Watching someone deep dive into the Dead and watching the reaction is pretty great. It mirrors my own experience. I never really got it, until one part of one song just kind of spoke to me. Then another part of another song. Before long, it's soundtrack to any given day. The Grateful Dead's music is timeless. The rabbit hole goes as deep as you'd like to dive, and there are so many interesting things to discover on the way down!
@@Guitargate The emotion in your voice and the glossy eyes are priceless. Seeing someone who understands theory, plays like you do and has a deep appreciation for music that most of the population "doesn't get" is awesome. You are truly on the bus!
@@jwinslow5661 You are right on the money! I noticed him tearing up on the Brown eyed women/Hunter video a few days ago. Choked me up seeing it bring out the emotions in him. The power of The Good Ole' Grateful Dead! ☮💀🎸🎶🎵
Michael, your explanation of your love for this song is such a beautiful, classic newfound Deadhead experience. This is such a wonderful tune. But it’s clear that your connection here is deeper than most, as you mentioned your wife’s name is Annie and she has brown hair. This song makes you feel the love you feel for your wife, which is deeper than any ocean. This is the beauty of the Dead. We all have that one, or two, or three, song(s) that connect with us on a level that is so unexpected, it hits you like a train. And hearing the way the Dead wants you to feel about those lyrics on any given performance can change everything. Keep up the great work⚡️💀🌹
One of my most precious memories is singing this to my daughter as she drifted off to sleep in my arms. Such gorgeous, powerful, and touching melody and sentiment. Top notch songwriting. It honestly doesn't get much better than this.
One of the most pervasive symbols in Grateful Dead lyrics and iconography, the rose is a symbol laden with meaning. according to a dictionary of symbols by J. E. Cirlot "a single rose is, in essence, a symbol of completion, of consummate achievement and perfection. Hence, accruing to it are all those ideas associated with these qualities: the mystic center, the heart, the garden of Eros, the paradise of Dante, the Beloved, the emblem of Venus and so on."
Hey Jeffrey, Do you know what "Dead Head" is? Not as a noun, but as a verb. I just moved into a new trailer where the previous owner had a whole bunch of rose bushes, so I did some research and came across the term dead heading a bush. Gardeners cut the very top flowers off to promote more growth in the future....And it's called dead heading!!! Blew My Mind!! I don't know, maybe it was the roses. Peace! PS By the way it works for pot plants too but you lose the cola. You can get around that by using twine to bring the cola down a few feet keeping those pesky hormones in check.....At least that's what I read somewhere in a place long ago and far away. 😉
I gotta say, it's pretty damn cool watching you get into the Dead's music, video by video. Makes it even more so as a guitarist watching you break down the music. Keep it up, man. You've got one of the most interesting and entertaining channels on YT.
I loved watching the light bulb flick on for this guy in previous videos and now seeing him close his eyes and play with so much feeling. It's songs like this that shift the paradigm. The kaleidoscope tilts slightly and a whole new world is revealed. You can hear the same Dead songs for years and not enjoy them but after one meaningful experience even some of their lesser catalogue becomes powerful. "My wife's name is Annie". This guy just got plugged in. A connection has been made. This is why this music has stood the test of time and means so much to generation after generation!
Sometimes Robert Hunter/ GD songs just bring tears to your eyes for no particular reason. They just dig down into your soul and release something. That is what you call really good music !
I absolutely love watching your videos. I've always had a huge appreciation for good music, all different styles. Love the Grateful Dead, Phish, jam bands in general, funk, reggae......you name it. I dabble with playing guitar and your videos inspire me to want to play more. I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your channel. I've been checking daily lately to see if you have new posts. It's also so fun to see your reaction to songs that so many of us deadheads have loved for so long. Keep it up, I think your audience will continue to grow. Thank you
Brian Teichert I remember my first Dead show in 1983. I went into the arena thinking it was heavy metal. I left with my mind completely blown. Been on the bus ever since.
As a long time deadhed it's a hoot to see your reaction to this music and lyrics. Become familiar with the Dead's "Althea". You will love how buttery it is. Peace.
i love what you are doing. so much variety from picking apart technical phish and umphreys to locking in on melodies and stories. REALLY enjoy this. thank you!
I love that your digging Hunter/Garcia, I think Weir doesn't get enough love. There is something different but also amazing about his songs too. "lost sailor/Saint of Circumstance", "Let it Grow", "Two Djinn", "Cassidy", just to name a few.
I agree completely. I friggin love Garcia/Hunter tunes but the Weir/Barlow songs are equally interesting and deep. That's why the dead were so great, songwriting. Of course, it didn't hurt that they were all consummate musicians who loved their craft and were always willing to push the envelope fearlessly
Wish I could like this video twice. It's been awesome to watch you unlock the mysteries of the dead and start to really "get it" like we all did once. Keep it up!
I have always deeply loved this song! I found myself shouting yes! After everything you said! Nice to see and hear someone like you appreciate this in the same way :)
I just wanted to say I have been loving all your recent videos but this one is really special to me. This is one of those songs I have a hard time listening to sometimes because of all the memories it brings back. Not bad memories per say, just bittersweet. Hearing the isolated solo at the intro already had me welling up a bit. You are so right about Hunter. "We're on to something. We're in this together." Beautifully put my friend.
I love hearing this music through your pure, wholesome, and excited lense! Really lends new perspective and gives me a whole new appreciation for the music I've heard a million times (although itll never get old). Thank you so much! Also, this song is one of very few in which the Dead used Hunters lyrics AND musical composition!
Keep it up! Absolutely LOVE hearing you get hooked on the Dead combing your expert music knowledge. So fresh. Trying to get my 21 yr old daughter to catch on... she is quite a singer and Norah gives me hope! Thanks...
Another killer video man! This is one of my favorite songs. I've dreamed it several times. It comes into my head loud and clear while I'm sleeping. weird! I love watching you turn into a dead head man. Thanks for the videos!
Love your channel! Every time I watch you discover something new about the Dead brings me back to the all the shows Jerry and the boys had 15,000 kindred spirits all interpreting, enjoying, feeling, grooving and smiling ear to ear just like you do. It’s a strange thing with Deadheads - we seem to all feel a sense of pride and joy to see new people exposed to the magic of this music and to see those people really “get it” is just awesome! Cheers
Love your videos, it’s a fresh and interesting format, and of course love that you’re doing dead and phish. This tune is one of my fav dead tunes, and loving the Nora cover. Keep em coming!
Love the videos, keep em coming. Anything Dead and I’m sold. This is a beautiful version. I’m sure I’m biased, but there’s a perfect sadness to Jerry’s voice when he sings this that just kills me.
It's almost an alternative to the Odyssey. Instead of coming home to a house full of suitors after the Trojan War (10 years plus 10 more) to Persephone, the narrator is an anonymous soldier coming back to an empty house to a wasted away wife, forgotten and lost, except by the narrator, who sits there wasting away while wondering why noone comes around anymore. With the pane of glass and the windows, Hunter makes it a universal lament about war and about abandoned women left on their own. The romance is still there, but it's a tragic romance with a lot to say about independence and freedom.
I remember when I discovered IMHBTR for myself. I was visiting SF for the Halloween run in '91. The tragic death of Bill Graham had occurred just days before. Lots of heads were in town for the Dead Shows, but even more came to town for the free memorial concert held in Golden Gate Park on 11/3/91. The night before the memorial show, we spent the evening around a campfire down on Ocean Beach and met a bunch of Deadheads who were visiting from Oregon. One of those funky dudes kept singing just that one line "I don't know, maybe it was the roses" from time to time through the whole night. I thought, "Man, this guy really likes that song, guess I'm gonna have to learn it." I'm glad I did. It's beautiful. The next day at Mr. Graham's memorial concert, as the Dead played, planes flew over and dropped thousands of roses on the huge crowd in attendance. I remember looking up as they fell and floated out of the sky. That sealed the deal; still gives me chills thinking about it.
Always find it interesting to hear covers of Grateful Dead music. Often times, it brings a whole new energy, sometimes arrangement to a song. Thanks for sharing
This song guided(can't think of a more appropriate word) me out of one of the darkest LSD trips I've ever had, I remember it vividly but describing it would be like writing a novel. Needless to say, It's been one of my absolute favorites ever since.
As a banjo player primarily focused on Bluegrass, with a background of grateful dead---leading to Old and in the Way....and beyond....These breakdowns are so awesome...thanks.....to see and experience the enthusiasm that I felt once---again is priceless....and to get it through a guitar players perspective is gold....Thank you
I dont care how deep or wide, if ya got another side..... / definitely tugs on the heart strings. " So many roads" was Jerry last song and it fits perfectly.
It's been the coolest thing ever to watch you turn into a deadhead. And you have elevated my playing quite a bit. I can't thank you enough for both of those! 🐢💞🐢
I love the notion of checking out the covers... it really shows how sturdy (and beautiful) the songs are even without the novel arrangements and mojo that the Dead brought to them. I highly recommend listening to Emory Joseph's whole album, Fennario - Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. Great stuff, and different from most covers because he was not afraid to do the tunes without their trademark riffs. Tennessee Jed without that descending lick? No problem, the song is still there, and great. Bird Song as a samba? Excellent! It comes off so well because the songs are SO strong...
I love your channel Michael. Love it. I've watched just about all of your videos. I love how you've discovered jam bands. I love how you talk intelligently about the music and can really appreciate the magic that's being made. I even love when you dress like you sell coke to minors in Berlin.
It's always great to see the dead grab another person by the heart and bring them on the the bus for a life long ride. Much love brother! Keep the dead vids coming! NFA!!!
I subscribed to your channel about a month ago. I'm 53 years old and saw my first Grateful Dead show in 1985, a few days after I graduated from high school. Over the next 10 years I saw Jerry and the Dead well over a hundred times. Obviously I have many friends who love the band! I have never met or talked to anyone who does as great a job of explaining why those of us that love these songs are as passionate about them as you do!! Norah Jones' version is amazing and is a subtle yet incredibly strong interpretation. If you have not heard it, check out the 1978 Red Rocks Grateful Dead version. I have not heard them all, but it is my favorite version of one of my favorite Dead songs. Thanks so much for doing such an awesome job of keeping this music alive!
When Dead and Company busted this out last summer I couldn't get enough of John singing this tune. Absolutely powerful. Very good stuff. Keep up the good work man! enjoying your channel alot! Looking forward to more Marcus King and Billy Strings tunes for you to react to
I Love watching your reactions & adoration for the soundtrack of my life. The music, & Spirit, of the Grateful Dead have been a constant in my life since I was 17. And it never gets old watching someone get turned on to the music that I Love so much. Thank you for what you're doing. Every time you post a new video it's like a present. May I suggest a Scarlet Begonias...
So great to see someone in their thirties embrace this timeless music. This is folk music updated for this era! Saw my first Dead show in ‘84 at the Niagara Falls convention centre. It was a couple days after my eighteenth birthday and my mother had just died months earlier. This show/music changed my life!! In so many ways. A real gift... Check out the acoustic version of Must have been the roses, from Radio City Music Hall in 1980. The entire acoustic set is just brilliant.. 👌🏻❤️😎
The Day of the Dead record is four albums worth of Dead songs by contemporary indie artists. It’s THE SONGS!! It’s the album I have listened to the most in the last three years and it got me into the Dead. I wasn’t a fan before I heard the album.
You impress me every time you dig deeper into way the Grateful Dead (Jerry & Hunter) Jerry asked Hunter to give him words that didn't stick in his thought They were simply unequaled by anyone else, plus the equality brilliant other members of the band. Its so brilliant that it carries down the years and other extremely talented people find it worthwhile to invest in. I met the original band members and Jerry in 1971, and have loved all the different people who eventually find them. I loved taking people early on and each person came to love them also. Your equally a sensitive person and your spreading the love in such a singular novel way. Thank you.⚡️🎸⚡️🖖🏽⚡️🎸
Very stirring rendition, It gave me the chills. I am lucky enough to see the Dead perform it live at the Oakland Coliseum around 1990. Probably up in my top 5 moments with the band.
