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Updates and Articles

03/18/24 - From the New York Post:

[Dead & Company] were scheduled to play 24 shows [at the Sphere] from May to July but have extended their stay by another 10 dates through the end of August, sources said.

02/02/24 - From Facebook.com/BIllKreutzmann:

The Grateful Dead were always about transformative experiences and so now, as our legacy evolves and as we continue to shape-shift into several different forms at once, it’s great that [the Las Vegas] part of the tradition continues, with Dead & Company taking up residence in a transformative venue.

To all those who make it there, have a blast, my friends…

01/31/24 - Live For Live Music: Dead & Company Light Up Sphere With Tie-Dye & Stealies To Tease 2024 Residency

01/19/24 - On the Osiris Media YouTube channel's Always Almost There Live podcast, Weir's manager Matt Busch talked about Rick Mitarotonda's performances at Dead Ahead and responded to a remark about the possibility of future similar collaborations:

Ryan Storm: We look forward to hopefully having you on again the next time there's a collaboration like this . . .
Matt Busch: I hope there is.
Ryan Storm: . . . because I'm sure it'll happen again.
Matt Busch: I'd be surprised if it doesn't. I think they just all get along too well. Rick's a real good foil for Bobby, and, you know, Rick's a good singer, and Bobby likes good singers. I'd be real surprised if something doesn't happen again soon.

01/15/24 - Live For Live Music: Dead Ahead: Sturgill Simpson, Derek Trucks Give Grateful Family New Company In Mexico

01/13/24 - Live For Live Music: Dead Ahead: Bob Weir Welcomes Sturgill, Derek, & Rick On Night 1 In Mexico

01/13/24 - Live For Live Music: Sturgill Simpson Joins Goose Offshoot Orebolo For "Breakers Roar" At Dead Ahead

01/01/24 - On CNN's New Year's Eve Live, Andy Cohen asked John Mayer, "do you think we could see [Dead & Company] come together in the next year? Is there any hope you could give us in that regard?" Mayer, seated in a cat bar in Tokyo, replied "I'm not at liberty to say just yet, but . . . have hope."

12/18/23 - Jambands.com: Mickey Hart Taps Derek Trucks, Giovanni Hidalgo and More for Noche de Ondas at Dead Ahead Festival

12/14/23 - NY Post: Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Co., John Mayer in talks for Vegas Sphere residency: sources

12/04/23 - From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The band Phish announced last week that it is planning four shows at the Sphere in April. Word around the entertainment industry is Dead and Company is to follow, likely with up to a half-dozen, with Harry Styles still in conversation possibly this fall.

Word around the entertainment industry is Dead & Company is to play the Sphere this summer. The band is led by ex-Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart and joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane.

10/25/23 - Live for Live Music: Oteil Burbridge & Friends Plot Late-Night Shows During Bob Weir & Wolf Bros NYE Run

10/13/23 - Rolling Stone: The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (61 | John Mayer)

10/03/23 - On Watch What Happens Live, a fan asked John Mayer "what do you think the chances are that you'll play with Dead & Company again on the road one day?" Mayer responded, "on the road is kind of a interesting question. We will play shows. I have to believe that we love this music so much we're gonna play shows. We just are trying to figure out what that looks like for the future, but everyone has it in their hearts to keep playing."

09/25/23 - JamBase: Watch John Mayer Trio Cover Grateful Dead & Jimi Hendrix At Crossroads Festival

09/24/23 - Live for Live Music: Sturgill Simpson Joins Bob Weir For Grateful Dead Favorites At Surprise Farm Aid Appearance

09/15/23 - From Live for Live Music:

Live For Live Music: And you just announced Dead Ahead. Is that a lineup you can see doing more stuff together? Is there anything you can share about future plans?

Oteil Burbridge: I don’t really know how we would keep that lineup because these guys have other bands. They have full-time career commitments. I think this is just a one-time thing for Mexico, and [the members of Dead & Company] want to keep playing. So whenever they call me and they want to crank it up again, I’m like, “Let’s go.”

Playa Luna Presents: Dead Ahead is an all-inclusive vacation experience hosted on the beach at Moon Palace Resort in Riviera Cancún, Mexico January 12-15, 2024. The event will celebrate the Grateful Dead songbook featuring two nights of curated collaborations themed "Dead Ahead" with Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge, Don Was & Jay Lane featuring Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Rick Mitarotonda, Margo Price and very special guest Sturgill Simpson.

Guests will enjoy two nights of performances from the Dead Ahead collaboration, and two more nights of music with one headlining performance from Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack as well as a night of celebrations of Jerry Garcia Band with sets by Oteil & Friends and Lettuce. Additional support artists include Orebolo, LP Giobbi, Sierra Hull, Brittney Spencer, Jaime Wyatt and a late night rhythmic experience with Mickey Hart’s Noche de Ondas.

08/19/23 - Jambands.com: Billy & The Kids Rock The Rooftop: A Night of Sonic Splendor at Pier 17

08/19/23 - Live For Live Music: Billy & The Kids Introduce Sierra Hull To The Family Tree At NYC's Rooftop At Pier 17

08/16/23 - From Front of House Magazine:

Looking back on his years with Dead & Company, [tour director/FOH mixer Derek] Featherstone has a sense of completion but not of finality. “It has been great to be part of it,” he says. “Certainly, I did not expect this level of success or the duration. It’s hard to speculate what comes next, but I know these guys love to play and are far from done performing as individuals. As for the group…who knows?”

[Meyer Sound] Company founders John and Helen Meyer, who attended the final shows in San Francisco, celebrated their past relationships but also looked forward to new possibilities. “This final tour closes an important chapter in the story of the Dead in its many forms,” says Executive Vice President Helen Meyer. “But it’s not the end of the book. There’s still more to come, with the people and the music.”

07/20/23 - On the wook plus YouTube channel's Dead and Co After Show Tour Recap with Weir's manager Matt Busch, Matt said regarding the 2024 Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros touring schedule, "I think next year, the front part of the year is one-offs and cool things. I think it's a big summer tour, I mean I know he's anxious to do Newport Folk Festival. You know, so I could see a long summer that feels a little bit like this summer's Dead & Company type of deal. You know, I mean we're still leasing this bus year-round, so it's gonna get used (laughs) . . . I expect a lot of Wolf Bros shows next year. I don't know how far . . . like I said, I think it'll be centered around summer . . ."

07/18/23 - From Twitter.com/JohnMayer:

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for embracing me and my place in this band, and to Bob, Mickey, and Billy - I’ll never be able to fully express my gratitude for your taking a chance on me. Something magical happened on this tour, and I don’t think any of us saw it coming. @deadandcompany is still a band - we just don’t know what the next show will be. I speak for us all when I say that I look forward to being shown the next shaft of light… I know we will all move towards it together.

07/14/23 - From Dead Air with Lambert & Gans:

John Mayer: I think, in the back of our minds, at the Gorge certainly was the first time I'd thought about it, like, "oh, we're certainly playing some of these songs for the last time."

With Dead & Company seeming to get better with each tour, some fans are wondering why it must come to an end or if this is truly it for Weir, Mayer and the rest.

“Touring is physically hard and nobody wants anybody to get really sick out there,” [Dead & Company co-manager Irving] Azoff said. “Billy (Kreutzmann) got really sick last year, and I think that freaked Steve (Moir) and I and Bernie (Cahill) out. If it would have been this year, rather than last, you’d look at it and say, ‘Hey, maybe this shouldn’t be over, but look, Mickey is a wonderful soul and a lovely guy and he can say, ‘I can go forever,’ and Bob would say the same thing, but the rigors of 30-some nights with trucks and buses and airplanes and all the moving around, probably for both the quality of the music and the health/safety it was time to at least put an end to the touring.”

