Bobby 75

Rich Mahan (0:05)

The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarnow, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead For The Committed And The Curious. Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Deadheads, welcome to season six of The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast. I'm your co-host Rich Mahan. As always, thank you very much for tuning in. In this episode, we have yet another celebration, this one lighting 75 candles for the one and only Bobby Weir.

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Well, speaking of Bobby Ace, just announced is the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Bobby Weir's first solo album, and there are a few configurations you need to know about. For this new collection, Bobby remixed the original album and he pairs that with a new live version by Bobby Weir and Wolf Brothers recorded earlier this year at Radio City Music Hall featuring the Wolfpack with special guests Tyler Childers and Brittany Spencer. Our own Jesse Jarnow even wrote the liner notes. There will be a two CD version as well as a custom high roller pearl white vinyl release available exclusively from dead.net, both with a release date of January 13th, 2023 A black vinyl version will follow on February 3rd. You can pre-order any and all of the Ace releases and some cool Ace merch over at dead.net.

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What would our musical world be like without Bobby Weir? In this episode, we celebrate all things Bobby as he celebrates his 75th birthday. Rather than looking back in this episode, we will focus more on what Bobby's doing now and how he got where he is today. Let's hand this baton over to conductor Jesse Jarnow.

Jesse Jarnow (3:46)

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We will listen the podcast show GOOD OL GRATEFUL DEADCAST. We will listen the podcast show GOOD OL GRATEFUL DEADCAST. We will listen the podcast show GOOD OL GRATEFUL DEADCAST. We don't really understand how it happened either, but this month we wish Bobby Weir a happy, heady and healthy 75th birthday. Like a lot of things in the Grateful Dead world, it came on pretty gradually. The Dead continued to change each and every time they stepped onto his stage, and we spent a few recent episodes of the Deadcast going into the subtle and not subtle shadings of the Dead's music between 1981, 1982 and 1983 And though the Grateful Dead officially disbanded in 1995, it was never in question that Bobby Weir would continue that mission, continuing to change every single year and then change some more. Today, to honor Bobby Weir's 75th, we're not going to so much offer a career overview as go deeply into what Bobby Weir is doing now at 75 and how he got here.

That was from the brand new album, Live in Colorado, Volume 2, by Bobby Weir and the Wolf Brothers. The second of three new releases from Bobby & Co. featuring his expanded Wolfpack. That is, counting the live disc of Ace 50 coming in January, but not counting the concerto that Weir just debuted with the National Symphony Orchestra this October, and which will perhaps be coming to a classical venue near you sometime soon. Perhaps the most ambitious project of Weir's entire career.

All things told, it's been pretty busy in Weirland, even without discussing how Dude got so ripped. So we've got a bunch of friends to catch us up. In addition to birthday boy Bob Weir, we have with us on this episode a few of his lycanthropic conspirators. Jeff Chimenti has been playing with Weir since 1997 Welcome to the Deadcast, Jeff.