Grateful Dead's Bob Weir performs "Jack Straw" w/ the National Symphony Orchestra | Kennedy Center
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- Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir takes the stage with the National Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall.
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Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack join the NSO for a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration.
Formed in 2018 by Weir, Grammy®-winning producer and bassist Don Was, drummer Jay Lane, and pianist Jeff Chimenti, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros perform the expansive catalogue of Grateful Dead, Bobby’s solo albums, and more. String and brass quintet The Wolfpack, featuring Alex Kelly, Brian Switzer, Adam Theis, Mads Tolling, and Sheldon Brown, bring the thrilling orchestral element to this must-see concert event. The orchestration is provided by Stanford professor Dr. Giancarlo Aquilanti.
As a founding member of the legendary Grateful Dead and Dead & Company, Weir is one of rock’s finest and most distinctive rhythm guitarists and singers. He has received a Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award, an Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, a Les Paul Spirit Award, and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. Weir’s Blue Mountain LP (2016)-his first solo album in more than ten years-received rave reviews from critics.
Filmed live at The Kennedy Center
October 9, 2022
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Bob Weir keeping it alive. The way it's meant to be.
Thoughts on above
The fact that bob weir went from a kid playing music with his buddies, to headlining a symphony orchestra is amazing. Keep filling the air with beautiful sounds. Im here for it
I like it and can't wait until a great playwright, orchestrator, choreographer, and set designer get together and weave the story line together that runs through their song catalog. It'll be a spectacular of tale of protagonists and antagonists. Settings from California to Walden Pond to points beyond and explorations of space. From the past to the present to the future. An Ozian journey of realization, of heartbreak and illumination, of humanity and hope and all the emotions every Deadhead has felt when we saw them perform live. After all, everyone's been a lost sailor or celebrated one more Saturday night. Or felt the heart break of broke down palaces when we've lost a good friend or thought about the walk we'll take along a black muddy river someday when the last rose of summer pricks our finger. Thank you Giancarlo Aquilanti for this treatment of "Jack Straw" and thank you NSO.
A big sing along. One of the great songs from the GD catalog of which there are many.
Beautiful 💟☮️
The Granddaddy of Americana music...keep on..keep'n' on.
Hopefully the FBI aren't "spying" on the Dead anymore.,..
ps. -- I always thought the Dead could use a full time violin AND Sax player.
Looks like they got 'em now.
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I still love his music and journey
Journey from where to where? When?
God bless the Grateful Dead…..and Buddha
THE Buddha? You want God to bless Buddha? Isn’t that a bit like asking God to bless Allah?
No thanks.
How do you play a guitar for so many years and add nothing musically
I don't know, I kinda liked his solo. Often I hear him and think "Why would you want your guitar to sound like that?" But here the very thin guitar sound in the solo leaves room for the orchestra. Overall, I found the NSO performances to be a little overwrought.
@@DJFarallon It’s apparently pretty common for famous aging pop singers from the rock era occasionally to perform live with an orchestra using third-party arrangements: Arlo Guthrie, Sting, James Taylor, Glen Campbell, Ian Anderson, etc. The enterprise is generally aesthetically fraught. I don’t think this particular example works, but that doesn’t surprise me a bit. This is in contradistinction to Procol Harum with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, for which Gary Brooker himself wrote the orchestrations and which generally worked very well or with Concerto for Group and Orchestra which Jon Lord composed himself (and orchestrated himself) specifically for the concert. On the other hand, Jack Straw has never been one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs.
Love western theme cords. Not your Standard Blues. Difficult Song.