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VIDEO: The Dead on Letterman

JR — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:37:49 +0000

The Dead — the reformed music group featuring members of the Grateful Dead — performed on David Letterman this week. The band played the 1970 song “Sugar Magnolia,” off the classic album American Beauty.

The Dead just began its first official tour since 2004. Original members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart are joined by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes. The group is playing 19 shows across 16 cities.

[See: The Dead Tour Dates 2009]

The Dead on Letterman Video

The following video shows The Dead on Letterman from April 23, 2009.

String Cheese Incident Reuniting For Rothbury 2009 [Full Lineup Inside]

JR — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:06:50 +0000

The String Cheese Incident, a jam-band from Colorado, is reuniting to play at the Rothbury 2009 festival in Rothbury, Michigan. The Dead and Bob Dylan are also set to headline the event.

String Cheese Incident Reunited

The String Cheese Incident stopped playing together in August of 2007 when guitarist and vocalist Billy Nershi decided to work on his own individual projects.

“”There are no plans for the String Cheese Incident beyond summer of 2007,” the band announced at the time. “The band would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to our friends and fans for all your support.”

The String Cheese Incident’s Web site doesn’t specifically say that Nershi will be playing at the event, though it does call the show “SCI’s Only Incident of 2009.”

Rothbury 2009 Lineup

The Rothbury 2009 festival, held about three hours northwest of Detroit from July 2 through July 5, is actually produced by Madison House Presents — a company with ties to the String Cheese Incident’s business organization. Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. MDT Friday here.

The full Rothbury 2009 lineup follows.

The Dead
Bob Dylan and His Band
The String Cheese Incident
Willie Nelson & Family
The Black Crowes
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley & Nas
STS9
G. Love & Special Sauce
Gov’t Mule
Broken Social Scene
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Disco Biscuits
Les Claypool
Cold War Kids
John Butler
Chromeo
Ani DiFranco
Matisyahu
Guster
Girl Talk
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
MSTRKRFT
Martin Sexton
Flogging Molly
Railroad Earth
The Hold Steady
Toots & The Maytals
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Brett Dennen
Zappa Plays Zappa
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Shpongle DJ Set
Son Volt
Jackie Greene
Soulive
Man Man
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band w/ Tony Rice
EOTO
King Sunny Adé & His African Beats
Lotus
Kid Cudi
STS9 Live PA
The Glitch Mob
Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
Pretty Lights
Moseley, Law, Sipe & Droll
Rebelution
Quannum All Stars ft. Lyrics Born, The Mighty Underdogs, Gift of Gab & Lifesavas
Toubab Krewe
Sam Roberts Band
Hill Country Revue
Kyle Hollingsworth Band
Lipp Service
2020 Soundsystem
Break Science ft. Adam Deitch
The Hard Lessons
The Low Anthem
Underground Orchestra
Future Rock
The Macpodz
Steppin’ In It
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Chris Pierce
Rachel Goodrich
The Ragbirds
Four Finger Five

Grateful Dead Reunited: The Dead Tour Dates 2009

JR — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:11:03 +0000

The Grateful Dead will live again. The band’s remaining original members have confirmed plans for a new Dead tour in 2009.

The Dead Tour 2009

The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart played together in support of Barack Obama’s campaign this past fall (video below). Now, the Dead’s members say they’ll embark on their first official Dead tour since 2004.

The band will play 19 shows across 16 cities, joined by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes.

So why now? The band members say the Obama show sparked their interest, and they realized their time together had more life in it yet.

“We’ve got some unfinished business,” Weir says. “Everybody has a whole new bag of tricks. We have the body of material we workedup over the years and we have a mind meld going on here and it would be a sin to let that just wither and die.”

“For me, it’s the question mark that’s really pulling me in — what’s gonna happen?” Lesh asks. “When you walk out on the stage the possibilities are infinite every time.”

The Dead Tour Dates 2009

The following is the full list of Dead tour dates for the 2009 tour. A ticket presale begins January 13, with the full nationwide sale starting on the 23rd.

April 12	Greensboro	NC	Greensboro Coliseum
April 14	Washington	DC	Verizon Center
April 15	Charlottesville	VA	John Paul Jones Arena
April 17	Albany	NY	Times Union Center
April 18	Worcester	MA	DCU Center
April 19	Worcester	MA	DCU Center
April 21	Buffalo	NY	HSBC Arena
April 22	Wilkes-Barre	PA	Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza
April 24	Uniondale	NY	Nassau Coliseum
April 25	New York	NY	Madison Square Garden
April 26	Hartford	CT	XL Center
April 28	E. Rutherford	NJ	IZOD Center
April 29	E. Rutherford	NJ	IZOD Center
May 1	Philadelphia	PA	Wachovia Spectrum
May 2	Philadelphia	PA	Wachovia Spectrum
May 5	Chicago	IL	All State Arena
May 7	Denver	CO	Pepsi Center
May 9	Los Angeles	CA	The Forum
May 10	Mountain View	CA	Shoreline Amphitheater

The Dead Tour 2009: Video

The following video is from the Dead’s rehearsal for the 2008 Obama rally show — the show said to have planted the seed for the new 2009 Dead tour. The band has also posted another video on its official site here.