Mandolinist David Thom toured for 2 years as a guitarist with David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, and currently leads the David Thom Band and plays in Grandpa Banana's Band. Fiddle Dave co-founded Cornmeal and currently plays in The Fall Risk, a band led by Furthur vocalist Jeff Pehrson. Bassist Roger Sideman has performed with Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident) and bluegrass legend Frank Wakef...ield, and currently performs with The China Cats. David Gans performs "solo electric" and with Chris and Lorin Rowan in the "Beatles jam band" Rubber Souldiers, and also does a lot of Grateful Dead-related stuff on the radio, online, and in books. These musicians share an affinity for the music of the Grateful Dead, and came together in an Oakland recording studio in January 2012 to see what they could conjure.