Bob Weir
Bob Weir (born Robert Hall Weir, October 16, 1947) is an American singer, s… Read Full Bio ↴Bob Weir (born Robert Hall Weir, October 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, and his current band, RatDog.
Weir played mostly rhythm guitar during his career with the Grateful Dead. He is known for his unique style of complex voiceleading, bringing unusual depth and a new approach to the role of rhythm guitar expression.
Weir was born in San Francisco, California and raised by his adoptive parents in the suburb of Atherton. He began playing guitar at age thirteen after less successful experimentation with the piano and the trumpet. He had trouble in school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and he was expelled from nearly every school he attended. One of these was the Fountain Valley School in Colorado, where he befriended John Perry Barlow, who, along with Robert Hunter, would in time become the two main lyricists for the Grateful Dead.
Weir played rhythm guitar and sang a portion of the lead vocals through all of the Dead's 30-year career. (In the fall of 1968, the Dead played some concerts without Weir and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. These shows, with the band billed as "Mickey and the Hartbeats", were intermixed with full-lineup Grateful Dead concerts. Late in the year, the band relented and took Weir and Pigpen back in full time.) In the late 1970s, he began to experiment with slide guitar techniques and perform certain songs during Dead shows using the slide. His unique guitar style is strongly influenced by the hard bop pianist McCoy Tyner and he has cited artists as diverse as John Coltrane, the Rev. Gary Davis, and Igor Stravinsky as influences
Shortly before Garcia's death in 1995, Weir formed another band, Ratdog Revue, later shortened to Ratdog. As of April 9, 2008, Weir has performed approximately 800 shows with Ratdog. Known for his raspy, deep tone, in Ratdog Weir sings covers by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and Willie Dixon while also performing many Grateful Dead classics. In addition, Ratdog performs many of their own originals, most of which were released on the album Evening Moods.
Weir has also participated in the various reformations of the Grateful Dead's members, including 1998, 2000 and 2002 stints as The Other Ones and in 2003 and 2004 as The Dead.
Despite breaking his ribs in a tour bus accident in early October 2008, described in media outlets that "It only hurts when I breathe, laugh, or hold a guitar," Weir is expected to perform with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (Lesh, Kreutzmann, and Hart) with Jeff Chimenti (Ratdog) on Keyboards and Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allman Brothers) on Lead Guitar and Vocals, on October 13, 2008, in a get out the vote Concert for Change at Penn State University.
Weir played mostly rhythm guitar during his career with the Grateful Dead. He is known for his unique style of complex voiceleading, bringing unusual depth and a new approach to the role of rhythm guitar expression.
Weir was born in San Francisco, California and raised by his adoptive parents in the suburb of Atherton. He began playing guitar at age thirteen after less successful experimentation with the piano and the trumpet. He had trouble in school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and he was expelled from nearly every school he attended. One of these was the Fountain Valley School in Colorado, where he befriended John Perry Barlow, who, along with Robert Hunter, would in time become the two main lyricists for the Grateful Dead.
Weir played rhythm guitar and sang a portion of the lead vocals through all of the Dead's 30-year career. (In the fall of 1968, the Dead played some concerts without Weir and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. These shows, with the band billed as "Mickey and the Hartbeats", were intermixed with full-lineup Grateful Dead concerts. Late in the year, the band relented and took Weir and Pigpen back in full time.) In the late 1970s, he began to experiment with slide guitar techniques and perform certain songs during Dead shows using the slide. His unique guitar style is strongly influenced by the hard bop pianist McCoy Tyner and he has cited artists as diverse as John Coltrane, the Rev. Gary Davis, and Igor Stravinsky as influences
Shortly before Garcia's death in 1995, Weir formed another band, Ratdog Revue, later shortened to Ratdog. As of April 9, 2008, Weir has performed approximately 800 shows with Ratdog. Known for his raspy, deep tone, in Ratdog Weir sings covers by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and Willie Dixon while also performing many Grateful Dead classics. In addition, Ratdog performs many of their own originals, most of which were released on the album Evening Moods.
Weir has also participated in the various reformations of the Grateful Dead's members, including 1998, 2000 and 2002 stints as The Other Ones and in 2003 and 2004 as The Dead.
Despite breaking his ribs in a tour bus accident in early October 2008, described in media outlets that "It only hurts when I breathe, laugh, or hold a guitar," Weir is expected to perform with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (Lesh, Kreutzmann, and Hart) with Jeff Chimenti (Ratdog) on Keyboards and Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allman Brothers) on Lead Guitar and Vocals, on October 13, 2008, in a get out the vote Concert for Change at Penn State University.
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Bob Weir Lyrics
Asia Minor Kilhonni Hotel for the first night Just below the Black Sea …
Big Iron To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one…
Big River Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry…
Black-Throated Wind Youre bringing me down, Im running aground, Blind in the li…
Bombs Away Bombs away Well, I guess I'm back in love again Well, hey…
Cassidy I have seen where the wolf has slept by the…
Cottonwood Lullaby And the daylight is leaving The work is nearly done In the…
Easy to Slip It's so easy to slip It's so easy to fall! And…
Friend Of The Devil I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty…
Gallop on the Run The sand and the sun Her gallop on the run A monument…
Gonesville If I'm alone, will you take my hand Will you stand…
Good-bye Yer Honor I'm living undercover in Turlock, California Hiding from the…
Greatest Story Ever Told Moses come ridin up on a quasar His spurs were jingling,…
Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have…
Heaven Help The Fool I was born in Flatland, U.S.A. And all my dreams lead…
Home to Dixie There's fog up on the mountain Frost is clinging to the…
Hypnotize It's the same kind of story That seems to come down…
I'll Be Doggone Well, I'll Be Doggone if I would work all day And…
Jump For Joy I feel you breathing in the shadows of my mind Warm…
Lay My Lily Down Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow Dig a…
Lazy Lightnin' Lazy lightning Sleepy fire in your eyes Is that desire in di…
Looks Like Rain I woke today, and felt your side of bed The covers…
Mexicali Blues Laid back in an old saloon, with a peso in…
My Brother Esau My brother Esau killed a hunter Back in 1969 And before the…
One More River To Cross The [?], the bristles, the wide Rio Grande One more river…
One More Saturday Night I went down to the mountain, I was drinking some…
Only a River Well, I was born up in the mountains Raised up in…
Playing In the Band Some folks trust to reason, others trust to might I don't…
Supplication (Whoo-hoo-hoo) Dizzy ain't the word for the way that you're …
Time and Trouble Who you trying to kid Lying about everything that you did It…
Walk in the Sunshine Look out, 'cause here comes some free advice Walk in the…
West L.A. Fadeaway I'm looking for a chateau, twenty one rooms but one…
When Will I Be Changed I've been told there is a power in the blood Is…
Wild Northland Well, it's a wild northland Velvet green isle with a sky…