The Other Ones Are Dead After Hornsby Quits

03/28/2001 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Gary Graff

(3/28/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- It appears that the Other Ones--the ad hoc Grateful Dead spin-off group formed by singer-guitarist Bob Weir, percussionist Mickey Hart, and singer-keyboardist Bruce Hornsby--are over after two installments of the Furthur Festival.

Hornsby, who played with the Dead in the early '90s, tells LAUNCH that he's left the group in order to pursue his own musical endeavors, including a new album he's in the midst of recording: "I quit the Other Ones. Yes, I quit that, so there won't be any this summer. They're trying to put together a Furthur Festival with Ratdog and a couple of other groups. But, no, the Other Ones, as far as my involvement with it, that's over. I'm done. I sort of gave my notice in October, about a month after the tour ended. I just felt it was time for me to not do that, time for me to really focus on my own music. So that was it."

The Furthur Festival camp is in the midst of putting together this summer's lineup, which is rumored to include funk legend George Clinton.

-- Gary Graff, Detroit

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