"From the Dead's first home video of a complete concert, Ticket To New Year's, this Bird Song soars to some pretty high heights, typical of the powerful 1987 renditions of this Garcia-Hunter classic from Jerry's first solo record." - David Lemieux

@ps2117

4 жыл бұрын

release hershey park!!

@emblemsluck

4 жыл бұрын

This originally was a PPV right?

@imanalien2222

4 жыл бұрын

So miss the Jerry and Brent connection so eloquently displayed here.

@DennisCampbell777

3 жыл бұрын

@@emblemsluck Yes, I recorded it on my VCR in Boston whilst in attendance. It was waiting for me when I got home. Exciting times. Cost 35 bucks to view this show live at home.

@DennisCampbell777

3 жыл бұрын

The sound was marvelous. You could hear a pin drop between verses.

I was at this show with my beloved wife Jane and the kids. She passed away six years ago. This is one of the many wonderful memories. God bless you my beloved wife ❤♥ 8

@shadydave9029

2 жыл бұрын

peace to you and yours.

@BobMazzo

Жыл бұрын

so sorry brother. may she live on thru you and your precious kids. God bless.

@ChrisSalyer-vg1dw

11 ай бұрын

Peace to you my friend. I love what we have.

@IanSeine

4 ай бұрын

I was there as well. It was a great 4 days - with a day break. So sorry about your lovely lady and her loss. Memories and these moments help me remember the best times.

When they went back into the chorus and Brent smiled at them, that was sweet.

This song was written by Robert Hunter for Janis Joplin. It’s actually called “Birdsong for Janis. She passed away fifty years ago today.

@anthonylovavto3228

3 жыл бұрын

I got to see her in the summer of 1970....

@DennisCampbell777

3 жыл бұрын

Love Belle.

@marshallsilva9389

Жыл бұрын

Thought Jerry wrote, but no matter... really something to lose Jimi n Janis so close together.. M

@marshallsilva9389

Жыл бұрын

@@Psyminds Janis was family u know... she was flying to high unfortunately like many were then. It was piece of beauty in otherwise very ugly world made uglier by Richard Nixon and his right wing moral majority thats still bringing America down w their imbecilic imaginations

@RiverRat1953

Жыл бұрын

Yea Janis’ guitar was called the bird guitar.

When life gets me down I hope is lost. I come here to listen to Jerry, and get a sense of peace and realize that it's going to be ok.

@michaelhoffman5486

2 жыл бұрын

you might be ok but the world unfortunately not oh well

@andrewcounts7136

2 жыл бұрын

Good outlook mate.....🌹💀🌹

@22hogfan94

Жыл бұрын

We will get by

@heyitsmespider6792

Жыл бұрын

Same here life is great you just have to where they exist they are actually all around us you have to be able to see through the noise✌️♥️😀🙏

@cmberrian

Жыл бұрын

I heard someone once ( a fellow musician like me) refer to it as 'surviving your encouragement ", whether that's a bad day, week, month at some job you don't like, a trip to the in-laws, a jail term ( hopefully not that), or pretty much any situation where you can't fully be your authentic self. I think most of us find ourselves there. Can also be a bout of depression, anxiety, whatever. If we all just hold on tight during those times, we will make it through to the other side!!

BRENT & JERRY GIANTS OF MUSIC❤

We the dead heads wants a JERRY DOCUMENTARY MOVIE

@MichaelDarlingCo

Ай бұрын

netflix

@pisculeo10

Ай бұрын

@@MichaelDarlingCo bob weir documentary...

I’m searching for the best one. It makes me think of my grandmother.

MAGIC BIRD SONG

You know when Jerry is pushing his glasses back they are in an intense jam !

