The band's publicity firm, the Mitch Schneider Organization, sent out a missive hipping us to sit-down interview with Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. Check it out.

This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2009.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...