I guess the end of Fall is a little early to announce summer tour dates for the coming year but that is what we have to discuss at the moment as the group Dead and Company has recently announced their Summer 2017 dates. Actually if you are going to be a stickler about it, the tour begins at the end of Spring and continues on into the early weeks of the hopefully hot months.
The Press Release: (kinda sorta)
The Dead and Company, a band fronted by John Mayer and three founding members of the Grateful Dead, will return again next year and just the other day have announced a five week tour of the United States. As you see listed below, this run will be only about “19” dates and begin at Las Vegas before it ends with two nights at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The band began their own new musical adventure at the famed Madison Square Garden in October 2015 showcasing a continuation of the Grateful Dead legacy only a few short months after the legendary band performed the last of their “Fare Thee Well” concerts. The full band lineup is John Mayer (vocals and lead guitar), Bob Weir (guitar and vocals) with drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. The sound is completed by Oteil Burbridge (bass) and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards). The two musicians originally hail from The Allman Brothers Band and RatDog respectively. I’ve culled together the dates and venues in the cities that they will be visiting. Time to mark down your calendars if you are a fan of this music. Continue reading The Dead and Company Announce Summer 2017 Dates→
Artist: Grateful Dead Title: “Fare Thee Well” Label: Rhino Entertainment Release Date: 11/20/2015 Genre: Rock Rating: 4/5
Back in the Summer of 2015, the surviving members of The Grateful Dead, meaning Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreautzmann, were joined together in music with long time keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, Bruce Hornsby and Trey Anastasio for a series of shows under the “Fare Thee Well” banner. These shows would be celebrating the milestone 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead and also would be the last time that the name would be used for concerts and recording. There would be a total of five concerts with two being in California, while the remaining and final three would happen at Chicago’s Soldier Field and this Blu-ray/CD set delivers the full final performance of The Grateful Dead. Over the course of my life I didn’t initially enjoy what The Dead was all about but this was because a lot of my friends who did like them would always tell me that what I listened to sucked. My appreciation of Hard Rock and the burgeoning Metal sound found me alienating what the Dead offered up purely by association to those memories. I admit this to you readers because that was a long time ago and since that time I have learned to appreciate a whole lot of Grateful Dead music but mostly by way of the “greatest hits” that every single other casual fan might know. The concert is a long one and something like 180 minutes/three hours long and each set is delivered on separate discs. Let’s go over the first set. Continue reading “Fare Thee Well” [Blu-ray/CD] by The Grateful Dead→
A few days ago we learned of the formation of a new band that comes from the ashes of the recently put to bed “The Dead” featuring some of its members and guitarist John Mayer. There was not much of a statement but the poster art is cool and so are the tour dates if this interests you so take a look.
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