the Dead played with superlative consistency across this entire engagement: two concerts each on the 11th, 13th and 14th (with a club date squeezed in on the 12th). Guitar nirvana arrived early, when Duane Allman andFleetwood Mac‘s Peter Green joined the band on the 11th for “Dark Star....
1973; his replacement was keyboardist Keith Godchaux, who brought with him wife Donna Jean to sing backing vocals. 1973's Wake of the Flood was the first release on the new Grateful Dead Records imprint; around the time of its follow-up, 1974'...
guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks and Little Feat keyboardist Bill Payne, had become the must-see of the post-Dead projects. “Promoters would call and say, ‘I thought the Dead was Bobby and Jerry’ — because they were the vocalists and guitarists — and ‘Why is Phil selling ...
The two duetted on “Lay My Lily Down” and the oddly named “Ki-Yi Bossie,” and Weir opened with just an acoustic guitar on the folky title track. In the introduction to “Ki-Yi Bossie,” Weir commented, “I asked John Perry Barlow to help, but he’s in questionable health.” T...
I needed to go rehearse with the band for these shows, so I went to San Rafael to meet with The Dead. I thought it would be as easy as jumping rope. After an hour or so, it became clear to me that the band wanted to rehearse more and different songs than I had been used to ...
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The roots of the Grateful Dead lie with singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, a longtime bluegrass enthusiast who began playing the guitar at age 15. Upon relocating to Palo Alto, CA, in 1960, he soon befriended Robert Hunter, whose lyrics later graced many of Garcia's most famous melodies; in ...