RIP: Bobby

 Rolling Stone, Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dead at 78

Bob Weir, the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, whose songs about sunshine daydreams and truckin’ helped turn the jam band into a 60-year musical empire, has died at age 78.

“It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir,” Weir’s family wrote in a statement. A date of death was not immediately available. “He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.”

A pretty decent biography follows. 

True story, I once got in Bobby's way briefly at Dead concert at Nissan Pavilion in 2004. 

A quintessential Bobby song:

I notice he messed up, and did the second verse twice....