Former House Speaker and self-proclaimed "Deadhead" Nancy Pelosi drew swift online backlash after appearing at a tribute honoring Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, with some social media users ...

A public memorial to celebrate the life of Bob Weir, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, was held in San Francisco. Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose rhythm guitar work, ...

Deadheads from around the Bay Area — and, in all likelihood, well beyond — will gather this weekend to honor the life and music of Bobby Weir in San Francisco. The free public memorial for the ...

As a boomer, Weir checked many of the key boxes as he and the band matured: interest in yoga and Eastern spirituality, macrobiotic diet, environmental activism. But more important is that, unlike many ...

Grateful for the music and memories on Duke’s campus Deadheads around the world — current and former — mourned the death this weekend of Bob Weir, the guitarist and founding member of the Grateful ...

"Thanks for letting me ride alongside you. It sure was a pleasure," Mayer, who spent a decade playing with Weir in Dead & Company, said. By Ethan Millman Music Editor “Okay Bob. I’ll do it your way,” ...

Oteil Burbridge honored his Dead & Company bandmate Bob Weir today following the icon’s death at 78. “I can’t think of anyone that needed to play live music any more than Bob,” the bassist wrote in a ...

One of Bob Weir's best songs -- for any of his musical concerns -- was "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah album. But back in 2009, Weir -- who died this weekend at the ...

(RNS) — There was something mythological about Bob Weir — utterly timeless and almost primeval. An American original troubadour telling stories that felt older than the nation itself, he somehow ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word “short” wasn’t in Bob Weir’s vocabulary. A founding member and co-leader of the Grateful Dead, and the band’s rhythm guitarist who sang lead on many of its songs, Mr. Weir died on Saturday at ...