I started watching your channel a month or so before you got into Dead and Phish etc because I liked your tone and style. Now the content is right on the money. Thank you for all of this.
I remember back in the 1970s I watching Tv and the Dead was going to be be on ,I think it was the Merv Griffin show or it was Johny Carson .. I went out side and smoked a dube .. when I came back in the dead was playing, and after I guess it was 15 minutes I notice I was doing the dead head bounce and then it dawned on me that I was a dead head ...there was always something in his rhythm that got ya ... great 👍
Must have been the roses is just so much expression of emotion at every level, it takes you through the entire spectrum of emotions from beginning to end, and leaves your soul healed at the end. Box of Rain is the one song I know of that hunter wrote and nobody touched it.. Jerry was usually working together with him and making edits as they went along (though RH had a knack for writing masterpieces in multitudes) It was written in a hurry for Phil when his father was dying and he was en-route to see him for the last time.
It's very interesting that I've had this masterpiece memory banked inside and out for so long now....and knowing nothing about Norah Jones made this even more interesting. She put me through the same range of emotions that I had from the first time hearing this. The only difference was I knew what to expect but Norahs vocal ability completely sidestepped what was waiting behind every corner....had me tearing up. Thank you for sharing this with all of us and feeling and spreading the love. Keep up the good work brother....and of course have a grateful day!!!
I suggest you try a good old fun Dead tune and check out Bertha! It’s my favorite song and there is a great version with video from 4-12-78 available on CZcams. Great fun and an A+ solo by Jerry. Cheers!
when this song just hovers over and into a crowd and those spaces and those moments when you can feel the room and garcia's voice creeks in its crackly weary yet soulful way and he hits those notes that only garcia did and phil brings it together , yeah good song , 10/12/84
This one of a very few, I mean very few, 2 or 1? Songs that I can tell you exactly where I was the first time I heard it. I was on my buddy's Boat Dock on Lake Norman. ' 92 late spring. Reckoning cassette in cassette player of the boat. What's more is the fact that it wasn't a knock me off my feet moment. Obviously it was deeper and more profound. 19 years old, Summer coming on strong, The Race is On, Dire Wolf, Cassidy is more of my mood at that point in time. My mental sponge was absorbing the magic and melody of a masterpiece of Art. A prolific artist to boot. Not a one off guy who got a one in a lifetime catch and The Grateful Dead made him famous. I can see it in my minds eye as vivid as yesterday. That same friend lives on the Lake in that same place to this day
@@Guitargate My birthday is August 1st. My Aunt gave me a card on my 13th birthday with famous people born on your birthday. Jerry was one and I started dabbling in The Grateful Dead music from that day on. It made it easier that all the "cool" older guy's and girls and cousin's were listening to them and had dancing bear and Steal Your Face stickers every where.
@@Guitargate btw....really dig what you do and how you do it man. "Deal" popped up as a suggestion a couple weeks ago and I gave it look. I dig your approach and appreciation for the artist. We definitely come from the same stock as far as how music hits us. My chops and knowledge are not in the same ballpark as you. My enthusiasm and appreciation is. ✌ Thanks for time and effort All the way from NC.....
Thank you! Finally realized what I was missing when strumming through this song. Hunter/Garcia have a few songs like this that seem basic, but never really perfectly repeat themselves. This song is SO melody driven. Right on with the explanation! You can throw terms at the parts, like intro and post chorus and such. But at days end, it's just a story with a beginning middle and end. Even strumming it on an acoustic, it does not come across right until that D, G , G# and F# get put right where they belong. And you can even see Norah's fingers voicing her chords as such (A7 shape and everything). Awesome.
Amazing video! You should continue to title these videos as the song name and the writer. Reminded me of Rick Beato's "what makes this song great" series. But I really enjoy your reactions and sentiments about the songs. We come here for your perspective so don't listen to the people who get upset when you chime in or "stop the video". They can listen to the song as much as they want elsewhere. Your knowledge is what's special about these videos ✊😁
After 30 years listening to the Dead, the tunes at the top of your fave list can rotate. This one is so sweet it never leaves the list. One of those songs that fits in to those that can be an old traditional tune that they dug up, but isn’t. Like Cumberland Blues, too. Also, Jerry has done some of his best singing on this tune.
excerpt from robert hunter interview: Some of Hunter’s lyrics disappeared when Jerry was arrested in 1985 Jerry Garcia was infamously arrested near Golden Gate Park in January of 1985. Robert revealed Garcia was carrying some lyrics he had written and Hunter wants them back! “The time Jerry got busted in Golden Gate Park, they took his briefcase. I haven’t gone searching for it, but I happen to know that briefcase had a number of new songs he was working on. And if the police still have them, I’d like them back, please. It doesn’t seem right. A lot of those songs disappeared. I would give [Bob] Weir the only copy of a song, and he’d put it in his back pocket and he would do the wash and there would go that song. And he’d say, ‘Do you remember any of that song?’ and I’d say, ‘Maybe I can remember a verse or two.’ But that’s one good thing about word processors coming along - there are no more lost songs.”......
Dead head since '79 here - you 'taught' me something - never knew Hunter wrote the lyric AND music to this one. The 2nd you note is Easy Wind. Thanks and SO digging you digging the music!
Damn, what a sweet reminder about this tune! Within just a few notes I was wailing out loud, in my deepest most soulful Jerry style... I don't know. Maybe it was the roses!... Wow. Just wow.
I agree with a number of others posting here. At nearly 68 just watching you fully 'grok' Hunter Garcia masterpieces is great. It actually gives me more hope for our future than I've been feeling of late. Hunter was an irascible genius with a gift for paring things down to their essence. IE. In Hunter's esthetic discernment a centuries old sea chanty line "roll away the morning dew and sweet the winds shall blow" transforms into the iconic "roll away the dew." I agree with another's suggestion below that you'd love Cat's Down Under the Stars including Rueben & Charise also Bob hunters album 'Tales of the Great Rum Runners'. Bravo Guitargate!
