Grateful Shred at Infinity Music Hall featuring Dan Horne and Austin McCutchen alongside keyboardist Adam MacDougall, guitarist John Lee Shannon and vocalist Mikaela Davis, woke the Grateful Dead cosmos with a unique laid-back harmony driven sound.
The band literally went from playing the Shakedown Street vendor area prior to Dead and Company shows to touring the United States.
The moment that sent the band’s popularity soaring is the “Busted at the Bowl” video, a YouTube video that features Shred members starting an impromptu set in the parking lot of the Hollywood Bowl before a Dead and Company show in 2017.
They didn’t get too far before drawing so much attention that the police shut them down.
Instantly creating Shred-cred, this was a bit of good fortune that doesn’t get past McCutchen. “We’ve been dealt some pretty good cards,” he states. “It’s been cool to roll with it and push forward and continually make stuff happen.
Things have gone our way.
Even that video happened magically.
It was put together at the last minute, and boom!” Grateful Shred released their first full studio album “Might As Well” on their own label- Liberty Hair Farm Records June 2025.
The album resurrects tracks performed by Grateful Dead, and The Jerry Garcia Band - some well known and some deep cuts all that never received formal studio treatments.
All were reengineered through Shred’s lens of sun-bleached harmonies and freewheeling improvisation.
Featuring vocals from acclaimed vocalist Mikaela Davis, the…
