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The Grateful Dead Is Reuniting With Trey Anastasio Filling In For Jerry Garcia
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Your stoner friend from high school is freaking out right now, because not only are the surviving members of the Grateful Dead reuniting this summer, they’re bringing along Phish’s...
View ArticleNoteworthy Deadhead Bill Walton Is Following The Grateful Dead Around Again
There's nothing like the Grateful Dead pic.twitter.com/AQswxU2Ct5 — Bill Walton (@BillWalton) June 28, 2015 Over the weekend, The Grateful Dead played the first two of what’s scheduled to be five...
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Of Course Chicago Native Bill Murray Is At Sunday’s Grateful Dead Show
Via https://twitter.com/Run4Roses/status/617873949964152832 In a move that surprises no one, Chicago-born Saturday Night Live alum Bill Murray was seen at the Grateful Dead’s final Fare Thee Well Tour...
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Good Guy Bill Murray Helped Pick Up Trash After The Grateful Dead’s Final Show
Paramount Over 70,000 aging hippies and jaded Phish fans attended the Grateful Dead’s final show ever (at least until their next final show ever) at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 5. There were also a...
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The Last Waltz: The Final Concerts For 8 Legendary Bands
Getty Image Over the weekend, the Grateful Dead played their final show. MAYBE. It seems like Bill Walton’s favorite band has had as many last concerts as The Eagles (who froze over Hell) and Cher,...
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Twenty Years Later, How A Life Of Excess Ultimately Killed Jerry Garcia
Shutterstock Twenty years ago Sunday, the legendary frontman for The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, was found dead just eight days after his 53rd birthday. A vibrant and creative life earmarked by...
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Bill Walton Made A Delightful Cameo At The Grateful Dead’s New Year’s Eve Show
There is no NBA player who is more strongly tied to a band than Bill Walton and The Grateful Dead. Walton is one of the most famous and loyal Deadheads in the world – he has estimated that he’s...
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Can A Four-Hour Grateful Dead Documentary Turn Me Into A Deadhead?
Amazon Being a Grateful Dead fan seems fun. You’re part of a community that’s millions-strong, there’s no shortage of opinions to debate (you can argue about the best lineup, or whether “Tennessee...
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‘Long Strange Trip’ Gives The Grateful Dead The Powerful, Digressive...
Peter Simon Like so many Grateful Dead concerts, Amir Bar-Lev’s fantastically entertaining (if also deeply sad) four-hour documentary about the band, Long Strange Trip, doesn’t begin or end quite as...
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The Celebration Rock Podcast Discusses The Grateful Dead Documentary, ‘Long...
Amazon Studios Last week, I wrote about Long Strange Trip, an excellent four-hour documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev about the Grateful Dead. Here was my assessment: The challenge of Long Strange...
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Mickey Hart On His Experimental New Solo Album And Why It’s Impossible For...
Jay Blakesberg For 50 years — save for a brief spell in the early ’70s — Mickey Hart has been a drummer in the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular and longest-running American rock bands ever. He...
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As Rock Enters Its Twilight Years, The Most Iconic Bands Are Melding Together
Getty Image Next month, my new book, Twilight Of The Gods: A Journey To The End Of Classic Rock, will be released. (I am contractually obligated by my publisher to mention that you can pre-order it...
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In Praise Of John Mayer’s Unlikely Second Life As A Jam Band Hero
Getty Image Around this time of the year, the annual “Song Of The Summer” debate inevitably becomes a thing, even if one song rarely dominates the collective consciousness in these fractured times. For...
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As Rock Enters Its Twilight Years, The Most Iconic Bands Are Melding Together
Getty Image Next month, my new book, Twilight Of The Gods: A Journey To The End Of Classic Rock, will be released. (I am contractually obligated by my publisher to mention that you can pre-order it...
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In Praise Of John Mayer’s Unlikely Second Life As A Jam Band Hero
Getty Image Around this time of the year, the annual “Song Of The Summer” debate inevitably becomes a thing, even if one song rarely dominates the collective consciousness in these fractured times. For...
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Why Do So Many People Love The Grateful Dead Now?
Getty Image Chuck Klosterman once observed that every straight American man “has at least one transitionary period in his life when he believes Led Zeppelin is the only good band that ever existed.”...
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Listen To An Exclusive Preview Of ‘Dead and Gone’— A Podcast On The Wild...
Brett William/Getty If you love true crime podcasts — and let’s face it, who doesn’t — and also getting stoned — again, who doesn’t? — you’ve probably thought at least once during a pod, “That’s cool...
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Martin Scorsese Is Directing A Grateful Dead Biopic With Jonah Hill As Jerry...
Getty Image Martin Scorsese turned 79 years old yesterday (happy birthday, Marty!), but he’s not slowing down as he approaches the big 8-0. The Oscar-winning filmmaker recently wrapped filming on...
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Fans Make Their Picks For Who Should Be Cast In Martin Scorsese’s Grateful...
Getty Image Today brings great news for Deadhead cinephiles: Martin Scorsese (who turned 79 years old yesterday, by the way) is apparently “on board” to direct a Grateful Dead biopic with Jonah Hill...
View ArticleThe Grateful Dead Is Reuniting With Trey Anastasio Filling In For Jerry Garcia
Your stoner friend from high school is freaking out right now, because not only are the surviving members of the Grateful Dead reuniting this summer, they’re bringing along Phish’s Trey Anastasio to...
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