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Welcome to deadwood's #1 rated ghost tour.

Beyond the notorious Black Hills sits the toughest town in the Wild West, built on gambling, gunslinging, and bloodshed. Discover why Deadwood’s dead continue to dominate the realm of the living.

Walk the grounds that once catered to the Wild West’s most infamous outlaws and wicked personalities. Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Calamity Jane, and Al Swearengen left behind legacies that would be immortalized many times. Take a Deadwood Ghosts Tour to uncover the town that continues to make history, particularly the haunted kind.

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Welcome to Deadwood Ghosts

A horrific past keeps the dead alive in deadwood.

You’re about to enter a world with such a nefarious past that the creators of the hit series Deadwood didn’t have to go far for inspiration. The storylines made for viewers serve as an entertaining retelling of a truly primitive time where lawlessness ruled the town and daily doses of death were a part of life. Deadwood is so steeped in history that the entire town is designated a National Historic Landmark, and every building has its own terrifying tale to tell.

Deadwood Ghosts takes you to some of South Dakota’s most haunted locations, such as the Lucky Nugget Casino. What will stand before you is one of many buildings that once served as a brothel, catering to the town’s most unsavory characters. Though it would eventually become a casino, the residual effects of this heinous era would be felt for years to come.

Hear the true terrifying accounts of the Wild West’s sinister entities tormenting those who entered their space. Former employees and patrons of the casino have claimed to hear the sound of heavy boots in the upstairs hallway and have seen shadow figures peering from around doorways. The unexplained activity was creepy enough to bring a paranormal group in to investigate. What they captured solidified everyone’s fears.

The group captured disembodied voices, knocks, and various sounds of movement. A dark mass nearly attacked one investigator, raising his hands to protect himself as it floated by. Eerie sounds of children’s whispering were picked up on voice recorders, while the image of a little boy standing at the top of the stairs was captured on camera. The Lucky Nugget Casino is no longer in operation, but the building remains along the spirits that call it home. And it’s one of many haunted locations you’ll experience with Deadwood Ghosts.

WHAT WILL I SEE?

Visit Deadwood’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:

Wild Bill Bar – The former site of Saloon #10 is famous for one of Deadwood’s most infamous murders: the murder of James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. Following a confrontation with a fellow gambler, Wild Bill took a bullet to the head in this very building. Today, the bar is inhabited by multiple spirits, including Wild Bill himself.
The Fairmont Hotel – Considered one of the most haunted buildings in the state, The Fairmont Hotel has been featured on a variety of ghost-hunting TV shows. During its time as the Mansion House, it served as a place of pleasure for the wicked. It may operate as a restaurant today, but the villainous spirits of yesteryear have yet to relinquish their hold on their old stomping grounds.
Adams House – No one is immune to the hauntings that dominate the Adams House. Formerly owned by one of the founding families of Deadwood, the building serves as a museum and retains most of its original furnishings. It also retains the original owner, whose ghostly appearance has been sending chills down the spines of visitors for more than a century.

Spirits Host The Living

Deadwood is no stranger to tragedy and misfortune. The town once harbored such evil that it wouldn’t be a reach to believe that the great fires that ravaged the town were a self-fulfilling prophecy sparked by years of debauchery. The Fairmont Hotel is one such location that was tainted by nefarious individuals and activity.

Unveil the darkness that dwells within the walls of this popular haunted building. Prior to its rebirth as a seafood restaurant, the hotel once operated as the Mansion House, an adult playhouse known for its bar, gambling, amenities, and upstairs brothel. The entertainment, however, would come at a price.

Unveil the various deaths that occurred within the walls of The Fairmont Hotel, from suicides to murders, spawned by a jealous rage. The horror that unfolded all those years ago created such dark energy that you can no longer stay the night at the hotel. The apparition of a prostitute who committed suicide in the building has been seen multiple times over the years.

She’s known to open and close doors and has been seen wandering the third floor. The spirit believed to be Margaret is friendly. The other occupant is not. Learn about the terrifying, angry man whose ghostly presence is a mass of malevolent energy. It’s said that the spirit once tormented construction workers, ripping tools from their hands and preventing them from working on the upper floors. Hear the stories about one of South Dakota’s most haunted buildings with Deadwood Ghosts.

Ladies of a Never-Ending Night

It wasn’t called the “Wild” West for nothing. The gold rush helped develop the town, but the desire to strike it rich brought in undesirables that took over the town long after the mining stopped. Businesses were established to cater to the miners, and none were as popular as the brothels.

Take a stroll through a seedy side of Deadwood history, and visit an area that was rife with such depravity it was often referred to as “The Badlands.” Deadwood Ghosts introduces you to The Brothel Museum, a museum dedicated to the different eras of prostitution in Deadwood. Every room is set up to reflect a different time period, and each houses its own ghostly lady of the night.

Various paranormal groups have had the opportunity to explore the museum, each successful in contacting the former red light ladies and their customers. Several voices were picked up, including men’s voices bargaining with the women, a woman shouting profanities, and the voice of a child playfully talking into the recorder.

These hauntings aren’t the only ones you’ll hear about. Down the street from The Brothel Museum sits the building of the former brothel, The Green Door. The heinous activity that transpired behind the doors left a disturbing stain on the building, resulting in some of the creepiest happenings witnessed by patrons. Of course, the spirits of the ladies of the night and their shady clients aren’t the only ones who have been tormenting the town of Deadwood.

WHY IS DEADWOOD SO HAUNTED?

Tragedy breeds the unexplained… and the terrifying.

Built in 1892, the Adams House has been certified haunted for decades and is widely known in the ghostly community for its otherworldly inhabitants. Though the story of the Adams House harbors a different type of tragedy than those of the brothels, it still elicits the same heart-pounding frights.

Uncover the mansion that sits in the dark underbelly of Deadwood. Tragedy would affect Williams Adams and his family in the worst of ways, losing his wife, two daughters, and granddaughter within a few years of each other. He would remarry, only to pass away in the house from a stroke not long after. Immediately after, his second wife, Mary, moved out of the house. She refused to remain in the home with the ghost of William.

Today, the house operates as a museum. But its haunted history is so profound that paranormal investigation tours are offered for anyone who dares take one. Mr. Adams is not shy when it comes to visitors, making his presence known to everyone, from workers to visitors. Disembodied voices have been captured, as well as the sight of objects moving on their own, including Mary’s rocking chair.

The spine-chilling haunts are in abundance at the Adams House. Join Deadwood Ghosts to hear the creepy stories that continue to rack up, and decide for yourself if you’re brave enough to venture into the forever home of Mr. William Adams.

Why Deadwood’s past continues to be resurrected

In a time when sinister behavior was either met with gruesome punishments or not acknowledged at all, it’s easy to see why the repercussions of this demented time continue to manifest in harrowing ways. One such act of violence that rocked the Wild West occurred right here. Deadwood Ghosts takes you to the site where “Wild Bill” Hickok was viciously murdered and where his ghostly presence and legacy remain.

Following a poker game gone bad, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot in the back of the head, killing him instantly. In fact, the poker term “Dead Man’s Hand” comes from this very event, referencing the hand “Wild Bill” had when he met his gruesome end. Though the original building burned down in a fire, Wild Bill Bar and Trading Post is filled with several original artifacts from that fateful day, as well as “Wild Bill” himself.

Unveil a chilling history of hauntings that continue to taunt the employees of the Wild Bill Bar. Workers at the bar have claimed to have been shoved against a wall by an unseen force, while others have said they’ve heard disembodied voices and footsteps on the second floor. Paranormal investigators have recorded the voices of agitated women, with some having the angered spirits whisper directly in their ears.

Several have actually seen the ghost of John McCall, “Wild Bill’s” murderer, wandering the building. And “Wild Bill” isn’t a stranger to those trying to summon him. A reenactment of his murder prompted his spirit to deliver the words “Tell my wife I love her” before his execution. Could “Wild Bill” be forever doomed to relive that day for eternity? Who else is a part of his nightmarish afterlife? Find out with Deadwood Ghosts.

WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE DEADWOOD GHOSTS TOUR?

See the seedy side of deadwood that spawned the hit hbo series .

Nearly every city in America has a seedy side to it, but not all of those cities are rife with otherworldly activity that draws paranormal investigators and enthusiasts from all over the country. Deadwood is one such city that defines the term “ghost town,” holding a special place in the ghostly universe. Our ghost tour introduces you to the characters that helped inspire the hit HBO series, Deadwood, including the infamous Al Swearengen.

Visit the former site of the Gem Theater, the business of the evil Al Swearengen, that was as wicked as the man himself. In its heyday, the Gem Theater offered entertainment to all, featuring gambling, boxing, and various acts, from comedians to bands. It was also home to unlawful acts against women that resulted in their deaths. In the building’s time as a saloon, several reports were made claiming the ghosts of murdered prostitute Kitty and her husband, Sam Curley, were seen at the top of the stairs, embracing before disappearing. And there’s is just one of the many haunting tales you’ll hear with Deadwood Ghosts.

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience You’ll Always Remember

Deadwood is a place that is a must-see for history buffs or anyone who is a fan of the show and wants to experience the inspiration behind it in person. It’s also ideal for anyone who wants to meet the people behind the characters, even if it’s in their otherworldly form. One location that may grant your wish is the infamously haunted Bullock Hotel, and Deadwood Ghosts takes you right to it.

