Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead rock band alum, has officially announced his endorsement for the Harris/Walz campaign. He posted an image of himself on Instagram on October 28, clad in a t-shirt inspired by The Dead that read: "HARRIS WALZ 2024." He also uploaded an image of him and his wife, Natascha Münter, holding up a Harris campaign poster.
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The songwriter is best known as a founding member of the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead, and more
Bob Weir, a San Francisco native, was raised by adoptive parents Frederic Utter Weir and Eleanor Weir. While he initially started learning the piano and the trumpet, he found his calling with the guitar. Notably, school was not his forte, given that he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and was booted from every institution he went to.
However, it was at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado where he met John Perry Barlow, who would one day become the lyricist for the Grateful Dead. The band was initially christened Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, and that later changed to The Warlocks, before the group settled on the famous name. The fans, on the other hand, are lovingly known as the "Deadheads."
The group comprised of lead guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia, guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir, keyboard player Ron (“Pigpen”) McKernan, bassist Phil Lesh, and drummer Bill Kreutzmann. Weir stuck with the Dead for three decades, where he strummed the rhythm guitar and rendered a large portion of the lead vocals.
Bob Weir says the world can be "a grand adventure"
In his Instagram post, Bob Weir stated:
"Well, OK, I guess it all depends on your worldview; you can see your place in the world as something to defend from those who might want to take some or all of it from you—or you can see it as a grand adventure, a place to make dreams come to fruition for yourself and for others."
He continued:
"There is, of course, an in-between place—but the more you lean toward the grand adventure side, the clearer the choice becomes. More good comes from focusing on building a world where disparities aren’t so pronounced that they cause friction and reducing the inequalities that create barriers."
He signed off on his post by noting that he had "done [his] research" and had "come to the clear conclusion that [he'll] be voting for @KamalaHarris and @TimWalz this time around."
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