The Other Ones resurrect The Dead
ByFeb 10, 2003 11:00 PM
The Other Ones--the band that features the surviving members of the Grateful Dead--have changed their name to The Dead.
“After we played our first shows together at Alpine Valley last year, we were all profoundly affected by a sense of awe and connection that none of us had felt since we played with Jerry,” the band said in a statement. “It was a magical occurrence that no one could have anticipated, yet one we all want to embrace. To us, this was the Grateful Dead--without Jerry. We had stopped being the ‘Other Ones’ and were on our way to becoming something new but at the same time very familiar.
“Grateful Dead conjures up many different emotions and feelings for all of us; it was a BAND, it continues to be a community, an approach to life, a electrical current, a dream, the list goes on. Whenever and wherever we played this past year, we all knew that we were experiencing Grateful Dead in its multiplicity of forms. We also know that this would not have been possible without all of you joining to support us. Therefore, with the greatest possible respect to our collective history, we have decided to keep the name ‘Grateful Dead’ retired in honor of Jerry’s memory, and call ourselves: ‘The Dead.’”
The group debuts its new name at a Feb. 14 benefit concert at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater.
The Other Ones--the band that features the surviving members of the Grateful Dead--have changed their name to The Dead.
“After we played our first shows together at Alpine Valley last year, we were all profoundly affected by a sense of awe and connection that none of us had felt since we played with Jerry,” the band said in a statement. “It was a magical occurrence that no one could have anticipated, yet one we all want to embrace. To us, this was the Grateful Dead--without Jerry. We had stopped being the ‘Other Ones’ and were on our way to becoming something new but at the same time very familiar.
“Grateful Dead conjures up many different emotions and feelings for all of us; it was a BAND, it continues to be a community, an approach to life, a electrical current, a dream, the list goes on. Whenever and wherever we played this past year, we all knew that we were experiencing Grateful Dead in its multiplicity of forms. We also know that this would not have been possible without all of you joining to support us. Therefore, with the greatest possible respect to our collective history, we have decided to keep the name ‘Grateful Dead’ retired in honor of Jerry’s memory, and call ourselves: ‘The Dead.’”
The group debuts its new name at a Feb. 14 benefit concert at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater.
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