Grateful Dead survivors plan to tour as The Other Ones
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead plan to tour the northeastern U.S. later this year, but only if the group’s Aug. 3-4 event at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wis., goes smoothly.
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead plan to tour the northeastern U.S. later this year, but only if the group’s Aug. 3-4 event at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wis., goes smoothly.
Reuniting as The Other Ones, Grateful Dead survivors Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will close both days of the sold-out Wisconsin festival--dubbed Terrapin Station, A Grateful Dead Family Reunion--with two sets. The festival will also feature performances by the survivors’ respective solo projects.
The Terrapin Station event was thrown into doubt in June after highway officials, who were concerned that upwards of 200,000 people would flock to the area, denied a request by promoter Clear Channel Entertainment to stage the show.
County officials reconsidered after Clear Channel presented a detailed security plan.
The Other Ones will embark on a 13-city tour in November, “conditional upon a safe and positive outcome of Alpine Valley,” according to the official Grateful Dead website. “What this means is that the request for only people with tickets to come to the show has to be strictly adhered to. Failure to comply with this simple request will put these tour dates in serious jeopardy.”
The Alpine Valley show will mark the first time that all surviving members of the Grateful Dead have performed together since the death of singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia. The group performed their last show in Chicago on July 9, 1995. Garcia died a month later in California after he suffered a heart attack at a substance-abuse treatment facility.
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