Bob Weir's Ratdog adds more dates

Vocalist-guitarist Bob Weir and his Grateful Dead spin-off group Ratdog have announced a batch of new shows to fill out the band's fall itinerary.

The tour now kicks off Oct. 25 in Milwaukee and continues into early December. The bulk of the newly added shows are in the Southeast, including a two-night stand on Nov. 15 and 16 at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse.

While on the road, Weir and his 10-year-old group--which currently also includes drummer Jay Layne, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarist Mark Karan, saxophonist Kenny Brooks and bassist Robin Sylvester--will treat Canadian Deadheads with a Halloween night (10/31) performance at the Docks in Toronto.

The full tour itinerary is included below.

Weir formed Ratdog in 1995 with bassist Rob Wasserman, who is no longer involved with the group. The only Ratdog studio album is "Evening Moods," released by Arista Records in 2000.

The band started a live-CD series in the fall of 2003, making many of its past performances available on CD and as downloads exclusively via online music store MunckMusic (https://www.munckmusic.com/wms/index.html).

Ratdog performed as part of the "Comes a Time - A Celebration of the Music and Spirit of Jerry Garcia" on Sept. 24 at the U.C. Greek Theatre in Berkeley. The event--which honored the late Grateful Dead frontman, who died in 1995--also featured Trey Anastasio, Hamza el Din, Brian Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, Bruce Hornsby, Gloria Jones, Bill Kreutzmann and others.