Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco psychedelic band’s many latter-day offshoots for more than half a century, has died after a long battle with cancer and lung issues, according to a social media post from his family. He was 78.
The post said that Weir had been diagnosed last summer and began treatment three weeks before Dead & Company, a spinoff group of the Grateful Dead, played a weekend of shows at Golden Gate Park to mark the original band’s 60th anniversary. Many fans believed those livestreamed concerts might be the band’s unbilled farewell engagement, but few could have guessed the conditions
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