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In Memoriam: Founding member Bobby Weir joined the Grateful Dead as a teenager and remained with the band for its entire thirty-year career. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Weir took influences from disparate sources – jazz, classical, and gospel music – and was featured on many of the group’s most rock-oriented songs. His guitar playing highlighted distinctive chord progressions and rhythmic patterns, and his songwriting offered thoughtful lyrics and surprising melodies. Weir never seem

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Watch Dead & Company perform “IKO IKO” from the XL Center show that’s now available to stream. Based on the battle chants of the legendary Mardi Gras Indian tribes of New Orleans, this song first appeared in recorded form in 1953 as “Jock-a-Mo,” by James “Sugarboy” Edwards, then resurfaced under its current title as a smash 1965 single by the vocal group the Dixie Cups. It started turning up in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire in the late 70s and its irresistible groove was especially welcome at t