Dead & Company subsequently postponed the remaining tour dates, rescheduling them in February, following several independent shows in Mexico. However, on December 5, Mayer was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy, which postponed the New Orleans show that night. The tour began on Novemand was scheduled to wrap up on December 8, 2017. On September 7, 2017, Dead & Company officially announced their Fall Tour 2017. They're bringing the music to the people just like we always wanted to do, and I commend them for it. In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Phil Lesh praised the band's performances, saying "I think they're doing a great job. The tour consisted of 20 shows in 15 cities. The tour began on and wrapped up on July 1, 2017. On December 1, 2016, Dead & Company officially announced their 2017 Summer Tour. She joined the band again for their shows at Citi Field in Flushing, NY on June 25 and 26, 2016, and at Fenway Park in Boston, MA on July 15 and 16, 2016. When Dead & Company played their first festival performance at the 2016 Bonnaroo Music Festival, former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux sat in with the band for several songs. So I find it incumbent on myself to think in those terms. 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. I looked over to my left and Jeff's hair was all gray." "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 looked over at Oteil and his hair was white. 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. Mayer said he "will never close the door on Dead & Company, ever." Weir spoke of a "cosmic, out-of-body vision" he had, and a subsequent dream, of the band continuing for decades hence: In 2016, Mayer and Weir expressed strong optimism about the band's future, including the possibility of new studio recordings. On February 18, 2016, the band performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote the tour. The band initially had one performance confirmed for 2016 at the Bonnaroo Music Festival but announced a full summer tour on February 8, 2016. ĭead & Company at Madison Square Garden on November 1, 2015įollowing the band's final 2015 performance on December 31, 2015, Mayer told fans that they could expect more Dead & Company concerts in 2016 and this was confirmed by Weir when he was interviewed on Periscope. The shows were called "magical" ( Billboard) and the tour was very well received. 2015 ĭead & Company initially announced only one concert date on October 31, 2015, at Madison Square Garden in New York but announced a full tour shortly afterwards. Mike Gordon of Phish was pursued for the bassist role but had to withdraw due to being too busy with other matters. Instead he continued to perform with his band Phil Lesh and Friends. Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead, did not join Dead & Company. Mayer expressed a particularly strong enthusiasm toward playing with the new band. That August, Mayer and original Grateful Dead members Weir, Hart, and Kreutzmann formed the band, along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and bassist Oteil Burbridge. A bond developed between the two, and while Weir and the other three surviving core members of the Grateful Dead were preparing for their 50th anniversary shows, dubbed Fare Thee Well, Mayer began practicing the band's large catalog of songs. In February 2015, while Mayer was guest hosting The Late Late Show, he invited Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir to join him in a studio performance. Mayer recounts that in 2011 he was listening to Pandora and happened upon the song " Althea" by the Grateful Dead, and that soon Grateful Dead music was all he would listen to. Dead & Company is an American rock band consisting of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar and vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with John Mayer (guitar and vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass, percussion, and vocals), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards).
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