U.S. President Barack Obama, it is probably due to that the cult band Grateful Dead for the first time in five years on tour.

From an appearance during the campaign for the former senator in the past year was a whole tour, bassist Phil Lesh as the news agency AP said.

Actually, he had the benefit concert for the presidential candidate with his old colleagues from Grateful Dead, but with his band, Phil and Friends want to deny, Lesh said in a telephone interview. His son Brian, the strict but rejected: “Daddy, you have to bring together the Dead, because it is much more significant and important”, had explained this.

At a benefit concert by Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart followed the next, then joined the Grateful Dead office, Obama, and finally the band was back together. The tour takes in the U.S. until mid-May.