News Summary

• The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, and by this point, its appeal has survived.
• The Dead's legacy is one that came to be defined, broadly, by collective ownership and responsibility.
• Bob Weir always pictured the Dead's "critters" sticking around far longer than anybody on stage.
• "I can't help but think, after doing this work, that there's a good chance that these songs are going to be around in 200 or 300 years," he said in 2022.