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what a long, strange trip it's been... and it ends this weekend in Chicago...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/entertainment/grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-last-shows-chicago-preview/index.html

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(but I was so much younger then, I'm older than that now... to paraphrase some famous lyrics from somewhere)

The legendary Grateful Dead is celebrating its 50th anniversary this Fourth of July weekend with three concerts at Chicago's Soldier Field, the same place the band played its last show 20 years ago, shortly before Jerry Garcia died.

Billed as "Fare Thee Well," named after lyrics from their early 1970s song "Brokedown Palace," the concerts will be the last time the four founding members will perform together, the band says.

Rounding out the group is guitarist and singer Trey Anastasio of the popular band Phish, keyboardist and singer Bruce Hornsby, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, who has collaborated with the band over the last decade. They also performed two shows last weekend at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, close to their San Francisco roots, where the group was born 50 years ago during the 1960s counter-culture.
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moevillini said:
here's 2-1/2 hours of bliss - enjoy
XOXO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_C7lpzwba0
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I saw them probably a week or two after this show. The Dead live was about an hour or so of great music packed into 6 long mother ****ing hours if you're not stoned.
 
I like some of their stuff. Maybe 5 or 6 songs. Otherwise pretty meh for me.
 
I have never considered myself a fan but the American Beauty and Workingman's Dead albums are great. I always thought the Dead ended when Garcia died 20 years ago. Sitting through a Dead show now seems like a waste of time but to each their own.
 
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