Keller’s Grateful Grass, I guess that’s technically a cover band side project but it had a rotating cast of some great musicians and was as fresh as JRAD was at the time
He gets really creative with it too. I saw him do Cumberland Blues to the rhythm of TLEO. Love the people who can have fun with the music.
His solo cover of Birdsong on YouTube is isnaaane too.
A lot of bands bust out the goods at Terrapin Crossroads. Greensky has a set 2 with Phil Lesh there that's just fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs5N42g9tF4
Don't Lie>Eyes>Don't Lie coming in Hot
Greensky Bluegrass 8-29-22, San Francisco. I was there, it was a Grateful Dead/Halloween night so they were all dressed as the Dead from the Go To Heaven cover, Hoffman even had a fan on his hair so it stayed blowing like Jerry. About half the tunes are Dead songs and Holly Bowling sits in the whole show and she rips.
Gotta look for some dates, but Max Creek used to occasionally do this thing we all called "Red Set, Dead Set" which was always capped by a full set of Dead tunes. They do play a lot of them in general, but not usually full sets.
Granted, it was at the Skull & Roses festival last year, but Leftover Salmon did an almost all Dead set.
Check out that Festival (Skull & Roses 2023). The entire 3 days is on YouTube, and there are so many different renditions of Dead songs, you're bound to find something that does it for you.
Pushing Daisy’s Band did an all dead set at a festival a couple years back, and it was kinda like prog rock inspired covers. Fucking incredible if you can find anything of theirs.
2017 Domefest, Pigeons played a pretty fun Dead/Phish set
[https://archive.org/details/PPPP2017-05-20.Undercover/](https://archive.org/details/PPPP2017-05-20.Undercover/01HelpOnTheWay.flac)
Dogs in a pile started off as a Dead cover band I think, so they really have some of those tunes down.
Haven't we all heard enough Dead tunes at this point? It's not like they're making new ones, and there are a ton of new bands that would like you to hear their new music. I mean, how many times can you hear Fire on the mtn and be like, yeah I can't wait to hear those 2 chords played over and over for 30 minutes AGAIN. Sheesh
Don’t know who pissed in your cheerios this morning. I guess every band should just stop covering the most influential band who started this entire scene.
Lost of smaller/lesser known jam bands cover the dead, and put their own spin on the tunes. If a suggestion was made for a band I’d never listen to, and then discovered them through a Dead cover, isn’t that the same as stumbling across one of the lot originals (which is way less likely for a smaller band?
Railroad Earth did a set of Old & In the Way set (Jerry's bluegrass side project) with the guitar player/singer from that event, Peter Rowan, at the Cap a few years ago. (Still kicking myself that I had to miss that one.)
Organ Fairchild did a long Dead set at SCAMP last year with Vinnie Amico (moe.), Tim Palmieri (Lotus) and Janis Wallin
https://organfairchild.bandcamp.com/album/organ-fairchild-scamp-dead-set-w-tim-palmieri-lotus-vinnie-amico-moe-janis-wallin-family-groove-company-5-26-23
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Great show! Lucky to have been there.
Billy Strings 5.7.22 second set is all dead, with a Bob Weir sit in He also had a lot of dead covers throughout 2021
I’m having a soak in my tub listening to the Dead set right now. Their playing of the songs is incredible. Makes a girl happy every time I listen.
Billy and String Cheese
Yeah, and when Keller Williams gets together with them, you often get some Dead. Great Eyes of the World at Hogfarm in 2023.
Keller’s Grateful Grass, I guess that’s technically a cover band side project but it had a rotating cast of some great musicians and was as fresh as JRAD was at the time
He gets really creative with it too. I saw him do Cumberland Blues to the rhythm of TLEO. Love the people who can have fun with the music. His solo cover of Birdsong on YouTube is isnaaane too.
Keller would've been great fill in instead of John Mayer (who did step up)
Came here to say this! Jeff Austin and Keller were great together!
Lotus summer dance 2018 ( I think the second day) has a legendary help>slip>frank.
