The Grateful Dead won’t die, in part because their fans --- some of which now work in the White House -- won’t let them.
The band broke up in 1995 when Jerry Garcia, one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and the Papa Bear of Dead-dom, succumbed to a lifetime of excess. Infighting among the survivors made future collaborations highly unlikely. “It’s hard to say goodbye, it’s hard to let go, but the page got turned for us,” drummer Mickey Hart told the Tribune a year after the guitarist’s death.
But the Dead never went away, sustained by hundreds of archival recordings and a community of fans that stretched into every sector of society – including the administration of President Barack Obama. Two of the president’s senior advisers, David Axelrod and Pete Rouse, as well as deputy chief of staff Jim Messina count themselves among the legion of Deadheads.
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They weren't really estranged, though. They intermingled plenty during the time they weren't all playing together. It's a brotherhood and their playing together again was only a matter of time.
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