(They added two Fare Thee Well dates in Santa Clara, Calif., after the initial announcement.) Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir revealed that they would return to the stage together, along with Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby for three Fare Thee Well shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field-the site where the Grateful Dead performed their final gig on July 9, 1995. In mid-January 2015, the core four surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced that they would reunite to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary. There’s a certain kind of jealousy an artist can have that’s all positive jealousy-‘I want to be responsible for creating something like that.’” But I listened to this, and it was like I had never played an instrument. Especially if I’m falling asleep and listening to music, I can watch the fretboard and map it. Guitar players get to a point where they’re deep enough into their instrument where they can visualize what someone’s playing. I went, ‘What is that?’ because, as a guitar player, I had managed to burrow pretty deep into all the things that can happen on a guitar neck. “When you’re listening to music on Pandora, there’s this inherent sense of ‘these are all songs you know but forgot that you wanted to hear.’ Then ‘Althea’ came on, and everything just seemed to stop. It was back in 2011 when serendipity and a playlist algorithm converged, leading the sweet sounds of “Althea” to reach Mayer’s ears through the Neil Young Pandora channel. “I would imagine that at the end of watching that movie, even if I wasn’t able to play with those guys, I’d go, ‘Oh God, I would love to be in that band.’ And that really is where it started for me.” “After I get off my tour in May, I’m going to reset and watch it as a primer to get into that space again,” he explains. John Mayer hasn’t seen the new Grateful Dead documentary just yet, but he knows exactly when he intends to carve out the requisite four hours needed for a screening of Long Strange Trip. With this in mind, we look back to our April/May 2017 Dead & Company cover story. This weekend in San Francisco marks the close of Dead & Company’s Final Tour.
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