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The instrumental theme of “Playing in the Band” consists of four notes, played in dueling harmony by the Grateful Dead’s two guitarists. Jerry Garcia, the ragtag band’s monkishly charismatic de facto ...

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, ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Some of Bob Dylan‘s most famous Civil Rights and general protest songs include “Blowin’ In The Wind”, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, “Oxford Town”, “All Along The Watchtower”, and “The Lonesome ...

One of Bob Weir's best songs -- for any of his musical concerns -- was "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah album. But back in 2009, Weir -- who died this weekend at the ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

Over the weekend, Grateful Dead fans the world over mourned the loss of an icon: Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member, had died at 78, leaving listeners and collaborators caught off-guard. Since ...