{"id":55341,"date":"2026-01-11T01:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/watch-touch-of-grey-with-dead-and-co\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:04:36","slug":"watch-touch-of-grey-with-dead-and-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/watch-touch-of-grey-with-dead-and-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Touch of Grey&#8217; With Dead and Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe music world was busy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/david-bowie-death-10-years-on-final-act-1235496612\/\">mourning David Bowie on the 10-year anniversary of his death<\/a> on Saturday when the devastating word hit that we lost another icon of almost indescribable significance to rock history: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106\/\">Bob Weir.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHe transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could,\u201d his daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTWTKqKgKeP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chloe Weir wrote in an Instagram post.<\/a> \u201cUnfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe road was Weir\u2019s home from the moment the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grateful-dead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grateful-dead\" data-tag=\"grateful-dead\">Grateful Dead<\/a> formed in 1965 all the way through last summer. His projects outside the Grateful Dead included RatDog, Furthur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-weir\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-weir\" data-tag=\"bob-weir\">Bob Weir<\/a> and Wolf Bros, and Dead &amp; Company. At almost any given time, he had shows on the books with at least one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe interesting thing is, I\u2019ve never made plans,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bobby-weir-grateful-dead-company-interview-1235290296\/\"> he told<em> Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Angie Martoccio last March. <\/a>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not about to, because I\u2019m too damn busy doing other stuff, trying to get the sound right, trying to get the right chords, trying to get the right words, trying to get all that stuff together for the storytelling. And really, making plans seems like a waste of time. Because nothing ever works out like you expected it to, no matter who you are. So why bother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDead &amp; Co. wrapped up a farewell tour in July 2023, but they continued to play residencies at Sphere in Las Vegas throughout 2024 and 2025. And they came together one last time in August 2025 for three shows in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park to celebrate the Grateful Dead\u2019s 60th anniversary. Throughout the three evenings, they were joined by Billy Strings, Trey Anastasio, Grahame Lesh, and Sturgill Simpson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThese were joyous concerts filled with Deadheads from around the globe, but Weir was holding a secret: He was diagnosed with cancer weeks earlier, and had just started treatment. \u201cThose performances, emotional, soulful, and full of light, were not farewells, but gifts,\u201d Chloe Weir wrote. \u201cAnother act of resilience. An artist choosing, even then, to keep going by his own design.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dead &amp; Company \u201cTouch of Grey\u201d 08\/03\/25 San Francisco, CA \" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EuuPatosvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe final night wrapped up with \u201cTouch of Grey,\u201d perhaps the most famous tune in the Dead songbook. Weir sang lead, and the band stretched it out for nearly eight minutes. At the end, Weir took a group bow with the full band, waved to the crowd, and then took a special bow with Mickey Hart, the only other original member of the Dead in Dead &amp; Co., before they walked off together. It was his final live appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThere is no final curtain here, not really,\u201d wrote Chloe Weir. \u201cOnly the sense of someone setting off again. He often spoke of a three-hundred-year legacy, determined to ensure the songbook would endure long after him. May that dream live on through future generations of Dead Heads. And so we send him off the way he sent so many of us on our way: with a farewell that isn\u2019t an ending, but a blessing. A reward for a life worth livin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt\u2019s way too early to seriously contemplate the future of Dead &amp; Co., but it\u2019s somewhat hard to imagine them continuing outside of a tribute concert to Weir. He was the heart and soul of the group.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThat said, Weir himself once said he hoped to see the band outlive him. \u201cI had a little flash while we were playing one night,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-weir-on-dead-companys-future-john-mayers-classicist-style-50971\/\">Weir told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s David Fricke in 2016.<\/a> \u201cIt was toward the end of the tour. I don\u2019t remember what city it was in. We were getting into the second set, setting up a tune. We were all playing, but the tune hadn\u2019t begun yet. We were all feeling out the groove, just playing with it. Suddenly I was 20 feet behind my own head, looking at this and kind of happy with the way the song was shaping up. I started looking around, and it was 20 years later. John\u2019s hair had turned gray. Oteil\u2019s had turned white. I looked back at the drummers, and it was a couple of new guys. I looked back at myself, the back of my head, and it was a new guy. It changed my entire perception of what it is we\u2019re up to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe members of Dead &amp; Co. will ultimately make the call. And no matter what happens, Grateful Dead music will continue to live on concert stages for decades and decades to come. They are responsible for a significant chapter of the Great American Songbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bob-weir-final-live-performance-touch-of-grey-1235497354\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music world was busy mourning David Bowie on the 10-year anniversary of his death on Saturday when the devastating word hit that we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}