Maybe it was the roses
No, they didn’t leave it tie-dyed and smelling of incense, but The Dead did visit the White House on Monday night, Yeas & Nays has learned.
Original members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh, along with fill-in members Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti, spent more than an hour at 1600 Pennsylvania on Monday night, in advance of their Tuesday night show at Verizon Center.
No word on what they discussed with President Obama, but they could have asked him what it’s like to have the “Eyes of the World” on him, or what it’s like to broker a “Deal” with Congress.
As for the White House itself? No doubt they discovered it was no “Brokedown Palace,” but was “Built to Last.”
In fact, when The Dead played the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball back in January, Newark Mayor Cory Booker quipped that the band should come back, in an effort to chill Washington out.
After all, nothing like a Grateful visit to the West Wing to lift those “U.S. Blues.”
