 The band played a brief winter jam and a three-month summer tour called the Wave That Flag Tour.In 2006, guitarist Jimmy Herring joined the group Widespread Panic after George McConnell's departure from the group.On February 4, 2008, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart, along with several other musicians, performed a concert called "Deadheads for Obama", at the Warfield in San Francisco.