Grateful Dead - Peggy-O - 12/31/1983 - San Francisco Civic Auditorium
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- Recorded 12/31/1983 - San Francisco Civic Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
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Jerry transcends the idea of a lead guitarist. Hendrix, Clapton, Santana, all great guitar players. But, Jerry, he was otherworldly. He was so far beyond.
I'm in a really rough spot right now, and I have tears streaming down my face listening to this right now. I needed this today, more than I ever thought
From pain to strength.
Hopefully, you're feeling better 🌈
Hope your well friend
I was there. It was my 21st birthday. My only NYE show. R.I.P. dear Jerry.
You witnessed the best version of this song. I pretty much hear Jerry’s solo in my head 24/7. It’s embedded in my soul now. Wish I was alive at the time I would’ve been to every damn show! Thank God for CZcams I guess 😂 happy belated! I’m sure that was one hell of a 21st birthday!
Greatest guitarist ever
Wow!!! That's got to be one of the best Peggy-O's ever. Thank you Jer!
He is the greatest. Every note is meaningful. Miss this man so much but glad we still have his music.
I was very fortunate and had the opportunity to meet Jerry one time such a kind-hearted Soul such a kind man such a terrible loss for all
The solo is like we're sitting in the car with him while hes tuning a radio patiently to find the right frequency and when he finds it he turns the volume up and then takes us on a trip. Each version is a different adventure. I love this song
Jerrys solos on Peggy o are so tasteful.
This was performed the evening of my son's birth.
Has to be an argument for the best one ever. His solo phrasing is just perfect in every way. Couple that with the natural pain in his voice for his state at the time, just makes it untouchable to me ⚡️🌹
No argument. Is the best straight out.
Yep I love the early 80s..
Agreed
His solos on Peggy O are usually some of my favorites. Always beautiful.
Agreed
Words cannot do the extended Jerry solo justice. It’s beautiful and he was irreplaceable. Thanks for everything, boys.
Gorgeous. A portrait of a man consumed by his music, to our eternal grace.
Beautiful comment brother.
I would argue Jerry’s guitar playing got better as he aged. He never lost the feels
Gotta be one of the top Peggy-o’s of all time. Especially watching it and seeing Jerry in such a bad state visually, while playing some of the most beautiful live music ever. Emotional one.
Jerry always shown brightest on these slow story songs that escalated/crescendoed into blissful soaring emotional journeys
yeah some of his work on Loser gets me too. You can literally feel it.
That's why we love him..
Jerry’s solo here is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I will ever hear. To think that something like this can come out of a man at the height of his addiction is unbelievable. The man was one of
the most angelic people to ever walk this earth. Thanks for sharing your gift with all of us. ✌🏻❤️
Addiction is not a problem if a) the supply never runs out and b) you can keep to a steady level and not overdo it.
Arguably his best solo ever. I have watched hundreds, perhaps thousands. The only other one I have found that competes is hereczcams.com/video/AJLXj9kPDP0/video.html
Much much worse 85'-86' Was there, just looked horrible. Literally like he could fall out at any moment. Which we all know he did. In 83'-84' he was completely strung out no question, but, IMO, arguably his best ballads for vocals and phrasing ever. 87', 89' and 90' were the best the entire band ever played. Again IMO 🌹⚡️
Dorito addiction?
@@darylfitz4189 If you don’t know you shouldn’t even be on this page
I was at this last show ever played at the S.F. Civic on the 31st of Dec. 1983. I remember standing in line on Geary st. at a ticket outlet to buy tickets. I still have the stubs from this great show! Miss ya Jerry Garcia!
I used to walk around that area in the early 2000's when I had free time from a work trip as well as Golden Gate park, kind of imagining what things were like during the Dead days when they either lived there or frequented the city and Fillmore area. By the time I was there, it was a weird mix of yuppie and leftover hippie. Was cool to grab a quality dime bag before things became legalized. At least I got 3 Dead shows under my belt from 93-95. I became more of a Deadhead once Jerry died and my collection grew. Thank God for CZcams, Sirius Grateful Dead Channel, and Dead tune apps. So much accessibility. ✌️
Also walked around Haight Ashbury of course.
@@robertherrera912 I lived in the Haight-Ashbury in 1974 while I was a student at S.F. State. We had an American Flag for curtains in the old Victorian house we rented on Grove street. I recall going to a rather infamous "coffee shop" known as the Blue Unicorn at that time. Boy those were the days alright! I'm a 5th generation San Franciscan and I suppose I left my heart there when I left some 30 years ago. Maybe some day I will return, I do not know. Great times and great memories indeed and yes, it was grand! Take care Robert
that solo is literally perfect in every single way
Brings tears to my eyes.
