The news is out, all over town... Mickey, Bill, and Bob have joined forces with Grammy Winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. The band will take the stage at the legendary Madison Square Garden on Halloween night, October 31, 2015 and will perform two sets of music drawing largely from the Dead’s historic catalog of songs.
Grateful Dead Original Members Reunite to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
“Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead" at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2015
Marks the Grateful Dead Members' Final Performance Together
Event information available at Dead50.net
When I catch up with soft-spoken RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti for our Dead.net interview, he's only been home for a couple of days, after playing with the Dead at the Penn State concert for Obama (along with the Allman Bros.), and he's just a few days away from rehearsals before RatDog's fall East Coast tour, which begins in Long Island on October 30 and goes through to a November 22 finale in Florida. He's a busy guy right now, but he wouldn't want it any other way.
Ratdog - (L to R) Rob Wasserman, Bob Weir, Kenny Brooks & Jeff Chimenti. New Year's Eve, Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA Photo: Richard Crichton
The Other Ones - (L to R): Jeff Chimenti, Rob Barraco, Phil Lesh, Billy Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart & Jimmy Herring, Conseco Field House, Indianapolis, IN. Photo: Richard Crichton
Ratdog, Vogue Theatre, Indianapolis, IN. (L to R): Jeff Chimenti, Kenny Brooks, Jay Lane, Bob Weir, Robin Sylvester & Mark Karan Photo: Greg Nixon
