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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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Jerry Garcia Family Members Launch New Independent Music Label
Jerry Garcia Music Arts LLC offers fans free download of 1982 solo acoustic rendition of “Ripple” Two of the Grateful Dead legend’s family members have launched a new independent music label that will focus on Garcia’s music and art, honoring what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 76th birthday.
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23 Years Ago The Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia played the final show
The Grateful Dead’s final show with Jerry Garcia marked the end of an era—for music lovers and acid trippers alike. Twenty-three years ago, on this date, July 9, 1995, The Grateful Dead performed its last show with original lead singer, founder and guitarist, Jerry Garcia. The concert took place at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois…
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Dead & Company Debuts “The Eleven” On Summer Tour’s 11th Night In NYC At Citi Field
One More Saturday Night! On Saturday night, Dead & Company returned to The New York’ Mets baseball stadium in Queens, Citi Field for their second night and the third year in a row. Grateful Dead members, rhythm guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, with bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and lead guitarist/vocalist John Mayer treated fans gathered at the home of the Mets to another tour debut and much more in NYC.
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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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Dead & Company Premiers 5 Tour Debuts Songs at SPAC
On Monday night, Dead & Company brought their summer tour to one of the east coasts beloved ampitheaters, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, nesseled in the Saratoga Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs, NY. The band is eight shows into their immersive and robust Summer Tour. The band has managed to keep things fresh and…
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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…
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Dead & Company: Live from Mansfield, MA 5/30/18
Opening night of the Dead & Company Summer Tour in Mansfield, MA! Deadheads everywhere are rejoicing today as Dead & Company, the offshoot of the Grateful Dead featuring original members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart along with amazing new additions John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, kick off their summer tour tonight.
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John Mayer pens Heartfelt Note about Dead & Company Tour Opener Tonight
Dead & Company, the offshoot of the Grateful Dead featuring original members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart and amazing new additions John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti, is starting their summer tour tonight. Deadheads everywhere are rejoicing like today is Christmas! Any time we have been able to have a summer tour with the band we love at all, especially…
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Grateful Dead Teams With Kollectico To Launch Bobblehead Line
Steal Your Face: You now can order a custom Grateful Dead bobblehead doll featuring your own likeness! The Grateful Dead and Rhino Entertainment have partnered with the Kollectico toy company to create a limited-edition line of themed bobbleheads dolls, inspired by the iconography of the Grateful Dead, including figures depicting variations of the group’s famous Dancing Bears. In addition, fans will also be…
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Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band Confirm NYC & Port Chester Shows
Having played duo shows with Bob Weir earlier this year, the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh has a bunch of his own shows coming up in the spring and summer. He and his band are playing Summer Camp Music Festival, the Cannabis Cup in Sonoma, and the Peach Music Festival, as well as some headlining shows.
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Sunshine (Garcia) Becker Talks 96th Anniversary of The Warfield
Sunshine (Garcia) Becker Talk 96th Anniversary of The Warfield, joining Melvin Seals & JGB, JamCruise and Jerry GarciaThis weekend Melvin Seals and JGB are playing a special show Celebrating the 96th Anniversary of The Warfield Theater in San Francisco along with Very Special Guests Oteil Burbridge, Stanley Jordan, Dave Ellis, Jackie LaBranch, Gloria Jones and…
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Steve Kimock,Eric Krasno,John Kadlecik and More to play Grateful Dead Fundraiser
This June, Pennsylvania’s Ardmore Music Hall in Ardmore, Pennsylvania will host Unlimited Devotion: A Celebration Of The Grateful Dead with the 2018 two-day fundraiser concert scheduled for June 8 and 9. The venue has unveiled the lineup for the event, which benefits Camp Winnarainbow and the Rex Foundation and honoring the latter’s founder, activist, entertainer counter-culture icon Wavy Gravy. Celebrating…
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Grateful Dead’s Anthem Of The Sun set for 50th anniversary reissue
Grateful Dead’s album Anthem Of The Sun is to be reissued this summer to mark its 50th anniversary. The band’s second album which was launched on July 18, 1968, almost 50 years to the day! The archive will release a two-CD deluxe edition as well as a special picture disc vinyl edition of Anthem of…
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75th Anniversary of “Bicycle Day!” Mountain Girl gives Hoffman Acid Test diploma
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first “Bicycle Day” On April 19, 1943 at 4:20 p.m. — 75 years ago today — the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann deliberately ingests 250 micrograms of LSD in the presence of his lab assistants at the New Products Laboratory division of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland. Three days…
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Bob Weir, Steve Kimock, Lukas Nelson, Wavy Gravy & More Honor John Perry Barlow at private Sweetwater Memorial
On Sunday there was a notable public celebration at The Fillmore in San Francisco dubbed “John Perry Barlow’s Memorial Graduation from Meatspace”which featured guests like Bob Weir, Steve Kimock, Sean Lennon, Wavy Gravy, The Soul Rebels, a recorded speech by Edward Snowden and more. Last night, at Sweetwater Music Hall, friends and family of the late John Perry Barlow gathered in…
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Chris Charucki legendary Grateful Dead Roadie passes away unexpectedly
Chris Charucki, a 25 year production, sound and tour manager within the Grateful Dead family, has passed away. As explained by Jambands.com in a 2003 interview, Charucki first became connected to the Grateful Dead when he began working with them in 1993 through Ultra Sound. Since Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995, Charucki consistently continued…
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Mickey Hart To Perform At NYC’s American Museum Of Natural History in April
Join legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart for a unique program at the Museum of Natural History on April 13th and 14th called Musica Universalis: The Greatest Story Ever Told. The evening will begin with a walk-through of the special exhibition Our Senses: An Immersive Experience which prominently features a curated soundscape based on Hart’s recently released album, RAMU. After the exhibition, join Hart in the Hayden Planetarium Dome for an exclusive…