Three decades after the passing of Jerry Garcia, his beloved bandmate and lifelong friend in the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir, who turned 75 last month, has learned not to fear death. In fact, he says, “I look forward to dying.” Just not right now.
“My operating assumption is that there’s not a whole lot of folks who get to do something people will be talking about for 300 years,” he says about his symphonic ambitions. “But I think we have a chance to be doing that. I think the Beatles will be remembered in 200 or 300 years, but we’ll see who else.”
He and the Wolf Bros have just come off a 12-city fall tour that included three nights at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater in celebration of his 75th birthday. As they catch their breath, he and the band are already looking forward to three nights of concerts that have just been announced with the Atlanta Symphony on February 17, 18 and 19 — the next step on Weir’s symphonic journey.
“I actually played for him some of the jug band stuff that we used to love as we grew up,” Weir says. In his compositions, Aquilanti is particularly drawn to melodies written by the late guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the revered musical and spiritual leader of the Grateful Dead who died in 1995.
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