Bruce Hornsby Inducts the Grateful Dead into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1994

Bruce Hornsby inducts the Grateful Dead at the 1994 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
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[@sparksk8er]

Paul McCartney giving Pig Pen massive applause, now thats something

[@long_strange_trip5959]

Indeed! I wonder what the deeper connection is between the 2?

[@JaggedRecordsVa]

@@long_strange_trip5959 Same. Either way, if they knew each other or not, goes to show the value of Pigpen in music history. Great acknowledging great.

[@Bee-hf3fc]

I suspect appreciation of the blues is probably one.

[@jackstraw522]

Kinda wish McCartney had recorded with the dead, probably could’ve created something cool

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I wonder if Paul heard Pig Pen's version of _Hey, Jude_ and if he did, what he'd thought of it...🤔

[@writer125]

They deserve to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. One of the greatest bands of all time. And the only band in music where the audience, Deadheads, became just as much a phenom as the band itself. I'm proud to call myself a Deadhead, 36 years, forever. I miss them and everyone. Bruce Hornsby did a great job inducting them. Thanx for posting this.

[@lindarobison7830]

We were all One ...i miss the band soooomuch,CANT FIND IT ANYMORE

[@PETRAMOTION]

Hard Agree

[@writer125]

@@PETRAMOTION Thanx for that.

[@douglasnorris109]

I worked at a photo lab in SF and we made that life size Jerry cutout. Whooptey dooptey

[@badtexasbill5261]

That's awesome!

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

I I worked there it would have been lost in shipping.

[@Harold-ph3dr]

Thanks for being such a big part of that joke and statement. History

[@KrazeeClark]

Bruce did such a great job. It's strange to see the podium so low. :)

[@KabukiRex]

One of the best speeches for the inductions I've ever heard

[@skinnyblisks127]

Kabuki Rekusu flea introducing metallica was awesome u should check that one out!

[@82camino96]

Kabuki Rekusu that’s exactly what went through my head as well. Couldn’t have been done any better by anyone. Very real.

[@elmoblatch9787]

It's not even in the top 10.

[@KabukiRex]

@@elmoblatch9787 It's a shame.

[@westtxmutt]

My comment 5 years later 🤦. It was a very warm speech. It kept me listening to the very end

[@TheClassicMusicMan]

Here's to another 28 years! :'( To bad they only made it 1 more as the Grateful Dead. R.I.P Jerry

[@zacaryblye5314]

As a 21 year old who Never got to see the real deal it can be sad but as you said here’s to another 28 years. I got to see Bobby and Mickey 10 times this summer. The band is still finding places in people’s hearts such as my own all these years later :)

[@aviduser1961]

The Dead stretched the boundaries of rock and live performance.

[@jironthunder7519]

great speech, amazing band, amazing times, travelled to places id never would have went to if it werent for the Dead

[@johnathancross7465]

The Grateful Dead Ron McKernan R.I.P Jerry Garcia R.I.P Bob Weir Phil Lesh Bill Kreutzmann Mickey Hart Kieth Godchaux R.I.P Donna Godchaux Brent Mydland R.I.P Robert Hunter John Perry Barlow R.I.P I Love The Dead Love is real and Not Fade Away!

[@Slikrik1212]

Vince Welnick R.I.P.

[@johnathancross7465]

Yeah I forgot Vince Welnick. Thank you for putting that. Another great player R.I.P Vince Welnick.

[@ruferdberman6016]

Johnathan Cross Tom Constanten

[@gardensofthegods]

And now Robert Hunter , Rest in Peace

[@gordonwest5505]

First reply I have ever given in my whole charmed/cursed life. NOT FADE AWAY.

[@justanotherrandomcrit8115]

Wow Paul and Linda McCartney applauding Pigpen, that’s certainly something I never expected to see.

[@WallyPDoyle111]

He was mistaken. The shows were at the William and Mary College Hall in Williamsburg, VA 9/11 & 9/12/1973. Just in case you were trying to find the recordings. Nerves get the best of us sometimes

[@markbrownner6565]

that fall tour was very special....i went to the show in syracuse....doug sahm opened and it was the 'wake of the flood' album very upfront and they even had a horn section for weather report suite...i was 20...i have the tape....

[@nedrobinson7490]

Verrrrrry, very underrated tour. The December/winter tour, while Donna was on maternity leave, gets so much love rightfully so, but that fall tour was so great too!

[@elmoblatch9787]

He was not mistaken. If you take another look at the archives, you will find he was correct.

[@edwintroy6957]

@@elmoblatch9787 they're u go getm

[@Maddie01022]

Bruce is so brilliant

[@jaygolfs2008]

just pure, If you never saw them live I feel sorry for u. They were and have ever been just amazing

[@elmoblatch9787]

They were self indulgent. The Ramones were way better -- shorter songs.

