Bob Weir RIP

I was deeply saddened to hear the news of the death yesterday of Bob Weir at the age of 78. The Grateful Dead have been a big part of my life ever since I heard their first album sometime in 1967. I saw them perform eight times between 1970 and 1992 and Weir with Ratdog twice in the early 2000s and I have a large collection of thwir music that I still explore. 

Jerry Garcia may have been the spiritual core of the Dead but Weir was their rock and roll heart. After Garcia died, his music took a turn into Americana and a jazzier mode with Don Was in Wolf Brothers. He wrote some of his best songs outside of the Dead and this are two of them, "Two Djiin" into "Ashes and Glass", performed with Wolf Brothers in his TRI Studios in 2011.