proof that tone and musicianship comes from the hearts and fingers of the musicians. Even with cheaper, borrowed equipment, they still sounded like the good ole Grateful Dead. This is actually one of my favorite shows from the 80s.
Thanks so much! I was at both of these shows seated around the front - centre stage, not more than perhaps 4 - 5 meters from where Jerry and Bob were seated, together with my wife, two brothers and their friends! I think there were chairs and tables, a very relaxed café atmosphere. About too much spotlight on Bobby; it was announced (at one of the two gigs) that it was Bobby's birthday. Some American (?) fans sang Happy Birthday, and perhaps there even was a cake. Now my memory starts working again! I think Garcia on the first night borrowed a guitar from a street singer (a girl? whom he thanked during the show) don't know about Bobby's axe -borrowed from Harry Saksioni's music shop (? If that holds true, I am amazed about my own memory - this was 33 - thirty three years ago!) The above was about the first night, when Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir played alone without band.
The Dead were I think on tour in Germany not too far away, and there was a poetry festival in de Melkweg / the Milky Way in Amsterdam, where acquaintances of the Dead from the old days in Frisco were performing. Amongst others Allen Ginsberg, perhaps Casey and some others Pranksters and acid heads whose names I don't remember right now, and of course some Dutch Beatnik / Hippie celebrities.
The second show the rest of the band joined them and played two sets.
My wife and I very, very lucky, for we were only in Amsterdam by chance for a couple of days, when the incredible, and more or less secret announcement was made that the Dead were coming to the Milky Way. The Dead came to play almost at our doorstep, totally unexpected, totally informal and at least at the first night no overcrowded scenes; it was like more like being special guests to a private party.
Thanks again for uploading the video!
How old were you then? And how old are you now? Being you live where you do i think maybe you can find an old friend of mine, CID I met him at a show once and we hung out together for like 30 years but haven't been able to find him since. Not the CID From NEW castle or CID from the US But the read CID from the 80's? Well had to ask.
voor ein café... dat was heel groot !
I have been back there over the decades... it seems smaller... and yet the same... da Leidesplein op Amsterdam hasn't changed much... the French come often to the " cafe's. other than that . the only thing missing is people with long hair , beards, , but not the bicycles.... plenty o' them still. dag, and dank ja well !
There was a show the night before, but it was the full Grateful Dead. Yes, it was all on borrowed equipment. They were scheduled to play somewhere in France or Belgium, but they cancelled due to lackluster ticket sales. Then it was decided that they'd skip those shows and attend the O.O.P.S. festival in Amsterdam, instead. As to whether or not Kesey, Babbs and company were there, I never heard that side of the story. Count your lucky stars, Old Rocking Chair!
OOPS, found your earlier Jerry & Bobby show. It was on 10/11! They dashed off to Russelheim, then back to Amsterdam for 10/15-16. Heady times, eh?
archive.org/details/gd81-10-11.aud.stevens.7917.sbeok.shnf
VERY Grateful to have this whole show available to 'see'. I've been listening to it for years and years.
What a grate place to see the boys, in the biggest h "COFFEE/HASH BAR" in Amsterdam🌿😊✌
I was at this gig and the night before... mind blown!
Actually been looking for Video's or Pics for a long time I was on that European Tour this shows something I remember from start to finish. Still have my Melkweg Membership card too. They had plain copied Flyers attached to Poles around Amsterdamn on this day and I had gotten one off the pole very carefully and framed it when I got home. Sadly it went missing and still bummed about it all these years later, but I have my membership card so some solace in that, TY for this video.
Whoever is playing the bongos is a universal-intergalactic-funksterngarooni-boogie-woogie man!
I just made up the longest word ever. Ha...Lol!
That's Mickey Hart
@@troubledwaters7441 "Let's just invite some guy up to play bongos. That'll be good."
this Birdsong is so supremely dreamy.
MrBubblegumballsnd Brent on GDTRFB!! wow!!
thanks 4 helpin
Acoustic Netherlands ? My lucky day, THANKS !
i'm so happy i could cry
Snow and rain
I always do! RIP Jerry, but this music don't fade away!
What an awesome Setlist!
