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Bobby Weir Is Open to a 60th Anniversary Grateful Dead Reunion

Things we learned from Bobby Weir's Rolling Stone interview about the future of Dead & Company, his last call with Phil Lesh, and more

Meeting up with him in Los Angeles, where the Grateful Dead were being honored at the annual MusiCares event, senior writer Angie Martoccio spoke with Weir about a wide variety of topics. Asked about the idea of a possible reunion to mark the Dead’s 60th anniversary this year, Weir said, “When Phil [Lesh] checked out, so did that notion, because we don’t have a bass player who’s been playing with us for 60 years now.” But as for future projects with drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Weir added, tantalizingly, “I suppose I could go back out. Lesh, of course, did not join up with Dead & Co., and Weir acknowledged that, over the decades, the two had “our differences.” But, he added, “The last phone call I had from him was when the news came out that we were being honored at the Kennedy Center.

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