Miscellaneous RIP Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead

[cappers]

‘The last actual hippie’: musicians pay tribute to the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir

An incredible guitarist and songwriter, and founder member of the Grateful Dead.
The Dead were a major musical influence for me from my late teens and on. I love their blending of rock, blues, country and folk music, with touches of jazz and lengthy collective improvisation. Love them or loathe them, I'm in the former camp.

'Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours
I’m done with mine'

Cassidy

 

[Jeanette]

RIP

 

[Dr G]

Sigh…. We are ever faster approaching the last of my living influences. I lived in northern California in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and my mother worked with Pigpen McKernan’s girlfriend, whom I got to meet. Ah, olden days. Good music, good times. All things must pass (G. Harrison).

 

[Ghr9204]

RIP Bob Weir.

 

[cappers]

Grateful Dead with guest Branford Marsalis.
Estimated Prophet - Live, Nassau Coliseum, NY, 29 March 1990

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QHBjROYa4M

 

[mizmar]

Keep on truckin' man.
It's been a long, strange trip

 

[ellinas]

RIP . Sad news

 

[Grumps]

Lots of deadheads at my college back in the 80's. The Dead would come to town and all these hippies would show up in the dorms; freeloading off students they knew in the towns where they played. One guy just hung out until Winter break. He was upset the dorms closed for the holidays...

 

[taiwanpaul]

Jamming with Bob Weir, around 1994 / 95. Koh Tao Thailand.

 

[JayeNM]

Dang....RIP

 

[Grumps]

I do actually regret not catching the Dead live when I had a chance. My college roommate got me a ticket to go, but then I got a gig that night. Funny though... it would have been one of those Nixon going to China things.