Vince Welnick, keyboard player with the Grateful Dead from the 90s, was originally in The Tubes.
Known for highly theatrical shock rock, here is an unexpected video of The Tubes, with our boy Vince Welnick on keys, covering the Marty Robbins classic “El Paso” in 1975.
Of course this is a song that Bob Weir has been performing most of his career, including many times with the Grateful Dead. But not one The Tubes were known for.
Here is the Grateful Dead, with Vince Welnick, performing “El Paso” in 1994.
Grateful Dead (setlist and video)
w John Fogerty, Neil Young, John Popper
Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
November 3, 1991
Bill Graham Memorial
Laughter Love and Music
To Celebrate the lives of Bill, Steve And Melissa
The Bay Area’s legendary concert impresario, Bill Graham, died in a helicopter crash on October 25 1991. The Grateful Dead played a 4 night Halloween run in Oakland that week, and then announced they would play, along with many others, at a free concert in Golden Gate Park on November 3rd, as a memorial to their friend and longtime promoter.
Bill Graham wasn’t only the best at what he did, he was the only one who did things the way he did. The Grateful Dead, as we knew them, and our scene, may never have flourished if it wasn’t for Bill.
Always grateful.
(~);}
Grateful Dead
11/3/1991
Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA
Tuning
David Graham Speech
Hell in a Bucket
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Wang Dang Doodle*
Born on the Bayou**
Green River**
Bad Moon Rising**
Proud Mary**
Truckin’
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Sunshine Daydream
Forever Young***
Touch of Grey
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* John Popper – Harmonica
** John Fogerty – Guitar, Vocals
*** Neil Young – Guitar, Vocals
BAND
Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Phil Lesh – Bass
Vince Welnick – Keys
Bill Kreutzman – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Concord Pavilion general manager John Toffoli also recommended that Graham take a rental car home to Marin, and noticed a peculiar detail to Graham’s attire that night…
“One of the ironic things I remember was he was putting on his jacket, and he turned around to say goodbye, and he was wearing a ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ jacket.” In 1977, the band ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ endured a plane crash that killed several of its members and staff.
While it may or may not have been intentional as tribute, on 11/3/2013 Phil Lesh and Friends did a few Lynard Skynard covers…