Couldn't agree more. Absolutely sublime solo. I have listened to hundreds, perhaps thousands of Jerry's solos, and so far, can only come up with one better; his solo from The Maker from Shining Star. STUNNING.
Elegiac. I always try to step back and remind myself that Jerry routinely took ancient folk songs, electrified them in huge amphitheaters, and played these deeply melancholic and beautiful leads over them. At a distance, it's a really weird position for a 'dance band' to be in, and yet, it's perfect.
Jerry is my fav guitar player.
He puts all the pieces together. The voice, the guitar, the beat, the scale, the band, for haunting beauty.
When i was a teenager my Dad shared with me the Story of the Old Bull and the Young Bull, which i kinda understood, but not to the extent i do now at age 52. I feel similarly about the Grateful Dead, it hits you differently as the years go by. Jerry Garcia and my Dad left us long ago, but what they shared with us live for an eternity.
To those tho wonder how a man so deep in addiction could elicit such beauty…you’ve got it backwards…it’s the pain, the feeling of utter loss of control of all things tangible and worldly, of the feeling that life and all its beauty is slipping through one’s fingers like sand in an hour glass that fuels a flame like his. Jerry loved his instrument more than he loved himself. He could escape from the self-induced shackles placed on him by his addiction, if only for fleeting moments of time. In those joyous minutes, all the pleasure of this mortal world and its endless possibility pour through him like flickering candles in a northerly wind. He could focus what energy and intuition he had in the tank and channel the heights of his talents. It was only after the adrenaline and heroin ceased to flow that it all came crashing down. But in these moments of utter euphoria and passion, he yielded immortal bliss.
Beautiful analogy but still sad. I wish he could have had some more years of joy in playing his guitar.
@@seanegan3296 We all do and Jerry said it himself in an interview. He lamented the part of him that had a "fuck you man" attitude when it came to his own well being. And yet that pain and sorrow is part of the beauty that came through his music. There has never been a more soulful player & singer imho. ⚘
I heard from family he *had* to play a show just about every night.
Were you his personal therapist or something? How do you know all this?
@@robertsousa9550 🤣🤣🤣
I never felt the urge to trip or even get high at a Dead concert, because Jerry would float you around time with songs, singing, and solos like this. I didn't want to miss a thing! So much poignance in so much of his artistry. Yep, grateful, forever....
Wow, I resonate with this comment. When ever I tripped I was in some alternate universe in the woods or at college spring weekends - mostly in the mountain woods. I never wanted to trip at show because I would have missed the show.
I loved tripping at Dead Shows for my first couple of tours, it was like the music was an engine driving a carnival ride of communal spiritual experiences wrapped up in a neat four-hour bow leaving the afterglow for the parking lot philosophers conference. Eventually after I surrendered that right of passage I came to believe the music was best savored abstemiously in its sacred, natural and evolving state. I would continue to attend shows till the music sadly did stop relishing each and every subtle nuanced variation within the ever evolving harmonic intensifications and crescendos to this very day. Most of my friends followed a similar path. Speaking strictly for me the second act without the first act has to abate somewhat from the full unique cultural phenomena that were the Grateful Dead....
@@fs8820 I was just worried I would wander off and get lost and miss the show.. that happened to my cuz Shayne quite a bit, he would usually just give his ticket to someone I felt should see the show. I miss him dearly.
Jerry was a natural high. Nicely put.
@@44elisdad very good
Goddamnit that’s a great Peggy o if I’ve ever heard one
One of the greatest songs in the Dead catalog. Jerry just shines with his voice and guitar
A masterpiece
I cry everyone I hear this version why do i love this man so much
Glad I came across this bittersweet version of Peggy O! One of the best Jerry solos, I agree with many others here. Thanks for your sonic gifts Jerry!
Hey Stoney. If you’re watching this, so am I. SUNY Morrisville. 1986. You and me, girl. You and me. The torch still burns.
I've seen many and many peggy o's and this is a great $#@%ing solo rift towards the end. RIP Jerry. I'm glad your an idol of mine in this crazy matrix we live in right now.
1:59 very well said.. 💯 agree!
A bright star in a dark world.
Wonderful singer you voice
Sweet in my ears ❤🎉
hard to believe I used to not care for this song. god damn you, past self!
I MISS YOU
Jerry makes it look so easy!!!
This is golden.
I will always love how Jerry could just rest in one position on the fretboard and sing notes in one position for as long as he wants.... effortlessly. Melody, melody melody💚
It's true. He can play on thr same three notes in the most melodic way for like a minute. Genius.
Brings tears every time.
Everytime that solo blows my mind
Distinct Brent sounds 💜
Thankyou for posting
Yes! Brent sounds great on this.
Great gitter player ❤🎉
lol, Jerry. Great example of how he can blow open a folk tune with his guitar break unlike any other. You can hear Phil laughing in his playing. "Go on Jer, you go on! Go ahead and turn this Peggy thing out!"
Jerry, snappin those thick strings
Always one of my favorites, it's so beautifully reflective and such an outstanding example of Piedmont blues.
I buy the album of all of GD's Pretty Peggy O's the day it is released. Such a simple and profound song and all the virtuosity of the band and Jerry!
Phil looking pleased as punch playing with Jerry.
You playing gitter very nice ❤
Gives me chills to hear this
Beautiful jam, Bear... Thank you.
The guitar sings the song for you.. long live jerry
Great sounds ❤
The attack that Garcia had at this time was just at another level
Up r
It definitely contributed to his super crisp and articulated sound during this era that's for sure.
Absolutely Great!!
This song makes me so happy and I shared it with my sister and my friend they live in California I live in Tucson Arizona and our desert and my friend in Santa Maria said that this was a Bob Dylan song I always thought it was a Robert Hunter song and can anyone confirm this for me I always thought it was Robert Hunter but maybe it is Dylan and I love how he goes in from like the first person to the third person or the third person to the first person I mean just narrative genius and then Jerry whether it's Robert or Bob or Bob and Bob like wow language just so beautiful a song that is so overlooked always overlooked who cares about this song we want the hits well maybe they hits are just buried underneath the purple carpet
uh, it's an old folk song from the British Isles...
@@fredlyr1 well, originally it's a Scottish folk song yes, but this is specifically an Americanised version of it that developed over time in America.
Perfect 😎
Man Jerry just puts your soul at ease.
I remember reading that this song is an adaption of a Scottish poem, wherein a military man (A captain) finds himself in a town and falls in love with a young girl, presumably during wartime. The song starts with the point of view of the captain's comrades, then shifts to the captain's viewpoint from the fifth line onwards. The poem continues in this first stanza to show the love of the captain for this girl.
In the second stanza, there is evidence of the captain's hopeful marriage to the girl, with the reference to her riding in a carriage with her true love. The second half of this stanza brings to light the conflict that is central to the song; the girl’s mother. What will the girl's mother say when she finds her daughter has married a soldier and left the town during wartime? She'll be pretty annoyed. Note the future tense of this second half of the stanza.
There appears to be a lot of information missing between the second and the last stanza, but it can be assumed that the last stanza reflects the feelings of the captain after being denied marriage to the girl by her mother. The extremely violent imagery shows just how enraged the captain is; he'd burn the city to the ground if he ever bothered to return, destroying all the women like a pouting child destroys a rosebush that it has been pricked by.
Aye pul, its called the Bonnie Lass of Fyvie... also known as ither names. A ttaditional Scottosh Folk song.
Also, that solo took me to space to visit some old loved ones! Unreal
Thank you for this wonderful info! To me, this song has something of a Romeo and Juliette theme that I always loved.
I disagree about the last stanza. The whole thing is told by one of the Captain's soldiers, not the Captain himself, and I would say that the last stanza is the bitterness of the soldier at his Captain's rejection because of his station in life, and who then goes off to war only to lose his life on foreign soil. The Captain's dead, it's his narrating soldier who (in our version) threatens to burn the cities down if he's back.
The other point here is that they're mercenaries or foreign soldiers, not locals.
@@Sinsteel they may be right as it was a poem they read...I agree Jerry changed the poem- he added a lot of depth to the characters and the song 💜
Maybe my most enjoyable Jerry Garcia song Hunter Hunter S Thompson no wait Robert Hunter so beautiful so malicious and poignant unique plotting patient helplessly hoping I love jgb back 76 to 80 I am actually from San Rafael Marin County San Francisco California and I have just started singing in the last 10 months and this is one of the songs that I can do along with my sisters and brothers as we as we roll down to Canario our captain fell in love with the lady like a dove and he called her by name pretty peggio I love you all rest in peace Jerry Rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran Desert yes I keep on keeping on
One must enjoy the 4-16-78 version of Peggy-O also :)
How good is this
Jerry at the height of his addiction and his chops
He looks like Death himself. :(
Sure Jerry was struggling and such but this is good stuff.
Thanksss...!!! ;)
So true
Folks, this song, he barely scraped through it...better forgotten from his great stuff even in his difficult 1983 period.
i posted this peggy o and also peggy o 12 31 1984 on heady version and they are not getting the respect that they deserve.
I was there. 💛
ahh baby, dun ya kno..a broken angel sings from a guitar..from far away and long ago..yet, still i hear ... closer now than was b4...the speed of light that shines...from star supposedly afar;
Sweet!!
