Barack Obama Selects the Dead for Inaugural Ball: “It Was Quite an Honor”

[G_j]

I missed this somehow...

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/15/barack-obama-selects-the-dead-for-inauguration-ball-it-was-quite-an-honor/



Barack Obama Selects the Dead for Inaugural Ball: “It Was Quite an Honor”
1/15/09, 5:03 pm EST

Just a week after confirming their first tour in five years, the reunited Dead are booked to rock the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. on January 20th. “A DJ will open up — it’s a long, strange trip!,” Mickey Hart jokes to Rolling Stone (the DJ in question is celeb spinner DJ Cassidy). “ picked us specifically,” he adds, “so it was quite an honor. There was a short list and we made the cut.” <snip>