Grateful Dead's Bob Weir performs "Jack Straw" w/ the National Symphony Orchestra | Kennedy Center

[@paulroland5053]

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

[@DavidRivera-hf9ln]

Bob Weir keeping it alive. The way it's meant to be.

[@WW-kk7dw]

Thoughts on above

[@acousticarchivefortwayne930]

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.

[@paulllewellyn2836]

A big sing along. One of the great songs from the GD catalog of which there are many.

[@jodisguido85]

Beautiful 💟☮️

[@Pete-jg1rz]

What I wish we could have seen is Jerry Garcia playing some of the GD catalogue with symphony accompaniment. Not sure there would be much room for improvisation in such a setting. The guy who was probably most qualified to play along with an orchestra would have been classically trained Phil Lesh. But overall still happy to see Bob Weir out there chasing the muse and using different forums to perform different interpretations of these classic GD songs. Robert Hunter was a great storyteller love the way he captured the bygone days of western Americana, Appalachia (Jack Straw, Friend of the Devil, Deal, Loser, Brown Eyed Woman, Cumberland Blues, Brokedown Palace among some of my favorites)

[@MyLifewithGuitar]

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE this version, thank you Bob Weir. I just think the vocals could be isolated and the volume turned up in the beginning of the mix. Sometimes the background confuses certain important parts such as « eagles » and « sea to shining sea » I forgot what a strong song this is.

[@WW-kk7dw]

I still love his music and journey

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Journey from where to where? When?

[@rockandroll-do8bj]

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[@WW-kk7dw]

God bless the Grateful Dead…..and Buddha

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

THE Buddha? You want God to bless Buddha? Isn’t that a bit like asking God to bless Allah?

[@johnnytoobad7785]

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.

[@georgehanson2978]

No thanks.

[@isaacmunoz5181]

you clicked

[@AviHier]

How do you play a guitar for so many years and add nothing musically

[@DJFarallon]

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.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

@@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.

[@stevenlivingston7633]

Love western theme cords. Not your Standard Blues. Difficult Song.