{"id":2446436,"date":"2019-07-17T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860009"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:34:36","slug":"see-the-grateful-dead-perform-eyes-of-the-world-in-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-the-grateful-dead-perform-eyes-of-the-world-in-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Grateful Dead Perform \u2018Eyes of the World\u2019 in 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To say the Grateful Dead<\/a> had a terrible Nineties would be an understatement. Keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose in 1990, followed by Jerry Garcia<\/a>\u2019s fatal heart attack five years later<\/a> after year of abusing his own body. The years in-between challenged the band like few eras had before. But they still rallied and made the best of a shaky situation, and one of those periods was the band\u2019s summer 1991 tour.<\/p>\n

By then, the Dead had incorporated not one but two replacements for Mydland: former Tubes keyboardist Vince Welnick and, on a part-time basis, pianist Bruce Hornsby<\/a>. Hornsby\u2019s animated piano in particular harked back to the work of the late Keith Godchaux in the Seventies but also egged the band on into jazzier, more experimental terrain. The result was a number of standout shows that year, including one at Giants Stadium (now Metlife Stadium) in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 17, 1991.<\/p>\n

That performance is the subject of the ninth annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies<\/em><\/a> on August 1st, when the complete footage of the gig will be shown in movie theaters around the country. Recorded on 48-track analogue tape, the show features performances of standards like \u201cUncle John\u2019s Band\u201d and \u201cTruckin\u2019\u201d along with deep cuts like \u201cSaint of Circumstance\u201d and \u201cLoose Lucy,\u201d and the multi-camera footage captures the band from various, often intimate angles.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s particularly true during the show-opening \u201cEyes of the World,\u201d the luminous Wake of the Flood<\/em> track that has always been a showcase for the band\u2019s various keyboardists. (In the current Dead & Company incarnation, Jeff Chimenti takes the song to especially lofty heights.) In this exclusive preview of the 1991 movie, we see the way both Hornsby and Welnick newly enliven the song, especially when they and Garcia trade solos midway through its 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

As Garcia told Rolling Stone<\/em> that year<\/a>, discussing Hornsby, \u201cWell, he\u2019s certainly been pushing me. He\u2019s got great ears. And I also have a hard time losing him. I try, \u2018Hey, Bruce, follow this.\u2019 But he\u2019s there all the time. He also has a good sense of when not to play. And he\u2019s got a great rhythmic feeling.\u201d That summer, the band again, briefly, had its eyes on the prize.<\/p>\n

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To say the Grateful Dead had a terrible Nineties would be an understatement. Keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose in 1990, followed by Jerry Garcia\u2019s fatal heart attack five years later after year of abusing his own body. The years in-between challenged the band like few eras had before. But they still rallied and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:59:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}