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It was great while it lasted: Dead and Company has concluded final tour in California

The Grateful Dead's offshoot band, Dead and Company, concluded its final tour in California on Sunday. For fans and vendors who have been following the bands for decades, it's the end of an era.

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The Grateful Dead's offshoot band, Dead and Company, played its final shows in San Francisco over the weekend. It's the end of an era for fans like Colorado Public Radio's Vic Vela, who have been following the Dead's music for decades. It's also a big change for vendors and merchants who travel with the band and thrived on a scene called Shakedown.

VIC VELA, BYLINE: When the pandemic shutdowns were lifted and live concerts returned, Tony Seigh did something downright crazy. He left a career at Tesla to sell Grateful Dead bumper stickers in parking lots. But if you're a Deadhead, you totally get it.

TONY SEIGH: It almost was like for, like, two years, when you're thinking, like, oh my gosh; it's the end of the world; we're all going to die - like, we better go on tour with the Grateful Dead before it's over, you know?

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UNCLE JOHN'S BAND")

DEAD AND COMPANY: (Singing) Well, the first days are the hardest days. Don't you worry anymore.

VELA: Dead and Company has been the most successful Grateful Dead spinoff since Jerry Garcia died almost three decades ago. Now that the band is calling it quits, a lot of folks whose livelihoods literally depend on Dead shows are wondering what's going to happen to a place called Shakedown.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHAKEDOWN STREET")

GRATEFUL DEAD: (Singing) Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street.

VELA: Named after the Grateful Dead song "Shakedown Street," the epic traveling emporium of merchandise, music and madness is simply known as the Shakedown lot.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I got marigolds.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

VELA: It's a little bit farmers market, a little bit county fair, a little bit "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." It's where a fan can buy a Grateful Dead hoodie, a grilled cheese sandwich and, yes, even LSD. With this band's demise, vendors on Shakedown have some anxiety over what's next for the music they love and their own bank accounts. Seigh says a significant chunk of his income is from selling merchandise on Dead tours.

SEIGH: I don't know - maybe, like, half.

VELA: That's a lot.

SEIGH: Oh yeah, yeah. Oh no, it's a total gamble. But, you know, it takes a lot to win, but even more to lose.

VELA: Coleus Langer of Los Angeles sells clothing on Shakedown. He says losing that customer base is going to hurt.

COLEUS LANGER: It definitely makes me very sad because there's no other place like a Grateful Dead Shakedown lot. You know, as far as vending and just meeting people and networking and hanging, you know, there's just - it's such a special place.

VELA: Nowadays, a lot of vendors sell their goods online, so their incomes aren't totally dependent on Dead shows. But for many, there's nothing like that personal connection with other Deadheads. Stephen McMennamy is the owner of Grateful Fred, a company named after his dog. He sells metal stickers with Dead imagery.

STEPHEN MCMENNAMY: It's very different when you're standing across from somebody and they have tears in their eyes talking about how much this thing meant to them because it was the name of a pet or a loved one or a grandmother or something like that.

VELA: Some vendors say they'll continue to sell outside Phish shows or other jam bands where there's a lot of crossover appeal. And here's the thing. A lot of folks on Shakedown firmly believe there'll be a new Grateful Dead offshoot to follow post-Dead and Company. After all, there's been several versions of the Dead over the last couple decades. So the hope is that the music of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir will continue to thrive alongside fresh faces, or in the words of the Grateful Dead, the music never stops. For NPR News, I'm Vic Vela in San Francisco.

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The 2023 tour kicks off on May 19 at Los Angeles' Kia Forum.

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Dead & Company ‘s upcoming summer tour will be their final run.

John Mayer , who has been part of the the modern incarnation of the  Grateful Dead  since it was created in 2015, shared the band statement to his Instagram on Friday (Sept. 23). “As we put the finishing touches on booking venues, and understanding that word travels fast, we wanted to be the first to let you know that Dead & Company will be hitting the road next summer for what will be our final tour,” he wrote alongside the rose-adorned promotional tour poster for the upcoming summer stint. “Stay tuned for a full list of dates for what will surely be an exciting, celebratory, and heartfelt last run of shows.”

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The band revealed the full list of tour dates on Thursday (Oct. 6), beginning on May 19, 2023, in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum and stretching through July 15, when the tour ends in San Francisco at Oracle Park.

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05/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum 05/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum 05/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion 05/26 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion 05/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre 05/30 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion 06/01 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 06/03 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live 06/05 – Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake 06/07 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater 06/09 – Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field 06/10 – Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field 06/13 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center 06/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizen’s Bank Park 06/17 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 06/18 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 06/21 – New York, NY @ Citi Field 06/22 – New York, NY @ Citi Field 06/25 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park 06/27 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center 07/01 – Boulder, CO @ Folsom Field 07/02 – Boulder, CO @ Folsom Field 07/03 – Boulder, CO @ Folsom Field 07/07 – George, WA @ The Gorge 07/08 – George, WA @ The Gorge 07/14 – San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park 07/15 – San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park

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Saying Goodbye to the Dead. (Again.)

Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band bade fans farewell in 2015. This weekend, Dead & Company will close out its Final Tour. Why can’t we stop quitting one of rock’s beloved acts?

By Marc Tracy

Photographs by Peter Fisher

The first time Albie Cullen said goodbye to the Grateful Dead was on Aug. 9, 1995.

A co-worker told Cullen, an attorney for a Boston-area music label, that Jerry Garcia, the Dead’s iconic lead guitarist, had died that day. Cullen had attended dozens of shows. He reveled in the Dead’s improvisational spirit, the way no two performances were alike: “When you saw the Stones a dozen times,” he explained recently, “it was pretty much the same show.”

Despite the Garcia news, Cullen kept his plans to see RatDog, a side project of Garcia’s bandmate Bob Weir, play a concert in Hampton Beach, N.H., that evening. Weir, a rhythm guitarist, told the crowd that Garcia — who at 53 suffered a fatal heart attack at a drug rehab facility — “proved that great music can make sad times better.” During an encore of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” Cullen, 59, recalled, “There was not a dry eye.”

“Everybody kind of knew that was the end,” he added.

The Grateful Dead had replaced departed members before, but this was different. With his rootsy tenor, Santa-gone-gray beard and unmistakable plucking, Garcia had defined a touring juggernaut and its vibrant subculture, which had become synonymous with the ’60s. The band’s four surviving original members agreed they would never use the name “Grateful Dead” without Garcia.

But the Dead did not die. The next year, several members participated in a tour. They maintained side projects that mainly played Dead songs. Different permutations toured together — as the Other Ones, as Furthur, as the adjective-less the Dead.

Finally, in 2015, the band staged another goodbye, playing five shows with Phish’s Trey Anastasio on lead guitar. The mini tour was called Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead .

That adieu, too, did not take. That fall, Weir and the Dead’s original drummers, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, assembled a new act, Dead & Company, with the keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, the bassist Oteil Burbridge and the lead guitarist John Mayer (yes, that John Mayer).

A funny thing happened as this new band wound its way across the United States: The Dead became a cultural touchstone again. Dead & Company attracted a new crop of younger fans, as did tribute bands like Joe Russo’s Almost Dead . Last August, the Dead had its largest week of record sales in 35 years, according to its publisher; in February, it won its first Grammy. Between 2012 and 2022, U.S. streams of Dead songs increased at nearly double the rate of the Rolling Stones, according to the tracking service Luminate.

The Dead had found its moment again.

“This could sound wildly corny, but I don’t care: The community of the Dead is a necessary community in a year like 2023,” said Bethany Cosentino, 36, of the indie rock band Best Coast . She became a fan just a few years ago thanks to her “Gen X boyfriend.”

“There’s a real ethos of joy to be in a room with a bunch of people who are just connecting to music in their own way but having this communal, collective experience,” she added.

Cullen said the Deadheads have taken note: “I joke with my friends — they’re bigger now than they ever were.”

Now there is yet another farewell. After more than 200 shows, Dead & Company has sold out stadiums across the country with its so-called Final Tour. The run concludes this weekend with three shows at Oracle Park in San Francisco, the city where the Grateful Dead formed nearly 60 years ago.

“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.”

THE PROMOTER PETER SHAPIRO , who owns the jam band redoubts Brooklyn Bowl and the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y., and promoted the Fare Thee Well shows, observed that the true volume of people who would pay to see the Grateful Dead — a band that stopped touring the year before Ticketmaster sold its first ticket over the Internet — wasn’t revealed until 2015, when Dead fans broke the site’s record for most buyers in a queue.

Ticket sales for the five concerts that year — two at Levi’s Stadium near San Francisco and three at Chicago’s Soldier Field — brought in $40 million. Nearly 71,000 people attended each Chicago show; many more viewed theatrical and pay-per-view simulcasts.

“Fare Thee Well was supposed to be an ending,” Shapiro said, “and it was a new beginning.”

Mayer was secreted away during the Chicago shows, already a planned addition. He had met Weir and Hart through Don Was, the producer and record executive. Mayer gushed to them about the Dead’s music, which he came to well after his formative listening years; he compared it in a recent interview to “cilantro, if all I’ve been eating is meat and potatoes.”

Hart had been only glancingly familiar with Mayer’s music, but knew he was an excellent guitarist. “On our stage, he’s not a pop star or anything like that,” Hart said. “He has so much respect for the Grateful Dead — I have much respect for him for that. He treated the music like his own.”

While some purists grumbled at Mayer’s inclusion (as, indeed, some grumbled about the Fare Thee Well shows), most fans “made a decision,” said Dennis McNally, a former Grateful Dead spokesman and biographer, “that they were not in love with ‘the band’ — the people — they were in love with the music, and that it was to some extent a matter of taste regarding who was playing it. That it was its own genre, almost like jazz or blues.”

While many classic rock artists spawned cover acts, a website dedicated to Grateful Dead tribute bands has more than 600 groups in its database, 100 to 150 of which, its proprietors estimate, are active.

Some Dead tribute acts are straightforward and quite popular, like Dark Star Orchestra, which recreates specific Dead concerts by set list. Others employ the Dead’s music as a jumping-off point. There is a jazz band and an Afrobeat one. Brown Eyed Women is all female. Warlocks of Tokyo sing in Japanese .

The electronic artist LP Giobbi, a Millennial daughter of Deadheads, uses sonic loops and stems over house beats to create what she calls Dead House. “I am blown away by how many ravers I meet who are also Deadheads,” said the artist, who played at after-parties following many concerts on this Dead & Company tour.

The uniqueness of each Dead performance is crucial to the music’s lasting appeal. Al Franken, the author, former senator and longtime fan who once opened for the band, recently caught up with friends who had seen Dead & Company outside St. Louis. “I asked what they played, and I was striking out. ‘Did they do “China Cat Sunflower”?’ ‘No.’ This is a big, big body of music. You can go to four nights in a row and basically not hear the same tune. And they play things differently all the time.”

The Dead’s eclectic songbook comes out of rock, folk, blues, country and bluegrass; its lyrics, many by Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow, tend to be ambiguous yet buoyant (“strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand,” “wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,” “what a long strange trip it’s been”).

“The thing about this music is it doesn’t take place at home — no one’s home. People are trying to get home,” Mayer said.

“There’s something about the fantasy of transience for people who don’t necessarily have it in their lives, like myself,” he added. “The fantasy of the perpetual searcher, the person with the knapsack who can sleep on couch after couch. Most people who go to Dead concerts don’t necessarily live that life, but aspire to spiritually have this devil-may-care attitude.”

Trey Pierce, 20, began discovering the Dead in middle school via CD boxed sets, DVDs and the Internet Archive, which hosts free tapers’ recordings of Grateful Dead shows. Now he is a die-hard who drove for hours from St. Lawrence University in northern New York to see Phil Lesh and Friends perform in March outside New York City.

“That’s what’s gotten me through much of my life,” he said. “Any weird stuff I’ve had going on, challenges I’ve had, it’s been relating to those lyrics and Jerry” — who died eight years before Pierce was born — “belting into my soul.”

IN A PARKING LOT across from Citi Field in Queens before the second of two Dead & Company shows last month, car stereos blasted recordings of live Dead as the subway clacked over the elevated lines. Vendors hawked T-shirts, jewelry, fresh cooked food and less licit fare. Erin Cadigan, who specified that she had seen 72 Dead shows “with Jerry,” performed tarot readings on a licensed, Grateful Dead-themed tarot deck she created with a partner.

The tour has tended to be well reviewed by fans. “Closest thing to the original I’ve seen,” Cullen wrote in a text message after leaving Fenway Park in Boston last month. “Ironically it’s ending just as they seemed to have figured it out.”

Mariah Napoli, 45, a self-described “second-generation” Deadhead, said she had seen on this tour “a lot more people crying the last two songs than you usually do.”

She added, “I’ve been doing it so long, I don’t see myself stopping until they’re all dead. At that point, it’ll be time for me to hunker down and start to grow older.”

Why do we keep saying goodbye to the Grateful Dead … then welcome them back, and then do it again?

“The Buddhists believe that knowing every minute you’re going to die is what makes life so precious,” said Elena Lister, a New York-based psychiatrist and grief specialist. “If you know you’re going to lose something of any sort, you treasure it all the more while you have it. If you deny it, you miss that opportunity.”

Dustin Grella, 52, a professor of animation at Queens College, has a more dramatic Dead story than most. In the spring and summer of 1995 he was following the Grateful Dead on what would turn out to be its last tour. But he missed the final two concerts at Soldier Field after he sustained an injury to his spinal cord when a porch collapsed at a campground outside a show near St. Louis.

“When you’re experiencing that kind of trauma,” Grella said of the recovery period, “you want just to go back to normal. For me, that was being a touring Deadhead.”

In 2015, he saw in the Fare Thee Well shows in Chicago a chance for closure — “my opportunity,” he said, “to make peace with the Dead.”

But that did not mean he would miss another occasion to say goodbye. For Dead & Company’s final tour, Grella and a friend bought a used Kentucky school bus, attached panels to both sides and covered them in chalkboard paint. Grella, who uses a wheelchair, parked the bus in the lot, put chalk out and encouraged passers-by to add their own designs. He had begun the spontaneous artwork by etching a lyric from “Scarlet Begonias”: “Once in a while you get shown the light/In the strangest of places if you look at it right.”

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Dead & Company will end after their final tour next year

John Mayer, Bob Weir and their bandmates in the Grateful Dead offshoot will play a string of send-off shows in summer 2023

Dead & Company, the spin-off supergroup that features John Mayer and members of The Grateful Dead, have announced they will be disbanding next year.

It’s also been revealed the popular offshoot, which also features Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, will perform their final shows in summer 2023 before calling it a day for good.

Announcing the news via social media, the band said a full list of dates for what will be their farewell tour will be announced in the future.

A statement read, “As we put the finishing touches on booking venues, and understanding that word travels fast, we wanted to be the first to let you know that Dead & Company will be hitting the road next summer for what will be our final tour. 

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“Stay tuned for a full list of dates for what will surely be an exciting, celebratory, and heartfelt last run of shows.”

Dead & Company was first conceived back in 2015, when John Mayer – who at the time was serving as guest host for The Late Late Show – invited Bob Weir onstage to perform Althea : one of the first Grateful Dead tracks that Mayer had ever heard when he first discovered the band on Pandora.

After impressing with his performance, Mayer was then invited to join Weir in Dead & Company, which was formed from Grateful Dead members Weird, Hart and Kreutzmann, as well as guest musicians Chimenti and Burbridge.

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Mayer has been kept plenty busy by Dead & Company over the past seven years, touring annually while still updating his solo repertoire with the releases of The Search for Everything and Sob Rock .

Well it looks like that’s it for this outfit; but don’t worry we will all be out there in one form or another until we drop… pic.twitter.com/3RZzLRXBYI September 23, 2022

The new band experience was also an opportunity for him to experiment with his rig and setup. 2015 more or less coincided with Mayer’s switch to PRS, with whom he developed the Super Eagle II – the guitar that initially became his main touring instrument.

Mayer also started using headphones while playing live with Dead & Company, as he said they helped him become a more dynamic guitar player.

The guitarist has developed a strong connection with his Dead & Company bandmates, particularly Weir, who recently joined Mayer for the latter’s Rise for the River charity concerts .

In his own statement, Weir wrote on Twitter, “Well it looks like that’s it for this outfit; but don’t worry we will all be out there in one form or another until we drop…”

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Dead & Company Detail Final Tour With 2023 Concert Dates

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Dead & Company have revealed the details of the concerts that will comprise their final tour . The U.S. shows take place in May, June, and July 2023. Take a look at the band’s schedule below.

Dead & Company played their first shows in 2015. The lineup for the final tour includes Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, and Bob Weir (with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti).

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05-19 Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum 05-20 Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum 05-23 Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavilion 05-26 Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion 05-28 Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre 05-30 Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion 06-01 Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 06-03 Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live 06-05 Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake 06-07 St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheater 06-09 Chicago, IL - Wrigley Field 06-10 Chicago, IL - Wrigley Field 06-13 Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center 06-15 Philadelphia, PA - Citizen’s Bank Park 06-17 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center 06-18 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center 06-21 Queens, NY - Citi Field 06-22 Queens, NY - Citi Field 06-25 Boston, MA - Fenway Park 06-27 Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center 07-01 Boulder, CO - Folsom Field 07-02 Boulder, CO - Folsom Field 07-03 Boulder, CO - Folsom Field 07-07 George, WA - The Gorge 07-08 George, WA - The Gorge 07-14 San Francisco, CA - Oracle Park 07-15 San Fransisco, CA - Oracle Park

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Will Dead and Company Stop Touring After 2022?

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UPDATE: Sources close to  Dead and Company initially claimed that 2022 will be the last year the band tours together. However, after guitarist Bob Weir tweeted his surprise about Dead and Company suspending touring, the same sources changed their tune and say discussions continue about the fate of the band. The band itself said in a statement: “Dead & Company has made no official decision as to this being their final tour.”

“ Whew ,” drummer Bill Kreutzmann tweeted to Weir. “I thought you knew something that I didn’t! “#themusicneverstops #wewillsurvive.”

Dead and Company started in 2015 with three of the original “core four” Grateful Dead members, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann (bassist Phil Lesh didn’t join), alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti. The group has been one of the most consistent live acts in the music industry ever since, playing each year from 2015 until the pandemic struck in 2020 before returning once again for another tour last summer.

Mayer’s love for the Grateful Dead went back several years before he joined Dead and Company, telling  Rolling Stone  in 2013: “This free expressive sort of spirit — I listen and I want to find a mix of that openness. I kind of want to go to [a show like a Dead] show, if it still existed,” Mayer said at the time. “But I wish that there were tunes that I was more familiar with. I wish that I could be the singer. I wish I could have harmonies.” Two years later, the band formed with him standing in for the legendary Jerry Garcia.

While Deadheads have often speculated how many more tours the band would embark on, rumors had been circling among fans recently that this tour would be the last. The band’s management declined to comment on the end of live touring.

Dead and Company’s most recent tour last fall had some shakeups as Kreutzmann missed several dates over non-Covid-related health concerns. At the start of 2021, he had to pull out of the later-canceled Playing in the Sand shows in Mexico citing health concerns related to his heart.

Dead and Company announced their 2022 summer tour at the end of March, and ticket sales for the shows went live Friday morning. The band will kick off their final tour on June 11 at Dodger Stadium, and their final show will be about a month later at Citi Field in New York on July 16th. Tickets for the shows are available on the band’s website .

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Dead & Company - The Final Tour

Tickets On Sale Starting Friday, October 14th at 10AM Local.

DEAD & COMPANY is launching its 2023 summer tour on Friday, May 19th and Saturday, May 20th in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum with dates running through Friday, July 14th and Saturday, July 15th when the tour ends in San Francisco at Oracle Park.  The band - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, and Bob Weir, with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti – will perform two sets of music drawing from the Grateful Dead’s historic catalog of songs. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, October 14th @ 10 AM local venue time through deadandcompany.com . 

The highly-anticipated 2023 summer tour, produced by Live Nation, will be the band’s final tour since forming in 2015. Highlights include the tour-opening back-to-back concerts at the KIA FORUM in Los Angeles (Friday, May 19th & Saturday, May 20th), as well as doubleheaders at WRIGLEY FIELD in Chicago (Friday, June 9th & Saturday, June 10th); SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER in Saratoga Springs, NY (Saturday, June 17th & Sunday, June 18th); CITI FIELD in NYC (Wednesday, June 21st & Thursday, June 22nd); and THE GORGE in George, WA (Friday, July 7th & Saturday, July 8th); an epic return to FENWAY PARK in Boston, MA (Sunday, June 25th); the band’s first-ever three-night stand at FOLSOM FIELD in Boulder, CO (Saturday, July 1st, Sunday, July 2nd, & Monday, July 3rd); and the tour finale - a two-night debut at ORACLE PARK in San Francisco (Friday, July 14th & Saturday, July 15th). A full listing of the 2023 tour dates can be found below.

To ensure that tickets get directly into the hands of fans, advance presale registration is now available HERE powered by Seated. The Artist Presale begins Wednesday, October 12th at noon local venue time and runs through Thursday, October 13th at 10 PM local venue time. Advance registration does not guarantee tickets. Supplies are limited. 

Guests who prefer an enhanced experience for this memorable Dead & Company tour can purchase a variety of VIP and Travel Packages. Packages include seamless venue access, early GA entry, pre-show lounge with food and a cash bar, exclusive merchandise, or travel packages for multi-night runs in various cities. Packages from 100X Hospitality will go on sale October 12th at noon local venue time. For full details, click HERE .

