Stumbled on the 1 hour impromptu concert from 1971 and thought I share for those that had never seen this jewel. The music speaks for itself and it's damn good video that's over 50 years old now.

Backyard concert from France - 1971 (may need to rewind to beginning)

Here is the context of the show:

quote:

from Jerry Garcia:

"We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried.

We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn't even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came — the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time — got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great."

0:00 Morning Dew
6:36 Hard to Handle
15:45 China Cat Sunflower->
20:50 I Know You Rider
26:34 Deal
31:50 Black Peter
34:23 Sugar Magnolia
40:30 Sing Me Back Home
:)

PS Reading the comments ...is was like a French Acid Test as they were tripping balls too!

This post was edited on 1/17/23 at 8:30 pm