Bruce Hornsby - 1993-10-31 - Tampa, FL (SBD)

Bruce Hornsby

1993-10-31

Tampa Performing Arts Center

Tampa, FL

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set::

01. Talk of the Town >

02. China Doll

03. Every Little Kiss

04. Rainbow's Cadillac

05. Down the Road Tonight

06. Scarlet Begonias

07. I Can't Make You Love Me

08. Jacob's Ladder > Well You Needn't >

09. Jacob's Ladder

10. Way It Is

2nd Set::

01. Harbor Lights

02. Stander on the Mountain

03. End of the Innocence

04. Road Not Taken

05. Jack Straw

06. Night on the Town >

07. Not Fade Away >

08. Werewolves of London

09. Defenders of the Flag

10. Valley Road

11. Look Out Any Window

12. Another Day

13. Mandolin Rain > Fields of Grey

Bruce Hornsby - 1993-10-31 - Tampa, FL (SBD)

On Sunday, September 5, 1993, I took my lovely bride to see Bruce Hornsby for the first time. She loves piano, and became a huge fan. I had long enjoyed Hornsby’s music, especially after his stint as keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. The show was everything you could hope for – outdoors at the beautiful Garden State (today PNC Bank) Arts center in Holmdel on a perfect fall evening with Hornsby playing a wonderful mix of solo tunes, Grateful Dead classics, and cover songs. Incredibly, this show seems to have been erased from all memory but mine! If I didn’t have the program from that night, I wouldn’t be able to prove it happened. The website Bruuuce.com, which has an extensive list of Hornsby’s shows and set lists, does not list the September 5, 1993 performance. I actually emailed Bruce himself (you can do that on his website, which just shows you the kind of guy he is) and he responded, saying he remembered the gig but didn’t have the set list or the tapes from it. He must have felt bad for me, because he offered to autograph the program for me so I could give it to my wife as I gift. I was amazed by the offer, and even more so, when 2 weeks after I mailed that precious program to Bruce, an autographed copy came back in the mail. My bride has it proudly framed! In any event, while I may never find a set list or bootleg of that show, I do have this soundboard recording from a few weeks later from Tampa on October 31, 1993, 2 decades ago today. I listen to this one often, along with the one posted a few years ago from Richmond on September 4,  as I’m sure the set list is very similar to the “phantom” show my bride and I attended and is probably the closest I'll get to reliving that night!

Bruce Hornsby/Bob Dylan Connections

• As a member of the Grateful Dead for over 2/12 years, Hornsby played a host of Dylan tunes as part of the Dead’s live concerts.
• After leaving the Dead, many of those tunes, as well as other Dylan classics, found their way into Hornsby’s set lists, including Quinn The Eskimo, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, Tangled Up In Blue and Girl From North Country.
• Hornby played piano on Dylan’s 1990 album, Under the Red Sky.