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John Mayer remembered his late bandmate and Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir in a touching tribute late Sunday. Mayer performed with Weir for several years in Dead & Company.
“Okay Bob. I’ll do it your way,” Mayer wrote on Instagram. “Fkn’ A… Thanks for letting me ride alongside you. It sure was a pleasure. If you say it’s not the end, then I’ll believe you. I’ll meet you in the music. Come find me anytime.”
Mayer teamed up with Weir in 2015, a collaboration that began following an appearance on The Late Late Show in which Mayer was guest host. Mayer invited Weir for a performance, which led to the formation of Dead and Company. The two went on to perform together for the next several years.
Dead and Company finished a farewell tour in July 2023, but they continued to play residencies at Sphere in Las Vegas throughout 2024 and 2025. Their final performance together was in August 2025, a month after Weir was diagnosed with cancer, for three shows in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — the neighborhood that gave birth to the Grateful Dead in 1965 — to celebrate the group’s 60th anniversary.
“Those performances, emotional, soulful, and full of light, were not farewells, but gifts. Another act of resilience. An artist choosing, even then, to keep going by his own design,” read his family’s statement on his website announcing his death. “As we remember Bobby, it’s hard not to feel the echo of the way he lived. A man driftin’ and dreamin’, never worrying if the road would lead him home. A child of countless trees. A child of boundless seas,” the words read, quoting lyrics from the rock band’s tracks “Lost Sailor” and “Cassidy.”
Weir’s death, attributed to underlying lung issues following his battle with cancer, was announced on Saturday, Jan. 10. He was 78.
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