The Music Never Stopped performed by Dark Star Orchestra

• Original Artist Grateful Dead
• From the release Blues for Allah (Album)
• Total Plays 405 times by Dark Star Orchestra
•   2686 times by 172 artists
• First Played in Concert November 11, 1997 at Martyrs', Chicago, IL, USA
• Most Recently Played September 26, 2026 at Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka, Williamsburg, VA, USA

Years

	Year	Song Performances
1	2000	39
2	2001	26
3	1999	24
4	2002	17
5	2004	16
	2018	16
	2022	16
	2026	16
9	1998	15
	2008	15
	2016	15
	2019	15
	2023	15
	2024	15
15	2003	14
	2017	14
17	2007	13
	2025	13
19	2005	12
20	2015	11
21	2006	10
	2012	10
23	2011	9
	2013	9
25	2009	8
	2021	8
27	2014	7
28	2010	4
29	2020	2
30	1997	1

Plays by Other Artists

• Grateful Dead 235 times
• Playing Dead 143 times
• Ratdog 121 times
• Half Step – GD Tribute 92 times
• Joe Russo's Almost Dead 91 times
• Bearly Dead 89 times
• Forgotten Space 79 times
• Andy Coe Band 72 times
• Phil Lesh & Friends 54 times
• Splintered Sunlight 50 times
• Terrapin Flyer 48 times
• Dead & Company 45 times
• The Big Wu 44 times
• Steely Dead 40 times
• Furthur 39 times
• Shakedown Citi 39 times
• Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 38 times
• Grateful Shred 37 times
• Garcia Birthday Band 34 times
• Crickets and Cicadas 32 times
• Dupree's Dead Band 31 times
• Uncle John's Band 31 times
• Dead Floyd 29 times
• Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble 29 times
• Dogs in a Pile 28 times
• Stu Allen & Mars Hotel 28 times
• Deadicated 27 times
• The Schwag 27 times
• Mr. Blotto 23 times
• Stella Blue's Band 22 times
• DeadEye 20 times
• Dobbs Dead 18 times
• Eggy 18 times
• GD/BC 18 times
• The Stolen Faces 18 times
• Mars Hotel 17 times
• Friends of the Phamily 16 times
• The Dead 16 times
• Bob Weir 14 times
• Cosmic Charlie 13 times
• Organ Fairchild 13 times
• The Reckoning 13 times
• Zach Nugent's Dead Set 13 times
• Terrapin 12 times
• Friends of Jerry 11 times
• BERTHA 10 times
• Deadstein 10 times
• GLAF - Grahame Lesh & Friends 10 times
• Better Off Dead 9 times
• Jazz Is Dead 9 times
• The Other Ones 9 times
• Cats Will Play Band 8 times
• China Camp Family Band 8 times
• Pounds of Sin 8 times
• Shakedown Street 8 times
• Steal Your Peach 8 times
• Strangers Stopping Strangers 8 times
• Owsley’s Owls 7 times
• Rock Crown 7 times
• Ted & Company 7 times
• The Zen Tricksters 7 times
• Wolph 7 times
• Cubensis 6 times
• Hyryder 6 times
• The Dead Revival Band 6 times
• DeadPhish Orchestra 5 times
• Ladyfinger 5 times
• The Terrapin Family Band 5 times
• Universe Peoples 5 times
• Andrew Weiss and Friends 4 times
• Citizens' Dead 4 times
• Cosmic Jerry Band 4 times
• Diamond Blues 4 times
• Grateful 4 times
• Jawn of The Dead 4 times
• Michael Falzarano 4 times
• Pink Talking Fish 4 times
• Scott Guberman & Jerry Saracini 4 times
• Alex Jordan 3 times
• Bring Out Yer Dead 3 times
• Brown Eyed Women 3 times
• Cotter & Friends 3 times
• Cotter Ellis 3 times
• Great Northern 3 times
• Northbound Train 3 times
• Old Shoe 3 times
• Pushing Daisy's Band 3 times
• Sage & Spirits 3 times
• The Motet 3 times
• The ‘77z 3 times
• Uncle Don's Band 3 times
• Young and Dead 3 times
• Axial Tilt 2 times
• Bill Kreutzmann’s Billy & The Kids 2 times
• Chill Sesh and Friends 2 times
• Cosmic Rose 2 times
• Dark Hollow 2 times
• Dave McMurray 2 times
• Dead on Live 2 times
• Donna Jean Godchaux 2 times
• Dupree's Diamonds 2 times
• Hot Buttered Rum 2 times
• Joe Gallant & Illuminati 2 times
• John Kadlecik 2 times
• Rainbow Full of Sound 2 times
• Steal Your Face 2 times
• The Field Service 2 times
• The Reckoning Crew 2 times
• Under Eternity Blues Band 2 times
• Vince Welnick 2 times
• Workingman’s Dead 2 times
• Airshow 1 time
• Andy Tichenor 1 time
• Arrows of Neon 1 time
• Bob Weir and Phil Lesh 1 time
• Bushwick's Dead 1 time
• Catfish John 1 time
• Caution 1 time
• China Cats 1 time
• Chris Thile 1 time
• Connor Kennedy 1 time
• Crazy Fingers 1 time
• Cris Jacobs 1 time
• Cryptical 1 time
• Daniel Donato 1 time
• Dead Meat (Grateful Dead Tribute) 1 time
• Dead Set 1 time
• Dead Set 805 1 time
• Diamond Eye Jack 1 time
• Down East Dead 1 time
• Dr. Howard Yadonsky's Golden Formula 1 time
• East L.A. Fadeaway 1 time
• Eric Brewer & Friends 1 time
• Eric Krasno 1 time
• Everyone Orchestra 1 time
• Fairbanks 142 1 time
• Fondude 1 time
• Frankly Scarlet 1 time
• Garrett Deloian 1 time
• Graciously Departed 1 time
• Happy Accidents 1 time
• Help on the Way 1 time
• Jerome's Pace 1 time
• Jerry’s Middle Finger 1 time
• Last Fair Deal 1 time
• Loose Lucies 1 time
• Mark Karan 1 time
• Midnight North 1 time
• Mystic Dead 1 time
• Other People 1 time
• Phil Lesh 1 time
• Pickin' On Series 1 time
• Rosebud 1 time
• Sean Canan's Voodoo Players 1 time
• Strangefolk 1 time
• Sunshine Daydream 1 time
• Terrapin Station 1 time
• The Captain Midnight Band 1 time
• The Dead Reckoning 1 time
• The Grateful Dudes 1 time
• The Pranksters 1 time
• The Quarterly 1 time
• Touch of Grey 1 time
• Touch of Trey 1 time
• Unlimited Devotion 1 time
• Various Artists 1 time
• Whose Cat Is Dead 1 time
• Workingman’s Jed 1 time
• Xtra Ticket 1 time
• moe. 1 time
• theCAUSE 1 time