Former Grateful Dead accent guitarist Bob Weir and his band, RatDog, accept canceled all of their accessible bout dates, citation bearding "circumstances" as the reason, according to a Facebook post by Weir's added group, Furthur. The account affects his U.S. tour, which was set to activate in Boston this week, and an actualization in Jamaica that was set for January 2015.
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"I adulation the guy and ambition annihilation but acceptable health," Weir's above administrator John Scher tells Rolling Stone. "He's an acutely accomplished and actual underrated musician. He's an important guy. Bobby's been accepting bloom problems for a while and now there are affluence of humans who abutment him and wish to advice him get the affliction he needs."
Ratdog played a run of U.S. shows beforehand this year and, above-mentioned to that, Weir played a run of dates with Furthur. But the new cancellations anamnesis April of 2013, if the guitarist had to be helped offstage during a Furthur concert in Port Chester, New York afterwards he fell onstage while arena the Grateful Dead song "Unbroken Chain." At the time, he accomplished out the song by arena in a armchair afore abandonment the date altogether.
The next month, Furthur canceled their actualization at the countdown BottleRock Napa Valley concert. A statement at the time appear that Weir would be "unable to accomplish in any accommodation for the next several weeks."
Earlier this year, Weir appear that he was befitting active by alive on a activity with Josh Ritter and the Yellowbirds' Josh Kaufman. "We're traveling appear a absolute cowboy artful and we're traveling to see area that takes us," he told Rolling Stone. "We've been autograph songs, with the abstraction of authoritative a record." He aswell mentioned that he was alive on a symphony project, for which he's re-orchestrating Grateful Dead songs to be played in an agreeable setting, as able-bodied as an opera starring Miranda Jones that he's "sort of producing."
Weir aswell said he was aflame to bless the 50th ceremony of the Grateful Dead in 2015. But he aswell accustomed the acumen complex with accepting a anniversary together. "We accept to do something commemorative," he said. "I anticipate we owe it to the fans, we owe it to the songs, we owe it to ourselves. If there are issues we accept to get past, I anticipate that we owe it to ourselves to man up and get accomplished them. If there are hatchets to be buried, again let's get to work."
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