Tucson Weekly

Xtra Ticket is an Arizona home-grown Grateful Dead tribute act that has been performing in the Southwest since 1994. Each show is like a road trip. From the on and off-ramps of song segues to the superhighways of exploratory jams, this band pushes themselves to the limits, driving their fans on a musical journey to an ultimately grateful destination. Xtra Ticket has the proficiency to re-create the sonic bliss of three decades of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band material, while maintaining their own stamp on the jam. This secret formula is commonly referred to as "going Ticket style" and appeals to a wide audience of young and old, satisfying the purest of Dead Heads plus music lovers of all genres. Like the good 'ole days of Dead Tour, the true blotter test is that you can leave your worries at the door and not only be a spectator, but a living, breathing part of show.

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Top Dead Center (or TDC, as we like to call it sometimes, you know, when we feel we're important enough to actually have our very own acronym) is, at its creamy caramel center, a band that plays the music of The Grateful Dead, one of the most beloved groups of all time. We're not really a "Tribute Band," as we're not really trying to pretend that we're the GD (note clever use of acronym again, this time to convey a sense of undeserved familiarity), and we're not really a "Cover Band," as we don't really try too hard to exactly sound like them. But what we do is to try to recreate the feeling of being at a Dead show, and especially to try to approach their music as, we think, they did, whatever that means.

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