Interview question and answer

I was sent these questions to answer from Timeoff Magazine as part of the Princeton Packet in New Jersey. I have not seen the article but I thought I'd pass on my answers as I gave them to the paper.


1) What is planned for the Into the Sun Tour -what can your fans expect to hear?

answer 1: The tour kicks of in New York City where we will be playing the famed GD set list from 4/29/71 Fillmore East on its 40th anniversary. Princeton is next so my guess is that it will be a two drummer show. ... only a guess. Fans can expect to see what we always do which is play Grateful Dead music the best we can.

2) Tell me about how people can vote for the encore of the show? Why did you guys decide to come up with this?

answer 2: You can vote for the encore here https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFJsN0QyTjEwOTdVNThabGVJM2dnWnc6MA#gid=0 or by going to the tour date page of our website and following the link from the particular date.
We do this just as another way to let the audience be part of the show. We do not perform to the the audience, we perform with the audience.

3) Looking at the year ahead, what do you have planned that you (and your fans) will be excited about?

answer 3: Festival season is coming up which is always exciting. It gives us a chance to play in front of large audiences and invariably, play for people who have not seen us before. It's always fun to turn on new people.
Also, we are going to go play the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan in late July.
We are 70 shows away from our 2000th show, a milestone to say the least and done in 14 years!
Within a years time we will be doing Jam At The Dam in Amsterdam which will coincidently be around the the 40th anniversary of the the famous Grateful Dead Europe '72 tour. Who knows... maybe we will stick some more dates in other cities as long as we are already over there.

4) Any message for the fans coming out to NJ to see you on April 30?

Answer 4: My message is simply one of thanks for participating in our little world. We have been at this for a long time and we are in a really good space right now. We are having fun and we feel the music we are making these days is worthy of your attention.
Furthermore, If you like what you hear, try spreading the word to those naysayers again. From the reactions we are getting, we seem to be picking up steam and many naysayers of the past are finding a good time can be had at our shows.

Cheers,
Dino