Tag: Bob Weir

Bobby had long imagined Weather Report Suite as a multi-movement ensemble piece that would push the band in a new direction. But even as the Dead entered the studio to record Wake of the Flood, he still had not completed the composition. Read more about how it all came together…

Bob Weir had already written Sugar Magnolia, Playin’ in the Band, and Cassidy, among other great Dead tunes. But Weather Report Suite would be Bobby’s most ambitious compositional project to date…

Before Weather Report Suite became a fully formed composition, Bobby spent months shaping the Prelude live onstage, fragment by fragment. From tentative 1972 sketches to luminous spring 1973 jams, the Prelude evolved publicly into a brilliant transition piece and one of the Dead’s most evocative musical landscapes. Read more about the development of the Prelude…