Jerry Garcia & Sting ABC Nightline 9/5/1982
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- Segment on US Fest, Jerry talks to Sam Donaldson about Woodstock. And Sam likes Da Doo Doo. Sorry about the quality, I came across this while clearing out VHS tapes & didn't see posted yet
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I like how polite both Sting and Jerry are when responding to the idiocy of Sam Donaldson. Well mannered rock and rollers :)
Definitely
For sure
So true. Sam is hilarious. He didn't know what to ask. They handle him very well.
@Jimmy Carolina - Man, I had the album and cassette. Playing Pitfall and King of Pain. What a weird time that was. The 80’s seemed so archaic
I thought the interviewer was cool . Showed them respect unlike lots of people to rockers back then
Jerry was always so witty and kind to even the most clueless interviewers... miss him and his wonderful playing.🙏🥲
1000000%
Sam was the MOST CLUELESS…
Even Tom Snyder was a better interviewer than this guy!
Clueless fer sure.
ABsolutely. Donaldson is ridiculous.
Sam: You're sort of the Willie Nelson of Rock Music
Jerry (without missing a beat): Thank you
Gotta love it!
Well The Dead played with Waylon Jennings in 73 @ Kezar so he was a fan of the outlaw country music.
Indeed.
@@kevinhennessey3189 jerry and the grateful dead covered merle on multiple occassions and cash as well
@@herbythechef7624 Dolly Parton, too.
Jerry Garcia was the real original outlaw.
I love Jerry. And I mean it. The man was a genuinely kind soul. He spread happiness everywhere he went in everything he did.
You can quickly tell Jerry was in a good place when he did this interview
Jerry: Drugs are part of the fun part of life...
Sam Donaldson: Let's go back to Sting...
Sting: I enjoy coke.
Sam Donaldson: 😳
👍
Talking heads on stage behind sting!!!! Love it
So courteous of Commander Spock to take time out of his space adventures to interview these legendary musicians. Putting his foot in his mouth as usual due to his lack of emotion but you can see how hard he tried.
Jerry is articulate and awesome as ALWAYS
When Jerry said it was more than fortunate , I wept a tear of joy and love for how selflessly he conveyed his part in our journey
Gotta love when Sting gets drowned out by Talking Heads soundcheck.
Talking Heads warming up in the background.
actually playing live
Jerry’s humility was unique among music stars.
Jerry was one of those rare people who was universally loved.
Some of my fondest and foggiest memories are Sting opening for the Dead and as a kid seeing The Police in a field next to my uncle's farm in what is now the suburban sprawl outside of Toronto.
Grate(ful) memories.
1981?
Sting is such a legend 😎
Police Picnic? I guess those shows got so out of hand that they were barred from playing there again
I'm amazed how unprepared Sam Donaldson is for this interview. He sounds like he's been under a rock for a decade.
Exactly. Asking about Woodstock in 82. Anyone who reads a bit about the Dead knows that their Woodstock show was not their best. He could’ve asked about many other concerts
Yeah...new technology like 'amplification'. Yikes
Can you imagine him interviewing Miles Davis instead? Geez, rock had already been around for about 30 years at that point.
But he had the doo doo album. Didn't you hear? lol
Hysterical comment, thanks! I don't know how sting kept it together during that exchange.
"I love that Da Da Doo Da Doo Doo".....awkward.
Hideous, lol.
@@ASparkleross i was dying lol
I love how Sting is backstage at the US Fest and Talking Heads are playing their set in the background. Another neat thing to think about is that although not as extensively as the Dead-who ever did in their singular way-The Police improvised plenty onstage themselves…especially Copeland.
Yeah, Jerry always seemed so patient and kind during interviews--a good sport so to speak!
Seeing Jerry interviewed with wrestling superstar sting is a trip ❤
Bizarre. Jerry down to earth and friendly, Sting was Sting, and Sam was clueless. Fun to watch, though.
Sting is way less guarded than usual, especially at this point in his life.
clueless??? how 'bout..... brainless !!!
@@chrischandler5653 Sting is not in Jerry's league
@@tw364 Very debatable
@@tw364 They're both great musicians. Jerry had that infectious personality though.
