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For Your Entertaining Needs!

ob Wasserman has his own
storied place in Grateful
Dead history.
He's the guy who got to
tell Bob Weir his longtime bandmate
Jerry Garcia had died.
This was on Aug. 9, 1995, after
Garcia was found dead at the Serenity
Knolls drug treatment center in Forest
Knolls, Calif. Wasserman, who was on
tour with Weir at the time in
Hampton Beach, N.H., received a call
from a friend who had heard a rumor,
and Wasserman was able to confirm it.
Weir's phone was turned off, and
Wasserman had to knock on his door,
wake the guitarist up and tell him the
sad news.

"It was pretty intense, to say the
least," remembers Wasserman, 45,
who's now playing with Weir in the
band Ratdog. Weir and Wasserman
decided to play their show that night in
New Hampshire in tribute to Garcia.
"Bobby decided he wanted to play
that night ... because Jerry would have
wanted him to play, wanted us to
play," says Wasserman, who played
"Amazing Grace" as his bass solo that
evening. "And I agreed because that's
where Jerry came from, his music. That
was his life. If Bobby had died, that
would have been the way he would
have expressed his grief."
Now, however, Wasserman and Weir
are in a more joyful place. Formed in
late 1995, Ratdog has evolved into a 0
smooth, spontaneous unit that blends
the skills of its members — Weir,

