WIBCI Post #116

WIBCI there were more Bob Weir’s?

The co-founder of The Grateful Dead died yesterday.

For anyone unfamiliar with Bob Weir, I urge you to listen, read, and think about all he experienced.

He was a part of the Merry Prankster’s, he lived with Neal Cassady a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. This time, these people, this music, this bus, were influenced by jazz, Buddhism, French surrealism, counter culture, electric kool-aid acid tests, and spawned: beatniks, hippies, fight songs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Burroughs, Wolfe, and Bob Weir among countless others. If there were ever a time in history where we could use such influence, wouldn’t now be a good time?

Escaping through the lily field,

I came across an empty space,

it trembled and exploded,

left a bus stop in its place.

the bus came by and I got on.

that’s when it all began.

There was cowboy Neal

at the wheel

of a bus to Never Never Land.

-Bob Weir

The bus was named Furthur and ‘Neal’ was Neal Cassidy….a major figure of the Beat Generation. Bob weir wrote this ng, un beknowst to him, the night Neal died of exposure on train tracks in Mexico. Bob Weir has said that he felt that Neal came to him that night while he was writing the above song ‘The Other One‘. At a televised memorial his wife said that he believed souls stay around for 59 days after they die and pointed out a hawk that kept circling above the crowd of thousands and said ‘Hello Darlin’.

Mr. Weir, the Boy Wonder, The Other One, thank you for the music, memories and hours spend forgetting about all my issues with myself and the world…and just swirl.

Last Updated on 01/30/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.