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Bob Weir & Phil Lesh - Weir Here, TRI Studios, San Rafael, CA, 3-13-2013
Last month, January 2026, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead died. He was 78 years old. I've already posted a couple of things to celebrate his musical legacy, but I want to post another one.
In 2012, Weir opened up his own music studio, called Tamalpais Research Institute Studios, or TRI Studios for short. In 2012 and 2013, he hosted about a dozen concerts in this studio, which were broadcast on the Internet. Generally speaking, he performed acoustic in front of a very small audience, with different guests each episode. I found this episode the most interesting, because his main guest this time was Phil Lesh, the long-time bassist for the Grateful Dead. After Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and the Dead broke up, Weir and Lesh did perform sometimes, for instance in the band the Other Ones. But they almost never performed together in acoustic mode, especially in a studio setting like this. All the songs performed were originally done by the Grateful Dead.
Some other people took part in this concert as well. For the first four songs, it was just Weir and Lesh as a duo, with Lesh coming in halfway through the first song. Then, for tracks 5, 6, and 7, they were joined by Jason Crosby and Joe Russo. For the last song, "Friend of the Devil," Lesh left and was replaced by Cass McCombs. I'm not sure who sings lead vocals on a couple of songs, such as "Operator," but it wasn't Weir. If you can tell, please let us know.
Twice, between songs, the band members stopped playing and had an extension discussion amongst themselves. All that talking has less relistening value for me. So I took those two discussions and put them at the end as optional bonus tracks.
When I found this on YouTube, I did my usual thing of converting the video to audio format, and chopping it into mp3s. I was surprised that I haven't seen it shared as audio files, even though it seems everything Dead-related gets shared that way. So hopefully it can spread around now.
This album is an hour and three minutes long.
01 Sugar Magnolia (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
02 Cosmic Charlie (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
03 Loose Lucy (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
04 Jack Straw (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
05 Operator (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
06 Lazy River Road (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
07 Playing in the Band (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
08 talk (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
09 Friend of the Devil (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
10 talk (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
Discussion 1 (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
Discussion 2 (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/pbTUdbF6
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/c9mqDtoSUMBgZ42/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert. Bob Weir is the one with the beard.
