Although it doesn’t come as the biggest of surprises, considering the stop and go health issues of Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s ongoing Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY residencies, Furthur has announced they are officially finished.
The project kicked off in late 2009, ran through the beginning of 2014, and featured Grateful Dead founders Weir and Lesh along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, drummer Joe Russo, guitarist John Kadlecik and vocalists Sunshine Becker and Jeff Pehrson.
A note on Furthur.net reads, “To our loyal Furthur fans and members of the Furthur community at furthur.net, we’d like to thank you for a terrific ride. We’ll be closing up shop at furthur.net, and heading onward. Thanks for making the Furthur community a great place to hang out, and for coming out to the shows. We’ll all be keeping very busy over the foreseeable future, and it’s time to let Furthur take a bow. We enjoyed the ride more than we can possibly express. You can keep tabs on Phil’s activities at www.terrapincrossroads.net, Bob’s activities at www.bobweir.net and all Grateful Dead news at www.dead.net.”
Weir and Lesh recently sang together (joined by San Francisco Giants third base coach and musician Tim Flannery) to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Game 3 of the NL Championship Series on October 14th, so with the Grateful Dead approaching their 50th Anniversary, there is hope for more collaborations between the two jam icons.
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The picture is horrible and did anyone edit the copy? Begging?