Non-Cubs Wrigley Memories is a series where Cubs DNA team attends an event at Wrigley Field that is not a Cubs game.
In June of 2019, My father, brother and I went to a concert at Wrigley Field. The band? Dead and Company: the reboot of the Grateful Dead. No Jerry Garcia, but with John Mayer in his place. Dead & Company consists of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with newcomers John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbridge (bass/drums), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards). They played 2 shows at Wrigley Field on Friday and Saturday nights during their summer 2019 tour. We went to the Saturday show.
6:30pm show. We got to Wrigley a few hours early to tour the grounds and hit up vendors. It was a cool misty day, very cold for June. Fortunately the rain cut off at 6pm, right before the show began. As they were lining up, this rolling fog came in, like something out of a movie.
Then the Dead came out, and began to play. They opened with Terrapin Station, one of my favorites.
The show was amazing. They played several of my favorite songs, and had some great renditions of others.
The overall setlist:
Set One
Terrapin Station
Sugar Magnolia
Mr. Charlie
High Time
Friend of the Devil
Bertha
Mama Tried
Turn On Your Lovelight
Set Two
Scarlet Begonias
New Speedway Boogie
Help Is On The Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Drums
Space
The Other One
Standing On The Moon
Sunshine Daydream
Encore
Ripple
One More Saturday Night
Wrigley Field is a fantastic place for a concert. They set up the stage in center field, and most seats are solid for the show. The music audio quality was solid. The atmosphere, electric. I highly recommend the experience.