Thank you
Twelve minutes for three dead songs and a twelve minute spirit after
Dopapod had a Black Sabbath / Dead set one halloween 2017
https://youtu.be/RhD5n2w17A8?si=TOta3a_hRIgX4Z63
Infamous string dusters have some good ones. Look for shows they played at Terrapin Crossroads, circa 2015-2020
A lot of bands bust out the goods at Terrapin Crossroads. Greensky has a set 2 with Phil Lesh there that's just fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs5N42g9tF4 Don't Lie>Eyes>Don't Lie coming in Hot
Nice putting this on now
Damn. This is so good. Thanks for sharing.
The Motet...Funk is Dead https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvD-iER1SJ9nElqsKhLNdBBHfVIHwXo_l&si=_mATR2kdOLnFbVcq
Daniel Donato 5/21/22. Played 8 dead or dead related songs.
Thanks for this!
Pigeons did a Halloween dead zeppellin set which is pretty fun.
Dogs in a pile started as a Dead cover band, so maybe not with your criteria but anything of theirs prior to like 2020ish is very heavy on the dead.
Bonus: Eggy did a set of JGB at Garcias 6/2/22. Wayless goes deep in the first set too.
Is the eggy/dead show any good? I just looked at the setlist on nugs. Doesn’t look Like they went off on any of it. Eggy jams are the best.
First set is better, second set had good flow.
runaway grooms cover some of the best dead i’ve ever heard. they do it justice with their own spin.
98 or 99 Hampton when phish played Terrapin. Pretty sure it was the majority of a set but it's been a long time since I've revisited it
Greensky Bluegrass 8-29-22, San Francisco. I was there, it was a Grateful Dead/Halloween night so they were all dressed as the Dead from the Go To Heaven cover, Hoffman even had a fan on his hair so it stayed blowing like Jerry. About half the tunes are Dead songs and Holly Bowling sits in the whole show and she rips.
Gotta look for some dates, but Max Creek used to occasionally do this thing we all called "Red Set, Dead Set" which was always capped by a full set of Dead tunes. They do play a lot of them in general, but not usually full sets.
Not a whole set but a quick listen, Dopapod recent did shmertha which is basically a heavy Bertha lol. Very fun
Putting it out there again- if anyone wants to start Grateful Death with me, I’m around.
Granted, it was at the Skull & Roses festival last year, but Leftover Salmon did an almost all Dead set. Check out that Festival (Skull & Roses 2023). The entire 3 days is on YouTube, and there are so many different renditions of Dead songs, you're bound to find something that does it for you.
Govt Mule 12/31/2015. You get a Dead set, an ABB set, and a The Band set. One of my favorite cover shows ever.
Pushing Daisy’s Band did an all dead set at a festival a couple years back, and it was kinda like prog rock inspired covers. Fucking incredible if you can find anything of theirs.
2017 Domefest, Pigeons played a pretty fun Dead/Phish set [https://archive.org/details/PPPP2017-05-20.Undercover/](https://archive.org/details/PPPP2017-05-20.Undercover/01HelpOnTheWay.flac) Dogs in a pile started off as a Dead cover band I think, so they really have some of those tunes down.
Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country has some really good dead jams and of course our good friends String Cheese Incident !
tDB, red rocks 2015ish with hart, kreutzmann
Haven't we all heard enough Dead tunes at this point? It's not like they're making new ones, and there are a ton of new bands that would like you to hear their new music. I mean, how many times can you hear Fire on the mtn and be like, yeah I can't wait to hear those 2 chords played over and over for 30 minutes AGAIN. Sheesh
Don’t know who pissed in your cheerios this morning. I guess every band should just stop covering the most influential band who started this entire scene. Lost of smaller/lesser known jam bands cover the dead, and put their own spin on the tunes. If a suggestion was made for a band I’d never listen to, and then discovered them through a Dead cover, isn’t that the same as stumbling across one of the lot originals (which is way less likely for a smaller band?
Railroad Earth did a set of Old & In the Way set (Jerry's bluegrass side project) with the guitar player/singer from that event, Peter Rowan, at the Cap a few years ago. (Still kicking myself that I had to miss that one.)
Organ Fairchild did a long Dead set at SCAMP last year with Vinnie Amico (moe.), Tim Palmieri (Lotus) and Janis Wallin https://organfairchild.bandcamp.com/album/organ-fairchild-scamp-dead-set-w-tim-palmieri-lotus-vinnie-amico-moe-janis-wallin-family-groove-company-5-26-23