One of our favorites for sure 💀 have to credit Little Feat founder and producer extraordinaire Lowell George who produced this song and album, and helped craft the funkier than usual sound. Patiently waiting for a dark star next.....

Produced by my father, Mr. Lowell George!

Seeing a non-deadhead react to the dead like this makes my heart filled with joy. May you continue down the road of gratefulness.

We were waiting for him to get into the Dead. He just had to poke around.

Nothing we Deadheads love more than introducing Grateful Dead music!!!

Shakedown Street one of the best show openers.

Fair warning: You have not yet BEGUN to experience everything the Dead brought to the table. Their styles changed from album to album and year to year and even set to set in one night. Everything from folk and bluegrass to jazz and funk to what-the-hell-is-THIS (with a grin as wide as the cosmos). Keep digging, you WILL be blown away.

ESTIMATED PROPHET! Must do that one!

I’ve been listening to the dead since 93 and never quite took the time to actually listen to this songs entire message until this video. Dang, nice video 🫡

Polish your thought jewels...with a bottomless well of quality , heartfelt smiling energy!! GRATEFUL DEAD

Grateful Dead will put you on a journey brother. Althea, bird song, jack straw, Cassidy, sugaree, and list goes on and on and on

Every song from the Dead is a new adventure!

The Dead played over 400 different, unique songs in concert over the years, a record that will never be broken.

I love how he dances like a head without even knowing the culture and everything🤣 Definitely one of the coolest Deadhead youtubers. This is awesome!

Please do yourself a favor and do Terrapin Station, the whole studio version and then Scarlet Begonias...”Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places If you look at it right” One of the finest lines ever written! Amen and God Bless The Grateful Dead! RIP Jerry ✌️

If you want to dive in deep with the Dead, you can't go on your own way without listening to the greatest "Robert Hunter" (The songwriter for the Dead) composition ever written for the Dead, the one and only song "Terrapin Station." This is the Dead's Magnum Opus and should not be missed. Terrapin Station is also an album but I'm talking about the song itself.

Yay more grateful dead! They did lots of genres, and this was the rare disco dead section. Keep doing their songs! I say do Franklin's Tower next!!!

The vibes I experienced going to Dead shows in the early 70’s still reverberate in my psyche. The Grateful Dead and all it’s iterations is a HUGE rabbit hole!

Help On The Way/Slipknot!/Franklin’s Tower is a must!!

This just makes me jealous to see someone listening to this for the first time (~);3

Oh my lord, we’re getting the Dead again?!! 🙏🙏🙏 So grateful I was able to experience them live once, and the and the whole tailgate/vendor/community. What a trip! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🖤🤍🤎

The Dead could do a lot of styles. But still sound like the Dead.

Lowell George of Little Feat produced this album. That’s probably why it’s got the funk!

It’s just the tip of iceberg my friend. There’s a reason many of us are still and will forever be obsessed until the day we die. It’s the lot before the show FYI.

The most Disco they ever got but damn did they do it great or what

The Dead could do it all. Can not not put them in a box.

I about sprained my finger clicking on this so fast lol

It has begun!!! It makes me so happy to see you enjoy this

😂 I love seeing that shoulder shimmy come to life. The 70s stabilized their beat but never robbed their spirit. Welcome to infinite hours of great music!!! Love like a hippie buddy!!!

Giants fan, long beard, cool t-shirt, and likes the Dead. Hmmm. Yep.

Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart When I can hear it beat out loud! At live Dead shows, Shakedown St was the place you could go and buy handmade goods, garlic grilled cheese sandwiches, and pretty much anything else you needed to enjoy the show........wink wink

I love that he got in the position when he's going to pause it, but then just backed of because the groove is so good!

What a terrific video delight. Your reaction to Shakedown Street, (that used to be the heart of town) is yet another validation of your compelling skill set and the entertainment value of what you do. Naysayers abound yet don't tell me youtube aint' got no heart, ya just gotta poke around. Bravo! ;-)

You totally "got it" right from the rip. Always great watching someone fall into that feeling. You nailed the vibe of the song too. Shakedown is even the area Deadheads gather before the shows to buy, sell, eat and partake in all sorts of things. So many might see the scene as negative but if poke around a little bit you are bound to find the love that keeps everyone coming back.

Oh..THANK YOU...I love watching your heartfelt reactions to the Grateful Dead and other bands. I am a long time deadhead and enjoy new perspectives on old tunes...Shakedown is an iconic song from the Dead and has become the name for the outside parking lot areas where tshirts, food and art is sold...where people gather before the show....your ears are welcoming and your heart is HUGE...all of us in the Dead community love you......hard to suggest tunes as there are so many but you may enjoy " Help on the Way" "Throwin' Stones" and "New Speedway Boogie"

Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin’s Tower

Just get on the bus. You can't fight it.

