I can’t even believe how ridiculously good this is. Truly innovative in dead documentaries.
@bean-spiller
13 күн бұрын
I grew up in Novato California in the 1970's. The Dead's business headquarters was in San Rafael back then. The Novato tape storage facility didn't exist then because we would have known about it. I saw Jerry in the grocery store once. Met Grace Slick and Jorma in a park. Played Softball with Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie & Steve Miller. Was at the closing of Winterland with the Dead and The Blues Brothers playing till dawn. Backstage at Led Zeppelin in '77 (my girlfriend's father played cards with Bill Graham). Dozens of other amazing shows, all before I hit the age of 19. Buying bootleg records at the Marin City hippie flea market, partying in the houseboat community in Sausalito, hanging out behind the record plant late at night listening to the muffled sounds of bands like Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, and Steely Dan recording inside. It wasn't like we were in the studio, but the proximity to our heroes made us giddy. And of course KSAN FM 95...the soundtrack of my youth!
@SamuelGriffin
12 күн бұрын
Too bad cali is now a craphole.
@tonyaharmon1383
10 күн бұрын
Awesome Memories!❤
@bean-spiller
10 күн бұрын
@@tonyaharmon1383 Thanks Tonya. I was an unsupervised teenager with cool, wealthy parents living in Marin County in the 70’s. They knew if I didn’t come home at night I was crashed out in the back of my van. I’ll always be grateful for growing up pre-internet and pre-smart phone. Kids today can’t even imagine.
@RiverRat_1977
7 күн бұрын
KSAN was the best! They were the only station that played live concerts.. MC'd by Bonnie Simmons and Ben Fong Torres...
@bean-spiller
7 күн бұрын
@@RiverRat_1977 I used to record those live concerts to cassette tapes when I was a kid. Now many of them are right here on YT in 2024. KSAN was the best!
@joshevans3452
Күн бұрын
This and 1973 are easily the best documentaries of the band that I have ever seen. It may not have the technical editing of a high budget production, but the knowledge and sensitivity of the subject is second to none. I really hope you keep doing these. I have been a fan of the Dead for, quite literally, all of my life (my first recorded words are on the blank space of a cassette that my dad was transferring his vinyl Workingman's and American Beauty too). These are the first sources where I have learned anything new in a long, long while. Great work.
@phatstax2011
14 күн бұрын
Thank you for delving into the Grateful Dead history that gets glossed over by both official Dead histories and mainstream biographies. The Dead's true peak was the Seventies and it sucks that there's so little in the way of historical perspectives on this time period.
@stuphiladelphiapa7680
14 күн бұрын
true peak? Hardy har har.(Nyuck, nyuck)
@hazelmoore4754
13 күн бұрын
Sorry but their peak was after Jerry's coma and before Brent's dearh..watch any interview with Jerry and Bobby also were they reference those years as the tightest and best they had ever been and the bands popularity was off the charts at that time ..
@direwolf6234
13 күн бұрын
absolutely .. 1970 - 74 .. eight albums and a few dozen iconic tunes .. small venues youthful energy audience bootlegs ...
@JJ-fb8sz
13 күн бұрын
68=79 were the peak years IMHO. 89 was pretty good. But most of the 80s that I saw them in and definitely the 90's were much weaker than the 70s shows and material.
@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg
13 күн бұрын
@@hazelmoore4754 According to Phil, Jerry never fully regained his spontaneous fluency on the guitar after his coma. From everything I've heard, I would agree. I imagine their unexpected popularity took a lot of pressure off them, financially, and let them live in style after 22 years of grinding it out on the road without a big money payoff. They definitely sounded like they were having fun in the 87-90 era, and that counts for a lot, but I'll take the 20 minute Playings, and 30 minute Dark Stars and Other Ones of 1972 any time.
@paulferranti8536
11 күн бұрын
The tie in with George McCraes “ Rock Your Baby “ is mind blowing and appropriate….I grew up in that era and it was all blended together….truly magical….we loved The Grateful Dead and we loved K.C. and The Sunshine Band and it was all groovy.
