Interviewer asking Micky if he can see himself still performing at 50 lol. These guys will play til the very end God bless em...

@gratefuldoge8598

Жыл бұрын

Cocaines a hell of a drug

@bbarclay3932

Жыл бұрын

Sang Micky happy birthday in 2021 at Riverbend, Cincinnati Ohio

@jeffh2563

Жыл бұрын

@@bbarclay3932 I also got to sing happy birthday to Mickey, at that Riverbend show... That Looks Like Rain, that Bobby did that night was spot on. And John's guitar at the end, going out of it. Where the notes are raining down... Whew man.

@andrewmair7371

Жыл бұрын

Yes… such a boring & pointless question 🤷🏻 Nobody ever asked John Lee Hooker or BB King when they planned on retiring… truly a question from one ill equipped to interview anyone in the arts - 😾

@Intermentor

Жыл бұрын

And Garcia looks like a 55 year old here

“Because they make me happier than anything in the world” held true ten and 40 years after this interview !!! God bless you Jerry for the great music and good friends

@bobkeenan2907

Жыл бұрын

I miss the fat man.

@staggerleee1053

Жыл бұрын

Same here ❤👍

@VirginiaRe

10 ай бұрын

❤

Still makes me happier than anything else in the whole wide world!!

@tadowjonez

Жыл бұрын

Peace

@rickstone8547

Жыл бұрын

Damn right 👍 The Grateful Dead has been the happiest concept ever created !

All I can think about is how this is only 1983, and how many legendary shows these guys still had ahead of them.

Non Dead fans like to make fun of Jerry Garcia but he was certainly one of the most articulate of all rock stars.

@honeybeemonkey5464

Жыл бұрын

Modern day prophet

@herbythechef7624

Ай бұрын

Jerry gets a lot of hate outside the dead world for whatever reason and to me it feels like theyre personally attacking my family

And here we are 39 years later in the summer of 2022.....a very different world now, still dancing to the sweet vibes of Bobby, Mickey, Billy, Phil... NFA ⚘

Jerry's blues licks on Truckin' always make me smile. What an amazing guitar player.

@numbernine2207

Жыл бұрын

I love Shoreline 90z Let The Good Times Roll>Truckin>Touch of Grey. The mix is perfect. Heavy Brent. Even better is Cal Expo 89 : Truckin>Wang Dang Doodle Crazy Fingers>Cumberland>Eyes. First set has my fav Bertha>Greatest too. I think it's 8/4/89? It's the bomb. Perfect segue out of Truckin into Doodle!!!!!

The music is medicine and it makes me feel young and real good. I couldn't agree more.

@deadreckoning6288

Жыл бұрын

Says it all.

@MysticMonkeyMiracle

Жыл бұрын

Music is the language of the human heart 💕😎

Love you Jerry❣️ It’s never been as good without you. 💙💀⚡️🌈🌤🍄🐻🐢☮️

Mickey-78 years old. Still holding it down. ✌️NFA

@sadboi7537

Жыл бұрын

Phil is 81, now THAT’S crazy. Hope he stays around a little bit longer.

@josevillarreal9920

Жыл бұрын

@@sadboi7537 90 yrs old...picks up bass and plucks first note of Shakedown while crowd roars he's just standing there beaming 😁

I miss Jerry so much! I listen to him almost every day.

@ericball6000

Жыл бұрын

so do I.

@alborrelli1604

Жыл бұрын

Ditto

@dickhedd8490

Жыл бұрын

Makes My Day Every Day!! Thank You Jerry!! 1 Love

@richardsillett5938

Жыл бұрын

Amen, brother.

