John Mayer plays Dark Star with the Dead and somehow it WORKS.
Man Smart, Woman Smarter(King Radio cover) (tour debut) Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Cold Rain and Snow(Obray Ramsey cover) Jack Straw(Grateful Dead cover) Brown-Eyed Women(Grateful Dead cover) Dark Star(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) El Paso(Marty Robbins cover) (Weir on acoustic) (tour debut) Don't Ease Me In(Henry Thomas cover) Set 2: Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) (>) New Speedway Boogie(Grateful Dead cover) Estimated Prophet(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (> 'Dark Star' verse 2 >) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Standing on the Moon(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Not Fade Away(The Crickets cover) Encore: Ripple(Grateful Dead cover)
Direction
Captures the cosmic chaos of Drums>Space perfectly.
Sound
Mayer's guitar weeping through that Dark Star jam.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This show features the rare 'Dark Star' split across both sets, a structural callback to 1972-era Dead that Mayer specifically pushed to revive.
The El Paso acoustic debut was unplanned—Weir's guitar tech handed him the wrong instrument, and he just rolled with it. Classic Bob chaos.
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