I was at this show! I had just been introduced to the Dead that summer and it was my third show. This is when I really got “it” and from then on felt like being married to the Grateful Dead. ❤

Did you hear all that cheering at the beginning of Bird Song? One of those voices is mine. I worked security for that show on New Year's Eve '87 as a Bill Graham Presents Bluecoat in what I thought was going to be my final show before retiring after nearly a decade of working security. Well as it turned out I wasn't quite done yet and I went on to work another 5 years worth of Dead shows, *laughing*. Bird Song has always been one of my favorite Jerry Garcia sung Dead toonz, especially because of the jam in the middle. This was a great performance and I can still remember swaying with all the other Deadheads while standing in the pit behind the barricade on the floor of the Oakland Coliseum. I worked every Grateful Dead New Year's Eve show from 1979 to 1991, and this was one of my favorites. Thank you so much for this groovy Bird Song. Happy Thanksgiving to you my friend, Cheers, Mick Flaire!

@MrStuVW

4 жыл бұрын

mine too Mick, i worked the balloon crew! All good things for all of yours dear Brother.

@mickflaire

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrStuVW : What a great time we had back then, Stu'! Those memories will be with us forever. Much hippie love to you, Don & Marie Mandoli too, for all the wonderfully amazing NYE "drops", and I don't mean the "liquid"kind, *laughing*. "Sugar Magnolia, blossoms blooming..."

@MrStuVW

4 жыл бұрын

@@mickflaire i'll never forget what i can remember!!! we are so blessed for this Family.

@godfreydaniel6278

3 жыл бұрын

I was there too - and many more New Year's Eve shows and runs - 200+ show altogether. Funny how we're like a circle of friends who just never met one another, even though we occupied the same space over and over again. All the best to you...

@DennisCampbell777

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrStuVW I was on the balloon crew many times myself. More nitrous! MORE NITROUS!!!

87 was the year of my first grateful dead concert. I remember vividly sitting in my bed room stoned and recording this crispy show!!! soundboards were slightly difficult to get back in those days. this was a real treat for this 17 year old dead head!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw them do this song in Long Beach. Jerry Garcia always took us thru a vortex!!!

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow. That’s when you turn to Jerry.

i love the older refined restrained yet flowing & brilliant late 80's early 90's Jerry. such a blessing to have had 30 years of this

JERRY LAUGHS AND CRIES

Just hearing the don't you cry part was enough to make me, an already sad bean, cry. Me = sad

@jackstraw8145

4 жыл бұрын

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you. Your friends are getting most concerned loose with the truth, maybe its your fire. Baby I hope you don't get burned when the smoke has cleared, she said. That's what she said to me you're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy. There are things you can replace and others you cannot The time has come to weigh those things. This space is gettin' hot You know this space is gettin' hot. Don't be sad!

@captainflops474

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackstraw8145 :) I'll certainly try not to

@kevinr.3542

4 жыл бұрын

Please don't be the fate of Ophelia. "Sleeping every chance to dream". I mean nobody even knows where she went. "Boards on the windows, mail by the door, what would anybody leave so quickly for? Ophelia, where have you gone?"

@maybeioverreacted4504

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I know what you mean I have two sisters who passed too early one recently I like to think of them when I hear this and Sugaree

this whole show RIPS, Garcia is ON

7:30 when Brent is singing don’t you cry to jerry and made him laugh again.

My favorite Dead song’! A song full of hope and positivity

@user-fu2mi1nd5l

2 ай бұрын

it was written for Janis

Hey thanks for the flashback I was at that show and so many more. I still miss Jerry

I love jerry and brent,i never got to meet them,but i will in paradise!

My favorite song at all ever 😍❤️❤️😍

I'm so thankful for the dead and the amazing people that I've met along my musical journey

@gratefuldrifter6588

2 жыл бұрын

Respect my friend wishing you well from new zealand,takecare.

Our musical angel forever and ever “All I know is something like a bird within him sang” Jerry Saves {~}:=}🌈

This is one song, like so many, that cannot be replicated and enjoyed through cover bands. Thank goodness for archives. 🙌🏽

Thank you. I remember watching the live pay-per-view broadcast of this. . . .