I was there and it rocked, and Amsterdam opened our minds as to how to live as a city.....Barcelona was the best show, for many reasons, though dancing round Danes was fun (they all sat the whole show) one posted this on dead net
..... the concert grew to be a party. The music created a friendly
atmosphere between people who did not know each other. The audience was
seated in the Copenhagen Forum, but spontaneously people moved the rows
of chairs forward to fill the gaps and get closer to the stage. Such an
experience was probably common stuff in San Francisco, but it sure was
not in Copenhagen - then or since.
Too bad that seemingly naive “critique” didn’t show up on the video. If I ever go to Amsterdam I’ll be the judge of whether it’s a model for anything. No doubt it’s socialists and socialism doesn’t work so what you saw was simply a mirage and a facade.
What a Show. Thanks PBJ
This was the first time the Dead played Lovelight without Pigpen. It had been nearly 10 years. It was Bobby's birthday (10/16); perhaps that's why the 2nd set is almost entirely "Bob songs". The rest of the band really let him do his thing and it didn't disappoint!
I had no idea this was caught on video. What a treat!
great video of the Bob Weir band. seriously, a great show. jerry sounds great. thank you.
"Our Dead of the Day takes us across the pond to Amsterdam and the middle of the 1981 fall European tour (there was an earlier ’81 European hop as well). After their shows in France were cancelled, the Dead announced from the stage in Russelheim, Germany, that they would be playing two low-key shows back at the Milky Way club in Amsterdam, where they had sat in for an impromptu acoustic set about a week back. With their equipment already in transit to the next set of gigs, the boys played on borrowed instruments. The first night was great, but the next - our Dead of the Day - blew the doors completely off. There is something fabulous about the Dead trekking halfway across Europe just so they can play again in a hash bar and, what’s more, doing it with borrowed instruments. This is Club Dead at its best with an acoustic first set and Bobby taking control on his birthday in the second.
The acoustic opening set is interesting, reprising their long stretch of acoustic openers at the same time the previous year (the recordings of which became Dead Set and Reckoning as well as some nice boots). Here, the playing is very nice, but not quite as precious as in 1980. Instead, what you get is some rocking, more freewheeling versions, like on The Race Is On where they sound like the Grateful Dead impersonating a bar band, which is not at all a bad thing. But even in that framework, there are some fabulous, hair-raising tunes, like the amazing Bird Song. It is just a great acoustic version with Phil playing a subdued, but essential role and the entire band setting off on a stratospheric jam. The Cassidy and Ripple, the latter of which closes the set, are both not to be missed as they are intimate, raggedy, and so beautiful.
The second set gets right into it with a lovely, open, and ranging Playin’. It never gets too spacey, but that is part of its allure. Eventually, the Playin' makes a heady segue into Hully Gully. Steeped in history as it is - a hit for The Olympics in 1959, it had sparked a trans-Atlantic dance craze - Hilly Gully is a classic one-off cover for the Dead. And you have to wonder whether it was a little gift for Bobby from the rest of the boys on his birthday. The Wheel, one of the rare Jerry tunes in the second half, comes out next, all subdued and luscious. Through so much of the second set, though, rock star Bobby comes out in full force, giving us a raging Gloria and a huge breakout of Lovelight. The boys still deliver up tasty jamming on all of it, but, perhaps no more - after the initial Playin’ - than on the fast-paced Going Down The Road Feeling Bad. All told, this is not the Dead you might be used to, but this is a fresh setlist and some high-energy - on both the acoustic and the later electric set - club playing that is so tasty." (gratefuldeadoftheday.com)
Actually it's not or was a "Hash Bar" it was a then and before a Multi Cultural Center, please check th facts 209
I love the way that Bob looks around, right before the lyric portion of Lovelight! "Is this mine...?" Nice.
1:17:55 if anyone is wondering :)
I can't believe a video exists of this. I used to listen to this bootleg all the time in college. The internet blows my mind. The source is obviously the same, the same weird drop-outs and pops at the beginning. I love that they sound so close to their jug-band roots here..Brent playing a real piano..unplugged! cool!
Literally can't believe this has been uploaded have had my old tape of this show for nearly 35 years & to see it being played is awesome Jerry & Bobby winding up love light Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woah, I had to check the name to see if this was my old comment! same.
And Brent's vox mixed right where they rarely were - way down in the mix instead of at LEAD level. Sweet stuff.
I spent years and a small fortune downloading all this video stuff from torrent sites and burning it to DVDs, then eventually all that stuff popped up on CZcams, often with upgraded audio, and now I mostly have drink coasters. The other night actually I had a low hard drive and deleted some video of shows from the 90s to make space. They've been sitting there for years umwatched, I only downloaded them out of obsession, and if I do want to watch they're on here anyway.
