Favorite Dead Cover Bands

Let's get a list and then we can add a poll. You can add JRAD. 

Dark Star is my favorite, as they are true to the historical versions. They are, however, more than a "cover" band and they will tell you so! but for this exercise, they would count.

I think you can include John K and also bands that play a mix but primarily feature GD songs--New Potato Caboose does that but since they don't play much, maybe put an "other ones" in the poll to pick them up along with others?

Last Fair Deal is a good one, too, if you are putting "locals" in the mix. Grateful Jed is another.

I think it's fair to include Melvin Seals JGB and other bands that expand from GD and into JGB and similar projects. Also Dead & Co and Phil's Phamily, Wolf Bros, etc.

Dead & Company is NOT a GD cover band...

I know right? They don't even play the music at the right tempo.

This Wikipedia article is on the various "Dead" assemblages since Jerry Garcia's death:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunions_of_the_Grateful_Dead

Interesting to see all the personnel. I didn't realize that Susan Tedeschi was with them one year.

Whose to say which tempo is right? Is the 70's tempo right or the 80's cocaine-fueled tempo? I think Bob fuckin' Weir has earned the right to play his songs any tempo that he wants to

That said, what is the critical mass to keep the band intact? As was evidenced at Lockn, Jim James does not equal MMJ.

WTF, TOO?

Preach 

Billy can carry the beat without Mickey but not the other way around.