Was at Watkins Glen in 73 but it really was Englishtown , NJ☀in 77 when I got on the bus to stay Nothing left to do but Smile,Smile,Smile,🎸🎵✌😎🌍⚡🌈🥀😁

What a great interview of Big Steve!, it was nice of him to let Bobby and David get a few words in... 🤣

Bobby Weir is a rock n roll legend. Mad respect to him and the other members of the Grateful Dead. They truly did change the musical landscape of America with their music

My wife and I were married in June, 1977. Huge, social event for our families. We had 400 people at our wedding, the meeting of two large families. One was pretty straight and the other was pretty out there. Me and my entire wedding party, five ushers, best man and I went to three Grateful Dead shows the three previous days before the wedding. I had some serious Samson and Delilah going during the wedding ceremony. Then we went to the party, my band and my brother's band played for the party. What a weekend!

"no when I say move back ....move back!........ some...." "or feel real guilty" "then all your friends up front won't be real bug eyed"

I love '77...one my my favorite years to listen to...5/5. 5/8. 5/15, 5/22 are all standouts...the Dancin from 5/15 is one of my all time favs. Peace Weir.

Dave loves the sound of his voice. I especially enjoy when he does a 20 minute introduction to a 17 minute song.

Good to hear Bobby laughin' and smilin'.

I went to over 150 concerts over my life,many in the 80’s and 90’s but never got to see the Dead.. Man I missed out

May 77 was a high water mark. I commemorate it by listening to each show on it's corresponding date.

What i love about the Grateful Dead is that they continued that fun of the 60s long after they were over, right up to the early 90s.

Bob Weir seems like he’s a good storyteller with good comic timing and Steve Parish simply can’t help but interrupt him

I thought Bob Weir was going to tell some stories.

‘77-‘79 is my favorite era for the Dead by a lot. This is awesome.

The Man is always listening.

77 good year for sure. Lucky to get to see them. Young and Strong. Seems like they had just as much fun touring as we did.

This should be titled: "Grateful Dead - Parrish Here: Tellin' Tales of Spring '77"

Not only was I there, but as Cornell Concert Commission head usher, I was stationed at the sound board. It was wonderful...from set up through snow storm!

I love u wonderful people,u are my extended Famuly...God bless us..PEace...long may we run.....

Bobby was always a gentleman, I loved him ,we were good friends

I hate to be that guy but here goes. Sepulveda Blvd is not in Studio City. It snakes its way through the Santa Monica mountains and lands in the Valley in Sherman Oaks/Van Nuys. I know, I grew up (some might dispute this) in all of the above. That's it. The nit has been picked. Do I feel better for it? I suppose not. My thanks to all who made this interview possible!

My first show was the first night of Spring Tour , 1977 .... April 22 1977 , Philadelphia Spectrum. God Bless The Grateful Dead!

Why can’t they do these for every year? Man that’d be fantastic!!

anyone notice how bob can barely get a word in edge wise with Steve around hahaha

Saw them on this tour...Amazing shows ! Saw Weir with Kingfish later that year as well....Great stuff !

Ha!! I met Bob & Steve backstage at a GD show in San Bernardino in 1978. Met the rest of the band and Bill Graham too. I was 16yo. The place was filled with big scary bikers.

all dead heads should check out buddy miles. he's awesome. the album, music from inside a volcano, that him and Santana did was phenomenal psychedelic Rock n roll. mind bender all the way.

My first dead show 1981 Greek Theater Berkely California. Never looked back 25 shows later and following JGB when he waa in SF. What a ride. I wish I was born in the 40s. So I was 20 years old during grass roots grateful Dead.but im happy I was lucky enough to experience 81 to 95. Best years of my life..

I love that little Ratdog there next to Bob Weir 🐾

Bob Weir is looking like Mark Twain these days.

I don't think I've ever seen Weir look so comfortable in an 'interview' setting.

bob weir, i listened to Aoxomoxoa just earlier walking to the store, battle of the bands two sets of great musicians one in each earphone, bob weir somehow this guy is great american songwriter/singer/performer i mean the roots foundations of keeping american music alive, from Viola Lee Blues all the way to today, lots of material between then and now. round of applause

Best year ever

😂im CRYING TEAR$ of PURE JOY As i Watch this!

8:56 The CIA...Bob interupts and says "The Company Man, the Company" Too Funny!!

if people watching this arent familiar with buddy miles look up his masterpiece song (and album) from 1970 called "them changes"

I was at the Boston show the night before Cornell. That was a great show and my first Terrapin.

5-17-77 Tuscaloosa Al is amazing.

The darkness never go's from some men's eye's!

God Bless Betty Cantor.

That's the best trained k-9 I've ever seen.....he's so diligent, the way he stands at attention, let's nothing distract him. Bravo Caesar. Tennessee Jed, or whomever trained this little feller to pull off this spectacular display of loyalty....he truly is a grateful dead dog....or a Grateful Dawg...if you will...all apologies to a certain mandolin player of might....nfa

I was at the Cornell show back on May 8th, 1977 but now after watching this video...I wonder if I was really there :)

1977 was so good that even Donna had a couple of good moments.

