Posted on 02/02/2008 6:11:36 PM PST by LibWhacker
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday.
Band leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Surviving members have played together occasionally since then, most recently in 2004. On Monday, original members Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will play at a San Francisco theater a day before California's primary.
"They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial 'Super-Tuesday' series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th," the band said in a statement.
The band gained fame with its free-form psychedelic music when the counterculture movement flourished in San Francisco in the 1960s, and they attracted many loyal fans who came to be known as "Deadheads."
Beats me. I guess you had to be there...and bombed out of your skull.
The dead vote for Democrats, the Dead play concerts for Democrats.....
whoa...dude...Jerry Garcia died ?
no Kreutzmann?
Obama needs a miracle every day.
A good excuse to get stoned.
If Obama can raise Jerry from the dead, I’ll vote for him ...
Well, that’s it for Hillary, if the Dead are gonna play for Obama.
Even though his papa was a rolling stone.....
Jerry's dead now.
We *heard* good music.
Bill lives in Hawaii and probably is not motivated to jump on a plane for the gig.
I hear ‘ya... If I stood on a corner and sang for 40 years, I’d come up with precisely zero good songs. As far as I can tell they sang for 40 years and only came up with one. Put another way, they are only slightly better than me. Sheesh!... Life isn’t fair.
Lol
oh gawd
LOL! I was thinking the same thing...You know with all the hype around Oprahbama and all.
smart guy
;~ )
Man, those guys suck.
Actually, I liked some of their music, but there was too much of the dark side involved for me ever to be a "Deadhead." OTOH, I'm a big Parrot Head.
Jerry was a fantastic guitar and banjo player. He had a distinct tonality on electric that no one could copy, and he was a splendid improviser within the genre he chose.
He had many personal problems, but this is pretty common among musicians with more money than sense.
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