Video: Furthur – El Paso

Earlier today we told you about Bob Weir’s difficulties during the first set of Wednesday night’s Furthur show at the Nokia in New York City. The Furthur guitarist – and original member of the Grateful Dead – couldn’t make it through the first line of El Paso and looked to be struggling mightily with playing his axe. Video of the ill-fated Marty Robbins’ cover has surfaced and paints a better picture of what went down…

Furthur – El Paso

UPDATE [7/29 – 8:34PM]: At last night’s show, Furthur’s Phil Lesh stepped to the mic and said “never drink out of something you haven’t poured yourself” and then hugged Bob Weir at the start of the gig insinuating that Weir was dosed with a psychedelic drug. Dosing a 62-year-old is just not right. [via TaperRob of the PhilZone]

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8 Responses

  1. Wow! That was kinda hard to watch. It does look like he’s dosed. If someone did that to him that is reallllly scummy.

  2. Would have loved to hear the onstage banter during this segment: Lesh to backstage crew: “Go find whatever it is he was drinking and save it for me.” Weir to John K: “Hey Jerry, things are getting weird.” I’m sure you could come up with a lot of your own. Whover dosed Weir is an @$$h0Le, to be sure, but somewhere, Jerry, Pig, and Uncle Bobo are laughing their asses off.

  3. Wow. Feel bad for him. When not being able to play is not an option panic can set in. Not like the old days. Hate to say it but his band mates should have stepped up. Either speak to him musicaly or let him sit out. JK just doesn’t have the 20 years of history to do that, not his fault. I miss 77 but know i could not hold up the way I did back then

  4. 1970 Bobby just had a twinge of regret after dosing an unsuspecting Phillip Lesh. He thinks for a moment and passes it off as nothing thinking “in 40 years I won’t even remember this, let alone feel badly”

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