A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like any classic rock band, the Grateful Dead had no shortage of well-loved songs making up their decades-long discography, ...

There are many elements that made The Grateful Dead singular, but one of the most defining was having two primary songwriters and lead singers. Plenty of ...

The Grateful Dead was so much more than a jam band. Throughout the decades the band was together, they experimented with everything from rock to country to blues to folk and beyond. They also had a ...

According to legend, back in 1968, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh fired Bob Weir and Pigpen from their positions in the Grateful Dead. Or maybe it was that Garcia and Lesh tried to fire Weir and Pig… or ...

OK, let’s face it. You heard the news about the return of dire wolf pups after 12,000 years, marking the end of that species’ extinction. And maybe you thought, “Wow, 12,000 years flies by!” Or you ...

In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and ...

Over the weekend, Grateful Dead fans the world over mourned the loss of an icon: Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member, had died at 78, leaving listeners and collaborators caught off-guard. Since ...

Like any classic rock band, the Grateful Dead had no shortage of well-loved songs making up their decades-long discography, including such fabled hits as "Truckin'", "Ripple", "Touch of Grey" and so ...