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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like any classic rock band, the Grateful Dead had no shortage of well-loved songs making up their decades-long discography, ...

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 ...

Weeks before the Grateful Dead entered Wally Heider Studios to record “Ripple” and other American Beauty songs, they debuted the song at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, on a bill with New Riders ...