UPDATE: Bob Weir has refuted an earlier report which alleged that Useless and Firm would retire from touring after 2022. “Information to me…” the musician tweeted, together with a hyperlink to the Rolling Stone article that initially broke the information.
That report didn’t cite any band members or representatives of the group’s administration. In an up to date submit, Rolling Stone stated: “After Bob Weir tweeted his shock about Useless & Co. suspending touring, sources modified their tune and say discussions proceed concerning the destiny of the band. The band itself stated in an announcement: ‘Useless & Firm has made no official choice as to this being their closing tour.’”
UCR’s authentic story relating to Useless and Firm’s reported plans to retire from the highway could be discovered beneath.
Useless & Firm will reportedly not tour collectively after 2022, based on Rolling Stone.
Fashioned in 2015, Useless & Firm embrace three authentic members of the Grateful Useless: Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Invoice Kreutzmann, plus guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The information arrives simply as tickets for the band’s upcoming summer time tour went on sale.
Neither the band’s administration nor any of the group members have commented on the report, which Rolling Stone attributes to sources.
Useless & Firm’s latest tour schedule has had its share of obstacles. In January, they canceled an look on the Taking part in within the Sand music pageant in Cancun, Mexico, as a consequence of an outbreak of COVID-19. Earlier than that, Kreutzmann had introduced he can be sitting out the January reveals whereas he handled a cardiac situation.
The announcement does not essentially spell the top of the Useless members’ reside careers. Weir, who famous in a latest interview with The Wall Street Journal that retiring is “not an choice,” continues to carry out along with his different band, Bobby Weir and the Wolf Bros. (One upcoming Weir concert even lists Hart as a visitor performer.) Mayer can be at the moment on the highway selling his latest solo album, Sob Rock.
“It was awfully cozy to play in Useless & Firm, as a result of I’m not within the middle of the stage,” Mayer stated in a latest interview with the Winston-Salem Journal. “I’ve actually grown to like that vantage level to musically make these contributions from that place.”
A whole listing of 2022 live performance dates could be discovered on the band’s website.
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