@numbernine2207

Жыл бұрын

There is so, so much brilliant music in every genre. Before I discovered the Dead, I saw so many different bands in the mid 1980's. My uncle Greg played bass for the Beat Farmers, a local blues band from Diego. Anyway, he turned me on to Los Lobos & lots of other great music when I was just a wee lad at the 1st Street Scene. So many styles. I was into The Clash, I then spent about 5 to 6 years listening to nothing but Uncle Jerry. Then in '92 discovered Jimmy Smith during intermission at Oakland. Asked Dan Hey while on mescaline who was this Hammond virtuoso. As soon as I returned to Arcata bought almost 10 Blue Note CD's. My point being it's very easy to get Jerry tunnel vision and miss out on a wealth of the American Songbook, which is VAST!!!! Getting back into record collecting in 1993 opened my eyes to EVERYTHING. Brazilian, South African, German bands like CAN, NYC No Wave like Gary Wilson, NOLA FUNK by The Meters, Toussaint, Lee Dorsey, it is literally never ending. A new record every day is possible. Mississippi John Hurt, John Fahey, Harold Budd, The Equals(!), forever and ever discoveries. Soundtracks, Exotica recs from the fifties, etc. Earthling music from 50s - 70s was a Rennessaince of original style. 80s - 2000s too. Flaming Lips 'The Soft Bulletin' blew my mind, 90z Dinosaur Jr. (J. Mascis) floored me, all SST meat puppets, The Clash!!!!, The Minutemen, The Smiths, Tracy Chapman, Screaming Trees, Evan Dando, Public Enemy, BEASTIE BOYS, Nick Cave, Tribe Called Quest, etc, etc, etc. Pearl Jam sucked. Sonic Youth rocked.

Jerry just made everything better, times were way cooler then

Watching clips like this always make me tear up. The joy and love for the music is so pure. So sad I'll never see Jerry play.

I like how they let the music jam out in segments. Good editing. Jerry seemed super happy.

When your whole life is about music you definitely play until you can't anymore, never doubted anyone in the band wouldn't ride it till the end

Because they make me happier than anything else in the whole world.

Made me tear up. So much gratitude. When I found the dead and the people seen in this tape (yup it was a tape once) it gave me hope and let me know I didn’t have to live inside the box that most everyone around me was in. Thank you thank you thank you.

So cool , their whole take and outlook on life , their understanding that they where doing something they could do for as long as they are to be alive . They where all friggin right too, right ahead of their time , right about their embrace of certain mind opening substances and so right about the music . So glad I caught a couple of shows when Jerry was present , but still even in its current forms as Dead and Co . or Lesh and friends it is an ecstatic joy !

There was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.

Cool little video. Been a great trip for me as a dead head since 1995. Barely a single day has passed since that I haven’t listened to at least one Grateful Dead tune and I’m better for it.

Still makes me happier than anything else in the world in 2024. Just saw dead and co at sphere and it made me as happy as anything could. I met a person each night who were at their first show. And Mickey was still playing and making the medicine.

How cool to hear them talk about playing until they’re dragged away and seeing that come to fruition now. Billy, Mickey, Bobby will all play until they physically can’t anymore - and I love it!

@gilmourdimegates

Жыл бұрын

Phil still touring too

@patrickmcandrew4949

Жыл бұрын

I saw Phil last week! At 82 years old, he is looking well, playing well, smiling, dancing, and in my opinion, singing better then he was a few years ago!

@haswel22

Жыл бұрын

How could I forget to mention Phil? 🤦🏻 I was thinking D&C. They all just have a love for the music that won’t fade away

@jenimatuja1940

Жыл бұрын

Just saw Phil and he is the oldest and killn it. Singing ain’t the best but he’s got the friends to help!

@agentm00se

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmcandrew4949 phils probably still dosing every show too :D

"There's NOTHING like a Dead Show!"❤✌️

from "NBC News Overnight" with Linda Ellerbee (who appears at 3:07 for a standup), The Dead's performance was shot at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville, CA on 9/24/83.

@susiefairfield7218

Жыл бұрын

Always liked Linda Ellerbee

@speedspeed121

Жыл бұрын

And they did play Truckin' and I Know You Rider that night

@willkensonit

Жыл бұрын

I thought maybe it was. It was hot that day.

@sidlevy7828

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for identifying this show. My first show of many that were to come.

@brendandimitri

Жыл бұрын

Good bot :)

Jerry's underlying (not so underlying) sense of humor, light-heartedness and laughter translates right into the music and that happiness just spreads throughout.

