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It seems as though all plans for a 40th anniversary tour of The Dead have fallen through. After touring in an ever changing band after the death of Jerry Garcia, the four surviving members of The Grateful Dead (Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir) have decided against a summer tour and fall tour for 2005.
With Mickey Hart joining Particle and becoming Hydra, Bob Weir touring this summer with Ratdog and Phil Lesh having just finished his new book "Searching for the Sound - My Life with the Dead" it just won't be in their future, well their immediate future anyway. We caught up with Mickey Hart just before his show with Hydra and asked him about The Dead's 40th anniversary and subsequent tour rumors.
"Yeah, I wouldn't get too hung up on forty years. We tried to celebrate the 25th, and remember the 15th, the 10th. They're not that important. The most important thing is we decided we weren't going to work this band into the ground. We're going to do it when we want to do it and not because there was pressure to do it and at the right time. And we're going to do that. We'll play again and when we play it'll be great and for the right reasons. So there's no plans for the summer and there are no plans for the fall as of yet, but I can see us making the move next year. Maybe in the spring."
Mickey Hart's tour with Hydra will be lasting until The New Orleans Jazzfest May 1st, Ratdog will be touring America until May 1st in New York and they'll also be making a stop at Bonnaroo in Tennessee, playing the main stage June 12th. Although no tours are currently in the works, look for The Dead to take their hiatus only to hit the road for a major tour in 2006.
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