Dead & Company and Activist will continue their work with longtime sustainability partner REVERB to reduce the summer tour’s environmental footprint and engage fans to take action for people and the planet. More details at REVERB.org .

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Dead and Company final tour: Where they'll be in 2023, including NYC and Philadelphia

It's time for one last trip.

Grateful Dead legacy act Dead and Company have confirmed the itinerary for their final tour, which launches with a two-night stand at the Forum in Los Angeles on Friday, May 19, and Saturday, May 20, 2023.

The 27-date tour will travel across the country and back again before wrapping up with performances on Friday, July 14, and Saturday, July 15, at Oracle Park in San Francisco.

Dead and Company returns to our region to play Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 15, and Citi Field in New York on Wednesday, June 21, and Thursday, June 22.

Presale fan registration is now open at deadandcompany.com . Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 14.

Featuring Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, Dead and Company launched in 2015. The band announced on Sept. 23 that the 2023 outing would be its last.

Dead and Company: The Final Tour dates

May 19 and 20, 2023, Forum, Los Angeles

May 23, Ak-Chin Pavilion, Phoenix

May 26, Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas

May 28, Lakewood Amphitheatre, Atlanta

May 30, PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, N.C.

June 1, Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, N.C.

June 3, Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va.

June 5, Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, Pa.

June 7, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, St. Louis

June 9 and 10, Wrigley Field, Chicago

June 13, Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati

June 15, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

June 17 and 18, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

June 21 and 22, Citi Field, New York

June 25, Fenway Park, Boston

June 27, Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, Ind.

July 1 to 3, Folson Field, Boulder, Colo.

July 7 and 8, Gorge Amphitheatre, Gorge, Wash.

July 14 and 15, Oracle Park, San Francisco

Why Republican and Democratic Deadheads are coming together

Over the past nearly 36 years, I’ve seen the Grateful Dead and its various offshoots in concert more than 70 times. For seven years, beginning in the fall of 1987 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, I journeyed up and down the East Coast from the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, to Madison Square Garden in New York City and Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. I’ve since seen them play in Chicago, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Jose, and even Mexico. 

This weekend I’ll be joining more than 100,000 others in San Francisco for the final three shows of the final tour of the band’s most recent iteration, Dead & Company.

To the non-Deadheads among you, this three-decade-long devotion is likely difficult to fathom. How can a band formed when Lyndon Johnson sat in the Oval Office still captivate so many music fans, across generational, demographic and political divides?

A 2015 poll found that Republicans were just as likely as Democrats to count themselves as Deadheads

Every Dead fan has their own answer, of course. But what keeps me coming back is summed up best by the Dead’s late guitarist, Jerry Garcia: “Maybe we’re just one of the last adventures in America.” 

The most important word in that quote, of course, is “adventure.” Garcia’s personal journey tragically ended in 1995 when he died of a heart attack at just 53. But even though Garcia held such a rarefied space in the imagination of Deadheads (and his fellow bandmates), the desire for adventure could not be so easily quashed.

For some, it transferred to the other jam bands, like Phish, that sought to capture the Dead’s musical aesthetic. For others, it was the series of Dead spin-offs with former band members — Furthur, Other Ones, Phil and Friends, and The Dead. Some like me couldn’t imagine seeing a Dead show without Garcia, until I was dragged back to see their 50th-anniversary shows in Chicago, and I forgot what I had been missing. 

The spirit of adventure rekindled, I’ve traveled nearly three dozen times over the past eight years to see Dead & Company. For most of its shows, this band has featured three of the Dead’s former members:  rhythm guitarist and lead singer Bob Weir, and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman (the latter is sitting out the current tour). They’ve been joined by pop heartthrob and lead guitarist John Mayer, which made little sense to long-time Dead fans until they listened to him play in a style that both honored Garcia’s distinct musical voice and expanded upon it. 

That Mayer, who is trained in the blues and produces easily digestible pop music, fit so seamlessly into Garcia’s role speaks volumes about his talents, but also the Dead’s quintessentially American sound. The band has, since its earliest days, weaved together varied and seemingly discordant elements of American popular music: folk, rock, country, the blues, rockabilly, psychedelia, bluegrass, jazz, and even disco and funk have all been part of the Dead’s canon.

And their long, improvisational jams explored the musical possibilities inside even the most basic three chord songs (and for better or worse, created an entire musical genre: the jam band). Few other bands could take a classic tune like Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” the traditional folk song “I Know You Rider” or the Motown number “Dancin’ In the Street” and turn them into musical explorations. Their influence on two generations of musicians — from Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello to the National and Dawes — is too vast to calculate.

The band’s lyrics always spoke to a particular strain of American individualism — cowboys, mystics, toiling workers, reprobates, gamblers, loners, lovers, drunks, and, of course, railroad drivers were all at the core of the band’s songs. But they were also firmly planted in a particular element of American mythology: freedom, exploration, and the search for identity and discovery. As Garcia once said, the key thing in life is “the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.” 

What’s more American than that? 

Within the past year, the band not only won its first Grammy, but saw its best week of record sales since the 1980s.

It’s why for me, the greatest lyric in the Dead canon comes from “Truckin’” and it’s not “what a long strange trip it’s been.” Rather, it is “together, more or less in line.” No six words come close to capturing the ad hoc, make-it-up-as-we-go, live in the moment, yet still communal ethos of the band and its fans.

And while the Dead emerged out of the 60’s hippie counterculture, politics and social activism was never really their bag. The Dead were primarily about joy.

By allowing their audience to tape their concerts for free, they redefined the relationship between artists and fans, creating a community of followers that bypassed gender, generational divides and even political orientation. Indeed, for all of the Dead’s aforementioned hippie, counterculture past , a 2015 poll found that Republicans were just as likely as Democrats to count themselves as Deadheads. And within the past year, the band not only won its first Grammy, but saw its best week of record sales since the 1980s .

Their constant touring — and selling mail-order tickets directly to fans — created loyalty unlike any other in the history of popular music. When the Dead finally had their first top 10 single, “Touch of Grey” in 1987, they soon became one of the country’s highest grossing musical acts (and also the best sounding, because decades on the road helped them figure out how to produce the most compelling possible sound from cavernous outdoor musical venues).

And their followers were as entrepreneurial as the band, selling band merchandise, artwork, the world’s best-grilled cheese sandwiches and “other products” at their shows. To walk outside a Dead & Company show in 2023 is to see dozens, if not hundreds, of vendors selling Dead-related products at the affectionately named “Shakedown Street” (the band’s brief foray into disco and one of their funkiest jams). 

The scene and the feeling of community are for many fans what ties them to the Dead and the jamband subculture that the band helped launch. At a recent congressional hearing, Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel of North Carolina, 47, asked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, a Donald Trump appointee, about his attendance at a June Dead & Company show in Virginia. Powell, 70, happily admitted to being a fan of the Dead for more than 50 years, to which Nickel responded that he has found one universal truth about the band and its fans: “I like people who like the Grateful Dead.” 

I couldn’t agree more. Even if I traveled solo to a show I always knew that I could find at least one kindred soul. But for me at least musical adventure has always been at the core of the Dead’s appeal. 