The big treat was when all the Wolfgang's Vault stuff came out. Shows like 6/19/76, 12/30/77, some Jerry stuff from 76, etc. Just tremendous stuff I'd never even known had been filmed.
Happy Birthday Bob :) And many more pal. PPB
Please sir, I want some more. 😉
Amsterdam~ Yummy Went in '90 ~ bittersweet Bruce Hornsby saved the tour ) Enjoying this!
I love this song list
I had no idea video of these shows even existed! This is awesome.......
Yeah I was there all the way from Melbourne Australia and it’s Fermin awesome to see it again for the first time in 2020
I LOVE the GD.
I tuned in cause today is Bobby birthday, WOW, what a great bobby show. I'tes if you never saw a 'Gloria' live.
Boys and girls, it was shows like this that made the Grateful Dead unlike any other band. From what I've heard these were spur of the moment dates they decided to play when having a couple days off in the midst of a tour. The Dead loved to play! Too bad they didn't do more of this sort of thing after these shows.
Sure beenn😢on the road shaking ❤obviously on the road any time I get ❤😊😊😊
Bird Song. yep.
Voodoo...you're a Godsend my friend. Thank you.
Legendary, for sure! Had no idea video existed. All sorts of great stuff cropping up these days, almost too good to be true!
Not sure why some people consider this peak Dead, but it is definitely fun, energetic, different and - individually at least - there's some great fingering.
They just lived to play!
Well said !!! They just loved making awesome and Beautiful music especially Jerry !!😉
Truly speaking in the 80s was 84 85 87
88 89. I love me sokme very early and very late shows his making that Yamaha sound like wolf its cause he can split the coils. Original wolf was single coilds
Thank you!
Sounds great and looks great!
Much better then my cassette!
Hully Gully!
Sounds alot better than my maxell tape did 😂😂😂😂
Had no idea there was footage of this, thanks so much!
classic! outstanding!
Thanks for this one never have seen this before ? I’m always delighted for new ones no matter when or where ! ❤❤
i was there (balcony) and we all noticed that the show was video-captured by the melkweg crew. so no surprise to see the video right here
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie.. is really tremendous!
VERY NICE, THANK YOU
Really great 👍 stuff!!!!
Wow! Such a delight! Love acoustic dead so much... the clarity and focus is breathtaking.
I love how at 22:00 jerry tunes around and hushes up the rhythm section .. especially micky on this Congas
I was there at that show. I had no Idea who this band was. They were playing in the biggest Hash market in Europe at the time. The Melkweg was a private club, you had to be a member but membership was sold at the door. Across the bridge, over the moat. There was a chalk board that told you what was going on in the Melkweg, Dutch for Milky Way, every day and night. I remember that the Grateful Dead played to no more than 75 people and till 04:00.
We are still alive! Grateful Dead will never die...
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You gotta love. this. Unplugged way. before any body even though. of. it
Billy's reactions during Black Peter are great.
High energy jams on borrowed instruments. There is certainly a little something extra going on, these guys are having big fun. The comment about Bobby being the star... all good and well, but I recommend a closer listen! Phil is enjoying the borrowed "normal" bass and sounds great, especially on the acoustic set. Garcia is stretching out every chance he gets. He goes nuts on Bird Song. Weir is in fine form too, but jumping about on stage is not really what the Dead were about...
incredible.
Bob Weir's Birthday...Maybe, that's why the focus is on him....Never the less, the music what it's all about. Pretty good "Bar" show for the GD in '81 !!!
Hully Gully at 50:45. Classic impromptu Dead. A little sloppy, a little rocky. ✌🏻💀. And the Gloria at 1:07, even crazier. One of my favorite bootleg tapes. Thank you GD!
This is fabulous.
Natural born easy 🤩
Oh babe it ain't no fucking lie
another great upload- and g-d bless the Grateful Dead
wow
thank you
God Bless Jerry
Happy birthday 😢😂❤….Samm!🎉😂❤
a review in dead base X by Robert A. minkin says a girl jumps on stage (during the acoustic set) but I don't see that either - I would think it would have been during the bird song or Cassidy.
thanks:)
Ill be in Amsterdam in 2 weeks and I was recommended a trip to Melkweg. I doubt they'll be hosting an act like the dead but holy hell is it awesome that they played there!
i mean talk about a set list and breakouts holy sweet baby jesus in the morning!!
