Dead Butte started as a way to recreate the experience of a live Dead show when we couldn’t be there in person. Over time, it has evolved into a community built around the shared experience of improvisational live music, and the spontaneous tapestry-weaving that made the Grateful Dead legendary and continues to inspire their contemporaries and torchbearers today.

Along the way, I’ve had a blast piecing together the collection of audio and visual equipment that powers our backyard shindigs (“the rig”) and brings these performances to life.

Thanks to modern live streaming platforms, these gatherings have become the next best thing to being there. For some of us, they’re the closest we’ll ever come to experiencing the cultural phenomenon of a live Dead show (or any show at all really, given the expense and logistics of a night out these days, sheesh!).

Whether you come for the music, or the long strange pull of community, thank you for a real good time!

XO