"I'm Robert Weir of Mill Valley," How Bobby found his biological father and adopted a guitar
I can’t post all of this in 4 paragraphs but it’s a good short read.
Weir finds his birth father and adopts a vintage guitar
March 21, 2004
His birth mother told him that she and a fellow college student in Tucson, Ariz., had a fling in 1947. When she discovered she was pregnant, she moved to San Francisco, arranged for the baby's adoption, gave birth and went back to Tucson a year later. She never told the child's father. She did tell Weir the man's name.
Bob’s wife encouraged him to follow up on it
"The only Robert Weir I know plays guitar for the Grateful Dead," the colonel replied.
Parber and his wife hit it off with his newly discovered grown son and became what Weir called "wonderful doting grandparents" to Weir's two small daughters. The Parbers raised four sons of their own, and the oldest, James Louis Parber, pursued a career as a musician for a number of years. He played with local country-rock outfit Lawrence Hammond and the Whiplash Band, who recorded the 1976 album "Coyote's Dream," and played in the solo band led by Billy C. Farlow, former Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen vocalist, before spinal cancer made it too painful to play. He spent the next 12 years under the care of his parents, dying a slow, agonizing death that finally came in 1991.
Every time Weir spent the night in the Parbers' spare bedroom, he practically had to step over the guitar case they left in the room. Inside, he found a battered old Fender Telecaster, the pickup sprung from its moorings, the strings all broken. He finally asked the Parbers if he could take the guitar and have it fixed up. Weir, who was just starting rehearsals with the newly re-formed and rejuvenated Dead, gave the guitar to his roadie. Within 10 minutes, the roadie was back, the pickup screwed down, the guitar strung with Weir's strings.
On the back, Weir noticed a five-figure serial number and asked the roadie to inquire with the Fender company. The factory confirmed that the model was a 1956 vintage Fender Telecaster, one of the original models, a true relic. It has become Bob Weir's No. 1 guitar.
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Weir-finds-his-birth-father-and-adopts-a-vintage-2778049.php
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A human musical connection and a museum piece! 