I have a dear friend, this is his favorite group. I was into disco, R & B, and classical rock. Heard of them but not their music. He took me to see Further, who was founded in 2009 by Great full Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. First time hearing it live was amazing. Take it from me, hearing the audio, has NOTHING on seeing them live. The energy is something you definitely should experience. Like church!!!

The Grateful Dead was a culture. A literal rock and roll phenomena

Your reaction to hearing this for the first time is so pure. I watch it often just to lift my own mood! Keep great music alive

Long live Jerry! ✌🏼❤️ If you haven’t heard it, check out Uncles John’s Band. I think you would like it. Serious dancing!

Try lots of live Grateful Dead to truly understand the essence of the music. Glad you liked this one Jamel.

You need to listen to Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis sitting in.

After the song and album's release, "Shakedown Street" became the affectionate term for the "lot" scene (tailgating), with its tents, vending, etc. The thing to do in the 80s and 90s was to show up several hours before the doors opened, and hit up Shakedown...

That's what they always brought...Goosebumps!

The whole reason I ever subbed was because you did a couple of Dead songs. Please keep exploring and you will dig it!

This band changed my life in so many positive ways ⚡ went to my first show when I was 13 the summer of 84.. been on the bus ever since 💀

Bro, that groove you were feeling is what Grateful Dead Family have been living on for years. That energy is in almost every song they play. Sometimes it's different from song to song, but the spirit of the music is in there. So glad you get to enjoy it for your first time.

Shakedown street is the perfect song to introduce people to the dead.

Due to what you like about this song, I cannot recommend strongly enough: Mississippi Uptown Toodle-oo.

I NEED to hear you react to Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed. The live version of course!

do "Fire on the Mountain" this is totally my favorite Dead album.

"Estimated Prophet" is also a good one. And Burning Spear did a really good cover of it.

Timeless perfection! Master class!

Shakedown Street. One of my favs. Thanks for reviewing and listening to great music...and not just the Dead. Live the Funk. Seriously!

Yeah, you could say the Dead covered a lot of musical ground over the years. Disco Dead didn’t go down so well with some of the faithful, but you gotta give the band credit for rolling with the changing times. And this is one funky groove. A concert highlight for about 20 years. Great 2nd set opener!

Sugar magnolia next, and Bertha

Dude, I love your expressions/mannerisms! You're like, "OK Grateful Dead, I see you work!" You seem just like a genuine guy who loves and understands music and lyrics. You're real, and these videos make my day!

Loved your reaction to Shakedown St. Shakedown St is a area of vending at Dead concerts so you got it totally correct man. Glad you liked it. I've been a fan since 76 and still truckin

my go to grateful jukebox song....love seeing people bobbing their heads and jamming to it. then i come around and tell them its the grateful dead...shocked always!

Now we are talking. Althea!!!!!

This song got a lot of hate when it first came out, from people who had a fixed idea in their mind of what THEIR Grateful Dead sounded like. I'm sorry, they were just wrong. The Dead could play and did play whatever they wanted to, and anybody who tried to place a limit on that just didn't get it. "Shakedown Street" is The Dead, no ifs ands or buts. And check out this Deadhead miracle: My first Dead show was in southern California, in the soccer field at Cal State Dominguez Hills. 18 years later, I got a T-shirt FROM THAT VERY CONCERT in a thrift store in Oklahoma City. (I hadn't gotten an official shirt at the concert, because I bought two tie-dies in the parking lot on the way in.) My wife couldn't understand why I was so freaked when I found it, she just thought I'd lost my damn mind in the men's shirts aisle.

I love that he said "sounds like it got some funk to it", before the funk broke out ❤️

Man I hear this song and brought a tear to my eyes. I miss Jerry so much. Jerry was such an awesome guitarist. I am very fortunate, I got to see the Dead numerous times. The Dead like playing the northeast of the country. And I was at Boston University from 1981-1985.

This makes me so happy, and the vibe is Universal... Shakedown Street was where you could get anything....from clothes, food and "substances" ...it was the hub, of love Peace and understanding...

This is some fun Dead. Keep doing more my man! Try some Jerry Garcia Band, you’d love his version of “I Second That Emotion” or any other Motown covers.

I'd love to see you react to Terrapin Station, Estimated Prophet, Brown Eyed Women, Samson and Delilah..so many good tunes by the Dead

It is a wonder why no rapper/hip-hop act hasn't already 'sampled' this piece...

This was all of our reactions the first time we heard this song 💕 will forever be one of my favorite dead jams

Always a concert fave. Gets EVERYBODY dancing.

Great stuff. Please do "Eyes of the World".

