Last night, The Mother Hip’s Tim Bluhm and Phil Lesh’s current friend, Jackie Greene, performed a gig as the Skinny Singers at the Independent in San Francisco. Lesh himself attended, in support of his current guitar player and even stepped on to the stage for a couple songs, including ‘Ripple.’

Meanwhile, in related news, Lesh has confirmed that his band will play a bonus acoustic set as part of their Red Rocks gig on September 29th. In addition, Phil Lesh & Friends have added a tenth show to their Nokia Theatre Times Square run, with a performance now slated for November 11. As for the Skinny Singers, Green and Blum will perform at the Old Grove Festival in Guerneville, California this evening.