@adamwatson6916
2 күн бұрын
Vancouver 73 was an amazing show and we are blessed with a killer Soundboard and a great audience tape . Spring 73 had many fantastic gigs .
@trevgrooves
11 күн бұрын
This is fantastic. Please make more documentary style videos like this. Bravo.
@InService77
5 күн бұрын
I've been reading about the Grateful Dead for 44 years or more. I learned some new stuff in this video - which is rare. Thanks!!
@thomasjones5307
4 күн бұрын
.... thank you for making this best original dead related piece of content i've seen on KZitem
@bonzey1171
14 күн бұрын
I hope you keep making more of these, they're fucking cool
@dour96
14 күн бұрын
Here we goooooo!!! Thanks DC !!!! Righteously Righteous dude !
@Zumacove6200
13 күн бұрын
This is absolutely fantastic. Amazing work - love all the archival footage. Simply wonderful stuff.
@wheresthedogstar
12 күн бұрын
That was fucking great and wildly, entertaining and informative! The greatest scene was probably the last few minutes with Parish and I say thank you very much for your excellent work and good production values and God bless the goddamn Grateful Dead ❤🎉😊
@mickeydoodle69
13 күн бұрын
Dude…Great job. This is truly spectacular.
@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg
13 күн бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to make this. I've read a lot of Dead history books and watched all the documentaries. I always complain that they spend 75% of their time talking about 65-69, then allot the remaining 25% of time (if that) to 1970-1995. When the Long Strange Trip documentary came out and I heard it would only be 4 hours long, I knew it would follow that standard format. Thank you for filling in some gaps on the heroic and challenging year of 1974. I'd like to add that Bay area musician, John McFee, played pedal steel on Pride of Cucamonga. McFee would later play the lead guitar part on Elvis Costello's tune, Alison, from his debut album, My Aim is True. Great tasteful player. I can see why Garcia admired him.
@deadcoroner
12 күн бұрын
Thank you for the kind words! Very interesting to learn about John McFee. Phil's Mars Hotel tracks won a special place in my heart working on this, and "Allison" was my introduction to Elvis Costello as a kid :)
@user-fn4nl6yw8s
10 күн бұрын
Oh wow what a gift. I am obsessed with this year in music in particular. Shit changed dramatically for everyone.
@VixCrush
4 күн бұрын
I remember when they played Unbroken Chain the first time in Philly. Mind blown.
@raygunner2437
3 күн бұрын
Too bad they used a remix version of the video when the original Monkeyface source is on KZitem 🤔
@HaydenFromHell
13 күн бұрын
I would really love to see you do an in depth video revolving around the ‘curse of the keyboard player.’ Love the videos! Please keep them coming! 🤘
@LucyLennon20
14 күн бұрын
Fabulous! DC Cat! ✨️📼 🎧✨️📝 still have my list plus 6k hours on tapes ✨️🌹💀🎸✨️🎶💀📼
@kowalski3769
9 күн бұрын
Really great work here! You dug deep and found some really good old stuff that I've never seen before. Keep them coming!
@clarkewi
12 күн бұрын
This was their peak in my opinion. Saw them twice, once at Hollywood Bowl. Awesome time.
@bglrj
7 күн бұрын
This was awesome. I was there. You showed me things I didn't even realize were going on. Good job.
@zummo61
13 күн бұрын
This was awesomely entertaining! Thumbs up Brother.
@riceflatpicking4954
8 күн бұрын
I’ve read and watched just about everything available on this band over the last 35 years and this documentary is incredible. I’m sad that it had to end! It brought back so many show memories and memories of friends who are no longer here. I wish it had been about six or seven hours long! 😀 Thank you for posting this for us!
@MrForestExplorer
6 күн бұрын
Nice work. Would love to see more years documented like this...
@Jonesnaltitude
13 күн бұрын
Amazing work!
@mikeb4256
13 күн бұрын
Bob Baker needed to lighten up.
@chaz9839
14 күн бұрын
YESSSSSSSSSSS thank you
@ScottLaneMusic
5 күн бұрын
This is unbelievable - so great!
