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 ...
These tiny tan-and-white birds breed in the Arctic and head south for the winter. They like open fields and coastal areas.
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 ...
In 1966, music took a bold turn with artists like The Beatles and Bob Dylan, forever changing the pop and rock scene.
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.
To demonstrate their esoteric knowledge of the band, a common Deadhead refrain was to say, “Phil makes the band”—referring to bassist, Phil Lesh. It was obviously absurd, but served to establish that ...
The inimitable Bobby Ace played guitar alongside Jerry Garcia for over three decades. His unique style and merry personality ...