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Bob Weir has died
- toomuchtodo 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Weir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Weir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead https://bobweir.net/bobby/ https://bobweir.net/bobby/
- derwiki 8mo agoAnd tons of free tunes on relisten.net!
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 8mo agoarchive.org has a ton as well
- toomuchtodo 8mo agohttps://archive.org/details/gd1980-08-21.sbd.miller.99034.sbeok.flac16/ https://archive.org/details/gd1980-08-21.sbd.miller.99034.sb... is one I can recommend (Grateful Dead Live at Uptown Theatre on 1980-08-21)
- SoleilAbsolu 8mo agoFare thee well Bob! What a life in music.
- adzm 8mo agoEnd of an era
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- __mharrison__ 8mo agoRIP. I wonder if Mayer will continue to carry the torch, or if the music will stop.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 8mo agoThe music never stops
- matchagaucho 8mo agoHe would want us to be stewards of the music... and people still talking about it in 300 years.
- dnw 8mo agoBesides their music, their mail-order ticketing system and the resulting fan envelope art are quite amazing: [Apologies for the scary link] https://www.gdao.org/fan-art?filters[match]=all&filters[queries][0][field]=dcterms_title&filters[queries][0][operator]=matches_pattern&filters[queries][0][term]=A* https://www.gdao.org/fan-art?filters[match]=all&filters[quer...
- mistrial9 8mo agoquite the flood of painted envelopes, some days!
- shmoe 8mo agoTruly a long, strange, trip. RIP.
- driggs 8mo agoParticularly relevant to HN is that Bobby's primary writing partner for decades was John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content Many of Bobby Weir's best-known songs had lyrics penned by Barlow. The world is a brighter place because of their partnership, and a little more grey in their absence.
- davidwritesbugs 8mo agoThis always makes me laugh. Comically pretentious & naive. Like schoolboy poetry.
- windowpains 8mo agoThe EFF, FOSS, Stallman, Barlow, so many things seem childish or naive now, but not back then. Maybe it’s just me. I wish I could go back.
- sswaner 8mo agoMay the four winds blow you safely home. It was a privilege to see him perform many times.
- zabzonk 8mo agoThis made me think that, for a band known for its guitarists, what great vocalists the Dead had - Weir, Garcia, Lesh, Pigpen, particularly when doing harmonies. Anyway, bye-bye Bob, thanks for all the music.
- iancmceachern 8mo agoAs my wife said, Bobby was our Jerry. We never got to see Jerry play, but we saw Bob several times and are so grateful for it.
- evanb 8mo ago> Winter rain, now tell me why > Summers fade and roses die > The answer came, the wind and rain > [...] > Circle songs and sands of time > And seasons will end in tumbled rhyme > And little change, the wind and rain Fare thee well, Bob.
- user3939382 8mo agoSad. Rest in peace Bob. Thank you for your art.
- zebomon 8mo agoI saw him perform 26 times in my life, and still those were rookie numbers. Still I thought there would be so many more too. Thanks for all the music, Bobby Weir.
- adfm 8mo agoThis is definitely sad news. From I remember, the early Internet seemed to be inhabited mostly by deadheads. When you think of open source, remember the music and the thousands who would tape and share the experience of Bobby playing with the band to millions.