@charlielaunder4520
11 күн бұрын
Thank you......Dick knew David is lucky to have the keys.
@danmartin50
5 күн бұрын
Just when I thought I’ve seen it all….this pops up! Wow! Fantastic to see such a Freaking rarity! Who ever did this video I say thank u very much! What A treat
@charlesandrews2360
13 күн бұрын
That video of Commander Cody doing Hot Rod Lincoln is the only live video that I have been able to find of them from that era. I saw them in 74 and they were really good. About 30 years later I saw Kodi several times and small bars around Chicago still banging on them keys, smoking like a chimney, and drinking like a fish money is around 70 years old.
@deadcoroner
12 күн бұрын
I picked Hot Rod Lincoln for its recognizability but there are at least a few other songs from that shoot out there. I am hoping to find some recordings of full shows from 1974; I hear they were amazing in their own right!
@dansweeney9377
3 күн бұрын
Amazing!
@brianwalkosz9567
7 күн бұрын
Man this is great stuff I have never seen....the end skit was epic!
@jakeolthof
13 күн бұрын
Fun fact. I was in the front row in Oakland yelling hey phil unbroken chain the year before he did it.
@charlesandrews2360
13 күн бұрын
In the book that Phil wrote about his time in the Grateful Dead he said that they were just about to play unbroken chain when you requested it and they decided not to do it because of that.
@jakeolthof
13 күн бұрын
@@charlesandrews2360 The guy next to me was incredulous, he said yeah right you might as well ask for Saint Stephen. I believe they brought that one out on the next tour as well but I don't think I had anything to do with it.
@riceflatpicking4954
9 күн бұрын
Phils son who I think was about 10 years old at the time asked his dad if they would do it which prompted Phil to talk to the band and then of course they brought it out in 95.
@ryanmoore2779
3 күн бұрын
@@riceflatpicking4954incorrect. Phil’s son was 8 years old when Jerry passed away.
@jimgadsden2459
6 күн бұрын
Learned a lot I already knew and tied it together! Good Stuff!
@c11p
9 күн бұрын
WOW. You just next-levelled Dead docs.
@Joemomma6969
10 күн бұрын
Bravo!
@ChanalogUnderground
8 күн бұрын
Well done. You ran the gamut of representing the spirit of the band but not sanitizing Thanks.
@archstanton_live
4 күн бұрын
1974..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
@drummusicinc4027
4 күн бұрын
Great stuff ✌️
@jleftjpl5511
11 күн бұрын
please make more of these videos
@user-hw4ep1or1j
14 күн бұрын
.......man don't let the marble get out ........
@richierugs6544
8 күн бұрын
amazing that i got to record with a band at Gold Star in 74, and i had no idea of the magnitude of it at all--now i know
@nataliezementbeisser1492
7 күн бұрын
I ❤ this band
@mcdaniels6188
Сағат бұрын
I think Revolution Hamstring Blues was their least few times played song.
@tonyaharmon1383
10 күн бұрын
" and The Dead Moved To Mass Popularity!❤"
@what1111000
3 күн бұрын
Good video, but what's up wit the kc and sunshine band stuff?
@imanalien2222
8 күн бұрын
Damn man I had to stop about 20 min in to say thank you. Got on the bus in ‘83, so ‘74 is still a dream… but damn you did a great job helping the imagination. Keep on truckin, would love to see some more moving into the ‘80s✌️🎶
@RiverRat_1977
7 күн бұрын
Cheers man... you're one cool cat!!! Keep on Trucking!! And long dive the lead!!! btw.. got anything from Berkeley?? UC?? The Greek?? Zellerbach?? Community Theater?? People's Park?? New Year's Eve at the Oakland Coliseum with Father Time?? SNAC Sunday?? This was just like having a real live flashback of Owsley's best Orange Sunshine on a beautiful warm day in "The Panhandle!!"
@drummer78
10 күн бұрын
John Coltrane had Rashid Ali and Elvin Jones as double drummers around 1966. Apparently, Elvin Jones wasn’t happy with the set up.
