He’ll live on in the songs we wrote.Howard rheingold's | the virtual community He was to be admired for that, even emulated.

John had a way of taking life’s most difficult things and framing them as challenges, therefore adventures – by their nature awakening and maybe even fun. This life is fleeting, as we all know – the Muse we serve is not. We used to wake most mornings thrilled with the prospect of a new day’s adventure, and that wasn’t happening for him any more. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Barlow’s friend and former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir said, “I’m relieved – for both of us it wasn’t easy watching him in the last couple years. The 2004 reissue included additional contribution, “We Can Run.” He contributed four songs to 1989’s Built to Last.

“Cassidy,” “Mexicali Blues,” Black-Throated Wind” and “Looks Like Rain” are among the dozens of songs Barlow helped pen. Barlow began co-writing songs in 1971 with Grateful Dead founding member Weir, a teaming that would last until the Dead disbanded in 1995. When Barlow was 15, he attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado where he met fellow student Bob Weir and they became friends. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the non-profit digital rights organization Barlow cofounded, said in a statement on its website that Barlow died in his sleep on Wednesday. John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and cofounder of Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation, has died.

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