Obama Helps Resurrect The Dead

The Dead are back on the road and we have none other than President Barack Obama to thank for it, according to an Associated Press report.

The Dead, once America’s biggest concert draw, have taken to the road for the first time in five years after reuniting for a benefit concert during the Obama presidential campaign. According to the AP, one benefit performance led to another and then an inaugural ball concert. Next thing they knew, bassist Phil Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann were back together.

“It came off so well that we thought we owe it to ourselves to play again,” Lesh said. “It brings out something in all of us, in our gestalt and our totality, that we can’t deliver, we can’t find anywhere else.”

The tour got under way this past Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina.