Something about 1977 shows. They had perfected everything they had worked on for over ten years. They became a singular life form on stage, reading each other telepathically, spinning webs of sonic joy. This music never fades away.

@dougpotosky4102

3 жыл бұрын

1977! Yes! Great shows. I was playing in a band called ( ONE) out of Boston at the time. We had great light shows etc. We definitely where inspired by the Dead. We did our own thing. Thanks! Guys!

@veritassempre

Жыл бұрын

Your analysis is SPOT on !!!!! 1977 was their best year.

@atravelerofbothtimespace4172

Жыл бұрын

Solid analysis cheers

@atravelerofbothtimespace4172

Жыл бұрын

​@@veritassempresorry I didn't mean to comment the same as you but cheerlol

@atravelerofbothtimespace4172

Жыл бұрын

​pretty sure 77 was the peak

These guys make life worth living.

@vancegalloway5257

6 жыл бұрын

It's already worth it...they just help us realize it... ;-)

@jackkerouac6186

9 ай бұрын

They are Grateful !!!!!!!!

People that love the dead, love the dead with more passion than any other band. Either you get it and get it deeply or you're lost.

@agropsychonaut

3 жыл бұрын

either your opinion is you like or don't. Preference has ZERO to do with being lost. I ove them as much as i do bluegrass, or primus, or system of a down. And in fact im far less lost than most...

@nataliezementbeisser1492

3 жыл бұрын

@@agropsychonaut Grateful Dead is different. I have never ever loved a band so much. I mean I love this band more than anything else. There is something in that music that is so pure. They are not just playing. They are creating life itself. They are able to make you shine. I think that the Grateful Dead really got what life means. And we all can get it to if we just listen. There is nothing like it.

@agropsychonaut

3 жыл бұрын

@@nataliezementbeisser1492 Trust me, i understand. Every time i pick up an electric or acoustic guitar, or bass for the day, or switch to banjo, and maybe if im feeling it midi keyboard i turn on someone's-anyone any style music and play along and keep up, whether ive heard the song or not. Improv between that many people isnt usual, and thats the kind of love i have for the dead. Lyrically epic too, and some tunes like Terrapin are classicaol like in structure. Great band. Not the only...

@seanhennessey9869

2 жыл бұрын

hmm, well, I am eclectic in musical tastes, I dig and have dug the Dead for decades but I also like tons of other music, I don´t think ¨lost" is the word I would use, lol...

@sweetjane8195

Жыл бұрын

Yup!♥️💀⚡🌹🎶✌️💜🤗

The amount of positivity that the Dead emits is just beyond amazingness.

I consider Grateful Dead as the biggest love in my life.

@sh230968

Жыл бұрын

I do too. I love the sound GD created like nothing else.

Jerry's first solo here transcends traditional guitar playing. His sense of melody and phrasing while playing was, and will forever be unmatched.

@ohiosouthpaw4283

7 жыл бұрын

Justin Gaines Perfectly put, Justin.

@wilfredoreyes1984

Жыл бұрын

Someday someone will do it even better.hope I'm alive for it

@johngapter362

Жыл бұрын

Go Get 'Em Jerry.😊

@przybyla420

5 ай бұрын

Django Reinhardt could be a contender, he was a big influence on Jerry. Bb kings phrasing was pretty incredible too

@rossmerrill1163

23 күн бұрын

​@@wilfredoreyes1984haha, you won't be. Cuz it's not likely to ever happen.

