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Welcome to the deadiverse!
A multiverse archive and fan space for the music, shows, musicians, and ever-expanding universe surrounding the Grateful Dead.
Explore the complete live history of the Grateful Dead and the extended Dead universe. Search thousands of concerts, setlists, songs, venues, tours and recordings—from the earliest days of the Grateful Dead through Dead & Company and the many bands that carried the music forward.
In the Deadiverse you can start with the Grateful Dead and follow almost any path outward.
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The Grateful Dead & Beyond
Deadiverse is a comprehensive, community-driven resource for exploring the Grateful Dead and the remarkable musical world that grew around them. From the original band and its legendary live performances to the musicians, side projects, successor bands, and tribute groups that have carried the music forward, Deadiverse connects the people, songs, shows, and stories that make this musical universe unique.
Explore the Grateful Dead’s complete performance history, follow songs across decades of live performances, trace the changing lineups, and discover the many bands that have emerged from the Dead’s orbit. Whether you’re researching a classic 1960s show, comparing versions of a favorite song, following a former member’s career, or looking for a Grateful Dead tribute band playing near you, Deadiverse is built to help you explore it all.
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Explore The Grateful Dead’s entire catalog—from album staples to one-off rarities, side projects to special appearances. Each song includes performance history, debut dates, and frequency analysis so you can understand which deep cuts appear regularly and which are true gems.
Dead Records
Gratest Hits
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros: Live in Colorado Vol. 2
Before the Dead
Folk Time
Blue Mountain
Fare Thee Well
To Terrapin: Hartford ’77
Live at the Warfield Theater
Rare Cuts & Oddities 1966
There and Back Again
Evening Moods
The Strange Remain
Love Will See You Through – Highlights Vol. 1
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions (live at the Tangent, Palo Alto Ca, 1964)
Hundred Year Hall
Dick’s Picks, Volume 1: Tampa Florida 12/19/73
Without a Net
Built to Last
Dylan & the Dead
In the Dark
Run for the Roses
Dead Set
Reckoning
Go to Heaven
Shakedown Street
Cats Under the Stars
Heaven Help the Fool
Terrapin Station
Steal Your Face
Kingfish
Reflections
Blues for Allah
From the Mars Hotel
Skeletons From the Closet: The Best of the Grateful Dead
Compliments of Garcia
Wake of the Flood
Old & In the Way
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1: Bear’s Choice
Europe ’72
Ace
Garcia
Hooteroll?
Skull & Roses
American Beauty
Workingman’s Dead
Live/Dead
Aoxomoxoa
Anthem of the Sun
The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Shows!
Browse and search Grateful Dead setlists spanning the band’s entire performing history, from the earliest San Francisco shows through the final concerts of 1995 and beyond. Filter by date, venue, location, tour, song, or band to find specific performances and discover how the repertoire evolved over three decades.
But the Dead’s live history doesn’t end with the original band. Explore performances by successor bands, member-led projects, and tribute bands, and see how the music continues to evolve on stages around the world.
The Deadiverse
The Grateful Dead didn’t simply leave behind a catalog of records. They created a musical ecosystem.
Follow the connections between the Grateful Dead and the many bands surrounding them: early precursor groups, the original Dead, individual members’ side projects, post-Garcia successor bands, collaborations and offshoots, and the countless tribute bands keeping the repertoire alive.
Some bands are direct continuations of the original group. Others grew from individual members’ musical careers. Others exist purely to celebrate the music. Together, they form a constantly expanding network of musicians and bands connected by songs, history, influence, and community.
Explore the Music
Explore the songs that form the foundation of the Deadiverse—from perennial live staples and beloved Garcia/Hunter compositions to Bob Weir songs, covers, improvisational vehicles, and the rarities that appeared only a handful of times.
Each song can be traced across performances and bands, revealing when it debuted, how often it was played, where it appeared, and how its life continued after the Grateful Dead.
Follow a song from its earliest Dead performances through later versions by Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog, Furthur, Dead & Company, Billy & the Kids, and other successor and tribute bands.
Explore the Bands
The Grateful Dead’s story is inseparable from the musicians and bands around them.
Discover the original and precursor groups that shaped the Dead’s early years, the band’s changing lineups, the side projects pursued by its members, and the successor groups that emerged after Jerry Garcia’s death.
Then explore the tribute scene—from established touring acts to regional and local bands that continue to bring the Dead’s music to new audiences every night.
Each band has its own history, members, shows, songs, and connections to the larger Deadiverse.
Dead Bands
The Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia
Bob Weir
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros
Dead & Company
Kingfish
Jerry Garcia Band
Further
The Dead
The Other Ones
Ratdog
Frankly Scarlet
Dark Star Orchestra
Phil Lesh and Friends
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
Grateful Shred
Terrapin Flyer
The Warlocks
Old & In the Way
Bob and Jerry
Jerry Garcia and David Nelson
Jerry Garcia, Marshall Leicester, and Robert Hunter
Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers
Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers
Hart Valley Drifters
Badwater Valley Boys
Wildwood Boys
Jerry & Sara
Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble
The Zodiacs
Black Mountain Boys
Asphalt Mountain Jungle Boys
The Chords
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Cosmic Charlie
Fare Thee Well
Graham Lesh and Friends
Musicians & Lineups
Follow the musicians who built the Deadiverse.
