Weir’s Dead & Company bandmate John Mayer posted, “Okay Bob. I’ll do it your way. 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.”
“We lost a champion today,” Primus’ Les Claypool posted to Instagram, alongside a photo of himself and Weir on stage together. “Bob Weir, one of the nicest humans Ive ever met in the music world. A legend on many levels.”
“This guy was such a hero,” Heart’s Nancy Wilson wrote. “The world is a sadder place without him in it. He spread a life time of magic around and always had that twinkle of good nature in his eyes. His good vibrations will never end. He gave such a gift to us all.
Mickey Hart said his bandmate “was a little brother to me for almost sixty years,” adding, “He was my first friend in the Grateful Dead. We lived together, played together, and made music together that ended up changing the world. Bob had the ability to play unique chords that few others could. Long fingers, that’s the difference. Jerry once told me that the harmonics Bob created became an inspiration for his own solos. When all of us were entrained, rhythm section, guitars, and voices… it was transcendent. What was a lifetime of adventure boils down to something simple—we were family and true to the music through it all.”
Brandi Carlile shared, “Tonight I’m thinking about all our friends in music young and old and how @bobweir had time for all of us… he came to our shows, helped us write songs and got so many of us out on stage to jam and just stand in his light. What a nurturing way-paving soul…”
Margo Price described Weir as “a sage—a profoundly wise, musical guru who taught me so much about songs, art, melody, meditation and being in the moment. He was unlike most rock stars in that he was unpretentious, deep and rooted in knowing who he was. Bobby vibrated with magic. He was both ancient and young—he always had a twinkle in his eye. Like a barefoot philosopher or the Lorax, he was mystical. He spoke for the trees.”
Willie Nelson’s son Micah Nelson—who records music as Particle Kid—compared Weir to “an imaginary character from some ancient cartoon, both fictional and hyper-real, a mystical song wizard, chiseled into reality rock…. ageless, like clouds or music or mountains…”
Billy Strings wrote, “I’ve never knew a person so in tune with the cosmos. Who was so mystical and smart and mysterious, alluring and radiant. He was a star wrangler .. a celestial skysage who traded fear for wonder. Now he is riding the northern lights and skipping barefoot between the constellations…”
Former Eagles lead guitarist Don Felder said, “I first saw Bob at Woodstock with the Grateful Dead and was blown away by that whole band, and the musicianship. I feel so blessed to have been able to have him sing on “Rock You” from American Rock and Roll. Until we meet again, amigo.”