Fare Thee Well

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Tonight in Chicago "The Grateful Dead" will play their final show ever, the band and the name will officially be ended.  As expected Trey Anastasio is covering for Jerry and Bruce Hornsby on keys.  There were only 5 gigs played during this final goodbye and the last is tonight at Soldier Field, where Jerry played his last show.  

The guys are old, way too old to sound like they used to in their prime, but they are giving it their best shot.  

Set lists are impressive, as noted here with some samples and photos.

RIP to a great American band.  

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-set-lists/

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Finnforest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 16913	Topic: Fare Thee Well Posted: July 05 2015 at 09:19
	Tonight in Chicago "The Grateful Dead" will play their final show ever, the band and the name will officially be ended. As expected Trey Anastasio is covering for Jerry and Bruce Hornsby on keys. There were only 5 gigs played during this final goodbye and the last is tonight at Soldier Field, where Jerry played his last show. The guys are old, way too old to sound like they used to in their prime, but they are giving it their best shot. Set lists are impressive, as noted here with some samples and photos. RIP to a great American band. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-set-lists/


Tom Ozric Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916	Posted: July 06 2015 at 01:59
	WOW !! They were amazing. Such a legacy left behind. I wish I could witness a gig. I do, however, have major issues with Hornsby - mainly because I find he has the utmost bland piano style I've ever heard (judging by the tracks I've heard by him and The Range). Would've been nice to have.......oh, wait a sec., there's no-one left - is Tom Constanten still around ?? He looked ancient back then...... Hats off to Lesh and Weir, Hart and Kreutzmann - I don't even know whose left these days........

Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	Posted: July 06 2015 at 02:37
	Quite a legacy indeed. The end of an era, one might say!

dr wu23 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20468	Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:12
	Certainly an American musical institution... of sorts. Never really understood the fascination with those who followed them around (or the Phish thing either..)...but there are a couple of albums by them I do like.
	One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin

lazland Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13249	Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:29
	The passing of a mindset of a significant part of a generation.
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TeleStrat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2014 Location: Norwalk, CA Status: Offline Points: 9319	Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:30
	Interesting from a historical point of view but I was never a fan. There were other SF bands that I liked a lot more.

AEProgman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 11 2012 Location: Toadstool Status: Offline Points: 1787	Posted: July 06 2015 at 15:43
	Got to see them a handful of times in the early 80s and was always a circus to watch the crowd and the band's improv. Definitely an end of an era. Man, that last set list on July 5th was a great one! Would not have thought they would have played Terrapin Station. Just watched an interesting documentary piece on Netflix the other night about Bob Weir. https://www.netflix.com/title/80011852


Intruder Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2091	Posted: July 08 2015 at 10:29
	Fare the well my only true love....man, I dig the Grateful Dead. I used to be one of those who tramped around all summer following the band; my last show was in July '86 in Washington D.C. - I was 19. We showed up in Philadelphia the next day for the concert only to learn that Jerry's health had failed and the rest of the tour was to be cancelled. I had hundreds of chances to see them again, but..... Now I wish I were back in the States to be there for this last tour. I've been to dozens of Grateful Dead shows and dozens of splinter band shows - JGB, JG Acoustic Band, Bobby and the Midnights, Ratdog, Phil and Friends, the Dead, even a Mickey Hart show (with Zakar Hussain!).....we should start a thread on favorite shows. Mine would be the Midnights show at a defunct amusement park in northeast Pennsylvania in the summer of '83....oh what a night! Or maybe Jerry's Acoustic Band at a tiny theater somewhere in New Jersey sometime in '84......or the night of the snow storm in NYC with Phil (with Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes).....or..... That Neil Young line about all his changes happening in Ontario, well mine happened at Dead shows.....and I'm eternally grateful.
	I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625	Posted: July 08 2015 at 17:17
	What will happen to all the hippies that followed the band around?

Atavachron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64352	Posted: July 08 2015 at 18:06
	A true original, and a spectacular band. Saw them many times in 80s, always a musical experience like no other. Farewell, guys, we love you and always will.
	"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy