Bob Weir


I just discovered that Bob Weir has passed. I’m really getting old. It seems like yesterday that I was at a show watching Bob, Jerry and Phil mixing it up on stage.

goofyfoot

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

 

@goofyfoot 

Everyone has different natural aptitudes/challenges and now there are so many more teaching approaches/methods available than there were in the mid 70’s. I’m envious of people learning guitar (or any instrument) now.

Wayne Krantz has an interesting style. When listening to him, I find I really have to stay focused and pay close attention. I can’t just space out. It seems to be constructed of many incremental variations, as if one is observing some sort of slowly unfolding biological proces occurring at a microscopic level. 

That's an interesting approach Bob Wills took. No doubt it was advantage for Garcia, having played Bluegrass.That's not a genre that tolerates sloppiness. It must've been an excellent foundation in terms of discipline and developing technical facility.