{"id":11225,"date":"2026-01-11T01:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:57:27","slug":"bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11225","title":{"rendered":"Bob Weir, co-founder of rock group the Grateful Dead, dies at age 78 | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Veteran rock musician Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead\u2019s rhythm guitarist who helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and success, has died at age 78, according to a statement posted to his verified Instagram account on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was diagnosed with cancer in July and \u201csuccumbed to underlying lung issues\u201d surrounded by loved ones, the statement said. It did not mention when or where he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Along with his late fellow Grateful Dead co-founder and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who was at the center of the Deadhead universe, Weir was one of the group\u2019s two frontmen and main vocalists for most of the band\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It was Weir who sang the verses on the band\u2019s trademark boogie anthem, Truckin\u2019, and who wrote such key songs as Sugar Magnolia, Playing in the Band and Jack Straw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The youthful, ponytailed \u201cBobby\u201d grew into an eclectic songwriter whose handsome appearance and diverse musical influences helped broaden the band\u2019s appeal. British newspaper the Independent called Weir \u201carguably rock\u2019s greatest, if most eccentric, rhythm guitarist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After Garcia\u2019s death at age 53 in 1995, Weir carved out an interesting if somewhat neglected solo career \u2013 much of it with his band, RatDog \u2013 and participated in reunions of surviving Dead members in different configurations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Bob #Weir #cofounder #rock #group #Grateful #Dead #dies #age #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran rock musician Bob Weir&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}