Bob Weir and his band, RatDog, are doing an effective job of keeping the Grateful Dead's legacy alive, or at least, one side of his old band's legacy. The Dead had two main sides: There was the ...

Bob Weir has had quite an eventful 12 months. After an infamous onstage fumble last spring and the surprising news that his primary project Furthur would take a hiatus for most of 2014, the Grateful ...

Bobby Weir has gone from the pin-up poster boy days of the early 1980s to a grizzled, bearded sage today who humbly makes his way across the stage before smaller audiences. He and the audiences are ...

Allman Brothers bass player Oteil Burbridge was six years old when he first heard the Allman Brothers do “Whippin’ Post.” In a phoned interview last week, I tried to explain to him how unusual the ...

Grateful Dead alum Bob Weir pays tribute to his former band’s past and advances his own musical creations with his new ensemble, Ratdog, playing Hartford’s Webster Theatre Wednesday. Weir, a founding ...

Since its early days as a duet comprising Bob Weir and self-styled acoustic bassist Rob Wasserman, Ratdog has experienced its share of musical evolution and personnel shuffling. Counting late Chuck ...

"It's impossible to know what we're going to be doing on any given night," former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir says about his current band, Ratdog. Some things obviously never change. Like the ...

Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir and his band, Ratdog, performed in concert at The Tabernacle on Sunday, March 16, 2014 in Atlanta, Ga. Weir and Ratdog canceled all upcoming tour dates, citing ...

The Bob Weir-fronted Ratdog and the String Cheese Incident will co-headline 15 summer shows, including two at Colorado's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre and a pair at New York's Radio City Music Hall. By ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Saturday was a night of searing guitars at Red Rocks as the Allman Brothers Band joined Bob Weir’s Ratdog in a colossal explosion of memorable jamming. Photo ...

Many of you have probably been following the ongoing one-man anti-drug crusade of Asheville City Council member Dr. Carl Mumpower. He’s a man with a passion, and it’s hard not to give him points for ...