Followers of the Grateful Lifeless are saying goodbye to the band this weekend. It’s not the primary time.

Because the band misplaced its frontman Jerry Garcia almost three many years in the past, it has re-formed a number of occasions, touring constantly and successful over new generations. Alongside the best way, it has given every new set of followers its personal probability to mourn, my colleague Marc Tracy writes.

The day Garcia died in 1995, the Grateful Lifeless guitarist Bob Weir gave a live performance close to Boston. One fan, Albie Cullen, recalled that the encore felt like an emotional send-off for Garcia and the band. “Everyone sort of knew that was the tip,” Cullen mentioned. Nevertheless it wasn’t.

In 2015, the surviving members held a collection of goodbye live shows. It was one other emotional send-off, but it surely wasn’t the tip, both. Inside months, a brand new iteration had shaped, Lifeless & Firm. It options the singer-songwriter John Mayer, who was born greater than a decade after the unique band shaped.

Throughout Lifeless & Firm’s eight-year run, the band as soon as once more grew to become a cultural touchstone. Longtime followers got here to embrace Mayer, a talented guitar participant. Many younger followers found the group on streaming providers or by means of its deep on-line archive of dwell live shows, and the band lately had its finest week of report gross sales in 35 years. Once I noticed the band carry out at Citi Discipline in New York final month, the stadium’s higher deck was full of Gen Z followers wearing tie-dye.

Tonight, Lifeless & Firm is in San Francisco to play the ultimate present of what it says might be its ultimate tour. Even when that seems to not be true, as soon as once more, followers have embraced the ritual.

“We wish to say goodbye. We discover a usefulness to saying goodbye. It’s virtually like observe,” Marc informed me. “Folks genuinely just like the bittersweetness of it. You’re not supposed to love unhappy issues, however individuals go see unhappy motion pictures on a regular basis.”

Learn Marc’s full story right here.

NEWS

Battle in Ukraine

The Sunday query: Ought to Ukraine be part of NATO?

To convey Ukraine into NATO would “draw a brilliant line that Russia dare not cross,” Marc Thiessen and Stephen Biegun write for The Washington Put up. However the help Ukraine wants after the conflict may be achieved “with out admitting Ukraine to NATO,” The Los Angeles Occasions’s editorial board writes.

MORNING READS

Lives Lived: Everett Mendelsohn, a longtime Harvard professor, grew to become identified for lecturing on various matters — genetic engineering and the making of the atomic bomb — and inspiring college students to look at the impression of science. He died at 91.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

“Onlookers”: Ann Beattie’s new story assortment, her “finest in additional than twenty years,” examines the forces shaping America by Charlottesville, Va.

Our editors’ picks: “Instructions to Myself,” a poised memoir of parenthood and processing, and eight different books.

Occasions finest sellers: Colleen Hoover is all around the newest paperback commerce fiction listing.

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THE WEEK AHEAD

What to Watch For

• Novak Djokovic, looking for his third Grand Slam title of the yr, faces Carlos Alcaraz within the Wimbledon males’s ultimate in the present day.

• Jurors within the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue capturing will start contemplating on Monday whether or not to suggest that the decide sentence the gunman to demise or life in jail.

• The Senate is scheduled to start contemplating an annual protection invoice Tuesday. Home Republicans loaded their chamber’s model with social coverage provisions.

• Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, will meet with President Biden on the White Home on Tuesday.

• The Girls’s World Cup begins Thursday in Australia and New Zealand.

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