Buffalo 77 is all you need in 2021

i feel like this kinda music makes u realize everything is energy constantly swinging up down and all around. like makes u more conscientious and aware because this music almost trains us in a sense to interpret things intuitively which helps to understand this aspect more in life’s day to day as well. essentially this music helps with my self trust and almost faith in that all will be a okay when our time in this body has come to an end. hope this makes any sense. from a young deadhead 💚

@lesauskis1

2 жыл бұрын

Someone got on the Bus! :)

@jroc2201

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you , peace

@corikaintz5547

Жыл бұрын

Love it couldn't have said it better...energy transcends!! Old dead head

@ricardomendoza5919

Жыл бұрын

I am an old dead head and you’re absolutely right and stay healthy love you🌹🌷🌺💐🍄🍄🍄🌞🟣☯️☪️☮️☮️☮️☮️✝️☮️🌿

@cosmicslopass

11 ай бұрын

Well put ! We're listening to a flow of energy and vibrations that enriches our souls. LSD saves

Donna sounds really great, a nice compliment to the rest of the crew

The night after 5/8/77. Always been a favorite. Highly underrated. The comes a time in the 2nd set is great.

The Grateful Dead... how amazing is this band. We miss you captain trips.

No band could ever bring out the feelings of so many as the Grateful Dead did! So much Soul!

rippin'! there's always something new to hear from this band, even 40+ years later.

The fellas were always great in Buffalo ♡♡♡

Jerry rings like fire when I lose my way.

@yalec4897

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Greer i love how Jerry fucks up all the words in Franklin's Tower and its still fucking amazing

@truthrecon4404

6 жыл бұрын

You gotta roll away the dew, brotha~

Listening to Grateful Dead jams today on the anniversary of my sister's passing. Rose 🌹 loved music but lost her hearing so she would sing and hum to her memories of the songs.

Franklin's Tower is fantastic.

Was a time I waited through the instrumentals to hear the lyrics. Really love some of the lyrics (especially Hunter's), but man, was I young and stupid.

They sound so clean and tight here. This is my favorite version so far on youtube, although the '76 version is funky as hell.

@makesnodifference

Жыл бұрын

It's not easy to beat the Cornell shows. Any of the Winterland shows will come close, anything in 77 really

Phil tearing it up!

this is absolutely stellar.

@nataliezementbeisser1492

3 жыл бұрын

It blows your mind if you listen to every single note

This jam was great help on the way these days

hard to imagine what they could do to top this(HSF) i still listen to this often. to open the show. I saw them in November in a basketball arena at ASU. we got there late and they were playing Jack Straw. when we opened the doors to go inside the power of the music was palpable. -- an amazing show. there is a part of Black Peter and NFA just before Around and Around which was otherworldly. I have hundreds of shows to listen to. I've never heard them play the same way again. Transcendent and awesome and on fire. On king biscuit too.

Paradise waits On the crest of a wave her angels in flame She has no pain Like a child she is pure, she is not to blame Poised for flight, wings spread bright Spring from night into the sun Don't stop to run She can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone Tell me the cost I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost Sell everything Without love day to day, insanity's king I will pay, day by day Anyway, lock, bolt and key Crippled but free I was blind all the time I was learning to see Help on the way Well I know only this, I've got you today Don't fly away 'Cause I love what I love and I want it that way I will stay, one more day Like I say, honey, it's you Making it too Without love in the dream it'll never come true In another time's forgotten space Your eyes looked from your mother's face Wildflower seed on the sand and stone May the four winds blow you safely home Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew I'll tell you where the four winds dwell In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell It can ring, turn night to day It can ring like fire when you lose your way God save the child who rings that bell It may have one good ring, baby, you can't tell One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused, listen to the music play Some come to laugh their past away Some come to make it just one more day Whichever way your pleasure tends If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep Wildflower seed in the sand and wind May the four winds blow you home again

Absolutely the best at what they did. So rich and timeless, the Dead will live forever.

The boots were always good from Buffalo. This is the Great American Rock and Roll band. I had friends who were Dead Heads and they were always kind of elitist about their attachment to the Dead, but I also had friends who didn't get them, particularly because they thought them sloppy. If I had the chance I'd play this song from this boot to them and voilas, transformation. This is a complex piece of music and it is being played tight as a drum. I'm Grateful that the Grateful Dead gave a shit about me in northern MN and let all of this music be shared.

@DennisCampbell777

6 жыл бұрын

The Dead were consistently great in Buffalo. It's just a fun place to hang out.