[@lavoncollins2857]

@@elmoblatch9787 ok bud

[@yourmomma2995]

@@elmoblatch9787 lol

[@craigjohnson2614]

@@elmoblatch9787 did you drink a lot of RoundUp ?

[@briantroy9403]

Bruce added an immesurable element to the 'whole' when he played with them. Boy, they were great.

[@robertthompson3941]

YThey “DESERVE” much MORE than “Hall of Fame recognition”!!!!!!

[@ragstoriches1971]

Lovely introduction for the greatest cultural phenomenon of all times

[@michaelparish9645]

I saw Bruce band gig at Valley Forge Pa just before this. I talk briefly after the show and as you can see he was moved doing this. And back to Valley Forge someone had a picture of Bruce playing accordion with Gerry at The Vet. He was moved. That was a special night playing many Dead songs.

[@Jondsmusic]

When does Bruce get into the rock and roll hall of fame? Bruce and the Range belong there plain and simple!

[@elmoblatch9787]

It's the hall "fame" and not the hall of "very good."

[@Jondsmusic]

@@elmoblatch9787 that’s a ridiculous comment! They let people in far less talented snd worthy than Bruce! He absolutely belongs there. You have zero sense of true talent or worthiness!

[@georgejetson1025]

Bruce not in the RRHF ? I guess that’s just the way it is

[@Jondsmusic]

@@georgejetson1025 wow what a genius!

[@Fakename70]

@@elmoblatch9787 Then, how to explain Stevie Nicks inducted as a solo artist? She’s got like, 3 songs! You can not convince me she wasn’t inducted as a solo artist primarily because she’s a member of Fleetwood Mac. Meanwhile, Pat Benatar is still waiting. I normally really don’t pay the RRHOF any mind - it’s actually a horrible concept - but, that one definitely stands out.

[@37Dionysos]

Never liked them for decades till one night by chance in the car I heard a live "Dark Star" and was blown away. Hadn't thought they had it in them. Wow.

[@drbaker3845]

I saw Bruce really come thru for the band on the europe 1990 fall tour. He really added some much needed energy and moral support. The shows were good, very good, but not the same. Oh how I wish Brent had been alive a lot longer , definitely for this tour and beyond.

[@twentiethcenturyamericanma4518]

Man what a long strange trip it's been. I know Jerry was against this kind of thing. He had to see a man about a horse. And that's funny and he'd have laughed too. Man what a guy.

[@ahzzz-realm]

Glad I got to see them several time.

[@genosiegelli5237]

First time I saw The Dead, in St Louis, 12-10-71, really had no idea they played rock n roll. Had heard, and loved, their psychedelic stuff on Live Dead, and their cool blues/folksy stuff on Workingmans and American Beauty. Had no idea they could rock. But, that cold night in St Lou, when they broke into “One More Saturday Night,” and then a short time thereafter, when I first heard them play Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land” and “Round & Around”? I realized, holy shit, these f_ ckers can ROCK!❤

[@wizkid915]

And here we are, at the cusp of 2023, with the dead and co set to make their final tour this summer, twenty NINE years letter! A great speech from Bruce, and prophetic too! I’ll see you at the shakedown 😎

[@Albanian_Accountant]

I heard the same thing, it's like they just had to do one more, the music never stops...🎉

[@Harold-ph3dr]

Couldn't have been done better, very nice Bruce.❤

[@CalDiscs]

"Here's to another 28 years" hits really hard when it's been 30 years since then

[@jcedwards8363]

fucking awesome!!

[@BluegillGreg]

Very well said.

[@carrieberry8846]

He described it well!

[@tokahontas7346]

Long live the Grateful Dead🍄💀🐻⚡

[@Tomcaatt]

“Bruce Hornsby inducts the grateful dead” ( did I just say that

[@alfredmcdusseldorf6228]

"Here's to the Grateful Dead and another 28 years . . ." . One year later . . . 😥

[@lheor5]

yayayayyayayayayyaayaya GD for life

[@deanguando1335]

Much respect for Garcia not showing up.

[@calburge4338]

Bob said in sn interview that wasnt well enough to attend…. Not that he wanted to anyway RIP JERRY

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Love the Dead but I'm just here to read the six year old argument in the comment section.

[@jimpowell6789]

Good job, Bruce.

[@DerekBullene]

Yeah Yay hip hop horat😮 Ray

[@melonhead49]

As great as the Dead were...they wouldnt have been the same without the words of Robert Hunter. genius lyrics

[@lauragitarz]

Which is why Hunter was inducted with them, the only non-performer ever inducted as part of a band

[@craigjohnson2614]

@@lauragitarz and Barlow wrote a lot of great lyrics too

[@lauragitarz]

@@craigjohnson2614 no argument from me- but that doesn't change that only Hunter went in with them.

[@dirkevans3443]

Hate it for y’all that never got on the bus when Jerry was alive Truly was one of those “you just had to be there” things When the boys were in the groove……they could make a place levitate!!! “And the Music Never Stopped”

[@dementedpuppy]

❤❤❤

[@bpngdf]

well i think even Bruce Hornsby would say your duuuuuumb

[@garyhenderson1717]

Like the man said nothing like a grateful dead show

[@krisscanlon4051]

I think the Band, Rod Stewart, and Elton John/Taupin all got inducted that night.

[@georgejetson1025]

Dave white/holidayinn Barrie/ brought me here

[@briandrum1]

I can't. I have incredible sense of direction. Did you get lost in Vince's eyes?

[@Albanian_Accountant]

Whats funny and he said heres to another 28 years.. this year is the final tour and its 29 years later 😮

[@tiedyekeith]

Cool…is that Chuck Berry at 3:59 ??

[@scottstreewurk_61]

Yes it was Chuck Berry

[@tiedyekeith]

It was Chuck and Paul McCartney was there as well.

[@elmoblatch9787]

No. That is Ray Charles.

[@jc3127]

@@elmoblatch9787 That is most certainly Chuck Berry

[@chriss2452]

Is that Michael Douglas at 3:31?

[@johnboyer594]

👍

[@elmerfudd5193]

That’s just the way it is 😬

[@jws1272]

3:32.........that's Michael Douglas!!!

[@lindarobison7830]

When jerry died they not not call themselfs the grateful dead again. The others but not grateful dead....the glue was gone...

[@solearesoul]

Except for the 50th reunion, they did then.

[@guywoodhouse4684]

@@solearesoul no..that was fare thee well a tribute to the grateful dead. good lord it was NOT the grateful dead w the dork from fish for Christ's sake

[@solearesoul]

guy woodhouse They called themselves “Grateful Dead” not “a tribute to the Grateful Dead”. They definitely went by the name the ‘Grateful Dead’ for those shows. I was there, I remember.

[@guywoodhouse4684]

@@solearesoul wrong

[@guywoodhouse4684]

@@solearesoul u must be a phish fan fantasizing about that dork guitar player//it was NOT the gd

[@professormacdeezy]

LOL

[@rhlang11]

kennedy center awards next stop!

[@joekovach5789]

They’re getting it this year!

[@robertthompson3941]

The Grateful WHAT?

[@Croutonza]

The Dead weren't known for their studio stuff....not sure the point of your comment.

[@Fakename70]

Maybe to casual fans unfamiliar with the emphasis on the live shows, and label executives and radio programmers it was relevant. As, that’s the box they’re normally limited to thinking within.

[@maxymetalman]

He jinxed it when he said another 28 years

[@rm1133]

maxymetalman Either that or Garcia's worsening drug addiction, diet, diabetes and declining health that led to his untimely death a year later and the end of the Dead. No jinx could've stopped or effected that.

[@johnboyer594]

Too much for me to say!

[@BIGOLEMARR]

lolnoyou'redumb

[@briandrum1]

Why, has your views changed, or do you still not 'get it'? Imagine that, someone replying to a comment 2 months after you made it!! Or better yet, me replying to a comment you made after 3 months! Oh, the horror!! Is that your only reply? ASking people why they're comment on a post that's 2, 3 or 5 months old? Who cares? You're the one came onto a video about the greatest band to ever walk the face of earth and say that a former member of said bands solo music is better than their music.

[@badtexasbill5261]

How about seven years? Cheers!!!

[@elmoblatch9787]

Fuck Off

[@Paula120906]

Not sure what your point is in making a comment on a comment over 2 months old.

[@Paula120906]

And you have the time to comment on a post that is over 5 months old? Not enough to do, huh.

[@Paula120906]

I'd take a Bruce Hornsby concert over the Grateful Dead any day. Don't own any GD CD's but have several of Bruch Hornsby. Enuff said.

[@Kandeegang]

Paula120906 lol I guess that settles it

[@Jondsmusic]

Completely agree Paula! I put up with them to get to Bruce!!

[@mahead5211]

Sorry to hear that Paula. To each his or her own. Just as well, there were enough of us anyway, didn't need people there for anything but the music. I hope you never had a chance to see them, you wasted a good ticket that somebody would of loved to have. Some people just don't get it. ✌

[@billbeliakoff5589]

There's nothing wrong in liking someone that is/was inspired by someone you dislike. Whatever floats your boat.

[@calburge4338]

Bruce is a product of The Grateful Dead. Bruce has HUGE respect for The Dead

[@moonbeamskies3346]

Devil music

[@solearesoul]

I hope you’re being sarcastic. But just in case you’re not- please check out Jerry’s extensive repertoire of gospel songs. He really loved God and Jesus. My friend met him once and he told her “I remember you from the foot of the cross.”

[@captainflops474]

Friend of the devil is a friend of mine

[@kristlepickles]

He says The Beatles were predictable. Perhaps in the first three years. Otherwise, far from it.

[@Paula120906]

Reporting your inflammatory comments.