It is an absolutely beautiful story. I seen the grateful dead in buckeye lake ohio in 1994. It was ingrained from the day on. When you was doing your live blues lessons, i said to you, i thought Jerry Garcia was underrated as a guitar player, because he was just outstanding. That singer there will punch you right in the feels. Good stuff, Michael
I first want to say, I am not a guitar player but I enthusiastically enjoy watching your videos. You are a lover of music, of quality, of song writing, of life. it comes thru :) but I'm going to be like many others... I LOVE the intricacies of the grateful dead. I love a terrapin station, a morning dew, a must've been the roses. Robert hunter IS amazing. I also for my own self pleasure want you and others to realize that they could ROCK! We're once a self proclaimed dance band. With that in mind and again to be one of those people, I reccomed, please check out good lovin (the entire show really) dicks picks vol 8 Binghamton NY may '70 and ladies and gentlemen Fillmore east '71. Any 70's sugaree, and maybe the eleven cause I love it so much. Even if you don't make a video of any of these, I hope you enjoy :) I thank you for the time you take making these videos. So many of us enjoy them take care
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I had no idea Norah Jones covered this. I love the Grateful Dead and Norah Jones, this is beautiful!!! So enjoy watching dive into this timeless music that has been the soundtrack for my adult life.
Hey man, been loving watching your videos on the dead. I'm 42, I believe your 36 (or so), its been really interesting watching you get into this at this point in your life. You are saying, expressing, and feeling the same things I did when I got into them as a teenager. "One pane of glass" - awesome lyric. The imagery in this song is just out of this world. Funny enough, you've mentioned two songs that I think really drive home what is so great about the dead. Brown Eyed women and Must have been the Roses. You're dead on. These songs tell great stories and have great melodies on top of them. The dead all too often gets pigeon holed for being a self indulgent jam bad. Anyone who says that isn't listening. These are great songs. The foundation is there. Sure, they had off nights. But if you aren't giving them a chance, you're missing out. I think Dire Wolf is one of the best examples of their best stuff. Great story telling and killer melodies. The Grateful dead are America's first "Americana" band. Keep up the good work... well played.
Oh my god you blew my mind. I probably first heard that song 40 years ago, and it never occurred to me that Annie died! I thought it was just a love song. This changes everything! I kind of feel stupid, but you made me understand and appreciate the song so much more. Thank you!
when I was following the Grateful Dead in the '70s I always loved to take people who had never seen or heard them to shows and watch their faces as their minds were blown. That's why I love your videos. I'm partial to the 10 to 20 minute improvisation during the second sets, but there's is no doubt that the songs are timeless and allow the band to take flight. You may also want to check out Jack Straw as another Hunter masterpiece. Pure Americana.
Hunter wrote "Ripple", "To Lay Me Down" & "Brokedown Palace" in the same day...while he was in London in 1970
I thought birdsong was also among them or that there were 4 written in one day while in London around that same time so I'm assuming that was it
Only the late great can bust out 4 masterpieces in a few hours
Hunter drinking Retsina wine, in a hotel room on a pretty day in London.
I am waiting for the ripple reaction video, beautiful song
No way.
“If you put a rose in a song, it’ll do its job “ Robert Hunter
Watching someone deep dive into the Dead and watching the reaction is pretty great. It mirrors my own experience. I never really got it, until one part of one song just kind of spoke to me. Then another part of another song. Before long, it's soundtrack to any given day. The Grateful Dead's music is timeless. The rabbit hole goes as deep as you'd like to dive, and there are so many interesting things to discover on the way down!
That's it exactly!
@@Guitargate The emotion in your voice and the glossy eyes are priceless. Seeing someone who understands theory, plays like you do and has a deep appreciation for music that most of the population "doesn't get" is awesome. You are truly on the bus!
@@jwinslow5661
You are right on the money!
I noticed him tearing up on the Brown eyed women/Hunter video a few days ago. Choked me up seeing it bring out the emotions in him.
The power of The Good Ole' Grateful Dead!
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On that deep dive, remember to come up for air!
No matter what youre going through there is a Dead song just for that.
I have listened to thousands of hours of the Grateful Dead...I still hear things that can give me shivers or make my eyes well up.
Same here. There's hundreds of thousands of people like you and I going through the same thing though which makes this sentiment even more beautiful.
Michael, your explanation of your love for this song is such a beautiful, classic newfound Deadhead experience. This is such a wonderful tune. But it’s clear that your connection here is deeper than most, as you mentioned your wife’s name is Annie and she has brown hair. This song makes you feel the love you feel for your wife, which is deeper than any ocean. This is the beauty of the Dead. We all have that one, or two, or three, song(s) that connect with us on a level that is so unexpected, it hits you like a train. And hearing the way the Dead wants you to feel about those lyrics on any given performance can change everything. Keep up the great work⚡️💀🌹
My daughter's name is Stella Rose. Due to Stella Blue, and Must Have Been the Roses. Thank you Robert Hunter!
One of my most precious memories is singing this to my daughter as she drifted off to sleep in my arms. Such gorgeous, powerful, and touching melody and sentiment. Top notch songwriting. It honestly doesn't get much better than this.
Totally agree.
I love the fact that you're being invaded by the Grateful Dead philosophy.
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Man listening to you talk about this song. Brings tears. I love this song so much. It's so beautiful.
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One of the most pervasive symbols in Grateful Dead lyrics and iconography, the rose is a symbol laden with meaning. according to a dictionary of symbols by J. E. Cirlot "a single rose is, in essence, a symbol of completion, of consummate achievement and perfection. Hence, accruing to it are all those ideas associated with these qualities: the mystic center, the heart, the garden of Eros, the paradise of Dante, the Beloved, the emblem of Venus and so on."
LOVE IT
Crazy good post, LaPlante.
