is a straight shooter. When I asked him about life after the final “Fare Thee Well” shows in 2015, he told me : “We’ll see. I’ve got some miles left in me, but I’m sure everybody does. I’m the youngest of the guys.”
He wasn’t supposed to say that. The official storyline was that the Dead members would never play together again. Weir wasn’t having it. Later that year, Dead & Company, featuring Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti playing in the band — hit the road.
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