Wow! Dirty Revival got themselves a crazy good vocalist.
“The Sun” by Nael Haim (Qobuz) on my new B&O EQ buds
Every breath
Sting, Christina Aguilera, Sisqo, D’Angelo, Enrique Iglesias, Backstreet Boys & Tom Jones!
Hall & Oates Fronting the Grateful Dead
Madison Square Garden, NYC, September 24, 1988
Question: What can you do when your one of your main singers loses his voice?
Answer: Make lemonade!
The band is playing good, you can hear that right off the bat. "Iko Iko," the concert opener, already has everybody dancin'. But Jerry's lost his voice. WTF.
So during the set break, the show gets reorganized, and the guests who were scheduled to make brief appearances (and some who weren't) are suddenly pushed to the front.
Mick Taylor, on "Little Red Rooster," and Hall & Oates, on the Marvin Gaye classic "What's Goin' On?" play great. Suzanne Vega, not so much. But what the heck, on this day, they all got to front the Grateful Dead! Also present were Bruce Hornsby, who would later join the band, and Jack Casady, bassist for Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane.
In general, 1987-89 were good years for the Dead. Jerry was clean, and the shows were consistently hot. Although this is probably not their best performance of the period, it is a unique one, worth a listen just to hear Hall & Oates front the band.
Good Ol' Grateful Dead
"Iko Iko" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=11s
Mick Taylor
"West LA Fadeaway" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=16m03s
"Little Red Rooster" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=24m16s
Hall & Oates
"Every Time You Go Away" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=1h27m13s
"What's Goin' On?" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=1h33m54s
Thanks for the story. I will be checking it out. It was mostly about his guitar anyway.
She’s one of those women who could wake up all hung-over, rolling in a pool of her own vomit, and still look totally hot.
Hope you enjoy the show as much as I did.
Some of my deadhead friends are laser focused on the Dead. Seems like that’s all they listen to. I always tell them, you oughta listen to something else.
Of course, I tell my friends who are not deadheads, you oughta listen to the Dead!
I tried. All they keep saying is “brains! brains!”.