Watch Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir chat with CBS Sunday Morning about what’s he’s been working on lately and when the last time Jerry Garcia visited him in a dream.
Recently, at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, black tie met tie dye when the National Symphony Orchestra shared the spotlight with Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir and his band, Wolf Bros. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Weir about bringing new life to the Dead’s music, by going from a six-piece jam band to a 60-piece orchestra, blending culture with counter-culture.
They also posted an extended section via their YouTube channel:
Nearly 60 years after Bob Weir helped form the eclectic rock group The Grateful Dead in Palo Alto, Calif., the music of the Dead is being adapted for the concert hall. In this extended interview, correspondent John Blackstone talks with Weir, now 75, about the Dead’s music, adapting it to performance by a symphony orchestra, the curious life of a song “critter,” and the unfinished business resulting from bandmate Jerry Garcia’s passing.
