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Watch Bob Weir and Dumpstaphunk Rock “Fire On The Bayou” In San Francisco
On Monday night at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, Bob Weir, Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and Dumpstaphunk co-headlined “Get Down to Earth” a charity event for the Green Schools Alliance. The event was billed as both “Get Down to Earth” and “The Champions of Change Gala.” The evening included a cocktail hour, auction, and awards presentation to the evening’s honorees…
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John Mayer & Eric Krasno talk Grateful Dead, Guitar Gear & Songwriting in New Podcast
LOCKN’ Music Festival frankly was one of the best festivals this year. It has been almost 10 days since the jam band mafia took over The Farm in Arrington, Virginia, yet the fans continually are blessed with more and more pictures, audio, videos, and fresh content continues to be bestowed on us fans! The standout highlights have been videos…
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Dead & Company Announce Second Annual Playing in the Sand Event in Mexico
Dead & Company will return to Riviera Maya, in Mexico’s Yucatan Penisula, at the beginning of 2019, for the second annual Playing In The Sand destination event. CID Presents and Dead & Company’s all-inclusive Caribbean concert vacation will take place January 17 – 20, 2019.
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Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer to Perform at “Save the Redwoods” Benefit
After Dead & Company close their summer tour at the Lockn’ Festival, three members of the band are slated to perform at the Centennial Celebration Gala, a benefit for the Save the Redwoods League. The event, which is dubbed “The Party of The Century,” will take place on Saturday, October 13 at Union Square at August Hall in San Francisco. The band…
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Bob Weir, Jay Lane & Don Was to Tour This Fall as Wolf Bros
After posting an intriguing picture inspired by the state flag of California with a wolf on the flag on his social media yesterday, Bob Weir has officially announced a new project, Wolf Bros, featuring bassist and producer Don Was and drummer Jay Lane (formerly of Bob Weir’s RatDog, Furthur and Primus), with whom Weir will tour this fall.
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Bob Weir & Herbie Hancock Announced for Sound Summit on Mt. Tam
Hey Bay Area folks! On Saturday, September 8th, the Mountain Theater in Mount Tamalpais State Park, the 4,000-capacity natural stone amphitheater, will host the annual Sound Summit. The concert organized by Roots & Branches Conservancy raises money for this epic park. The Sound Summit has raised almost $200,000 in its first three years of existence.…
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Dead & Company Raises $1.1 Million in an LA Backyard Benefit For Oceana
On Saturday night, July 7, Dead & Company finished their West Coast Summer Tour and played to 30,000 fans at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. Less than 24 hours later, they played to 200 wealthy philanthropic fans at a benefit Sunday night in a backyard in the Hollywood Hills for Oceana, an environmental organization dedicated to…
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Dead & Company Delivers a Barn Burner in NYC & Honors Chris Charucki
On Friday night, Dead & Company brought their summer tour to Flushing Meadows, Queens to kick off a two-night stand at Citi Field (baseball stadium and home to the NY Mets Stadium). After exclusively playing amphitheaters through the first stellar nine dates of their tour, the six-piece ensemble played their first stadium show of the tour, returning to the home…
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Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies 2018 details announced
For the eighth consecutive year, theaters across the country will take part in the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies, with 500 theaters across the country participating through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network screening of a classic Dead performance Wednesday, Aug 1. This summer’s event will mark the fifth Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies to feature a concert from 1989.…
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Dead & Company Played their Best Show Ever in Camden
Since 2015, Dead and Company has united a trio of classic Grateful Dead members — Bob Weir, plus drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — with the relatively young guns of Mayer, Burbridge and keyboard player Jeff Chimenti. I saw the Friday and Saturday show of Dead & Company in Camden, NJ at BB&T Pavillion. To me, Friday (and the first set…