Bob Weir

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Robert Hall Weir (October 16, 1947 – January 10, 2026) was an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur, which he co-led with former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti to form the band Dead & Company. During his career with the Grateful Dead, Weir played mostly rhythm guitar and sang many of the band's rock & roll and country & western songs. In 1994, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead. Early life Weir was born in San Francisco, California, to John (Jack) Parber (1925–2015), of Italian and German ancestry, and a fellow college student, Phyllis Inskeep (1924–1997), of German, Irish, and English ancestry, who later gave him up for adoption; he was raised by his adoptive parents, Frederic Utter Weir and Eleanor (née Cramer) Weir, in Atherton. He began playing guitar at age thirteen after less successful experimentation with the piano a

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Ace

Blue Mountain

Kingfish

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American Beauty (Spotify Landmark Edition)

Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros: Live In Colorado

Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros: Live in Colorado, Vol. 2

Ace (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Only a River

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West L.A. Fadeaway (Live)

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Dear Jerry: Celebrating The Music Of Jerry Garcia (Live)

Heaven Help The Fool

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The Other One (Live)

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