Famed Grateful Lifeless founder Bob Weir has died. He was 78.
“It’s with profound unhappiness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by family members, after courageously beating most cancers as solely Bobby may,” a press release shared by way of Instagram on Saturday, January 10, learn. “Sadly, he succumbed to underlying lung points.”
The assertion, signed by Weir’s daughter, Chloe Weir, continued. “For over sixty years, Bobby took to the highway. A guitarist, vocalist, storyteller, and founding member of the Grateful Lifeless. Bobby will perpetually be a guiding drive whose distinctive artistry reshaped American music. His work did greater than fill rooms with music; it was heat daylight that crammed the soul, constructing a group, a language, and a sense of household that generations of followers carry with them. Each chord he performed, each phrase he sang was an integral a part of the tales we wove. Tere was an invite: to really feel, to query, to wander, and to belong.”
The memorial submit then shared perception into the musician’s “remaining months,” including that the time “mirrored the identical spirit that outlined” Bob’s life.
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“Recognized in July, he started therapy solely weeks earlier than returning to his hometown stage for a three-night celebration of 60 years of music at Golden Gate Park,” the assertion continued. “These performances, emotional, soulful, and full of sunshine, weren’t farewells, however presents. One other act of resilience. An artist selecting, even then, to maintain going by his personal design. As we keep in mind Bobby, it’s exhausting to not really feel the echo of the way in which he lived. A person driftin’ and dreaming’, by no means worrying if the highway would lead him residence. A baby of numerous bushes. A baby of boundless seas.”
The assertion added, “There isn’t a remaining curtain right here, not likely. Solely the sense of somebody setting off once more. He typically spoke of a three-hundred-year legacy, decided to make sure the songbook would endure lengthy after him. Might that dream stay on by way of future generations of Lifeless Heads. And so we ship him off the way in which he despatched so many people on our approach: with a farewell that isn’t an ending, however a blessing. A reward for a life value residing.’”
Bob Weir Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs
The musician is survived by his spouse, Natascha, and their youngsters, Monet and Chloe.
Weir was raised by his adopted mother and father Frederick Weir and Eleanor Weir after he was given up at beginning by a pupil on the College of Arizona. After the dying of his adopted mother and father, and operating away to famously type The Grateful Lifeless, Weir related together with his organic mother and father, Phyllis Inskeep and John Parper, later assembly a number of of his half-brothers, together with guitarist Anthony Parber.
At simply 16 years outdated, Weir met Jerry Garcia and the 2 performed music all night time, ultimately deciding to type The Grateful Lifeless alongside Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh and Invoice Kerutzmann.
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The group launched 13 studio albums throughout Weir’s time with the group, creating a loyal fanbase known as Lifeless Heads.
The band formally led to 1995 following Garcia’s dying, although Weir continued to play music with The Different Ones and The Lifeless alongside a lot of his Grateful Lifeless members. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1994.
“His loving household, Natascha, Cash, and Chloe, request privateness throughout this troublesome time and provide their gratitude for the outpouring of affection, help and remembrance,” the assertion concluded on Saturday. “Might we honor him not solely in sorrow, however in how bravely we proceed with open hearts, regular steps, and the music main us residence. Grasp it up and see what tomorrow brings.”
