Grateful Dead fans longing for the days when the band dominated the summer tour scene will be getting a taste of what they've been missing this summer, but don't call it a reunion.

The Associated Press reports that three of the band's surviving members, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, will be heading out this summer as part of the annual Further Festival. The AP reports that drummer Bill Kreutzmann will not be joining the group, which is calling itself The Other Ones, because he did not want to tour.

A spokesperson for the band was quick to point out that this project should not be viewed as a Dead reunion, but rather as "continuity from the old but it's new."

"We never wanted to repeat something that was gone," spokesperson Dennis McNally told the AP.

The Dead disbanded after the death of the group's guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Jerry Garcia, in August of 1995.

Last September, Lesh told "Wired" magazine that a Dead reunion was in the works for New Year's Eve of 1999 to mark the opening of the Dead-themed interactive playland Terrapin Station, but a Dead spokesperson later said Lesh's comments may have been premature.