Last night in Oakland, one-time Grateful Dead band mates Bob Weir (guitar) and Bruce Hornsby (piano) each played separate sets and then shared the stage for a joint set and encore at the Fox Theatre. Hornsby kicked off the evening with a solo piano set featuring material from throughout his illustrious career. Weir came on next and mixed songs from the his solo repertoire with Grateful Dead classics. Of particular note was the My Brother Esau opener, a tune Weir played for the first time since 1987 just one week earlier at The Bridge Session.
For the pair’s first-ever set as a duo, they opened up with Chuck Berry’s Too Much Monkey Business – a song Bruce released as a bonus track for Japan on 2009’s Levitate. From there, the two tackled Most of the Time by Bob Dylan – another tune Weir performed at The Bridge Session one week prior. After that came a medley of Grateful Dead compositions featuring Lady With A Fan from Terrapin Station, a verse a piece from Dark Star and The Other One plus Me and My Uncle.
Watch as Weir and Hornsby re-interpret Hell In A Bucket as the lone encore…
Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby – Hell In A Bucket
Here’s the setlists from both solo sets and the joint set and encore…
Bruce Solo: (8:12 start time) Red Hook Summer>Sticks and Stones, Heir Gordon, Preacher in the Ring, Where’s the Bat?, Continents Drift, Valley Road, 20-20 Vision and I’m Walking Round Blind>A Night on the Town (9:06 end time)
Weir solo: (9:11 start time) My Brother Esau, The Music Never Stopped > KC Moan, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Peggy-O > Big Bad Blues > Ashes & Glass, Easy to Slip, Black Throated Wind>Cassidy, Sugar Magnolia (10:27 end time)
Joint Set:
(10:29 start time) Too Much Monkey Business, Most of the Time, Lady With A Fan >Dark Star v1>Other One v1>Me And My Uncle (11:10)Joint Encore: Hell in a Bucket
[via Chez – Ratdog.org]
The pair team up for another “Alone and Together” performance tonight at the Fox.
