RIP Bobby

[Drunk Monk]

Feel this one

[Drunk Monk]

When I boarded a plane in Mexico this afternoon wearing my Dead 60 Rock Med shirt, a fellow passenger thanked me for my service.
When I took my phone out of airplane mode, it blew up with the news… Dead 60 was the last time I saw him
Is there anything a man don't stand to lose?
When the devil wants to take it all away?

[Drunk Monk]

I was away from home when Phil passed last year
https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...p?tid=8209
And now in transit when Bobby passed.

It’s surreal. Few celebrity deaths have hit me as hard was the Dead. Now just the drummers are left.

I have a lot of Bobby stories. The time I helped save him from security. The time I watched him struggle to paddle a canoe. The time at Frost when Stacy & I walked out on his set because it was too damn slow.

Bobby was the youngest and the most relatable in many ways. He dropped lyrics a lot and came in with off key chords. But there was the time I saw him play solo in the SC mountains and he blew me away. He grew up in the band, joining as a teen. Of all the players, I probably focused on his line the least, but he was often the fire that kickstarted the bad back from spaciness. 

My socials are flooded with Bobby tributes. I scroll for a while until I cant take it. 

Not the way to come home from a retreat. Not the way to start 2026.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

The Haight was bumpin. He's getting a good send off.

[King Bob]

According to and interview I saw once, Jerry said that he got a lot of soloing ideas from the odd chord voicings that Bobby used. Apparently he had long fingers.

DM - I think you were there when I saw him and Rob Wasserman open for Jerry at the Orpheum. He did that song based on a Kipling poem, with the line "He travels the fastest who travels alone." That was a great song, but I have to say he did some ponderously slow songs that he sort of moaned his way through, such as Looks like Rain and Lost Sailor.

[Drunk Monk]

The Haight was bumpin. He's getting a good send off.

Just the warm up hopefully.

Those Orpheum shows were great. I met Wassermann when he toured with Lou Reed. I had a moment with him backstage and told him how much I loved his music. It was a bit awkward because he had just some out of the bathroom and his hands were wet from washing when we shook hands. 

But yeah, The Winner is such a Bob song. And those Bob & Rob shows were awesome. The Orpheum sticks out in DM’s mind because it was there that dm puddled & spun. And it was an epiphany - spinning to 360 degree awareness is quite a trip. 

I saw him once solo acoustic in a field north of HMB. It was such a hippie show that the urinals was an area of field that was cordoned off with caution tape. He did Victim of the Crime solo acoustic and it blew my mind. It was such a twisted sound he was after with the crescendos in that song. So Bobby.

[Drunk Monk]

First radio tribute - KKUP = Grateful Dead Standing On The Moon Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter

Odd pick. A Jerry song, not a Bobby one. 

This was our wedding song.

[thatguy]

Weird coincidence...I've been watching the Sweet Tooth series on and off. I haven't watched recently. I put it on last night while I was puttering and it was Ep 7 - the penultimate episode of the first season. Essentially the origin story of Sweet Tooth, titled When Pubba met Birdie (Sweet Tooth's parents). It opened with a Dead song and then in the retelling of how they meet, Richard says a little quip while chatting in a bar and she says that he's quoting Truckin', and they bond over the Dead, recounting favorite songs, and then go back to her place and listen to American Beauty.

Strange synchronicity...

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

The Grateful Dead were masters of synchronicity. 

And I enjoyed Sweet Tooth overall but it was e7 that sealed it for me: https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...1#pid48261

[Drunk Monk]

There's a public memorial happening this Saturday in SF. It'll be announced tomorrow, but out of respect for the family, it's under wraps right now.

Sadly, Saturday is my father-in-law's birthday and I can't bail out of that, given his cancer diagnosis, obvs.

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There's a slight chance I can make it because my father-in-law's birthday party isn't firm. 

Listening to BrooklynBilly's Music Mashup Show on KSQD - Bob Weir Tribute Show. This DJ is nailing it - playing solid cherry-picked live songs. He just played The Winner and I thought of you, KB, and our times together following the Dead.

This show is making me misty.

[Drunk Monk]

Bravo network boss Andy Cohen, a longtime fan of the Grateful Dead, penned a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, where he wrote that “Bob Weir wasn’t The Other One, he was That Guy.”

[thatguy]

Bravo network boss Andy Cohen, a longtime fan of the Grateful Dead, penned a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, where he wrote that “Bob Weir wasn’t The Other One, he was That Guy.”

I thought I was That Guy!

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

Bravo network boss Andy Cohen, a longtime fan of the Grateful Dead, penned a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, where he wrote that “Bob Weir wasn’t The Other One, he was That Guy.”

I thought I was That Guy!

--tg

Nope.
You are the Other One apparently.

[Drunk Monk]

And Splif Skankin rolls into the Reggae Express with Cassidy.

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Now Truckin. Not sure who's versions these are yet, but they're mighty.

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"RAS-pect Bobby Weir" Spliff Skankin

He said that the version of Truckin was off the second Fire on the Mountiain - the Reggae Dead tribute album. I have that. Spliff must have fattened that track like DJs do...

[Drunk Monk]

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RM is planning on 10-20K attendees.