John Mayer is aware of precisely how fortunate he’s to be taking part in within the band. The guitarist celebrated luck on Tuesday night time (Aug. 5) in a lengthy Instagram post honoring his position within the Grateful Lifeless’s three-day blow-out 60th anniversary celebration in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park over the weekend throughout three reveals by Lifeless successor band Dead & Company.
“Night time 3 in Golden Gate Park celebrating 60 years of @gratefuldead can be a one we’ll always remember. I lastly had the prospect to play with @treyanastasio, and past the full-circle second of all of it, the lock we had going was prompt. Trey’s ear-to-fretboard information switch time is unparalleled. I’m nonetheless blown away,” Mayer wrote of his jam with the Phish singer/guitarist on “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fireplace on the Mountain” on Sunday night time.
Mayer additionally thanked Graham Lesh, son of late Grateful Lifeless bassist Phil Lesh, who additionally sat in with Lifeless and Co. all three nights of the run, together with performing his dad’s beloved composition, “Field of Rain,” with the group on opening night time; Phil Lesh died in Oct. 2024 at age 84. “Additional particular due to @grahamelesh for becoming a member of us all three nights. Regardless of what number of reveals we play as a band, I’ll all the time be a visitor on this musical world, and I’ll by no means lose sight of what’s the nice honor of my life,” wrote Mayer.
“Pleased sixtieth, Grateful Lifeless, and lengthy might you run, @bobweir, @mickeyhart and @billkreutzmann,” he added in reference to founding members guitarist/singer Bob Weir and drummers/percussionists Mickey Hart and Invoice Kreutzmann, earlier than noting that his place to Weir’s proper — the place late guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia stood for a few years earlier than switching to the left — is considered one of nice honor to him. “It have to be stated… I’ll by no means come near taking part in like @jerrygarcia,” wrote Mayer of the long-lasting Lifeless co-founder who died in 1995 at age 53. “But when I can someway get you nearer to him – and to the spirit he created 60 years in the past – then I suppose I’ve completed my job. Thanks for accepting me.”
Mayer’s submit included a candy photograph of the band taking a bow, with the large crowd — greater than 180,000 folks attended the trio of reveals — arrayed in entrance of them, in addition to pictures jamming with Anastasio, Weir and Anastasio and a sequence of stay pictures from the reveals.