(Reuters) - For Jeff Chimenti, a rock keyboardist who plays with offshoots of the Grateful Dead, it has been anything but a "long strange trip" getting his medical product to market. Chimenti's resume includes stints with Furthur -- the band founded by...

LESH RUN MARIN PERFORMANCE SPACE STARTS WITH A BIG BANG The Grate Room Terrapin Crossroads has announced their opening slate with a twelve-show Phil Lesh & Friends run. The pre-sale of weekend packages and VIP tickets for all scheduled shows starts...

Courtney Love Hole Former Weezer bandmates Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp bury the hatchet when Cuomo appears at Sharp's solo gig at California State Fullerton. Sharp originally left the "Buddy Holly" band in 1998. Weezer Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil...

Dead tribute bands by picking a particular Dead show and re-creating the set list. But keyboardist Rob Barraco is quick to point out that doesn’t mean the group re-creates the show. “We don’t copy the music note for note or make any attempt to do that,”...

Mattson said. "The spirit of the music is to improvise--that's critical to the spirit of it." A couple years after Jerry Garcia died, the DSO formed in Chicago, 1997, and began gathering their own legions of fans. John Kadlecik, the first in the Garcia...

"Yes, please!" We say, "Do you have any that involve the Grateful Dead?" He'll see your Grateful Dead and raise you a Hall of Fame pitcher. He hasn't told this story in a while and is excited when it flashes in his memory. "I was sitting in with Phil...