First album I ever bough, actually I snitched it at a Woolworths store, was the Dead's 1st release in 1967. I still listen to it at least once a month to remind me of those days.

@joe9692

Жыл бұрын

I've got a clip somewhere of the original ad. "workingman's dead... Steal one today!"

@airtow6766

Жыл бұрын

@@joe9692 that's pretty funny, I was a young teen and had no money for albums so I did what I had to do, I loved music and was fascinated by the album cover.

the music industry is never really taken us seriously so that's just as well

I regret not paying more attention to the Dead in 1983 when I was 17. I was wrapped up in metal and punk, nothing else mattered. I thought I was a rebel but I was just blind.

@tedwestall2269

Жыл бұрын

Same here!

@zachhessler8722

Жыл бұрын

I saw my first show in 1985 when I was 16. I thought it would be a 'one off' interesting experience. But a year later I saw them again and it was really transformative. I was a metal head too but I got deeper and wider with this music. It was amazing to me that at least that part of the hippy movement was still available to me in the mid-80s of all decades! Thank goodness. Get on the bus. I'll be forever Grateful.

@dickhedd8490

Жыл бұрын

Same!! I thought acdc was It. I was Blind. But Now I See!! Thank You Jerry!! 1 Love

@revjustin1

Жыл бұрын

Your experience at 17 was valid. You were doing what you needed to do then. Don't regret it. You were just as blind as anyone else was at that age, but maybe less so than you are giving yourself credit for.

Thank you so much for this!

The year I got on the bus full time..! No regrets ,turned out to be a Wonderfully Long Strange Trip it is.....Thanks Guys ✌️

@user-xv4up6oo3p

9 ай бұрын

Did US..82',and kingfish at Anaheim in 77' But 83 was the year I bought the ticket and took the ride permanently

Man I miss those days!! Jerry looks like crap but what a time we all had back then!! What I'd give to just go back for one more show 🤗☝

Definitely some of the greatest days of my life I will remember it till the day I die ✌️✨️🙌🇺🇸

I miss everything about them and the people that came to enjoy what they offered. 😎✌️🐻🐢🍄🤪🕺💃

Girl, you’re so right.. whether it be The Grateful Dead or almost any band from that era music makes you happy, happier or any kind of feeling. That’s what music is all about❤🌟❤️

Made my day. Ty!

Just lost a dear dead head buddy he seen over 300 shows. I never seen one show live, I love the Greatful Dead. Thanks Jerry for all the good times...

These people in '83 make it sound like the Dead were around for fifty years at that point. A mere eighteen years in '83 is the reality. I have cats and shirts older than that...

@zachhessler8722

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, my first show was in '85 'Twenty Years So Far' tour. I thought I was late, and I was in a way. Missed some of the best eras but glad I went along for the ride when the opportunity presented itself.

@zachhessler8722

Жыл бұрын

@@Spearca Yeah that's interesting. They were at odds with what was going on in the 80's yet there they were, if you could find them, and offered something I felt was much more authentic. Not just some antique band that was surviving on greatest hits tours. This was a thriving phenomenon that chugged along in its own corner of space and time. I am so grateful that there was an alternative to the plastic, day glow, synthesized 80's.

@deadreckoning6288

Жыл бұрын

@@zachhessler8722 Spot on. Wish I had caught more shows in the 80's. My tribe. I was at odds with the mainstream too.....always have been.

@georgelowryiii8084

Жыл бұрын

@@Spearca Decades were definitely distinct back in those days. From the late 90's until present day seems like one big long sameness to me with exception being technological advances here and there. Bands surviving the twenty year point seem to be the norm rather than the exception in stark contrast to the trend heavy 70's and 80's eras.

So glad I was able to see the Dead 3 times in the early 90’s. LA Forum, LA Coliseum, and Mountain View. Fun Times!

@bennylevine387

10 ай бұрын

I think I was at that Coliseum show. Opened with Shakedown Street.

SO glad I got tuned-in when I did...first show '78 I think but was listening on their albums for a decade prior. We really got to see art going to concerts in 60's-80's imo...we were lucky. 🍀 RIP Jerry

I live in Santa Cruz and went to this show.

