Live Dead & Brothers, an all-star tribute to the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers Band featuring Berry Duane Oakley (bass), Mark Karan (guitar), Scott Guberman (keyboard), and Pete Lavezzoli (drums), have announced the Truckin’ 2025 Spring Tour, with 19 shows in March and April featuring special guest Steve Kimock on slide guitar.
Formed in 2024 to celebrate the 1969–1973 heydey of joint performances between the Dead and ABB, Live Dead & Brothers honors the legacies of both bands with members of each group’s extended musical family—or in the case of Berry Duane Oakley, their actual family. Oakley is the son of late founding Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley. He helped form the Allman Betts Band with fellow ABB kin Devon Allman and Duane Betts back in 2018, though he no longer performs with the second-generation outfit.
Karan entered the Dead orbit in the late 1990s when he stepped in as the Jerry Garcia ringer in The Other Ones alongside Steve Kimock and later toured with RatDog for over a decade; Guberman was a frequent collaborator of late Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, serving as a regular guest of Phil Lesh & Friends; Lavezzoli, who is an accomplished author as well as a musician, plays in Jazz Is Dead and has also performed with Phil Lesh & Friends, Bob Weir, Oteil Burbridge, Melvin Seals & JGB, and more.
The band toured last spring with ABB alum Les Dudek and keyboardist Tom Constanten, who played live with the Dead from 1968–1970, handling the more instrumentally exploratory keyboard work while Ronald “Pigpen” McKernan focused on vocals and percussion.
The band’s Truckin’ 2025 Spring Tour will kick off on March 28th at Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA and make stops throughout the Northeast, South, and Midwest before wrapping on April 20th at The Miramar Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Click below for a full list of dates and visit the group’s Bandsintown for ticketing information.
