Grateful Dead fans who don’t have the means to catch Dead & Company’s upcoming shows in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park will still have a shot at viewing one of the concerts after all, with the closing night of the engagement now set to be streamed to Imax theaters nationwide on Aug. 3.
The cinematic simulcasts for the show will begin at 6 p.m. PT and last for about three and a half hours, the typical length for a Dead & Company concert nowadays, including a 20-minute intermission.
Tickets for the Imax showings cost $40 plus fees and include a commemorative poster and laminate with lanyard, to be given out at the theater. They’re on sale now here.
Dead & Company will be doing three shows at the San Francisco park Aug. 1-3 and, assuming they follow the typical custom of their three-day-weekend engagements, none of the songs will be repeated from night to night. So fans will likely have a good idea of which favorites will be played on that Sunday night if they pay attention to the Friday and Saturday setlists and see what doesn’t get played then.
Although Dead & Company officially announced an end to touring two years ago, that didn’t mean the group was done doing one-off concerts or special engagements. Prior to this stand at Golden Gate Park, that has entailed residencies at Las Vegas’ Sphere last summer and again this spring.
The SF shows are commemorating the 60th anniversary of Dead & Company’s parent group, the Grateful Dead, which got its start in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and has been a source of civic pride in the city ever since.
Dead & Company consists of Mickey Hart, Bobby Weir, John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge and Jay Lane. Weir and Hart are two of the three surviving original Grateful Dead members, the other being Bill Kreutzmann, who signed on with the offshoot group when it was formed 10 years ago but has since left. The Grateful Dead’s 30-year-run came to an end with Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. The last decade of Dead & Company shows have been well-received by most fans and critics, with considerable acclaim for Mayer’s ability to step into Garcia’s shoes as a co-frontman alongside Weir.
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