The DEAD Announces 2009 Tour Dates
By Seraphina L.
Happy New Year from the DEAD.
Yes; it’s true. The Grateful Dead has announced that a 2009 tour WILL be happening! This has been the first tour announcement since their 2004 “Wave That Flag” tour.
Kicking off April 12 in Greensboro, NC and wrapping May 10 near San Francisco, the tour will encompass 19 shows–all to be performed as “An Evening With”–in 16 cities. Pre-sale tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 13 and nationwide beginning Friday, January 23. All the concerts are set for indoor arenas except for the final show at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
Original Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart will be joined by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, both of whom played with the band at the “Change Rocks” concert.
Guitarist/singer Bob Weir states:
We’ve got some unfinished business,Everybody has a whole new bag of tricks; we have the body of material we worked up over the years and we have a mind meld going on here and it would be a sin to let that just wither and die.
Bassist Phil Lesh says:
For me, it’s the question mark that’s really pulling me in…what’s gonna happen? When you walk out on the stage the possibilities are infinite every time. The musical possibilities are infinite: there is no end to it, there’s no back wall and there’s no ceiling, there’s no floor. It’s infinite and therefore you can still explore it till the day that you die.
Check out the tour dates below!
4/12 Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum
4/14 Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
4/15 Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena
4/17 Albany, NY @ Times Union Center
4/18 Worcester, MA @ DCU Center
4/19 Worcester, MA @ DCU Center
4/21 Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
4/22 Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza
4/24 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Coliseum
4/25 New York, NY @ Madison Sqaure Garden
4/26 Hartford, CT @ XL Center
4/28 E. Rutherford, NJ @ IZOD Center
4/29 E. Rutherford, NJ @ IZOD Center
5/01 Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Spectrum
5/02 Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Spectrum
5/05 Chicago, IL @ All State Arena
5/07 Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
5/09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
5/10 @ Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
For more information, you can go to www.dead.net or www.Dead.Net/Dead09.