Hey Jeffrey,
Do you know what "Dead Head" is? Not as a noun, but as a verb. I just moved into a new trailer where the previous owner had a whole bunch of rose bushes, so I did some research and came across the term dead heading a bush. Gardeners cut the very top flowers off to promote more growth in the future....And it's called dead heading!!! Blew My Mind!!
I don't know, maybe it was the roses.
Peace!
PS
By the way it works for pot plants too but you lose the cola. You can get around that by using twine to bring the cola down a few feet keeping those pesky hormones in check.....At least that's what I read somewhere in a place long ago and far away. 😉
I gotta say, it's pretty damn cool watching you get into the Dead's music, video by video.
Makes it even more so as a guitarist watching you break down the music.
Keep it up, man.
You've got one of the most interesting and entertaining channels on YT.
or terapin station thats a friggin masterpiece
Long Strange Trip Agreed. Terrapin is the pièce de résistance!
My favorite
especially the jack o' roses version
RIP Keith Olson. Dang it !
Absolute majestic jerry
I loved watching the light bulb flick on for this guy in previous videos and now seeing him close his eyes and play with so much feeling. It's songs like this that shift the paradigm. The kaleidoscope tilts slightly and a whole new world is revealed. You can hear the same Dead songs for years and not enjoy them but after one meaningful experience even some of their lesser catalogue becomes powerful. "My wife's name is Annie". This guy just got plugged in. A connection has been made. This is why this music has stood the test of time and means so much to generation after generation!
Sometimes Robert Hunter/ GD songs just bring tears to your eyes for no particular reason. They just dig down into your soul and release something. That is what you call really good music !
Ron Congo so true!
I absolutely love watching your videos. I've always had a huge appreciation for good music, all different styles. Love the Grateful Dead, Phish, jam bands in general, funk, reggae......you name it. I dabble with playing guitar and your videos inspire me to want to play more. I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your channel. I've been checking daily lately to see if you have new posts. It's also so fun to see your reaction to songs that so many of us deadheads have loved for so long. Keep it up, I think your audience will continue to grow. Thank you
I had seen the Touch of Grey video as a kid and possibly a couple of tunes in passing, but my first real listening experience was that of "One From The Vault", which features this song, and that was it. I was hooked.
Before any real exposure, the dancing skeletons and steal your face glass plates I'd see as game prizes at carnivals sitting next to Metallica and Poison glass plates, I thought the Grateful Dead was some kind of metal band..........................then "One from the Vault"
Help/Slip/Franklin's
The Music Never Stopped
and then It Must've Been the Roses..................wait this isn't a metal band, but, properly stated in the previous song, "a band beyond discription"
Never looked back..........
Brian Teichert I remember my first Dead show in 1983. I went into the arena thinking it was heavy metal. I left with my mind completely blown. Been on the bus ever since.
As a long time deadhed it's a hoot to see your reaction to this music and lyrics. Become familiar with the Dead's "Althea". You will love how buttery it is. Peace.
Yes!! I love the without a net version of Althea. ✌️
The many incarnations of “Althea”
Jeff Anderson incorrect. There aren’t enough actually. The song is that epic.
Legend has it that's the tune that hooked John Mayer
Althea is in my top 5 no doubt
i love what you are doing. so much variety from picking apart technical phish and umphreys to locking in on melodies and stories. REALLY enjoy this. thank you!
Thank you! I always gravitate towards songs more than anything.
I love that your digging Hunter/Garcia, I think Weir doesn't get enough love. There is something different but also amazing about his songs too. "lost sailor/Saint of Circumstance", "Let it Grow", "Two Djinn", "Cassidy", just to name a few.
I agree completely. I friggin love Garcia/Hunter tunes but the Weir/Barlow songs are equally interesting and deep. That's why the dead were so great, songwriting. Of course, it didn't hurt that they were all consummate musicians who loved their craft and were always willing to push the envelope fearlessly
Darin Hill Weather report/Let it grow & Sailor Saint my favorites
Don't forget "Stranger" and "Estimated."
Gonna throw Black Throated Wind into this mix. The imagery always gets me in that one
Black Throated Wind and Jack Straw fo sho!
The Weir/Barlow stuff is another can of worms to peel the lid off of!
Made my day with this video mate... good stuff! Your videos are sincere and authentic...keep cranking them out Mike!
One of my favourite dead tunes. So beautiful. RIP to Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. I dig your channel man! Rock on! Cheers from Canada 🤘🤘
Michael, I'm really enjoying your insight into Grateful Dead music and lyrics. Looking forward to many more of these.
I also cannot get this song out of my head. I don’t even really know what it’s about but I still tear up when I hear, such beautiful and poignant.
That’s the beauty of robert hunter. I believe he never even told the babd what many of his songs were about, or meant. So fascinating.
Wish I could like this video twice. It's been awesome to watch you unlock the mysteries of the dead and start to really "get it" like we all did once. Keep it up!
I have always deeply loved this song! I found myself shouting yes! After everything you said! Nice to see and hear someone like you appreciate this in the same way :)
I just wanted to say I have been loving all your recent videos but this one is really special to me.
This is one of those songs I have a hard time listening to sometimes because of all the memories it brings back. Not bad memories per say, just bittersweet. Hearing the isolated solo at the intro already had me welling up a bit. You are so right about Hunter. "We're on to something. We're in this together." Beautifully put my friend.
I love hearing this music through your pure, wholesome, and excited lense! Really lends new perspective and gives me a whole new appreciation for the music I've heard a million times (although itll never get old). Thank you so much! Also, this song is one of very few in which the Dead used Hunters lyrics AND musical composition!
You and your channel have become my fav.. I dig the Dead, have since I was 12, over 40 yrs. now. Thank you young man!
It's so awesome watching your progression in becoming a full on deadhead thru out these reaction videos. Keep on rockin on brother!
Keep it up! Absolutely LOVE hearing you get hooked on the Dead combing your expert music knowledge. So fresh. Trying to get my 21 yr old daughter to catch on... she is quite a singer and Norah gives me hope! Thanks...
