December 20, 2012 Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA

A four-hour benefit concert for Little Kids Rock (which supplies music and instruments to U.S. schools) and the Tazzy Animal Rescue Fund, with Jackson Browne, the Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir, ELO’s Jeff Lynne and Heartbreakers Jonathan Wilson, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, together billed as the Merry Minstrel Musical Circus.

Campbell played a short set of with his band the Dirty Knobs, performing J.J. Cale’s “Humdinger”, Campbell’s own “I Wanna Blow Up My Stereo” and a medley of John Lennon‘s “Working Class Hero” & “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away".

Soon after Wilson and his four-piece performed “Valley of the Silver Moon”, then Campbell joined them for George Harrison‘s “Isn’t It a Pity", Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze” and Lennon’s “Well Well Well”.

Weir stretched out for several minutes of improv with the band and also led the Dead’s “West L.A. Fadeaway” & “Truckin’", with four guitars onstage.

Jeff Lynne performed a two-song set of Del Shannon’s “Runaway,” with Tench on organ and Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven".