Bob Weir

Robert Hall Weir (October 16, 1947–) is an American guitar player, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. He played guitar and sang vocals throughou

Robert Hall Weir (October 16, 1947–) is an American guitar player, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. He played guitar and sang vocals throughout their entire 30-year career. Weir also took part in a Bay area endeavor in 1975, with friends Matt Kelly and Dave Torbert,called Kingfish. He is renowned for his skill on rhythm guitar and vocals.

Weir was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the suburb of Atherton, California. He began playing guitar at age thirteen after less successful experimenting with the piano and the trumpet. He had trouble in school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and was expelled from nearly every school he attended. One of the many schools he attended was Fountain Valley School in Colorado, where he befriended John Perry Barlow, who would become one of the two main lyricists for the Grateful Dead.