The long strange trip that is the Grateful Dead and its primary offshoot, Dead & Company, has truly faded into grey with the passing of Bob Weir.
Although Jerry Garcia cast the longest shadow across the legend of the Dead with his dark, complexly melodic songs and his hazy, frayed vocals, Weir’s shadow was more translucent, melodically lighter and rhythmically astute. And his handsome baritone vocals cut a deeper groove across the expanse that was the Dead’s storytelling prowess at its most regal — especially when “Bobby” lifted that voice into a surprising, broken angel’s falsetto. As far as his rhythm guitar work went, Weir’s McCoy Tyner-influenced tonality
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