Grateful Dead Reunited: The Dead Tour Dates 2009

The Grateful Dead will live again. The band’s remaining original members have confirmed plans for a new Dead tour in 2009.

Category: News Author : JR Raphael Posted: January 6, 2009

The Dead Tour 2009

The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart played together in support of Barack Obama’s campaign this past fall (video below). Now, the Dead’s members say they’ll embark on their first official Dead tour since 2004.

The band will play 19 shows across 16 cities, joined by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes.

So why now? The band members say the Obama show sparked their interest, and they realized their time together had more life in it yet.

“We’ve got some unfinished business,” Weir says. “Everybody has a whole new bag of tricks. We have the body of material we workedup 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.”

“For me, it’s the question mark that’s really pulling me in — what’s gonna happen?” Lesh asks. “When you walk out on the stage the possibilities are infinite every time.”

The Dead Tour Dates 2009

The following is the full list of Dead tour dates for the 2009 tour. A ticket presale begins January 13, with the full nationwide sale starting on the 23rd.

April 12	Greensboro	NC	Greensboro Coliseum
April 14	Washington	DC	Verizon Center
April 15	Charlottesville	VA	John Paul Jones Arena
April 17	Albany	NY	Times Union Center
April 18	Worcester	MA	DCU Center
April 19	Worcester	MA	DCU Center
April 21	Buffalo	NY	HSBC Arena
April 22	Wilkes-Barre	PA	Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza
April 24	Uniondale	NY	Nassau Coliseum
April 25	New York	NY	Madison Square Garden
April 26	Hartford	CT	XL Center
April 28	E. Rutherford	NJ	IZOD Center
April 29	E. Rutherford	NJ	IZOD Center
May 1	Philadelphia	PA	Wachovia Spectrum
May 2	Philadelphia	PA	Wachovia Spectrum
May 5	Chicago	IL	All State Arena
May 7	Denver	CO	Pepsi Center
May 9	Los Angeles	CA	The Forum
May 10	Mountain View	CA	Shoreline Amphitheater

The Dead Tour 2009: Video

The following video is from the Dead’s rehearsal for the 2008 Obama rally show — the show said to have planted the seed for the new 2009 Dead tour. The band has also posted another video on its official site here.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDsfE86_1A

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