When Bob Weir gave his final public performance last August in Golden Gate Park with Dead & Company, Trey Anastasio set the stage. The Phish frontman opened the show, one of three gigs commemorating ...

Bobby Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and one of the defining figures of psychedelic rock and the jam-band movement, died Jan. 10, his family announced. He was 78. News of ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The Warriors will hold a moment of silence to honor the late Bob Weir before they play the Hawks on Sunday evening. Weir, a Bay Area native, was a founding member of the legendary rock ...

The word “short” wasn’t in Bob Weir’s vocabulary. A founding member and co-leader of the Grateful Dead, and the band’s rhythm guitarist who sang lead on many of its songs, Mr. Weir died on Saturday at ...

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 ...

Bob Weir, the influential rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 78, according to a statement posted to his official website on Saturday. "It is 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 ...

Jersey Deadheads and music makers are mourning the passing of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir. “I’m deeply saddened, crushed really by the passing of Bobby Weir,” said Bergenfield native Al Di Meola ...

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 ...

Bob Weir, one of the founding members of the legendary rock band Grateful Dead, has died from "underlying lung issues" at 78. Weir, who, after "courageously beating cancer," died "peacefully" on Jan.

Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has died at the age of 78. A family statement posted to the Instagram account of the band’s founding member on Saturday said he died “surrounded by loved ones.” “It is ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...