Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dies At 78 – Entertainment News
By Karen Beishuizen
The new year has just started and another legend is gone.
Bob Weir, guitarist and co-founder of Grateful Dead, died age 78: a date was not available at the moment.
Born on 16 October, 1947 in San Francisco, he met Jerry Garcia in 1965 and they started a band called Warlocks which changed into The Grateful Dead.
He sang the verses on the band’s trademark boogie anthem “Truckin” and who wrote songs like “Sugar Magnolia”, “Playing In The Band” and “Jack Straw”.
At Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary in 2015, Weir asked John Mayer, to join him, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann in the new band Dead & Company. That group would keep the spirit of The Grateful Dead alive with a final tour in 2023 and two stints at Las Vegas’ Sphere.
His death leaves drummer Bill Kreutzmann as the only surviving original member of The Grateful Dead.
Bob Weir is survived by his wife Natascha and daughters Chloe and Monet.
Ringside Report sends their condolences to The Weir Family in their time of grief.
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