Grateful Dead: Bob Weir opens to a trio reunion for 60 years

On the occasion of the celebrations of the sixty years of career of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir has made it known that he is open to “possibility“That the Band meets as a trio.

Last November, Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart They had announced that they had a reunion of the band with its four historical members to celebrate the important milestone, but everything had been suddenly suspended due to the Death of the co-founder and bass player Phil Leshwhich took place in October. Now, in an interview for the US edition of “Rolling Stone”, Bob Weir spoke of theeventuality that the grateful dead meet without lesh by the end of the year For the sixtieth anniversary. By facing the theme of a reunion, Weir said:

“I think that when Phil is gone, that idea is also vanished, because now we no longer have a bassist who has been playing with us for 60 years. And this was the fascinating aspect … I think someone who keeps up the groove is needed. Phil had a completely personal vision, unique in its kind. I grew up with him who supported the foundations of our music in an inimitable way”.

However, the possibility of a reunion of the Grateful Dead is not entirely excluded, given that Bob Weir has not definitively closed the door to a return of the band:

“I suppose that I could go back to the stage. I would not put anyone in his place, so at this point we would be a trio: I and I two drummers. I should reflect on it. I never thought about it before – it is coming to my mind only now that it could be a chance, since you asked me. I guess we will see what we can get out of the three”.

In the rest of the chat with Rolling Stone, Weir reflected on his divergences with Lesh and recalled the last phone call that exchanged: “We had our divergences”, explained the singer and guitarist: “But the last phone call that I received from him was when the news came out that we would be honored to the Kennedy Center. He called me simply to congratulate me and with us, phone call.

For the ceremony at the Kennedy Center, held in December in the presence of the President of the United States Joe Biden, Kreutzmann, Hart and Weir were present. Lesh was represented by his son Grahame, while the former frontman Jerry Garcia, who passed away in 1995, was represented by his daughter Trixie Garcia.