“These guys love each other and the music stands for itself,” Azoff continued. “The touring parts are over, but there are still special events I’m sure will get offered to them, and you never say never. I’ve learned from managing the Eagles all these years that you never ask that question while the tour is going on. You’ve got to let them finish it, get some rest and get back to their lives and the future will bring what it brings.”

07/14/23 - From The New York Times:

“It’s a part of the life cycle. In life, there’s death,” Hart said in a video interview. “But it all depends on what you call death. Because there’s life after death — in music, anyway.”

• • • •

Bands led by Weir, the original Dead bassist Phil Lesh and Kreutzmann (who was replaced for this tour by Jay Lane) all have concerts scheduled in the next couple of months. Hart allowed for the possibility of a future for Dead & Company, while confirming this was its last tour.

“The music’s never going to go anywhere — and one of the brilliant things about the music is there are thousands of concerts we all have access to,” said Andy Cohen, the Bravo host and executive producer who has been a Dead fan since high school. “But the communal feeling of all of us being at Citi Field together and enjoying two banger shows,” he added, “that’s something I don’t envision we’re going to get again.”

We are, it seems, always saying goodbye to the Grateful Dead. But Weir and Mayer warned fans not to expect a eulogy.

“I think everyone’s had enough loss in their life to go to San Francisco and have this be funereal,” Mayer said.

“I’m dead-set against that happening,” Weir added. “I’ll be stir-fried if I’m going to let that happen.”

Mayer continued: “If I had my wish, it would be for people to say goodbye to Dead & Company without the pain of goodbye.”

07/10/23 - JamBase: Oteil Burbridge: ‘No One Seems to Have An Answer For’ Why Dead & Company Is Stopping

07/04/23 - Good Times Santa Cruz: Still Dead After All These Years

07/04/23 - Denver7: "Fare you well:" Dead & Co's love for Folsom Field will not fade away

07/02/23 - Denver Westword: Dead & Co. Night One: Photos From the Sold-Out, High-Vibes Show

06/29/23 - Boulder Daily Camera: Fare you well: Dead & Company packs in ‘millennial Deadheads,’ ‘old man’ superfans and everyone in between for its final tour

06/29/23 - Boulder Daily Camera: Opinion: Peter Mayer: Boulder’s romance with Dead & Company waltzes to conclusion

06/28/23 - nuvo.net: Dead & Company's Final Farewell at Deer Creek

06/27/23 - The Arts Fuse: Concert Review: Dead & Company's "Final Tour" at Fenway -- A Pertinent Farewell on Sunday

06/27/23 - The Arts Fuse: Concert Review: Dead & Company's "Final Tour" at Fenway -- Into Uncharted Territory on Saturday

06/25/23 - Boston.com: Dead & Company: blues, ballads, and lots of drums for 'One More Saturday Night' at Fenway

06/22/23 - From WCMY:

Dead & Company is currently on what they’re calling The Final Tour, but drummer Mickey Hart doesn’t seem so sure how “final” it is.

“Who knows what the next page is, we’re just turning the page,” he tells ABC Audio. “It’s not final anything. We never said we’ll never play again, but we’ll never tour again.” Not that he sees the end of this iteration of the Grateful Dead ending as bad: “Some things, good things, they come to an end and it’s really good to put a period on it and then move on.”

06/18/23 - Nippertown: Concert Review: Dead and Company @ SPAC, 06/17/2023

06/16/23 - The Rock Revival: Dead & Company Give Electrifying Final Performance In Philadelphia

06/13/23 - Kansas City Pitch: The Dead & Co.'s extended sets prove worthy of the drive to St. Louis

06/10/23 - Eponymous Review: Photos: Dead & Company share high times during first Final Tour stop in Chicago

06/08/23 - Riverfront Times: Dead & Co's St. Louis Stop Was a Sweet Goodbye

06/08/23 - Powder Magazine: Pro Skier Humbled By Grateful Dead Using His Footage For Final Tour

06/06/23 - Beaver County Times: A photo gallery from Dead & Company launching the Star Lake summer season

06/01/23 - The News & Observer: Photo gallery: Dead & Company bring 'The Final Tour' to Raleigh, NC

05/24/23 - AZCentral: Dead and Company delivered the miracle we needed as their final tour hit Phoenix

05/21/23 - Variety: Dead and Company Final Tour Kick-Off Brings the Faithful to the Forum

05/09/23 - The Cornell Daily Sun: Dead and Company Rocks Barton Hall One Final Time

05/06/23 - NOLA.com: Photos: Dead and Company delivers rain or shine at Jazz Fest

05/06/23 - NOLA.com: After morning storms, Saturday was a big day at Jazz Fest with Dead & Company, H.E.R.

04/22/23 - Relix: Bill Kreutzmann Pulls Out of Dead & Company Final Summer Tour

04/18/23 - Jambands.com: Phil Lesh & Friends Cancel Frost Amphitheater Stand Due to Unforeseen Circumstances

03/02/23 - Dead & Company will play a benefit concert at Cornell University on May 8, 2023.

01/17/23 - From Dead Air with Lambert & Gans:

Gary Lambert: If there's something we've learned in the Grateful Dead world over going on sixty years, it's never really over, it just turns into the next thing.

John Mayer: Sure. Sure. I don't have any next thing in mind at the moment. I think everyone has a different reason for seeing this as the last tour, so I can't speak for everybody.

10/20/22 - Additional Dead & Company 2023 Tour dates are up:

JUN 24, 2023 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
JUL 16, 2023 Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA

They announced [in November 2014] that the band [Furthur] was ending. How did that happen?
We knew ahead. Like I said, the ability to play 60, 70 shows a year around the country was running its course. They were getting to the point where Bob and Phil wanted different approaches moving forward. In theory, it’s an indefinite hiatus. Every once a while, Bobby says it’s a project he wouldn’t mind revisiting.

• • • •

Now that Dead and Co. are ending, do you see a scenario where there could be more Furthur — or at least more chances for you to play with Bob or Phil?
I don’t know. I wouldn’t be opposed. I don’t know that that’s in the works or not.

MAY 19, 2023 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
MAY 20, 2023 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
MAY 23, 2023 Ak-Chin Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
MAY 26, 2023 Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, TX
MAY 28, 2023 Lakewood Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA
MAY 30, 2023 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
JUN 1, 2023 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
JUN 3, 2023 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
JUN 5, 2023 The Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
JUN 7, 2023 Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, St. Louis, MO
JUN 9, 2023 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
JUN 10, 2023 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
JUN 13, 2023 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
JUN 15, 2023 Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA
JUN 17, 2023 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
JUN 18, 2023 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
JUN 21, 2023 Citi Field, New York, NY
JUN 22, 2023 Citi Field, New York, NY
JUN 25, 2023 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
JUN 27, 2023 Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN
JUL 1, 2023 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
JUL 2, 2023 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
JUL 3, 2023 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
JUL 7, 2023 The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
JUL 8, 2023 The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
JUL 14, 2023 Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA
JUL 15, 2023 Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA

Bill Kreutzmann
September 23 ·
The Grateful Dead always felt timeless from our very beginnings at the Acid Tests where “time” did some funny things so we left it behind altogether. This music will always exist, always evolve, always be the soundtrack of our ever changing lives.

But the form changes. It always has, from when we invited Mickey to join the band to the many shapes and forms it took after Jerry left us. And so it’s almost time for another change.

I have loved this chapter with Dead & Company, as we got to explore The Music with some new interpreters and different antennas, but we always knew it was just a chapter. The Music never stops.

I hope you’ll join us for one final Dead & Company tour next summer and after that… as always… I’m really excited about what comes next.

Thank you all for being with us on this journey. It’s far from over so keep those seat belts on because we’ve got some wild nights ahead.

With love, Billy

08/29/22 - Live for Live Music: Master Class: Lessons Learned From Peter Shapiro [Interview]

08/12/22 - Dead & Company will play at Riviera Cancun, Mexico on January 14-17, 2023.

