Former Grateful Dead members returned to perform a live show at Cornell’s Barton Hall on Monday, May 8, 2023, as Dead & Company.
The band members’ show in Cornell this week came exactly 46 years after their mega-hit 1977 concert, which also took place on May 8.
Cornell’s website notes that Dead & Company’s 2023 show was an intimate benefit concert. Dead & Company’s final tour is also scheduled to take place this year.
How to watch Grateful Dead members’ Cornell 2023 concert
Those who could not get tickets to the rock band‘s Cornell’s Barton Hall show on Monday can watch the concert’s live stream on nugs.net.
Fans at home can watch the live stream in HD with great sound quality and professional camera work.
However, if you miss out on the live stream as well, the website also offers an on-demand option for the show. You can buy the live stream for only $30 and watch it at home. Moreover, there is also a buy and subscriber option for just $15.
A look at former band’s 1977 show at Cornell
When you think of The Grateful Dead. their hit songs like Touch of Grey, Friend of the Devil, Scarlet Begonias and Jack Straw come to your mind. They have been hugely popular for decades now.
LiveforMusic.com notes that the former band’s Cornell show’s distribution was what made it stand out among its other shows.
Thousands of fans across the country ended up having access to a recording from Betty Cantor-Jackson, who was known for recording Grateful Dead’s live shows from the ’60s to the ’80s.
Given that many fans had access to high-quality recordings of Grateful Dead’s Cornell show, the concert’s popularity skyrocketed.
The band had put forth a flawless and adrenaline-packed show, performing songs like Jack Straw, Brown Eyed Women, Scarlet Begonias, Fire On The Mountain, and Estimated. The show ended with the performance of One More Saturday Night.
Grateful Dead’s 5/8/77 Cornell show was so iconic that ended up earning a mythical status.
How Grateful dead became Dead & Company
Grateful Dead’s original members included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and more. Together, the band played their last show at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995.
Just a month later on August 9, their lead vocalist, Jerry, died of a heart attack. Grateful Dead, as fans knew it, ceased to exist after hiss passing.
The remaining members, Bob, Phil, and Bill, together with Bruce Hornsby, formed the Other Ones. Then in 1999 came their solo album, The Strange Remain, and they began touring regularly.
A month after their farewell show on Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary in 2015, the remaining band members announced they were joining John Mayer to create a new band named Dead & Company.