Visit the unforgettable site of the most haunted hotel in town, where Mr. Bullock is said to still maintain his ownership in the afterlife. Guests and employees have reported getting a whiff of cigar smoke at random times throughout the day, believed to be from the ghostly cigar of Mr. Bullock. Taps on the shoulder when no one is around, plates and glasses shaking on their own, and lights and appliances turning on and off without assistance are a part of everyday life at the Bullock Hotel. For a night that you’ll never forget and one that may even haunt your dreams, take a ghost tour with Deadwood Ghosts.

Be a Part of a Ghostly Community

For lovers of the macabre and otherworldly, it doesn’t get much better than Deadwood, SD. Paranormal investigators from all over can attest to that. Deadwood houses terrifyingly haunted locations, some of which have grabbed professional ghost hunters’ attention and have been featured on various ghost-hunting shows, including the Dead Files and Ghost Adventures.

Join a group of ghostly gurus eager to experience the sinister side of this infamous landmark of the Wild West. From the Mt. Moriah Cemetery, which’s filled with spirits of an immortalized time to the site of Chinatown that became notable for a gruesome murder, you’ll see it all with Deadwood Ghosts. The spirits aren’t shy in Deadwood, and you might be the next victim of their bone-chilling nightly shows.

* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *

Preview The Most Haunted Locations In Deadwood

Wild bill bar.

The former site of Saloon #10 is famous for one of Deadwood’s most infamous murders: the murder of James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. Following a confrontation with a fellow gambler, Wild Bill took a bullet to the head in this very building. Today, the bar is inhabited by multiple spirits, including Wild Bill himself.

The Fairmont Hotel

Considered one of the most haunted buildings in the state, The Fairmont Hotel has been featured on a variety of ghost-hunting TV shows. During its time as the Mansion House, it served as a place of pleasure for the wicked. It may operate as a restaurant today, but the villainous spirits of yesteryear have yet to relinquish their hold on their old stomping grounds.

Adams House

No one is immune to the hauntings that dominate the Adams House. Formerly owned by one of the founding families of Deadwood, the building serves as a museum and retains most of its original furnishings. It also retains the original owner, whose ghostly appearance has been sending chills down the spines of visitors for more than a century.

5 REASONS TO BOOK A DEADWOOD GHOSTS TOUR RIGHT NOW!

1) you’re a fan of the hbo series.

Who isn’t?! The critically acclaimed show boasted three seasons and a movie and was praised for its historical accuracy. If you’re a fan of the Wild West and the series Deadwood was one of your favorites, taking a ghost tour with Deadwood Ghosts is a must. You’ll get to experience the place that left a lasting legacy in person and might even meet the ghostly characters that inspired the storylines.

2) You love stories of the Wild West, especially the spooky ones

It’s no secret that the Wild West was a time of murder and mayhem. A time when villains ran the show, and only the lucky survived. Debauchery was a way of life, and the events that made history were so volatile that their depiction on the big screen is still a tame version of what actually occurred. Deadwood Ghosts may give you a glimpse into the other side where these unsavory characters now reside, but we also give you the factual details on what got them there and show you exactly where it happened. For a first-hand look at the real Wild West, take a tour with Deadwood Ghosts.

3) You want to see the haunted locations explored by your favorite Ghost Hunters

Lovers of all things otherworldly are no strangers to the various ghost-hunting shows that are available today. And when several of them visit a particular location, you know there is some truly dark energy festering, waiting to be brought to light. Deadwood is in no short supply in these places, as proven by the multiple ghost-hunting shows that have visited the town. Ghost Adventures even hosted a Halloween special dedicated to the entire town. These sites are real, the hauntings are real, and you’ll learn all about them with Deadwood Ghosts.

4) You’re not a gambler

After what happened to “Wild Bill,” we don’t blame you. Though Deadwood offers a thriving gambling scene, not everyone is into it. If you’re visiting Deadwood and placing bets isn’t for you, take a ghost tour with Deadwood Ghosts. This tour is a great way to take in the history-making sites of this landmark town and learn more about the gunfights and unruly behavior that put the “Wild” in “Wild West.” And after you hear the details on some of the deaths that occurred in some of Deadwood’s most haunted buildings, you just might be thankful you’re not a gambler after all.

5) You want to do something different for date night

Dinner. A movie. Drinks. It’s all been done. If you’re looking for something different and entertaining to do for date night, something that’ll bring you and your loved one closer together (literally!), take a ghost tour with Deadwood Ghosts. This tour is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced and will make for a date night you won’t soon forget. Tonight, change it up a little. Grab your loved one, book a ghost tour with Deadwood Ghosts, and get ready for a night of chills and chills.

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Dead & Company - The Final Tour

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

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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 & Company Announce Final Tour 2023 Dates

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DEAD & COMPANY is launching its 2023 summer tour on Friday, May 19 th and Saturday, May 20 th in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum with dates running through Friday, July 14 th and Saturday, July 15 th 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 14 th @ 10 AM local venue time through deadandcompany.com . A full listing of tour dates can be found below.

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 19 th & Saturday, May 20 th ), as well as doubleheaders at Wrigley Field in Chicago (Friday, June 9 th & Saturday, June 10 th ); Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY (Saturday, June 17 th & Sunday, June 18 th ); Citi Field in NYC (Wednesday, June 21 st & Thursday, June 22 nd ); and THE GORGE in George, WA (Friday, July 7 th & Saturday, July 8 th ); an epic return to FENWAY PARK in Boston, MA (Sunday, June 25 th ); the band’s first-ever three-night stand at FOLSOM FIELD in Boulder, CO (Saturday, July 1 st , Sunday, July 2 nd , & Monday, July 3 rd ); and the tour finale – a two-night debut at Oracle Park in San Francisco (Friday, July 14 th & Saturday, July 15 th ). 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 12 th at noon local venue time and runs through Thursday, October 13 th 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 12 th at noon local venue time. For full details, click HERE .

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Ghost Announce 2023 ‘Re-Imperatour’ U.S. Tour Dates With Amon Amarth

Ghost have announced their first set of U.S. tour dates for 2023. Dubbed the Re-Imperatour, the 27-date tour will feature Amon Amarth as the opener.

The run will kick off Aug. 2 in Concord, Calif. and wrap up Sept. 11 in Los Angeles at the renowned Kia Forum. Amon Amarth will join Ghost throughout the entirety of the tour, except for the Los Angeles show. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Feb. 17 at 10AM local time.

Earlier this year, Ghost leader Tobias Forge teased that "good change" would be coming to the band prior to embarking on any of their 2023 tours.

“We’re going to come out with a little bit of change before that – good change," the vocalist told Metal Hammer . "We’re not going to go silent. Some things are public, other things not in public view, but there are a lot of things brewing.”

While it's unclear what Forge was alluding to, Ghost have undergone quite a bit of change as it is over the last several months, especially when their 2019 song "Mary on a Cross" went viral on TikTok , which exposed the band to a whole new fanbase.

As per Setlist.fm , Ghost's most recent concert took place in September. They have a European tour scheduled throughout May and June before returning to the U.S. in August. Check out tickets for the European shows here .

Ghost 2023 U.S. Tour Dates

Aug. 2 – Concord, Calif. @ Concord Pavilion Aug. 4 – Auburn, Wash. @ White River Amphitheatre Aug. 5 – Airway Heights, Wash. @ BECU Live at Northern Quest Aug. 7 – West Valley City, Utah @ USANA Amphitheatre Aug. 8 – Denver, Colo. @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre Aug. 11 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Aug. 12 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater Aug. 14 – Clarkston, Mich. @ Pine Knob Music Theatre Aug. 15 – Chicago, Ill. @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Aug. 16 – Cincinnati, Ohio @ PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center Aug. 18 – Syracuse, N.Y. @ St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview Aug. 19 – Mansfield, Mass. @ Xfinity Center Aug. 20 – Bridgeport, Conn. @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater Aug. 22 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park Aug. 23 – Burgettstown, Pa. @ The Pavilion at Star Lake Aug. 24 – Bristow, Va. @ Jiffy Lube Live Aug. 25 – Camden, N.J. @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion Aug. 27 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Ascend Amphitheater Aug. 29 – Simpsonville, S.C. @ CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park Aug. 30 – Jacksonville, Fla. @ Daily’s Place Aug. 31 – Tampa, Fla. @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Sept. 2 – The Woodlands, Texas @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman Sept. 3 – Austin, Texas @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater Sept. 5 – Irving, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Sept. 7 – Albuquerque, N.M. @ Isleta Amphitheater Sept. 8 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Sept. 11 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Kia Forum ^

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Dead & Company Reveal Dates For Final Tour

Last updated: 6 Oct 2022, 18:21:42
Published: 6 Oct 2022, 18:21:42
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Dead & Company as you know it will embark on their final run of dates next year. Kicking off with a double header at LA's Kia Forum, the tour will hit Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and The Gorge in Washington, among other iconic venues - wrapping up with two dates at San Francisco's Oracle Park.

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, October 14th.

Dead & Company 2023 Tour Dates:

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

Check out the first Dead & Company setlist we have on record, from October 29, 2015 .

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Dead & Company Announce Final Summer Tour Dates

Article contributed by aeg presents | published on thursday, october 6, 2022.

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.

