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Surviving members to resurrect Grateful Dead for three 50th anniversary farewell shows in Chicago
Jan 16th, 2015 at 10:44am
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The poster for the newly announced Grateful Dead 50th anniversary concerts in Chicago over the July 4th, 2015 weekend.



Keith Spera, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 16, 2015


The four surviving original members of the Grateful Dead plan to reunite for three concerts at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5, 2015 to mark the 50th anniversary of the original jam band's founding. Percussionists Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, bassist Phil Lesh and guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir will be joined by guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish, pianist Bruce Hornsby and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.

Trixie Garcia, daughter of the Grateful Dead's late leader, Jerry Garcia, announced the concerts, dubbed "Fare Thee Well - Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead," on the band's Dead50.net web site. These concerts coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's final performance, which was also at Soldier Field. According to the announcement, these three shows will be the final time the four remaining members of the Grateful Dead – several of whom have wrestled with their own health issues -- perform together.

Jerry Garcia's drug-related death marked the formal end of the Grateful Dead, the iconic 1960s-era ensemble that, over the decades, spawned an entire lifestyle and culture of fans who followed the band from city to city. After Garcia's passing, his surviving bandmates eventually regrouped for a time as the Dead, even as they lead their own individual projects.

The three auxiliary musicians who will join them in Chicago all have extensive connections to Team Dead. Anastasio's Phish essentially assumed the mantle of the Grateful Dead, playing highly improvisational music for a devoted audience, many of whose members tend to follow the band around, Deadhead-style. Hornsby first sat in with the Grateful Dead in 1988, then replaced the band's late keyboardist, Brent Mydland, for tours from 1990 to 1992. Chimenti – like the Grateful Dead, a product of the Bay Area – has played with Weir's Rat Dog and various Dead-descended bands, including the Other Ones, the Dead, and Further, since 1997.



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On Oct. 14, 2014, Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, left, joined San Francisco Giants manager Tim Flannery to sing the national anthem before Game 3 of the National League baseball championship series in San Francisco. Lesh and Weir will reunite with the other surviving members of the Grateful Dead at Chicago's Soldier Field in July 2015.
David J. Phillip



Some New Orleans fans had held out hope that the TBA on the final Sunday of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell would be a Grateful Dead show. But today's announcement confirms that the temporarily resurrected band will only perform those three shows in Chicago.

However, Kreutzmann is scheduled to join locals Anders Osborne and Billy Iuso, plus Little Feat guitarists Fred Tackett and Paul Barrere, as a band called Dead Feat at the Howlin' Wolf on April 25-26, 2015, during the first weekend of Jazz Fest. They'll play songs from the Grateful Dead, Little Feat and Osborne catalogs.

In keeping with Grateful Dead tradition, tickets for the Chicago shows will be made available on a first-come, first-serve mail order system. Reserved seat tickets are $59.50 to $199.50. Tickets for a general admission area in front of the stage are $99.50. Go to Dead50.net for more info.


http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/01/surviving_members_to_resurrect.html#...
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Reply #1 - Jan 16th, 2015 at 1:51pm
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Nice try but without Jerry it would be like the Stones without Keith. Should be fun shows though as long as one day isn't reserved just for drum solos.
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I hope they play the song Passenger...my fave from them.
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steel driving hammer wrote on Jan 16th, 2015 at 5:07pm:
I hope they play the song Passenger...my fave from them.




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gimmekeef wrote on Jan 16th, 2015 at 1:51pm:
Nice try but without Jerry it would be like the Stones without Keith. Should be fun shows though as long as one day isn't reserved just for drum solos.

Come on GK. The Stones celebrated a 50th anniversary without Brian. You can't dig up the dead and this seems like a nice compromise, tribute. To do the shows in the middle of the country in between the strong west coast and east coast fan bases. Plus it's the same spot they did their last show with Jerry. Sounds like a nice compromise all around..........Although, not all Dead fans are happy.
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sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jan 17th, 2015 at 10:51pm:
gimmekeef wrote on Jan 16th, 2015 at 1:51pm:
Nice try but without Jerry it would be like the Stones without Keith. Should be fun shows though as long as one day isn't reserved just for drum solos.

Come on GK. The Stones celebrated a 50th anniversary without Brian. You can't dig up the dead and this seems like a nice compromise, tribute. To do the shows in the middle of the country in between the strong west coast and east coast fan bases. Plus it's the same spot they did their last show with Jerry. Sounds like a nice compromise all around..........Although, not all Dead fans are happy.


the rhythm devils might be the most authentic part of the show!! nobody can replace jerry. trey will fill in fine for a few nights he certainly has the spirit and energy
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Reply #7 - Jan 18th, 2015 at 8:08am
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I always thought it odd that JGB would tour w/o Jerry...They milked that for about 2 years until folks were no longer nostalgiac. Even Merle Saunders went just a bit further than JGB, but not much, at least under the JG umbrella
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They must tour as "Grateful Dead...The other one", as that's it for "the other ones"

The anniversary is if you count The Warlocks as The Grateful Dead, and yes, it counts





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