As some of you maybe don't know - I wasn't aware of it, too - The Grateful Dead had their first concert after four years in 2008. So while browsing various net news sites this evening, I was pretty taken back when I found this story.
The American rock legend The Grateful Dead played at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on February 4th, 2008. The members of the Grateful Dead Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, played the show together in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh says the band is reuniting for a "one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial 'Super-Tuesday' series of primaries."
The show, themed "Deadheads for Obama", was their first concert since 2004 - Lesh, Weir and Hart had not played together for four years.
The American rock legend The Grateful Dead played at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on February 4th, 2008. The members of the Grateful Dead Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, played the show together in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh says the band is reuniting for a "one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial 'Super-Tuesday' series of primaries."
The show, themed "Deadheads for Obama", was their first concert since 2004 - Lesh, Weir and Hart had not played together for four years.
But this wasn’t the Dead members’ first foray into electoral politics; they played a benefit for Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 1999. Gore’s wife, Tipper, sat in on the drums. Lesh, Kreutzmann, and Hart also played a John Kerry fundraiser in 2004.
If you missed the show at the Warfield Theater, here's a clip of their concert:
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