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Rocky Mountain High

“I’ve pretty much abandoned signal processing. The guitar itself has such variety to offer and it’s so much more elemental”

BOB WEIR IS ridiculously busy at age 74. The founding member and rhythm guitarist of the Grateful Dead now spends his summers touring stadiums with Dead & Company, the group that also features Dead drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge and pianist Jeff Chimenti. Since 2018, he’s also toured with Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros, a group that began as a trio with bassist Don Was — best known as a producer of the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and many others — and Primus drummer Jay Lane, a longtime Weir collaborator. The band has slowly expanded into a 10-piece juggernaut.

They are captured on their first album,, which features highlights from a 2021 tour of the Centennial State, which represented their first live performances

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