This is the Dead at their technical and dynamic peak. This jam is a great example of Bob Weir as a true rhythm player. He is demonstrating his piano like chord voicings, and is completely in the pocket rhythmically. Phil is just dominating everything, ducking and diving and leading, and Billy is in lock step with him. Jerry is right on their heels the whole time, and Keith is filling in the color and texture. It’s just unbelievable live music.

@hubertsumlin9697

Жыл бұрын

Perceptive comments on Bobby's guitar work. He is utterly unlike any other "rock" guitarist. He's mentioned in interviews that he built his style more along the lines of jazz piano, particularly McCoy Tyner. He's so underrated as a player. Being the bridge between Jerry and Phil is a mighty task indeed.

@nettle99

Жыл бұрын

also their volume levels are pretty close on this one and can hear how brilliant the bobby backup riffs shine

@michaelmohrle1773

Жыл бұрын

1972, the best year of them all.

@pac401

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmohrle1773 I totally agree. Especially from mid-summer on. The band was so locked in with each other and it made for amazing jazz style improv jams.. It was like a ballplayer having an MVP year.

@michaelmohrle1773

Жыл бұрын

@@pac401 Yes if all the years were on CD's and we still bought CDs at record stores I bet 1972 would be the year that keeps selling out the most !!

greatest jam band of all time.

I was 20 yrs old and there crying happy tears. The best EVER

@TheHarge

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@biblebear6795

3 жыл бұрын

I turned 2 years old on this day and still just a little GD bear crying that I wasn't old enough to be there!

@hallucin8-

3 жыл бұрын

Wish I could have experienced them live I’m 23 my mom saw a few shows in the 90s before jerry passed I was born in the wrong time

This is getting too weird. I haven't heard the Dead in decades and accidentally found them on KZread along with other great bands from "my time." Have been letting them run all afternoon. I was feeling kinda melancholy, it was such a good era, everyone back then liked each other and shared everything... well, I'm a wildlife rehabilitator and a fellow called me who needed to bring a hurt bird, and when he pulled up to my house, he was driving an old VW bus... with stickers all over it... it looked like it jumped through a time warp. Just too weird. How I've missed the Dead, Led Zep, Janis, all of them, and didn't even realize it. They had real talent, and they gave us everything when they played, their minds and hearts. No digital modifications to enhance weak voices or instruments. No vulgarity, misogyny or hatred. Just pure talent, and I was lucky to see all of them many times. I need to think about what just happened, resurrecting my love of the Dead, and then a guy coming over with an old VW bus straight out of the sixties... phew! I feel old. Wait... I am. Dang. But wiser, now.

@roberatilan5646

6 жыл бұрын

age is a number. That is it. stay youthful sir. Cheers. Cosmic stuff ur describing. Roll with it.

@roberatilan5646

6 жыл бұрын

oops sorry mary. should have said amiga

@ajisstillright

5 жыл бұрын

The VW bus😍😍 great story!!

@josiahquincy2744

4 жыл бұрын

Good words

@dickhedd8490

3 жыл бұрын

Get Back On The Bus!!! Room Aplenty!! 1 Love

Fabulous ensemble playing. No other rock group comes close.

In my true honest opinion, this is literally a band playing at its peak. I cannot imagine what it was like to witness this in person.

@patrickmorley9844

Жыл бұрын

🍀

1972 was my favorite year for PITB, epitomized by this version. Superb combination of tight, raucous, jazzy and psychedelic, all at the same time.

I was listening to this by myself tripping hard in a cabin, up in the mountains. I had christmas lights behind a tie dye and i just kept rewinding the parts for like 4 hours. One of the greatest things i'd ever heard. I think phil was tripping too

It is absurd how deep they are in the music. Incredible!

❤😂❤ thanks for sharing deadlife

72 was a good year for dead jam outs. I tripped out to the 72 German hall shows and saw God.

One of the best if not THE best versions of this song I've ever heard. The jam is great from beginning to end, it never loses energy and Bobby, Keith, and Jerry push each other into improv perfection. It's now on my iphone. 1972 - the honey year!

