How Bob Weir Went From Kid Brother To The Boss
Bob Weir got fired from the Grateful Dead at twenty.In 1968, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh told Weir he didn't count. Rock Scully put it plain: the weight was on four cats, not six. Weir was twenty years old, standing in a construction ditch on his birthday with rainwater up to his ankles.What he did next — and what the Grateful Dead spent the next three decades refusing to acknowledge — is one of the stranger power struggles in rock history. From the Tom Sawyer routine that produced Ace in 1972, to Bobby and the Midnites with Billy Cobham and Alphonso Johnson, to the June 1982 show where Jerry Garcia voluntarily opened for Weir's side band — the solo career was never about the spotlight. It was about finding a room where nobody told him to eat their shorts.When Garcia died in 1995, RatDog was already running. Brent Mydland had been scouted from Weir's solo project. The boss had been ready for years.https://youtu.be/CqEdBsnH8fs
