Clearwater, FL

Uncle John's Band

Uncle John's Band is a Grateful Dead tribute formed in Clearwater in 1989 and one of Tampa Bay's longest-running Dead bands. It played a weekly Thursday residency at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa for decades and now plays Thursdays at Bayboro Brewing in St. Petersburg. In 2015 the band played VIP parties at Chicago's Field Museum during the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well shows.