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Grateful Dead Founding Member Bob Weir Dies at 78

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The Associated Press

12:50 JST, January 11, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through decades of endless tours and marathon jams, has died. He was 78.

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