08/06/22 - CBS News: Concert promoter Peter Shapiro on creating creative concerts

08/02/22 - From The Times of Israel:

The Times of Israel: . . . in the book, you write that you have a hold on Soldier Field in Chicago for a Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary. Have you talked about this with the guys? Do they know you have the hold on it? It’s only three years away!

Peter Shapiro: This is the one question that I cannot comment on.

SPIN talked to [Peter] Shapiro about reuniting the surviving members of The Dead in 2015 (spoiler alert: he’s holding Chicago’s Soldier Field in hopes of doing it again in 2025) . . .

• • • •

SPIN: You reveal in the book that you’re hoping to reunite the surviving members of The Dead one more time in 2025, which would be the band’s 60th anniversary.
Peter Shapiro: Yeah! We’ll see what happens. Fingers crossed.

07/26/22 - JamBase: John Mayer Details Rise For The River Benefit Concerts With Bob Weir & Dave Chappelle

07/20/22 - Jambands.com: John Mayer Posts Heartfelt Reflection After Closing Dead & Company Summer Tour

07/16/22 - Variety: Dead & Company Drummer Bill Kreutzmann Returns for End-of-Tour Run at Citi Field

07/16/22 - JamBase: Phil Lesh Cancels Appearance At The String Cheese Incident Red Rocks Show Due To COVID-19

07/11/22 - Jambands.com: Bill Kreutzmann Comments on Absence from Dead & Company Shows

07/06/22 - Live for Live Music: Dead & Company Cancel SPAC Show Due To Unforeseen Circumstances

04/08/22 - Variety: Dead and Company Pumps Brakes on Report That Summer Tour Will Be Its Last

03/31/22 - Dead & Company 2022 Tour dates are up:

JUN 11, 2022 Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
JUN 13, 2022 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
JUN 14, 2022 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
JUN 17, 2022 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
JUN 18, 2022 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
JUN 21, 2022 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - St. Louis, Maryland Heights, MO
JUN 22, 2022 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
JUN 24, 2022 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
JUN 25, 2022 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
JUN 28, 2022 Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN
JUN 29, 2022 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
JUL 1, 2022 Bethel Woods Center For the Arts, Bethel, NY
JUL 2, 2022 Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
JUL 5, 2022 XFINITY Theatre, Hartford, CT
JUL 6, 2022 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
JUL 8, 2022 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
JUL 10, 2022 Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA
JUL 12, 2022 The Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
JUL 15, 2022 Citi Field, New York, NY
JUL 16, 2022 Citi Field, New York, NY

02/17/22 - From Billboard:

Weir says Dead & Company are planning a summer tour . . .

While Weir's February gigs with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., were bumped to Oct. 5-6 and 8-9 because of COVID-19 concerns, he's still working on – "God willing," he says – a summer tour with Dead & Company.

01/03/22 - Rolling Stone: Dead & Co's Bill Kreutzmann Pulls Out of Mexico Shows Citing Heart Condition

12/01/21 - iHeart: Dead & Co. May Continue After Grateful Dead Members Retire, Says John Mayer

10/20/21 - Live for Live Music: Dead & Company Plays Through Bill Kreutzmann's Absence, Mickey Hart's Early Exit At Red Rocks

09/28/21 - Jambands.com: Dead & Company Cancel West Palm Beach and Tampa Shows

09/15/21 - Additional Dead & Company 2021 Tour dates are up:

OCT 19, 2021 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
OCT 20, 2021 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

AUG 16, 2021 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
AUG 18, 2021 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
AUG 20, 2021 Citi Field, New York, NY
AUG 21, 2021 Citizen's Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA
AUG 23, 2021 Bethel Woods Center For the Arts, Bethel, NY
AUG 25, 2021 Darien Lake Amphitheater, Darien Center, NY
AUG 27, 2021 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
AUG 28, 2021 Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
SEP 2, 2021 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
SEP 3, 2021 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
SEP 5, 2021 XFINITY Theatre, Hartford, CT
SEP 7, 2021 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
SEP 10, 2021 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
SEP 11, 2021 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
SEP 13, 2021 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - St. Louis, Maryland Heights, MO
SEP 15, 2021 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, IN
SEP 17, 2021 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
SEP 18, 2021 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
OCT 6, 2021 iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL
OCT 7, 2021 MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL
OCT 11, 2021 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
OCT 12, 2021 Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
OCT 14, 2021 Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, TX
OCT 15, 2021 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
OCT 22, 2021 Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, CO
OCT 23, 2021 Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, CO
OCT 25, 2021 Ak-Chin Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
OCT 27, 2021 North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA
OCT 29, 2021 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
OCT 30, 2021 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
OCT 31, 2021 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA

04/14/21 - Dead & Company will also play at Riviera Cancun, Mexico on January 7-10, 2022.

04/01/21 - Dead & Company will play at Riviera Cancun, Mexico on January 13-16, 2022.

03/17/21 - Bob Weir's St. Patrick's Day Livestream began with a note from Weir that ended, "We hope to see you on the road this summer or fall."

03/04/21 - Jambands.com: In New Interview, John Mayer Eyes 2022 for Dead & Company Tour

02/12/21 - RIFF Magazine: Bob Weir and Wolf Bros shine in Chinese New Year livestream

12/31/20 - Bob Weir's NYE livestream began with a note from Weir that ended, "Hope to see you on the road next summer or fall."

08/07/20 - Mickey Hart told Rolling Stone, "It's all speculative right now, but we're planning shows for next summer."

07/31/20 - From a Reddit AMA with Oteil And Jess Burbridge:

FeelLikeAStranger77

Do you believe Dead and Co will continue in some fashion after the old guys are unable to continue?

Iam_OteilBurbridge

Bob, Bill and Mickey have mentioned that to us and I certainly hope that we would find a way to do just that.

04/30/20 - Live for Live Music: Bob Weir And Wolf Bros Cancel All 2020 Tour Dates

04/21/20 - Billboard: Dead & Company Cancels 2020 Summer Tour

04/16/20 - Live for Live Music: Report: University Of Colorado Boulder Cancels Dead & Company Tour Opener

04/15/20 - Variety: New Orleans Jazz Fest Officially Canceled as Mayor Recommends No Festivals Until 2021

04/09/20 - Live for Live Music: LOCKN’ 2020 Postponed Until October Due To Ongoing Health Crisis

03/17/20 - Live for Live Music: New Orleans Jazz Fest Postponed Until Fall Amid COVID-19 Concerns

03/12/20 - Live for Live Music: Bob Weir And Wolf Bros Reschedule Winter Tour Over COVID-19 Concerns

03/11/20 - Live for Live Music: Phil Lesh 80th Birthday Shows At The Capitol Theatre Postponed Until Summer Due To Local Coronavirus Outbreak

02/27/20 - Rolling Stone: How Dead & Company Craft the Perfect Set List

02/13/20 - Asbury Park Press: Dead and Company tour only shows of the year, Mickey Hart confirms in exclusive interview

02/06/20 - Dead & Company Summer Tour dates are up:

Jul. 10 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
Jul. 11 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
Jul. 13 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, St Louis, MO
Jul. 15 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Jul. 17 Truist Park, Atlanta, GA
Jul. 18 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
Jul. 20 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
Jul. 22 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
Jul. 24 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Jul. 25 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Jul. 27 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Jul. 29 Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Aug. 1 MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Aug. 3 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Aug. 5 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
Aug. 7 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Aug. 8 Fenway Park, Boston, MA

01/16/20 - Relix: Dead & Company: The Music Never Stopped

01/02/20 - Live for Live Music: Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper Interview Dead & Company On New Year’s Eve

12/31/19 - Live for Live Music: Phil Lesh Announces "Surprise" 80th Birthday 'Phil & Friends' Run At The Capitol Theatre

11/06/19 - Jambands.com: LOCKN’ 2020 Moves to June, Will Celebrate Phil Lesh’s 80th Birthday

09/26/19 - Dead & Company Fun Run 2019 Tour dates are up:

Dec. 27 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Dec. 28 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Dec. 30 Chase Center, San Francisco, CA
Dec. 31 Chase Center, San Francisco, CA

Nov. 5 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
Nov. 6 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY

Oct. 31 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Nov. 1 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Nov. 8 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
Nov. 9 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

07/08/19 - Dead & Company will play at Riviera Cancun, Mexico on January 16–19, 2020.

