The Song That Defined Bob Weir’s Role in the Grateful Dead
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Fans once calculated that Bob Weir played around 4,500 shows with the Dead. One song, writes musician and critic Andy Cush, imbues the hard and lonely work of all that touring with elemental, almost mystical significance—and took the band to the outermost edges of improvisation.