CHICAGO — Get ready for a Deadhead invasion, Wrigleyville.
Dead & Company, a band made up of three of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead along with guitarist John Mayer, announced they'll play two shows at Wrigley Field next summer.
The shows, the band's first at Wrigley Field, will be June 30 and July 1, 2017.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 9.
The band also features Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbridge.
The Grateful Dead, a signature band of the 1960s counterculture movement, survived for decades, creating a traveling circus of sorts for fans, hippies, their children and people who wanted to see a piece of history.
Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia died in 1995 (he played his final show at Soldier Field), presumably spelling the end of the band.
Instead, they returned in various forms, including as the Grateful Dead for a series of "farewell" shows in Chicago and California in 2015. During those concerts, dubbed "Fare Thee Well," Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio filled in on lead guitar for Garcia.
Those concerts were massively successfully, although bass player Phil Lesh declared them his final shows and Anastasio returned to Phish.
Dead & Company, featuring original Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, continued on, picking up John Mayer as lead guitarist.
And now they're coming to Wrigley, just a few "L" stops away from the Uptown Theater, where the Dead played some classic shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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