Bob Weir dies at 78; Grateful Dead played San Bernardino twice

Bob Weir, a guitarist who was a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died at age 78, his family announced Saturday.

Weir was in the band even before its founding. In 1963, at age 16, Weir met banjo player Jerry Garcia and they formed a jug band. That went through another iteration before becoming the Grateful Dead, a psychedelic rock band that created its own subculture, one that endures into the 21st century.

The band officially ended in 1995 with Garcia’s death, but the surviving members performed in other configurations...