@michaelmohrle3138

6 жыл бұрын

pac401. Well said!

@krissantos6624

4 жыл бұрын

Pure 🍯

@porterhouse7260

Жыл бұрын

In Oklahoma! Think about that, for the time!

What a great feeling it must have been being a member of this band, making this wonderful music together for the whole world - could anything like that be possible today ...?

I saw them in Chicago in June of 1976, Alisha. Playing in the Band was the glue for a jam that lasted 56 minutes. When they gradually drifted back to Playing in the Band, I was in tears.

Unbelievably good. As much as I love Brent, Keith was the best.

@danmeehan5801

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@pac401

Жыл бұрын

Listen to Keith at 9:55. That little arpeggio was perfectly timed with Jerry.

I was 1yr 3mos old when they cracked this Off!

Love Bobby's presence in the mix

Beautiful, fluid and dynamic. What an incredible PITB. Definitely my favorite era. My sincere gratitude to those that had the wherewithal to record and preserve this gold in the first place.

A scintillating performance from Jerry and co. I'm no deadhead but I appreciate some great jamming. And this it.

best band ever

Awesome version. I miss going to grateful dead shows.

Finally Weir is hot enough in the mix to be heard....Keith also....fantastic tape...thanks..

psychedelic jazz rock like embryo, like henry cow maybe best cause this is from the heart. gracias jerry por haber cambiado mi vida

What a magnificent version of PLAYING IN THE BAND. Jazzy, playful, mind-transporting--this is the Dead at their classic best. Essential!

@TheHarge

5 жыл бұрын

Right on!

Amazing version - hadn't heard this one before. Also check out 9/7/73. I used to love when they started Playin' at one show, and ended it the last night of the run. It was like everything in between - the songs, the lot, sleep, food, life, and ending with the reprise, was a part of the jam.

@tompoynton

4 жыл бұрын

I saw Phil & Friends at the Warfield in ‘99 with Billy on drums and they stretched Dark Star out over two nights, very cool

Let me tell you of the legend of Billy K.

beautiful photo editing, it really adds to this very sweet and deep Playin'

damm people donna screams for a few seconds and you say that ruins 20plus minutes of grateful dead jamming perfection? just start it @ 3 minutes!

@michaelmohrle1773

3 жыл бұрын

P.S. Donna is a great singer and was in the band during their best jamming era '72-74 IMO, she screamed to get the crowd into it these were live performances after all.

gorgeous. playin' (like bird song, ds and several others) was one of those songs that was always guaranteed to be a springboard to a GREAT jam. the early 70s versions are my favorite. the dark stars from that era were great, but got a little too freaky (and mellow) for my tastes. the playin' jams were always sprightly, way out there, but with that great drive to them. thanks for posting!!!

@opensourcecurrency

4 жыл бұрын

Funny you mention "Dark Star"...that and "Playin" are the only two Dead songs I've ever chosen to listen to...

The Dead spent the whole '72 Europe tour doing crazy experiments and discovering the flow of this song. Love when it goes into one of Jerry's dizzy, psychedelic guitar sessions- really intense and exploratory. They really brought it back with them for this Ok Civic Center....adding this to my playlist.

Weir is great! From about 15:20-17:02 he's the only guitar playing (while Jerry is smoking a cigarette, doobie, or perhaps Persian) and hes doing his usual one of a kind rhythm comping, as well as sneaking in little Garcia- esqe bends to give the illusion Garcia isn't doing drugs behind his amplifier lol. Ofurse it's known Garcia is on the short list of greatest and or widely known guitarists ever. I think the Garcia-Weir duo is moreso inspiring in that they are so cohesive yet so individual at all the right moments at their best. And don't even get me started on Professor Lesh and Dr. Krutzman ;)

@claudiadreifus-pesce410

5 жыл бұрын

I saw Jerry go behind amps at my 1st show 6/119/76, and bend down to possibly do what you're describing.