The MelkWeg is sick. Three of my friends and myself rented a houseboat on the canal that runs along the streets that are parallel to the MelkWeg. About a 10 minute walk. We were there originally for the cannabis cup but being from Humboldt County, CA we found out very quickly that our own home was America's Amsterdam . We lost interest almost immediately in the Cup and toured the city instead. Saw a reggae band at 3am at the Melkweg, found out Michael Franti and Spearhead where playing the next night in Rotterdam. Tickets were on sale still, but 2 of my friends got JetLagged and we tried to wake them but it was no use so one of my friends and I took a train down to Rotterdam in hopes of still being able to get in. No luck, just a bunch of Heroin dealers at the train station and we walked Rotterdam for an hour at 11pm and took the train back to the Dam. Our friends were up by then and were like WTF. We said we tried to wake you knuckleheads up but you were out I shoulda just bought the tickets online the day before when I found out they were playing and just bought them and then took a.bkowhorn to them to wake.them up. How many times you get to see good American Bands in Holland? Not many. I haven't been back but we had a great time. But we coulda made some good connects had we brought our bid that we grew. All the weed we saw in the Dam was sub par. And that was being nice. Now the hash was another story, but this was 2003. Now it's a different story. LoL. Back then people were just figuring out butane hash and how to make that. Now you have resin, rosin, edibles, everything under the sun. But Amsterdam is a cool town. Bobby's Birthday show. The next night in Paris is a smoker as well. Thanks for the upload .
Damn if my brother were alive he’d flip his shit if he saw this on here this was a bootleg in regular rotation. He died in 03 well before all this beautiful tech came to be 😢
Hey now!!!!!! Tommy we will see them again one day!!!! Sweet that our loving band, reminds you of ur beautiful brother!!!!! Peace n Love Tommy!!
Garcia playing a Yamaha and Weir a Telecaster. Never saw then use those guitars. I knew about the Yamaha but was not aware Weir ever played a Tele with the GD. Sounds great!
All borrowed stuff from the Who✌
Zo... wat heb ja maar ein bitje Grateful Dead op Amsterdam ? I came off a summer tour in Oregen and visited tante Ans , in Naarden-Bussem when I heard of this tour.... my cousins scored tix op da MilkWeg... goed, ya ? My first taste of Nederlandsmet my moeders family. Heel goed, yonge !
Geoffrey Russell did you come to America just for grateful dead tour? if so where from and how'd you know about them. did you hear about them or where really into them before going to America for a tour.
unless you're from America on that case I'm buzzed up and not comprehendingcorrectly.which is what one expects when CZcams Jerry on a Saturday night lol
you're lucky to see them like you did. one time I saw Jerry :( seen everyone else a bunch and listen to shows pretty much daily.
Aye.....I did indeed venture from afar in 1977 , to witness the greatness of Jerry, Phil, Bobby, Bill and ( rather reluctantly, Donna.
LOL. and you came to crack jokes as well! very cool story...the best thing about the internet and the Dead: meeting interesting folks from elsewhere...
Bob Weirs hair courtsey of the Amsterdam hair club for men
Nice!
I was thinking Brent’s looked cool in this video
Yeah, its kinda weird how the lights don't really do much. Almost like there isn't even a man on the board....weird. I'd have walked out if the lights were that weak....right after they scraped my brain off the ceiling : P Lol!
They didnt need lights like alot of other acts alll they. Needed was music..m they never had an overwhelming rig
😅beautiful 😂❤❤🎉music zzz hear❤awesome!!❄️🌩️🌺⚡️🔥⚡️✨🍄🧔♀️✨🌱✨✨
Left the engender wipe worried mind,,.. “”
Never seen Bobby playing a Fender Telecaster before - and what is Jerry playing?
@occams99 keen eye there 99. I was trying to make out what it was too. looks like a Yammy headstock but heck over there ya never know. he was fiddling around with it quite a bit, not quite used to the action.
steve s500 or s1000 but hes using the single coild sounds like wolf before she git her humbucers. I dig me some hum
2:14 that moment you decide it is cool to tape and your date takes the mic out of her purse
i heard they were the who's instruments, they played there a few days before, but i cannot substantiate that rumor. my friend went to these show.
