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9 legendary bands who are playing farewell tours in 2023

This year will be your last chance to see Kiss, the Eagles, Foreigner ever play live

Louder

Review: Love for Dead & Company won’t fade away as band brings career to close

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dead & Company opened it’s three-night final stand at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Friday with “Not Fade Away.”

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Watch John Mayer lead Dead & Company out for the final time with a series of stunning fretboard displays

The Grateful Dead offshoot closed their final performance – held, of course, in San Francisco – with Dead classics Truckin' and Brokedown Palace, and a spirited version of Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away

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New Grateful Dead collection spotlights legendary show that ran nearly 5 hours

Didn’t score those much-sought-after ducats to see the final Dead & Company shows at Oracle Park in San Francisco?

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Bill Walton doc bursts with joy and color — like the aging hippie himself

‘30 for 30’ bio traces his life as high school and UCLA phenom, activist, NBA pro and controversial commentator.

Chicago Sun-Times

Utah snowboarder calmly narrates video as he's hurled down mountain by avalanche

With a soundtrack provided by The Grateful Dead

Advnture

A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban

Grateful Dead drag tribute band Bertha claim to be the freak result of a mix-up between DNA from Jerry Garcia's severed finger and Woodstock's infamous brown acid

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Drum legend Zakir Hussain a borders-leaping marvel: 'He has blazed a trail' says Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart

George Harrison of The Beatles was a fan and collaborator of Indian tabla drum marvel Zakir Hussain. So are guitar legend John McLaughlin, Grateful Dead mainstay Mickey Hart and banjo innovator Béla Fleck.

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Bill Walton reacts to a spot-on SNL impression of him with his own chaotically poetic Twitter thread

He calls himself a "spiritual nomad" and provides live commentary for a game that will happen in the future.

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Appreciation: Burt Bacharach, dead at 94, was a music legend who spoke out: 'I account for what I will say'

As one of the greatest and most innovative songwriters in pop-music history, Burt Bacharach inspired several generations of fans and fellow musicians alike. Beyond the great art he created, two of my fondest memories of Bacharach — who died Wednesday of natural causes at the age of 94 — reflect…

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Bill Walton shares everything you must know about his ‘intergalactic’ alternate NBA telecast

"Like a Grateful Dead concert or a remarkable book or a poem or a song, you never know how NBA basketball is going to play out."

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ghana's vintage enthusiasts give new life to Western clothing waste

As the sun set on a courtyard of shipping containers in Ghana's capital Accra, young men and women in Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead and tie-dye tees bartered over army surplus jackets and Adidas sneakers while a live deejay spun Afrobeat classics.

Reuters

UC Berkeley will teach psychedelic guides how to facilitate ‘shrooms,’ hallucinogenic drugs

BERKELEY, Calif. — Helping someone taking magic mushrooms have a “good trip” can mean keeping them hydrated or playing Grateful Dead records to safely enjoy the ride.

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Ghana's vintage enthusiasts give new life to Western clothing waste

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Daily Record

Crocs obsessed mum has spent 22 years building her collection of 450 pairs

Rochelle Burke, 38, invested in her first pair in the early 2000s - and now she says she "can't stop buying them".

Wales Online

Meet the woman obsessed with Crocs who has spent over 20 years building her collection of 450 pairs

Originally, Rochelle Burke started buying the shoes due to a foot condition but she soon fell in love with them and has pairs from all over the world

Tribune News Service

What looks like pot, acts like pot, but is legal nearly everywhere? meet hemp-derived Delta-9 THC

ST. LOUIS — It was not shocking that people listening to musicians covering Grateful Dead and Phish songs in October at a dive bar here would be interested in trying a new drink containing delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in weed.

USA Today Sports Media Group

On this day: Boston sees the Grateful Dead in concert; Shaw, Hunter debut

On this day, several Boston Celtics accompanied resident Deadhead and Celtics center Bill Walton to see the Grateful Dead in concert in 1985.

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Los Angeles Times

Jerry Garcia's marijuana pipe takes a long, strange trip and ends up in Northern California antique shop

LOS ANGELES — Before his death, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia tried to get clean after years of freebasing cocaine and other drugs, so he gifted a marijuana pipe to a fellow musician who socked it away in his San Francisco home.

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Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' book is a love letter to music — and, um, polygamy

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

Zenger

How The Grateful Dead Is Fighting Dementia

In trials, the game not only taught 60 to 79-year-olds how to drum but also improved their ability to remember faces

The Guardian - UK

‘The cultural memory of the UK’: unearthing the hidden treasures of the BBC archive

For years the corporation has been digitising its vast reserve of content, turning up lost footage of everyone from General Eisenhower to Victoria Wood. Meet the team bringing a century of footage back to life

Tribune News Service

Dead and Company to call it quits after one final summer tour

Dead and Company, the immensely popular jam-band offshoot of the Bay Area’s legendary Grateful Dead, is calling it quits.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Aaron Judge and his historic HR chase is ridiculously cool for a bunch of reasons

How cool is Aaron Judge?

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The real story of why you see tie-dyed Lithuanian basketball shirts at Grateful Dead shows

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