Sonoma County has deep connections to the Grateful Dead, from band members' residences to song inspirations ... a restaurant and performance space, and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir lives in Mill Valley, ...
IJ music columnist Paul Liberatore writes that he “felt an ache in the heart of the Marin music scene” since the passing of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh last week.
The deeper you go down the wormhole with Phil Lesh, bass player and co-founder of Haight-Ashbury’s first and foremost band, The Grateful Dead—the more you understand: His bass technique was a pure ...
We won’t have Bob Costas to kick around any longer. Costas, 72, is retiring from calling MLB games, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported. Costas has been calling baseball games since 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 ...