![]() ![]() Even J-RAD can make a decent living playing Dead favorites - the band averages a gross of $143,000 per headlining date and last year played such storied venues as the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre.ĭead & Company perform in Boulder last year a Nike collaboration released in July sold out instantly. All of those shows were sell-outs in arenas, amphitheater and stadiums, with total tickets sold numbering more than 2.4 million. The band grossed $250 million in the past five years, averaging box office of $2.3 million per concert, according to live music trade Pollstar. Dead & Company’s touring revenues, for one, are enviable. “It’s probably the closest they can get to being in 1967.”Įxcept that in 1967, or even 1987 - the year the band landed a Top 10 hit with “Touch of Grey” - the Dead never saw so much bread. “The Dead represents a time and place that people, especially young people, wish they had experienced the first time around,” offers Peter Shapiro, owner of the Capitol Theatre in New York and promoter of “Fare Thee Well,” when asked why the group still resonates 50 years later. Even Circles Around the Sun (aka CATS), a band formed with the late Neal Casal to provide between-set music during 2015’s “Fare Thee Well” concerts (featuring the Dead with another guitar god, Phish’s Trey Anastasio), has continued on as a unit. ![]() Other Dead-adjacent bands include bassist Phil Lesh’s Phil Lesh & Friends, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, known to Deadheads as J-RAD, and the Dark Star Orchestra, which started performing in 1997 and is scheduled to play a drive-in show at the Citizens Bank Park parking lot in Philadelphia on Sept. ![]() Chief among them: Dead & Company, featuring John Mayer on guitar alongside original Dead members Bob Weir (guitar), Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and Mickey Hart (also drums), as well as Oteil Burbridge (bass) and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards), which was formed in 2015 and brought awareness of the Dead to a younger generation while providing their parents - or grandparents in some instances - with a return to the music of their own youth. But the music never stopped, and in the decades since, Garcia’s legend has grown - and so has the business of the Dead, which has become a premier brand to partners in apparel (James Perse) and footwear (in July, a Grateful Dead Nike sneaker series sold out instantly, with shoes now going for thousands on eBay), furniture and decor, accessories and even beauty products (vegan Grateful Dead deodorant, anyone?).īut perhaps the best gauge of the Dead’s post-Jerry boom is the number of Dead-inspired bands that continue to tour (in the non-COVID era). 9, founding member and idolized frontman Jerry Garcia was dead of a heart attack. It’s been 25 years since the Grateful Dead played their last show at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995. ![]()
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