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The Grateful Lifeless is honored — and rainbow grilled cheese served — at starry MusiCares gala
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The Grateful Lifeless is honored — and rainbow grilled cheese served — at starry MusiCares gala

Last updated: February 1, 2025 8:04 pm
Editorial Board Published February 1, 2025
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Deadheads blended with bigwigs Friday night time on the annual MusiCares Individuals of the Yr gala, the place the members of the Grateful Lifeless had been honored by the Recording Academy for his or her philanthropy and cultural impression 60 years after the long-lasting jam band shaped in 1965.

“Longevity was never a major concern of ours,” the Lifeless’s Bobby Weir mentioned to laughs within the viewers as he accepted the award. “Lighting folks up and spreading joy through the music was all we ever really had in mind, and we got plenty of that done.”

Held on the Los Angeles Conference Middle, the Grammy-weekend charity occasion — gown code: “colorful black tie” — raised greater than $5 million for music professionals affected by the wildfires that devastated a lot of L.A. final month. As friends munched rainbow grilled cheese sandwiches, host Andy Cohen roamed the well-heeled crowd on the lookout for celebrities to speak up on digicam; at one level he buttonholed his previous buddy John Mayer, whom he requested to call the horniest Grateful Lifeless tune. (“Looks Like Rain,” which imagines “the sound of street cats making love,” was Mayer’s reply.)

Although it by no means actually was at risk, the Lifeless’s extraordinarily sturdy legacy bought a significant enhance final 12 months when Lifeless & Firm — by which 77-year-old Weir and 81-year-old Mickey Hart carry out music from the Lifeless’s catalog with Mayer, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane and Oteil Burbridge — arrange at Sphere in Las Vegas for a hot-ticket summer time residency that appeared to go viral each weekend on TikTok. Right here, children and folks alike turned as much as pay tribute to the band.

Vampire Weekend supplied a taut “Scarlet Begonias” and Maren Morris a stirring “They Love Each Other.” Noah Kahan and Béla Fleck had been folky but exact in “Friend of the Devil,” whereas Norah Jones glided easily by way of “Ripple.” The Battle and Treaty did a sometimes fiery “Samson and Delilah” with assist from a pair of dueling drummers: Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood and Stewart Copeland of the Police. Dwight Yoakam introduced a tough nation edge to “Truckin’”; the Battle on Medication discovered a wistful drive for “Box of Rain.”

Wynonna Judd performs.

(Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

Wynonna Judd was the night time’s musical and emotional excessive level: Describing Weir as her “family of choice,” she thanked the whiskery guitarist for singing on the funeral of her mom, Naomi, in 2022, then introduced the viewers to its ft with a rollicking “Ramble on Rose.” Different performers included Zac Brown, Billy Strings, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, My Morning Jacket and the duo of Sierra Ferrell and Lukas Nelson, who teamed up for “It Must Have Been the Roses.”

The night time’s glorious backing band was led by Don Was and featured guitarists Rick Mitarotonda (of the ascendant jam band Goose) and Grahame Lesh, son of the Lifeless’s founding bassist, Phil Lesh, who died final 12 months at 84, simply days after the announcement of the MusiCares honor. The Lifeless’s late mastermind, Jerry Garcia, was represented by his daughter Trixie; Invoice Kreutzmann, the band’s founding drummer, despatched a video message alongside along with his son Justin.

Woody Harrelson in a tie-dyed tie and black suit and Bob Weir in a black suit speak on stage while Weir points at Harrelson.

Woody Harrelson, left, and Bob Weir communicate.

(Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

“The road is a rough existence,” Weir mentioned in his speech, “as plainly evidenced by the simple fact that there aren’t all that many of my old bandmates here tonight to receive this recognition.” After Weir and Hart’s remarks — actor Woody Harrelson additionally spoke at some size about having achieved an enormous assortment of medicine with Garcia — the 2 stalwart musicians joined the remainder of Lifeless & Firm for a mini-set of classics that climaxed, warmly if inevitably, with the Lifeless’s unbelievable late-’80s pop hit, “Touch of Grey.”

“I will get by,” they sang with assist from the gang, “I will survive.”

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