Grateful Dead Winter 2002/2003 News

03/14/03 - RatDog Spring Tour dates are up.

02/20/03 - Download Valentine's Bash audio (from PhilZone.com)

02/14/03 - The Dead will play the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June 2003.

02/12/03 - According to his Road Journal, Robert Hunter will open the Warfield 02/14/03 show. Also, according to JamBands.com, "The Dead has invited guitarist Warren Haynes to perform at this Friday’s Valentines Day benefit concert." And the Marin IJ reports, "Guest musicians Sammy Hagar, Joan Osborne and Michael Kang from the String Cheese Incident are expected to perform at the show."

02/08/03 - Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Chimenti, and Rob Barraco have decided to call themselves: "The Dead." Their first show of 2003 will take place on 02/14/03 at the Warfield Theater. Also, a note on the Valentine's Bash Ticket Information page says:

due to the last minute nature of this engagement, we regret that our friends GDTSTOO will not be able to fulfill tickets for this show. They will be on board for the Summer Tour.

02/06/03 - View From The Vault IV will be from Oakland 07/24/87 and Anaheim 07/26/87.

02/05/03 - Robert Hunter Spring Tour dates are up.

01/18/03 - RatDog Winter Tour dates are up.

01/17/03 - Dick's Picks Volume 27 is a 3 CD set featuring 12/16/92 with extras from 12/17/92.

01/07/03 - Dennis McNally has been nominated for a Grammy in the 85th category, Album Notes, for The Golden Road (1965-1973).

01/03/03 - From Billboard.com:

Weir says that he and his former Dead bandmates are considering reuniting as the Other Ones -- a group that also features Jeff Chimenti (keyboardist in Weir's Ratdog) and two members of Lesh's band, Phil Lesh & Friends, keyboardist/vocalist Rob Barraco and guitarist Jimmy Herring -- for "three, four, five events, probably on long holiday weekends [in 2003]." That, he says, "will probably be enough. If we're gonna make the effort to go out and tour, I would expect what we have to do is spend some time together and come up with new material to make it aesthetically worth our while."

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[Bob Weir] says, "I was just listening to Grateful Dead Records' latest [as yet unreleased] 'Dick's Picks' and I was sort of taken aback at how sensitively the Grateful Dead was playing in 1992. . .

12/28/02 - Download The Other Ones 11/26/02 Madison Square Garden audio (from PhilZone.com)

12/22/02 - According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Bob Weir appears in Ron Mann's upcoming documentary, Go Further.