{"id":29855,"date":"2024-07-05T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-5-2015-the-grateful-dead-play-what-is-billed-as-their-final-show\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:02:32","slug":"on-this-day-july-5-2015-the-grateful-dead-play-what-is-billed-as-their-final-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-5-2015-the-grateful-dead-play-what-is-billed-as-their-final-show\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 5, 2015: The Grateful Dead play what is billed as their final show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-05\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 5, 2015\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Grateful Dead\u00a0<\/strong>played the final show of a three-night stand at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field, featuring special guests\u00a0<strong>Bruce Hornsby\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Trey Anastasio<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show was billed as the final time\u00a0<strong>Bob Weir<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Phil Lesh<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mickey Hart\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Bill Kreutzmann\u00a0<\/strong>would perform together, but that fall, Kreutzmann, Hart and Weir formed\u00a0<strong>Dead &amp; Company<\/strong>, with guitarist\u00a0<strong>John Mayer.\u00a0<\/strong>They initially announced just one show, but went on to tour the country and would subsequently go on to tour each summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Dead &amp; Company, without Kreutzmann, hit the road again in 2023 for what was billed as their Final Tour, which wrapped <\/span><span class=\"s3\">July 14-16 at San Francisco\u2019s Oracle Park<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0But they came back once again, and\u00a0are currently headlining the residency Dead Forever Live at Sphere in Las Vegas,\u00a0with dates booked until\u00a0August 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 5, 2015\u2026 The Grateful Dead\u00a0played the final show of a three-night stand at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field, featuring special guests\u00a0Bruce Hornsby\u00a0and\u00a0Trey Anastasio. The show was billed as the final time\u00a0Bob Weir,\u00a0Phil Lesh,\u00a0Mickey Hart\u00a0and\u00a0Bill Kreutzmann\u00a0would perform together, but that fall, Kreutzmann, Hart and Weir formed\u00a0Dead &amp; Company, with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-5-2015-the-grateful-dead-play-what-is-billed-as-their-final-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}