VIDEO: Grateful Dead – "El Paso" -by Marty Robbins, who would be 90 today

It’s Marty Robbins 90th Birthday today.
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982

Grateful Dead performing his song “El Paso” , Bob weir on vocals and acoustic guitar,
June 26 1994, Las Vegas, Sam Boyd Silver Bowl

 

Here’s a version from 11/8/70 – no video though

Here’s the Marty Robbins version:

Of course there is the Ross James song “El Paso” which Phil and Friends has done, but it has nothing to do with Marty Robbins…

ON THIS DAY: Sept. 24 1988, Rain Forest Benefit ~ Grateful Dead w Suzanne Vega, Hall & Oates, m Madison Square Garden #tbt (AUDIO and VIDEO)

ON THIS DAY: Sept. 24 1988, Rain Forest Benefit ~ Grateful Dead w Suzanne Vega, Hall & Oates, m Madison Square Garden #tbt (AUDIO and VIDEO)

Rain Forest Benefit ~
Grateful Dead
with Suzanne Vega, Hall & Oates, Bruce Hornsby, Baba Olatunji, Michael Hinton. Mick Taylor, Jack Cassady
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
September 24 1988

Set 1
Iko Iko, Feel Like A Stranger, West L.A. Fadeaway, Little Red Rooster, Box Of Rain, Ramble On Rose, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Don’t Ease Me In

Set 2
Chinese Bones, Neighborhood Girls, Crazy Fingers, Women Are Smarter, Every Time You Go Away, What’s Going On-> Drums-> Space-> The Wheel-> Throwing Stones-> Not Fade Away, E: Good Lovin’, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Show was a Rainforest Benefit
Other Artist(s):
Mick Taylor on West LA and Rooster
Suzanne Vega on Chinese Bones,Neighborhood Girls and Heavan’s Door
Daryl Hall and John Oats on Every Time and What’s Going On
Baba Olatunji & Michael Hinton on Drums
Bruce Hornsby on NFA
Jack Cassady on both encores

Bruce Hornsby and the Range opened.


Enjoy the live audio of MSG 9.24.1988! Please support the Internet Archive!!

 

Video of Set 1:

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