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Soldier Field is where the Grateful Dead last played as a group before the death of lead guitarist-songwriter Jerry Garcia in August 1995. They will perform a second two-set show in Santa Clara on Sunday before heading to Chicago for three shows on July 3, 4 and 5. The group changed its name to the Grateful Dead seven months later and shortly after moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the counterculture hub with which the Dead still are identified. The first of the Dead's five 'Fare Thee Well' shows is scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, not far from the pizzeria where a five-man blues-rock band called The Warlocks played its first gig in May 1965.

The four surviving members of the Grateful Dead are launching their farewell mini-tour on Saturday in California, where the legendary jam band got its start 50 years ago.

Keep on truckin grateful dead