@joefelice5062

5 жыл бұрын

When I hear someone say "sloppy", I immediately understand that he/she has not actually listened to more than a few minutes of the Dead. Anyone who has delved into the catalog knows that this band could stop on a dime most nights. Yeah, there were some ragged performances here and there, but that is what happens when the artist is searching for new musical bliss in the moment instead of just mechanically playing the same thing the same way every time. I probably sound like one of those elitist friends you were talking about, and that's fine because I am. I just happen to know that the Dead are best musical phenomenon created in the USA.

@danstevens6515

4 жыл бұрын

Where in northern Minnesota? I grew up there also?

I miss Jerry so much!!!!

I wasted 53 years of my life listening to this band... AND I"M ONLY 47!!!!!!!!!!!

@joebarr725

5 жыл бұрын

If you "got it" to any degree, the time was not wasted.

@GeorgePiazza

5 жыл бұрын

HA! I did too. And I wasted a few more years performing this song live to stretch our group's mostly original repertoire. To quote my dearly departed guitarist & writing partner: (with fervor) 'When Jerry hits that note man..' as his eyes reverently & glassily followed an apparition of Garcia across the studio ceiling (interview with Mike Majonos & George P from Tabula Rasa circa 1988 on Cox Public Access in New Orleans)

@teresasparks9194

5 жыл бұрын

there is nothing about this band that remotely comes close to wasting any time. I'm guessing it was the wrong word. Joe Barr here says it very clearly though, you either get it or don't. the feeling inside that makes you know you are alive, and what love is.

@joefelice5062

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA!!!!

@supertravdoggy

4 жыл бұрын

There is no wasted time, just misplaced moments.

this will always be my favorite

One of his many musical masterpieces 🥀

GD had so many well known sequences where songs segue into one another, and although it's hard to choose, I think this one is my favorite of them all. Happy daze between 8.8.2021

Amazing how powerful one passage can be.....the 6:47-6:56 mark is a wonderful part of this masterpiece!!

When Jerry fudges the lyrics I Know it’s gonna be good!!

@daveanthony2959

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!! 😁😁❤️💯🎶

The late producer Kieth Olsen has a lot to do with how tight the band was in 77. By all accounts, he really pushed the band hard during the Terrapin Station sessions.

@makesnodifference

Жыл бұрын

Having Owsley Stanley record the shows to the standard he did was also a huge factor, the man was a audio genius.

I hear tons of jazz chords on this tune..Love it!!

Here for coronavirus healing

@Adam-jb7fq

3 жыл бұрын

Here for every day healing

@BrianGilbreathYeshuaisLord

3 жыл бұрын

Lol Jesus loves u bro

@magicAlonso1414

3 жыл бұрын

Windows media player ambient visuals love you more than this Jesus fella

@richardlopez1551

3 жыл бұрын

Music, especially the music that in only sought out throughout special people

@Smegma_pirate

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@magicAlonso1414pretty sure this is milk drop

This is phenomenal, I'm dancing in my chair over here lol.

@jacquelineoboyle2189

7 жыл бұрын

Ditto!!!!! :-)

Thanks for posting I love this I was lucky enough to see them in 1978 I was 14 years old back then. I'm 58 now

5/8 and 5/9 were my very first tapes.... GREAT way to start out...

@DennisCampbell777

7 жыл бұрын

I started listening to live Dead in 86. My first show was 4/2/87. Boston Garden, Buffalo and Cornell 77 were all cornerstones of my early collection. In addition, there were amazing and beautiful copies circulating from spring and summer 85 that just blew me away. This still sounds great all these years later 'eh Chris?

@maxmoscoemusic5277

4 жыл бұрын

My guitar teacher tried to get me started when I was in high school, but he gave me 90s tapes to get me going....didn’t take lol!!! I’ve since discovered through furthur and actually did a stint in a GD cover band. Have landed on 89 as my fav year but 77 is a close second and this recording fuckin rules!!!!!!