Terrapin station,it might be the masterpiece? Love the dead!

My Brother, did you Ever think you'd be sliding to the Dead?

Yes yes yes! I am SO happy to see you 1st time groovin' on the real vibe...yes, now YOU are Gratefully Deadicated! I have danced my ass of to this song live and the joy we all had to this one~` GOLDEN!!

I got my mother hooked on the Grateful Dead when she was 65. 🤣 They’re phenomenal musicians.

Don’t need to be a dead head to know good timeless music..❤️

Of all the studio Dead recordings, this song, Sampson and Delilah, and Terrapin Station are my favs. I think you'd really enjoy Sampson and Delilah.

If you liked this, I think you would enjoy "Help on the Way/Slipknot". Also a very funky tune, but I find it more intense.

I know live dead is the best , ‘82 my wife on our first Xmas married bought me my first stereo, I asked for 2 cds shakedown was one , and it always reminds me of our first Xmas together . Fell in love with this whole cd. Glad to see other people enjoying this great music long live Jerry.

God bless the Dead! Sugar Magnolia, Fire on the Mountain, Scarlet Begonias and many many more amazing jams. Every note of music they recorded is top notch

I like to ask people a musical question. If you were stuck on a deserted island and could only listen to one artist or band for the rest of your life, who would it be? My answer is Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. The variety is insane, from bluegrass to blues, funk to jazz. Sometimes slow and sometimes fast tempos. A little bit of everything. Jerry's side projects; Reconstruction, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Old and In the Way, and Jerry Garcia Band all sound very different. From each other, and from the Dead. You'd probably like the Jerry Garcia Band a lot. Like going to church. ;) Check out "Brothers and Sisters" from 9/1/1990. It's on the KZfaq. If you want Grateful Dead funk at it's finest, check out the live version of "Dancing In The Streets" from Cornell 1977. Absolutely amazing. People often use the phrase "Rabbit Hole" to describe one's introduction to a new catalog of music. Jerry's music goes as deep as anyone, dating back to music made popular in the late 1800's! Songs so old that the author is unknown.

Grateful Dead is just a trip, all their songs. I would listen to "China Cat Sunflower" next.

I know you hear this a million times from Dead Heads, but you gotta go with the live version man. Studio Dead does not capture this band in their greatest form. Even the Dead know their studio work _attempted_ , mostly to no avail, to capture their live sound as best as they could. Their studio work is more of a like an advertisement for the songs as opposed to the song itself. The song itself is heard in a live setting with the band. It is a living, breathing spirit and energy that they tap into when they're actually playing the songs. Always changing, never the same way twice. That is what gives you the best of the Grateful Dead. The best versions of every single song they ever wrote and recorded were done in a live show.

Greatest band ever...... change my mind

One of their best songs. So groovy

Jerry Garcia had a side gig playing with the Jerry Garcia Band, they did a lot of covers and got into soul and funk also. This cut sounds more like Jerry Garcia Band as much as the Dead. He also in a BLuegrass Ban Old and in the Way.

The dead is infectious, in a good way :) It’s impossible to not want to dance or bop when hearing them! Welcome to the family

you need to hear Terrapin Station, it's a masterpiece

One of my favorites! Grew up with a disco-loving mom and Dead-loving dad, so heard this song a lot. Shakedown street ain't a bad place to be :)

Everything about this video makes me smile so wide! I love seeing someone hearing the dead and feeling it. The bus has come by!

Just like all the other bands this is just the tip of the iceberg. Enjoy the swim my friend

You have along strange Trip, coming, Jump on board, the Bus is leaving Jamal's House

Ok, now you’ve done it. “To Lay Me Down” “Morning Dew” “Bird Song” “China Doll” OMG, there’s a never-ending list!!!! The instruments on China Doll tho!!! And the words... uhhhh... GD forever ❤️

I love seeing videos like this, I grew up listening to the grateful dead, although I’m too young to have ever seen them live, My dad instilled a love for the grateful dead in me when I was a child. I love this music and I love seeing people loving this music.

Great song! So many good songs from the Dead. And so many different vibes too. Scarlet Begonias, Eyes of the World, Uncle John’s Band, Tennessee Jed, Brown Eyed Women, Bertha, ugh I could go in and on. Deadhead for life!

Check out Fire on the Mountain from the same album!

Back in college we called Shakedown Street Disco Dead.

Old school Jamel! 🙌 Keep great music alive!!! 😂💪🙌🔥

This is by far my favorite Dead song. Have not heard it in a LONG time...thank you!

Oh man the tears. Watching someone capable of expressing themselves like you experience the Dead for the first time is wonderful. Long time Deadhead, brand new Jamel-aka-Jamalhead!