03/05/19 - From Billboard:

The lineup for the [Woodstock 50] festival will likely be announced in the next two weeks, Billboard has learned. Artists such as Dead and Company, Santana, The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Chance the Rapper will be performing at the festival, which is taking place at the Watkins Glen International Speedway.

[Peter Shapiro] has secured a hold at Madison Square Garden on March 15, 2020 for Phil Lesh’s 80th birthday.

May. 31 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Jun. 1 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Jun. 3 Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA
Jun. 4 Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA
Jun. 7 The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Jun. 8 The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Jun. 12 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Jun. 14 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Jun. 15 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Jun. 18 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Jun. 20 BB&T Pavilion, Camden, NJ
Jun. 22 Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
Jun. 23 Citi Field, New York, NY
Jun. 26 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
Jun. 28 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
Jun. 29 Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
Jul. 2 Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, TX
Jul. 5 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
Jul. 6 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO

08/03/18 - Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers Fall Tour dates are up.

08/02/18 - Jambands.com: Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer to Perform at "Save the Redwoods" Benefit

07/09/18 - Billboard: Dead & Company Raise More Than $1 Million at Backyard Benefit For Oceana

06/14/18 - From USA Today:

Weir says the band [Dead & Company] plans to keep going in its current form as long as possible.

“I’ve got no other plans,” Weir says. “I get fulfillment out of it, quite simply. It’s what makes me feel like I’m here for a reason.”

• • • •

“We had Fare Thee Well, and I was good with that," Weir says. "I was going to go my own way and pursue my own end, and this happened instead.”

03/06/18 - Jackson Hole News & Guide: Dead&Co a no go

03/02/18 - Jackson Hole News & Guide: County votes 3-0 to OK permit for August Dead & Co. concert

03/01/18 - Live for Live Music: Watch Dead & Company Share Inspiring Words, Message From Joan Baez With MSD Students

02/28/18 - Jackson Hole News & Guide: Special Friday meeting scheduled for Dead & Co. application

02/27/18 - Variety: Concert Review: Dead & Company Honor Florida High School Victims, Students

02/27/18 - Boca Magazine: Concert Review: Audience Grateful for a Moving Night of Dead & Company

02/23/18 - Jackson Hole News & Guide: Will 'Dead' deal go down?

02/21/18 - GQ Magazine: Dead & Company Played on a Beach in Mexico and Here’s What Everyone Wore

02/01/18 - Rolling Stone: Dead & Company to Headline Lockn' Festival 2018

01/18/18 - Dead & Company Summer Tour dates are up:

May 30 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
June 1 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
June 2 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
June 4 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
June 6 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
June 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
June 9 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
June 11 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 13 – Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre
June 15 – New York, NY @ Citi Field
June 16 – New York, NY @ Citi Field
June 19 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
June 20 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
June 22 – East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
June 23 – East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
June 29 – George, WA @ Gorge Amphitheatre
June 30 – Eugene, OR @ Autzen Stadium
July 2 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater
July 3 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater
July 6 – Chula Vista, CA @ Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
July 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium
July 11 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
July 13 – Boulder, CO @ Folsom Field
July 14 – Boulder, CO @ Folsom Field

12/11/17 - From Billboard:

"We're going to play everything we can think of,” Lesh tells Billboard. “We’re going to do his stuff, we’re going to do my stuff, we’re going to play Jerry’s stuff, we’ll do Grateful Dead stuff and we’ll do covers. We're going to try and play everything we've ever played together and maybe some new stuff too."

• • • •

Lesh says performing as a duo and ditching the backing band leaves him and Weir exposed, but says the upside is a singular focus on musically weaving around and through Weir’s improvisational style.

“I can hear him so clearly and is so easy to respond and work through him, it’s really delightful,” Lesh tells Billboard. “When it's just the two of us, it takes us to a different level because there's nobody else that we have to have to compensate for or work with."

• • • •

“I think it will be more stimulating than the recent performances we’ve done together.” Less says. "It's just easier to hear and easier to respond to Bob when it's just us two. It heightens the focus on the totality of the music. It becomes an unconscious mental state — just Bobby and I up there reacting to each other and exploring our musical boundaries."

March 2 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
March 3 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
March 7 Boston, MA – Wang Theatre
March 8 Boston, MA – Wang Theatre
March 10 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
March 11 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre

The Dead & Company concerts that were postponed due to John Mayer’s emergency appendectomy have been rescheduled for February 24th in New Orleans, February 26th in Ft. Lauderdale, and February 27th in Orlando.

Early this morning, Tuesday, December 5th, John Mayer was admitted into the hospital for emergency appendectomy forcing the Dead & Company December 5th concert in New Orleans to be postponed. . . Information on the rescheduled date will be announced as soon as possible.

11/02/17 - From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Now, in addition to this month’s sold-out indoor swing, Dead & Company is scheduled to make an appearance Thursday, Nov 9, at Band Together Bay Area, the North Bay firestorm benefit concert at AT&T Park, and is planning another extensive tour next summer.

Dead & Co. has been touring regularly since early 2016, and Hart says the group, which focuses on a Grateful Dead repertoire, may also produce some new music of its own. "We've talked about it," Hart says. "We've got some new songs from Hunter, and we're considering it, just thinking about schedules and when we want to go in the studio and so forth and so on."

November 12 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
November 14 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
November 16 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
November 17 Boston, MA – TD Garden
November 21 Washington, DC – Verizon Center
November 22 Hartford, CT – XL Center
November 24 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
November 25 Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
November 28 Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
November 29 Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena
December 1 Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
December 2 Austin, TX – Frank Erwin Center
December 5 New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
December 7 Orlando, FL – Amway Center
December 8 Sunrise, FL – BB&T Center

06/29/17 - Chicago Tribune: Dead and Company keeps the Grateful Dead spirit alive

06/21/17 - From the Washington Post:

For [Oteil] Burbridge, this isn’t just a gig, either. He’s in Dead & Company for the long haul and plans to continue playing Grateful Dead music whenever this band’s trip ends.

06/14/17 - From the Boston Globe:

Besides RatDog, Weir said Dead & Company is his favorite of the bands, and has the potential to go for years. “This one has a lot of promise,” he says.

05/25/17 - From Rolling Stone:

Asked whether he'd considered inviting Hart and Kreutzmann along for the Terrapin Station performance [with Bob Weir at the 2017 Lockn' Festival], Lesh says he has not. "We have a drummer," he explains. And as for whether he's on good terms with them, he says, "We don't really communicate much at all, but that's just the way of the world."

Beyond that, though, he says he's excited by what Weir and the drummers have done with Dead & Company. "I think they're doing a great job," he says. "They're bringing the music to the people just like we always wanted to do, and I commend them for it. I hope they're having a good time.

"It's not something I could do myself," he adds. "I'm done with that kind of touring."

05/05/17 - Rolling Stone: Bob Weir on Dead & Company's Summer Tour, Legendary 1977 Shows

04/14/17 - Billboard: Jack Johnson, Norah Jones & Phil Lesh to Headline Monterey Pop 50th Anniversary Fest

04/12/17 - From Relix:

The Dead & Company name came courtesy of Mayer. “There are only so many iterations of Dead,” he explains. “I brought it up and it seemed right because it lives just between new and of course.”