Everyone needs the “Relisten” app, it’s free and has all the shows for so many bands!!!
Teddy Kohls for real... game changer
Yes, or Deadhead archives for android.
Teddy Kohls I absolutely agree. I love that app and also attics. It’s in a similar format to Relisten but it’s only dead shows
Also the app “attics”
Another killer video man! This is one of my favorite songs. I've dreamed it several times. It comes into my head loud and clear while I'm sleeping. weird!
I love watching you turn into a dead head man. Thanks for the videos!
Love your channel! Every time I watch you discover something new about the Dead brings me back to the all the shows Jerry and the boys had 15,000 kindred spirits all interpreting, enjoying, feeling, grooving and smiling ear to ear just like you do. It’s a strange thing with Deadheads - we seem to all feel a sense of pride and joy to see new people exposed to the magic of this music and to see those people really “get it” is just awesome! Cheers
Love your videos, it’s a fresh and interesting format, and of course love that you’re doing dead and phish. This tune is one of my fav dead tunes, and loving the Nora cover. Keep em coming!
Love the videos, keep em coming. Anything Dead and I’m sold. This is a beautiful version. I’m sure I’m biased, but there’s a perfect sadness to Jerry’s voice when he sings this that just kills me.
Blessed to have twice been in the presence of the master himself. The most incredible aura !! Signed my copy of Box of Rain.
It's almost an alternative to the Odyssey. Instead of coming home to a house full of suitors after the Trojan War (10 years plus 10 more) to Persephone, the narrator is an anonymous soldier coming back to an empty house to a wasted away wife, forgotten and lost, except by the narrator, who sits there wasting away while wondering why noone comes around anymore.
With the pane of glass and the windows, Hunter makes it a universal lament about war and about abandoned women left on their own. The romance is still there, but it's a tragic romance with a lot to say about independence and freedom.
An insightful, eye opening commentary. Thanks.
Bison Nopenstance ‘Excellent comparison/contrast.
I love this channel...so glad you found it and i found you.
I remember when I discovered IMHBTR for myself. I was visiting SF for the Halloween run in '91. The tragic death of Bill Graham had occurred just days before. Lots of heads were in town for the Dead Shows, but even more came to town for the free memorial concert held in Golden Gate Park on 11/3/91. The night before the memorial show, we spent the evening around a campfire down on Ocean Beach and met a bunch of Deadheads who were visiting from Oregon. One of those funky dudes kept singing just that one line "I don't know, maybe it was the roses" from time to time through the whole night. I thought, "Man, this guy really likes that song, guess I'm gonna have to learn it." I'm glad I did. It's beautiful.
The next day at Mr. Graham's memorial concert, as the Dead played, planes flew over and dropped thousands of roses on the huge crowd in attendance. I remember looking up as they fell and floated out of the sky. That sealed the deal; still gives me chills thinking about it.
Another great, super-excellent breakdown! Friggin amazing
Always find it interesting to hear covers of Grateful Dead music. Often times, it brings a whole new energy, sometimes arrangement to a song. Thanks for sharing
Dude, you're opening statements made me cry buckets rain, bucket of tears, got all these buckets coming out of my ears...
Thank you, Jerry!! That man with his guitars put my whole life in an obscure dimension.
This song guided(can't think of a more appropriate word) me out of one of the darkest LSD trips I've ever had, I remember it vividly but describing it would be like writing a novel. Needless to say, It's been one of my absolute favorites ever since.
As a banjo player primarily focused on Bluegrass, with a background of grateful dead---leading to Old and in the Way....and beyond....These breakdowns are so awesome...thanks.....to see and experience the enthusiasm that I felt once---again is priceless....and to get it through a guitar players perspective is gold....Thank you
This song along with "Black Muddy River" are some of my favorite tunes. I'd love to see you do Black Muddy
I dont care how deep or wide, if ya got another side..... / definitely tugs on the heart strings. " So many roads" was Jerry last song and it fits perfectly.
It's been the coolest thing ever to watch you turn into a deadhead. And you have elevated my playing quite a bit. I can't thank you enough for both of those!
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Man i enjoy watching your dead videos. Seeing someone come to appreciate them is the next best thing to discovering them.
Watching you fall in love with the Dead has been a joy to watch. Thank you for turning me onto this version of Must Have Been The Roses.
I love the notion of checking out the covers... it really shows how sturdy (and beautiful) the songs are even without the novel arrangements and mojo that the Dead brought to them. I highly recommend listening to Emory Joseph's whole album, Fennario - Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. Great stuff, and different from most covers because he was not afraid to do the tunes without their trademark riffs. Tennessee Jed without that descending lick? No problem, the song is still there, and great. Bird Song as a samba? Excellent! It comes off so well because the songs are SO strong...
one of my faves to play. with my wife on backing vocals and my drummer completing vocal triads, you can feel an audience getting tingly.
for me, one of the most compelling, imaginative, eternal lines in their catalog: "one ... pane of glass ... in the window"
My favorite line in the whole song
Correct.
There's nothing for the head like the good ol Dead
I love your channel Michael. Love it. I've watched just about all of your videos. I love how you've discovered jam bands. I love how you talk intelligently about the music and can really appreciate the magic that's being made. I even love when you dress like you sell coke to minors in Berlin.
Thank you my friend. No coke sales :)
I love this version!! The vocals are so powerful and beautiful!
Box of rain was written for Phil who was losing his dying father. That song still makes me cry tears of the most beautiful heart space song ever!
It's always great to see the dead grab another person by the heart and bring them on the the bus for a life long ride. Much love brother! Keep the dead vids coming! NFA!!!
Bro you listen to music the way I do. Just straight goosebumps when I hear this song
Whenever I hear this song to get stuck in my head for months it is beautiful
I subscribed to your channel about a month ago. I'm 53 years old and saw my first Grateful Dead show in 1985, a few days after I graduated from high school. Over the next 10 years I saw Jerry and the Dead well over a hundred times. Obviously I have many friends who love the band! I have never met or talked to anyone who does as great a job of explaining why those of us that love these songs are as passionate about them as you do!! Norah Jones' version is amazing and is a subtle yet incredibly strong interpretation. If you have not heard it, check out the 1978 Red Rocks Grateful Dead version. I have not heard them all, but it is my favorite version of one of my favorite Dead songs. Thanks so much for doing such an awesome job of keeping this music alive!
