 After the 2009 Dead tour, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh performed together for the next five years with their new band Furthur.Since Furthur's dissolution in November 2014, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead continued to play in side projects with revolving casts of musicians.As part of their "Fare Thee Well" celebration to honor the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, the surviving members reformed (although not branded as "The Dead") to play 5 shows, which were also to be the final shows that they would play together as a group.