A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.
Category: Grateful Dead
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Bob Weir Was the Dead’s Invisible Thread
The songwriter, guitarist and singer, who died at 78, animated the Grateful Dead from within.
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Bob Weir: A Life in Pictures
The Grateful Dead guitarist, singer and songwriter was a bedrock of the band that became a psychedelic institution.
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Bob Weir: 10 Essential Songs
The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond.
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Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78
His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it emerged to become an American institution.
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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
She helped shape the band’s sound in the 1970s, a decade that took the band to new heights.
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The Sound of ‘Ophelia’
Inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” single, listen to a playlist of songs that use the tragic “Hamlet” heroine as inspiration.
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Michael Lydon, Writer Who Rocked With the 1960s, Dies at 82
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
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A 7-Song, 130-Minute Jam Band Primer
Listen to noodling tracks by Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Goose and more.
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Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
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On Fighting Oligarchy Tour, Bernie Sanders Channels the Grateful Dead
An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It’s not the Grateful Dead, it’s the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
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In Memoriam: the Musicians We Lost in 2024
Hear songs from Quincy Jones, Melanie and Toby Keith.