Grateful Dead

[darth_vedder]

Jeff representin' on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday

[darth_vedder]

Also, I love that Jeff loves the Dead. He seems to be the most appropriate PJ Deadhead.

[darth_vedder]

Forgot to post the image from the show...

[rick malone]

Phil Lesh RIP

If his instagram is correct.

[knee tunes]

Well this sucks

[washing machine]

One final deep bass drop heard round the world. Thankful he left so much music for us.

I actually had plans to see an Austin based tribute band tonight, but circumstances are taking me on the road for the weekend. That's going to be a hell of a show now.

[liebzz]

Yeah, I got to see him just maybe a year and a half ago, and it was a great show. The man was pure genius without ever banging you over the head with it. He was a huge part of the magic, with his instrument every bit as expressive and mind boggling as Jerry. Glad he gave the world so much music for so long.

[oasisfan35]

RIP Bobby

[i got bugs]

Was legit bummed last night.. ultimately was happy I got to see him a few times, just wish I made it to a sphere show

[liebzz]

I never got to see Bobby and kept meaning to. I always sort of blew off the cost thinking he was the young member of the Dead and never really thought about those opportunities not being there. Granted, I ran to see Phil a couple of years before he passed. The long strange trip may go on forever with all the bands who play and interpret their music, but sad to know the chances of seeing the founding members, especially now Jerry, Phil, and Bobby, is not going to happen. They sure left an enduring legacy and inspired so many.

[washing machine]

Mourning the man with a lot of you.

His 2016 solo album, Only a River, is a fantastic listen right now.

Or for a real tearjerker, hear him perform Brokedown Palace and Ripple on that Wolf Brothers live album.

Few artists aged as gracefully as Bob Weir.

[oasisfan35]

Will be queuing up those shows tomorrow:

Today marks a year since Dead and Company played our last of three shows in Golden Gate Park helping to celebrate 60 years of Grateful Dead. It would also become Bob Weir’s last appearance onstage. I wanted to take a moment to share with you just how incredible those concerts really were. Bobby’s insistence on standing on that stage in the midst of a complex health battle to perform nine hours of music over three nights was one of the greatest acts of heroism I will ever see in my lifetime. I watched him sidestep every traditional burden of entertainers - ego, superficial pride, vanity, to name a few - and sing his songs with pure heart and grit. He transcended his physical limitations by ignoring them. Bobby Weir, ever the contrarian, laid down his ultimate act of defiance; he was going to play these shows on his terms. He could have explained his situation in one online post, and the crowd would have lifted him like a giant wave up to glory. Fuck that. That wasn’t Bobby. Deal the cards. By the end of Sunday night, we’d created as many musical sparks as we ever had over a three night run. What he had to overcome in order to pull that off won’t ever be fully known to anyone. Some of the songs Bobby would play for the last time were shared with artists he loved and respected, Billy Strings, #sturgillsimpson, Grahame Lesh and Trey Anastasio, and they’ve come to serve as a spiritual transfer. A blur between past, present and future. Like it’s always been. To use his own term, those three nights were the star in Bob Weir’s heavenly crown. The man you loved, whose music has given a more expansive inner life to us all, never backed down. In his final shows, after 60 years, he lived up to every measure of a person he’d ever stood for. It’s a master class of a life lesson, and I’ll take it with me forever.

The fact that they ended night one with Knockin' on Heaven's Door was certainly a choice.