What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been, RIP Bob Weir

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Weir, a writer, guitar player, and sometimes vocalist for The Grateful Dead (and a ton of side projects after Jerry Garcia's death in '95), passed away today due to cancer. He was 78.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead-1236628170/

He's the vocalist on the Dead's best-known song (and source of the title), Truckin':

Estimated Prophet (he's not just the singer; he also wrote this one, which may be my fave Dead song):

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@jespah,

Everything I've ever heard about Bob Weir as a person paints him as really nice guy, very friendly and open. This was corroborated by a friend who worked as a roadie with the Dead for a few years.

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Psychonauts praising hallucinogens like they are a miracle drug. LoL

It made my life 5x worse than the living hell I was already enduring.

It is not some high school dropout making LSD -it is the government manufacturing & distributing LSD to the poor to keep them spiritually oppressed, mentally ill, and suicidal/homicidal. Keeping the prisons in business is top priority here in the west!

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What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been, RIP Bob Weir

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