{"id":406236,"date":"2026-01-13T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406236\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:51:16","slug":"watch-bob-weir-jam-with-sammy-hagar-on-led-zeppelin-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406236\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bob Weir Jam With Sammy Hagar on Led Zeppelin Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBack in March 2022, during the Nashville stop of his Crazy Times Tour with the Circle, Sammy Hagar<\/a> assembled one of the most unlikely groups of musicians<\/a> to ever appear together on the Ryman Auditorium stage: Hagar, Ronnie Dunn, and Bob Weir<\/a>. That Jason Bonham was on drums and Michael Anthony on bass made it all the more surreal.<\/p>\n

\n\tWeir, whose death at 78 <\/a>was announced on Saturday, seemed to relish the ramshackle nature of it all, as the collective teetered their way through \u201cNot Fade Away.\u201d <\/a>When the song was over, Dunn departed, but the Grateful Dead<\/a> co-founder stayed behind to jam on Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cRock & Roll\u201d with his longtime friend Hagar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBob and I were born just two days apart,\u201d Hagar, 78, wrote on social media today in a post that both paid tribute to Weir and laid out their odd-couple bond: the flamboyant Van Halen singer and tequila entrepreneur and the quiet \u201cOther One\u201d of the Dead. \u201cA couple decades ago we made a deal we were going to live to be 100, then get together and decide if we were gonna take it any further. One of the last things I said to Bob was \u2018Hey, I thought we had a deal.\u2019 His lack of response made me realize I was on my own on this one because Bob was already way past 100. He was 100 when I met him. Always the elder, the wise old soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2022 Nashville jam was far from the only time Hagar and Weir shared a stage. In one of the most recent collabs, Weir ambled out midway through a performance of \u201cBad Motor Scooter,\u201d the rock anthem that Hagar sang on Montrose\u2019s 1973 debut, during Hagar\u2019s Best of Both Worlds Las Vegas residency in May 2025. Wearing capris, a blazer, and the Birkenstocks that made an indelible impression<\/a> on Rolling Stone senior writer Angie Martoccio during their interview<\/a> earlier that year, Weir played an inspired solo while Hagar egged him on.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe had a pocket full of sayings that he used to simplify a conversation,\u201d Hagar said today.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAm I gonna miss Bob? #YouBet
Did I love Bob like a brother? #Yup
Was bob a wonderful friend to have? #FuckinA
Did Bob and I have some good fun together? #MoreFunThanAFroginAGlassOfMilk\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagar is one of many artists remembering Weir this weekend. Billy Strings, Margo Price, Don Was, Bruce Hornsby, and Trey Anastasio<\/a>, who opened what would be Weir\u2019s final show<\/a> in August, all shared memories online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in March 2022, during the Nashville stop of his Crazy Times Tour with the Circle, Sammy Hagar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[169426,49,48,75,14307,341,44535],"class_list":["post-406236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bob-weir","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-grateful-dead","tag-music","tag-sammy-hagar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}