Dead & Company at Pine Knob Music Theatre

In 2011, John Mayer recounts how his obsession with the Grateful Dead music started. As he chanced upon the song "Althea" playing on Pandora, he would listen to nothing but Grateful Dead since. In 2015, while guest-hosting for The Late Late Show, he invited Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir for some studio recording performance. They developed a bond that soon expanded to Mayer's effort to master playing the Grateful Dead's extensive catalog. Soon afterward, Mayer and some original Grateful Dead members Weir, Hart, and Kreutzmann banded together, along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and bassist Oteil Burbridge. The band Dead & Company was born.

Dead and Company has begun touring extensively — expanding to larger venues as crowds swelled up to a combine audience of long-time Grateful Dead and newborn Dead & Company fans.

And all this comes with the blessing of Grateful Dead's original bassist, Phil Lesh, telling Rolling Stone magazine: "I think they're doing a great job. They're bringing the music to the people just like we always wanted to do, and I commend them for it. I hope they're having a good time. It's not something I could do myself. I'm done with that kind of touring."

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