Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Revealed Jerry Garcia Visited Him in a Dream Before Guitarist’s 1995 Death

Grateful Dead cofounders Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia have been reunited in death — but were never really apart. Weir, the ...

The Late Bob Weir Once Recalled Jerry Garcia Booting Him From the Grateful Dead in 1968

The Grateful Dead’s long, strange trip nearly ended early when Jerry Garcia booted Bob Weir from the band. Weir — who ...
American Songwriter

“Always a Hoot”: Jerry Garcia’s Heartfelt Last Words To Grateful Dead Co-Founder Bob Weir

Garcia had long battled health issues, including diabetes and obesity, on top of struggles with substance use. After his final show with the Dead, he checked himself into first the Betty Ford Center, ...

Live after the Grateful Dead: How the band's members sold 10 million tickets after Jerry Garcia's death

A breakdown of all the post-Dead touring iterations.

The Final Trip: The Last Performance by Every Departed Member of the Grateful Dead

From Pigpen's "One More Saturday Night" in 1973 to Bob Weir's "Touch of Grey" in 2025, the last onstage moment of every Dead member was captured on tape ...

Bob Weir Is Gone, but the Dead’s Music Plays On

A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.

News 9 Exclusive: Looking back on Bob Weir's performance in Hampton the night Jerry Garcia died

Weir performed at the Hampton Casino Ballroom on a night fans would never forget, the night his bandmate Jerry Garcia died.
SFGate

A Grateful Dead scholar remembers Bob Weir

The night his dear friend Jerry Garcia died, Bobby Weir had a dream. “I was backstage at some club, and on a shelf I had discovered a can of invisible paint,” he remembered. When Garcia walked in, ...
TheWrap

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dies at 78

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 31: Honoree Bob Weir of Dead & Company and of the Grateful Dead performs onstage during the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Honoring The Grateful Dead at Los ...