Haunting Peggy o
Wow Jerry goes into autopilot during that solo and it's perfectly executed. Love a good Peggy-O
Doesn't even look at the guitar......SUPER HUMAN
Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers) is the same way. Exceptional feel
Grateful 🎉❤
Heart wrenching. So sad that no one could intervene. Mickey looks like Pete Davidson.
*Pete Davidson looks like Mackey hart
I like this version - almost as good as Blacksburg, '77, which for me is the best solo he ever played.
Always a favorite mine, I've been listening to Peggy-O's tonight. So far this is the best. The tone of Jerry's guitar is so creamy. Some have a slight twang, but not here. Reallly nice transitions and few wrong turns. Jerry killed this one.
I was at this show. SF Civic. Right across from SF Town Hall. Waited all night for seats. That was interesting. A whole new facet of a Dead show. The Civic was not suited for the Dead and Deadheads. Not funky enough.
Just want to say I agree with everyone on the otherworldly beauty of this rendition. But also, you sometimes have to appreciate how crazy/wacky the whole band is. Like what the hell is going on with Mickey at 5:05 looking like sheen from jimmy neutron on picture day.
Jer mastered the melancholy
At 5:10 you can hear William-O’s heart breaking.
Yeah Jerry is Flyin High...
How did those around him not recoil in horror at what he had become? I assume Parish didn't say s*it because he didn't want to lose his job.
This is the truth
Plays it in A, huh
the third is very rarely used.
Pretty decent version.
Who knows about Jerry's fret hand shaking? I think they both did, but you can really see it in the fret hand here. lt looks like Parkinson's or something similar. I just watched the 10/30/80 Peggy-O, and you can see it there as well. This plagued him the rest of his life. I'm amazed he was able to play with such precision given this ailment, and I've never heard anybody talk about it. A couple people I've mentioned it to said it's for technique, and that is ridiculous to me. God bless the man!
I have always thought the majority of it was how much fast on-the-spot thinking he did while he was playing, plus he was a faster player when you consider he was improvising 90% of the time. Can't be stable if you don't know what exactly you're gonna play next. Add on the fact that drugs cloud the neural pathway between the brain and fingers, plus extended heroin use and diabetes, and I think you have your answer. Diabetes and extended heroin use do eat away at the nerves, and it's well documented that by fall of 94 Jerry was having a hard time feeling his pick, and he was experiencing a lot of pain from playing due to neuropathy and carpal tunnel. He still maintained a very good amount of control right till the end though, but I think it hurt him to do so, and that's really why 94 and 95 are so bad. If you have really bad hand pain and you try to play even slightly fast, it's pretty easy to sound like 95 jerry. Add congestive heart failure, emphysema and a bad heroin addiction on top of all that and it's a wonder he sounded as great as he did, that's how special he was. When those chronic issues were more dormant though... he was absolutely still there. Jack straw from 9/17/94 tells you all you need to know. It seemed to flare up as each tour progressed, and after some rest before the next tour he would sound like himself again.
@@jgilmour9123 Appreciate your thoughts. I saw a video recently that had snippets from the So Many Roads book that talked about him not being able to feel his pick and other heartbreaking things. Been meaning to read the book ever since. I’ll check out that Jack Straw. I listened to the Palace 94 for the first time in many years and thought he sounded pretty good all in all. Cheers man!
@illuminotmereloaded6896 Cheers! It is definitely heartbreaking, and I wish it hadn't gone down the way it did. Still, I think there's good listening in every era of the dead👍
That's Bravado,my guy...gets that extra sweetness on them Vinci strings jerry loved...shame the dont sell em anymore.
Not sure anyone has ever made a guitar sound sweeter
"Why is Henry Rollins on drums here?!" Oh...Mickey just had a trim!
Prolific
Like an eloquently translated palmer
Jerry's "Less is more" approach is so much more meaningful compared to approaches like Slash or Van Halen, even Hendrix.
is /Jerry using a thumbpick?
He thumbs it and the pick in his palm for the solo
Sweet William he is dead.😢
The reason I never used drugs is because I didn't want to look so fucking old like Jerry.
Well,I've used heroin all my life,I still only look half my age,ppl think im in my mid 20's still,my profile pic I'm in my late 30s...I guess prison did preserve me a good bit...but yes,drugs are bad,for sure avoid em!!!
Im wondering if the guy who ownes that guitar got cursed they found him dec almost dead of fentanyl overdose and they hid the story until a few weeks a go my first show was in 87 and heroin was the farthest thing from my mind and had know idea how big it was on dead tour vut but we all know what those top part if the areans were used for lol im glad my dead tour experience was herb L and hare krsna lol
this song is grueling
the dead suck
tiger is wrong for this. fat and sloppy. the correctly named rose bud is the best. tiger only works in c and g.
Chill Kevin. Jerry did just fine without your input.