American Songwriter

3 Must-Know Tracks From Grateful Dead’s 1960s Psychedelic Era

Few bands have defined psychedelic rock more than the Grateful Dead. Here's a primer on the band's first chapter.
Yahoo

Grateful Dead's sole surviving founder Bill Kreutzmann remembers Bob Weir

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Kreutzmann (left), Bob Weir, and Mickey Hart perform onstage during the Amazon Studios celebration of "Long Strange Trip" at ...
Rolling Stone

Grateful Dead Music Surged on Streaming Services Following Bob Weir’s Death

The Grateful Dead catalog saw a significant surge on streaming services after news hit of Bob Weir‘s death. In the five day period of Jan. 9 to the 13, according to numbers compiled by Luminate, there ...
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The final trip: The last performance by every departed member of the Grateful Dead

The death of Bob Weir earlier this month left just two surviving members of the Grateful Dead: drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. Perhaps a case can be made that keyboardist Tom Constanten is a ...
Mercury News

Bobby Weir dead at 78: Grateful Dead co-founder shaped generations of American rock

Bobby Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and one of the defining figures of psychedelic rock and the jam-band movement, died Jan. 10, his family announced. He was 78. News of ...
ABC News

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member, dies at 78

Weir's family said the legendary guitarist suffered from underlying lung issues. Bob Weir, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, died Saturday at the age of 78. The legendary guitarist ...
Rolling Stone

Where Do the Grateful Dead Go From Here? Scenarios for the Post-Bob Weir Era

Back in 2016, Bob Weir had a sudden out-of-body experience as John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and the rest of Dead & Company were gearing up to play a set one night. “Suddenly I was 20 feet behind my own ...
The Atlantic

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 ...
GQ

The Song That Defined Bob Weir’s Role in the Grateful Dead

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The instrumental theme of “Playing in ...
NPR

Founding Grateful Dead member dies at 78

Bob Weir, who helped build the Grateful Dead from the Haight-Ashbury scene into a cultural institution, has died at 78. Bob Weir, one of the founding members of The Grateful Dead, has died at 78 years ...
Los Angeles Times

Bob Weir was a symbol of the Grateful Dead’s unrivaled endurance

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In June 2024, I sat with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer backstage at Sphere in Las Vegas, where Dead & ...
PBS

Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, dies at 78

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through ...