Fantasy->Hey Jude Coda” (Live 7/2/89) - A It starts slow and bluesy and ends wildly with Weir screaming bloody murder. It all begins with Mydland singing solo, eyes wide and focused on a smiling Garcia, who looks on like a proud musical father. He cues the band with his right hand and leads the transition from Traffic to the Beatles.
Getting to this point is a journey in itself as Garcia yells wordlessly into the mic after he and Mydland finish their “Fantasy” duet. But people who like licorice are really going to love it. Like many Grateful Dead performances, this one gets sloppy in its exuberance. Mydland, meanwhile, sings lines from the “Dear Mr. It’s Jthanks to “All the Years Live” - and most of the Grateful Dead are vamping furiously on the “Hey Jude” coda. And Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart beat the living shit out of their drums, as they’ve done for the preceding 10 minutes. Jerry Garcia is lost in his solo - arms flying above his head as he fans his strings in response to Mydland.īob Weir screams falsettos. He’s red-faced and wailing into the microphone. Fantasy->Hey Jude Coda” (Live, July 2, 1989)īrent Mydland’s eyes are squeezed tightly closed. Read Sound Bites previous “All the Years Live” coverage here.Ħ/6/19 grateful dead all the years live jerry garcia band jerry garcia bob weir phil lesh mickey hart bill kreutzmann vince welnick bruce hornsby bruce hornsby and the range the tubes Grade card: Grateful Dead - “Reuben and Cherise” (Live - 6/9/91) - A+ But you can flesh them out with delightful videos such as this. The blog couldn’t see the stage the first time around, camped out as he was under a speaker at the back of the scrum of fans, so this is a terrific surprise.ĭrummer Mickey Hart looks tickled by the rarity Hornsby, eyes locked on Garcia, looks happily challenged and Garcia appears to be the leader he always never wanted to be. It’s essentially flawless - maybe better than Sound Bites remembers it - with Garcia remembering every word and the septet playing an obviously unfamiliar song as if they’d done it 1 million times before.
One of the rare Jerry Garcia Band songs to make the transition to the Dead, the beloved “Reuben” made a handful of Grateful appearances during the only full year with Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby on keys before retreating to the comfort of the JGB.Īnd sitting in his house in June 2019, a much older Sound Bites nearly shit himself again when the Grateful Dead shared this “Reuben and Cherise” - the only one the blog witnessed - as the latest in its “All the Years Live” video series. Standing at the back of Buckeye Lake Music Center in June 1991, young Sound Bites nearly shit himself when the Grateful Dead played the opening notes of “Reuben and Cherise.” Song Review: Grateful Dead - “Reuben and Cherise” (Live, June 9, 1991)