True true✌
No, I think the shows with The Who were for the Spring ‘81 Europe tour. Pretty sure this isn’t the Who’s equipment.
Had thid BoB's 35th...Robb'dd
What guitar is jerbear playing second set?
It's actually a great Lovelight!
Anybody else hard
I believe only time I have seen this guitar configuration w Jerry' s and Bobs Tele. What guitar was Jerry playing?
Looks like a Yamaha✌
S 500 or s 1000 not sure hard to see but apparently you can buy it for 1300 bucks lmk of interested
@@danielhubschmitt7897 ty. Had not known about g s 500. Only 6oo at guitar center. But thanks interesting guitar.
what guitar is Jerry playing? that's a rarity for sure.
Bob with a Tele and I haven't even figure out what Jerry's playing yet???
I was there, it's a Yamaha SC1200
Looks like bobbies playing an Ovation Guitar
What kind of guitar does jerry have in this one?
Yamaha sc500 or 1000 not sure I can buy it though
What's with the sound?
Audience recording on a??? VHS? That's what, maybe...
Played with gear borrowed from the Who....
Ha. Was just about to ask. What is jerry playing??? Bobby w a nice tele.
Back when bob was an awesome rhythm guitarist. The camera focuses waaaaaaay too much on him tho. Kinda odd. Did they not know which one was Jerry?
Keith taking a sip??????@13:27 woah lol
oh yeah - how stupid of me - good catch :)
Wasn't this the first time they Played Lovelight since Pigpen had died?
Fugckkun. AAA
Bobs just a wheee bit aggressive in his strumming and he’s a bit loud ... but awesome to see this
Somebody track down the soundman!
Brent gets more spot time than Jerry and he doesn't do any tunes.
lol whoever lit that stage needs to be punished.
Strange, I never heard of them borrowing guitars from people or what have you. But if you listen there are some inconsistency's while playing Dire Wolf....But that just might have been a oops as they had many over the years.
I have a better audio for this if you need
+Scott Cohen Is this the video audio? Is more of this video available? this is one of my favorite if not favorite acoustic show.
+Scott Cohen nm. thought this was only: On the road again per the title. DOH!
+Scott Cohen Hey Scott, Can you send it to me? robertjamesnoble@gmail.com
For me, this tape (OOPS show) had a lot of novelty value but wasn't very satisfying to listen to. D. Gans hyped the show in one of his books. Amazing that video has existed all this time. Mr. Bob Weir is the star of everything filmed in the early 80s-- the man moves around, unlike our other lumpy heroes.
Borrowed instruments. I think Jer is using a Yamaha electric guitar, not sure. They sound great considering they don't have their own stuff....
pete townsends guitar is jerry's toy for the show , "I WAS SO STONED " quote garcia " Space cake Hash poofs I was COOKED MAN ha ha ha " " oh and petes guitar differed from mine , THE strings were like dental floss HA HAHA , did i mention I was STONED , that was a weird one allright HA HA HA " classic jerry i read somewhere long ago instead of my skool books i was given a crapy copy on a crappy tdk with sand in it , it said GRATEFUL DEAD HASH BAR , i broke and fixed it fifty times in ninth grade alone knowing by the time i was old , these things would be impossible to find .......??????AT least i was right in 89 saying fuck everything go ,everytime the chance arises or not ,because when your old youll be pissed you didnt , that was little better than no accesss to dead music thirty years from now
@@bigsadie3405right on!! ❤
interesting rarity for the weird setting, but musically unexceptional. sound quality C- but beggars can't be choosers. video quality: C+, but who really cares? electric starts at 39:15.
Dave Cacela lol
Disagree. Better than a C . I’d say a B, and the sound is better than that.
Picky picky
Big Locomotive - perfect balance all the way across... this was recorded on a VHS?
Tell you what, seeing Bobby's hands on the opening :60 of Birdsong is priceless.
This version of Cassidy is frkkn amazing. There's even a bass player in there!
This is an off concert. There’s very little energy. Jerry, unfortunately looks overweight and going through a mild depression. His voice sounds like shit and the lighting guy is stoned out of his gourd and isn’t doing his job. Hope at least the weed was decent. Seems as though it was, Jerry and Bob seemed to have had plenty. Oh yea, the guitars are off. Not one of the more stellar shows.
I ran into Bob Minkin at this show.........................among others.