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Bob Weir made Grateful Dead

How Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, reinvented rhythm guitar and the art of the jam

The Grateful Dead formed in 1965, and for the next 30 years, Weir supported Jerry Garcia’s melodic lead lines with his own idiosyncratic style of rhythm guitar playing. He sought to base his approach to rhythm guitar on McCoy Tyner’s piano, who played with John Coltrane.

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Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78

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Tributes Pour in For The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir: “He Was Impossibly Beautiful and Wildly Fiery”

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The Soul of the Grateful Dead

In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir.

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Grateful Dead Keep Missing No. 1, But Only Barely

The Grateful Dead scores another Billboard win with Dave’s Picks, Volume 54, which debuts at No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart — the band's tenth time stalling in the runner-up spot. The ...

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Bob Weir made Grateful Dead

The Soul of the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead Keep Missing No. 1, But Only Barely

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