Dead & Company was formed in 2015 when the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir joined forces with artist and musician John Mayer, Allman Brothers’ bassist Oteil Burbridge, and Fare Thee Well and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, and quickly became one of the most successful touring bands year over year. Since its formation, the band has completed seven tours and became a record-breaking stadium act when it set Wrigley Field’s all-time concert attendance for a single concert, which still holds to this day. Having toured consistently since its 2015 debut, the band has held 164 concerts, performed 143 unique songs and has played to nearly four million fans.

Dead & Company has headlined iconic stadiums across the country including Fenway Park, Citi Field, Gillette Stadium, Folsom Field, Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Autzen Stadium, as well as multiple night-stands at Madison Square Garden, the Forum, Hollywood Bowl, and Shoreline Amphitheatre. Between tours, Dead & Company hosts its annual “Playing in the Sand,” an all-inclusive concert vacation that features multiple nights of Dead & Company on an intimate beach in Mexico.

Across all tours at the band’s legendary Participation Row, the Dead & Company community has taken more than 100,000 actions in support of various local non-profits and national social impact organizations and causes including voter registration with HeadCount and environmental actions with REVERB. Since 2015, efforts on tour have eliminated the use of 100,000 single-use plastic water bottles at shows and raised funds to support climate justice and carbon reduction projects which prevented 33,700 tonnes of CO2e from entering the atmosphere, the equivalent of 83.5 million miles driven by gas-powered cars. Throughout the seven tours the total raised directly from the band as well as fan auctions and other efforts is now over $3 million, providing direct support to HeadCount, REVERB and the Dead Family non-profit organizations, as well as the non-profit ocean conservation organization Oceana and MusiCares among others.

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Ghost has revealed details of its upcoming RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023 summer tour with special guest Amon Amarth. Produced by Live Nation and FPC Live, the 27-date tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 2nd in Concord, CA at Concord Pavilion, with stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Austin and more before wrapping up with the band’s Monday, September 11th return to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

Ghost continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the “euphoric spectacle” (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London’s O2 Arena and Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had “conquered metal and the charts” when its fifth album IMPERA debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace — and featuring “Spillways”—hailed as a “sweetly constructed rock tune” by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the GRAMMY-nominated “Call Me Little Sunshine,” and Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon” — IMPERA finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle —or as ROLLING STONE put it, “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.” The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of IMPERA’ s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made… All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making IMPERA a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.

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GHOST RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023:

Wed Aug 02 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion

Fri Aug 04 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre

Sat Aug 05 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest

Mon Aug 07 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre

Tue Aug 08 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *

Fri Aug 11 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Sat Aug 12 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater

Mon, Aug 14– Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre

Tue Aug 15 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island

Wed Aug 16 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center

Fri Aug 18 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview

Sat Aug 19 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Sun Aug 20 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater

Tue Aug 22 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park

Wed Aug 23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake

Thu, Aug 24 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live

Fri Aug 25 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

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Thu Aug 31 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sat Sep 02 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman

Sun Sep 03 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Tue Sep 05 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

Thu Sep 07 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater

Fri Sep 08 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Mon Sep 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Kia Forum ^

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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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Shortly after announcing that next summer’s tour would be the last one for Dead and Company , the group has announced the full schedule of dates for that farewell outing, with tickets set to go on sale a week from Friday.

The tour will begin with a two-night stand at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum May 19-20 and end — perhaps not surprisingly — in San Francisco, at Oracle Park, where this offshoot of the Grateful Dead will call it a night after final gigs set to take place there July 14-15.

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The band had formally announced that the forthcoming tour would be its last in a Sept. 23 statement, with the members acknowledging that word was bound to get out as dates were in the last stages of booking. “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,” the September statement read. “Stay tuned for a full list of dates for what will surely be an exciting, celebratory, and heartfelt last run of shows.

Early in 2022, there had been rumors that the band would be hanging it up after this past summer’s tour. It turns out the speculation was off by a year, with one more extended chance to see the band still ahead.

In response to an April 2022 report in Rolling Stone that the group would cease touring after this year, the band pumped the brakes on that news, saying then that “Dead & Company has made no official decision as to this being their final tour.” Bob Weir even posted on Twitter: “News to me.”

The group started in 2015 and includes several original members of the Grateful Dead as well as fresh reinforcements, with the lineup now featuring Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, John Mayer , Weir, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti.

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410 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA There will be a costumed guide waiting for you, out in front of the Cheese Shop in Merchants Square. Please arrive 10 minutes before tour departure time. See directions on our website.
Peyton Randolph House, 100 W Nicholson St, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA We will direct you back to the starting point
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You'll start at 410 W Duke of Gloucester St 410 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA There will be a costumed guide waiting for you, out in front of the Cheese Shop in Merchants Square. Please arrive 10 minutes before tour departure time. See directions on our website. See address & details
1 Williamsburg Stop: 60 minutes Follow an 18th century ghost, as you walk down the dark streets of town. You will immediately hear of the bodies, buried behind the homes and shops, throughout town. Strange stories of the secret vault, buried in the graveyard, and dead bodies still lying below the church floors, will creep you out! Speaking of the vault, move on to Mr. George Wythe’s house, where the old well still stands, today. Secrets of Thomas Jefferson’s visit down the well’s tunnel into the vault, proves the heavy conspiracy associated with this town. Mr. Wythe may just pop his ghostly face out to greet you, as he peeks between the cracks of the shutters, opening and closing before your eyes. Guests call this tour the most engaging, unique and fun tour in town. We pride ourselves on being the only in-character, costumed tour, in Williamsburg. There’s a ghost waiting for you! Read more
You'll end at Peyton Randolph House 100 W Nicholson St, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA We will direct you back to the starting point See address & details

jessica h 0 contributions 5.0 of 5 bubbles Fun way to learn new history It was a fun way to hear about some history we wouldn’t have otherwise learned about. If you like photography, nighttime was great to get photos without a lot of people in them. Unfortunately it rained hard during our tour but Lexie and Mr.Pirate were troopers and never complained. Mr. Pirate had a nice loud booming voice and told pirate themed “Dad” jokes while we walked. Read more Written April 6, 2024
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Dead & Company ‘The Final Tour’ 2023 Recap: Highlights, Stats, & Top Shows

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Dead & Company , the Grateful Dead spinoff band comprised of Bob Weir (rhythm guitar/vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) alongside Jeff Chimenti (keyboards/vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass/vocals), John Mayer (lead guitar vocals), and Jay Lane (drums), recently completed their final tour as a band. Appropriately billed as The Final Tour , its two-month loop around the United States ran from May 19th to July 16th and comprised 29 shows at 19 venues including one arena, 12 sheds, and six stadiums. To call the tour a success would be an understatement: per Billboard , the tour sold 845,00 tickets and grossed almost $115 million overall, more than double their previous best.

The band completed its eight-year run as a touring act as it had done throughout, playing extended concerts comprised almost entirely of original and cover songs from the Grateful Dead’s catalog, originals co-written by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) with lyricist Robert Hunter (1941–2019) or by Weir with lyricist John Perry Barlow (1947-2018). Dead & Company also maintained the Grateful Dead’s long-standing practice of playing two unique sets each night pulled from an active repertoire of over 100 songs, with each second set containing a “Drums” segment for Hart, Lane, and Burbridge to improvise on a range of percussion instruments that lined the rear of the stage, followed by a “Space” segment for the guitarists and Chimenti to improvise outside the traditional song format.

There was a major swerve one month before the tour kicked off, though, when Kreutzmann made a shock announcement on April 22nd via social media that he would not be taking part in the tour due “to a shift in creative direction.” After no further elaboration by anyone, Lane played the entire tour as Kreutzmann’s replacement, as he had done at 17 previous Dead & Company shows since October 2021, when health issues first started forcing Kreutzmann offstage.

Fortunately, the next two pre-tour events were far more positive, with the band playing a well-received single-set show on May 6th at the 52nd staging of New Orleans’ annual Jazz Fest , two years after their scheduled 2021 appearance was cancelled. Two days later on May 8th, the band held a benefit show at Cornell University ’s Barton Hall , exactly 46 years after of the Grateful Dead’s legendary Barton Hall show on May 8th, 1977. The “C23” show went down as one of Dead & Company’s best and raised $3.1 million dollars for beneficiaries MusiCares , Cornell’s 2020 Project , and HeadCount .

PART 1: MAY 19th to JUNE 15th – WEST TO EAST

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA & ARIZONA

The Final Tour began in Los Angeles with a pair of nights at the Kia Forum . Along with D&C’s benefit show at Cornell two weeks earlier, these were the band’s first indoor shows since December 2019, and they would also be the last: the remaining 27 shows on the tour were staged at outdoor venues.

Friday night’s opening show hit the ground running when “Shakedown Street” led off a generous 90-minute first set; its final 45 minutes consisted of the surprising placement of elongated ’60s-era classics “St. Stephen” and “The Eleven” before Mayer delivered a scorching performance during “Deal”. The second set was highlighted by a swaying “Sugaree”, Weir’s on-the-fly reversal in order of the vintage “Estimated Prophet” > “Eyes of the World” pairing, and a restorative and soulful “Black Muddy River” encore. But the night’s real highlight just might have been the debut of Mickey Hart’s extended workout on the new balafon he had bought earlier in the week, accompanied by Burbridge on bass banjo and Lane on drums. (And no, we didn’t know bass banjos were even a thing until tonight, either. We’ll talk more about this later.)

