My Five Favorite You Tube Videos

5) Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir on David Letterman - 1987



This is Jerry and Bobby in a 1987 appearance on David Letterman. This is after Touch of Grey came out, and suddenly, they were huge rock stars. Hilariously, when asked to go on the Letterman show to "promote their hit album" In the Dark do they play their hit single? No. A song from the album? No. A Dylan song released as an extra on Bob Dylan's greatest hits Vol. 2? Yes. Someone convinced Jerry and Bob to don sport coats for this gig. This is a funky version of one of my favorite songs ever, When I Paint my Masterpiece. Notice a young(er) Paul Shaffer on the keys.

4) China Cat Sunflower Jam > I Know You Rider - 1972




A solid clip from Europe '72 (second best tour ever). Please watch and listen to Bobby Weir and reference my previous post about his guitar tone. This features one of my favorite moments around 3:28 mark when they step up to the mic for Rider

3) Visions of Johanna - 3/18/95 Philly Spectrum




This is a very late version of the gehs playing Visions of Johanna, one of my favorite Dylan tunes. This is an example of Jerry waking up to put on a killer performance 1995. This is March 1995, a little less than 5 months before his death. Love how the camera focuses on him the entire time. Note how POWERFUL Jerry's guitar Bolt sounds.

2) Liberty - 1994




This is the Liberty video created by Justin Kruetzmann (yes, Bill's son) in'94 for the So Far DVD. I always will associate this video the time in college where I pulled an all nighter studying and watched this video alone in the CCM and water started coming out of my eyes.

1) Death Don't Have No Mercy - 10/9/89 Hampton Coliseum



This is a top 5 moment in the history of the Grateful Dead. They had not played this song in almost 20 years, before whipping it out at the Hampton Coliseum where the show was billed as "Formerly The Warlocks" (their former band name from 1965). Highlights: Bobby's shirt, switching off verses, Brent screaming at the top of his lungs, Jerry playing Wolf