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Dead & Company
Dead & Company was an American rock band that formed in 2015 with a lineup of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar and vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with John Mayer (guitar and vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass, percussion, and vocals), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards). Jay Lane replaced Kreutzmann on drums in 2023.
Dead & Company primarily perform Grateful Dead covers and is credited with popularizing Grateful Dead music to a younger audience. In 2023, Lane replaced Kreutzmann as the band's second drummer for their final tour. Their final tour was attended by over 840,000 fans, with the final show taking place in San Francisco, the birthplace of the Grateful Dead.
At the tour's conclusion, John Mayer reassured fans that "Dead & Company is still a band," but the timing of future shows was uncertain. Several months later, the band began a residency at Sphere in Las Vegas consisting of 30 shows from May to August 2024. The band returned to Sphere for an 18-show residency from March through May 2025. Most recently, the band performed a three-night run in August 2025 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead. These shows were Weir's final live performances before his death on January 10, 2026.
A documentary film about Deadheads following the band in 2023, called Summer Tour, was released in 2026.
Mayer recounts that in 2011 he was listening to Pandora and happened upon the song "Althea" by the Grateful Dead from their 1980 album Go to Heaven. Impressed by the song, Mayer soon was exploring the Grateful Dead's music and felt creatively invigorated by Jerry Garcia's "phenomenally talented" musicianship to improve his own guitar playing.
In February 2015, while Mayer was guest hosting The Late Late Show, he invited Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir to join him in a studio performance. A bond developed between the two, and while Weir and the other three surviving core members of the Grateful Dead were preparing for their 50th anniversary shows, dubbed Fare Thee Well, Mayer began practicing the band's large catalog of songs. That August, Mayer and original Grateful Dead members Weir, Hart, and Kreutzmann formed the band, along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (Furthur, RatDog) and bassist Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit). Mayer expressed a particularly strong enthusiasm toward playing with the new band.
Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead, did not join Dead & Company. Instead he continued to perform with his band Phil Lesh and Friends. Mike Gordon of Phish was pursued for the bassist role but had to withdraw due to being too busy with other matters.
Dead & Company initially announced only one concert date on October 31, 2015, at Madison Square Garden in New York, but announced a full tour, starting on October 29, shortly afterwards. The shows were called "magical" (Billboard) and the tour was very well received.
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Dead & Company
Dead & Company was an American rock band that formed in 2015 with a lineup of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar and vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with John Mayer (guitar and vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass, percussion, and vocals), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards). Jay Lane replaced Kreutzmann on drums in 2023.
Dead & Company primarily perform Grateful Dead covers and is credited with popularizing Grateful Dead music to a younger audience. In 2023, Lane replaced Kreutzmann as the band's second drummer for their final tour. Their final tour was attended by over 840,000 fans, with the final show taking place in San Francisco, the birthplace of the Grateful Dead.
At the tour's conclusion, John Mayer reassured fans that "Dead & Company is still a band," but the timing of future shows was uncertain. Several months later, the band began a residency at Sphere in Las Vegas consisting of 30 shows from May to August 2024. The band returned to Sphere for an 18-show residency from March through May 2025. Most recently, the band performed a three-night run in August 2025 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead. These shows were Weir's final live performances before his death on January 10, 2026.
A documentary film about Deadheads following the band in 2023, called Summer Tour, was released in 2026.
Mayer recounts that in 2011 he was listening to Pandora and happened upon the song "Althea" by the Grateful Dead from their 1980 album Go to Heaven. Impressed by the song, Mayer soon was exploring the Grateful Dead's music and felt creatively invigorated by Jerry Garcia's "phenomenally talented" musicianship to improve his own guitar playing.
In February 2015, while Mayer was guest hosting The Late Late Show, he invited Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir to join him in a studio performance. A bond developed between the two, and while Weir and the other three surviving core members of the Grateful Dead were preparing for their 50th anniversary shows, dubbed Fare Thee Well, Mayer began practicing the band's large catalog of songs. That August, Mayer and original Grateful Dead members Weir, Hart, and Kreutzmann formed the band, along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (Furthur, RatDog) and bassist Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit). Mayer expressed a particularly strong enthusiasm toward playing with the new band.
Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead, did not join Dead & Company. Instead he continued to perform with his band Phil Lesh and Friends. Mike Gordon of Phish was pursued for the bassist role but had to withdraw due to being too busy with other matters.
Dead & Company initially announced only one concert date on October 31, 2015, at Madison Square Garden in New York, but announced a full tour, starting on October 29, shortly afterwards. The shows were called "magical" (Billboard) and the tour was very well received.
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