I spent the last few weeks celebrating the life of someone we all love; and it's difficult to believe it's been twenty years since the separation. I still can't imagine my life, without his in it. Every time I take a moment to turn towards his art, I suddenly feel twenty years old again. To have lived during his brief time on this rock, and the accompanying great fortune that experience has offered, is beyond comprehension. I honestly don't think the boys in the band have figured it out either.

@bailawoloff686

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I m so down with that Like sipping from the fountain of youth. 77 gattta be my favs

@paulferranti8536

Ай бұрын

It is an amazing coincidence….or is it? …I pity the fool don’t believe in miracles….

Came here for the 42nd anniversary of this gem.

They just keep getting better.

We were always, and I mean always rewarded for the long trek up to Buffalo.

One of the first tapes, I got when I really started swapping tapes back in 89. Super awesome first set.

i still have this on cassette tape- thanks for sharing it here! one of my favorite 70s versions of this sequence.. peace

Damn. Amazing graphics!! 🌹🌹🌹

What a great suite ---- and absolutely FANTASTIC graphics. No idea how you make them but they fit beautifully - kudos to IT guy designer. Thank you. D. A., NYC

Jerry is the greatest guitarist of all time

@makesnodifference

Жыл бұрын

100% true

a million thanks for the incredible visuals and the most beautiful Dead tunes...so grateful for this!!!♡♡♡♡♡

@daveanthony2959

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent

Wowy Zowy!! I too, still have the cassette of this (can't believe I'm not the only one who still has cassettes... :) This music always, always restores my soul in so, so many ways. Thank you so much for posting this, and OMG can't even get started on the visuals. Fasten your seat belts!! Forever Grateful.

@daveanthony2959

3 жыл бұрын

Too good !

@dougpotosky4102

3 жыл бұрын

Cassettes! We just found some live shows recorded on cassettes! From the 70's. From a band called ( ONE) out of Boston. Some sound great! We hope enough plus real to real tapes. Se we can release a album!

My favorite part is listening to it.

IMHO, the absolute peak was the second set of Ithaca and the first set of Buffalo. Such fire. Such precision. Such ferocity. Never before and never since.

@gd73

9 жыл бұрын

WeirdErnie 8/27/1972

@DennisCampbell777

8 жыл бұрын

I always thought this set was much better than the infamous Cornell Scarlet>Fire set . I still have a perfect soundboard tape from this show. The Peggy-O from this show is one of my favorite Dead moments in addition to this slick little Slipknot! Best versions of all time in my humble opinion.

@imaheadlightonanorthboundt6677

7 жыл бұрын

That night's Morning Dew is my favorite GD live track. I have listened to that concert hundreds of times and it's easy to understand why it is considered a top GD show. Morning Dew's crescendo rivals anything ever recorded.

@DennisCampbell777

7 жыл бұрын

My favorite Dew is from the fourth of July, 1989. Jerry hit some vocal highs I never heard before or since.

@Deezlevision

6 жыл бұрын

That Buffalo show is so underrated. As is the Tuscaloosa show earlier in the tour...

Healing for the soul and beyond

Wow thank you for posting (from a deadhead since 1974)

I needed a good Franklin's Tower today! thanks Nutty!

Love the Dead. Thanks for posting this amazing selection.

the constant flow of versatile musical surprises in every next phrase when Garcia really flies starts me laughing in amazement sometimes he may not remember the lyrics but it ain't memory that keeps those cascading surprises in lyrical melody shifts coming is about the only word I can think of that does it justice this medley was a revelation when it arrived suddenly the brilliant chaos had gotten very precisely organized for a few songs each show

I'm not one to try to live in the past, but there is something wrong with music these days. there is no true love for it, you know? to hear this stuff just makes you go into a place that your soul understands and craves for. I miss music, real music, the kind you can see, feel, and move to without the realization it moves you....

@geraldvarnell2542

3 жыл бұрын

Bily Strings is fire you like

psychedelic funky fresh

Into the SUN ..... Paradise waits in Buffalo.. what a run New Haven to Buffalo & beyond... Back at yah Brandon.. sounds awesome running through Fender Red Knob.. almost LIVE !!

