Jerry Garcia: Last News

Rolling Stone and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, has said female and black artists aren’t “intellectual enough” to be interviewed for his new book, The Masters.Within the book, Wenner asks questions of seven “philosophers of rock”, notably all white men – Bono, Bob Dylan, the late Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, the late John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend.In the introduction of the book, Wenner writes that women and artists of colour were not in his zeitgeist. He faced questions about this in an interview with David Marchese of The New York Times, and argued it wasn’t a “deliberate selection”.“It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them.

Andy Cohen is mourning the loss of a friend. The Bravo star shared a heartfelt tribute on Instagram for his late pal, George Kolasa, a luxury fashion executive who died on Wednesday after suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer. He was 57.

long strange trip made its final stop.Deadheads from all corners of the world flocked to San Francisco’s Oracle Park Sunday night to see iconic jam band the Grateful Dead’s successor, Dead & Company, play the last show of their ‘Final Tour.’Two of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart — along with singer-songwriter John Mayer, ex-Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and newly added drummer Jay Lane (who replaced one of the band’s original drummers, Bill Kreutzmann, for the final tour) — thrilled fans in the town where the original Dead was formed in 1965.Kicking off the three nights of their final tour on Friday, over 40,000 fans packed into the ballpark each night, with all three shows sold out. Deadheads were treated to some of the band’s more popular but cherished tunes, like “Bertha” and “Althea” during their first set, and after the intermission, heard Mayer slide on the guitar and bop around on stage to the likes of “Help on the Way” and “Cumberland Blues.”The band’s encore and final performance ever ended with “Truckin’,” “Brokedown Palace” and final send-off “Not Fade Away” — accompanied by a dazzling drone performance above the stadium — before Dead & Company gave their last bow to the audience as a band.For Deadheads tuning in via live stream through Nug.net — a live concert streaming service that had the exclusive rights to broadcast the show — the experience was less than ideal, with many missing segments of the show due to login issues or not being able to access their accounts in altogether for the final hurrah.‘The Final Tour’ started in Los Angeles on May 19, spanning to major US cities like New York and Chicago.Showing love from the Big

Carlos Santana's career-launching performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival almost didn't happen because he had a little too much fun before taking the stage. The guitarist, 75, recently revealed that Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia offered him hallucinogens right before he took the stage on the second day of the festival. "It was a real test, and the test was, 'You are higher than an astronaut's butt right now with whatever Jerry Garcia shared with me,'" Santana told People magazine.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, Music Dead and Company’s summer tour — the group’s last ever, at least in its current incarnation — had its official kick-off on Friday, May 19, at Los Angeles’ Forum. The first of a two-night stand, the band — featuring original members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane (sitting in for Bill Kreutzmann who had to sit the 2023 trek out) — was in top form musically, playing for nearly four hours and spanning the Grateful Dead catalog from early studio cuts (“St. Stephen,” “The Eleven”) to Jerry Garcia solo songs (“Deal,” “The Wheel”) to fan favorites (“Eyes of the World,” “Wharf Rat”). The show’s arena-sized production complemented the grandness of the moment, the video screens cycling through psychedelic colors and imagery to match the lighting, which felt more Phish-like than previous outings. The L.A. crowd soaked — and smoked — it up in a warm collective embrace.

When Dead & Company returns to the road this summer for the band’s final tour, it will be without original Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzman.

Keanu Reeves will be shifting gears to star in a new comedy alongside Jonah Hill, who will also be co-writing and directing.

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everybody, to help me on this one,” Weir told the crowd, “We’re gonna sing Happy Birthday to a guy named John Mayer.”The crowd erupted into cheers when hearing Mayers name, followed by a singing heartfelt Happy Birthday that left the venue shaking. In 2015, Mayer joined Dead & Company, filling the role of rock music icon Jerry Garcia, who died in 1994.

Jonah Hill was full of color as he stepped out for lunch in Malibu on Thursday afternoon. The 38-year-old Academy Award–nominee looked comfortable and seemed to be in good spirits.  The Superbad star was dressed casually in a colorful striped T-shirt that hugged his body and walked along in black jeans. A colorful day: Jonah Hill was full of color as he stepped out for lunch in Malibu on Thursday afternoonThe Wolf Of Wall Street actor displayed his arm tattoos, as he carried a small Figi water and cell phone in hand.  He sported a thick blond beard, which contrasted with his short dyed hair, and he stayed comfortable with black loafers. Jonah has lately been wearing a particularly thick beard, which may be part of his preparation for his upcoming reunion with director Martin Scorsese on a film about the jam legends the Grateful Dead, in which he will star as Jerry Garcia.Last year, he also sported shaggier hair that would have also fit the part, though he has since shortened it.

