Bob Weir and RatDog | RatDog.Org

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Ratdog in town
The Arizona Republic
February 26, 2004

Bob Weir has plenty of options to celebrate the legacy of his former band, the Grateful Dead. Not only is the guitarist playing with his former bandmates - Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Billy Kreutzman - in the aptly named the Dead, but he is fronting his own group, Ratdog.

Last year saw a major shakeup in Ratdog, as Weir's longtime bassist Rob Wasserman left. But new bassist Robin Sylvester has slid nicely into place and is keeping Ratdog's jazzy jams firmly rooted.

Expect plenty of Dead favorites - last year's show featured an exuberant Scarlet Begonias and a stellar Dark Star - as well as originals from Ratdog's sole studio album, Evening Moods.