Sir Paul McCartney, of the Beatles, paid tribute to Grateful Dead founding guitarist Bob Weir on social media.
Weir understood, perhaps better than anyone else in the band, that rock ’n’ roll is a public art. It requires shape. It ...
As a boomer, Weir checked many of the key boxes as he and the band matured: interest in yoga and Eastern spirituality, ...
There's nothing wrong with making people happy,” says singer John Mellencamp, and that's the guiding philosophy of the ...
The Band of Heathens has been at it for two full decades now, and they have a legendary catalog of music to show for it. Yet the band continues to prove that they have plenty of tricks left up their ...
The Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson film is inspired by the true story of a Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning and ...
If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to ...
The Grateful Dead formed in 1965, and for the next 30 years, Weir supported Jerry Garcia’s melodic lead lines with his own ...
Weir, who died over the weekend at age 78 from underlying lung complications, was to the Grateful Dead what his old pal Bill Walton might have called a “glue guy” – the teammate who unifies all the ...
In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir.
A memorial for the late Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, rests in front of the band’s former house in San ...
The inimitable Bobby Ace played guitar alongside Jerry Garcia for over three decades. His unique style and merry personality ...