@chuckryan6065

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't see it then, but the VHS was a key component of my becoming a 'head in the early 90s.

All i know is something like a bird within her sang! Gooble Gooble!!!

@kevinr.3542

4 жыл бұрын

Gooble gobble one of us

Snow and rain here! As well!

Miss you Jerry ❤

the build at around 6:00 soars to new heights ! 🎸

@user-fu2mi1nd5l

2 ай бұрын

Steal Your Face

What a perfect song for thanks giving, now let’s eat that bird!

One of my favorite songs!❤

Keep on flying beautiful bird

Jerry's look at 6:49 tears me up every time. (yeah, I know it rhymes lol)

Always love that Brent / Jerry interplay. It seems like they even have more fun when they're messing up lyrics and making it work ... :)

Such a Beautiful song on a Beautiful Thanksgiving Day !!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone, be Grateful for what you have In Life, not what you don't have In Life !!!!!!! 💀🌹⚡💀🌹⚡

favorite bird song 🌹

So much to be thankful for! Thank you Jerry!! 🇺🇸

@noogie3784

4 жыл бұрын

Wave that flag.

June 1st, 2020 today... Complete mayhem in our world right now. Came here for this song, this version. The exchange of looks and laughs between the boys @ 7:45 is what I needed today and what I think more of the world could use.

I hadn't heard this particular Bird Song in several years. Gave it a listen while making the mashed potatoes. Nice.

Message received. ❤

I was a huge Brent fan, and I loved the interplay of his piano on this and other Dead songs, as well as his and Jerry's musical connectivity. I was as devastated by Brent's loss as I was by Jerry's. Amazing music and band from an era that I was fortunate to be part of.

Beautiful! Makes me feel a little bit better about having to be with family all day 😿😹

@johnzaccai291

4 жыл бұрын

LOL I finally gave up on my family. I dont have to deal with their abuse anymore.

@DennisCampbell777

4 жыл бұрын

This song was one of the highlights of this 4 night run in Oakland. I recall the sound being so good that you could hear a pin drop between verses.

@DennisCampbell777

4 жыл бұрын

You know what's really messed-up? Jerry was only in his 40s.

@SKIADK

9 күн бұрын

@@johnzaccai291 peace of mind is a great thing, totally can relate.

ACID TRIP WITH JERRY

Thank you. Thank you Thank you

Serious chills in the end of that jam what a deep and completely played out version

Anybody call Brent a walrus? I love him on keys!!!! Blow away is Magic

@gratefuldrifter6588

2 жыл бұрын

Brother brent was the fucken man,cool cat.TRUE soldier.

Magic ⚡️❤️

The Pied Piper ❤️ Garcia thanks for posting

Awh lovely version ☺

Hero

Snow and rain snow and rain ⚡️💀🌹

Very nice, kept me here for nine and a half minutes easy.

Jerry: The Pantene Years Damn that’s some great flow.

Pure magic. Pure bliss. God bless the Grateful Dead!

Yay! I was There💜🙏🦋🌈😎🌎

I became so enamoured by this song, many years ago as a young man. That when I started finally actualizing and working towards my dream of being a musician/guitarist ,( sadistically delayed. I didnt pick it up until I was 25. I became aware of it at 5, and asked for it when I turned 10, as I was told to do, by Lew DeWitt before he became a Statler Brother, so much more to this story ...though that really isn't important now nor the point.) This became one of the songs that I have studied as I continue on this path. This song and many other songs by the dead ,spoke to my heart ,they gave me hope as I learned. I am slowly taking this out and playing in public. I looked over the comments and maybe it's a given , though this version of this song , and the way it was shot shows the incredible musical interplay between Jerry and his friend Brent. You could certainly hear it in their music though I think this is the first time it has been so accurately captured on film, the love they showed each other thru playing . The smiles on Jerry's face and Brent's and how they musically complemented each other as they worked together to make one of the most beautiful versions of this song. You know sometimes I think we talk more about things and talk less about the love we bring. This song always made me feel loved because it is. Thank you for putting this up. Peace Matt.

