On Sunday night, Steve Kimock & Friends performed in Mill Valley, California, at Sweetwater Music Hall for an after party following a screening of the new Grateful Dead documentary, Long Strange Trip , directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese. For the afterparty, Kimock tapped singer Leslie Mendelson, guitarist Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, keys and bass guitar player Pete Sears, drummer John Kimock and bassist Bobby Vega to join as his “friends” for the performance. However, fans who made it out were treated to sit-ins by two special surprise guests: Bob Weir and Eric Krasno.
The Grateful Dead guitarist, Bob Weir, came out at the start of the show, helping out for the two opening numbers, “Bird Song” and “Blue Bayou.” Weir then left, leaving Kimock & Friends to make their way through “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” and “My Sisters and Brothers.” Fresh off his performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Lettuce the night before, Eric Krasno then emerged, joining the band for the final two numbers of the set, “Bertha” and “Scarlet Begonias.” Rather than making his leave, Krasno came back for Steve Kimock & Friend’s second set, which saw the musicians perform classics from the Grateful Dead catalog, “Tennessee Jed,” “Deal,” and “Crazy Fingers” before the closing sequence of “Shakedown Street” jammed through to “Not Fade Away.”
You can check out videos from last night’s Steve Kimock & Friends show below, courtesy of Stephen Mucelli, along with a setlist via S. Friedman on Jambase.
Setlist: Steve Kimock & Friends with Bob Weir and Eric Krasno | Sweetwater Music Hall | Mill Valley, CA | 5/14/2017
Set One: Bird Song (w/Bob Weir), Blue Bayou (w/Bob Weir), That’s What Love Will Make You Do, My Sisters and Brothers, Bertha (Eric Krasno joins for rest of show), Scarlet Begonias
Set Two: Tennessee Jed, Deal, Crazy Fingers, Shakedown Street > Not Fade Away
“Bird Song” with Bob Weir
“Blue Bayou” with Bob Weir
“My Sisters and Brothers”
“Bertha” with Eric Krasno
Jam with Eric Krasno
[H/T Jambase]