#furthur

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Let’s see what Ken Kesey is up to…

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Grateful Dead Co-founder Bob Weir Dies at 78

Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir has died at 78, his family said.

Weir had been diagnosed with cancer weeks before the guitarist played his final gigs with Dead & Company in August 2025, but kept the news private.

“He transitioned peacefully surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could,” the family said Jan. 10. “Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.”

Former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten posted “an enormous sigh for Bob Weir” on Facebook.

“However great you may think he was, he was yet greater,” Constanten said of his former bandmate.

Weir co-founded the Grateful Dead in 1965 and remained with the group throughout its 30-year run. During this time, he also played with Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog and other outfits.

“As a singer, songwriter and guitarist, Weir took influences from disparate sources – jazz, classical and gospel music – and was featured on many of the (Dead’s) most rock-oriented songs,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in eulogizing Weir.

“His guitar playing highlighted distinctive chord progressions and rhythmic patterns, and his songwriting offered thoughtful lyrics and surprising melodies. Weir never seemed to stop working, joining various configurations of former Dead members and assembling numerous solo projects of his own.”

After Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir continued with RatDog, played with fellow Dead members in the Other Ones, Furthur and Dead & Company and formed such groups as the Campfire Band and the Wolf Bros Featuring the Wolf Pack.

Pack member Mads Tolling called Weir “the kindest … bandleader.”

“The special thing about Bob is he never seemed to rest on his laurels, always finding new ways of presenting the music that his fans loved,” Tolling said. “For someone who has musically reinvented himself so many times for the past 60 years, he is a huge inspiration to me.”

In the 30 years since the Dead’s demise, Weir has sought to play with younger musicians, many of whom marked his death on social media.

String Cheese Incident’s Kyle Hollingsworth said it was a “blessing to have had a moment with him;” Jason Isbell said he “never met anybody like him, musically or otherwise;” and the Sam Grisman Project dedicated its next show to Weir.

“Forever grateful for Bob Weir,” SGP said. “Every note we play is for you tonight, Mang.”

1/10/26

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I have no one to talk to about this but I’m watching Fear & Loathing for the first time (have read it many a time) and there’s like a 1 millisecond clip where I think I THINK they have a day-glo bus that I THINK is a reference to Furthur!!??? I googled and cannot find confirmation but I literally will vomit that is sooo cool

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Rest In Peace, Phil. I’m grateful I got to see him in concert about a dozen times, at Furthur Festivals and with The Other Ones and Phil Lesh & Friends. 

Gift Article: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/arts/music/phil-lesh-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U04.tjtc.GIRTBL8yjG67&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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William Monk  —  Furthur III  (oil on canvas, 2015)

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Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady first meeting in Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster bus driven crosscountry with Kool-aid L.S.D. pitchers

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