On paper, every song in the first set of Saturday night’s Forum show was in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire in 1972. In practice, D&C’s tempos for the delivery of those songs were noticeably and decidedly faster than normal, making for a bustling start that set up the show’s highlight: a 21-minute version of “Bird Song” that ambled along happily for half its length before jolting into a higher gear and remaining there until the closing verse. The second set was a nonstop run of songs with some novel twists and turns: opener ‘Althea” eschewed its usual full stop and segued directly into “The Other One”, whose two verses were split by a suspenseful “Terrapin Station”. There was still more, as GD crew member Steve Parish joined Hart, Lane, and Burbridge during “Drums”, the “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot” > “Franklin’s Tower” trio landed in an uncommon set-closer role, and the gentle encore of “Brokedown Palace” appeared instead of the conventional “One More Saturday Night”.

At the tour’s second stop in Phoenix at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre , Arizona’s low-desert weather was its usual unforgiving self, with the afternoon temperature reaching 102 degrees. It had only dropped to 98 by showtime, prompting onstage banter between Hart, Weir, and Mayer that involved Gold Bond Powder before a four-song run of “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and its “Hey Jude” coda, the first half of “Dark Star”, and a blazing “Cumberland Blues”. The second set went deeper and wider, launching with a colorful “Here Comes Sunshine” before a progression of “Scarlet Begonias”, “Viola Lee Blues”, the second half of “Dark Star”, the tour’s only version of “Spanish Jam”, and “Fire on the Mountain”. It was a heated night on multiple levels, with Mayer proclaiming on Instagram the following day: “We are cooking with g a s!”

TEXAS, GEORGIA, & NORTH CAROLINA

Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion hosted D&C’s final show in Texas , and early flares of Friday-night energy came from “Hell in a Bucket” and “Big Railroad Blues”, followed by a 30-minute trek consisting of the tour’s sole version of “Ship of Fools” before Weir’s pairing of “Lost Sailor” and “Saint of Circumstance”. The second set embarked with “Jack Straw” and “Truckin’” and their respective crowd-pleasing Texas and Dallas references before settling into “He’s Gone”. The high points of the show were the jam in “Playing in the Band”, where Mayer used a lengthy run of chord riffing to build things up to a peak, and the surging rendition of Bob Dylan ’s “All Along the Watchtower”. “Touch of Grey”, now a relative D&C rarity, was the sentimental and satiating encore.

Next up was Atlanta’s Cellairis Pavilion at Lakewood Amphitheatre , where D&C played Top-Shows-caliber gigs on each of their three previous visits in 2017, 2019 , and 2021. They made it four-for-four with this Sunday show , and we’ll talk about it in more detail in the Top Shows section at the bottom of this article.

Two days later at Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavilion , early highlights were “Cold Rain & Snow” and “Dire Wolf”, but the first set’s finest moments were in its final three songs: “The Wheel” and its transcendent mid-song jam, the “Bertha” that contained numerous bass bombs from Burbridge, and the instrumental swells in “Let It Grow” that overcame a couple of imperfect transitions between sections. The second set was anchored by “Fire on the Mountain”, which followed the “Help” > “Slipknot” > “Franklin’s” trio (the latter containing an immense organ solo from Chimenti) and preceded a 57-minute adventure of “The Other One” > “Drums” > “Space” > “The Other One” > “Black Peter”. And by tacking on a couple of extra choruses to the “U.S. Blues” encore, the band ran past the venue’s curfew. Hope it didn’t cost ‘em.

As the calendar flipped from May to June, the tour flipped from Charlotte to Raleigh’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek . After long waits to enter the lots and the venue, Deadheads were treated to one of Mayer’s best nights of the tour. Early high points came from the opening “New Speedway Boogie” and the slower arrangement of “They Love Each Other”, and Mayer also belted out the tour’s sole “Easy Wind” before Mother Nature delivered dramatic skies and light rain during the set-closing “Bird Song”. Mayer’s hot night continued throughout the show, with his solos responsible for the set’s multiple apexes in “Sugaree”, “St. Stephen”, and the set-closing “Casey Jones”. Along with all of that, “Iko Iko” as the lead-in to “Drums” was a great touch, and Mayer later brought the night to a meditative close during the “Black Muddy River” encore.

VIRGINIA, WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, & MISSOURI

Next up was the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. metro area and a jam-packed, sold-out Saturday show at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, VA, complete with major traffic snarls on the way in. This was one of the tour’s toughest tickets; a second show here would likely have sold out as quickly as this one did. The first set was top-tier: aside from the tour’s sole version of the Beatles ’ “Dear Prudence”, it was a satiating mix of classic material from the GD’s Europe ’72 and Wake of the Flood eras, driven by the trio of “Mr. Charlie”, “He’s Gone”, and “Brown-Eyed Women”. The second set’s early focal points came from “Deal” and “Scarlet Begonias” before a regionally appropriate “Cumberland Blues”, while the set’s closing run of songs featured four straight tour debuts: Miles Davis’ “Milestones”, “The Days Between”, “Throwing Stones”, and “One More Saturday Night”.

The ensuing show at The Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown, PA was D&C’s first sellout of the Pittsburgh metro area venue. This would turn out to be a mixed blessing. The first set featured “Jack Straw”, the tour’s only versions of “Big Boss Man”, and “Peggy-O”, and the second set’s high points came from Burbridge’s graceful reading of “China Doll” that led straight into an engaging “China” > “Rider”, and the set-closing “Not Fade Away”. However, this show will also be remembered for Star Lake adding another black mark to its long history of ingress nightmares. Traffic backed up for miles during the afternoon as parking lots filled to capacity well before many ticketholders could enter, forcing many to park miles away on highway shoulders while many more never made it inside. Sadly, Star Lake’s ingress problem may never be solved , but it did at least create widespread situational awareness of the need for earlier arrival at the tour’s remaining 20 shows.

D&C then made like Ronnie Van Zant and rode 600 miles to do one more show at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, where entry was uneventful and timely. All three of the band’s go-to “St. Louis” songs arrived in the first set: “Big River” and “Black Throated Wind” each contain direct references to the city, while the set-closing “Johnny B. Goode” was written by St. Louis native Chuck Berry . The second set flowered with its lengthy “Eyes of the World” opener and its coda of Burbridge’s bass solo/scat singing, and the show also made “Dark Star” chasers happy with its first appearance in seven shows. The band, however, saved the most unique portion of the show for last: following the “Space” segment, D&C separated “The Eleven” from “St. Stephen” for the first time and delivered a spirited rendition before a dramatic “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” preceded “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”, in an atypical role as second-set closer.

ILLINOIS, OHIO, & EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

From there it was north on I-55 for a pair of weekend shows at Chicago’s Wrigley Field . The venue became a D&C mainstay starting in 2017 , and in 2023 D&C played its 9th and 10th shows there, the most of any band. Friday’s opening show launched with a fiery pairing of “Playing in the Band” and “Deal”, and later the tour’s sole version of “Crazy Fingers” and the tour premiere of “Dancing in the Streets” preceded the set break. The second set loped through the GD’s 1976/’77 era repertoire, kicking off with “Sugaree” and a lengthy one-verse version of “The Other One” tucked between “Estimated Prophet” and “Terrapin Station”. After a serene “Stella Blue”, the late-show highlight came from directing “Sugar Magnolia” straight into “Scarlet Begonias”, just like the GD famously did in 1990 , before hurling back into the “Sunshine Daydream” coda. After all that, the “U.S. Blues” encore was an ideal choice.

Not for the first time, but probably for the last time, Dead & Company’s Saturday night show at Wrigley Field is covered in detail in the Top Shows section at the bottom of this article.

A jump back into the Eastern Time Zone begat D&C’s final show at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center , a low-slung shed with an artificial turf “lawn” borne from its slightly steeper gradient yielding mudslide-type conditions in earlier days. Summertime anthem “The Music Never Stopped” kicked off the show in fine fashion, and the tour premieres of “Next Time You See Me” and “Me & My Uncle” preceded the tour’s sole “Row Jimmy”. Later, “Iko Iko” wrapped up the first set after a harmonious and unhurried “Cassidy”. As night fell, the turf lawn’s drainage system would indeed be called on to do its thing when rain arrived during the second set. Onstage, “Here Comes Sunshine” and an easygoing “Viola Lee Blues” preceded the impeccably chosen Weir/Barlow standard “Looks Like Rain”, which would also be the tour’s only version. The set ran for nearly two unhurried hours overall as the band combed the farthest corners of each song, where “The Wheel” and Mayer’s lengthy solo in the set-closing “Casey Jones” distinguished themselves.

Philadelphia’s lovingly fierce Deadheads have settled for nothing less than strong shows of GD music for over five decades, and they got themselves one more on this weeknight show at the Phillies’ baseball stadium, Citizens Bank Park . The tour’s only version of “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” turned up in the leadoff position and two songs later “Cold Rain & Snow” turned up the heat, but the set’s highlights came when the first half of “Dark Star” bled into the tour’s sole version of Marty Robbins ’ classic “El Paso”, and the show’s most unusual occurrence came after the set break. For the first and only time, D&C then kicked off a second set with a stand-alone version of “Fire on the Mountain” (something their Grateful Dead predecessors also did exactly once ) before “New Speedway Boogie” and the classic “Estimated” > “Eyes” pairing. Later, a rousing “Not Fade Away” closed the set before a delicate “Ripple” encore closed out D&C’s final show in the City of Brotherly Love.