Thanks. Top 10. I don't think I've ever heard this one. I'm going to download it now.

Beautiful Dead and super groovy animations, great post!

@nxcturnalsvault9464

7 жыл бұрын

wailinburnin groovy as shit my guy

Still my favorite Help>Slip ever, I attended 3/30/90, I think this one is tighter.

This was my first show. Can now appreciate it even more than when I was there.

NEVER look away: ALWAYS find a way to look.

@lyripella6654

7 жыл бұрын

That's why I built that tower: with help, of course.

For a long time following the day. Jerry passed, I avoided attending any live performances of surviving band members, or any GD cover bands. Oh what a mistake that was. I finally broke down and volunteered to work "The Days Between Festival" at The Hog Farm this year and what eye (or ear) opener that was! Since the whole event was to. celebrate Jerry' (the show dates were August 5th through 7th.which include the days between his birth August 1 and his death August 9) most. of the bands were GD cover bands , yet some played originals .and covers,. What I realized and witnessed was how truly free this great music is in that these songs are structured in such a way as to allow the player to express him/herself uniquely without taking away from the. original form, just like the Dead played their songs differently each time. It was such a beautiful 3 days..It didn't matter if the same song was played 2 or 3 times on a single day by different performers, they each sounded so different from the other and so artistically unique it was ok. I witnessed the true timelessness of this music, I felt it deeply. Thank You for uploading this amazing version of Help/Slip/Franklin. . This version is another testament to what I said above!

There certainly was loads of 'life after Cornell'! For one, the ultra magnificent Englishtown show, September 3rd 1977 - my first Dead show!

@danielmorris3687

3 жыл бұрын

I really love the 6/9/77 show. Definitely my favorite Help>Slip>Frank comes from that show. ✌🇨🇦

@jackmacjack2621

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielmorris3687 : I'll have to check that show out now...

@danielmorris3687

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackmacjack2621 you can find the complete show on theseventyseven77 YT channel. Axtually all 3 shows in that run from 7th-9th on his channel. Enjoy fellow traveler. ✌

thanks for posting. listening to this on the back deck with a tree frog chorus and a nice cold beverage. guitars were amazing. never could figure out how they (jerry and bob, not the frogs) got so much music weaving through a couple of chords in franklin.

So much magic feeling, layers and layers, and it can’t me touched, what was once held, but still flowers when the music is right.

My favorite GD show from 1977

This is my Birthday show!!!

Very nice!Thank you.

nuttyriv3r ; You totally enhanced my life, Dude.

Highly under-appreciated show.

thanks much. went to college kinda near buffalo. lots of us dead heads in upstate ny in the late 70's. this is very nice. excellent sound quality and superb music by the band much appreciated

Had this SDBD before Cornell. Ha ha. Blew me away. Betty Boards. I remember when Cornell & The Manhattan Center boards hit. Was mind boggling. Sounded like a CD. I love this band.

@makesnodifference

Жыл бұрын

That's Owsley for you, he was a HUGE perfectionist! His SBs are superior for sure.

Crazy GORGEOUS!!! I am in love!!! :-)

thank you :) you make me smile everyday

great mix. the drumming is sick in this.

Gorgeous, Ed, thanks you for this man

Nice, cool all the way around

GOD BLESS 🙌 🙏 YOU AND ROSE.SHE SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT SISTER❤❤

I hope you got that , it's a banging version.

Very nice visuals, in fact , I think they're the best I've ever seen!

This is where it's at

Terrapin balls y'all.

fucking amazing!!!!!

This is greAt thanx alot❤

Wow!

Thanks much for the graphix !!!!

EXCELLENT!

Magic

Ring like fire if you lose your way.

Brilliant.

This. Is. Bliss

thanks!

Love Phil Lesh's bass 💣💣💣

Thus is so great!🌹 BMFS carries this torch now.

Probably best Help/Slipknot/Franklin's ever?

@nataliezementbeisser1492

Жыл бұрын

Franklin's Tower is so hot!!!

Black hole of strumming...so cool.