I love 💕 and miss Jerry Garcia. Rest in Peace my brother.
Sting had a lovely smile and laugh. Very handsome when young.
Appreciate the share ,anytime JERRY talks ,I’ll listen 👂 ❤️⚡️💙✨🐺✨
There are lots of downsides of social media, but this is a fantastic example of the best of it (and the best of CZcams): discovering things I missed or uncovering hidden gems that would otherwise be lost to us all. Thanks for scanning this in and sharing!
“... the willie nelson of rock music”
“thank you”
WE LOVE JERRY FOREVER
Love Jerry. Wish he was still around.
Grate clip. Listening to the genius never gets old! Ever.
Grate on my nerves
Awesome interview! Thank you for sharing this.
Jerry is so happy in this video. So great this is
Sting is super high here. He's fielding the questions pretty well considering the environment and mundane questions.
and Psycho Killer blasting in the background
I doubt it.
Definitely high on pure Cocaine then! Ain't no doubt.
This was during his coke phase. Why do you think Ghost In The Machine sounds so different from the other albums?
Psycho Killer playing live while Sting chats
Right :D
Qu"est-ce que c'est ? ah ah ah ah ahhhh..
British music ruled radio at this time and it was fun listening to all this music in the back of my parents car as a kid. Just a different time in America 🇺🇸
Sam Donald had no clue here. “Are you going to do your machine gun bit?” Sting: “What?” “Are you going to play Da da da Do do do?” Sting: laughs… Come on old man Donaldson.
I got to see Jerry sit in with Sting at RFK in 93. He fit in pretty good !
Jerry sat in on Tea In The Sahara. I've searched high and low for a recording, never found one. It only lives in my memory now.
@@elvinhayes7120 the Branford Marsalis connection. PS - I love me some old time NBA Washington Bullets. I own a jersey👌
@@elvinhayes7120 Its here on CZcams.....watched it recently
It's in black and white, very cool
I was there too! RFK 93… Jerry came out for Sting’s ‘Walking On the Moon’
Sounded the best I ever heard it 🎸
Sting looks like a techno-villain at any age.
That and a softer looking Malcolm McDowell at any comparable age.
I feel lucky to have seen them together in Vegas, 1993.
Jealous dang
I was there too! It was a great show! 😊
Thk you for this bud ⚡️
Pretty awesome eh Joergie 🤘🏻🤩LOL
Who's bud?
This is gold.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm surprised by people making fun of Sam Donaldson. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have this interview. Also, Dead Heads and Sting/Police fans come from all walks of life. There was no reason to doubt Sam's opinions on music. I remember when us Dead Heads were respectful of others.
SD knew that Jerry liked to "improvise" for over 30 minutes so he wasn't that clueless
Sam needed an interview from the US Festival and Sting and Jerry were probably just waiting. It is a bizarre interview.
@@PaulDeFelice Absolutely, Sam did okay. Give him a break.
Sam Donaldson was one of the top professionals in the business, and here he seems out of touch and unprepared. A professional can't just make up a new name for his "favorite" song or the new movie starring his live interview subject. With general respect for Donaldson as a trained journalist and presenter, I expected more from him than I saw in this interview.
But that is the name of the song, "Do do do do, da da da da". I can see why Sam would like that song, ha! Sting said the lyrics are about the abuse of words. We all know Sam is a nerd anyway and I think the charm of this interview is the juxtaposition of the entertainers with the rigid news guys
Love it!! Jerry is ALWAYS gracious to interviewers, I’ve never seen his break from that.
As far as Sam being square? We could use more squares I. Media.
On the dark side, Jerry’s fingers are pretty black smudged.
You know people say that Jerry's fingers were covered in black tar heroine. It usually wasn't heroine. It was from his graphite guitar picks. I use the same ones. The more you play, the darker your fingers become. I was surprised to learn this; especially from first hand experience.
What? Really hahaha, that's what you got from this, wow. ..
love this interview. i was at the us festival, and also saw Sting open for the Dead in Vegas in the 90's.
The Police Never opened up for Any band but THE GRATEFUL DEAD. That speaks volumes!
