A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members ...

There are many elements that made The Grateful Dead singular, but one of the most defining was having two primary songwriters ...

Bob Weir, rhythm guitarist, co-lead vocalist and one of the primary songwriters for the Grateful Dead, died Saturday at the age of 78. His passing leaves only two surviving founding members of the ...

After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving ...

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Nobody knew it at the time, but Weir was diagnosed with cancer weeks before the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary shows in Golden Gate Park ...

Ultimately, though, the Grateful Dead let their songs speak for them. There were no costume changes. No fancy smoke machines ...

Fans once calculated that Bob Weir played around 4,500 shows with the Dead. One song, writes musician and critic Andy Cush, imbues the hard and lonely work of all that touring with elemental, almost ...

Long one of the Bay Area’s resident rock stars, Weir died Jan. 10 at age 78, sending waves of grief through our local music ...

The fan favorite died at 78 ...

I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit ...