Grateful Lifeless members Bobby Weir, Invoice Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh had been contemplating a reunion to have fun the band’s sixtieth anniversary in 2025, and even had plans on the books to rehearse. Sadly, these plans at the moment are in flux following Lesh’s passing on October twenty fifth.
Weir, Kreutzmann, and Hart spoke with Anthony Mason of CBS This Morning in an interview that came about simply 5 days after Lesh’s demise.
“I hoped that we might play with him once more yet another time,” Kreutzmann mentioned. “In order that, that was my disappointment…’Trigger I do know he needed to play with us once more too.”
“We had been kickin’ it round,” Weir added. “In actual fact, we had been gonna, we had been gonna get collectively and, and kick some songs round tomorrow.”
Lesh beforehand joined Weir, Kreutzmann, and Hart for a sequence of concert events in 2015 to have fun Grateful Lifeless’s fiftieth anniversary. The quartet had been contemplating one thing comparable for the band’s sixtieth, as they advised CBS This Morning.
“I used to be hopin’ that we might do it,” Kreutzmann mentioned. Added Weir, “We had been gonna see the place it goes. However we had been simply gonna play the 4 of us.”
In December, Grateful Lifeless shall be acknowledged as a part of the 2024 Kennedy Heart Honors, and early subsequent yr, they’ll honored because the 2025 MusiCares Individuals of the 12 months.
Phil Lesh, an authentic member of @GratefulDead, died instantly final month at age 84.
Simply 5 days after his demise, the surviving authentic members sat down with @anthonymasoncbs for an interview the bass participant was meant to be part of: “I hoped that we might play with him… pic.twitter.com/5agD4pOSJ4
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) November 27, 2024