When Dead and Company busted this out last summer I couldn't get enough of John singing this tune. Absolutely powerful. Very good stuff. Keep up the good work man! enjoying your channel alot!
Looking forward to more Marcus King and Billy Strings tunes for you to react to
I Love watching your reactions & adoration for the soundtrack of my life. The music, & Spirit, of the Grateful Dead have been a constant in my life since I was 17. And it never gets old watching someone get turned on to the music that I Love so much. Thank you for what you're doing. Every time you post a new video it's like a present. May I suggest a Scarlet Begonias...
So great to see someone in their thirties embrace this timeless music.
This is folk music updated for this era!
Saw my first Dead show in ‘84 at the Niagara Falls convention centre. It was a couple days after my eighteenth birthday and my mother had just died months earlier.
This show/music changed my life!!
In so many ways. A real gift...
Check out the acoustic version of Must have been the roses, from Radio City Music Hall in 1980.
The entire acoustic set is just brilliant.. 👌🏻❤️😎
This song is magic. I concur with your assessment and analysis. 1000%
The Day of the Dead record is four albums worth of Dead songs by contemporary indie artists. It’s THE SONGS!! It’s the album I have listened to the most in the last three years and it got me into the Dead. I wasn’t a fan before I heard the album.
You impress me every time you dig deeper into way the Grateful Dead (Jerry & Hunter) Jerry asked Hunter to give him words that didn't stick in his thought They were simply unequaled by anyone else, plus the equality brilliant other members of the band. Its so brilliant that it carries down the years and other extremely talented people find it worthwhile to invest in. I met the original band members and Jerry in 1971, and have loved all the different people who eventually find them. I loved taking people early on and each person came to love them also. Your equally a sensitive person and your spreading the love in such a singular novel way. Thank you.⚡️🎸⚡️🖖🏽⚡️🎸
Very stirring rendition, It gave me the chills. I am lucky enough to see the Dead perform it live at the Oakland Coliseum around 1990. Probably up in my top 5 moments with the band.
I started watching your channel a month or so before you got into Dead and Phish etc because I liked your tone and style. Now the content is right on the money. Thank you for all of this.
Thank you!!
Incredible video.... excellent work
Your playing in the beginning told me everything I need to know❤️ man
One pane of glass in the window. Those of us old enough remember that some of that great Owsley LSD was called windowpane.
I remember back in the 1970s I watching Tv and the Dead was going to be be on ,I think it was the Merv Griffin show or it was Johny Carson .. I went out side and smoked a dube .. when I came back in the dead was playing, and after I guess it was 15 minutes I notice I was doing the dead head bounce and then it dawned on me that I was a dead head ...there was always something in his rhythm that got ya ... great 👍
Must have been the roses is just so much expression of emotion at every level, it takes you through the entire spectrum of emotions from beginning to end, and leaves your soul healed at the end.
Box of Rain is the one song I know of that hunter wrote and nobody touched it.. Jerry was usually working together with him and making edits as they went along (though RH had a knack for writing masterpieces in multitudes) It was written in a hurry for Phil when his father was dying and he was en-route to see him for the last time.
What made Hunter so mind expanding, is not he said, but what he didn't say. 💯💥
It's very interesting that I've had this masterpiece memory banked inside and out for so long now....and knowing nothing about Norah Jones made this even more interesting. She put me through the same range of emotions that I had from the first time hearing this. The only difference was I knew what to expect but Norahs vocal ability completely sidestepped what was waiting behind every corner....had me tearing up. Thank you for sharing this with all of us and feeling and spreading the love. Keep up the good work brother....and of course have a grateful day!!!
I suggest you try a good old fun Dead tune and check out Bertha! It’s my favorite song and there is a great version with video from 4-12-78 available on CZcams. Great fun and an A+ solo by Jerry. Cheers!
Enjoyed this format.
when this song just hovers over and into a crowd and those spaces and those moments when you can feel the room and garcia's voice creeks in its crackly weary yet soulful way and he hits those notes that only garcia did and phil brings it together , yeah good song , 10/12/84
Norah was inspired by the live acoustic performance on Reckoning. Just one of the many songs on that album that make it my favorite Dead album.
This one of a very few, I mean very few, 2 or 1? Songs that I can tell you exactly where I was the first time I heard it. I was on my buddy's Boat Dock on Lake Norman. ' 92 late spring. Reckoning cassette in cassette player of the boat. What's more is the fact that it wasn't a knock me off my feet moment. Obviously it was deeper and more profound. 19 years old, Summer coming on strong, The Race is On, Dire Wolf, Cassidy is more of my mood at that point in time. My mental sponge was absorbing the magic and melody of a masterpiece of Art. A prolific artist to boot. Not a one off guy who got a one in a lifetime catch and The Grateful Dead made him famous. I can see it in my minds eye as vivid as yesterday. That same friend lives on the Lake in that same place to this day
THIS IS WHY I LOVE THIS MUSIC. Everyone has a story like this! Me included!
@@Guitargate My birthday is August 1st. My Aunt gave me a card on my 13th birthday with famous people born on your birthday. Jerry was one and I started dabbling in The Grateful Dead music from that day on. It made it easier that all the "cool" older guy's and girls and cousin's were listening to them and had dancing bear and Steal Your Face stickers every where.
@@Guitargate btw....really dig what you do and how you do it man. "Deal" popped up as a suggestion a couple weeks ago and I gave it look. I dig your approach and appreciation for the artist. We definitely come from the same stock as far as how music hits us. My chops and knowledge are not in the same ballpark as you. My enthusiasm and appreciation is. ✌ Thanks for time and effort
All the way from NC.....
