re: The last Dead and Co concert is being live streamed on Youtube

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On Sunday, July 16, Dead & Company concluded their 2023 Final Tour with three sold-out concerts at Oracle Park in San Francisco, drawing a crowd of 120,000 fans. Their final tour was the most successful in the band’s eight-year history, bringing 840,000 attendees out during the cross-country trek. To mark their triumphant finale, the group shared their record-setting numbers.

Since the band’s 2015 debut, Dead & Company has completed 10 tours and performed in front of more than 4 million fans. During the Final Tour, they ran through 112 songs, including “Drums” > “Space” and the newly formed “Dark Star on the Big River Jam.” Since the band’s inception, they have delivered 145 unique songs during their 235 show history.

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D/C did a great service to the scene by bringing a new and inescapable cultural relevance back to america's greatest rock and roll band. i saw at least one show, and usually several, at each tour including all of the folsom field shows. they played bonnaroo, LOCKN, jazzfest, and cancun. they brought back many neglected songs including viola lee blues, mr charlie, the william tell bridge, the eleven, the full weather report suite, if i had the world to give and of course, dark star. they played the gorge, red rocks, fenway, wrigley and many of the other fabled amphitheaters of deadhead lore.

an entire new generation of heads have had their lives changed by this band. and one last thing...we owe a huge debt of gratitude to bob weir for giving us everything he had to give since 1995, almost 30 years and counting.