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Bob Weir
Although best known as a founder member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir
has always enjoyed a parallel musical career working on solo projects and with
the bands Kingfish, The Ratdog Quartet and Bobby And The Midnites. Weir has a
unique style and in the early days of Grateful Dead this created a degree of
tension between Weir and bandmate Jerry Garcia. Garcia didn't appreciate Weir's
early experimentation with voiceleading - a musical term for creating
interacting harmonies on an instrument. The friction forced Weir to take a break
from the band in 1968, returning later i...