@matthewmaguire3554
11 күн бұрын
So much is focused on the mud that the lotus is forgotten. If you were blessed to be there when the stars aligned…the alchemy was right and briefly the lotus surfaced from the muck you got to experience losing your virginity again, falling in love for the first time and being a five year old on Christmas morning all rolled into one fleeting time…You lucky rascal.🏄🍿🎭
@raygunner2437
3 күн бұрын
Really well done production ❤ Little confused why you spent so much time on Lenny Hart as that was years before 74. Guess you were trying to tie in Mickey's return in 74? Would like to have more about Round Records shut down etc instead. Just my observation, still enjoyed the heck out of it, thanks✌
@deadcoroner
14 сағат бұрын
In my opinion, one cannot be explained without the other. At any rate, for 55 years no one else seemed to be able to figure out what Lenny Hart's story was. I was expecting more guff for the time I spent on disco.
@gts447
8 күн бұрын
Great journalism here, lots of wonderful sourcing and such. A couple mischaracterizations, the one about coke being introduced in 73, as another commenter pointed out it was way earlier, and the comment that the Godchaux era was a golden one would be disputed by many many deadheads who considered her vocals a substantial detriment to the dead experience. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a wonderful singer, and she worked well in JGB, but her singing was just overdone overwrought in the dead, and the music improved substantially when she and Keith were fired.
@deadcoroner
5 күн бұрын
Fair points all; I hinge the escalation in coke use in early '73 on Jerry's bust(s) in that time suggesting cocaine was beginning to take a presence in the Dead world beyond occasional use. For better or worse, Donna of course famously went on to become its first casualty in the band. Not sure how many others follow before Matthew Kelly's gonads fell victim. Rick James had a good point.
@przybyla420
4 күн бұрын
Is was a golden era, they just had one more vocalist than they needed unfortunately
@MrLeebaxleyjr
13 күн бұрын
Wow! I had little to no knowledge of Leonard Hart's wrongdoings. Wyf? How did Mickey afford the studio? Very interesting... 🤔 Great documentary 🎉
@jimhayes8675
12 күн бұрын
i think i read the producer alan douglass was involved w/ the studio
@rossr6616
8 күн бұрын
and his retreat to the Clergy 😂 Classic move!
@TheLordsofMidlothianRVA
7 күн бұрын
He'll steal your face right off your head.
@MrLeebaxleyjr
7 күн бұрын
@@TheLordsofMidlothianRVA noice!
@e.nowbodhi144
13 күн бұрын
that audio of Mickey Hart's 2nd return resembled cats being slingshotted against drums at random
@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg
13 күн бұрын
Some have referred to it as, "sneakers in a dryer."
@spritelysprite
11 күн бұрын
FreeSpeech101, or: "throwing a garbage can down a flight of stairs"... 'Something like that.
@ourworld215
13 күн бұрын
Intresting production. Touched on a lot of areas. Funny th emajorcomplaint in the reviews ghost read was jam length of a song several times. Oh and the length of intermission. i guess asee bothof those as features not bugs. Something about short up beat songs into spacey jams into a ballad makes it so powerfull, finished by several options. The longset break is where I gottoknow many people who becamelong time freinds. 1 love
@michaelderose397
13 күн бұрын
Help. Was Steve really tripping on the QVC Set?
@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg
13 күн бұрын
Agreed. I thought the Missoulan 5.12.74 concert review was ironic - the writer complains about the epically long Dark Star, when that's the primary highlight of that show and the likely reason it was eventually released.
@drewbonsall384
6 күн бұрын
QVC was like 100 feet from my high school my friend Jimmy was the maintenance man and he said he would look over this wall right in the changing room and look at the models and another friend Chris was the dishwasher Chris was a dead head and probably quit the job to go on tour They did have a lot of gold in the vAult
@Microtonal_Cats
13 күн бұрын
Wouldn't be surprised if it was the feds selling bootleg Dead albums.
@deadcoroner
12 күн бұрын
FOIA requests...?
@rossr6616
8 күн бұрын
I was thinking Warner Bros!
