Dead & Company have canceled the 17-date tour they were planning to launch this summer, joining a long list of musicians whose live events have been impacted by the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The band is promising full refunds to all fans who have already purchased tickets to the shows. “Because …
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Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity amplification. When he died in 2011 at the age of 76, Stanley left behind a breathtaking …
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While he may not have had the name recognition of some of the artists with whom he played, guitarist Neal Casal was revered across all music genres. He recorded with country stars Willie Nelson and Shooter Jennings, played slippery leads as a member of Ryan Adams’ Cardinals, advanced the blues-jam …
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Dead & Company announced a U.S. summer tour.The band – comprised of Grateful Dead alumni Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, along with John Mayer, former Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti – will launch the 2019 trek with back-to-back dates (Friday, May 31st …
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The Grateful Dead‘s Long Strange Trip, a 2017 documentary about the pioneering jam band, will be released in various physical formats on November 9th. The four-hour, Martin Scorsese-produced film will be available on Blu-Ray, double-DVD and a “Deluxe Edition” that boasts a previously unreleased six-song live concert filmed May 24th, …
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