Mark Karan's Budz

Mark Karan played lead guitar in Bob Weir's RatDog from 1998 to 2013, in The Other Ones, and with Phil Lesh and Friends, and the Budz is the band he fronts under his own name. For the Club Fox debut on 17 September 2026 the Budz are Scott Guberman on keys, Kevin T. White on bass and Anna Elva on drums. His setlists carry Dead and Garcia staples — Deal, New Speedway Boogie, He's Gone, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Ship of Fools — alongside Dr. John, The Band, Taj Mahal and his own songs, which is why the Bay Area Dead calendar files him as Dead-adjacent rather than a cover band. He is described as San Francisco-based and plays mostly around the North Bay and Peninsula.