@rossr6616
8 күн бұрын
I was thinking Warner Bros!
@ShawnCrigger
13 күн бұрын
wow could they really put up the wall of sound in 4 hours? That is crazy considering how tall and massive it was
@tripster4
13 күн бұрын
Very informative! What’s the animation around 31:00/32:00?
@deadcoroner
12 күн бұрын
All I know for sure is it was an original promo from June 1974. I assume it was a TV spot, and suspect Gary Gutierrez had invovlvement
@ghostexits
10 күн бұрын
Forgive me, but what does the TK Records story have to do with anything?
@TPsynth
10 күн бұрын
This was confusing to me as well. Was assuming there would eventually be a connection made 🤷🏽
@davidlilker2747
9 күн бұрын
This is awesome. If you are flexible enough, give yourself a pat on the back
@sg2823
10 күн бұрын
What was that in the end with Big Steve?
@matthewmaurysmith2486
11 күн бұрын
Im not gonna lie though, the , what i assume is Ned Lagin (sp?) electronic music in the left channel before the 50 minute mark is .... well... im just gonna say it's a real challenge to listen to, lol... i wondered if maybe on purpose? Oh well, but still, top notch better than what's on "TV" stuff
@djtdlaw
14 күн бұрын
Oh shock and horror! The Grateful Dead on QVC???!! WTF???!!! I realize this is the early '90s & the stigma/mystique of being a Deadhead is gone but still.... Somebody call me a Waaambulance!!! I'm gonna cry
@charlesandrews2360
13 күн бұрын
I'll bet a lot of the stuff that they bought in those early years on QVC is worth a pretty penny these days. Dead stuff has always been collectible and somewhat pricey.
@deadcoroner
12 күн бұрын
If you haven't seen the full hour from 1998, I must warn you. Even if they are just props (tough to tell due to lo resolution) seeing Gator and Wolf getting carelessly swung around by the hosts is something that cannot be unseen my friend.
@gemerygomes883
13 күн бұрын
this is Greaaa...t😛
@tomb613
13 күн бұрын
Hey Now!
@ctcards2636
3 күн бұрын
I still meet people/Heads who dont know what the song "He's Gone" is REALLY about. Lenny, Mickeys father went MIA with all their money. They got back some of it, not much. But the band as in the video explains had hired Lenny to manage. BAD mistake. Made Mickey leave the band. I can understand Billy not being for Mickey returning. But ya had a lot of members of the Dead who hated conflict, thus some bad decision making was made on the business side as they chose to ignore the obvious. But to a degree im glad Mickey re joined. But there are DEF shows where... Billy and Mickey are not on with each other. For sure. But when they are on which is most of the time, its awesome. But go listen to some of those shows without Mickey after he had left the band. Billy was a BEAST !
@autistichead8137
10 күн бұрын
Don’t you just love music critics? The Iowa State fair show is an absolute all timer. One of the great jams of all time and they are complaining about it.😂
@jameskovic7146
13 күн бұрын
I think the concept for this documentary is good but it needs a lot of work.
@johncordes7885
13 күн бұрын
Not 1 but 2 Walls of sound
@susiefairfield7218
13 күн бұрын
Awesomeness 🤘🏼 DC 🎧😶🌫️🤏🏻💨💨🎚️💃👁️🪐✨💕😆😅
@matthewmaurysmith2486
11 күн бұрын
Umm... WHAT??? this is TOP NOTCH!! Now i want a documentary like this made for every year of the band. Jerry-era Dead and post Jerry! That's just like 60 documentaries... no biggie
@hoopmystic1
13 күн бұрын
Love the ending ,, great documenty
@CSCRECORDSBC
4 күн бұрын
Dick is like Art Bell’s twin brother or what ?
@jamesmoore3694
14 күн бұрын
well bent
@hashburystumble8808
11 күн бұрын
NEVER TRUST A PRANKSTER 💀They might just STEAL YOUR FACE
@JazAcrossTheWorld
10 күн бұрын
6:08 drake hotline bling lol
@gemerygomes883
13 күн бұрын
yo
@cimaroonnannz
7 күн бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/w59tqXhraYabYKw what is this from?
