RIP Bob Weir (Grateful Dead)

gutted.  RIP. 

Only the drummers are left from the original band now. I read somewhere no other musician has spent as much time onstage as him. RIP.  

To Terrapin. Live in Hartford 1977. Some of the best dead right here. Estimated Prophet. Listen to the whole album from start to finish, all the intro and outtro jams make sense. Great music

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I was a real deadhead in the late '80's but it didn't last long. But one thing I believe to this day, is that "Box of rain" is one of the best songs ever written by anyone, godspeed Bill and God bless. RIP

Fitting comment I saw on a YT of his last performance:

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

fare thee well

Trey from Phish had some beautiful things to say

I only started listening to the Dead about 5 years ago, but I went all in and became very familiar with their different live eras and band configurations.  His playing was incredibly unique .   I was able to see Dead & Co once.  Glad I went.

RIP Bobby

I discovered the grateful dead through some friends in the early 80's. We graduated high school in 77, when they came back from college we became roomates. They had shoe boxes filled with cassette tapes that only has GD and a date and place written on them, no songs no nothing, just a place and date. I found some I really liked and "borrowed"😉them. I was hooked. Then I saw them live for the first time in 1985. I remember being bummed that I hadn't known about them before that. "How the fuck did I not know this was going on, holy shit"  It was downhill after that 🤣 We didn't quit our jobs and live in a van following them around but we went through a "phase".... lol  when we'd go to every semi-local show and when we could go see them 2 days in a row. It didn't matter because they never played the same songs 2 nights in a row, maybe even 10 nights in a row, and if they did they never played a song the same way twice anyway. Every concert was a "One Off". That was the funnest part.

 You deadhead guys know this but if you're not familiar with them they were the only band that let people tape their live shows, they even gave them an area to do it. I've listened to interviews and they say "They're gonna do it anyway, might as well have it sound good, they paid for the music why shouldn't they be able to take it home with them ? After were finished it's gone, we're done with it lol"  "The only thing we ask is don't sell them" 

 This is one of the first songs I songs I listened to repeatedly. The part between songs kept me coming back, from around 2-5 minutes, that interaction where each instrument is easy to hear and they're taking turns I guess ? I don't why but I can't get enough 

Was never into the dead growing up ,met my wife who had been to a few shows with friend . We went to a show in Highgate Vt in 94 or 95 and I had no idea what I was in for . Whole weekend was a blur but entertaining for sure