Press Coverage
| Exhausted Weir Cancels Ratdog Tour Billboard | October 6, 2004 |
| NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bob Weir, singer/guitarist of the Dead, has canceled a fall tour by his side-project band Ratdog because of exhaustion. The Ratdog run was scheduled to kick off Thursday (Oct. 7) in Ridgefield, Conn., and run through a Nov.... [Complete Story] | |
| We're still here Associated Press | April 29, 2004 |
| LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's been more than 40 years since a fateful New Year's Eve encounter connected Bob Weir with Jerry Garcia and started a rock band, the Grateful Dead, that would become the eternal poster child for 1960s psychedelic music.... [Complete Story] | |
| Ratdog Develops New Tricks An Honest Tune | April 20, 2004 |
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| Ratdog Fans a Dead Flame Washington Post | April 1, 2004 |
| Tuesday evening's RatDog show at the 9:30 club was a "Sixth Sense" experience; it left you, like poor Haley Joel Osment, saying, "I see Dead people.... [Complete Story] | |
| RatDog keeps Dead tunes alive Newark Star-Ledger | March 30, 2004 |
| Members of The Grateful Dead will reunite this summer, and hit the road as The Dead. Until then, the closest facsimile is the current tour by Dead member Bob Weir and his side group, RatDog.... [Complete Story] | |
| RatDog heads up '60s party Syracuse Press-Standard | March 21, 2004 |
| Bob Weir has hosted happy, hippie music parties for 39 years now.... [Complete Story] | |
| Dead Man Talking San Francisco Chronicle | March 21, 2004 |
| Bob Weir showed up at rehearsal with his sideline band RatDog to discover the other musicians already working up a version of "Black Peter" -- the old Grateful Dead song that had always been sung by Jerry Garcia.... [Complete Story] | |
| Weir finds his birth father and adopts a vintage guitar San Francisco Chronicle | March 21, 2004 |
| Bob Weir was adopted and has never known the circumstances of his birth. His biological mother's name on his birth certificate was a phony -- that much he knew.... [Complete Story] | |
| Bob Weir brings other band to the Landmark Syracuse Press-Standard | March 19, 2004 |
| Does Bob Weir's musical mission change when he slips off his guitar for The Dead and pulls it back on for RatDog? Not a bit.... [Complete Story] | |
| Dead Again Northern Now (Northern Illinois University) | March 19, 2004 |
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| Express tracks Rocky Mountain News | March 15, 2004 |
| This is how quickly music comes together for Ratdog leader/Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. A compilation of his work, Weir Here, arrives in stores on March 23.... [Complete Story] | |
| Ratdog sheds its image of a Grateful Dead band The (Everett, WA) Daily Herald | March 5, 2004 |
| For a time after Ratdog became a full-fledged band around 1994, guitarist-singer Bob Weir worried that the group was becoming known as a Grateful Dead cover band. Certainly, Ratdog had every right to claim a piece of the Grateful Dead legacy.... [Complete Story] | |
| Weir keeps same groove going in different band The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review | March 5, 2004 |
| Anyone who leaves the Ratdog concert Tuesday night at Big Easy can do so with a fresh, triple-CD recording of the show. And you can get it straight from the source, as Ratdog's crew will be selling copies for $25 as soon as the show ends.... [Complete Story] | |
| Weir's love for football, music knows no bounds Wichita Falls Times Record News | March 4, 2004 |
| Many professional athletes despise playing before a sparse crowd. At least one rock star, former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, doesn't mind. He'll perform anywhere.... [Complete Story] | |
| Bebop Baby, How Can This Be? JamBase | March 2, 2004 |
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| Ratdog rocks Celebrity The Arizona Republic | February 29, 2004 |
| Bob Weir, a touch of grey kinda suits you anyway.... [Complete Story] | |
| Ratdog in town The Arizona Republic | February 26, 2004 |
| Bob Weir has plenty of options to celebrate the legacy of his former band, the Grateful Dead.... [Complete Story] | |
| Bob Weir and Ratdog SignOnSanDiego | February 25, 2004 |
| There is something to be said for musicians who reinvent themselves in the interest of escaping their past. There is something equally admirable, though, about those who embrace the past without being consumed by it.... [Complete Story] | |
| Weir Looks Back On Solo Retrospective Billboard.com | February 25, 2004 |
| Alongside a lengthy tenure with the Grateful Dead, guitarist/singer Bob Weir has consistently embraced opportunities to perform and record as a solo artist and with side projects.... [Complete Story] | |
| Weir wins Super Sage; Osment catches Peck Scripps Howard News Service | February 2, 2004 |
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| Bob Weir's Ratdog hits the U.S. club circuit in February, March LiveDaily.com | January 22, 2004 |
| Bob Weir and his group Ratdog are set to embark on a late-winter tour of the West, and he'll again be on the road this summer with The Dead--a group that features his fellow Grateful Dead alumni.... [Complete Story] | |
