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  • SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 5 -- Pictured: Musical guests The Grateful Dead: (l-r) Bob Weir, Donna Godchaux, Jerry Garcia perform on November 11, 1978 (Photo by Fred Hermansky/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
    SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Episode 5 — Pictured: Musical guests The Grateful Dead: (l-r) Bob Weir, Donna Godchaux, Jerry Garcia perform on November 11, 1978 — Photo by: Fred Hermansky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
    On This Day

    Born 79 Years Ago Today in Alabama’s Renaissance City, the Grateful Dead Singer Who Sang on No. 1 Hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge

    08.22.26

    By Em Casalena

  • Grateful Dead in late 1960s
    UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1970: Photo of Grateful Dead (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
    The List

    4 Rock Songs You Never Knew Featured Members of The Grateful Dead

    01.24.26

    By Melanie Davis

  • Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dies at 78
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – Honoree Bob Weir (C) of Dead & Company and the Grateful Dead performs performs onstage at 2025 MusiCares Person Of The Year Honoring The Grateful Dead at Los Angeles Convention Center on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
    Latest Music News & Stories

    Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78

    01.10.26

    By Erinn Callahan

  • Jerry Garcia performing in the 1970s
    COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – 1st APRIL: Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) of The Grateful Dead performs on stage at the Tivoli Concert Hall in April 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)
    On This Day

    On This Day in 1995, This Grateful Dead Era Came to a Close With a Whimper and a Scathing Newspaper Review

    Trouble ahead, trouble behind.

    07.09.26

    By Melanie Davis

  • Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    On This Day

    Born 84 Years Ago Today in the Golden City, the Guitar Virtuoso Who Reluctantly Became the Face of 60s Counterculture

    08.01.26

    By Clayton Edwards

  • Jerry Garcia performing
    The Grateful Dead performing at the Felt Forum in 1971 Jerry Garcia (Photo by MediaPunch/Shutterstock)
    The List

    3 Grateful Dead Classics Guaranteed To Make Fans out of Non-Deadheads

    01.29.26

    By Thom Donovan

  • American Rock musician Bob Weir, of the group Grateful Dead, plays an electric guitar as he performs onstage at Nassau Coliseum (later Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum), Uniondale, New York, November 1, 1979. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
    The List

    4 Classic Songs Featuring the Brilliance of Bob Weir

    02.23.26

    By Jim Beviglia

  • Former Grateful Dead Members & Bob Dylan Among the Musicians Paying Tribute to Late Dead Guitarist Bob Weir
    Bob Weir (L) and Mickey Hart of Dead & Company perform during the 52nd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 06, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)
    Latest Music News & Stories

    Bob Dylan and Former Grateful Dead Members Among the Musicians Paying Tribute to Late Guitarist Bob Weir

    01.12.26

    By Matt Friedlander

  • The List

    3 Super Underrated Side Projects From The Grateful Dead

    02.02.26

    By Em Casalena

  • The Final Song Bob Weir Ever Played With the Grateful Dead
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 31: Honoree Bob Weir of Dead & Company and of the Grateful Dead performs onstage during the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Honoring The Grateful Dead at Los Angeles Convention Center on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
    Latest Music News & Stories

    We Didn’t Know It at the Time, but the Final Song Bob Weir Ever Played With the Grateful Dead Was the Perfect Goodbye

    01.12.26

    By Chris Piner

  • Merle Haggard in the 1960s
    Country musician Merle Haggard poses for a portrait circa 1966. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
    Behind The Song

    This Merle Haggard Song Started as a Joke, Which Is Probably Why The Grateful Dead Covered It in 1971

    Maybe The Grateful Dead covering that song was the whole point of the song. 

    07.11.26

    By Melanie Davis

  • Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead performing
    New York, N.Y.: Jerry Garcia, left, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead perform at the Academy of Music in Manhattan on March 21, 1972. (Photo by Jim Peppler/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
    Features

    The Electrical Error That Caused Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir to Call The Grateful Dead’s Woodstock Set “Terrible”

    01.16.26

    By Melanie Davis

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