Did bandleader Bob Weir, a founding member as a high schooler with dyed-in-the-wool San Franciscan Jerry Garcia of what became the Grateful Dead, recruit Mayer for the renewed Dead? Sort of a Grateful Dead: The Next Generations, with most of the original cast in fine form to make it all work. His dramatic wake-up call from Steve Jobs, and Jobs's specific citing of the Dead, doesn't figure in the Dead & Company official origin story. The Grateful Dead perform Bob Weir and Robert Hunter's 'Jack Straw' on their pivotal '72 European tour. That's right, just like the Grateful Dead -- the band dropped "Grateful" from the name when Garcia passed away of a heart attack at a Marin County rehab center in 1995 -- Dead & Company play a different show at every concert.

Source: Huffington Post August 11, 2016 04:07 UTC