Jonah Hill was full of color as he stepped out for lunch in Malibu on Thursday afternoon. The 38-year-old Academy Award–nominee looked comfortable and seemed to be in good spirits.  The Superbad star was dressed casually in a colorful striped T-shirt that hugged his body and walked along in black jeans. A colorful day: Jonah Hill was full of color as he stepped out for lunch in Malibu on Thursday afternoonThe Wolf Of Wall Street actor displayed his arm tattoos, as he carried a small Figi water and cell phone in hand.  He sported a thick blond beard, which contrasted with his short dyed hair, and he stayed comfortable with black loafers. Jonah has lately been wearing a particularly thick beard, which may be part of his preparation for his upcoming reunion with director Martin Scorsese on a film about the jam legends the Grateful Dead, in which he will star as Jerry Garcia.Last year, he also sported shaggier hair that would have also fit the part, though he has since shortened it.

Noah Eckstein At the tail end of a light-hearted interview with Anthony Mason for “CBS Saturday Morning,” the concert promoter Peter Shapiro said he “might be holding” Chicago’s Soldier Field for GD 60 in 2025. “Just in case,” Shapiro added, as the video interview concluded, spurring awkward speculative banter among Mason and the anchors of the program.When I heard this, my first thought manifested as a bewildered utterance: Gee Dee Sixty? The moniker felt foreign spoken out loud. It also felt like something too good to be true, a pipe dream that Shapiro might have plans for but that ultimately would never come to fruition. But, amid a sea of things to worry about in 2022, a little speculation is like an oasis where Deadheads can ponder the epic-ness of a second Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Tour.  So, if GD 60 does becomes official, I think the band would have to bring back Trey Anastasio to play lead guitar.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicPeter Shapiro is a concert promoter, venue owner, magazine publisher and has just added author to his resume, with the Aug. 2 release of his book “The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Magic” (written with Dean Budnick).Based on 50 pivotal shows which helped define Shapiro’s life and guide his businesses, the book chronicles a career lived at maximum volume, starting with his 1997 purchase of the Wetlands, a New York City club that catered to fans of the Grateful Dead and Phish and incorporated social activism into its programming, his later purchase of Port Chester New York’s Capitol Theatre and the 2009 launch of Brooklyn Bowl, the first of five combination concert halls-bowling alleys-restaurants, which has hosted giants (like Robert Plant), rarely-seen legends (Ms.

San Francisco on this day in history, Aug. 1, 1942. Garcia is best known as the prolific songwriter, lead guitarist and most visible face of The Grateful Dead.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterApple Original Films has emerged as the highest bidder for Brad Pitt’s upcoming movie about Formula One racing.Joseph Kosinski, who just steered “Top Gun: Maverick” to blockbuster success, is directing the yet-to-be-titled film, which will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton.Brad Pitt is playing a driver who comes out of retirement to compete alongside a rookie driver and the titans of the sport. Ehren Kruger, one of the three screenwriters on “Top Gun: Maverick,” is responsible for penning the screenplay.Additional producers are Kosinski and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOutsider music and outsider art have been bedfellows in just about every sense since the two art forms have existed, and that collaboration is celebrated and explored in the Outsider Art Fair, taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York this weekend.The exhibit — which is celebrating its 30 th year and is billed “the only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the world” — features more than 60 international exhibitors, including works from the Michael Stipe Collection as well as an exhibition of psychedelic art curated by Fred Tomaselli called “Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution, 1986 – 1995.”The latter is filled with work from the likes of pioneering underground cartoonist/Zap Comix artist Spain Rodriguez, R Crumb, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson along with original artwork related to artists like Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and the Who — there’s even the original drawing that spawned the Grateful Dead’s logo along with the origin story as well as preparatory drawings for the Jerry Garcia solo album “Compliments Of” from 1974 by artist Victor Moscoso.

Jonathan Cohen On the basis of his solo show at New York’s Beacon Theater on Friday night, Eddie Vedder hasn’t lost his sense of spontaneity. Since last May, the Pearl Jam frontman unexpectedly recorded an album with a new group of musicians and is now on the road with them for his first performances in indoor venues since July 2018.“We had some difficult times getting here, and if you feel the same, now is all that we have worked for,” he told the crowd during the second of two sold-out shows to start the three-week run.For some, it may seem a bit strange seeing an Eddie Vedder-led rock show without his Pearl Jam bandmates.

Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died Saturday.The promoter, whose career included managing such acts as Woodstock alum Joe Cocker, succumbed to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 77, Deadline reports.His own fame was amplified when a documentary about the music festival came out in 1970 and included a great deal of interview footage of Michael. Dearly departed:Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died SaturdayActs ranging from Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jimi Hendrix all performed at the festival in upstate New York.The staggering lineup of 32 acts also included The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly And The Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and Jefferson Airplane.

Jonah Hill, 37, is gearing up to take on the incredible role of Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead on the small screen and is already looking the part! The actor was photographed walking around the set of the upcoming biopic about the band, which is directed by Martin Scorsese, in West Hollywood, CA on Nov. 30, and looked a lot like the late singer with a bushy beard and long hair. He also wore a tie-dye hoodie and matching shorts by Camp High, which was clearly inspired by the 1960s era in which Jerry lived.