@LOL60345

5 жыл бұрын

may i ask what a persian is ? peace

@tyeprice9764

5 жыл бұрын

@@LOL60345 Sure can. Persian is the high grade Heroin Jerry was smoking throughout this period of the Dead. Very early on into his smack use before it completely took him over. You can see and hear it starting to negatively effect him around 78,79, and by 81,82 he was barley functional. It's amazing he could play his ass off for 3 and 4 hour shows on any given night by that time.

@YairKotzer

4 жыл бұрын

Jerry wasn't into the Persian up until 76', so probably just a cigarette, a reefer or a blow

@novakaya

3 жыл бұрын

‘Professor Lesh’ is a god among mortals

So I'm a late-blooming Head, and I have to say the PITB jams have to be my some of absolute FAVORITEs. This is a prime fuckin' example man! Such an amazing jam... Not much else to say - it's the Grateful god damn Dead brother! Thee absolute most soulful, adventurous, "alive" music I have EVER heard - PERIOD!!!

Just one of the best Playing jams

One of the Dead Songs which is changing throughout the years they played together. The "change" in their music reflects the changes of each member of the band. There are but a few who "grow change together as a band as well as individuals".

Excellent sound quality on this recording. The two nights in OKC were my first shows. Wow! Glad to have this

Liquid Jerry top of his game. Nothing like it anymore.

@michaelmohrle3138

6 жыл бұрын

Ron hulka Nothing ever before it either!

@GarlTsagan

5 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Rogers I've got good news for you. There are a lot of very talented people making a lot of quality lsd. the shits everywhere these days

@michaelmohrle1773

3 жыл бұрын

Before or since, 1972 year I was born was an amazing year. Still nothing like it.

Very, Very Nice......uptempo, just slightly....gives it a nice edge.

love the picture of the astronauts doing the EVA! awesome video, thanks!

@rhmayer1

5 жыл бұрын

I loved the 3 sail ships, with the white wave crests turning into seagulls as the last ship, no longer in water, is flying in the air, with the man below looking up at it.

Donna never missed a beat.

seen them six times never disappointed, always awed and amazed

@framemartgallery4619

Жыл бұрын

Saw them 33 and STILL felt cheated. Not enough. The Good one OR the Bad

14:50 my homeland (picture) ...🎉🎉

Music and Pico arrivino at your soul at the same time..

this was the first song/version I heard by the dead I was 14 at a guy I had just met that nights house drinking a alf gallon of 101 super shnapps who knew it would grow into the best friendship and transform this former cowboy into a deadhead magical things happen listening to the dead

some folks look for answers, others look for fights!

@kevindelaney5440

7 жыл бұрын

I was scrolling through the comments and right when this lyrics was sung i came across your comment. Good timing.

To jedno z moich ulubionych nagrań zespołu The Grateful Dead. Występuje w różnych wersjach. Ja najbardziej lubię te koncertowe wykonania i każdego z nich mogę słuchać w nieskończoność.

@katarzynacaryca2559

5 жыл бұрын

Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Warszawy.

@rastaman2157

5 жыл бұрын

😉☮✌☮ 💀☮ ✌☮ 😊

@adrianpeters2413

2 жыл бұрын

Damian reclaw ..see your writing is the result of listening to the dead.....?. Got a bit mixed up with the last third of the alphabet, be carefull xzzxwqzxq

So many lovely visions, so grateful~

Some folks look for answers Others look for fights Some folks up in treetops Just look to see the sights

@michaellester8079

4 жыл бұрын

Charlie Brown: " Some folks up in treetops, Just looking for their kites"

Love PITB. This jam is great. My favorite is 3 days later, 11.18.72. Jerry shreds. Phil is amazing. Mickey and Billy are either driving or just riding along. So hard to tell. Bobby is a rhythm master. So subtle and so sweet. Jerry takes us all into a dream. I love how the band starts with some lyrics, then gets lost. Everyone is doing their own thing for 20 minutes. After some deep exploration, Phil starts hitting a harmonic note like he's ringing a bell. Boom..boom...boom... Everyone comes back home and Donna leads us back to Earth. After Europe '72, this southwest tour was amazing.

