![]() Drummer Bill Kreutzmann, also a founding Grateful Dead member, has been playing only portions of each show during the tour due to health reasons. ![]() The sextet’s current summer trek came with a little drama. ![]() Another 20 minutes of “Feel Like a Stranger” - all ebb and flow dynamics, with Mayer and Weir trading guitar licks - simply affirmed that the night would indeed be long (three hours of music, plus a 30-minute intermission) and at times a good kind of crazy. The Grateful Dead spin-off, seven years strong now, had already started its second Pine Knob stop in nine months on an epic note, with a nearly 15-minute rendition of “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo,” sending the sea of about 10,000 heavily tie-dyed Deadheads into swirling ecstasy while guitarist John Mayer and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti tossing the musical ball back and forth to them. Bobby Weir set a tone early during Dead & Company’s concert Wednesday, June 29, at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, launching into a declarative mantra that “It’s gonna be a long, long crazy night.”īut the fact of the matter is that it was already there by the time Weir got to that lyric. ![]()
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