@Aaron-cy7oo
7 күн бұрын
Big Steve could of been a good actor,, he still could be, I was just saying that he always could of and always can be and do
@veneta72
14 күн бұрын
“Jerry began getting into coke at the beginning of 1973”. Utterly false. They were using coke in the 60s, snorting off beer cans while playing in 1971 and Billy said “I decided not to do coke during Europe 72 and I probably played better because of it” inferring it was embedded in the band at that point at least - too bad the rest I hear here will be taken with a grain of salt, but entertaining none the less
@phatstax2011
14 күн бұрын
They wrote Casey Jones in 1969 and it was definitely from experience.
@deadcoroner
14 күн бұрын
"getting into" = making it a semi-regular thing. I'm sure Jerry tried it before The Warlocks.
@veneta72
14 күн бұрын
@@deadcoronerGotchya. It tracks but I’m curious how you came to this conclusion of timing
@raydavison4288
12 күн бұрын
I don't know enough about the Dead to tell the truth from 🐎💩, but this was an entertaining video.
@infiniteXpower
6 күн бұрын
@@deadcoroner They were blowing lines in front of Rolling Stone reporters on planes as early as '69 and Jerry was coked-out through the whole Garcia recording session. "It's pure Merck!" Your documentary is incredible, I will forgive some smudged details. The band is the greatest music but they are ALL scumbags lol! Please continue your excellent work!
@helbitkelbit1790
4 күн бұрын
Dicks Picks ?........Anyone in the know , knows about John Stallings . Johns picks are a wee bit better than anything else
@redprinceofficial
13 күн бұрын
Phish…people horribly imitating some hippies
@thomaskonicke2974
2 күн бұрын
I don't get it.....super strange timeline jumps...TK records...whaaat??..its all stolen images...sorry....is the narrator the loose change dude?
@lizardman7364
Күн бұрын
Wut
@davidfurino2987
13 күн бұрын
Why do you keep saying touring for ten years,they were not touring in 1964?
@BigElectricCat
13 күн бұрын
Booooooooooii
@seabertotter4325
2 сағат бұрын
This was a bore
@t44e6
Күн бұрын
Most overrated band in history.
@MrPete-pe6uk
13 күн бұрын
lame documentary...thrown together with table scraps
@tobysshades
6 күн бұрын
Let's see your documentary
@MrPete-pe6uk
4 күн бұрын
@@tobysshades lame passive-aggressive response. Do you really thing this documentary is worth anybody's time?
@tobysshades
4 күн бұрын
@@MrPete-pe6uk it was worth my time. Had lots of info I didn't already know.
@bobd9868
3 күн бұрын
@@tobysshades I agree, let’s all learn from the master
@firstname7330
3 күн бұрын
Your pronunciation of letter P sounds is awful. You need a pop filter on your microphone.
@noahharju
6 күн бұрын
We’re playing poly-rhythms
@allendulles2481
13 күн бұрын
Looks like the MyPillow guy in that first skit. 🤔 Dick Latvala generally has terrible taste in Dead shows. And ALL of the Dick's Picks releases are poorly mixed in some misguided wannabe "egalitarian" attempt to have equal sound levels for each muscian that sounds bad and doesn't resemble the actual sound levels from their live performances. Bob's guitar and Keith's keyboard should NOT be as prominent as Jerry's guitar. If you disagree with this assessment, then you're just making excuses or you simply don't know what you're talking about.
@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg
13 күн бұрын
Dick often had extreme ironclad opinions regarding his likes/dislikes that were very often wrong, IMO. Perhaps his greatest contribution was in taking a haphazard mountain of unlabeled Dead reels and organizing, labeling, chronologically ordering and archivally protecting them in a climate-controlled environment. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.
@allendulles2481
13 күн бұрын
@@FreeSpeech101-pb3lg I'll give him that. 💯😎
@Haasenpfeffer
13 күн бұрын
In 74 I was going to Winterland and hitchhiking to Pt Reyes w/the GF. Go Bears. Thanks for this!😅
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