Bob Weir

@stuartk For Rock/Pop/Jazz I believe its beneficial to learn an instrument by ear and then after some time, incorporate reading music. I was reading about Bob Will's and His Texas Playboys. Half of Bob Wills band were studied musicians who read music and the other half weren't. He intended that and hired his musicians accordingly. As far as the Dead are concerned, I believe everyone looked at Phil as being the scholarly musician in the group. I absolutely loved how Phil played bass. Anyway, the Presto website offers books on Popular/Jazz Music Theory versus the standard music theory that I took in college. It makes sense because I hear things in Rock or Jazz that are done repeatedly to affect. Try making sense out of what Wayne Krantz plays on guitar!

Eell that explains a lot. 👍

You get what you come for, ya ready to go
Well, it's one in ten thousand that come for the show

- Greatest Story Ever Told

Saw the Dead many times, first show in 89. I'm still a fan especially of 77 shows

RIP Bob Weir

@dcdiscs I never saw them with Keith and Donna. What about you?

@goofyfoot No, they were long out of the band at my first show in 89