Beautiful:)

I saw a summer of 87 show Roanoke Civic Center I was but 16

I wont cry now now that I have found such a great version of this song la dada da haha keep em coming such a nice pick me up during the week loving it 😆

First heard this song on the radio's late night show "Dead Ahead"!!! Instant love!!

zero dislikes man, thats beautiful

Jerry was so sick

Please release the pro shot summer tours you have gathering dust in the vault.....I would buy a subscription to them for sure.

Great performance.

Fitting for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving all!

good morning, thank you , peace

My favorite song on earth thanks dead family

Jerry makes everything okay.

5:30 - 7:30 is slippery genius

Superb. Thanks for posting.

Present, what a Night. Greatest Party on the Planet that night

Id love someone to re-edit some of the shows where they felt the need to use the strobe/trip effect every time the band got spacey. It this point in my life I really just want to see Jerry in as much clear high resolution film as possible and remember the glory

Just Gorgeous.. Happy ThxGiving to all ..

fantastic thank you

❤️🌹🎈

Hapy thanksgiving,

2020: Our world is under attack by a virus... I'm right where I want to be, day off from a week of hard work kicking back with the dead!

Perfect

Fun times tried so hard to get a miracle or sneak in prankster style.. Did a big puddle in the lot and had a blast saw the 30th so can't complain much lol....

❤

Bravo!!!

The Wink.....🌹💀🌹

You can really see what an affectionate relationship Jerry had with Brent.

@claymationwaves

3 жыл бұрын

.... jerry loved Him

87 was a good year for the dead...............let me get a wing....

There was a wormhole in this song for those who were on enough acid.

@maybeioverreacted4504

4 жыл бұрын

Where did it lead?

@jackstraw8145

4 жыл бұрын

To terrapin of course.

@danceswithdogs2041

3 жыл бұрын

Did another Moon peel off the Earth as it passed through?

#IWasThere!

@TheRealForrestGeorge

4 жыл бұрын

All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew on, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain. If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night. Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore. Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind. All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

I do believe I'm high now . No drugs needed. Only 6 strikes and a lucky by my side. Oh Jerry, take me for a ride before K.C. finds my hide.

🦋

Nice choice - something from my only GD New Year’s Eve show. ! How about putting out the “Promised Land” from this show, since it wasn’t on the dvd release of this show ? (nor was most of set 3 with the Nevilles) - would be great to have more unreleased stuff. Thanks for this !

dry your eyes on the wind...

All I know is something like a bird Within her sang All I know she sang a little while And then flew on Tell me all that you know I'll show you Snow and rain If you hear that same sweet song again Will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet Is passing by Laugh in the sunshine Sing Cry in the dark Fly Through the night Don't cry now Don't you cry Don't you cry Anymore La-la-la-la Sleep In the stars Don't you cry Dry your eyes on the wind La-la-la-la La...

Like an ice cold drink o' water

AN AD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JAM? WTF????

Gobble Gobble!! 🦃

I also recommend to listen really good cover of this song by Doublewide Kings in KZread. I came finally original song due to good cover of it. ❤️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶❤️

Wonderful! But I do wish they'd let me provide my own hallucinations. Just show the band. That's good enough. Thank you.

@davidr1676

Жыл бұрын

Some of the images, video, and even what many now consider cheesy effects did leave imprints though many were forgotten until I've seen them again on the videos out there. I did make my own visuals but those things on the screens were either cues on things to contemplate over or sometimes a good laugh even when it was like an inside joke on the reality of the day or a million other things. I can't even begin on things when trails and colors or the vibrations took over. 😒 sure miss the good times and receiving tickets and that whole excitement.

Man, Jerry was only 45 or 46 here...youd think he was 65. Not trying to be negative, love jerry..