I was at the Cornell show, and it was a good one. What made it for me was the transcendent version of Morning Dew they did as the penultimate song, then going out into the May snowfall.

Loved and was lucky enough to see the Dead in Sac.,Cali a dozen times before Jerry's passing...loved it all.

"Grateful Dead is often great"

wow! I don't often get the goosebump chills these days...but holy smokes, there's something about the first 2 mins of this piece that is really something. Thanks to you Over There for this video!!! Keep it comin folks! p.s. if anyone wants to try a fun experiment, take laptop to Barton Hall and play 5.8.77 inside the cavernous place. I did and recorded it using Audacity. Will be featured on my show the Dead Zone (Sundays, 6-8pm WRHU) in the Fall!

If I was a man with money, I would donate tons to a charity just to hear endless Steve Parish stories

I’m such a deadhead, still. I missed 1977, I left my first trial marriage, it truly was a trial, I left after 5 months, and I wanted to leave, I turned 22 and left for good. So I didn’t get to see them in 77, I made up for that, by seeing them and JGB every chance I got, wish I could afford to go to Lost Wages.❤

Steve Parish was a personal Stage hand (Roadie For the Greatful Dead !) DO YOU KNOW WHAT A STAGE HAND DOES ? THEN GIVE THE MAN SOME RESPECT AFTER ALL HE HELPS SET UP THE BAND'S EQUIPMENT ! WHICH IS A HUGE TASK! I know Because I play music and I'm also a stage hand !(Roadie ) When needed ! A lot of Hard Work; People!

Wow I never knew the dead played here in Lakeland. That’s awesome

I saw them in Buffalo 5-9-1977. It was a fantastic show. It was the night after they played at Cornell University.

B I G S T E V E ! ! ! My man. keep on keepin' om my brother

Parish started as a roadie, and then in the early 80's as jerry's addictions became more obvious Steve morphed into a kind of buffer/gatekeeper between Garcia and those outside the band --- almost like a personal assistant of sorts. In other words, if you wanted to see ole Jer, you had to go thru Parish. Some have called Steve an enabler of sorts, but I think that's not really fair, he had orders and merely followed them, and he is likely responsible for keeping things together as long as they were all together as a band...

This is so cool

The Music Has Not Stopped! I miss you all.....................

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I was born in march of 77. Something tells me i may have been on tour during my last incarnation...

Awesome!!!!!!! -Nordy

I take an interest because this has effected my life directly, in several ways, all of which are profound. Why do you perceive me as "spewing things, and aggravating everyone", when all I'm really doing is expressing an opinion, as well as documented facts?? Both should mean soothing to you because I've been a Deadhead for a long time, and taken my share of doses, but the info we have now, which most choose to ignore, changes things. People in the 60's & 70's didn't have info about MK-Ultra.

“QUAAAAAAAAAH” -Mickey Hart

I miss these TRI shows, chats, etc. Nipper Jessica.

I arrived in San Francisco in April, 1977....I think I saw them in June...I had thought it was May, but I don't think they got back to Winterland till June...I went the first nite, and got in line for the next night, when I got out of the show.

I wonder if Bobby is thinking..."Parish...Let me fucking talk!"

My all time favorite bootleg as well. Take a step back.

7:43 "The Company"

Gotta say, I managed Buddy Miles from 90 to 95, everything they're saying is true and much much more, but I'm a little pissed. In spite of Buddy's legendary faults, he was an incredibly sweet guy with a heart of gold. He just got seriously mixed up with drugs and all the concatenations of that lifestyle that were so difficult for him to get out of. I don't appreciate them laughing AT Buddy, about him is understandable. I have some seriously wild stories. I miss him regardless, RIP Buddy Miles.

What a trip

I think their greatest music was 77 hands down

one thing that is touched on here and never remarked upon elsewhere as far as i can tell is how the dead's efforts to make their often disparaged and dismissed studio albums really did whip them into shape and get them to be more of a vital band, with new songs. the dead really started to go downhill after 1982, which was the last year they attempted to do a new studio album every year or two. Afterwards, it was mostly just live songs, breaking out oldies, getting high, growing old.

I met Buddy at the Smart Bar in Chicago around ‘93. I had just played upstairs earlier in the evening and around 3am he walked in. I nearly shit my pants. Unfortunately, I was too geeked out on several narcotics and so was he, so it was short and sweet. Saw him again- actually, this time was the first time I saw him in person-the night Stevie Ray died. There was a weekend Blues Fest up at alpine valley, where Stevie, Clapton, Buddy, Jeff Healy, a few others played-...I was there on Saturday, Stevie’s set blew my mind, I still get goose pimples thinking about it, but Sunday I had tickets for Santana at the World Theater- I don’t know what the fuck they call it now or if it even exists anymore, but I had third row/center and right behind me was Buddy. I had no idea, but Carlos pointed him out- he did not stand up. Bobby is right, the man was large. That was a great show too, although we all woke up Monday morning with the terrible news that Stevie-R.I.P, had died taking a chopper back to Chicago. Alpine valley was a ski resort in Wisconsin in the winter and a great venue in the summer. The chopper pilots had ONE small hill to go around and they fucking hit it. Tragic. I saw the Dead there several times. They did a run of four nights with a break in between. Spent the week up there camping, it was an annual thing back in the 80s. Anyway the last night of the four shows, Jer and Bobby played “Black Bird” on acoustics. And then I think “We bid you good night” Oh man, those were the days of great Rock shows. However I still see great concerts these days too. Many great bands out there, my friends. Live music is where it’s at.

