After a successful reunion and celebration earlier this year, the Other Ones -- surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart along with keyboardists Rob Barraco and Jeff Chimenti, and guitarist Jimmy Herring -- will do that which the Dead did best: hit the road. The group has lined up seventeen tour dates, starting November 14th in Roanoke, Virginia, and running through December 6th in Oakland.

Shortly after the 1995 death of guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia, the other members of the Dead went their separate ways, with some in-fighting amongst them. Weir formed RatDog, Lesh started Phil Lesh and Friends, Hart toured with Bembe Orisha and earlier this year Kreutzmann recorded with the TriChromes. The members buried their respective hatchets in August, though, for a pair of the Other Ones shows at a two-day festival in Wisconsin, in addition to performing with their respective ensembles.

"It seems as though seven years was just the right amount of time to see clearly our mission," Hart said. "That mission is, and always was, to touch the soul and give light to all who would listen. And don't forget all the big fun that awaits us this fall, as once again we wrestle with the mighty beast. The magic is back."

Tickets will be available initially through GDTSToo.com, and later through Ticketmaster.

11/14: Roanoke, VA, Civic Center
11/15: Washington DC, MCI Center
11/16: Albany, Pepsi Arena
11/18-19: Boston, Fleet Center
11/20: East Rutherford, NJ, Continental Airlines Arena
11/22: Hartford, CT, Civic Center
11/23-24: Philadelphia, First Union Spectrum
11/26: New York, Madison Square Garden
11/27: Cleveland, Gund Arena
11/29: Pittsburgh, Mellon Arena
11/30: Detroit, Palace at Auburn Hills
12/1: Indianapolis, Conseco Fieldhouse
12/2: Chicago, Allstate Arena
12/5-6: Oakland, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium

ANDREW DANSBY
(October 7, 2002)