It would be a stretch to argue that the Dead always put on a great concert. When you play 2,300 concerts over 30 years you are going to have a few off nights. In the 90s, when I predominantly saw them, there were as many bad shows as good ones. But you never quite knew what you were going to get — and that’s made it unique and special. 

No set list was ever the same, no song was played the exact same way and the band relied on a repertoire of literally hundreds of songs. Maybe you’d get a breakout tune that they rarely played. Maybe you’d hear a song you’d seen in concert plenty of times but simply a better and more energetic version. Maybe there’d be pure music magic on stage, a jam so rich and layered that it would take you to a place you’d never been before. Or maybe you’d hear a lame tune that led you out to the concession stand to get a drink. It was a crap shoot, but not knowing — and the possibility of hearing something that blew my mind — kept me coming back. Because when the band was on, Jerry was in a good mood, Phil Lesh, the band’s bass player, was dropping bombs, and the crowd was roaring … nothing was better. 

A few years after Garcia died, I was with some friends and someone asked if you could travel in time and see any band in concert who would it be. Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones or Aretha Franklin in their primes would be obvious picks. Me, I said right after the lights went down and the Dead ambled on stage to tune-up. Why? Because at that moment, all the possibilities of a Dead show awaited us. Today, when I see a concert, even a band I love, I have a pretty good sense of exactly what I’m going to get. With the Dead, I never knew — and that’s still true today. In an era of lowest common denominator pop culture and highly choreographed musical experiences, where else in America today can you get that opportunity?

It’s why I’ll be in San Francisco this weekend with my fellow Deadheads — continuing the adventure.  And it’s why the music of the Dead will endure.

Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNBC and a Senior Fellow and co-director of the Afghanistan Assumptions Project at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He writes the political newsletter  Truth and Consequences . He has been a columnist at The Boston Globe, The Guardian and Foreign Policy, and he is the author of three books, the  most recent being  “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”

Will the Dead Stay Dead After Sunday’s Farewell Concert?

Once again, Deadheads said their goodbyes to the latest iteration of the era-defining jam band

Christopher Parker

Daily Correspondent

Over the weekend, San Francisco said goodbye to a legend—or maybe just “so long.”

Dead & Company, the most recent iteration of the cultural phenomenon known as the Grateful Dead , played three shows in the city where the original band came together, closing out its self-proclaimed final tour. The group’s devoted fans, the ever-present Deadheads, filed into Oracle Park to pay their respects.

“To be here for the final round is everything. My heart is so full. Like the fans, they radiate love right now,” concert attendee Kelsey Kribs told KGO-TV ’s Tara Campbell.

In 2015, Dead & Company began performing with several former members of the Grateful Dead, including guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir alongside drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. Pop singer and guitarist John Mayer also  joined the group —surprising many fans—as well as bassist Oteil Burbridge and keyboard player Jeff Chimenti. With the exception of Kreutzmann, who was replaced by Jay Lane for this tour, that same group closed out the band’s latest chapter on Sunday.

The original Grateful Dead disbanded nearly 30 years ago, and since then a number of successors have emerged featuring various combinations of former members. But one thing remained constant: The name “Grateful Dead” was off limits.

Fronted by Jerry Garcia, the band began performing in May 1965 . The Grateful Dead quickly became a counterculture icon—and one of the most recognizable names in American music. 

It was also a ubiquitous presence on the road. Recording came second to live performing for the Grateful Dead, which played a total of 2,500 shows over 30 years, per Amy Lennard Goehner and Arpita Aneja of  Time . Their performances attracted crowds of followers who brought peace, love and psychedelics from city to city, as chronicled in accounts like Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . 

“Their constant touring—and selling mail-order tickets directly to fans—created loyalty unlike any other in the history of popular music,” writes Michael A. Cohen of MSNBC .

The Dead actively encouraged fans to tape its shows, even creating designated taping sections at venues. This practice worked, according to Time , because “the Dead played a different song set at every show, sending ‘regulars’ on the road to the band’s next gig.” Improvisation and riffing became an important part of the band’s musical identity.

Al Franken, the former senator from Minnesota, has long been a fan and even once opened for the Dead, according to the  New York Times ’ Marc Tracy. “You can go to four nights in a row and basically not hear the same tune,” Franken tells the Times . “And they play things differently all the time.”

On August 9, 1995, Garcia died of a heart attack. The remaining band members agreed that they would never again use the name “Grateful Dead.”

Since then, new iterations of the band have continued to reach new milestones. In February, the Dead won its first Grammy . Per the Times , record sales hit a 35-year high last August. 

This year’s tour has sparked an intergenerational resurgence of interest in the Dead. Bethany Cosentino, 36, a member of the indie rock band Best Coast, became a fan a few years ago. She tells the Times , “This could sound wildly corny, but I don’t care: The community of the Dead is a necessary community in a year like 2023.”

Dead & Company billed its recent series of shows as its final tour. Still, offshoots of the band have given farewell tours before , so perhaps Sunday’s show won’t be a firm goodbye. 

Editor’s note, July 19, 2023: A photo caption in a previous version of this story incorrectly stated the location of a Grateful Dead concert. The photo was taken at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut, not the Hart Civic Center in New Haven.

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Christopher Parker is a journalist covering history, conservation, education and other topics. His work has been featured in America magazine, Notre Dame  magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Berkshire Eagle . 

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Dead & Company Announce Final Tour Slated for Summer 2023

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After months of speculation, Dead & Company have revealed they will hit the road for their final tour next summer. The group broke the news on their official social media accounts, where they released a statement sharing information about their last run of shows. 

The official statement reads: “Word travels fast and we wanted to be the first to let you know that Dead & Company will be hitting the road next summer for what will be our final tour.” The ensemble’s announcement continues, “Stay tuned for a full list of dates for what will surely be an exciting, celebratory, and heartfelt last run of shows.”

Dead & Company embarked on its first tour in 2015. Comprised of the Grateful Dead original members: Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, alongside industry mainstays Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and John Mayer. Since their debut performance, the ensemble has continued the Dead’s longstanding tradition of summer tours over the past eight years. 

Members of the ensemble shared also shared their personal thoughts the decision to conclude touring. Amongst the comments were words shared by Kreutzmann, who wrote: “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.”

He continued, “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.”

Weir added his own brief statement via his official Instagram account, “Well it looks like that’s it for this outfit; but don’t worry we will all be out there in one form or another until we drop…”

See the band’s official statement below.

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What Does The End Of Dead & Company’s Final Tour Really Mean?

When Dead & Company ‘s final tour was announced last October , it left fans with a mix of emotions: surprise at the unexpected decision to stop, excitement for one last tour, and above all, puzzlement as to why they would suddenly call it quits. When drummer Bill Kreutzmann subsequently announced that he would sit out the final tour, it raised even more questions. Now that the  final shows of the final tour have come and gone, fans are still unsure what the future of the band might hold. Is this the end? Are they done for good, or was this just the last proper tour? And the question remains, why stop now? What precipitated this decision, and is it too late to change their minds?

Members of the band have individually hinted at their thoughts on the band’s future throughout the final tour. Mickey Hart , for instance, said in a recent interview , “Who knows what the next page is, we’re just turning the page,” adding, “It’s not final anything. We never said we’ll never play again, but we’ll never tour again.”

