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Five things I learned attending DeadPhish Orchestra at Wire on Friday, April 17th.1. Intellecutally, I cant help feeling a small sense of betrayal in choosing a cover band over the many original music options available. But, my heart very much belongs to Grateful Dead and Phish, and in creating a band that specializes in those...

This is the fifth spring in a row that Deadheads will gather in movie theaters across the country... but this year's event may be a little extra special for those of us in the Chicago area.First, the featured show is an Alpine Valley show of relatively recent vintage (July 19, 1989). I bet there are quite...

Update: We have notified the winners, but if you'd still like to get purchase tickets in advance... we can set you up with a code for half price admission. Just follow this link to ticketweb and use the Access Code 420.If your group dabbles in the repertoire of the preeminent jambands, apparently you've got a...

Even their most hardcore fans acknowledge that there would be no Phish (or certainly a radically different version) without the trail blazed by the Grateful Dead.Starting with the marriage of jazz improvisation with rock instruments and sensibilities, but continuing on through borrowed elements as innocuous as the two set format, mail-order ticketing, audience recording /...

Dead Sounding Phish: A Song Analysis and ComparisonBy: Matt FricksSince the announcement of Trey Anastasio as the lead guitar player for the GD50 / Fare Thee Well / Reunion / Goodbye / Whatever shows in Chicago this July, there has been no shortage of opinions of how well of a "fit" Trey will be in the style of Jerry...

I've recently expounded on the top ten shows of the year that I've seen personally, but as I try to put an punctation on our 2014 coverage, I just HAVE to call this one out as one of the most under-rated jams of the year. No, I wasn't there, but man was I caught off guard...

 [1/16 Update. It's On]There's been chatter about something -- anything -- to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead since the 49th anniversary was just a month old. Bob Weir speculated as such in a Rolling Stone magazine interview last January ("we owe it to the songs").But that was a Furthur break-up,...

The Counting Crows recently played at the Chicago Theater in support of their new album Somewhere Under Wonderland, their first collection of new material since 2008.Surprisingly, a hefty portion of the setlist consisted of covers, with only six songs from the new album performed.Covers included Grateful Deads Friend Of The Devil and Bob Dylans...

So Many Roads is an academic symposium held at San Jose State University that focuses on Grateful Dead phenomemon.As you might expect, there's some data driven research as well.Had to share this one that popped up on my Twitter feed via Jesse Jarnow (@bourgwick), who attended the conference and shared a picture of...