Dead & Company - Althea - 7/16/2023 - Oracle Park - San Francisco, CA.
Althea has become John Mayer's signature Grateful Dead song. With Dead & Company, Mayer breathed fresh new life into this Jerry Garcia masterpiece time and time again. There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. With talk about a new incarnation of Dead & Company maybe emerging without some of the founding members, it's very difficult to imagine anything achieving the level of grateness that Dead & Company has enjoyed. John Mayer is one of the main reasons for that success and he is a key component that cannot be replaced because it will never work.
The theme of the last three Dead & Company shows in San Francisco shows, for many of us, was that of pure appreciation especially for Mayer. He stepped into shoes that were impossible to fill and found a way to do it with his tremendous skill set and fresh interpretation of this music. In 2015 at Fare Thee Well a spark was created that rekindled a flame in many Deadheads, and that fire consumed us with Dead & Company for the last 8 years. We are now and forever grateful. Thank you John, Bobby and all! ⚡️🙏⚡️
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