That opportunity manifested in the creation of Dead & Company that same year, in which surviving members Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart were joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti to keep playing the Dead's music to packed-out arenas and amphitheaters. I fell into the Dead from a completely different path: I was a bored teenager looking for something weird and exciting to consume my newfound free time when I graduated high school in 2015. Music Features Robert Hunter's Words Helped Bring Life To The Grateful Dead As an avid jazz head, he learned to appreciate the Dead from a technical standpoint: the synchronicities in Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir's guitar playing, the percussive partnership of Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, the band's collective ability to improvise for hours on end. He grew up during their heyday - the golden dreamscape of California in the '70s and '80s. That coffee turned into an hour-long conversation on the office patio - not about Alt.Latino or anything work-related, but about what we discovered was a shared affinity for the music of the Grateful Dead.įelix and I come to the Dead's discography from two completely different backgrounds. When I started working at NPR last year, I asked Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras if we could grab a quick coffee to talk about his show, of which I was a long-time listener. Grateful Dead's American Beauty (seen here in a 50th anniversary edition from Rhino Entertainment) is the shared obsession of two NPR staffers born decades apart.
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