Deadheads from around the Bay Area, the overall U.S. and most likely well beyond will descend on San Francisco this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.
They’ll turn out to enjoy a three-day concert performance by Dead & Company — the vastly popular Grateful Dead offshoot featuring longtime Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart — at the legendary Bay Area jam band’s old stamping grounds of Golden Gate Park for three nights, Aug. 1-3.
News of the Grateful Dead celebration was delivered by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Monday morning via social media.
“San Francisco is planning to welcome @deadandcompany to Golden Gate Park for three days in August, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Stay tuned for more details from the band 5/16!,” the Instagram post reads.
The Bay Area also hosted a massive celebration for the famed psychedelic rock act’s 50th anniversary celebration, dubbed Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead. Those jampacked shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, which took place was on June 27 and 28 in 2015, featured GD members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart as well as like-minded rockers Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti.
Three more 50th anniversary Grateful Dead gigs were held at Chicago’s Solider Field on July 3-5.
Thus, the five-show series recognized the Grateful Dead’s origins in Santa Clara County as well as its final live gigs, which occurred July 8-9, 1995 at Soldier Field.
Those 1995 Soldier Field gigs brought to an end a legendary run of 2,300-plus concerts that the Grateful Dead performed during its more than 30 years together.
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The Grateful Dead title was officially retired in 1995, following the death of iconic vocalist-guitarist Jerry Garcia on Aug. 9 of that year. Although the remaining members — including Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — kept right on “Truckin'” and making music in various GD-spinoffs like Furthur, The Other Ones and Phil Lesh & Friends.
Of course, the most successful of these spinoffs was Dead & Company, which in March kicked off a lengthy residency, for the second year in a row, a lengthy residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
Dead & Company features two of the longtime GD members — Weir and Hart — and also once featured founding member Bill Kreutzmann on drums. Lesh wasn’t a part of Dead & Co., holding true to the heavily promoted promise that those Fare Thee Well shows in 2015 would be the last time that those four iconic Grateful Dead musicians would share the stage together.
Lesh, a Berkeley native, died on Oct. 25, dashing any hopes that the phenomenal bassist would rejoin the other members during possible Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations in 2025.
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