Week of June 27, 2011
Part 1 27:50
Grateful Dead 4/2/89 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
IKO IKO
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
DIRE WOLF
IT’S ALL OVER NOW
Part 2 29:05
Grateful Dead 4/2/89 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
WE CAN RUN
BROWN-EYED WOMEN
QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY
Jerry Garcia Band, from Garcia Plays Dylan
POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
This JGB performance of Bob Dylan’s “Positively Fourth Street” is from the brief tenure of Nicky Hopkins, who was in the band from July 1975 until New Year’s Eve of that year. I’ve been reading Julian Dawson’s excellent biography of the legendary keyboardist, And on piano… Nicky Hopkins. Hopkins was a wreck during this period, but his playing was spectacular much of the time. I recommend the book, from which you will learn that if you listened to rock music at all in the ’60s and ’70s, you heard Nicky Hopkins. Rolling Stones, the Beatles (piano solo on the single version of “Revolution”), and so many more. The “selected performances” section of Hopkins’ wikipedia entry is a good place to start.