1. Grateful Dead - Eyes of the World
Ate the ripe age of 16 years and one month, my parents let me go with 3 other guys from Dayton to Cincinnati to see the Grateful Dead. My life would never be the same. I didn't know many of the songs I heard at the time, but I loved it all, including this song played in the second set and straight into drums.
The live album I linked to was released in April 1991, right before I graduated high school. I bought it immediately. Later that fall, my good friends and I drove up to Cleveland to see the Dead play at the Richfield Coliseum. I can't remember if I had started school at UC yet, but this was with my high school friends, and were all parting different ways. The show was where the Cavs used to play, but was
out in the middle of nowhere. There was a campground nearby where we stayed with thousands others, and we able to walk to and from the show(s). I believe there were two that weekend but can't remember if we went to both. Regardless, it was one of the greatest weekends of my life.
I know others may point to better versions of the song, there are some great ones with Branford Marsalis on sax. But I've listen to this live album more than anything in my life. And probably this song more than any other.
Not sure how Nipsey knew this.