Remembering Grateful Dead's Bob Weir
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From Pigpen's "One More Saturday Night" in 1973 to Bob Weir's "Touch of Grey" in 2025, the last onstage moment of every Dead member was captured on tape
Grateful Dead rocker Bob Weir died on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the age of 78 following underlying lung issues after beating cancer. Bandmates John Mayer, Mickey Hart and fellow Deadheads like Andy Cohen paid tribute to him by sharing photos and memories following his death.
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The Soul of the Grateful Dead
In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and bassist Phil Lesh had decided that Weir and keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan were dragging the band down musically.
A lifelong Deadhead reflects on four decades of shows, tapes, and change — and explains why Dead & Company feels like the music he needs now.
Zach Bryan is revealing the special wedding gift he received from his wife, Samantha Leonard, that now has even more sentimental value. In a post on Instagram on Monday, Jan. 12, the "Pink Skies" singer, 29, shared that Leonard gave him a guitar once owned by Bob Weir, just days before the Grateful Dead co-founder's death.
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Tributes Pour in For The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir: “He Was Impossibly Beautiful and Wildly Fiery”
The pioneering jam band's co-founder died Saturday, "peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could," his family said.
A sold-out show at the Palace Theater, a performance at Toad’s in the ’80s, Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir left his mark on Connecticut over the years. The guitarist and singer died at 78, according to an announcement on his Instagram page on Saturday.
On a special day, across the continent from the city they call home, the 49ers channeled all the ethereal energy San Francisco has to offer.