PART 2: JUNE 17th to JULY 16th – EAST TO WEST

NEW YORK (UPSTATE & DOWNSTATE)

The 57-year-old Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY was awarded a pair of prized weekend shows on The Final Tour , and they’d be two of the tour’s hardest tickets to get. The venue’s design twists have always ensured that a sold-out show here feels more crowded, and with Deadheads taking up more space than others, the crowd extended well onto the plaza above the lawn. Due to line management issues on Saturday many of folks missed the beginning of the show and the stately trio of a 14-minute “Scarlet Begonias”, “Deal”, and the tour’s final version of “Black Throated Wind”. The show’s peak and biggest surprise kicked off the second set, a version of “They Love Each Other” performed in the faster, original 1973 arrangement. However, this version bubbled its way into an upbeat jam that nearly reached “Franklin’s Tower” levels of bounce before wafting into “Terrapin Station”. From there the show took an admirably darker turn with a 40-minute passage of “He’s Gone”, “The Other One” > “Drums” > “Space” > “The Other One” augmented by nature-film footage of ants crawling over the video screens just before Hart’s segment on The Beam.

Venue entry at Saratoga went much more smoothly on Sunday , and this show was driven by numerous Weir/Barlow heavy hitters. Openers “Hell in a Bucket” and “Sugaree” were once a prevalent show-opening duo during the Grateful Dead’s final decade, and later the complicated dynamics of “Lost Sailor” and “Saint of Circumstance” preceded the driving “Big Railroad Blues” set-closer. “Samson & Delilah” made its expected Sunday-show appearance to start the second set before Weir counted in “Playing in the Band”, whose jam unexpectedly yielded the “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot” > “Franklin’s Tower” trio. Later, following the tour’s final “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, the set closed with two more Weir/Barlow powerhouses: the tour’s final “Throwing Stones”, and all-time classic “Sugar Magnolia”. The double encore included the tour’s sole version of Warren Zevon ’s “Werewolves of London” and a reprise of “Playing in the Band”.

D&C’s two-show run at New York’s Citi Field in Queens started with big-city anthem “Shakedown Street” before “Ramble on Rose” and “Dancing in the Street each got the big cheers for their local references, and the set’s peaks came from its final two songs, “Althea” and “Let It Grow”. Then things got weird. The second set started with Mayer announcing that he’d thrown his back out and would be playing the rest of the show seated, and we’re always going to remember this moment with the image of some Noo Yawk smart-ass loudly bellowing, “Hey Mayer! Siddahhhhnnnn!” right before “China” > “Rider” started. It was strange to watch at first, but it led to a cohesive and focused set, and following “St. Stephen” and “Uncle John’s Band”, the band ushered guest artist Joe Russo to join Hart, Lane, and Burbridge for “Drums”, and Russo helped propel a vivid, intense, and joyous segment. Later in the set, Mayer’s gorgeous solo on “Stella Blue” proved he could knock out a stadium crowd while sitting down.

The final show at CitiField was remarkable enough that you can read all about it in the Top Shows section at the end of this article.

MASSACHUSETTS & INDIANA

The tour’s next stop consisted of two shows at Boston’s Fenway Park , the 112-year-old home of baseball’s Red Sox . That’s old enough that the logistics and security issues that presented themselves in 2023 meant that the best way to get the band into the venue’s backstage compound each day was to walk them through the crowd, from the home plate dugouts to deep center field. As you might expect, this was entertaining.

The first Fenway show on Saturday night was the night of the big jams, and we’ll talk more about those in the Top Shows section at the bottom of this article.

The first set of Fenway’s Sunday show started with a healthy volley of “second set” songs, including “Samson & Delilah”, “Althea”, the tour’s only “Comes A Time”, and a nice pairing of “He’s Gone” with “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”. The second set kicked off with the faster (and now longer) 1973 arrangement of “They Love Each Other” and a stirring “Playing in the Band”, but the lasting memory came from setting “Franklin’s Tower” aside for a night, instead pairing up its mates “Help on the Way” and “Slipknot” with “Fire on the Mountain”, just like the Grateful Dead did “Help” > “Slip” > “Fire” that one time at Boston Garden , three miles away and 32 years ago . Late-show highlights came from a “Standing on the Moon” with a soaring, Slash -style classic rock solo from Mayer and a rallying “Not Fade Away” before the encore of “The Weight” and “Ripple”.

Two days later the tour arrived at Noblesville, Indiana’s beloved Ruoff Music Center (yes, we still call it Deer Creek ) for the tour’s final Midwest show . After an animated opening of “Bertha” and “Good Lovin’”, the band delivered the tour’s final versions of “It Must Have Been the Roses” and “Big River”, which morphed into the final verse of “Dark Star” sung over the “Dark River” mashup the band had invented on stage two shows earlier in Boston. The second set kicked off with the tour’s final version of “Iko” before Mayer cut loose during “Sugaree”. “Uncle John’s Band” landed in a familiar and welcome spot when it preceded “Drums”, and it was offset by a rare placement of a charged “Hell in A Bucket” appearing out of “Space”. Fittingly, D&C closed out their sixth and final appearance at Deer Creek, a signature venue for Grateful Dead music since 1989, with the tour’s final version of “Touch of Grey”.

The University of Colorado ’s Folsom Field in Boulder evolved into the epicenter of the Dead & Company universe over the space of six runs and thirteen shows from 2016 to 2023 (five previous runs of two shows until 2023’s three-show engagement), and by the time it was all over, the 99-year-old venue’s staff, security, and local law enforcement could often be seen singing along while they worked, the band’s “friends & family” enclosure by the soundboard was as tightly packed as the front of the GA floor area, and the multiple post-show gig and after-party options in town could easily keep one out until dawn each night, if so inclined.

D&C’s opening set crammed nine songs into just over an hour of music, including “Truckin’”, “Deal”, and the tour’s final versions of “Smokestack Lightning” and “Me & My Uncle” before a couple bigger surges during the “Hey Jude” coda to “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and the “Terrapin Station” that followed. After a brief moment of rain and a double rainbow during set break (yes, we imitated this guy too), the second set was far more spacious, with the band intertwining four distinct and diverse Garcia/Hunter numbers based on jazz (“Eyes of the World”), funk (“Shakedown Street”), psychedelia (“St. Stephen”), and bluegrass (“Cumberland Blues”) into a coherent, flowing whole. Following “Space”, the band aired the tour’s final “Milestones” and served up a “Sugar Magnolia”/“Scarlet Begonias” sandwich before the tour’s final version of “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” landed in the encore slot.

Boulder’s second show kicked off with the tour’s final version of “Feel Like a Stranger” before Chimenti’s piano runs generated an outstanding “Brown Eyed Women” that literally had people jumping up and down, and later highlights arrived when Burbridge’s “High Time” preceded the tour’s final “Let It Grow” to close the set. The second set started with the “faster” 1973 arrangement of “They Love Each Other”, but this time the band nimbly pivoted its closing jam directly into “China Cat Sunflower”, to great effect. The show’s highlight, though, was the all-in on “Fire on the Mountain”, when Burbridge used his crowd-pleasing bass banjo during an actual song for the first time and Hart traded his drummer’s throne for a microphone to rap the song’s final verse, just like he first did on an unreleased recording from 1974. The place went foreseeably wild over it all, and later an authoritative trio of “The Eleven”, “U.S. Blues”, and “Morning Dew” drove the set home.

Many big things happened during D&C’s third and final show at Folsom Field , and we’ll go into more detail about them in the Top Shows section at the bottom of the article.

WASHINGTON & NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

The Gorge Amphitheatre and its onsite campground in central Washington served as The Final Tour ’s penultimate venue. Spectacularly situated 800 feet above the Columbia River Gorge, it’s a schlep to get there but it’s well worth it. Dead & Company’s two shows there were their first two sellouts at the venue, and the increased numbers made for startlingly heavy traffic into the lots while the scorching heat reached the mid-90s each day. The first show on Friday started with a varied opening trio of “The Music Never Stopped”, “Alabama Getaway”, and the tour’s sole version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece”, and later a striking “Bird Song” preceded closer “Big Railroad Blues”. Mayer then took full advantage of the opportunity to shine on the “Sugaree” that opened the second set before Weir counted in “Estimated Prophet” with its trademark 7/4 time signature, and “Viola Lee Blues” unfurled into the first half of the tour’s final “Dark Star”. Later, the second set’s final three songs were all sourced from “Workingman’s Dead”, the Grateful Dead’s transformative 1970 album: “Cumberland Blues”, “Black Peter”, and “Casey Jones”.

D&C’s Saturday show at The Gorge could probably be seen as Dead & Company’s last “normal” show before heading home to the Bay Area to deal with the hullabaloo surrounding the final three shows. The band made it count, and we’ll talk more about it in the Top Shows section at the bottom of the article.

The Final Tour concluded in the band’s hometown of San Francisco, with three shows at Oracle Park , the home of Major League Baseball ’s Giants . This was the first time since the 1974 “retirement” shows at Winterland Ballroom that the Grateful Dead or any of its offshoot bands had announced “final” shows in advance, so the festive atmosphere outside the shows included many folks intensely searching for face-value tickets while a slight air of melancholy hung over the proceedings. On stage, the band avoided any kind of “final shows” pageantry completely—aside from Weir’s set break announcements and Hart’s acknowledgement of the crew after the final night’s encore, there were no words. Somewhat surprisingly, Kreutzmann didn’t turn up after a cryptic, since-deleted social media post around the time of the shows at The Gorge that invited legitimate speculation about him appearing there or at Oracle. It also turned out that Bob Dylan had indeed been invited to sit in at Oracle, but he never responded .