Thank you! Finally realized what I was missing when strumming through this song. Hunter/Garcia have a few songs like this that seem basic, but never really perfectly repeat themselves. This song is SO melody driven. Right on with the explanation! You can throw terms at the parts, like intro and post chorus and such. But at days end, it's just a story with a beginning middle and end. Even strumming it on an acoustic, it does not come across right until that D, G , G# and F# get put right where they belong. And you can even see Norah's fingers voicing her chords as such (A7 shape and everything). Awesome.
So great to see you GET IT! Dead heads can't thank you enough.
man, ticket straight to goosebump town. beautiful.
Amazing video! You should continue to title these videos as the song name and the writer. Reminded me of Rick Beato's "what makes this song great" series. But I really enjoy your reactions and sentiments about the songs. We come here for your perspective so don't listen to the people who get upset when you chime in or "stop the video". They can listen to the song as much as they want elsewhere. Your knowledge is what's special about these videos ✊😁
After 30 years listening to the Dead, the tunes at the top of your fave list can rotate. This one is so sweet it never leaves the list. One of those songs that fits in to those that can be an old traditional tune that they dug up, but isn’t. Like Cumberland Blues, too. Also, Jerry has done some of his best singing on this tune.
excerpt from robert hunter interview:
Some of Hunter’s lyrics disappeared when Jerry was arrested in 1985
Jerry Garcia was infamously arrested near Golden Gate Park in January of 1985. Robert revealed Garcia was carrying some lyrics he had written and Hunter wants them back! “The time Jerry got busted in Golden Gate Park, they took his briefcase. I haven’t gone searching for it, but I happen to know that briefcase had a number of new songs he was working on. And if the police still have them, I’d like them back, please. It doesn’t seem right. A lot of those songs disappeared. I would give [Bob] Weir the only copy of a song, and he’d put it in his back pocket and he would do the wash and there would go that song. And he’d say, ‘Do you remember any of that song?’ and I’d say, ‘Maybe I can remember a verse or two.’ But that’s one good thing about word processors coming along - there are no more lost songs.”......
Dead head since '79 here - you 'taught' me something - never knew Hunter wrote the lyric AND music to this one. The 2nd you note is Easy Wind. Thanks and SO digging you digging the music!
Damn, what a sweet reminder about this tune! Within just a few notes I was wailing out loud, in my deepest most soulful Jerry style... I don't know. Maybe it was the roses!... Wow. Just wow.
I agree with a number of others posting here. At nearly 68 just watching you fully 'grok' Hunter Garcia masterpieces is great. It actually gives me more hope for our future than I've been feeling of late. Hunter was an irascible genius with a gift for paring things down to their essence. IE. In Hunter's esthetic discernment a centuries old sea chanty line "roll away the morning dew and sweet the winds shall blow" transforms into the iconic "roll away the dew." I agree with another's suggestion below that you'd love Cat's Down Under the Stars including Rueben & Charise also Bob hunters album 'Tales of the Great Rum Runners'. Bravo Guitargate!
It is an absolutely beautiful story. I seen the grateful dead in buckeye lake ohio in 1994. It was ingrained from the day on. When you was doing your live blues lessons, i said to you, i thought Jerry Garcia was underrated as a guitar player, because he was just outstanding. That singer there will punch you right in the feels. Good stuff, Michael
I first want to say, I am not a guitar player but I enthusiastically enjoy watching your videos. You are a lover of music, of quality, of song writing, of life. it comes thru :) but I'm going to be like many others... I LOVE the intricacies of the grateful dead. I love a terrapin station, a morning dew, a must've been the roses. Robert hunter IS amazing. I also for my own self pleasure want you and others to realize that they could ROCK! We're once a self proclaimed dance band. With that in mind and again to be one of those people, I reccomed, please check out good lovin (the entire show really) dicks picks vol 8 Binghamton NY may '70 and ladies and gentlemen Fillmore east '71. Any 70's sugaree, and maybe the eleven cause I love it so much. Even if you don't make a video of any of these, I hope you enjoy :) I thank you for the time you take making these videos. So many of us enjoy them take care
I really like the Grateful Dead acoustic version on the "Reconing" album. Very soulful & Jerry's solo is priceless.
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I had no idea Norah Jones covered this. I love the Grateful Dead and Norah Jones, this is beautiful!!! So enjoy watching dive into this timeless music that has been the soundtrack for my adult life.
my favorite song ever, you did a very good job and i so love your passion ps i'm a deadhead
There are so many great songs standing on the moon listen to that
Hey man, been loving watching your videos on the dead. I'm 42, I believe your 36 (or so), its been really interesting watching you get into this at this point in your life. You are saying, expressing, and feeling the same things I did when I got into them as a teenager. "One pane of glass" - awesome lyric. The imagery in this song is just out of this world. Funny enough, you've mentioned two songs that I think really drive home what is so great about the dead. Brown Eyed women and Must have been the Roses. You're dead on. These songs tell great stories and have great melodies on top of them. The dead all too often gets pigeon holed for being a self indulgent jam bad. Anyone who says that isn't listening. These are great songs. The foundation is there. Sure, they had off nights. But if you aren't giving them a chance, you're missing out. I think Dire Wolf is one of the best examples of their best stuff. Great story telling and killer melodies. The Grateful dead are America's first "Americana" band. Keep up the good work... well played.
Nice.. love this song
Oh my god you blew my mind. I probably first heard that song 40 years ago, and it never occurred to me that Annie died! I thought it was just a love song. This changes everything! I kind of feel stupid, but you made me understand and appreciate the song so much more. Thank you!
when I was following the Grateful Dead in the '70s I always loved to take people who had never seen or heard them to shows and watch their faces as their minds were blown. That's why I love your videos. I'm partial to the 10 to 20 minute improvisation during the second sets, but there's is no doubt that the songs are timeless and allow the band to take flight. You may also want to check out Jack Straw as another Hunter masterpiece. Pure Americana.
i'm sure you've heard/watched the boys' acoustic version at Radio City Music Hall in NYC on Halloween 1980. Just lovely.