Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dies At 78 – Entertainment News

By Karen Beishuizen

The new year has just started and another legend is gone.

Bob Weir, guitarist and co-founder of Grateful Dead, died age 78: a date was not available at the moment.

Born on 16 October, 1947 in San Francisco, he met Jerry Garcia in 1965 and they started a band called Warlocks which changed into The Grateful Dead.

He sang the verses on the band’s trademark boogie anthem “Truckin” and who wrote songs like “Sugar Magnolia”, “Playing In The Band” and “Jack Straw”.