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Extended interview: Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir

Nearly 60 years after Bob Weir helped form the eclectic rock group The Grateful Dead in Palo Alto, Calif., the music of the Dead is being adapted for the concert hall. In this extended interview, correspondent John Blackstone talks with Weir, now 75, about the Dead's music, adapting it to performance by a symphony orchestra, the curious life of a song "critter," and the unfinished business resulting from bandmate Jerry Garcia's passing.

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More than 20 years after they played their final show, the Grateful Dead continues to inspire

More than 20 years after they played their final show, the Grateful Dead continues to inspire. Twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner took time out from their band, The National, to produce an epic, 59-track tribute to the Dead featuring dozens of musicians. "Day of the Dead" took four years to complete, and benefits the AIDS charity Red Hot. The brothers discuss the project with Anthony Mason.

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