Rainbow Full of Sound & Dead⚡️Zep (Double Feature) @ Putnam Place

Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Putnam Place | Saratoga Springs

RAINBOW FULL of SOUND
Publisher/HostRAINBOW FULL of SOUND
Rainbow Full of Sound & Dead\u26a1\ufe0fZep (Double Feature) @ Putnam Place
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Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm / 18+
Tickets: $18 Advance / $23 Day of Show

Get ready for a night of Grateful Dead & Led Zeppelin! Rainbow Full of Sound will perform a set of Grateful Dead, followed by a set of their Dead⚡️Zep mashup of Grateful Dead & Led Zeppelin. It's also not lost on the band that May 8 is the anniversary of the legendary Barton Hall show, so don't be surprised to hear some choice selections from Cornell '77.
A Deadheads dream night featuring nationally acclaimed Keyboardist Waynard Scheller, RAINBOW FULL of SOUND (RFoS) have become one of the countries premiere bands playing Grateful Dead songs. For the past (5) years RAINBOW FULL of SOUND has been re-creating the Dead’s legendary 1972 tour of Europe, tracing the path of twenty-one shows from England to Denmark to Germany to France to the Netherlands and back to England. This year the band will continue to Retrace the Europe 72 tour and also venture into the later years performing songs from the 70’s into the 90’s
Waynard has a storied history with the Dead and Family, having recently performed with: Bob Weir and other Grateful Dead member’s, Hot Tuna, Members of RatDog & Phil and Friends,
Plus Previous Tours with John Kadlecik of Furthur & Dark Star Orchestra
DEAD⚡️ZEP
It’s somewhat boggling to think of Jerry Garcia and Jimmy Page swapping riffs – the beatific Buddha and the slashing, edgy Page. But as veteran player of Grateful Dead music Waynard Scheller noticed one night, the chords of the Dead anthem “St. Stephen” merged seamlessly into “Whole Lotta Love.” Then he sat down and found lots of pairs of songs that fit together. And thus was born “Dead-Zep,” a new band formed from his Rainbow Full of Love to mash up the two repertoires.
They not only flow from Zep to Dead and back again, they play Zep songs like the GD and Dead songs the way Zep would…which makes for a fascinating, sometimes shocking evening. Hearing “Ramble On” suddenly dissolve into “St. Stephen” can be amazing to the point of a slight and interesting sense of disorientation. It’s a wide, wide world.
Waynard has been touring up and down the East Coast for years, delighting Dead Heads and other listeners. He founded Dead-Zep with a rotating cast in 2018, and then ran into the pandemic. Now that things are a little healthier…it’s time for Dead-Zep to step out onstage.
It’s time now for something (almost) completely different!
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Putnam Place, 63a Putnam St,Saratoga Springs,NY,United States

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