I saw Sting open for the Dead in Soldier Field in 92 - great show of course
I’m sure they had to open up for some bands in the beginning , I don’t like Stings music but he’s a great musician and seem to be a great lad
According to Sting, Never.
Heck yeah
@@Pianoman999 I was on that tour .. at RFK tho… if you got time chk out @GNUtube … we got Jerry & Dead streams all week
Jerry Garcia:
For us… there’s some kind of a cultural relationship between what electronics, computers, and electronic games, and all that stuff, represents to the 80s.. it has a kind of, in a way it occupies the drug role, that drugs occupied in the 60s. It’s part of the, umm… fun part of life.
Sam lol!!!! I can't! Sting and Jerry are handling Sam very well because Sam's comments and questions are hilarious. He don't know what to ask. He was actually very close-minded towards Sting. Sting has had to deal with that a lot...to this day.
Can you hear psycho killer in the background while sting is being interviewed - how cool
I'm convinced Donaldson is a Vulcan.
He was confusing the Police's latest single with "Camptown Races"
sam donaldson has the charisma of oatmeal, the plain kind.
"New music for a new technological era". At that moment he was red hot, but 10 years later he'll be opening for the Grateful Dead.
Sting is way ahead of his time, even today.
Is opening for the Grateful Dead supposed to be a bad thing?! 😂
I have that da da da da do do do do record too
you can hear the Talking Heads start to play "Psycho Killer" when Sting is on the air
Jerry looking and sounding great for ‘82.
Just turned 40.
Wow hearing David Byrne singing in background toward the end is wild. Talking heads while talking to the dead. Trippy
I watched that Sting interview live when it aired then, and it was one of the most painful experiences of my young life.
Sting still burning through that Spice he got on Arrakis
Please explain?
@@chrischandler5653 it was soooo awkward. Sam Doneldson was so very condescending. He was practically demanding Sting show himself to be an intelligent "respectable" person (which he was out of line to do). And you have to remember, Sting was not yet then the household name in the States that he is now. Then, he would have been (viewed as) just one of those so-called wild rock musician guys with not a lot going on in his head.
Meanwhile, Sting had pre-stage antsy adrenaline going (and uh, frankly, I think a bit of "sniff sniff" had taken place 👀) and was not in a place to go head-to-head with Mr. conservative newscaster at that moment (although, watching it here again, I think he did a better job of it than I remembered). Just a cringeworthy mess.
@@ASparkleross Sting was just enjoying everything at this time I reckon with increasing popularity and the added snow dust. The interviewer was a bit of an old fashioned fuddy with his 'Dee do do dee da dee da da' comedy line. I think he might have had a line or two as well.
Funny yeahsirrrrr, painful ah poor baby
I never knew how he got the name ‘Sting’. And his answer to make rock better by being more thoughtful was 100% on the mark.
Jerry giggles, smirks cute.
I love how the talking heads were playing while Sting was being interviewed. You can hear Psycho Killer in the background while panning back to Jerry.
Sam to Jerry: you're sorta the Willie Nelson of rock music.
Jerry to Sam: (with big grin) thank you (laughs)
Sting talking, Talking Heads playing in the background.
What an era! ❤
Jerry& Sting ended up playing together in 1993 a few times when Sting opened up for The Grateful Dead for eight shows that summer. It was very special &a dream of mine for years. I heard that they enjoyed hanging out a couple times in the hotel bars,once being in Chicago. Those conversations must have been mind blowing!
We were bored with Sting's daily repeated setlists, not a good plan for GD shows.
I read an interview with Sting after those shows. It was probably in Relix. Sting spoke well of Jerry and said he called him "Father Christmas."
Sting comes across very shy in interviews 😊 very different than when he performs .
Is that the Talking Heads playing while Sting is talking! Also I saw Sting open up for the Grateful Dead in Las Vegas in 1993! Great shows!!!
It was 93 eh? I saw him open for Th Dead in Buffalo (and maybe Washington also?). Apparently my memory is a little fuzzy. Cheers
@@finnmcginn9931 saw him open for them in DC 93
Jerry was so great. Thoughtful answers and SO self-deprecating. "We were awful at Woodstock". Ain't many rockers who would admit that.
Sting recorded Every Breath You Take about 3 months after this.
