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Bobby and the Valentines
08-27-1994
Tokyo, Japan
Source: Broadcast>?>MPEG1
Quality: Great!
(58:39; 585MB)
01. Japanese announcer
02. Greatest Story Ever Told
03. Queen Jane Approximately
04. Little Red Rooster
05. Playin' in the Band
06. Japanese announcer
07. Baba O'Riley > Tomorrow Never Knows >
08. All Along the Watchtower >
09. Lovelight >
10. One More Saturday Night
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-VCD by ajax25
-Text file by MattMan
Henry Kaiser interview from the Philzone:
PZ: Tell us the story behind that show with Weir in Japan.
(In the band, The Valentines, Henry played with Bob Weir, Vince Welnick, Bobby Vega,
and Prairie Prince August 27, 1994 in Tokyo).
HK: I don?t fully remember, but a Japanese promoter who knew me asked me if I
could bring some rock stars over for this special big city festival gig.
So I said, "Sure, I?ll go ask some guys from the Grateful Dead" and I asked them and they said, "Yeah."
PZ: And then you did one more Valentines show in....
HK: ...Yeah, we did one show at the Fillmore on Valentines Day '95.
I played with Weir at the Sweetwater a bunch of times and for some other
occasions too. Perhaps the best show we have ever done together was the
wake for Dick Latvala at the end of last summer. That was truly amazing
and magical. Dennis McNally called me up a day or so before the wake and
put me in the bandleader's seat. (Lesh was out on the road and only Mickey
and Bob were around from the Dead) I knew Dick and I knew his favorite songs
and shows and so I did quite a bit of homework so that we could quote some
of his historically favorite jams (Feelin' Groovy Jam, Mind Left Body Jam,
Other Spanish One Jam, etc). Weir, Hart, [Bob] Bralove, [Jeff] Chimenti,
[Jay] Lane, [Gregg] Anton, and [Bobby] Vega turned up to play. No rehearsal -
but it was magically easy to connect with the music and connect the audience
with the music too. We played after a long and moving tribute to Dick,
with 100's of folks each speaking out in turn about him.
My favorite moment was standing next to Weir, facing Mickey, in the middle
of the first set and saying to Mickey, "OK, Saint Stephen" and Mickey saying,
"Saint Stephen? That's got a lot of arrangement details. Does the band know that?
" I smiled and said, "No, they don't know it at all." Mickey said, "But, uh?,
maybe we shouldn't try to?" and Weir interrupting with, "1-2-3-4" and us both
smiling and starting the song anyway. That was a great feeling of jumping off
past the point of no return. There were some ragged mistakes - but the spirits
were there in spades for that song - as they were for most of that night.
The board tapes are a little rough sounding, but Don from Ultrasound and
myself keep trying to clean them up a bit before they finally leak out into
the rest of the universe. The tapes don't really communicate the special magic
and love that filled the Phoenix Theater [in Petaluma] that night. You really
had to be there to understand. Dick Latvala you are missed and loved by many!
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