@stevenkirk5638

Жыл бұрын

It's just Bill K on drums, Mickey wasn't in the band at the time.

@steve254452

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenkirk5638 I did not know that. Thank you!

1972 is a warm-up for the WOS

best of the best..........

Incredible show - you can say that again!!!

The Playin' in the Band from 5-21-74 is 46 and a half minutes...one of the longest jams they had ever done. You can find it on archive.org.

EPIC

I love the girl🍀

this is beyond amazing music. ty

@roberatilan5646

6 жыл бұрын

eff the donna haters. she was good enuf 4 the dead. all that matters. see the door. do not let it hit u on the way out. ur opinions do not matter. THE DEAD'S did

your photos rock!!

Wow...just wow!

Glorious

old school*********!!!

The sum is greater than the parts. Mazing

Jerry with tha DAMB JAMBS!!!

great

Dead Psychedelic Jazz at its peak

Just Amazing 😉💀⚡️☠️⚡️👻💀💊⚡️👀⚡️🙀⚡️🕉⚡️☯️

Yea - agree with this very much. But there are some Dark Stars are beautifully layered. The Rotterdam 5/11/72 DS is one of my favorites. I really like the interplay between Jerry and Keith starting around 7:30. Back then Keith was more melodic in his playing. And Jerry destroys it with some agitated psych jazz jamming from then onward. But I dig the energetic and sometimes freaky jams like PITB, Eyes, GDTRFB, the Eleven, Not Fade Away... Also, thanks for reminding me bird song!

Wow, I had to check the playback speed to make sure it wasn't playing fast. Maybe it's just the cocaine, but I love the energy of the early 70's shows. Especially on Bob's songs around that time. So lively and uptempo, and yet they still get way out there and manage to stretch it to 30+ minutes. And everyone's at the top of their game and right on top of the beat... If only Dead & Co. had that kind of energy. They seem to have only 2 speeds, slow and slower. Ironically, I have a feeling it's Bob slowing everything down, either due to the long-term effects of age/drugs, or perhaps just changing sensibilities. Nevertheless, some of their songs just don't sound right slowed down. Anyway, killer performance here.

@framemartgallery4619

Жыл бұрын

I agree with your speculation & determinations. Personally, Bobby must be into some speed & testosterone on this one

@michaelmohrle1773

Жыл бұрын

Friend of the devil is an example, I never liked it live after 1974.

fuckin keith right around the 10min mark

@seankerr3560

7 жыл бұрын

good ear

Some of this (esp.

Mid-west Dead is best Dead.

@roberatilan5646

6 жыл бұрын

all dead is the best dead

that improv' though...

kate you should put this on your workout mix

@framemartgallery4619

Жыл бұрын

Kate-listen to him. Workout to a peppy Jazzout

That is a band

The thing I like most about this is that it was during a time when it wasn't mostly whoever where a dog likes to play fetch

@thefletch888

6 жыл бұрын

What

@High_Priest_Jonko

5 жыл бұрын

That dont make a damn bit of sense

This is great version but can the poster spell correctly the word Oklahoma

let's not forget the twice played Playin>UJB>Dew>UJB>Playin' sandwiches

@framemartgallery4619

Жыл бұрын

Wha? When?

There are other comments, hi everyone. I have no comment

What's a World of Warcraft image doing at 19:50 :D

9:41

Is this the longest Playin' in the Band? the only other one i know thats close to this is Des Moines 6-16-74 and that is only 29:12...theres probabley longer out there..but if anybody knows for sure let me know

@avail1.

6 жыл бұрын

Alisha A Only if you play it over agin! ha!¿🤣🙃🖖👀💨🐷🌵

@MrMushrooms420

4 жыл бұрын

Longest is Hec Edmonton 74’ Part of the box set. That man is like 47 minutes long haha!

20:28 in....

