RIP Bob Weir

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  • Rob S.
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    • Dec 2013
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    #1

    RIP Bob Weir

    He will be missed. But he's left us so much.
    1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

    2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
  • Rob S.
    Forum Guru
    Past Site Supporter
    • Dec 2013
    • 9371
    • New York City

    #2
    1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

    2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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    • LAB3
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      • Mar 2018
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      #3
      Saw Bob Weir with Kingfish in Nevada when Jerry was recovering from a diabetic coma in 86 and was fortunate to see the Dead together a couple of times in 87 when this album was released. RIP Bob

      2001 Kawasaki Voyager XII (Current bike)
      1982 GS450txz (former bike)

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      • oldGSfan
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        • Jul 2018
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        • Southern California

        #4
        Well, RIP, Bob.
        Last edited by oldGSfan; Yesterday, 12:59 AM.
        Tom

        '82 GS1100E Mr. Turbo
        '79 GS100E
        Other non Suzuki bikes

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        • Rob S.
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          • Dec 2013
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          #5
          I first saw him (and the rest of the band) in February '73 at the Nassau Coliseum. Pigpen had just died.
          But I really consider my first Dead show to be December '71 at the Felt Forum. It was simulcast on the radio, and I was taping it uninterrupted, including the interminable time between songs, Scott Muni interviews with Jerry, Bob and Bill Graham (Bill saw a guy grab two tickets off a couple of girls out front and ran after and tackled him in the street) and the 90 minute opening set by NRPS. All told, it was 6 very memorable hours on four cassettes. But I learned a couple of things in February of 1973:

          1. The Grateful Dead and 15,000 people at a sports arena were not nearly as exciting as Hot Tuna playing for 3,000 folks. "I'm gonna sing you, a hundred verses in ragtime..." 90 would have been more than enough.

          2. Jerry Garcia was not the 'front man,' as I had always assumed. Robert "Ace" Weir was.
          1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

          2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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