Friday ’s opening set kicked off with a reverberating “Not Fade Away” and then immediately became an ambitious and reverent “Garcia/Hunter’s Catchiest Songs” show whose titles spanned a full 20 years of their celebrated writing partnership: “Shakedown Street”, “Ramble On Rose”, “Brown Eyed Women”, “New Speedway Boogie”, “Wharf Rat”, “China Cat Sunflower”, “He’s Gone”, “Scarlet Begonias”, “Fire on the Mountain”, “Standing on the Moon”, “Casey Jones”, and “US Blues”. Yep, all of those in one show. Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” got the nod to serve as the moving encore while a montage of photos of deceased members of the Grateful Dead and its inner circle played on the video screens, which now included former road manager Sam Cutler , who had passed three days earlier. And by this time, anyone who hadn’t dressed for San Francisco’s renowned “summer” weather was wishing they had, as the temperature had plummeted into the 50s by show’s end.

The second night ’s initial set bounced through multiple eras and genres with 1960s covers of “Let the Good Times Roll’ and “Turn on Your Lovelight” framing the proceedings, and in between them came Mayer’s take on “It Hurts Me Too” alongside Weir/Barlow standards “Hell in a Bucket”, “Jack Straw”, and “Cassidy”. The second set launched with yet another version of “Deal” where Mayer’s solo swept the crowd away, but after that it became a night with a lot more jamming and taking of chances, but with the occasional muffs and scuffs that happen when bands improvise. And, in contrast to the previous show’s succession of “hits,” this setlist was equally impressive through its focus on longer, open-ended songs: “Playing in the Band” and “The Other One” were each split in half during the set and appeared on either side of “Drums” and “Space”, while “Terrapin Station”, “Uncle John’s Band”, and “Morning Dew” were also interspersed amongst them before the “Ripple” encore.

Longtime readers are aware that every previous Dead & Company tour recap we’ve done has had its final show land in the Top Shows section. It happened one last time, and we’ll cover this one in the Top Shows section at the end of the article.

PART 3: TOUR NEWS, STATS, HIGHLIGHTS, AND FUN FACTS

THE LIMIT OF MY REVENUES

With the exception of the five Fare Thee Well shows in 2015 and a couple of Dead & Company’s Playing in the Sand destination events in Mexico, demand for tickets to The Final Tour exceeded supply at a consistent level not seen since the Grateful Dead’s last tour in 1995, and this was one part of “back in the day” that Deadheads were far from nostalgic for in 2023. Many of the tour’s “shed” venues sold out their face-value tickets within minutes, with many frustrated Deadheads refusing to buy the remaining seats at upcharged prices, whether offered as part of “VIP” packages, Ticketmaster / Live Nation ’s “Platinum” prices for up-close seats, or offered on resale sites at a markup, often around three times face value and sometimes even higher.

As the tour approached and progressed, resale tickets appearing at or near face value on Ticketmaster were usually gone before most folks even saw them, while Deadheads who posted non-premium-priced face-value tickets for no-markup resale on Cash or Trade were often bombarded with dozens of offers, sometimes in just a few minutes. However, even this egalitarian approach resulted in much frustration, as every would-be buyer except one came away disappointed, and many other Deadheads fell prey to online scams where tickets “bought” via Venmo and PayPal never materialized.

If there was any upside to all this, it was that at least ticket-buyers using legitimate resale sites were guaranteed to buy a genuine ticket and had recourse if a seller didn’t deliver; many Deadhead readers of a certain age and experience can probably recall at least one bad memory involving the counterfeit ticket sales that plagued parking lots at Grateful Dead shows for years.

At the actual venues, when shed and stadium shows are sold out and filled to legal capacity, they can be uncomfortably crowded at the best of times. It took a sold-out tour to remind everyone the hard way that a sold-out venue of Deadheads brings numerical, logistical, and infrastructure-related challenges that most other crowds don’t. (Many folks turning up without tickets, many of whom aren’t actually trying to get into the show, a greater percentage of blankets and lawn chairs amongst attendees, Deadheads taking up more room to dance in GA areas, the nitrous oxide vendors who shadow the tour, and a much higher rate of people trying and/or succeeding at sneaking into shows without tickets.) The first half of the tour took place primarily at “shed” venues where hours-long waits to park were common, as were long, slow lines for security screening and venue entry. Fortunately, the tour’s second half was primarily at larger stadiums with a bit more breathing room and parking capacity, but overall, it was still one crowded, congested night after another. On top of all that, a tragic shooting at an EDM festival at The Gorge on June 17th prompted an additional layer of security measures during the tour’s final month.

But despite the many rumors and accusations flying around, shows were not oversold like they were in the past, like at Saratoga in 1985 . Times have changed. In this fully electronic, post- Roskilde , post- Station -fire , and post- Astroworld era, it’s practically impossible to do in large venues now that they don’t take cash at the door, it’s practically impossible to cover up if authorities ever check, and the liability is now far more severe.

QUITE A BIT SHAKIN’, ACTUALLY

The Final Tour ’s high attendance figures were especially welcome on “Shakedown Street”, a.k.a. “Shakedown”, the name now given to the area in or near each venue’s parking lots where vendors sell a wide variety of clothing, jewelry, food, and beverage, and probably whatever else you can think of that’s legal. Once a loose, laissez-faire process but now formalized through pre-sold vendor permits and formal licensing of GD-related trademarks and copyrights, many Shakedown vendors nonetheless adhered to the long tradition of following much or all of the tour and looking out for each other along the way. On most days Shakedown was very busy at a minimum, and on some days the crowds were shoulder-to-shoulder until showtime. And for the second straight year, as the tour progressed some of the folks with AAA laminates would regularly buy t-shirts from Shakedown during the afternoon for band members to wear onstage during shows along with the official merchandise sold by the band.

However, despite considerable efforts to alleviate the problem, the official posters commissioned by D&C for each show often remained difficult to obtain. There were larger print runs than previous years, and there was the addition of more “early” merch stands outside venues on show days, but at most shows, would-be poster buyers needed to arrive at a show early and/or wait in line for an hour or more, with the best-received posters selling out by showtime or shortly thereafter. Somewhat predictably, sold posters usually appeared on eBay at a significant markup within hours of a show’s conclusion. The initial lack of a per-person limit enabled bulk-buying incidents where the purchaser’s intent to resell them at a markup was obvious, forcing the band to implement a five-poster limit by the end of the tour. Fortunately, a solid trading network has evolved amongst Dead & Company poster aficionados (with the occasional face value plus shipping costs sale popping up), but even then, many remained frustrated by the catch-22 of not actually having an in-demand poster to trade.

HEY, SAM BANJO

If you’re like us, we had no idea that a bass banjo was something that even existed before Oteil Burbridge walked onstage with one for the “Drums” segment on the tour’s opening night in Los Angeles. So, we decided to look it up, and we were a little bit stunned to discover that the bass banjo (also called a cello banjo) was invented in 1889 by Samuel Swaim Stewart of Philadelphia, who dedicated his life and his company SS Stewart to “remaking the banjo into an instrument of cultural sophistication.” We’re not sure how we missed this before, but we’re now completely down with the bass banjo and with Mr. Stewart’s life mission. Burbridge would go on to use it every few shows during “Drums” while Hart played a balofon he found in Los Angeles a few days before the tour and Lane accompanied them on his drum kit. Finally, Burbridge used his bass banjo in an actual song during the version of “Fire on the Mountain” on July 2nd (the same one that featured Mickey’s rapping), to great effect.

SONG STATISTICS

If you want this section summarized in one sentence, the band stuck to its already-successful playbook , with no breakouts or new songs. Like they have done all along, Dead & Company ran on a four-night cycle, meaning fans could usually see four consecutive shows without many (or any) songs being repeated. During the tour’s 29 shows, there were 23 songs played at least seven times, i.e., every four shows, and all of them tended to be the biggest and/or most popular songs from the Grateful Dead’s catalog. This so-called “regularity” paid dividends, though, as there were no real off-nights to speak of—attendees generally walked away sated and then some, barring the folks who missed parts or all of some shows due to traffic and long lines. On the other end of the spectrum, 18 songs were only played once on the tour, and another 12 songs were only played twice.

But if it’s geeky song statistics you want? Ok, coming right up! First, we know that the “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain” pairing remains a perennial favorite amongst Deadheads, and D&C did play seven “Scarlets” and eight “Fires” on the tour. However, the band only paired the songs consecutively as the classic “Scarlet > Fire” on two occasions, in New York on June 22nd and on San Francisco on July 14th . “Don’t Ease Me In” was more prevalent this tour, appearing as a first-set closer six times, including consecutive shows at Noblesville and Boulder . “Samson & Delilah” was played at all five shows that fell on a Sunday, while “One More Saturday Night” was played at five of the tour’s eight Saturday shows. “Althea” was played nine times, and five of those versions were part of a Top Show. There were five versions of “Morning Dew” on the tour, and three of those versions landed in a Top Show.

