Bill Walton was a proud Deadhead. The basketball great, who died Monday at age 71 following a prolonged cancer battle, was famously a huge fan of the Grateful Dead (and a tie-dye aficionado). A ...

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead paid tribute to Bill Walton, the NBA Hall of Famer and beloved Deadhead who died on Monday from cancer at 71.. The band’s offshoot Dead & Company ...

Outside of basketball, Walton was a major Deadhead. He was probably the most notable Grateful Dead superfan, attending hundreds of the band's concerts and making their music a big part of his persona.

Members of the Grateful Dead and its currently playing spin-off group, Dead & Company, have taken to social media after the death of basketball legend Bill Walton to share their grief and love for ...

How did Bill Walton become a Grateful Dead fan? Walton has been a fan of the Grateful Dead for a long time. According to USA Today , he first saw the band perform live in 1967 at the age of 15 ...

Grateful Red Bill Walton Shares ... the old Chicago Stadium, a “smoking crater that is the mind”, 835 Grateful Dead ... where he once traveled to see the band in Egypt during his ...

The Grateful Dead took the stage at The Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Nov. 4, 1985. Band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Brent Mydland, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann checked ...

Grateful Dead Superfan Bill Walton Gave John Mayer Advice That Was So Bill Walton Before A Dead & Company Concert. Derrick Rossignol Music News Editor Twitter. May 27, 2024.

The summer of 2015 was a culminating moment in Bill Walton’s life. He’d been seeing the Grateful Dead, in all of its iterations, for 48 years by that point. He’d been to hundreds upon ...

There was no bigger Grateful Dead fan than Bill Walton, the late basketball icon who died yesterday (May 28) at 71 years old: He saw over 1,000 of the band’s concerts.So, some of the group’s ...

Dead & Company Went All In On Honoring Grateful Dead Superfan Bill Walton At Their First Show Since His Death. Derrick Rossignol Music News Editor Twitter. May 31, 2024.