Here’s Why Dead and Company Are Done Touring

With Dead & Company having lately wrapped their remaining tour, the band’s supervisor, Irving Azoff, has revealed why the group determined to retire from the highway.

“Touring is physically hard and nobody wants anybody to get really sick out there,” Azoff defined to Pollstar. “Billy (Kreutzmann) got really sick last year, and I think that freaked [fellow Dead & Company co-managers] Steve (Moir) and I and Bernie (Cahill) out.”

Kreutzmann, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, suffered in recent times via again and coronary heart illnesses, together with a bout of COVID-19. The well being issues pressured the drummer to overlook numerous Dead & Company reveals in 2021 and 2022. This yr, he opted to take a seat out the band’s 29-date farewell trek, leaving Bob Weir and Mickey Hart as the one remaining Grateful Dead members in Dead & Company.

“Mickey is a wonderful soul and a lovely guy and he can say, ‘I can go forever,’ and Bob would say the same thing,” Azoff famous, “but the rigors of 30-some nights with trucks and buses and airplanes and all the moving around, probably for both the quality of the music and the health/safety it was time to at least put an end to the touring.”

Dead & Company closed their farewell tour with three sold-out nights at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. Though the band is finished with touring, members have left the door open for attainable one-off performances.

“We never said we’ll never play again, but we’ll never tour again,” Hart admitted to ABC Audio. His ideas had been echoed by John Mayer, who wrote on social media: “Dead & Company is still a band – we just don’t know what the next show will be.”

Likewise, Azoff insinuated that Dead & Company haven’t performed their final gig.

“These guys love each other and the music stands for itself,” the supervisor defined. “The touring parts are over, but there are still special events I’m sure will get offered to them, and you never say never. I’ve learned from managing the Eagles all these years that you never ask that question while the tour is going on. You’ve got to let them finish it, get some rest and get back to their lives and the future will bring what it brings.”