Plenty of high-profile celebrities have professed their love for The Grateful Dead throughout the years, but there is perhaps no Deadhead as visible as Bill Walton—both in the figurative and literal sense. A longtime fan of the band, the NBA Hall of Famer has developed a friendship with the band over the years and is frequently spotted at shows, from Fare The Well to Dead & Co tour—at almost 7 feet tall, he’s pretty hard to miss in a crowd.
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In recent years, he’s made some amusing cameos on the stage as well. In addition to appearing as part of Dead & Company’s 2015 New Year’s Eve shenanigans in Los Angeles as a Jedi Father Time, Walton helped close out Dead & Co’s 2016 summer tour by joining drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann and bassist Oteil Burbridge for their nightly “Drums” segment.
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Watch Walton join Hart, Kreutzmann and Burbridge for some serious drumming at Shoreline in 2016 below:
Bill Walton Joins Dead & Company For “Drums”
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Happy birthday to the Dead’s biggest (or, at least, tallest) fan, Bill Walton! Here’s to many more circles around the sun!
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