Oteil Burbridge later commented when asked why the band was stopping, “Excellent question. And one that no one seems to have an answer for.”

John Mayer wrote in his post-tour reflections that “Dead & Company is still a band – we just don’t know what the next show will be.” He went on to say, “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. This band changed my life, and I love you all for it. An incredible tour, an unforgettable ride, and a beautiful world of memories to visit. I’ll be seeing you….”

Despite these scattered clues, the band itself has left few breadcrumbs to aid speculation—but screw it, let’s speculate.

Farewell tours typically serve as last hurrahs, offering fans one last chance to see their favorite artists perform before they retire for good. Dead & Company’s Final Tour was never billed as a farewell tour, however, just the “final tour.” That means the band could perform individual shows, multi-night runs, extended residencies ( Sphere, perhaps? ), festival appearances, or even its annual Mexican destination event, Playing In The Sand —anything that couldn’t be called a tour—and still be within that theoretical boundary. The prospect of future Dead & Company performances seems pretty good given what members of the band have said, which begs the more fundamental question, why stop touring?

It is likely that the band’s decision to stop touring and Bill’s decision to sit out the final tour were somehow related. He indicated that he would not participate in the tour due to “a shift in creative direction,” which is puzzling since he and his Grateful Dead bandmates have been playing the same music together for nearly 60 years, and with Dead & Company since 2015. Fans have speculated that the band’s slower tempos in recent years were due to Bill’s influence, and that that had something to do with the split, citing the quicker tempos on the final tour as proof, but it’s quite possible that he had completely different reasons. We may never know for sure.

If Bill was the sole or main reason for the band’s decision to stop touring, then it is possible that the group could change course and decide to continue on without him, as it did on the final tour. Jay Lane did a stellar job filling in on the band’s last outing, and while the loss of Bill’s singular drumming style should not be glossed over, the tour proved that the band could conjure improvisational magic just as easily with his replacement, so why not continue touring?

Another possibility is that John Mayer decided he has had his fill of the whole Grateful Dead trip and/or is ready to focus on his career as a solo artist. Last year he mounted his first-ever solo acoustic arena tour , which turned out to be a bit of a breakthrough for him, allowing him to connect with his fans more intimately than ever before (one wonders how his experience improvising for Deadheads might have influenced his approach to that connection). If Mayer, not Kreutzmann, was the sole or main reason behind Dead & Company’s decision to stop touring, the band could theoretically continue on without him too, though that might require forming a new project with a new name due to his standing as a major shareholder in the business.

Bob Weir also may have decided it was time to move on. He has shown multi-faceted ambition with his recent creative endeavors, including improvising with a full orchestra and leading his ever-evolving Americana outfit, Wolf Bros . While we can be sure he’ll continue playing Grateful Dead songs, he could be done playing them to stadium crowds as he did decades ago with the original band. He is one member that Dead & Company probably could not survive without, though he himself has suggested otherwise .

One last obvious factor is the band members’ advanced age. In a candid new interview , the band’s co-manager,  Irving Azoff explained, “Touring is physically hard and nobody wants anybody to get really sick out there.” He went on to reference Bill Kreutzmann’s absence at several shows in recent years due to health issues.

“Billy (Kreutzmann) got really sick last year, and I think that freaked [co-managers] Steve (Moir) and I and Bernie (Cahill) out,” he said before admitting, “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,” he continued before suggesting that the band would be open to future offers to perform. “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.”

Bob, Mickey, and Bill show no signs of giving up life on the road despite their age, but it is possible they intend to follow the lead of their core four compatriot Phil Lesh and dial back their travels. That said, Bob Weir didn’t even wait 48 hours after Dead & Company’s final bow before announcing new tour dates with Wolf Bros . The sledge hammer-wielding Instagram fitness guru that Bobby’s become is a far cry from the feeble guitarist who collapsed on stage with Furthur in 2013 . His health might have made him a liability back then, but at 75, he seems more focused than ever and perfectly capable physically and musically, as he proved over the past few months.

Dead & Company’s final tour was their most successful to date, grossing $115 million and breaking numerous records. More importantly, the band reached new musical heights and strengthened its connections to its fans. There are creative reasons to continue on, then, in addition to the obvious financial incentive. Of course, another tour would inevitably be perceived as a “cash grab” since they made a big deal about this being the final one, but maybe things are significantly different now, after the final tour, than they were back in 2022. Or maybe the band really is done touring, but with some other plans up its sleeve. Or maybe Dead & Company has just run its course, though it sure doesn’t feel like it.

Only one thing is certain. The Grateful Dead, its fans, and its legacy are better off now than they were in 2015. Eight years of Dead & Company have elevated the band to new cultural relevancy, strengthened the Deadhead community, and helped ensure that the band’s music will endure for generations to come—and that’s a lot to be grateful for.

With rumors of a GD60 anniversary celebration in 2025 and Bob Weir & Wolf Bros tour dates on the horizon, there is plenty of music to fill the air, and no matter what the future holds, you know this band will not fade away.

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Alison Mosshart discusses the chances of a new Dead Weather album and tour

'We love it. There's never pressure, that's the way it is'

Alison Mosshart has discussed the chances of The Dead Weather reuniting for a new album and tour – saying that it could happen as soon as the members each find the time.

The Dead Weather consists of Mosshart of The Kills , Jack White , Dean Fertita of Queens Of The Stone Age , and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs. They have not released a live album since 2015’s ‘Dodge And Burn ‘, and have not done a full live tour since 2010.

Asked about her current work outside of The Kills, Mosshart told NME: “I’ve been singing on people’s records. I’m designing clothes right now, I’ve been designing all sorts of things. Kind of juggling about 16 projects which are really exciting – none of which I really wanna talk about because you never know what will happen and what doesn’t happen.

“I’ve been busy and it’s been a good year in that way; lots of really fun stuff and creative stuff has come my way. It’s been good. So, Dead Weather…Dean is totally in Queens of the Stone Age land, they just finished a record . I’m sure he’s gonna be touring for the rest of his life, again.

Mosshart added: “Jack is doing his own thing. Everyone’s kind of tied up. Dead Weather is a band where the second we all find a day that we’re in town together, and we don’t wanna have to run off on tour, we’ll go into the studio and record something, because we love it. There’s never pressure, that’s the way it is.”

QOTSA are gearing up to release their new album and hit the road for a summer of festival dates . It was reported that the band had ‘finished’ recording the album in March, and that new material would be unveiled in the coming months.

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Celine Dion addresses whether she'll tour again in new interview

The singer opened up to vogue france about the future of her onstage career following her stiff person syndrome diagnosis., by gina vivinetto | today • published april 22, 2024.

Celine Dion says she hopes one day to be well enough to perform for audiences again.

The 56-year-old Grammy winner, who appears on the May 2024 cover of  Vogue France , told the publication she was training "like an athlete" to manage her health after being  diagnosed with stiff person syndrome.

"Five days a week I undergo athletic, physical and vocal therapy. I work on my toes, my knees, my calves, my fingers, my singing, my voice," explained the  mom of three .

“I have to learn to live with it now and stop questioning myself. At the beginning I would ask myself: why me? How did this happen? What have I done? Is this my fault?” she added.

