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America’s favorite Deadhead, Andy Cohen, paid tribute to the late Bob Weir on social media. “Bob Weir wasn’t The Other One, he was That Guy,” Cohen wrote on Instagram. “He was impossibly beautiful and wildly fiery, intense and passionate.” Cohen shared his first memory of seeing Weir live in 1986 — and checking him out. “Bob was just a speck on the stage from where I was, but man was his voice fierce and smooth… it felt like rays of sunshine were coming out of his mouth,” he wrote. “And though I was all the way in the back I clocked his jean shorts and tan legs.”
News broke Saturday of the Grateful Dead co-founder’s death, and the remembrances are coming thick and fast from the classic rock world. Besides Cohen, musicians like Sammy Hagar, Trey Anastasio, and Maggie Rogers all paid their respects. Below are more tributes to That Guy, Bob Weir.
Andy Cohen
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Cohen looked back fondly on Weir’s appearances on WWHL. “When he talked about Jerry’s passing he referred to it as ‘checkin’ out,’” he wrote. “That felt so graceful a way to put it, and a testament to the fluidity of all us in this world. Bob checked out but his music is going to live gloriously forever, and so will he.”
Trey Anastasio
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Phish phrontman Trey Anastasio reminisced about jamming with his mentor Weir. “I knew Bobby for many years, but it was in the lead-up to Fare Thee Well that we really became close. I went out to his beach house, and we spent three nights there alone, just the two of us: playing guitar, cooking scrambled eggs, listening to records, working out, talking, and walking on the beach,” he wrote. “He told me how he was still in high school when the first acid test happened. When it was over, the sun came out, and he had to do his math homework as he raced back to school on the train. He said after the second or third acid test, he looked down at his homework and said, ‘Nah.’ And that was it.”
Sammy Hagar
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The Cabo Wabo entrepreneur and Dead statesman were unlikely besties, if Sammy Hagar’s tribute is anything to go by. The former Van Halen frontman said he and Weir, born two days apart, had “#MoreFunThanAFroginAGlassOfMilk” together.
Maggie Rogers
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Rogers played with Dead & Company in the 2010s. She wrote that Weir “showed me so much kindness so early in my career and welcomed me into a spirit of making music that has everything to do with community and connection and soul.”
Brandi Carlile
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Carlile posted a photo of her bowing to Weir during a performance. “Deep bow to you sir,” she wrote. “You left every part of the world you touched better than you found it.”
Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux
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Dead archivist Lemieux called Weir “the unabashed rock star in the Grateful Dead,” shouting out songs like “Sugar Magnolia,” Truckin’,” and “Cassidy.”
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