The name stuck, even following a freewheeling group chat in which Hart, Kreutzmann and Weir spitballed some alternatives. “There were some incredibly wild suggestions,” Mayer remembers. “I’m a big fan of wild brainstorm sessions, but this is something wilder than I’ve ever seen. It was hilarious. But whatever name we were going to choose would have to be validated by the music. We could have called ourselves anything and, if the music was right, then the phonetics of whatever words we selected was going to sound right.”

Weir hopes to hit the studio with Dead & Company next year, possibly for an LP of Dead classics in Spanish. "It's gonna take an act of Congress because of conflicting contractual obligations," he says, "but I'd love to do it."

Mayer brought up a topic he has mentioned in other recent interviews in that he really enjoys being a part of a band instead of a solo artist. “When I’m with Dead & Company, the band is a part of my life and I’m a part of their life. The fans are a part of my life and I’m a part of their lives. I’m a part of the band, I play the guitar. Bob Weir sings, Billy plays the drums, Mickey plays the drums – I’m there not as a star…I’m there to help that crowd go to that place,” the Connecticut native said.

He goes on to call Jerry Garcia “the most alive dead person that’s ever lived and died.” The guitarist feels Deadheads keep Jerry’s spirit alive. “He’s a settler and he set up camp and then he left. But you can still go there, and I think that speaks to how incredible the music is. You can still visit…and it is now a little bit of an oral history, it’s a musical hand-me-down.” Mayer reiterated his intention to remain part of the Dead experience for the long haul, “This is never going to be over for me as long as I live. I will always be part of it and I will always continue doing it.”

03/27/17 - JamBase: Acoustic-4-A-Cure IV To Feature Sammy Hagar, Bob Weir, Dave Grohl & More

03/24/17 - JamBase: John Mayer Talks Feeling Of Inclusion He Gets From Dead & Company

03/23/17 - Jambands.com: John Mayer: Dead & Company "Saved My Life"

03/14/17 - Relix: Bob Weir, Mickey Hart Respond to John Mayer’s Ad: “You’re one of us now”

03/01/17 - Live Dead '69 (with Tom Constanten, Mark Karan and Slick Aguilar) Spring Tour Dates are up. Robin Sylvester & Jay Lane have joined for selected headline dates.

02/23/17 - From a Guitar Player interview with Bob Weir:

Are you planning to continue balancing dates with your Blue Mountain band and Dead & Company?

Yes. The plan is to do a bit of both, and maybe some other stuff, as well. I’m hoping to have the new [D’Angelico signature] acoustic ready for the summer.

01/23/17 - JamBase: Woody Harrelson & John Popper Perform With Grateful Dead Members At Sundance

01/10/17 - During Grateful Dead Tribute Night (8/3/17) at the Giants game in San Francisco, "members of the original band, as well as members of the Garcia family are scheduled to be in attendance and participating in special pre-game components taking place on-field."

01/10/17 - From Relix:

Melissa Etheridge: John Mayer tells me he’s gonna send me the five songs that will make me understand why I should be playing with the Grateful Dead. He wants to get me into it, and I am not against it.

12/06/16 - From JamBase:

Mayer’s Dead & Company experience has reinvigorated his musical career and he discussed as much in a new interview with New York City radio station Fresh 102.7.

“It was one of the greatest things, if not the greatest thing, that happened in my career since actually having a musical career,” said Mayer about Dead & Company. “It just opened so many more doors…it’s excited me again,” the guitarist added.

May. 27 MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas, NV
May. 28 Ak-Chin Pavilion Phoenix , AZ
May. 31 Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA
Jun. 3 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
Jun. 4 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
Jun. 7 USANA Amphitheatre Salt Lake City, UT
Jun. 9 Folsom Field Boulder, CO
Jun. 10 Folsom Field Boulder, CO
Jun. 13 Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
Jun. 15 KeyBank Pavilion Burgettstown, PA
Jun. 17 Fenway Park Boston, MA
Jun. 18 Fenway Park Boston, MA
Jun. 20 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY
Jun. 22 Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, VA
Jun. 24 CITI Field Flushing , NY
Jun. 25 BB&T Pavilion Camden, NJ
Jun. 28 Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Jun. 30 Wrigley Field Chicago, IL
Jul. 1 Wrigley Field Chicago, IL

Do you anticipate that you’ll do additional shows with the live unit that you toured with in October? Or that perhaps you’ll head into the studio with those particular players?

It was fun and we were just starting to get good toward the end of tour, predictably enough. We were having too much fun to just walk away from it so we’ll get back to that in a little bit. We’ll have some live shows coming up early-ish next year.

• • • •

I just saw a picture of you rehearsing for the Los Muertos con Queso event at the end of January. Can you talk a little bit about what that process was like? I think some people might be surprised that it’s over two months out and you’re already working on it.

We thought we’d get a jump on it. Tommy Hamilton was in town here and he’s part of the band. Dave Schools, lives a bit north of here but not far and Jeff [Chimenti] is in the San Francisco area so we’re all fairly local and with Tommy in town we took it as an opportunity to get in some rehearsal. We got a couple days in and had a lot of fun.

Did you have an idea of what you wanted it to be going into that?

We know a bit about what folks are going to want to hear but we don’t know until we all get together and start kicking stuff around what the band is going to be really good at. We know that folks are going to want to hear some chestnuts, so we worked up a bunch of chestnuts. We did a lot of choral vocal rehearsals, so that we have a good vocal blend and everybody knows the parts—the vocal parts are fairly complicated in many cases. We figured we ought to get a jump on that so we have plenty of that to offer and then as far as straight up playing is concerned we’ll just see where that takes us. Everybody’s a good player.

• • • •

Let’s jump to Dead and Company. It sounds like there might be plans to tour some more and also to record. What can you say about that?

We’re looking at all of the above. I’m more interested in recording I think than some of the guys—I just think it’d be fun to get into the studio with that outfit [laughs] But nobody buys records anymore so we’d have to view it kind as a hobby. That said I’d love to do that. We’re also looking at some dates in the not too distant future.

10/25/16 - From a Rolling Stone interview with Bob Weir:

You've been dealing with shoulder issues for years. What's your physical regimen like?
I like to swing things around, like hammers. It's an ancient practice. The Sanskrit word is gada. It really strengthens all the muscles in your shoulder.

What aspects of your lifestyle have you had to give up?
Oh, you know, I can't drink like I used to.

Was that a problem?
Well, depends on who you talk to. Some of the writing Barlow and I did, in particular, there was liquor involved. But I'm not as serious about drinking as I used to be. When I was more concerned with knocking 'em back, I wasn't focusing on the delights a good glass of wine has to offer.

• • • •

What's the best advice you ever received?
It was from a judge in a juvenile court when I was up on pot charges, which was a big deal back in the Sixties. He advised me to watch the company I keep. Directly after that time, I was keeping the company of what basically became the Dead. I followed his advice, but I don't think he would have thought that at the time.

Has Phil Lesh ever commented to you on Dead & Company?
He hasn't weighed in, and I'm not sure what he would make of it. He has a different approach to the music than we've developed. I'm not entirely sure he could just plug into Dead & Company seamlessly.

Has playing with John Mayer in Dead & Company made you think about what will happen to the Dead's music when the original members are gone?
There was a moment on our first tour when we were feeling our way into the next tune, "Scarlet Begonias." I had a flash, and it was 20 years later. I looked to my right and John's hair had turned to gray. I looked back on the drum riser and there were two kids back there. All holding forth and serving the music. Then the flash was over. But it made me realize that if we serve this legacy, it'll go on and people will teach this in music school in 200 or 300 years. I saw that trajectory.

