From The Vault: Dead & Company

Dead & Co. return to where it all began, and we’ve got the history to prove it.

Carter Norfleet, Carly Field & Corinne Guglielmo
May 25, 2025

May 25, 2025

FROM THE VAULT

Dead & Company

Following an announcement that Dead & Company will celebrate the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary with three shows in August, we look back on a selection of interviews with members of the group and their extended families from the past 10 years.

The Core: Dead & Company, 2015

As Phil Lesh has mostly retired from full-time touring, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart prove that the Grateful Dead’s music is built to last with the help of guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.

Dead & Company: The Origin Story, 2017

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.

Danny Clinch Captures the Dead. Limited Prints Available.

Morrison Hotel Gallery and Relix present: Danny & The Dead, a collection of never-before-seen photographs featuring the work of legendary photographer Danny Clinch.

The Core: Mickey Hart on Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter and the New RAMU, 2017

For RAMU, his first studio album since before Fare Thee Well, the Grateful Dead’s global-music scholar fuses his trademark percussive dance beats, a set of fresh Robert Hunter lyrics and some lost Jerry Garcia recordings with the help of Tank and the Bangas’ Tarriona “Tank” Ball, Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and many others.

To be honest, I always thought the Grateful Dead was forever and I realize now that in many ways, it will be. - Mickey Hart

Dead & Company: Rainbow Full of Sound, 2015-2023, The Touring Years - Photography by Jay Blakesberg, Foreword by Micky Hart

Through the lens of Grateful Dead photographer Jay Blakesberg, this book captures the energy of original Grateful Dead members Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane. Featuring over 400 hundred photos, including the band, the scene and of course the Deadheads, this book celebrates this epic chapter in this bands legacy.

Bob Weir: Saint of Circumstance, 2021

“I would be loath to give my muse short shrift,” Bob Weir declares. “I just couldn’t countenance doing that.”

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The Core: Oteil Burbridge, 2023

We’re spiritual beings. We’re not just physical beings. Science cannot prove or disprove or quantify consciousness. It’s funny that you can’t even have science without magic because it is your consciousness that’s doing the measuring.