The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir paid tribute to his band mate Phil Lesh following the death of the bassist Friday. On social media, the guitarist credited Lesh with introducing him to much of the ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1963, Bob Weir heard something that caught his attention—someone was playing a banjo ... “We played for hours and realised we had enough half-talent to start a jug band,” he said, ...

Lesh, 84, who hailed from Berkeley, California, started the iconic rock band in 1965 with frontman and guitarist Jerry Garcia, guitarist Bob Weir, keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and drummer ...

Bob Weir, and Warren Haynes, was clearly meant to evoke Scorsese's 1978 classic The Last Waltz, which documented The Band's ...

Later the same day, his surviving Grateful Dead bandmates — Bob ... Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan played their first gig under the name The Warlocks. However, by the end of the same year ...

Looking back at the career of the Grateful Dead bassist, starting with when the band was clean cut and called ... Lesh’s life and career. Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia in 1965 as the ...

will go to original Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, as well as the band’s founding guitarist and principal songwriter, Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995.

"When we get onstage, what we really want to happen is, we want to be transformed from ordinary players into extraordinary ...

Surviving band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann posted a touching message on Instagram on Oct. 25 Jenny Haward is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.