Photo: Adam PerryThe DeadThursday, May 7, 2009Pepsi CenterBetter than: a Grateful Dead cover band but at times worse than some of Phil Lesh's bands -- wait, the Dead kind of is a Grateful Dead cover band.Singer/guitarist Bob Weir, always the wild-eyed youngster in the
Grateful Dead, was in his late teens and early 20s when the Dead was
first playing Ken Kesey's Acid Tests in the Bay Area and promoter Bill
Graham was giving out free apples and beautiful hand-printed posters at
1960s Dead shows in
​Bob Weir & Ratdog
Sunday, August 30
Chautauqua Auditorium
Better Than: Parts of the reunited Dead's performance in Denver a few months ago
For those of us who were introduced to the Grateful Dead as elementary
school kids in the late-1980s by the San Francisco band's ubiquitous
MTV hit "Touch of Grey," here's some news: a white-bearded member of
that polarizing '60s group is still traveling the country singing
"Touch of Grey" for ecstatic audiences, but it isn't the late Jerry
Garcia. It