[Bob Weir] just spent the summer touring with his band, Dead & Company, which includes three of the four surviving core members of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer.

“Are you going to be going back to that, do you think?” Mason asked.

“That’s the plan. I am not supposed to talk about that. We are trying to stay open for that,” Weir said.

Meanwhile, he is also working on an orchestral piece, producing a TV show, and writing a book.

“So, you know, if I get bored, I don’t know how that’s going to happen,” Weir said.

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has been added to a concert featuring his longtime collaborator, tabla master Zakir Hussain, who is currently touring with talented sitarist Niladri Kumar. Hart will join the duo at their October 26 at Zellerbach Hall on the campus of the University Of California Berkeley.

09/26/16 - Bill Kreutzmann & Bob Weir with Dave Schools, Jeff Chimenti & Tom Hamilton will play at Riviera Maya, Mexico on January 25–28, 2017.

09/23/16 - Billboard: Bob Weir Grateful to Get Back in Touch With His Cowboy Side at Americana Fest

09/22/16 - Billboard: Americana Awards Show Highlights: George Strait, Bob Weir, Lumineers, Jason Isbell & More

09/17/16 - Jambands.com: Bob Weir to Play Acoustic Show at Amoeba Music Hollywod

09/13/16 - Entertainment Weekly: See Bob Weir and Grace Potter duet on 'Friend of The Devil'

08/22/16 - Jambands.com: AmericanaFest Announces Bob Weir Album Preview, Q&A

08/15/16 - JamBase: Sammy Hagar & Friends Benefit For Kiddo Endowment To Feature Bob Weir

08/10/16 - Huffington Post: The Dead Rise Again

08/09/16 - Rolling Stone: See Bob Weir Lead All-Star 'Touch of Grey' at Jerry Garcia Tribute Concert

08/06/16 - Jambands.com: Bob Weir Plays Solo Acoustic Relix Session

08/05/16 - Billboard: Grateful Dead's Bob Weir Previews First Solo Album in Nearly 40 Years at NYC Concert

08/05/16 - From JamBase:

When asked whether Bob would perform solo for a section of each show, Kaufman and Weir indicated that had yet to be worked out but was certainly possible.

Bob Weir took to the stage following the announcement of his new solo record Blue Mountain earlier tonight at The McKittrick Hotel in New York City.

• • • •

Weir closed the night by fielding a few questions from the crowd, with the notable bits addressing the touring format. Kaufman and Weir both noted that the whole band has yet to get together but that there are roughly 18 cowboy songs completed and they will mix those in with some other Dead material.

08/02/16 - Jambands.com: Bob Weir Joins Heart of Gold Band at Sweetwater

08/02/16 - JamBase: Bob Weir Added To Lineup For ‘Last Waltz’ 40th Anniversary Celebration

08/01/16 - From Bozeman Magazine:

Ken Thorsen: Before I take too much more of your time, what is the future of Dead & Co? Are you guys going to play some more?

John Mayer: I think we are going to try our hardest. I have to put a record out because it’s almost finished; I have to express myself in that way. Part of Dead & Company’s power comes from this being an answer to the normal work that I do. But let me put it this way, there’s nothing right now that I’m hiding on the books but I think everybody on my end and also on the side of everyone else in the band is going to work some way to do both as much as we can. That said even if it’s just a run every year, I know I’ll take the time to do it. I really think it’s a matter of how do you get this many people in one space at one time and find a way to make it pay for itself. I mean it’s hard if money wasn’t an issue in terms of what it costs to get the Titanic to float you know? We would drop in and do shows every other weekend!

KT: We’d see you at the Pine Creek, wouldn’t we?

JM: You’d see us at the Pine Creek! But the way that this works is just the reality of the situation. When you have this sort of conglomerate that you have to tore in a sort of a capacity that will pay for putting it on. If I could go out and not make a dime on it, I would totally do it, but it’s just hard to drop in and do a garden on Halloween. We’d get sent a bill, you know what I mean? That’s the thing, but never has there been such a fun puzzle to figure out because it’s all out of love for doing this. I think right now it would be silly and wrong in the spirit of the way we all feel as a band to go I mean I’ll do this for the rest of my life as long as they want to do this. It’s just a matter of seemingly trying to integrate playing my shows and making my records and then dropping into a town and starting there and taking two days to rehearse. I think it can be done. This is the band that built the wall of sound; we’ll figure out a way to do it. I’ll certainly do whatever it takes to carve out the time, but I still want to write my stories as an artist because I’ve got this output of songs that have to come out in a certain time in your life after you write them so that you can keep making and telling your story.

Another advantage for Burbridge is that he has the blessing of original Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In playing songs by the Dead, Burbridge strives to strike a balance between forging his own musical path and having reverence for what Lesh played before him. The caveat, of course, is that Lesh — like the Dead itself — never played any song the same way twice.

“It’s definitely both approaches, because Phil’s philosophy gives you carte blanche,” Burbridge said. “What am I going to do? Because there’s nothing I can do that’s too weird! I was just talking with Phil a couple of days ago, and he quoted Beethoven: ‘It’s an artist’s duty to confound expectations, even your own.’”

[Paul McCartney's 7/17/16 Fenway Park] encore included a couple of special guests, including Bob Weir, still in town after the Dead played Fenway last week. McCartney introduced him, surprisingly, as “someone I’ve never played with before, but I always wanted to.” Weir sounded great adding fills and solos to “Hi Hi Hi” and “Helter Skelter.”

07/16/16 - JamBase: Dead & Company Conclude Visit To Fenway Park In Boston With Donna Jean Godchaux

07/15/16 - JamBase: Dead & Company Make Fenway Park Debut In Boston With Donna Jean Godchaux

07/13/16 - From a Boston Globe interview with Mickey Hart:

Q. How long would you say it took Mayer to settle into the matrix?

A. It was really instantaneous. I think what had appeared to be enthusiasm for the band turned into a music lust: He really wanted it badly. He stayed out in his camper for months behind the studio, and came in as a student. He gelled right away, once he started really learning the songs. He’s got a great memory. He’s kind of like a pop star in recovery, you know? [Laughs]

Early in the first tour — this is a funny little thing that’ll give you an idea of how far our worlds were apart — we played a first set and [makes dismissive sound]. We didn’t play the last song; Bob thought “that’s it,” and puts his guitar down and walks off. That was the signal that that was the end of the set. And John stayed in front. I saw John just looking around, he didn’t know what was going on, the whole band left and he was on the stage. So I went out there and said, Hey, John, the set’s over, are you going to play a solo now? [Laughs] He says, “It’s over? We didn’t play all the songs!” And I said, Welcome to the Grateful Dead.

06/29/16 - From Facebook.com/BobbyWeir:

Bob Weir
I'm devastated to pass along that Rob Wasserman lost his struggle today, and we have lost a beautiful friend and artist. I can still hear the sound of his bow playing those strings unamplified and pure. It's one of the most glorious sounds I've ever heard, and the music and warmth he gave us will live on in the hearts of everyone he touched.

Talking to Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir, who handles guitar and vocals for Dead and Company, the band very nearly returned to the college circuit last year. Weir said Dead and Company and half of its management were enthusiastic about the idea, but talks fell through. The band ended up playing “hockey halls,” as Weir put it, instead, like Broomfield’s 1stBank Center.

For Weir, young fans bring an energy that’s hard to match.

“College crowds are livelier,” Weir said. “It’s fun to play for kids who are just coming to an awareness that there’s a huge world of music out there that’s not what’s on Top 40 radio.”

Weir said he’s been heartened by the amount of “college-age and younger” fans at Dead and Company shows so far.

• • • •

“There’s a certain kind of person born with an unquenchable thirst for adventure,” he added. “We are those people, and so are our fans.”

With them in mind, Weir said the band will continue to push for another college tour or two — or six.

“It’s an itch I’d like to scratch,” he said.

If nothing else, they have Folsom Field. The band’s show at the University of Colorado is the only campus this iteration of the Dead has played, and the sole college show scheduled for their current tour.

Their set at June’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival, every budding frat star’s summer road trip destination, was perhaps the closest they’ve come to playing a college audience. That show yielded a couple of surprises: a political tirade by Weir after the recent shooting in Orlando, and the return of longtime back-up singer Donna Jean Godchaux, who has only appeared with the band sporadically since leaving in 1979. (Asked whether Boulder fans could expect Godchaux this weekend: “It’s at least on our minds.”)

A musical question was served [John Mayer's] way with the guitarist re-iterating his solo album is due early next year. [Bob Weir] jumped into the discussion and revealed “I’ve got a solo album coming out before his” giving us some insight into the potential release of his long-awaited cowboy album.

06/26/16 - Deadheadland: NEW YEARS EVE 2016 SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! Phil Lesh and Friends in Hawaii!

06/25/16 - JamBase: Dead & Company Welcomes Donna Jean Godchaux At Citi Field Debut In Queens

06/24/16 - Jambands.com: Donna Jean Godchaux to Reunite Heart of Gold Band for Jerry Garcia’s Birthday at Sweetwater

06/24/16 - Jambands.com: Mickey Hart and Dead & Company: "It’s not always in the technique; it’s in the synchronizing"

06/23/16 - Washington Times: Mayer: Playing with the Dead is ‘incomparable’

06/22/16 - Huffington Post: Dead And Company Is This Summer’s Must-See Act

06/21/16 - JamBase: Bob Weir & John Mayer To Guest On Bravo’s ‘Watch What Happens Live’

06/21/16 - Rolling Stone: John Mayer on Playing With Dead & Company: 'It's Like Catching Air'

06/20/16 - Hartford Courant: Dead & Company Makes Grateful Dead Music Its Own

06/16/16 - JamBase: Making Peace With The Low End: Oteil Burbridge Talks Dead & Co, Allmans & More

06/13/16 - Jambands.com: Dead & Company Close Out Bonnaroo with Donna Jean Godchaux

06/12/16 - The Tennessean: Bonnaroo 2016: Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir receives Les Paul Spirit Award

06/12/16 - The Tennessean: Grateful Dead's Bob Weir speaks about Orlando tragedy at Bonnaroo

06/12/16 - CBS News: The resurrection of the Grateful Dead

06/12/16 - From CBS News:

On the road last year, Bob Weir had a dream that persuaded him the Dead's long, strange trip has a long way to go....

"We were on stage, and suddenly I found myself, like, 20 feet behind my own head looking at myself playing. And then I look over at him (Mayer). His hair is grey and it's 20 years later. And then I look back at myself. There's somebody with brownish-blondish hair in his late 20s. Not me. This is the music going on [without me]."

"How did it feel?"

"It felt altogether right. You know, okay, that's what I've been up to all my life."

06/09/16 - From Twitter.com/CBSSunday:

CBS Sunday Morning
@CBSSunday
Our @AnthonyMasonCBS (here with @BobWeir) digs up the deep jams with @deadandcompany this Sunday

06/08/16 - Creative Loafing Charlotte: Dead & Co. keep a Grateful spirit alive

06/06/16 - Jambands.com: Red Bull Details Bonnaroo Live Stream Lineup

06/02/16 - Entertainment Weekly: Dead & Company to donate $100,000 to pro-LGBT organizations in North Carolina

06/01/16 - On Tap Online: The Grateful Dead Comes Back to Life: Dead & Company at Jiffy Lube Live

05/31/16 - From Rolling Stone:

Weir was less absolute when asked if Dead & Company really is a new band: Isn't it still the Grateful Dead – in another form, separate and yet inseparable? "You just encapsulated it," he conceded. "It's a question – and a fair question. Maybe no answer can come." The guitarist did say this, with certainty: "There is nothing rote happening there," Weir said of Dead & Company. "We're not playing out of habits. The songs are anew for us."

David Fricke: Was there a point in a show or set, during a song, on the tour last fall when you realized Dead & Company had gone from being a good idea to something with a future?

Bob Weir: Yeah, there was. I had a little flash while we were playing one night. It was toward the end of the tour. I don't remember what city it was in. We were getting into the second set, setting up a tune. We were all playing, but the tune hadn't begun yet. We were all feeling out the groove, just playing with it.

Suddenly I was 20 feet behind my own head, looking at this and kind of happy with the way the song was shaping up. I started looking around, and it was 20 years later. John's hair had turned gray. Oteil's had turned white. I looked back at the drummers, and it was a couple of new guys. I looked back at myself, the back of my head, and it was a new guy. It changed my entire perception of what it is we're up to.

David Fricke: The thing about the Grateful Dead is that, all the way through, the combination of players kept changing – right up to Fare Thee Well last year with Trey Anastasio on guitar. The band, in all of its forms, withstands change yet embraces it.

Bob Weir: Absolutely. That little flash changed the way I think about my whole approach to what we're doing with this band: decisions made in the moment; what note to play here, what note to play there, where to route our tour, how to present our show – all that stuff, from big to small. But particularly in terms of the music and how we put it together – my consideration is, "What are they going to be saying about this in 200, 300 years, in music schools?" It gives me some perspective to light the situation.

05/27/16 - From JamBase:

Dead & Company has teamed with nugs.net to offer each night of the coming tour on CD and MP3, lossless and hi-resolution downloads.

L4LM: Bob Weir recently spoke about a dream he had, where he saw you with white hair playing in Dead & Company long after he was gone. Are you planning to fulfill his prophecy?

Oteil Burbridge: You know my lot in life seems to have been primarily to help classic rockers keep their flames fed, stoked and oxygenated. And while I'm honored that Bob, Bill and Mickey feel that way, I don't like to talk or think about when they have passed on. It is so amazing when you have nights like the Fillmore and people who saw the Dead there back in the old days tell you how much they loved your show. To be a part of that history is simply overwhelming. I don't know how else to put it. I really freaked out that night. In a good way.

But I guarantee you I will be playing this music for the rest of my life. Plus I still have so many tunes to learn. It's possible that it's gonna take me the rest of my life! The one thing that I will say about life after the original members have passed on is thank God for the Chimentis, Kimocks, and Kadleciks out there to help the future generations get it just right. Their insights concerning this music have been a huge help to me. They are true apostles of this music. They have their own things too to be sure. But I don't know who knows this music any more thoroughly than them.

The various members of Dead & Company have continuing, individual careers; Mayer expects to finish his next solo album after this tour, and Weir has his own solo project in the wings, a record of cowboy songs featuring members of the National. But Weir is looking at Dead & Company as a potential studio entity. "We need to put in another tour – or two," he says, then suggests an intriguing concept: a mixture of new material with Dead songs never fully addressed by that band in the studio like "The Other One" and "Dark Star." "That would be something of an adventure," Weir claims.

05/18/16 - From The Guardian:

Weir is also working alongside Stanford University’s music director, Giancarlo Aquilanti, to bring the Grateful Dead’s signature improvisational style to the orchestral world. “I’m also doing a TV show, I’m writing a book and I’ve got a solo record coming out,” he says.

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When asked whether a summer concert series alongside Hart and Kreutzmann undercuts the finality of the previous summer’s tour, Weir lets out a hearty chuckle. “Of course it does,” he says. “I’m nowhere near done with that heritage and legacy, and this is a new way of approaching it.”

• • • •

This autumn, Weir is also eagerly anticipating the results of the American presidential election, which he believes will have a positive effect no matter who emerges victorious.

“I think if Hillary [Clinton] – who is in all likelihood going to be nominated for the Democrats – wins, it will be because she incorporates a lot of what Bernie Sanders is saying, and the government will tilt that way,” he said. “If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up and we’re going to start over, and that’s always a good thing to do.”