Also, there were no continuous, unbroken two-verse versions of D&C’s biggest jamming vehicles, “Dark Star” and “The Other One”. Each version was broken into two halves, with three of the tour’s five “Dark Stars” appearing in different sets in the same show, and two other versions split over multiple shows. Meanwhile, three of the tour’s six versions of “The Other One” were split into two parts that appeared in the same set of the same show, while the remaining three versions were split over consecutive shows. In total, 16 of the tour’s 29 shows contained some part of “Dark Star” or “The Other One”, and the Boston show on June 24th was the only show on the tour that contained both songs. Wicked lucky!

When it came time for encores, 21 of the tour’s 29 shows contained encores of a single song, while three more contained two-song encores. However, consider yourself lucky if you saw either of the two shows with a three-song encore, or any of the three shows with no encore at all, because all five of them ended up in our Top Shows section below.

DID YOU HEAR WHAT I JUST HEARD?

For the third year in a row, set breaks during the tour’s live-streamed video broadcasts on nugs.net were filled with the Dead Air program featuring David Gans and Gary Lambert , the longtime co-hosts of the weekly series “Tales from the Golden Road” on Sirius XM ’s Grateful Dead Channel . Along with single-song previews, Dead Air was simulcast live on YouTube to help promote purchases of livestreams, and each night featured a recently pre-recorded interview with notable guests from the Grateful Dead universe: All six D&C band members (John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, John Mayer (again), Mickey Hart, Bob Weir), D&C’s front-of-house engineer and VP of Touring at Ultrasound (Derek Featherstone), writers and photographers (Jesse Jarnow, Alan Paul, Rosie McGee, Jay Blakesberg & Blair Jackson, Ed Perlstein), musicians (LP Giobbi, Bob Bralove, Jeff Pehrson, Adam Theis, Dave McMurray), music industry folks (David Lemieux, Rob Bleetsteen, Brad Serling, Mark Pinkus, Jeff Norman), and charitable/activist organizations (Andy Bernstein, John Leopold, Cameron Sears, Hilary Gleeson, Jason Scheuner, William “Hawk” Semins).

While each interview contains its high points, we have to give a special shout-out to Gans’ cat Ringo for his complete and total disruption of the proceedings at the 16:10 mark of LP Giobbi’s interview. Good work, fella!

Links to all interviews are below in the order they appear in the above paragraph:

BAND & CREW: John Mayer 1 of 2 (5/19), Oteil Burbridge (May 20th), Jeff Chimenti (June 18th), Jay Lane (July 1st), John Mayer 2 of 2 (July 14th), Mickey Hart (July 15th), Bob Weir (July 16th), Derek Featherstone (July 3rd)

Dead Air Featuring John Mayer – 5/19/23

Dead Air Featuring Oteil Burbridge – 5/20/23

Dead Air Featuring Jeff Chimenti – 6/18/23

Dead Air Featuring Jay Lane – 7/1/23

Dead Air Featuring John Mayer – 7/14/23

Dead Air Featuring Mickey Hart – 7/15/23

Dead Air Featuring Bob Weir – 7/16/23

Dead Air Featuring Dead & Company Front Of House Sound Engineer Derek Featherstone – 7/3/23

WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS: Jesse Jarnow (May 26th), Alan Paul (June 13th) Rosie McGee, (June 17th), Jay Blakesberg & Blair Jackson (June 21st), Ed Perlstein (June 27th)

Dead Air Featuring Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast ‘s Jesse Jarnow – 5/26/23

Dead Air Featuring Author, Allman Brothers Band Biographer Alan Paul – 6/13/23

Dead Air Featuring Photographer Rosie McGee – 6/17/23

Dead Air Featuring Photographer Jay Blakesberg & Author Blair Jackson – 7/21/23

Dead Air Featuring Photographer Ed Perlstein – 6/27/23

MUSICIANS: LP Giobbi (May 23rd), Jeff Pehrson (June 5th), Adam Theis (June 7th), Dave McMurray

Dead Air Featuring LP Giobbi – 5/23/23

Dead Air Featuring Bob Bralove – 5/28/23

Dead Air Featuring Jeff Pehrson (Furthur, Box Set) – 6/5/23

Dead Air Featuring Adam Theis (The Wolfpack, Grateful Grass) – 6/7/23

Dead Air Featuring Jazz Saxophonist Dave McMurray ( Grateful Deadication ) – 6/10/23

MUSIC INDUSTRY FOLKS: David Lemieux (June 3rd), Rob Bleetsteen (June 15th), Brad Serling (June 22nd), Mark Pinkus (June 25th), Jeff Norman (July 2nd)

Dead Air Featuring Grateful Dead Archivist & Legacy Manager David Lemieux – 6/3/23

Dead Air Featuring Rob Bleetsteen (GD Radio, SiriusXM) – 6/15/23

Dead Air Featuring Nugs Founder Brad Serling – 6/22/23

Dead Air Featuring Rhino Records President Mark Pinkus – 6/25/23

Dead Air Featuring Jeffrey Norman (Mockingbird Mastering) – 7/2/23

ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS: Andy Bernstein (May 30th), John Leopold (June 1st), Cameron Sears (June 9th). (Hilary Gleeson June 24th), Jason Scheuner (July 7th), William “Hawk” Semins (July 8th)

Dead Air Featuring Head Count Executive Director Andy Bernstein – 5/30/23

Dead Air Featuring Arhoolie Foundation Executive Director John Leopold – 6/1/23

Dead Air Featuring Rex Foundation Executive Director Cameron Sears – 6/9/23

Dead Air Featuring Backline Co-Founder/Executive Director Hilary Gleason – 6/24/23

Dead Air Featuring Jason Scheuner (Grateful Guitars) – 7/7/23

Dead Air Featuring William “Hawk” Semins (Owsley Stanley Foundation) – 7/8/23

THEMES DURING “DRUMS”

The second-set “Drums” segments with Hart, Lane, and Burbridge featured a welcome new development during The Final Tour . On many show days, Hart took to his Instagram account to announce the “theme” for that night’s segment, with video and photos to go along with the percussive interlude. The themes fell into six underlying categories: broad concepts (Acoustics of Water, Rhythm’s Infinite Symphony, Yin and Yang, History of Underwater Diving), percussion instruments (The Beam, Conch, Prepared Piano, Gong, Anklung, Honk Night), places on earth (Great Pyramids, Rainforest, Golden Gate Bridge), places not on earth (The Cosmos, Gods, and Planets), living things (Serpents, Ants), and ice (Ice). We hope this practice continues into whatever iterations of the music come next.

PART 4: TOP SHOWS

We’re happy to report that there really were no off nights on The Final Tour . Part of it was that the band stuck to proven, favored material while avoiding working any new material into the repertoire. But in 2023, it was also coming from the ongoing self-reflection, gratitude, and recognizance (frequently mentioned in band members’ social media posts) that came from knowing the end of the D&C’s existence as a touring entity was coming.

But like all of Dead & Company’s previous tours, there were shows that stood out from the rest, and we’re recognizing them here in a bit more detail. (Also, for those keeping score at home, D&Cs early May shows at Jazz Fest and Cornell were not part of The Final Tour —we’re going by what’s on the tour shirt.)

MAY 28th – ATLANTA

Atlanta’s Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood was a charmed location for Dead & Company—all four of their shows there. Earlier Lakewood shows in 2019 and 2021 made our Top Shows lists for those tours, and the 2016 show would have made that tour’s Top Shows list if we’d been doing our tour recaps then. In 2023, D&C made it four for four. The weather was refreshingly cooler than expected, and the first set contained several pleasant surprises, including an opening duo of “Cassidy” and “Deal”, a version of “Friend of the Devil” played in its slower, electric arrangement, and the tour’s only version of “If I Had the World to Give”. The second set’s pre-“Drums” segment launched with “Althea” and then featured the classic pairing of “China Cat Sunflower” and “I Know You Rider” in between another classic pairing of “Estimated Prophet” and “Eyes of the World”. However, the show reached stratospheric heights through towering versions of “Terrapin Station” and “Morning Dew” played back to back to conclude the evening, with the latter rivaling the version played three weeks earlier at Cornell’s Barton Hall. The set ran so long that the band hit curfew and couldn’t play an encore, but that was probably for the best because it ensured that Dead & Company rode out of Atlanta for the last time on a proverbial thundercloud. All hail Lakewood and its excellent staff.

JUNE 10th – CHICAGO, NIGHT 2

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but Dead & Company never played a show at Wrigley Field before the Chicago Cubs broke their 108-year drought by winning a World Series championship in 2016. And while the Cubs will continue to play at Wrigley for the foreseeable future, probably with mixed results, Dead & Company’s final appearance at the iconic stadium was a resounding win. It kicked off with a first set comprised almost entirely of “second set” songs, including the opening “Truckin'”, “Althea”, and “All Along the Watchtower”. However, the second set contained Field of Dreams levels of song wish fulfillment, with a performance to match. Not only was it tightly performed with maintained momentum, except for “Cumberland Blues”, the setlist on paper was essentially a classic 1977 Grateful Dead second set circa the band’s Winterland run in June 1977: “Help on the Way”, “Slipknot”, “Estimated Prophet”, “Uncle John’s Band”, and “Morning Dew”, all capped off with a rare three-song encore that incorporated the reprise of “Playing In The Band”, which had kicked off the run 28 hours earlier. All told, the partnership between Dead & Company, Wrigley Field, and Chicago turned out to be a successful one, and we will definitely miss those after-show noshes at Cheesie’s .

