The latest installment in the Grateful Dead‘s All The Years Live video series is available now on the band’s YouTube page. This entry highlights the Dead’s performance of “The Other One” at Philadelphia, PA’s John F. Kennedy Stadium on July 7th, 1989.
Recorded nearly one year to the day before Brent Mydland‘s final performance in 1990, this latter-era rendition of one of the Dead’s earliest cuts arrived in a way that hadn’t been heard in quite some time. Phil Lesh provided a spacey and dissonant introduction to the offering, accented by Mydland and the two-pronged percussion attack from Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia then made their presence known with some licks from the six-strings in an increasingly progressive jam that spanned more than six minutes before arriving at the first verse.
Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux notes in the video’s description,
One of the Dead’s earliest original compositions, from Fall of 1967, The Other One always rooted the Dead in their exploratory psychedelic roots whenever they played it, including this intense version featuring a wonderful rumbling Phil intro to the song, a throwback to its origins that had been absent for a few years prior to 1989.
Watch the Grateful Dead perform “The Other One” at John F. Kennedy Stadium on July 7th, 1989.
Grateful Dead – “The Other One” – Philadelphia, PA – 7/7/89
Previous installments of the Grateful Dead’s All The Years Live video series have included: