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On This Day In 1971, The Grateful Dead Jammed With The Beach Boys At Fillmore East

On April 27th, 1971, the  Grateful Dead were smack-dab in the middle of a run at the Fillmore East  in New York City spanning from April 25th through 29th. The Dead had some surprises up their sleeve for the Tuesday performance, inviting The Beach Boys (consisting of  Mike Love ,  Carl Wilson , Bruce Johnston , and Al Jardine ) to join them for a short string of songs toward the end of their set. The Beach Boys, who were introduced as “another famous California group” to the surprise of the crowd, came out for  The Coaster s ‘ “Searchin'” during the second set following “Dire Wolf”. Together, the two popular and wildly different bands moved into a cover of The Robins ‘ “Riot In Cell Block #9”.

The Dead then departed the stage, leaving the Beach Boys to play out their classic tracks “Good Vibrations” and “I Get Around”. It’s a silly and delightful interlude in the recording with giggling at the start of “Good Vibrations” showcasing the lighthearted nature of the evening. “If we start another song, maybe they’ll come back out and join us,” starts the next song, with the Dead eventually returning to the stage during the number. Together the two bands now on stage teamed up for renditions of Merle Haggard’s  “Okie From Muskogee” and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”, but not before a chaotic tuning session during which the members on stage confirm that the appearance was unplanned and that they’re trying to get things figured out.

It was a one-of-a-kind performance, during which two popular bands that have come to define those times in very different ways came together and clearly had a good time. Audio from the Dead’s Fillmore East run was released officially on the 2000 release of  Ladies and Gentlemen… The Grateful Dead , though none of the Beach Boy collaborations made the cut. You can listen to the full audio from the show below:

Setlist: The Grateful Dead | Fillmore East | New York, NY | 4/27/1971

Set One: Truckin’, Mama Tried, Bertha, Next Time You See Me, Cumberland Blues, Me And Bobby McGee, Loser, Hard To Handle, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Casey Jones

Set Two: Sugar Magnolia, Deal, Me & My Uncle, Bird Song, Playing In The Band, Dire Wolf, Searchin’*, Riot In Cell Block #9*, Good Vibrations**, I Get Around**, Help Me Rhonda*, Okie From Muskogee*, Johnny B. Goode*, Sing Me Back Home, Uncle Johns Band > Turn On Your Love Light

Notes: *with the Beach Boys, **just the Beach Boys

[Originally published 4/27/20]

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Dead & Company honors number one ‘Deadhead’ Bill Walton during Las Vegas Sphere show

D ead & Company paid tribute to “the biggest Deadhead in the World,” the late Bill Walton, during their Thursday night performance at Las Vegas’ Sphere.

While the Grateful Dead spinoff band performed “Fire on the Mountain,” several photos of Walton, the legendary NBA Hall of Famer-turned-broadcaster, were displayed on the video boards inside the newly built entertainment arena on the Strip.

The photos included Walton attending various Dead concerts, snaps with band members and tie-dyed number “32” — the number he wore during his college and NBA days.

Walton died Monday following a long battle with cancer. He was 71.

The tribute to the basketball icon came as the Dead & Company opened its third week of residency at the Sphere.

“The music and the basketball were the exact same thing,” Walton had said of his enjoyment of the band.

“You have a team with a goal, and a band with a song, and fans cheering because they’re happy, but also to make the players perform better, faster, and to take everybody further.”

Following Walton’s death, the band took to social media to remember their friend.

“Fare you well, fare you well, we love you more than words can tell,” Dead & Company shared in an Instagram post , saying Walton was the biggest deadhead ever and “an irreplaceable force and spirit in our family.”

Walton’s love for the band was no secret.

In his 2015 autobiography, “Back from the Dead,” he revealed that he attended over 800 Grateful Deal and Dead & Company concerts.

In the book, Walton said he went to his first Grateful Dead concert in 1971 while he was still in college, according to Fox Sports.

“Over 1000 shows and couldn’t get enough. He loved this band and we loved him,” the band said.

“We will miss our beloved friend, @BillWalton, deeply. Rest in peace and may the four winds blow you safely home.”

Some of the original band members also shared their own personal memories with Walton.

“Yo Bill, thanks for the ride,” co-founder and guitarist Bobby Weir wrote alongside a photo of the two.

“Thanks for the wonderful friendship, the years of color commentary — and the Hall of Fame existence that you wore like headlights. Bon voyage ol’ buddy. We’re sure gonna miss you — but don’t let that slow you down…”

Longtime drummer Mickey Hart said he was lucky to have known Walton.

“Bill was my best friend. He was an amazing person, singular, irreplaceable, giving, loving. He called himself the luckiest man in the world but it was us who were lucky — to know him,” Hart said.

“There are things you can replace. And others you cannot. Bon voyage, old friend, I love you.”

John Mayer, 45 — who fills in the enormous shoes left by legendary frontman Jerry Garcia for Dead & Co. — said Walton “had an eye toward the truly important stuff, the stuff we already know better than to lose sight of, but often do.”

“The climb to acceptance is steep in the Grateful Dead universe, and Bill gave me a huge lift up those stairs with his kindness, his encouragement, and his friendship,” Mayer wrote in a tribute on Instagram . 

“He will be so deeply missed, but his approach to life will never be forgotten. I think it’s pretty good advice that when times get tough, everything will be okay if you just pretend to be Bill Walton. Thank you Bill.”

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Bill Walton’s Long, Special Relationship With the Grateful Dead

“It wasn’t like he was a fan,” the drummer Mickey Hart said. “He was part of our family.”

By Marc Tracy

Bill Walton played 604 basketball games in college and the N.B.A. over the course of his Hall of Fame career. But Walton, who died Monday from cancer at 71 , wrote in a 2016 autobiography that he had attended more than 869 concerts by his most beloved musical act, the Grateful Dead.

“He loved the Grateful Dead I believe as much as we in the Grateful Dead have loved the Grateful Dead,” Mickey Hart, one of the band’s two drummers and a good friend of Walton’s, said in an interview.

“It wasn’t like he was a fan,” added Hart, who is currently performing a residency with a successor act, Dead & Company, at the Sphere in Las Vegas. “He was part of our family.”

Walton grew up in San Diego and first became famous for his basketball skills at U.C.L.A., where he won two national titles under the legendary coach John Wooden. Over a professional career attenuated by injuries, he earned a Most Valuable Player Award and championship titles with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Boston Celtics.

He stayed famous, including as a prolific television commentator, thanks to a winningly oddball style and crunchy interests, like cycling and left-leaning politics. And his personality seemed perfectly suited for — and summarized by — his lifelong love of his fellow California institution, the Grateful Dead.

In his autobiography, “Back From the Dead,” Walton proclaimed himself a “proud Dead Head” and described Dead concerts — unique and improvisational — as “a gathering of the tribe in celebration,” adding, “It’s what I live for.” (Most of his book’s chapter titles and epigraphs are Dead lyrics, including “Shadowboxing the Apocalypse,” “Feel Like a Stranger” and “Once in a While You Get Shown the Light, in the Strangest of Places If You Look at It Right.”)

“If you asked him about his relationship with the Dead, it would be this flow of admiration, feeling that he was in touch with something larger than just himself,” Dennis McNally, the band’s biographer and former spokesman, said in an interview. “Which has to be pretty big, to be bigger than Bill.”

Walton attended his first Dead show in 1971, before starting at U.C.L.A. At a 1976 concert in Portland, Ore., the band and its crew spotted Walton — a center who was listed as 6-foot-11 — standing near the front of the house, and invited him to sit onstage rather than block so many sightlines. At a break in the set, he went up and befriended the band.

In subsequent years, Walton traveled with the Dead when the band performed at the pyramids in Egypt, drummed onstage with Hart and fellow percussionist Bill Kreutzmann, and appeared at a Dead & Company concert as Father Time as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve in 2019. (Walton was also a fan of other musicians, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Phish.)

After Walton joined the Celtics before the 1985-86 season, Larry Bird, the Celtics star, organized a team outing to a Dead show in Worcester, Mass., as part of welcoming the new guy. Years later, Walton was inducted into the Grateful Dead Hall of Honor — “my highest honor,” he told Relix Magazine.

“He knew the music inside-out,” said Hart, who remembered that Walton’s favorite Dead song was “Fire on the Mountain.”

Walton also seemed to perceive other pursuits in terms of the Dead — above all, playing basketball.

“The music and the basketball were the exact same thing,” he wrote. “You have a team with a goal, and a band with a song, and fans cheering because they’re happy, but also to make the players perform better, faster, and to take everybody further.”

He continued: “During the game, during the song, everybody goes off, each in their own direction, playing their own tune. But then with the greatness of a team, the greatness of a leader, and the willingness to play to a higher calling, they’re all able to come back and finish the job together — to win the game and send the people out into the night ecstatic, clamoring for more.”

Marc Tracy is a Times reporter covering arts and culture. He is based in New York. More about Marc Tracy

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• Me and My Uncle ( John Phillips  cover) Play Video
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• Beat It on Down the Line ( Jesse Fuller  cover) Play Video
• Tennessee Jed Play Video
• Mexicali Blues ( Bob Weir  song) Play Video
• Brown-Eyed Women Play Video
• El Paso ( Marty Robbins  cover) Play Video
• Big Railroad Blues ( Cannon’s Jug Stompers  cover) Play Video
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• Cumberland Blues Play Video
• Playing in the Band Play Video
• Casey Jones Play Video
• One More Saturday Night ( Bob Weir  song) Play Video
• Truckin' Play Video
• The Other One Play Video
• Ramble On Rose Play Video
• Sugar Magnolia Play Video
• You Win Again ( Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys  cover) Play Video
• Not Fade Away ( The Crickets  cover) Play Video
• China Cat Sunflower ( Jam ) Play Video
• Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ( [traditional]  cover) ( > 'Not Fade Away' reprise ) Play Video

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• Beat It on Down the Line by Jesse Fuller
• Big Railroad Blues by Cannon’s Jug Stompers
• El Paso by Marty Robbins
• Going Down the Road Feeling Bad by [traditional]
• Me and My Uncle by John Phillips
• Mexicali Blues by Bob Weir
• Not Fade Away by The Crickets
• One More Saturday Night by Bob Weir
• Sugaree by Jerry Garcia
• You Win Again by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
• Brown-Eyed Women
• Ramble On Rose
• Tennessee Jed
• Playing in the Band
• The Other One
• Sugar Magnolia
• Truckin'
• Casey Jones
• Cumberland Blues
• China Cat Sunflower

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