"It's time to get registered, it's time to vote," says Dead guitarist Bob Weir. "If you anytime wish to vote again, do it now. I'm not cogent humans who to vote for. I anticipate they can amount it out. But I will say this: If every Deadhead in the accompaniment of Florida had voted in the endure election, it'd be a actual altered apple appropriate now."
Never accepted for bond their music with politics, the Dead -- the abbreviated name for the post-Jerry Garcia apotheosis of the Grateful Dead -- accept taken up a cause: removing George Bush from office. The accumulation has even been arena "Johnny B. Goode," the Kerry attack affair song, during shows. According to Weir, the Dead's move into political activism came from a faculty of urgency.
"It occurs to me and the blow of the guys that this may be our endure allusive election," Weir says. "If we abide to alluvion the way we're drifting, the United States will become a capitalism in name only. Instead of government of the people, by the humans and for the people, we'll accept government of the people, by the aristocratic and for the elite, and the humans will appear secondarily."
The Dead kicked off their summer-long Wave That Flag Bout at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee on June 12th, and it ends Thursday in Atlanta. The airing is the latest footfall in a awakening of the band, which reunited in 2003 about the amount of Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. They automated their organization, acid the agent agenda in bisected and outsourcing affairs and ticketing operations.
This is their aboriginal bout with a three-guitar calendar that includes new accession Warren Haynes. According to Weir, differences a part of bandage associates accept abundantly been resolved. "Going into this, I was cerebration maybe we were gonna charge a cartage cop," says Weir. "But everybody's alert to anybody else, and Warren has fabricated us a little added muscular."
The bout hasn't been bland sailing. In June, the Dead awash out alone three of 5 nights at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater, and they played to half-empty houses in Phoenix and Salt Lake City. But Weir says the crowds accept been agog -- and young. "There are kids up foreground who don't apperception the elbows," he says. "A few rows back, they get a few years older."
The accumulation will bless its fortieth ceremony in 2005 and affairs to barrage a above U.S. bout next year. Rhino Records will absolution several flat reissues and attenuate reside material. Asked whether the bandage affairs to put out new music, Weir says, "I don't apperceive if albums are the way it's traveling to be done anymore. With downloading, the anthology may be an anachronistic concept. If there's some acumen to put out a accumulation of songs together, we may do that. We'll be recording all along. We've accounting a few new songs already."
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