Photo Gallery: Dead and Company at the Rauf Home Mortgage Music Center

Well, we went from famine to feast. The concert landscape has become so overpopulated that it has become the norm that multiple shows occur on the same day. Since cloning technology has yet to be perfected, the alternative is to hit the road. Dead & Co. arrives this weekend at Wrigley Field, which also coincides with the return of Riot Fest. So over to Indiana (Rauf Center), we went to see the reconfigured remains of the Grateful Dead, featuring core members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann. John Mayer (yes, that John Mayer) has been added as lead guitarist and has absolutely reinvigorated both the band and their storied catalog of songs by reinterpreting classics and removing deep cuts from the mothballs. Photo and recap by Curt Baran (setlist by setlist.fm):

1. Set 1:
2. Feel Like a Stranger
   (Grateful Dead cover)
3. They Love Each Other
   (Jerry Garcia cover) (>)
4. Me and My Uncle
   (John Phillips cover)
5. Brown-Eyed Women
   (Grateful Dead cover)
6. If I Had the World to Give
   (Grateful Dead cover) (Oteil on lead vocals; tour debut) 
7. Dire Wolf
   (Grateful Dead cover)
8. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
   (Bob Dylan cover) (tour debut)
9. Big Railroad Blues
   (Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover)
10. Set 2:
11. Sugaree
    (Jerry Garcia cover)
12. Dark Star
    (Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) 
13. St. Stephen
    (Grateful Dead cover) 
14. William Tell Bridge
    (Grateful Dead cover) (>)
15. The Eleven
    (Grateful Dead cover)
16. Drums
    (Grateful Dead cover) 
17. Space
    (Grateful Dead cover) (inc. A Love Supreme quote) 
18. Dark Star
    (Grateful Dead cover) (verse 2) 
19. Casey Jones
    (Grateful Dead cover) 
20. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
    (Reverend Gary Davis cover)
21. Turn On Your Love Light
    (Bobby “Blue” Bland cover)
22. Encore:
23. Black Muddy River
    (Grateful Dead cover)

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Tags: Bill Kreutzmann. John Mayer, Bob Weir, Curt Baran IE, Dead and Company, John Mayer, Mickey Hart

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