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Robert Hall Weir (/ w ɪər / WEER; [1] né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead.After the group disbanded in 1995, [2] Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead.
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir is a documentary film about Bob Weir, who rose to fame as a guitarist and singer in the rock band the Grateful Dead. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2014. [1] It was distributed through Netflix starting on May 22, 2015. [2] [3] The film runs for an hour and twenty-five ...
Weir Here – The Best of Bob Weir is a 2004 live/studio compilation album featuring former Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist and co-vocalist Bob Weir.A career retrospective, it features tracks from many of Weir's bands, solo and duo projects, as well as those from his main gig with the Dead.
Mayer, who had discovered the Grateful Dead’s music just a few years earlier, started poring over the band’s songbook. Weir, for his part, knew that he had to do more with Mayer.
The album is essentially a Grateful Dead recording in everything but name. However, it was the first album in which Weir wrote the music for a majority of the songs. "Mexicali Blues" later appeared on the Grateful Dead album Skeletons from the Closet, and "One More Saturday Night" was first issued as a European single, in the guise of "Grateful ...
The Grateful Dead members Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir in 1970 in San Francisco The Grateful Dead is paying tribute to “brother” Phil Lesh.
Nearly 60 years after Bob Weir helped form the eclectic rock group The Grateful Dead in Palo Alto, Calif., the music of the Dead is being adapted for the concert hall. In this extended interview ...
The song was named after Cassidy Law, who was born in 1970 and was the daughter of Grateful Dead crew member Rex Jackson and Weir's former housemate Eileen Law. [1] The lyrics also allude to Neal Cassady, who was associated with the Beats in the 1950s [4] and the Acid Test scene that spawned the Grateful Dead in the 1960s. Some of the lyrics in ...