Though some feared Fare Thee Well would mark the end of the Grateful Dead’s touring legacy, Weir assures fans that he will continue playing Grateful Dead classics for the foreseeable future, no matter who occupies the stage with him.

“Whatever I’m going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy,” he said. “I’m not the guy who was saying it was the last show. I’m good to play.”

04/29/16 - Dead & Company will play an outdoor mini-concert 5/10/16 for Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles.

04/28/16 - From Blackbird Presents:

Blackbird Presents and Concord Bicycle Music are partnering to distribute three of Blackbird Presents’ most extraordinary concert events. The upcoming releases include “The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: A Celebration of Mac & His Music” to be released via Concord Records and “The Life & Songs Of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration” and “Dear Jerry: Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia,” both to be available via Rounder Records. All three will be available in a range of configurations, including CD, DVD, two-disc CD/DVD packages, and all digital formats. Blackbird is also poised to begin discussions with a range of broadcast outlets for these concert specials. Official street dates and complete tracklistings for all three releases will be announced soon.

This year, Jaunt [Studios] will again be working with McCartney on virtual-reality footage of his current tour, and the company has also discussed the possibility of shooting VR clips of summer's shows featuring the Dead spin-off, Dead & Company.

Jaunt filmed the entirety of the reformed Dead's two Santa Clara "Fare Thee Well" shows, a total of nine hours of footage, but plans have not yet been finalized about releasing the rest of the concerts. "We're working in conjunction with the band about when to release more," says Plumer. "We want to make it available to the fans."

[John Mayer said,] "I’m back in the studio making the record. I’ll finish it by the end of the year. And this year will have been a year that I was both in this band touring, and finishing my record, so that next year will be a solo artist sort of a year. But I will never close the door on Dead & Company, ever."

• • • •

One question many fans have is: How long will this particular collective go on for? Well, Weir shared a vision of the band that wouldn’t even include Hart, Kreutzmann or himself. “This is the first I’ve actually expounded on it in the press, I think,” he said. During a performance on the last tour, he had a vision of the future. “I looked over at John, and it was 20 years later. And John was almost fully gray. I looked over at Oteil and his hair was white. I looked over to my left and Jeff’s hair was all gray. Looked back at the drummers, and it was a couple of new guys, younger guys, doing a great job. I looked back at the back of my head, and it was some kid in his twenties, delivering with fire and aplomb. And then that same vision came back to me later that night in a dream. I came out of a dream, woke up having seen that same thing, only in greater detail. And it changed my whole view of what it is that we’re up to.”

04/13/16 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Bob Weir, John Mayer talk possible Dead & Company studio album

04/12/16 - Forbes: John Mayer And Bob Weir On Breathing New Life Into Grateful Dead Songs

04/07/16 - From Billboard:

The question of how long this chapter of the long, strange trip will go on remains open-ended, of course. Despite continuing his solo career, Mayer does intend to maintain his ties to the band. "I will never close the door on Dead & Company, ever," he said. "I think as long as there's a desire to do it, I know how to carve time out. It's always going to be worth doing. I will do Dead & Company as long as fans want it and as long as it feels like there's something on the table to try to get right and explore." Weir, meanwhile, spoke about a cosmic, out-of-body vision he had at the end of last year's tour, and then a subsequent dream, that indicated Dead & Company could even outlive some of its primary members.

"We were playing...and suddenly I was viewing this from about 20 feet behind my head, and I looked over at John from that point of view and it was 20 years later and John was almost fully gray. I looked over at Oteil and his hair was white. I looked over to my left and Jeff's hair was all gray." And when he looked to where he, Hart and Kreutzmann would be, "it was new guys, younger guys holding forth, doing a great job...playing with fire and aplomb....It changed my whole view of what it is that we're up to. I find myself wondering, 'Well, what are they gonna be saying about this new approach or this honoring of this tradition? What are they gonna be saying about that in 200 or 300 years at the Berklee School of music?' That's the kind of stuff that goes through my head now because this legacy here, there's a chance now that they'll be talking about us in years to come. So I find it incumbent on myself to think in those terms."

03/29/16 - JamBase: John Mayer Talks Dead & Company On ‘Tales From The Golden Road’

03/24/16 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2016 will feature 7/2/89 from Foxboro, MA. "In addition to the full show, Dead & Co will show footage from the fall tour, behind the scenes & Interviews leading up to the summer tour."

03/14/16 - From Instagram.com/JohnMayer:

johnmayer
One last little group of dates for @deadandcompany to close out the '16 tour dates. I love that we're finishing up at Shoreline (outside San Fran) because... always leave things where you found them.

Jul. 22 Moda Center, Portland, OR
Jul. 23 The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Jul. 26 Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA
Jul. 27 Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA
Jul. 29 Toyota Amphitheatre, Wheatland, CA
Jul. 30 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA

Mickey Hart
Early on in the Dead & Company tour I remember thinking “I don’t see this as a blip. It’s a real entity and it’s making a lot of people happy.” A celebration of what began over 50 years ago.

Jun. 10 PNC Music Pavillion, Charlotte, NC
Jun. 12 Bonnaroo Festival (Exact Date TBA), Manchester, TN
Jun. 16 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
Jun. 17 Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Jun. 20 BB&T Pavillion, Camden, NJ
Jun. 21 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Jun. 23 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
Jun. 25 Citi Field, New York, NY
Jun. 26 Citi Field, New York, NY
Jun. 28 Xfinity Theatre, Hartford, CT
Jul. 2 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
Jul. 3 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
Jul. 7 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
Jul. 9 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, Elkhorn, WI
Jul. 10 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, Elkhorn, WI
Jul. 13 First Niagara Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
Jul. 15 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Jul. 16 Fenway Park, Boston, MA

01/19/16 - From Consequence of Sound:

Bonnaroo formally announced its 2016 lineup on Tuesday night’s edition of Conan. As first reported by Consequence of Sound, Pearl Jam will top this year’s lineup alongside LCD Soundsystem and Dead and Company, the new collaboration featuring members of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer, who will play two sets over the course of the weekend.

[On yesterday's Periscope Q&A with Bob Weir he hinted] at possible new music from the Grateful Dead/John Mayer collaboration. “We talk about all that kind of stuff,” Weir says about Dead & Company’s plans for new music. “We’re not ready to do that yet, but it’s a goal of ours.”

Towards the end of the chat [Leilani] Munter asked, “when will fans get to see more Dead & Company and RatDog in the future?” Weir responded, “soon come, there will be plenty of both in the future” and clarified “both RatDog and Dead & Company.” He went on talk about the current Dead & Company moniker, “I’m pushing to change the name to DeadCo because it’s a lot easier to say.” Bobby added about Dead & Company, or should we say DeadCo, “we had enough fun on that last tour to see every clear indication that we oughta chase that muse.”

01/14/16 - Music Times: Bonnaroo Lineup 2016 Leaks: Pearl Jam, LCD Soundsystem, Dead and Co. and More to Play

01/14/16 - Crave Online: Did The 2016 Bonnaroo Lineup Leak After a Mobile App Slip-Up?

01/14/16 - There will be a live Periscope Q&A with Bob Weir today at 5pm PST.

01/01/16 - The Events page on the official Dead & Company site says, "There is nothing to display yet, check back soon."

01/01/16 - From Billboard:

A two-night New Year's celebration at Los Angeles' The Forum was supposed to cap off Dead & Company's first and perhaps only tour. But 19 dates after launching at New York's Madison Square Garden, it looks like the trek will continue into 2016, John Mayer revealed from the stage on New Year's Eve (Dec. 31). . . [Mayer] made the announcement at the end of the three-set show, telling the capacity crowd, "At the risk of rocking any boats -- known and unknown -- we'll see you next year."

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