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When the publication suggested Dion would be onstage and touring again one day, she responded, "I can’t answer that… Because for four years I’ve been saying to myself that I’m not going back, that I’m ready, that I’m not ready... As things stand, I can’t stand here and say to you: 'Yes, in four months.' I don’t know... My body will tell me.

"On the other hand," she added, "I don’t just want to wait. It’s morally hard to live from day to day. It’s hard, I’m working very hard and tomorrow will be even harder. Tomorrow is another day. But there’s one thing that will never stop, and that’s the will. It’s the passion. It’s the dream. It’s the determination."

The “My Heart Will Go On” singer first revealed she had been  diagnosed with  stiff person syndrome  in an emotional video in December 2022.

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SPS is a rare, progressive neurological disorder that can cause stiff muscles in the torso, arms and legs, as well as muscle spasms in response to greater sensitivity to noise, touch and emotional distress, according to the  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke .

Prior to sharing news of her diagnosis, Dion had canceled tour dates multiple times over the course of 2022. She later  canceled all remaining dates on her world tour , explaining in a statement that the challenges of SPS were preventing her from being able to perform.

While speaking to Vogue France, the "It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" singer said she hopes a "miracle" cure can be found for SPS. But for now she is trying to "learn to live with it."

"I have this illness for some unknown reason," she said. "The way I see it, I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it’s over, I stay at home, listen to my songs, stand in front of my mirror and sing to myself. I’ve chosen to work with all my body and soul, from head to toe, with a medical team. I want to be the best I can be. My goal is to see the Eiffel Tower again!"

Whether or not she performs onstage again, Dion said she will always feel a passion for singing.

"I started performing when I was 5. Did I want to be a singer? I never had time to ask myself that question. Did people come to see me to hear me tell jokes or to hear me sing? I am a singer.

"I sing in English, in French, I’ve sung in Mandarin, I’ve sung in Japanese, in Spanish and in Italian and people have come, they’ve always come," she added. "That, for me, was the proof that I was, and that I am, truly a singer. One thing’s for sure, I’ll love that feeling until the day I die."

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[WATCH] Dallas Cowboys First-Round NFL Draft Pick Tyler Guyton Arrives In Frisco

Guyton was all smiles as he took a tour around ‘The Star,’ soaking in the Super Bowl rings and the Lombardi Trophies in the lobby. 

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FRISCO - The Dallas Cowboys’ first-round NFL Draft selection Tyler Guyton has arrived the Cowboys headquarters in Frisco. Guyton was all smiles as he took a tour around ‘The Star,’ soaking in the Super Bowl rings and the Lombardi Trophies in the lobby. 

Dallas Cowboys fans, meet your new offensive tackle Tyler Guyton. Guyton JUST arrived at Cowboys HQ in Frisco. He’s 6-foot-8, 330-pounds. Grew up a Cowboys fan, idolizes Tyron Smith. #DallasCowboys #CowboysNation #CowboysDraft pic.twitter.com/ZMMgaZqGrS — Bri Amaranthus (@BriAmaranthus) April 26, 2024

Guyton has the chance to make an impact right away for the Cowboys, who lost longtime star left tackle Tyron Smith this offseason to the New York Jets.

Guyton grew up as a Cowboys fan and idolizes Smith :

“I feel like those are big shoes to fill from such a legendary tackle, but I'm going to work my ass off to do the best that I can,” Guyton said. “I was a big Tyron Smith fan my whole life because he plays for my team. He plays for my favorite team and once I started playing the offensive line position, knowing that he's one of the best to ever do it, was kind of amazing for me.”

New Dallas Cowboys Tyler Guyton gets first tour of the Star in Frisco 🤠 Guyton grew up a Cowboys fan and looked overwhelmed to see Troy Aikman’s plaque. #CowboysNation #CowboysDraft #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/9OyZQy851S — Bri Amaranthus (@BriAmaranthus) April 26, 2024

The 2024 NFL Draft continues Friday with coverage of the second and third rounds starting at 4 p.m. PT. The fourth through seventh rounds will begin at 9 a.m. PT on Saturday, April 27.

Dallas has gone 12-5 in three consecutive seasons under  coach Mike McCarthy . With one  NFL Playoff  win during those three seasons , the Cowboys look to improve the roster.

The Cowboys are throwing an NFL Draft  party at The Star in Frisco from Thursday, April 25 - Saturday, April 27. 

Fans can watch the draft coverage live on the jumbo screen at The Star while also enjoying performances by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue, a live DJ, food and beverage offerings. There will also be Dallas Cowboys player autograph signing opportunities. 

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Megadeth announces North America tour, closing out with a Nashville stop

Megadeth has announced a 2024 fall  "Destroy All Enemies Tour" that will take them all across North America. On Sept. 28, the thrash metal band will end their tour in Nashville at the Municipal Auditorium.

The 33-show tour, produced by Live Nation, will feature support from Mudvayne and All That Remains.

The two-month tour will kick off on Aug. 2 in Rogers, AR before hitting cities in Texas, California, Nevada, Florida, North Carolina and more.

The band, comprised of vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine, bassist James LoMenzo, guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari and drummer Dirk Verbeuren, is known for songs "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" and "Symphony of Destruction."

They most recently released their 2022 album "The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead!"

“Our ‘Crush The World’ tour has been a tremendous experience for the four of us,” said singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine in a statement.

“We are all playing tight, and that has made it possible for me to really focus on solos and singing, we are playing more songs than ever before, and we are closer to each other, onstage AND off. I’m excited to see Mudvayne, and All That Remains. Join us as we DESTROY ALL ENEMIES.”

How do I get tickets for the Megadeth 2024 tour?

Tickets for all the dates will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, April 26.

Fans can access a presale for the Cyber Army and Megadeth Digital members at megadeth.com .

No dead rubber as Ireland and Scotland once again battle for a World Cup spot

Never before has a last day clash between fifth and third in the six nations carried such long-term significance.

The Ireland team with physio assistant Aine Conway ahead of the Six Nations match against Scotland. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho

Six Nations: Ireland vs Scotland, Kingspan Stadium, Saturday April 27, 2.30pm, live on RTÉ 2

There are apparent dead rubbers, and then there’s Ireland v Scotland . Never before has a last day clash between fifth and third in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations carried so much significance. With the big two having long since vanished over the horizon once more pending their latest Grand Slam shoot-out in Bordeaux, whoever is best of the rest will qualify automatically for the 2025 World Cup in England.

That is the prize for the team which finishes third. Scotland currently occupy that position on eight points, while Ireland go into the final round of games in fifth place, level on six points with Italy but behind them fractionally on points’ differential (-74 compared to -72).

Effectively therefore, Ireland need to beat Scotland and in the process match whatever result Italy manage in Cardiff against Wales, which kicks off at 12.15pm. Scott Bemand’s team will have the potential advantage of knowing the result from the Arms Park before kick-off, although a sizeable Italian win could make third place look more than a little out of reach. Alternatively, should Italy slip up in Cardiff or win very narrowly, that could leave the door ajar.

These two have, of course, been here before. In the final game of the European qualification tournament for the last World Cup, Ireland and Scotland met in Parma in September 2021. A place in the repechage was at stake for the winners whereas the losers would be eliminated.

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With Eve Higgins in the sin bin, Scotland worked an overlap for fullback Chloe Tolle to score with the last play of the game and draw the sides level at 18-all, before replacement Sarah Low landed the match-winning conversion.

