"Dead ahead"

"Steady as she goes"

"Keep on, keeping on..." 

"Ripples scene..." 

As in how to keep on Truckin' - despite the loss of now another founding member, whose faithful followers would totally get the "guess you'll just have to improvise" direction as an addition to the foregoing road signs -- given that "improvisation" was a hallmark of their spontaneous stage shows... 

"Welcome to the club" were close to the words that he heard at the sweet age of sixteen, while on the eve of '64 (a nod to one of their biggest groups of influencers from Liverpool) -- along with the distant sound of what else but a...banjo (bet you thought otherwise) that brought his wandering to an end in where else, but a music store, where a storehouse of musical creativity in his in right, Jerry, casually greeted him "What's up Bob?" 

Dead to the world - was the way in which the first night they spent together making music, culminating in the lasting decision, a formation of the band...which went through a few name changes while the sound evolved fused together sounds of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, gospel, reggae, and yes, given the times..."psychedelia...man"...

A last request - If only Bob and Jerry Garcia had indulged us, would have been to finally put to rest the unanswered question of "who was the doo-dah man?" The reference to which is a measure of whether you can consider yourself one of us, a devotee...

"Be right back" usually followed or accompanied by "after this short break, after which we'll take more of your requests" Are the lasting words that are keeping Deadheads alive. 

We remain forever Grateful, Robert Hall Weir.