Jerry Garcia's guitar / Grateful Dead

[chadwick]

pearl jam needs some dead tunes in their catalog^2

fixed

[chadwick]

Going to see Furthur next Thursday. Everyone in MA/RI/NH come down to the lawn at Great Woods! That's where the party will be. So says I.

Looks like there's a nice collection of videos here to watch. Thanks, chadwick.

sounds like a wonderful time
http://youtu.be/iin4N8KidjY

[rollings]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Za1LZbSo6M

"Second that Emotion"

1971 Grateful Dead

[chadwick]

this is beautiful
i read the lyrics
had to hold back the watery eyes from pouring

i'm such a fool for not enjoying this band when i was younger
i'd love to have saw them


http://youtu.be/wtrH7l_ygcA

"Broke-down Palace"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing

Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll

In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home

It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home

Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

[rollings]

Re: Brokendown Palace

It's always sweet to read the lyrics outside of the song.

and this song, the meoldy is as sweet, making the song...

well, yeah, its just beautiful

[ilockyer]

Re: Brokendown Palace

It's always sweet to read the lyrics outside of the song.

and this song, the meoldy is as sweet, making the song...

well, yeah, its just beautiful

And they pretty much wrote it again, with Black Muddy River, an equally beautiful song. Ripple is the one that always gets me.

Can't wait for the Europe '72 box.

[chadwick]

http://youtu.be/JOTb44yYqr4
lazy lightning

out in westport, washington at a friend's birthday party, out under the trees, sitting around a campfire,
this cool ass surfer dude (who lives in seattle) gave me these two live cds for the hell of it after we talked about the dead. i then literally did a backflip off a log i was sitting on, landing on my knees, a complete backflip from a sitting position without spilling my water... craziest thing i ever saw

[helplessdancer]

this is beautiful
i read the lyrics
had to hold back the watery eyes from pouring

i'm such a fool for not enjoying this band when i was younger
i'd love to have saw them


http://youtu.be/wtrH7l_ygcA

"Broke-down Palace"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing

Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll

In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home

It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home

Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

ill never ever forget seeing this tune for the first time, at a venue beside the water

i had played deadset about 143times before finally seeing this played in april 1988

hard to believe its been 16years without him

[rollings]

http://youtu.be/JOTb44yYqr4
lazy lightning

out in westport, washington at a friend's birthday party, out under the trees, sitting around a campfire,
this cool ass surfer dude (who lives in seattle) gave me these two live cds for the hell of it after we talked about the dead. i then literally did a backflip off a log i was sitting on, landing on my knees, a complete backflip from a sitting position without spilling my water... craziest thing i ever saw

Loop da Loop da Lazy Lightning
Loop da Loop da Lazy Lightning

Yesterday was Jerry's 69th birthday.......

[loveontwolegs]

Happy Birthday (a day late) JG. We talk so much about this PJ community, but nothing compares to the love I would experience listening to the Dead. Jerry shaped my heart, and my bare feet, and I am forever in love with this band.

Oh Chad, Brokedown Palace touches my heart.... listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

[rollings]

I love to see the Deadheads on here pop out of the woodwork.

There is something deep within the grooves of PJ that reminds me of the Dead.

[merkinball]

Jerry shaped my heart, and my bare feet, and I am forever in love with this band.

Love it! Jerry shaped my Birkenstocks too!

[Get_Right]

I love to see the Deadheads on here pop out of the woodwork.

There is something deep within the grooves of PJ that reminds me of the Dead.

In many many ways, EV and PJ replaced the musical void left by the end of the GD.

A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
"Tell me what you done it for"
"No I won't tell you a thing

"Yesterday I begged you
before I hit the ground -
all I leave behind me
is only what I found

"If you can abide it
let the hurdy-gurdy play -
Stranger ones have come by here
before they flew away

"I will not condemn you
nor yet would I deny"
"I would ask the same of you
but failing will not die

"Take up your china doll
it's only fractured -
and just a little nervous
from the fall"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oy_zZBM ... ure=fvwrel

[merkinball]

I'd recommend picking up Mickey Hart's Mystery Box album if you haven't heard it. Some great tracks on it, especially this one with lyrics by Robert Hunter. The tribute to Garcia in the last verse gives me chills every time.

Down the Road (Mickey Harts Mystery Box)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALHT0_JkRU

Down the road to Union Station running through the fog
I thought I saw Joe Hill last night grinning like a dog
"I understand they did you in for everyone to see"
He smiled - shook his head - "that's a lie," said he
"I been on a mountain top observing from a cloud
Been in the hearts of workers milling with the crowd
My tears are shed for freedom and equality of means
My blood and perspiration oil the gears of your machine"

Down the road to Massachusetts driving through the night
I thought I saw Jack Kennedy hitchhiking by a light
I hit the brakes - backed up slow, and Kennedy got in
I said, "It's nice to see you lookin' back in shape again
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe they gunned you down"
He just shook his head and looked off sadly with a frown
Said, "bullets are like waves, they only rearrange the sand
History turns upon the tides and not the deeds of man"

Driving down to Fiddler's Green to hear a tune or two
I thought I saw John Lennon there, looking kind of blue
I sat down beside him, said "I thought you bought the store"
He said "I heard that rumour, what can I do you for?"
"Have you written anything I might have never heard?"
He picked up his guitar and strummed a minor third
All I can recall of what he sang, for what it's worth
"Long as songs of mine are sung I'm with you on this earth"

From the corner of my eye I saw the sun explode
I didn't look directly 'cause it would have burned my soul
When the smoke and thunder cleared enough to look around
I heard a sweet guitar lick, an old familiar sound
I heard a laugh I recognised come rolling from the earth
Saw it rise into the skies like lightning giving birth
It sounded like Garcia but I couldn't see the face
Just the beard and the glass and a smile on empty space

[Get_Right]

never forget the way this song lit up the arena
even in the later years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99KKaiSuYk

a bit rough, but it captures the feeling in the arena