It wasn’t a Dead show without a Chuck Berry song, even if they didn’t play one.
- Around and Around.
- Johnny B. Goode.
- Let It Rock. (Dead did it once; Jerry Band played it more than once.)
- One More Saturday Night.*
- Promised Land.
- Run Rudolph Run. (Pig sang it in December of ’71.)
- U.S. Blues.*
*I know Chuck technically didn’t write U.S. Blues and OMSN, but they are Chuck Berry songs.
I long ago purged every Dead rendition of Johnny B. Goode from my music collection. On the other hand, I will always crank up Promised Land. They played Round and Round the only time I saw them, so it’s got some sentimental value, otherwise I’m pretty ambivalent about it.
For those with no life and time on their hands–not that I am referring to anyone in particular–we could point out that Bob Weir was in Kingfish when Dave Torbert sang “School Days.”
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Oh wait, we forgot “30 Days”. Soundchecked on Dec 12 ’73 but never performed live.
https://www.whitegum.com/introjs.htm?/songfile/THIRTYDA.HTM
Johnnie Johnson played with The Dead in 2003. They played his song “Tanqueray” which Johnnie wrote with Keith Richards in the early ’90s. It’s got a very Kingfish vibe.
https://archive.org/details/dead2003-07-02.adk-a51tl.moroney.18366.shnf/dead2003-07-02d1t01.shn
Forgot to add that Willie Nelson & Mickey Raphael are also on the track.
RIP, Chuck.