Driving Wheel

Well said.

Bobby Weir was one of my favorite musician friends, and for that matter, one of my favorite people anywhere. Always a warm, jovial presence, but with a mischievous look in his eye, he was ready with banter, a quip, a wise-guy crack or bon mot most all the time.

Weir had a completely original take on playing rhythm guitar in a rock band, inspired by disparate sources but maybe mostly from studying McCoy Tyner’s comping behind John Coltrane in the classic Coltrane Quartet of the sixties. He found the ideal and unique voicings and rhythmic style to underpin Garcia’s flights of fancy, and kept developing it through the years. Often when I played with them I wouldn’t play, just lay out, because I thought that the symbiosis between the two longtime partners was so evident and anything else added was unnecessary and possibly intrusive.

Bobby also wrote a large number of songs that became beloved classics of the Grateful Dead corpus. As a writer he had a very broad range stylistically, and wrote songs that featured a wide palette of musical colors: original chord progressions with unexpected and exciting harmonic movement (“Estimated Prophet,” “Weather Report Suite”), beautiful ballads (“Looks Like Rain,” “Black-Throated Wind”), stirring jam vehicles (“The Other One”), titanic old-time western country-rock songs (“Jackstraw” — wow, “Mexicali Blues”), and durable, jamming night-closing rockers (“One More Saturday Night,” “Playing In The Band,” “I Need A Miracle,” “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia”).

This hits hard. We just worked together in 2025 on some new music and had a joyful time with it. This piece, a song I wrote with Robert Hunter, will stand as our mutual final collaboration, and I will always cherish it, along with all the times we played together through the years, from 1988 until last year. Sometimes it was pretty freaking magical. I love you, Bob, and will always fondly remember our many moments, so often transcendent, throwing chords and notes around in space, through the air, together.

📸 Susana Millman

Driving Wheel - "I'm Gone" https://drivingwheel.bandcamp.com/https://open.spotify.com/artist/5QIGo5BFUxgw8IdjjJQQd0https://archive.org/details/DrivingWheelhttps://www.facebook.com/driv...

Driving Wheel - "Righteous Man" Mixed & Mastered by Andy DeRosaProduced by Driving Wheelhttps://drivingwheel.bandcamp.com/https://open.spotify.com/artist/5QIGo5BFUxgw8IdjjJQQd0https://archi...

Driving Wheel - Broadway Oyster Bar - 08.22.2015 (Audio only) Driving Wheel Live at the Broadway Oyster Bar St. Louis, MO 2015-08-22Source: Shure m81 into Tascam DR-100mkII(24/96)Lineage: Tascam DR-100mkII(24/96) into A...

Gear shaming is telling your guitar that it can't go out in public with it's G string showing as everyone will think it's a slut.

The classics never get old.

Opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

DRIVING WHEEL - 07/01/2015 - The Blue Note, Columbia MO Driving Wheel opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd; complete set, synced to multitrack audio. 1. 30 Miles To Houston2. Full Grown3. Righteous Man4. I'm Gone5. ...

Old school jams from the Blue Note

DRIVING WHEEL - Work It Out/Schoolgirl/Voodoo Child - 12/11/2014 - Blue Note, Columbia MO Blue Christmas from 2014

https://www.rockinconcerts.com/driving-wheel-2012-06-02-cd-jefferson-city-soundboard.html

This isn't a sanctioned release, and we have nothing to do with it. I don't know what the source is, but I HIGHLY doubt that there was a SBD recording made. It is most likely a remaster of Huck's AUD recording that is found at : https://archive.org/details/drivingwheel2012-06-02.flac16

I think what I'm saying is do not purchase this thing, and if you do CAVEAT EMPTOR because, again, we have nothing to do with it

Driving Wheel 2012-06-02 CD Jefferson City Soundboard Live Show Recording Relive the unforgettable live show performance of Driving Wheel in Jefferson City From 2012. Recording available in CD, MP3, and streaming formats.