Bobby and the Midnites, his long-running duo with Rob Wasserman, and Ratdog. When the Grateful Dead disbanded after Jerry Garcia's passing, he kept right on going with RatDog, the Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur, solo acoustic tours and various collaborations, seldom stopping for any extended period of time… until this year, when Bob came to the eminently sensible conclusion that some extended time off was needed. He called off all remaining tour and festival dates with and without RatDog for 2014 and into early 2015. We wish Bob a full and well-deserved rest, and fully expect that he will be back, batteries recharged and at the peak of his creative energies, before too long.

Bob Weir performs onstage at 'The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir'Concert during the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 23, 2014 in New York City.

Before Bobby took that break, he did have an active first half of 2014, starting with Furthur's last pre-hiatus shows in Mexico, followed by a very successful late winter/early spring tour with RatDog, and the premiere of the long-awaited documentary The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, which had very successful screenings at the Tribeca and San Francisco film festivals (with Bob playing brief acoustic sets at each). The film, directed by Mike Fleiss, is a fascinating portrait of an equally fascinating life, following Bob from childhood through his early interest in folk music, his life-altering first encounter with Jerry Garcia, his mind-altering time spent with Ken