And what a bore that song is.
@@amandajstar Only because it's overplayed.
A little more than a decade later Sting would be opening for the Deads summer tour. It was great to see
Ain't you the lucky one
I was never a big Sting or Police fan but they were enjoyable @ RFK ‘93, esp when Jerry came out to play 😁
And 11 years later, Sting would open for the Grateful Dead in Vegas.
I saw Sting open for The Dead at Rich Stadium in Buffalo and it was great.
Wow! What year was that?
If I may quote Sam Donaldson, "Well now, you've improvised a lot...". . Lol, like telling Graucho Marx that he joked around a lot. Or that Mary Shelley scared a lot. Wish Jerry was still around to read that, and respond with his never-ending kindness. God rest his soul.
TalkingHeads playing Psycho Killer on stage while Sting talks
anyone else catch that it's Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" playing in the background of Sting's clip? they must've been on a show together!
Sam Donaldson really was Mr. Spock. Just so totally alien to earthly things.
i thought sam donaldson was mickey hart at first!
Sam really is like Mr. Spock.
Mr Spook… 👻
That is not logical.
Except for being highly intelligent.
Ironically, Jerry seems sober and Sting seems wasted.
Love the talking heads in the background
No one understood rock music and the music loving youth like Sam Donaldson. 😀
Sting looked go good!
Still does frankly.
What a great interview of different people, including Sam. Neat to see.
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedInformation #Audioded
what was that pretty editing? was that the dead under sting talking. was sam fucking with sting? I felt sam felt fucked with. Jerry is so lovely. Ive never heard him interviewed. So lovely. Thank you posting this.
They seemed to get along well during the 93 tour
From what I've read Sting actually admired Jerry and started calling him "Father Christmas"
yes, in buffalo in '93. He opened for the dead. It was great when Jer came out and did a song or two with Sting. Tea in the Sahara
Funny to think about 10 years later, Sting would open for the Grateful Dead on their summer stadium tour
Comments about Sam Donaldson's cluelessness here are correct but Sam did seem genuinely interested in promoting the musicians and the music so he deserves credit for that.
Sting and Jerry Garcia being interviewed by someone who probably listens to old Mantovani records.
Sam Donaldson is one hepcat.
Never seen this before - kinda funny to see Mr. Prim and Proper Sam Donaldson interviewing Sting. "Believe it or not, I've got your record..." Yeah sure Sam. Anything you say.
Surprisingly well spoken for the rockers.
Not at all surprising. Most of the huge names are geniuses. Super smart, incredibly motivated and fearless.
@@Twotontessie I don't throw the word "genius" around lightly.
RIP Jerry Garcia ☠️
I graduated from high school 1982! We liked both and thought it was funny as fk when he called Jerry the Willie_Nelson of Rock & Jerry said thanks and giggles at the fool. Sting apparently thinks the questions are jokes as well.
Astonishing questions and comments from Donaldson, and an equally astonishing lack of arrogance (relatively) on the part of Sting. Jerry charming as always.
Astonishing? What else would a Vulcan ask?
Hi, I'm the robot they call Sam Donaldson, your ways are strange to me, but this Do Do Do, Da Da Da arouses a positive response.
Sting opened for the GD in '93 as well.
Love the Talking Heads cameo.
Talking Heads playing in the background.
The Police haven’t played their US Festival set yet.
This is from the 3rd of September then?
Sam just needed to relax a bit, lol!
This interviewer was superb. Knew his material and had done his homework. Bravo.
I love seeing the horizontal lines the broadcast.
Sam's producers threw him under the bus!
He was a great news anchor, trustworthy, a real journalist.
Not like the latest generation of fools that thinktheir job is to make certain politicians and their followers out to be monsters and inept clowns, or even both at once on alternating days.
Sam never got fired for making up alternate facts, or using someone elses.
Poor Sam....DooDooDoo....Da da daa is all I want to say to you ;)
While the Talking Heads sing "Psycho Killer" on stage in the background.
I just noticed you could here the Talking Heads playing the music behind Sting.
Started watching for Garcia. Laughed through the whole sting interview. Nothing like an old white guy trying to sound like a young white guy. God bless, Sam.