Bob Weir was the everyman at the heart of the Grateful Dead, the one who kept the band’s feet on the ground through their farthest-reaching explorations. In the first 30 years of the band’s existence, ...

On New Year’s Eve 1963, a 16-year-old Bob Weir heard the plucking of a banjo off in the distance. The teenager followed the sound down a Palo Alto street to a music shop where Jerry Garcia was playing ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through ...

The Grateful Dead guitarist wore short shorts like no other. By Jacob Gallagher In the late 1970s, Bob Weir, a guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, whose death at 78 was announced on ...

His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution. By Ben Sisario and Mark Walker Bob Weir, the guitarist and songwriter who ...

Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who, as an essential member of the Grateful Dead, helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through decades of ...

I n the end, I always thought about his Birkenstocks. I’d often glance over at them during our interview, both of our pairs positioned next to each other on the studio floor, below the couch where we ...

Bob Weir, the guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of the popular and massively influential American rock band the Grateful Dead, has died. According to a statement from his family ...

Performed as one of Grateful Dead's two lead vocalists Remembered as band's 'one good-looking guy' Went on to solo career with bands RatDog and Dead & Company Still in high school when joined up with ...

The long strange trip that is the Grateful Dead and its primary offshoot, Dead & Company, has truly faded into grey with the passing of Bob Weir. Although Jerry Garcia cast the longest shadow across ...

Weir's family said the legendary guitarist suffered from underlying lung issues. Bob Weir, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, died Saturday at the age of 78. The legendary guitarist ...