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.

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

Buffalo 77 is all you need in 2021

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.

These guys make life worth living.

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 💚

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

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

The fellas were always great in Buffalo ♡♡♡

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

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.

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

Franklin's Tower is fantastic.

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.

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

Jerry rings like fire when I lose my way.

Phil tearing it up!

One of his many musical masterpieces 🥀

I miss Jerry so much!!!!

this will always be my favorite

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

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

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

this is absolutely stellar.

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.

This jam was great help on the way these days

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

My favorite part is listening to it.

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.

They just keep getting better.

Damn. Amazing graphics!! 🌹🌹🌹

Jerry is the greatest guitarist of all time

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

nuttyriv3r ; You totally enhanced my life, Dude.

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

Here for coronavirus healing

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

Healing for the soul and beyond

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

Love the Dead. Thanks for posting this amazing selection.

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

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.

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

My favorite GD show from 1977

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

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

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

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

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

Highly under-appreciated show.

psychedelic funky fresh

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.

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!

Came here for the 42nd anniversary of this gem.

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 !!

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

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

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

Beautiful Dead and super groovy animations, great post!

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.

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.

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

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

Very nice!Thank you.

Probably best Help/Slipknot/Franklin's ever?

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.

Gorgeous, Ed, thanks you for this man

thank you :) you make me smile everyday

Jerry's killing it ! First solo hits the Stratosphere .

This is my Birthday show!!!

great mix. the drumming is sick in this.

Love Phil Lesh's bass 💣💣💣

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.

Absolutely awesome

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

Nice, cool all the way around

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

Terrapin balls y'all.

GRATEFUL DEAD GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO

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....

fucking amazing!!!!!

Wow!

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

This is where it's at

Love the visual art in addition to Jerry’ s righteous music

Magic

This. Is. Bliss

help on the way!

Ring like fire if you lose your way.

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

Gotta say, with peace and love! peace and love! (Ringo), I'm in camp 2/26/77. It's probably 80 / 20 in favor of 5/9. But maybe I'm a freak. Maybe we're all freaks.