The summer of 2015 was a culminating moment in Bill Walton’s life. He’d been seeing the Grateful Dead, in all of its iterations, for 48 years by that point. He’d been to hundreds upon hundreds of shows, but like so many Deadheads, the series of 50th-anniversary shows in Northern California and Chicago (billed as Fare Thee Well) were going to be monumental: the first time most of the group’s surviving members would play together in years, and the last time it would happen.
Walton, who by then was...
Walton, who by then was...
- 5/27/2024
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Walton, The Hall of Fame NBA center, broadcaster, and public devotee of the Grateful Dead, has died at age 71. His death on Monday was announced by the National Basketball Association, who released a statement from commission Adam Silver calling Walton “truly one of a kind… He redefined the center position.” The cause of death was cancer.
“The world feels so much heavier now,” Walton’s friend, former rival, and fellow UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote on X. “On the court, Bill was a fierce player, but off the court...
“The world feels so much heavier now,” Walton’s friend, former rival, and fellow UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote on X. “On the court, Bill was a fierce player, but off the court...
- 5/27/2024
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Get ready for a sequel that will go up to … 12?! The team behind the brilliant 1984 music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has officially begun work on another film. Filmmaker Rob Reiner will once again direct and portray documentarian Marty Dibergi as he checks in with the three members of Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins (actor Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — to see how the past four decades have treated the heavy-metal stereotypes. They have not yet announced who’ll be playing the drummer, at...
- 3/11/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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