JUNE 22nd – NEW YORK, NIGHT 2

We can sum this one up in five words, “Dude! Scarlet Fire Estimated Eyes!”, but we’ll say more. One of the hallmarks of the final Dead & Company tour setlists was that nearly every era of the Grateful Dead’s 30-year career would get touched upon in a show. But along with its performance, this show stood out because, with the exception of the covers of Miles Davis ’ “All Blues”, the show’s set list looked like a Grateful Dead setlist from the late-’80s In the Dark era, when many second-generation Deadheads discovered the band. First there was the opening “Feel Like a Stranger” and “Franklin’s Tower” (a common pairing from 1979 to 1989), then the tour’s final “Mama Tried”, “Alabama Getaway”, and at the end of the second set, there was “Cumberland Blues”, “All Along the Watchtower”, and “Morning Dew”. So far so excellent, but the real prize was the first four songs of the second set. For the first time in D&C’s history, the band knocked out the beloved and elusive four-song sequence of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain”, “Estimated Prophet”, and “Eyes of the World”. In Deadhead shorthand, the quadruple hit of “Scarlet Fire Estimated Eyes” was one of the best things that could happen at a Grateful Dead show (25 occurrences in total, all between 1978 and 1988), and it was just about always the sign that the band was having a hot night. “Brokedown Palace” made for a gentle close and a fitting goodbye to the city that’s served as the second home of Grateful Dead music for over five decades.

JUNE 24th – BOSTON, NIGHT 1

This Saturday show unfolded on a typically hot and humid New England summer evening at Fenway Park beginning with “Cassidy” and “Brown-Eyed Women” before a first-time-ever pairing of the tour’s final “I Need a Miracle” with “Here Comes Sunshine”. Later Burbridge provided an understated highlight with the tour’s final version of “China Doll”, and after an abbreviated set break, the band put the second set in motion with “New Speedway Boogie”, which jibed with the sweltering weather. But then, right as the band floated into “Dark Star”, a cool breeze blew in while a gorgeous sunset commenced, with the timing so perfect that it was almost as if it was all cued to the music. From there it became the most exploratory and experimental set of the tour, with 25 combined minutes of “Dark Star” and “The Other One” before “Terrapin Station”, followed by 45 cumulative minutes of “Drums”, “Space”, and a lengthy let’s-just-try-this-and-hey-it-works! segment comprised of an instrumental mashup of “Big River” and “Dark Star” before doubling back into several more instrumental minutes of “The Other One”. The band reached the venue’s curfew before the encore, which is often a telltale sign that things ran wild in a good way. If Dead & Company’s biggest, deepest jams are your thing, this was the night to catch.

JULY 3rd – BOULDER, NIGHT 3

Big things just kept on happening throughout Dead & Company’s final show at Folsom Field. After shooting out of the gate with “Bertha” and an exceptional “New Speedway Boogie”, the band was delivering one of the tour’s best first sets while grey Close Encounters -style clouds formed dramatically over the stadium. Three minutes into the set’s sixth song, “Playing in the Band”, a distant flash of lightning prompted a halt to the show, which then became the set break, though fortunately the nearby rainstorms never made it to the stadium. The band started the second set by resuming exactly where they’d left off and delivering an eight-song, hour-long segment that included the first set’s remaining songs, including “Uncle John’s Band”, before the “Help>Slipknot>Franklin’s” trio (with Chimenti in particular shining on the latter), and “He’s Gone” > “The Other One”. So far, so excellent, but the show’s final hour cemented this one’s legendary status. First, a blue curtain of 600 drones dramatically rose from behind the stage during “Space” and morphed into a stealie skull and a dancing bear in the night sky above the stage. That primed the crowd for Weir’s impassioned, echo-enhanced delivery of “Standing on the Moon” while a full moon just happened to be rising over the stadium. But there was still more, as musical guest Dave Matthews sat in with his trademark acoustic guitar for the rest of the show. First up was Matthews’ tense, effective arrangement of “All Along the Watchtower” before “Not Fade Away”, and after a two-song encore of ‘Knocking on Heavens Door” and the tour’s final version of “The Weight”, the drones returned to spell out, “Please Be Kind.” Between the location, the music, and the night’s “big things,” this was the signature show of The Final Tour .

JULY 8th – GEORGE, NGHT 2

The first set of D&C’s final show at The Gorge kicked off with generous versions of “Mississippi Half Step” and “Here Comes Sunshine” before “Loose Lucy”. They contrasted nicely with lush versions of “Lost Sailor” and “Saint of Circumstance” that got the full benefit of the spectacular views from the lawn as the sun headed for the horizon to start “magic hour.” The second set’s song choices were on a Make-A-Wish level, starting with a page from the Grateful Dead’s 1976 comeback-era playbook: a 30-minute trip where “Playing in the Band” segued into “The Wheel” before returning to the “Playing” reprise, all during an archetypal Gorge sunset. From there it was 45 minutes of 1969 Live Dead -era psychedelia via “St. Stephen”, “The Eleven”, and the tour’s final “Dark Star” surrounding the “Drums” and “Space” segments, while the closing trip consisted of a stop in 1979 for Mayer’s signature song, “Althea”, before a pair of 1972 classics, “Stella Blue” and “One More Saturday Night”. And yes, even in the middle of nowhere, Dead & Company still found a way to play so long they had to skip the encore. But it mattered little by then, as sated Deadheads headed back to the campgrounds to partake in whatever until whenever. If you haven’t made it to The Gorge for live music yet, we encourage you to consider adding it to your bucket list.

JULY 16th – SAN FRANCISCO, NIGHT 3

Dead & Company’s final show of The Final Tour started a full hour earlier than usual, leading to speculation that the band would play a third set, possibly with Bill Kreutzmann, in a mirror of Hart’s return to the Grateful Dead at their “final” show in 1974. However, the band ultimately used the added time to play two slightly extended sets and a longer encore without fear of running up against the venue’s curfew. The nine-song first set stuck mostly to 1970s-era GD classics, highlighted by “Bertha” and “Good Lovin’” to open, Burbridge’s final lead vocal on “High Time”, “Althea”, and the closing “Bird Song”. By process of elimination, setlist watchers made accurate prognostications of what was still left to play, and it all followed, in top form. The “Help > Slipknot > Franklin’s” trio preceded “Estimated > Eyes”, and the ensuing “Drums” segment concluded with Hart delivering one of the tour’s most intense and inspired performances on the beam. Next, the fleet of 600 drones that first appeared in Boulder two weeks earlier made its expected appearance during “Space”—this time word had gotten out about it several days earlier. It all set the table for Weir to belt out his now-signature version of Garcia/Hunter’s “The Days Between” (he’s truly made this one his own) before the high-energy finish of “Cumberland Blues” and “Sugar Magnolia”. The encore’s three songs were all expected, welcome, and gratifying: “Truckin’”, “Brokedown Palace”, and the final verse of “Not Fade Away”, which had opened Friday’s show, contained one last savor-the-moment jam before its calculated fade-out. After the band and crew took their final bows, the drones returned to display Gary Gutierrez ’ iconic “Sam” skeleton tipping his hat.

And like that, they were gone. At least for now. Just two days after tour’s conclusion, Mayer confirmed via social media what hadn’t quite been said out loud until then: “Dead & Company are still a band. We just don’t know when the next show is.”

The remaining official merchandise from Dead & Company’s final tour is available here . Dead & Company’s live show archive is available at Nugs.net . Bob Weir & Wolf Bros fall 2023 tour dates and tickets are available here , Oteil & Friends fall 2023 tour dates and tickets are available here .

Revisit previous L4LM Dead & Company tour recaps using the links below:

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Dead of Night Ghost Tours
Hear real accounts of local paranormal activity and visit the locations of frequent ghost sightings and haunts. ... Winner of Trip Advisor's 2023 Traveler's Choice Award! Our meeting place is on Water Street at Plymouth Rock. Look for the Lanterns! ©Dead of Night Ghost Tours. We use cookies to enable essential functionality on our website, and ...
Ghost
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Dead and Company Announce Dates, On-Sale Times for Final Tour in 2023
Including those multi-night runs, the total number of shows scheduled for summer 2023 comes to 27. See the full lineup of concerts below. Tickets go on sale Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. local time through ...
2024 The Dead of Night Ghost Tour
The Dead of Night Ghost Tour. Get into the spirit on this Williamsburg ghost tour led by a guide who looks and plays the part of a colonial townsperson. Wander through haunted areas and burial grounds as you hear tales of ghosts, skeletons, and apparitions. Spooky stops include the houses of George Wythe and Peyton Randolph, as well as the ...
Dead & Company 'The Final Tour' 2023 Recap: Highlights, Stats, & Top Shows
The "C23" show went down as one of Dead & Company's best and raised $3.1 million dollars for beneficiaries MusiCares, Cornell's 2020 Project, and HeadCount. PART 1: MAY 19th to JUNE 15th ...
DEAD OF WINTER 2024
3559 College Avenue. Alton, Illinois. Our official event hotel (just 10 minutes away) is offering a special weekend rate for any of the guests who call and mention "American Hauntings' Dead of Winter" when booking! Just call 618-462-1220 to book your room and enjoy the special rate, free breakfast, and much more.