RE: Dylan and the Dead

Just this minute got an email from BobDylan.com, releasing concert dates with "The Dead and Robert Hunter.' Just six dates in late summer: one in Florida, four in the midwest, one in upstate New York. That's all, folks!

No word on who now constitutes The Dead (surviving members plus...who?). For those who don't know, Robert Hunter is the longtime Grateful Dead lyricist, Jerry Garcia's songwriting partner -- *not* by any means a musician who will fill in the blanks left by Jerry's absence.

Hunter has recently become a personal hero of mine since I learned that he quit his modest solo-acoustic career due to arthiris of the fingers (an affliction I share), but was able to resume playing after starting on a glucosaine/chondrotin supplement (which works for me, too.)