Explore the careers of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Welnick, and the many other musicians who have shared stages with them.
See who played in which bands, when they joined and left, what instruments they played, and how bands evolved over time. Lineup histories make it possible to see the connections between seemingly separate chapters of the Dead’s story.
Explore the History
View the different Eras of The Grateful Dead.
The Tribute Band Universe
The music didn’t stop when the Grateful Dead did.
Thousands of musicians have formed bands dedicated to playing the Dead’s repertoire, from local groups playing neighborhood bars to nationally touring tribute acts performing at major venues and festivals. New bands continue to form, and established groups continue to evolve as new generations discover the music.
Deadiverse documents this living tradition alongside the history that inspired it.
Find a tribute band, explore its members and show history, see which songs they play, and discover the other bands connected to its musicians.
What You’ll Find Here
Complete Show Archive: Browse and search Grateful Dead performances alongside shows from successor, side-project, and tribute bands.
Song Database: Explore songs across the Deadiverse, including performance history, debut dates, frequency, rarities, and the many musicians and bands that have performed them.
Band History: Discover the original Grateful Dead, precursor groups, side projects, successor bands, and tribute acts—with connections between them.
Lineup Timelines: See how each band’s membership changed over time, including musicians, instruments, and dates of service.
Musician Connections: Follow players from one band to another and discover the musical relationships that connect the Deadiverse.
Venue & Location History: Explore the places where the Grateful Dead and related bands have performed, from legendary historic venues to local rooms still hosting Dead music today.
Performance Analysis: See which songs are staples, which are rarities, when songs debuted, how repertoires changed, and how different bands approach the same material.
Community-Built Archive: Deadiverse grows through research, contributions, corrections, recordings, photographs, setlists, annotations, and the knowledge of the fan community.
Why Deadiverse Exists
The Grateful Dead have one of the most thoroughly documented live histories in popular music—but the story is much larger than the original band’s 30 years.
The Deadiverse brings that history together with what came before and what came after. It connects the songs to the shows, the shows to the venues, the musicians to their bands, and the bands to one another.
Whether you’re a longtime Deadhead, a collector and taper, a setlist obsessive, a musician, a tribute-band follower, or someone discovering the Grateful Dead for the first time, Deadiverse is a place to explore the music and the community that grew from it.
Community-Powered
The best parts of Deadhead culture have always been collaborative: trading tapes, comparing setlists, sharing stories, debating performances, and preserving history for the next generation.
Deadiverse continues that tradition in a modern form.
Create an account to save favorite songs and shows, track your concert history, contribute notes and media, annotate lyrics, and help improve the archive. If you spot an error or have information that belongs in the database, contribute it to the community.
What is the Deadiverse?
The Deadiverse is bigger than any one band, musician, or website. It belongs to everyone who keeps the music alive.
You can start with the Grateful Dead and follow almost any thread outward. A song can lead to a show, a show to a musician, a musician to another band, and that band to another generation of players carrying the music somewhere new. As the Dead themselves put it, “There is a road, no simple highway,” and there never really was a simple path through their history. The further you follow, the more connections you find—between songs and performances, musicians and bands, places and eras, the music that came before and everything that came after.
Sometimes the thread is a song. Sometimes it is a person, a place, a particular performance, or a band you didn’t know was connected. “Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,” and there is always another connection to discover. Follow “So Many Roads” back through the Dead’s years; follow a musician into the projects and collaborations that came after; follow a song from its first performance through the countless interpretations that followed. Eventually you may find yourself somewhere far from where you started, wondering, “What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
Deadiverse is built for those journeys. Not to impose a single path through the history, but to make the connections visible—to explore the music as a living network rather than a closed chapter. “The music never stopped,” and neither has the community. Start anywhere. Follow a thread. See where it leads.
Why sign up?
Welcome, fellow Deadhead, to your corner of the Deadiverse. Whether you’ve been following the music for sixty years or just heard your first live version of “Scarlet Begonias,” there’s always another show, another song, another musician, or another band waiting to be discovered.
Create an account and make the Deadiverse your own. Follow your favorite songs and musicians, keep tabs on all things Dead and the follow tribute bands you love. Build a personal history of the shows you’ve attended and see your own stats take shape—how many shows you’ve seen, which songs you’ve heard, which venues you’ve visited, and which bands have been part of your journey. You can also contribute your own memories, stories, photos, recordings, notes, and knowledge, helping preserve the experiences that don’t appear on a setlist or in an official archive.
The Deadiverse isn’t just a database of what happened. It’s a record of what the music has meant to the people who were there—and those discovering it now. Every show you’ve seen, every version you remember, every band you’ve followed, and every story you have to tell is another thread in the larger tapestry. Create your account, start tracking your journey, and add your piece to the Deadiverse. Join here
