Talk:John Kadlecik

JK and "Fare Thee Well"
The bio line regarding Fare Thee Well is not supported by the history of that event, which was always intended by the producer to be a joining of Trey Anastasio with the remains of Grateful Dead. TO the degree that anyone else was "considered," including John and several others, that would have been mostly fan conjecture. Bob and Mickey had already begun the process of onboarding John Mayer for Dead and Co., and for all anyone knew before the event Phil had not yet made his choice about continuing (though runmor has it Jill had).

John is a natural first call choice, out of several well-known ones, for the any seat that plays the kind of parts that Jerry Garcia once played, but he was not in main consideration for Fare Thee Well at any time. Here is Bob's diplomatic approach to the question: https://www.jambase.com/article/bob-weir-explains-trey-anastasio-choice-for-fare-thee-well

More fascinating stuff about why it worked out so well with Trey: https://www.jambase.com/article/jeff-tanski-discusses-prepping-trey-anastasio-fare-thee-well Direwolfe (talk) 16:41, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Paywalled version from Peter Shapiro pov: https://www.billboard.com/pro/peter-shapiro-grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-tour-promoter/