The latest live Grateful Dead video from the band’s recently-launched “All The Years Live” series is now available through the band’s official YouTube page. After using the first two weeks of the series to share videos from shows at The Winterland, this week’s entry takes us across the country and ahead in time to the band’s June 14th, 1991 performance at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
As the band’s official archivist David Lemieux explains in the video’s description, “The short-lived line-up of the Grateful Dead that featured both Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick produced some of the Dead’s most inspired and exciting playing of their final 15 years of touring, particularly the shows in 1991. This RFK show also featured magnificent renditions of Help On The Way / Slipknot! / Franklin’s Tower and Dark Star.”
Lemieux’s notes are clearly apparent on this particular number, as the dual-piano work of Hornsby and Welnick gives this rendition an added layer of saloon-style swagger. Check out the newly released video of the Grateful Dead performing “Wang Dang Doodle” from June 14th, 1991 below:
Grateful Dead – “Wang Dang Doodle” – RFK Stadium – Washington, D.C. – 6/14/91
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If the new video piqued your interest, you can listen to a recording of the entire show below:
Grateful Dead – RFK Stadium – 6/14/19 – Full Audio
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Previous editions of the Dead’s ongoing weekly “All The Years Live” video series included “Morning Dew” from 10/18/74 at the Winterland Ballroom and “Sugar Magnolia”/”Scarlet Begonias”/”Fire On The Mountain” from 12/31/78 at the Winterland Ballroom.
Stay tuned for another edition of “All The Years Live” next Thursday. You can hear David Lemieux explain the video series here and check out more live Grateful Dead videos here.