Where did all the good music go????? Deadhead for life here 💀

26:15

I didn’t know they had a cat in the band.

Weir is engaged

@rhmayer1

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. So is Bill. I remember back then - he used to dance behind his kit, his whole body engaged in the music in a trance-like dance. His rhythm came from his center and expanded outward through his arms and hands and legs and feet and all the pores on his body.

Some interesting chords around 12:20 but that's a long time to wait for something better than "doodley-oodley-oodle-ooo." Have you people never heard The Other One from Skeletons and Roses (4-28-71, jump to 5:20) or the jam after Truckin on Europe 72? (5-26-72) This band could jam coherently, not just noodle.

@rhmayer1

5 жыл бұрын

There are layers. Sometimes layers within the noodles. Sometimes if you dig deeper you might find new treasures in new textures. Sometimes you feel it more than hear it (feeling a pulse vs. hearing melody.) There are different ways to "hear." But I agree - not everything is fantastic. (That would by definition make it monotonous.) And yes, "we people" have heard of those.

@calebbernstein5163

4 жыл бұрын

@@rhmayer1 much love brother in a world full of hate !!

@slandersir7255

Жыл бұрын

What do you like about that Truckin'? It's one of the most boring jams I've heard from The Grateful Dead.

@marksaltveit

Жыл бұрын

@@slandersir7255 Uh, if you can't hear it, I'm not sure there's a way to explain it (or maybe you're just trolling). One friend said "Yeah, they were really listening to each other that show."

@slandersir7255

Жыл бұрын

@@marksaltveit I am being serious. There's some Grateful Dead music I like, but a lot of the time (and partiuclarly on that Truckin') it just sounds to me like they don't care about how they sound. I also find that a lot of Grateful Dead fans do speak about the music in quite a vague and spiritual way and tend not to draw attention to specific melodies or rhthyms as often as people do with other improvised music.

This is 11/17/72

@Trollzungolo

2 ай бұрын

No it’s 11/15/72 I was wrong my bad

some kind of sacrificial ceremony......?

G mixolydian if you're jamming at home :)

@jefflester3239

6 жыл бұрын

Nah, D Dorian.

There should be a term for the feeling of dread that envelops you when the jam is over and you know you've only got about 15 seconds to stop the music. Fortunately not necessary on this one!

the official longest one is 46 minutes. the 4-26-72 show (hundred year hall, not on archive) was really short at 8 minutes full but special. it almost sounded like total distortion/jam/metal

love the jam, but why are they killing a cat at 1:53?

@itsafarce1157

7 жыл бұрын

That particular killing of the cat at 1:53 was extremely mild as compared to the majority of other versions of this song Donna has completely RUINED!

@duglloyd9146

5 жыл бұрын

More of pulling a siamese cat by the tail

🤔 hmm? I love playing in the band however I think maybe I like Downtempo better? This one seems a bit too fast

hey, why are they killing a cat at 1:54?

@atomicrooster8926

6 жыл бұрын

As someone wrote above, it is some kind of sacrificial ceremony...... :)

@RobertBardos

5 жыл бұрын

Have a problem with Donna you’re not a true dead head and uhum, fade away brother. ☮️

@johnmartin2470

5 жыл бұрын

Cuz it’s yours

The changeable liver infrequently fancy because thing metrically fetch beside a outstanding parrot. husky, sulky dietician

Donna RUINS yet another version

@dave21286

7 жыл бұрын

How about the second coming of Michael MacDonald, aka Brent Midland. His awful voice ruined a lot of songs for me in his era.

@LarryalShiva

7 жыл бұрын

BRENT WAS FANTASTIC. How dare you even compare him to Donna.

@georgebethos7890

7 жыл бұрын

dave21286 I couldn't stand Brent either Glad someone else also said it. ☠️🙀💊

@johnmartin2470

5 жыл бұрын

Why do you even listen?

@framemartgallery4619

Жыл бұрын

Ha. She tries, bless her heart

yuppers. it gets a little monotonous at times though