{"id":244710,"date":"2026-01-14T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:14:07","slug":"grateful-deads-bill-kreutzmann-honors-bob-weir-in-heartfelt-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244710\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann Honors Bob Weir in Heartfelt Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGrateful Dead<\/a> drummer Bill Kreutzmann<\/a> has written a heartfelt tribute to his late bandmate Bob Weir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a lengthy statement posted on social media, Kreutzmann wrote about meeting Weir back in the mid-Sixties, when Weir and Jerry Garcia were playing in Mother McCree\u2019s Uptown Jug Champions. \u201cTogether, we embarked on a journey without a destination,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t set out to change the world, or to become big stars, or to have our own counterculture \u2014 we didn\u2019t know any of those things were actually possible and we wouldn\u2019t have been very interested in them even if we did. Well, not too much, anyway. Just enough to dream.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDuring those first rehearsals, which were in the back of a music shop, Bob and I would smoke joints in the back alley, before, during, and after \u2014 we had to be careful because it was still taboo back then,\u201d he added. \u201cAlso, Bob and I were the younger guys in the band, so we liked to do weird shit. By that I mean, we just liked to play pranks and be silly and not take ourselves too seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKreutzmann continued through the years, describing his memories of the Dead\u2019s Haight-Ashbury days and onward. \u201cBob and I used to enjoy throwing water balloons at each other, so one day we started throwing them at the tourist buses,\u201d he said. \u201cThat didn\u2019t end well, but it\u2019s making me smile all these years later thinking about it, because it was a time when every day felt like a great American adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe concluded the statement by quoting lyrics to the Grateful Dead\u2019s \u201cBird Song,\u201d adding, \u201cThere are so many people who can rightfully say that their life would not have been the same without Bob Weir. That\u2019s been true for me since I was 17. And through it all, the high times and the low tides, my love for him will not, indeed can not, fade away.\u201d (Read the entire tribute above.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tKreutzmann is the latest musician to pay tribute to Weir, who died last weekend <\/a>at age 78. The drummer founded the offshoot band Dead & Company alongside Weir, John Mayer, Mickey Hart, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti in 2015. Kreutzmann left the band in 2023 and was replaced by drummer Jay Lane.<\/p>\n

\n\tDead & Company released a statement on Weir\u2019s death, and the group\u2019s members each paid tribute to him individually<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann has written a heartfelt tribute to his late bandmate Bob Weir. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[123340,121925,123341,93,18126,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-244710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bill-kreutzmann","9":"tag-bob-weir","10":"tag-dead-and-company","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-grateful-dead","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}