Nice to see a happy Jerry!

Jerry was the heart & soul of the grateful dead.

@haroldcromack1065

Жыл бұрын

No doubt about it he was the leader of the pack ✌️✨️🙌🇺🇸

Robert Hunter and Jerry, that's electrified peanut butter and jelly right there.

So painful to see Jerry from 83-86. He was a wreck and couldn't hide it. I can't imagine how freaked out the other band members were. Jerry is 41 years old in this interview - think about that. 41. He looks 75.

@domenicgalata1470

Жыл бұрын

A shit diet, copious amounts of drugs and lack of sleep leads to this kind of deterioration. Not too mention he’d been using heroin for some time and it destroyed him physically. How he survived into the 90’s was a miracle.

@Ace_Hunter_lives

Жыл бұрын

@@domenicgalata1470 Three-pack a day habit didn't help either.

@surfnOB

Жыл бұрын

I was seeing them a lot during this period, man they rocked many, many nights. It was pretty obvious some of those nights, especially in late 83 & much of 84 he was using whatever. Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand..

@patrickmcandrew4949

Жыл бұрын

Yet somehow, some of their tightest and fastest playing and arrangements happen during that time! 1985 is especially uptempo and sounds unusually organized. 🤷‍♂️😄

@zachleary108

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmcandrew4949 Oh yeah, no doubt there are upsides to drug use and music. Countless examples. It works until it doesn't, until the train comes of the rails like it did when Jerry went into a coma in '86.

Great upload...thanks!!!! Love looking at "The Wolf" 😎👍✌

@bzfgt1

Жыл бұрын

That's the Tiger

2:44 Great splice! Great story. Great memories.

And the Music never stopped

Got to see further play 3-4 nights at a festival almost 10 years ago now, blew me away. Unfortunately I’m to young to have really see jerry, but I’ve there music and spirit still lives strong today!

Most eclectic band ever.

@charlesandrews2360

Жыл бұрын

Until King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard came along. Massive Dead fan since I was 12 in 1970 and I have many wonderful memories including this clip. It was so exciting to see my favorite band finally getting the recognition they deserved in 1983. All that being said, when dead and Company played their final shows in Chicago this past June I attended the King Gizzard shows instead. They're not a jam band they are a rock band that just plays really long songs while they weave in and out of many different genres of pop rock.

Thanks boys!!

Fall of 83’ is where it’s at.

0:32 quick flash of Phil putting on the legendary crimson white and indigo sweatbands. I'd watch an 30 episode documentary of Phil explaining his wardrobe choices for every year.

I miss Jerry so much, but the scene will go on forever, just the way Jerry wanted it to be.

We miss you Brent.its been22 yrs.peace.NFA!!!

I miss that America. That was the freest time in the history of the world. Oh well, at least I got to experience it.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

Jeez, even 1983 seems a better time than 2022

@josevillarreal9920

Жыл бұрын

Very true.

@MarvinMonroe

Жыл бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver you're talking about 1983? Or the late 60s?

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe 1983.

@johnbock1896

Жыл бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Because it WAS better back then.Even in 1983 there was still real music and Real Drugs,😉

Mickey knew we would still be here

Because they make me happier than anything else in the whole world. Still. 💯 Thanks guys NFA ❤️⚡️💙

1st show 1972 Roosevelt Stadium. Some of the greatest performances❗

Incredible to think Garcia was only 41 years old here, he looks like a really old, unwell guy

Love you, Kurt. RIP, brother

I honestly saw them well over 400 times. The only American band who never had to promote a tour

Brent bring the heat at the end with those vocals

Beautiful excerpt💀🌺

I miss it so much❤❤❤❤

The music will live on forever! As technology improves, it will stand the test of time!

What a long, strange (and wonderful!) trip it was...

@mcamp9445

Жыл бұрын

It is

@dickhedd8490

Жыл бұрын

I told My Daughter I Wanted this On My Rock!! I'm Serious Jamie!! D.

@deadreckoning6288

Жыл бұрын

And still is....

@dickhedd8490

Жыл бұрын

Happy Labor Day Weekend 2022

Yeah, i always get a flash of that time when i see interviews online and especially gigs from "back in the day", whatever "back in the day" means. Because The Dead were explicit about a common theme: Being alive in the moment. Like when Jerry, when asked "How long are you going to do this?",replies -"I'll be playing until they drag me away." Not being particularly nostalgic, i'm inclined to think that might be what "back in the day" means. And with that, i think i'll play music for awhile, or until they take me away; whichever comes 1st. And since they get there at the same time, it supports the idea of a single image to encompass it all? Jerry, and others would say in a unified way, cosmologically and 'right here', It's All Music,

Loved that Truckin segue mod clip and Jer’s glorious laugh.

I just want to hug Jerry so tight, in my arms. 🫂

Anyway this music is medicine it makes me feel good real good amen Mickey

Just great...!!!

Smiling ear to ear.

I can smell this video

I wish I was a headlight

Ah yes lived in the Bay Area most of my life and got to experience the 60's!! Sure miss those days!!👍💯❤️

very beautiful

Looks like a good time!

Most American band ever

@michaelsteding7720

9 сағат бұрын

Amen brother.

What a rush to see my old friend Curt interviewed. RIP my friend.

I have the 1989 recording of John Fogerty playing Creedence hits with Jerry and Bob at Oakland--along with Randy Jackson and Steve Jordan!

Cool daytime show at "the fairgrounds" Jerry looked like he was super into it during the Truckin and Rider segments

@rodjohnson3045

Жыл бұрын

Nah. More likely the drugs were kicking in.

@patrickmcandrew4949

Жыл бұрын

@@rodjohnson3045 gotta respectfully disagree with you there! After Jerry's coma, getting on stage was what brought all his abilities and memory back. He loved playing.

@matthewmaurysmith2486

Жыл бұрын

@@rodjohnson3045 ;) wouldn't the coke already have kicked in? I guess the Xanax and downtown balance was just right.... oof what a job it must have been to keep your head straight under those circumstances

@herbythechef7624

Ай бұрын

​@@rodjohnson3045i hate when jerry is having fun or playing something awesome and people just go "its the drugs". Jerry was more than that. Such a disrespect

Beard in full glory

I was surprised some of those people they interviewed were in their early 20s. They looked older.

Linda Ellerbee was the voice of my childhood. ❤

So miss those days

Got to love the Dead!❤❤❤😊😊😊

great year

Awesome period for GD. This was also the years where Jerry wasn't bathing or washing his hair. He looks pretty fried but man his guitar playing and singing was still stellar. I love early 80's Dead.

@rodjohnson3045

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, ol' Jer was truly a drug addicted degenerate by this point, who couldn't even be bothered to do right by his family. Good times!

@surfnOB

Жыл бұрын

No doubt. Those years were so fun. Loved84/85 shows too

@ratso8860

Жыл бұрын

I think the heroin had something to do with that. Poor guy looked awful.

@MarvinMonroe

Жыл бұрын

@@ratso8860 this was also the heavy heavy heavy cocaine use era

@dickhedd8490

Жыл бұрын

Judge Not....

awesome...

At that time the Deads were not in their first bloom but still kicked the ass. Whole gens of followers right up to now and long back.

Id give almost anything to have been alive and seen them in the 70s and 80s.

God Bless the Grateful Dead

@josevillarreal9920

Жыл бұрын

Yes sir 🃏

All Things Pass even the good things

Ahhh yes. 1983. The year I got on the bus. :)

@josevillarreal9920

Жыл бұрын

Oh sheetz! Did you catch Olympic Arena, NY or Silva Hall, ME? You are fortunate some smoking playing in JGB too.

@chordiepa.9268

Жыл бұрын

@@josevillarreal9920 Nope. Philly in April, Harrisburg in June, and Syracuse in October.

GOOD OLD GRATEFUL DEAD❤️👊💙

Hell yeah man far out

All interviews are rare because they can only happen once.

0:55 --- Sums it up

32 yrs

Rare? When was it discovered? How long will it remain rare? Will you tell us when it stops being rare? :) I’m just busting chops. Thanks. Nice interview.