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John Mayer, Bob Weir perform onstage at the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Benefit Gala for Grateful Dead held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
John Mayer pays emotional tribute to Bob Weir at public memorial

By Matt Owen Published

Mayer paid homage to his Dead & Company bandmate during a public service over the weekend

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Bob Weir performs onstage with Dead & Company at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 6, 2023
Bob Weir's 6 principles of rhythm guitar

By John Stix Published

Often overlooked in guitar circles when compared to Grateful Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir was a brilliant rhythm player who blended jazz, folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences into a style that any guitarist would do well to study

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John Mayer and Steve Vai lead guitarists’ tributes to Bob Weir

By Phil Weller Published

His 60-year career, and the “mystical” man behind the music, have been remembered by a score of guitar greats

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Bob Weir pictured with his red D'Angelico signature guitar
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead guitarist, vocalist and founding member, dies aged 78

By Matt Parker Published

The counterculture guitar icon never stopped evolving as a player and performer

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John Mayer of Dead & Company, and Honorees Mickey Hart and Bob Weir of Dead & Company and of the Grateful Dead perform onstage during the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Honoring The Grateful Dead on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
John Mayer names his favorite solo with Dead & Company – and plays it live on air

By Matt Owen Published

Mayer was asked the question during his Life with John Mayer SiriusXM show, and he just so happened to have a Silver Sky in hand to answer it

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Musicians Oteil Burbridge (L) and John Mayer of Dead & Company perform on stage at Sleep Train Amphitheatre on July 27, 2016 in Chula Vista, California.
How Oteil Burbridge set about replacing Phil Lesh to become Dead & Company’s new singing bass hero

By Chris Jisi Published

Burbridge played with The Allman Brothers and Tedeschi Trucks Band before joining Dead & Company alongside guitarist John Mayer

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Bella Rayne sits on the back of a trailer with her Les Paul Goldtop, wearing tie-dyed patterned flares and cowboy boots.
How a 17-year-old guitar prodigy ended up with a vintage 1957 Goldtop from the foundation of a band she once hated

By Jonathan Horsley Published

After Bella Rayne had her Number One Les Paul stolen, she was dead grateful that she had got over her dislike of the Grateful Dead

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D’Angelico celebrates Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary with 3 special-edition guitars

By Phil Weller Published

Two electrics and an orchestra acoustic from D’Angelico bring back a special-edition Grateful Dead finish that pays homage to the pair’s first collaborative model

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Tom Lieber, luthier of choice for Jerry Garcia, sits with some of his wildest creations, and holds a bass like you have never seen before.
Tom Lieber apprenticed to Jerry Garcia's guitar builder Doug Irwin in the ’70s – now he’s raising the ’Dead once again

By Amit Sharma Published

This is the story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for an answer and ended up learning how to make some of the rock world’s most prized instruments

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John Mayer and Bob Weir [left] of Dead and Company both play a D'Angelico archtop. Mayer picks the strings, Weird frets a chord.
John Mayer was a Grateful Dead fanatic – before he landed the Dead & Company gig

By Phil Weller Published

Don Was has revealed how he helped connect the dots between John Mayer and Bob Weir

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