Scotland players celebrate after beating Ireland in 2021. Photograph: Matteo Ciambelli/Inpho

It was probably the most devastating defeat ever experienced by an Irish women’s team and the ripple effects lingered as the 2021 World Cup took place in New Zealand without them.

There was more than a whiff of cordite in the air two seasons ago when Ireland and Scotland met again on the final day of the 2022 Six Nations. With Ireland trailing Enya Breen struck in the last play with a strong finish and, after a deep breath or two, landed the match-winning conversion with the final kick in the final game of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign two seasons ago.

Admittedly, Scotland’s 36-10 win in the corresponding fixture a year ago completed Ireland’s wooden spoon and, save for Ireland’s stand-out performance against Wales, on a form line through their other three opponents, even without the suspended Chloe Rolle the visitors are entitled to start as favourites.

As that performance against Wales illustrated, an early Irish try or two could instil belief, and also banish some of last week’s demons. Over 7,000 tickets have been sold meaning that Ireland’s three home games at the RDS, Virgin Media Park and the Kingspan have each set new records.

Breen has been restored to the Irish midfield, while lock Sam Monaghan and fullback Méabh Deely are the other changes from the side which suffered that chastening 88-10 defeat in Twickenham a week ago.

Ireland's Enya Breen takes a kick in training ahead of the Scotland clash. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho

“It had been a tough year,” said Breen when reflecting on her match-winning exploits two years ago. “So to be able to get one back at them after they had done the exact same to us not even 12 months beforehand, it did make it that little bit sweeter.”

As for qualifying for the World Cup, she admitted: “It would be massive. Our goal throughout the campaign has just been to qualify for the World Cup and so whatever way that happens if we can do it on Saturday with a win and getting third place that would be great but whatever way it comes that’s all that matters.”

All would not be lost if Ireland do not secure third place today, for the top six in the WXV in September/October who have not already qualified for next year’s World Cup will do so.

Even so, while the Irish women’s team may not have liked all the aspects of the journey, not least last week’s stopover in Twickenham, the destination point could yet be what they targeted from the outset.

Ireland: Méabh Deely; Katie Corrigan, Eve Higgins, Enya Breen, Béibhinn Parsons; Dannah O’Brien, Aoibheann Reilly; Linda Djougang, Neve Jones, Christy Haney; Dorothy Wall, Sam Monaghan (Co-Capt); Aoife Wafer, Edel McMahon (Co-Capt) Brittany Hogan.

Replacements: Clíodhna Moloney, Niamh O’Dowd, Sadhbh McGrath, Fiona Tuite, Shannon Ikahihifo, Molly Scuffil-McCabe, Aoife Dalton, Katie Heffernan.

Scotland: Meryl Smith; Coreen Grant, Emma Orr, Lisa Thomson, Francesca McGhie; Helen Nelson, Caity Mattinson; Molly Wright, Lana Skeldon, Christine Belisle; Emma Wassell, Louise McMillan; Rachel Malcolm (capt), Alex Stewart, Evie Gallagher.

Replacements: Elis Martin, Leah Bartlett, Elliann Clarke, Eva Donaldson, Rachel McLachlan, Mairi McDonald, Cieron Bell, Nicole Flynn.

Referee: Natarsha Ganley (NZR)

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Gerry Thornley is Rugby Correspondent of The Irish Times

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Producers united is launched by 86 top film & tv “career producers” to change fee structure, get health benefits & stop gradual ecosystem erosion, the onion, following acquisition, names former nbc news reporter ben collins ceo – update.

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UPDATED with executive appointment, additional details. The Onion , which is once again under new ownership, has appointed former NBC News reporter Ben Collins CEO.

G/O Media , which had owned the satire outlet since 2019, announced Thursday that it had sold it to four anonymous digital media veterans calling themselves “Global Tetrahedron,” a nod to an old Onion gag. One of the owners revealed himself to be Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilio, a San Francisco-based cloud communications firm with a market value of $11 billion.

“The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it,” wrote Lawson, who will take the title of Chairman. “But its success is based on something different than most media companies. The Onion has been stifled, along with most of the Internet, by byzantine cookie dialogs, paywalls, bizarro belly fat ads, and clickbait. The Internet sucks, and it’s time we made it better.”

As a call to action, Lawson appealed to readers to donate $1 to The Onion. “A lot of people have asked, what do I get for $2? Twice as much nothing,” the exec added.

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The Onion has been sold, again. G/O Media has the humor brand to four anonymous investors calling themselves “Global Tetrahedron,” a name derived from one of the site’s own gags.

G/O chief Jim Spanfeller confirmed the news to staffers Thursday in a memo.

The acquiring company “is made up of four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy based content,” Spanfeller wrote. “The site’s new owners have agreed to keep The Onion’s entire staff intact and in Chicago, something we insisted be part of the deal.” Read his memo in full below.

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According to the guild, the negotiating committee “made important gains in wages and workplace protections.”

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As I mentioned to you last month we have been undergoing an extensive review of our portfolio with the intention of coring down to our leading sites in terms of audience and revenues.  Today we announced great traffic gains for Quartz but also, as part of efforts to sharpen our focus, we are announcing that G/O Media has sold The Onion to a new Chicago based firm called Global Tetrahedron.  This company is made up of four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy based content.  The site’s new owners have agreed to keep The Onion’s entire staff intact and in Chicago, something we insisted be part of the deal. The Onion for over 35 years has been an indispensable part of our country’s cultural fabric with its unique brand of satire and comedy that continues to be just as important and relevant today than at any time during its storied history.  I would like to personally thank The Onion team  for their hard work and dedication during their time at G/O Media. They are a talented group of people, who I have no doubt will continue to flourish with their new owners Jim Spanfeller | Chief Executive Officer, G/O Media

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Several feared dead as lorry carrying sand, people swept by floods

Some of them were rescued while others are feared dead..

In a video seen by the Star, a group of people are seen sitting on the back of the lorry as others board it to journey with them.

• On the far end of the bridge, a crowd of people, seemingly unable to cross the flooded road, is seen.

A lorry carrying sand and tens of people has been swept by floods at the Muatine River at Sultan Hamud, Kilome Sub County, towards the Ngoto area in Makueni County. https://rb.gy/9pyl6e

A lorry carrying sand and tens of people has been swept by floods at the Muatine River at Sultan  Hamud, Kilome Sub County, towards the Ngoto area in Makueni County.

The group of people aboard the lorry included women, children and males.

On the far end of the bridge, a crowd of people watching the unfolding journey is seen.

Two youthful men are seen flanking both sides of the lorry's back, ostensibly to guide the driver.

The driver appears in control of the vehicle as the journey takes off to a swift start.

He manoeuvres the flooded water easily but after about thirty metres into the stretch, the driver appears to be losing control of the vehicle. 

A group of youths on one end is seen urging the driver to direct the lorry to the left side of the road but in a twinkle of an eye, about four people are seen disembarking from the lorry in haste as it eventually lands into the river.

Helpless passengers are seen being carried away by floodwaters amidst deafening wails from onlookers.

According to an eyewitness Gabriel Ngonyo, four people were rescued.

National Police Service is said to have sent a chopper to the ground to help with the rescue mission.

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