Watch John Mayer and Bob Weir play the Grateful Dead's 'Althea' on 'The Late Late Show' in 2015, a performance that gave rise to Dead & Company
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He began listening to their music obsessively. “As soon as you find your first entry, it’s like threading beads on a necklace,” he said. “I’ll never forget that beautiful, bouncy interlude between the verses in ‘Playing in the Band’ or hearing songs like ‘Estimated Prophet.’ Nobody handed me a record. I took it all in via SiriusXM, the Grateful Dead channel, which I still play for hours each day, whenever I’m in the car.”in December 2014 after CBS failed to gave him David Letterman’s 11:35 p.m.
Many longtime Grateful Dead fans were a little skeptical that Mr. “Your Body Is a Wonderland” could handle the job, but Mayer worked his ass off to learn the catalog and blew nearly everyone in the audience away when Dead & Company began playing arenas in October 2015. They moved into stadiums the next summer, raking in about a million dollars per show and introducing the Grateful Dead experience to a whole new generation.
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