“THE COMPANY”

I can't even remember what happened in my life last year

Because Steve Parish is in the room? Ha Ha Ha!!! Love ya, Steve!

Great stuff, love the dead time stories. Keep em comin fo sho..

Bobbys at his best here,, hes into it ,,

This subject goes much deeper than what appears on the surface. As Deadheads, we all embraced the "Acid Tests", but seldom do we connect those tests with CIA, or the Hoover Institute / Stanford U., or the Tavistock Institute, or the Esalen Institute. People's lives were ruined because of these tests. People were murdered, imprisoned, tortured. Just because the hippie/Haight scene was colorful and intriguing, doesn't mean it wasn't destructive, and evil. The GD were instruments used in MK-Ultra.

Buddy Miles was a great drummer and even better singer.

Those Were Definitely The Dayz !!!! 70s & 80s, Wish Rest Dead, Would Let Ot Be With Tourin, NOT 1 THING IS WAY IT WAZ !!! Talkin Bout Ol Dayz Kool, Let The Shows Be !!!! As Tuff As Is 4 Me 2 Say..Someone Who Been to 454 Shows, Grate Things Come To End !!!! Solo Of Remainin Members, Of Course Anything Else R.I.P...B.Safe....Peace

My first Dead show was April 29, 1977 at the NYC Palladium -- not a bad way to get my Dead cherry popped.

Man that tiny dog is well trained.

Great Stuff

I never remember seeing Bob with a beard but then again my first show was after 77 so I guess I missed that. I missed a lot and was old enough but to much was going on in the 70's for me. For one between 76& 79 I was in a cast being my leg was broken twice, once due to a drunk and after due to surgery. So my first show was 80 at the spectrum. I think. Ha! from there great times and a lot of shows and trips to distant places.

Steve Rules

Couldn’t imagine a world without the freedom and the weight of the world that is The Grateful Dead 💀 (~);,,}}}{{{,,;(~)

💜I 💜LOVE 💜YOU 💜BOB!! From Mrs Weir wanna be #RedheadDeadhead 2018 YEAR OF THE WEIR! I LOVE THAT WEIRWOLF!! WEIR EVERYWEIR!💜

Big steve the type of guy who would talk to you for hours drunk on a beach

Just seen Bobby last night 6-27-13. He looked and sounded great.

That was great!!

🌹🎸Feliz Cumpleaños Jerry🎸🌹🤙🏽

that's when I was going to shows Spring of 77

what i've never heard mentioned by anyone is the fact that the dead really first started to go downhill when they stopped having to do an album every year or every other year.. That's when they just got into coasting, and into dope. Parish here points out that Keith Olsen really "whipped them into shape" when they recorded Terrapin Station in January 1977.

you got that right.

It's so funny when the mainstream media tried to cover the Dead, what with the stupid headline puns.

I agree, but there's a more important subject afoot. Don't get me wrong, I still love Grateful Dead music, and I'll always be a fan of Jerry. His style was truly unique, and amazing! However, I honestly believe they were all involved with CIA, and mind control experiments. I mean the kind that we weren't, and wouldn't want to participate in voluntarily. I think the trip to Egypt in '78 had a much deeper meaning than many of us realized. I think Kesey was CIA connected. Hunter was a scientologist

Used to love seeing Steve running behind the amps and come and fix Jerry’s or Boby’s guitar 🎸

It was a good year....I entered this universe on March 19th! I like to think that cause I was born they were excited about that so it was their best spring😂🤣😂🤣...I wish...but still...I like to build my ego and think that! Lmao...I'm not that conceded or vainglorious ar all...lol

Love how they never answered David's initial question and just went into a story of a 400lb rib-eating, microphone-stealing drummer

and people still ask me if I have the tapes from that show... lol, and I also recall being offered the tin foil hat, I was embarrassed by it then~ O-O as I am now.... Thanks for recording this and sharing it ! I missed " Weir Here Over There " due to illness, sooo This - is much appreciated ! loved 77-78 ! (~) :) oo

Yup that's me , Friday April 22nd 1977 , floor seats, in before the lights go down I go right to the stage . A roadie pulls a girl up on stage, he brings back a sticker and reaches down into the crowd and hands it to us . The lights go down, the crowd roars, I get smashed in the rush and pulled up to the first level of seats by some fellow deadheads. I go home with my sticker that night, never even realizing it might of been a backstage pass !