When Bob Weir took the stage at Golden Gate Park last summer, few in the crowd realised it would be his final performance. The Grateful Dead founding member, who had just begun undergoing cancer treatment weeks earlier, was too focused on the music to dwell on mortality.
Yet backstage, supporting him through the gruelling three-night run, was Natascha Münter—the woman who had stood by his side for 26 years of marriage, raising two daughters and building a life far removed from the glare of rock and roll stardom.
