singers, and poets from the march also performed as well as two Tibetan drummers. Speeches were also held. Sears was one of a very small group of Bay-area musicians invited to audition for the Grateful Dead's keyboard position in the summer of 1990 following the death of Brent Mydland; the chair was eventually given to Vince Welnick from The Tubes. Sears performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to John Lee Hooker at Stanford University as one of Hooker's guests. He also wrote a song with Hooker, "Elizabeth", which they performed live together in the studio on Sears' solo album The Long Haul. The track, "Elizabeth" was the last "live in the studio" band performance with no overdubs that John Lee Hooker was to record before his death in July 2001. "The Long Haul" includes guests Davey Pattison, Charlie Musselwhite, Levon Helm, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Steve Kimock, Francis Clay, Nick Gravenites, Maria Muldaur, Wavy Gravy, Shana Morrison and Rich Kirch. Pete Sears currently performs with David Nelson Band, Steve Kimock & Zero, Moonalice, Chris Robinson & Green Leaf Rustlers, Harvey Mandel, Louisiana Love Act, California Kind and Steamhammer. Jeannette Sears Pete and his wife Jeannette met in 1971 and began their relationship as a songwriting team. They married in 1975 in Mill Valley, California. They became active with numerous Central American relief organisations through the '80s, working on benefits and immediate relief to refugees. In the late 1980s they spearheaded a radio drive in the San Francisco Bay area to raise food and clothing for refugees fleeing the ravages of civil war in Guatemala and El Salvador. In 1988, the California Institute of Integral Studies gave them an award for humanitarian work in the Bay area. Her passion for social justice shows up in her first novel, A Light Rain of Grace. Discography Pete Sears appears on the following albums: Solo albums Watchfire (1988) Millennium (1997) The Long Haul (2001) with Sons of Fred "Sweet Love" 1964 "I'll Be There" 1964 "I, I, I Want Your Lovin'" 1965 "She Only Wants a Friend" 1965 "Baby What You Want Me to Do" 1966 "You Told Me" 1966 with Les Fleur de Lys "Circles" 1966 with Sam Gopal Dream 1967 1967 recordings for Screen Gems, previously unreleased with Steamhammer Steamhammer (1969) with Jade (UK band) "Fly on Strangewings" 1970 with Silver Metre "Silver Metre" 1970 with Stoneground Stoneground