Song
He's Gone
319 plays · 1972 – 1995
Stats
Peak year
1972
41 plays
Peak era
Brent Era
75 plays
Years in rotation
23
avg 13.9/yr
Usually
Set 2
92% of plays
Debuted
1972-04-17Last played
1995-07-06Album
Europe '72 (live)
1972
Written by
Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter
By decade
70s
111
80s
135
90s
73
Often comes in from
- 22%Estimated Prophet(67×)
- 10%Samson and Delilah(30×)
- 9%Looks Like Rain(27×)
Often leads into
- 54%Drums(171×)
- 16%Truckin’(51×)
- 7%The Other One(22×)
Garcia/Hunter, debuted on the Europe '72 tour. Quickly became a vehicle for jamming — the outro 'nothing's gonna bring him back' refrain opens into improvised territory. Most associated with elegies to fallen friends and Pigpen.
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Sixteen minute He's Gone but somehow ends up funky as hell by the end and then goes into a seven minute "No MSG Jam???" They do Lunatic Preserve instead of Space and I wish they had done that more because that s*** gets FAR OUT.
Fantastic He's Gone into The Other One.
He's Gone leads into a crazy unnamed Jam that is super tight and worth listening to on it's own.
Awesome guitar work on 19 minute He's Gone.
Pretty rocking 12 minute He's Gone.
A solid long show with fairly tight tunes except for the wonderful 22 minute Playing in the Band and the 17 minute He's Gone.
Awesome Estimated Prophet into He’s Gone where it sounds like Jerry leaves the mutron and delay on for the intro.
That transition from Estimated Prophet to He's Gone is SMOOTH.
30 minute Dark Star into an almost 15 minute, stellar He's Gone.
Nice He's Gone to start the second set into a beautiful Looks Like Rain.
Wonderful He's Gone that drifts right into gritty bluesy Nobody's Fault But Mine and Spoonful.
About as solid of a He's Gone as you're gonna hear and Jerry's vocals on “smile, smile, smile” make you…well smile!
Really pretty He's Gone.
Listen to He's Gone from 1972-08-27 — official release