Bob Weir To Appear On The Big Interview With Dan Rather

Tonight’s new episode of The Big Interview With Dan Rather features Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. The one-hour AXS TV program airs tonight, Tuesday, August 11 at 8 p.m. ET.

“When we’ve got into the studio, we concentrated there,” Weir says of his time recording with the Grateful Dead. “But we didn’t spend that much time in the studio. So, you know, we had an enormous organization… it was a big bulldog to feed.  And so, we had to stay on the road a lot to do that. We spent a lot of time on the road, and in order to make it make sense for us, just to feel fulfilling, we had to make it better every time we went out. Whether it meant dressing up our stage with art, or… keeping abreast of the latest offerings of the state-of-the-art of audio sound reinforcement.”

When discussing the late Jerry Garcia, Weir adds, “ [Jerry Garcia was] More or less, a big brother figure.  We were brothers, for sure… They say that blood is thicker than water; and, really, what we had was way thicker than blood.”

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Watch Bob Weir on The Big Interview With Dan Rather on AXS TV tonight at 8 p.m ET/7 p.m. CT.