{"id":138383,"date":"2026-01-18T02:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138383\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:31:33","slug":"san-francisco-hosts-celebration-for-bob-weir-featuring-mickey-hart-john-mayer-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138383\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco hosts celebration for Bob Weir, featuring Mickey Hart, John Mayer &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Bob Weir performs onstage at 2023 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's at Casa Cipriani on November 11, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder\/Getty Images for The Michael J. Fox Foundation)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5f30d41a123edd3675eb2d356db80654.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Weir performs onstage at 2023 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson&#8217;s at Casa Cipriani on November 11, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder\/Getty Images for The Michael J. Fox Foundation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, whose death was announced Jan. 10, was remembered with a celebration of life in San Francisco on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The public event took\u00a0place at Civic Center Plaza, and featured speeches by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Dead &amp; Company\u2019s John Mayer.\u00a0Also sharing their memories of Weir were\u00a0Joan Baez,\u00a0San Francisco Mayor\u00a0Daniel Lurie\u00a0and\u00a0Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, as well as Weir\u2019s family, wife\u00a0Natascha\u00a0Weir\u00a0and daughters Monet Weir and Chloe Weir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There was nothing like Bob Weir. &#8230; He was singular. He was not a copy of anything that came before. He was a true original,&#8221; Hart\u00a0said, &#8220;I could sit here and tell you so many stories about our lives together. But at the heart of it all is that this was never just a band. It was a family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hart\u00a0also addressed the fans gathered, saying, &#8220;The songs of our lives are yours now, and it&#8217;s up to all of us to keep the refrain building. Love is real, not fade away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayer talked of all he learned from Weir over the decade they performed together, noting the rocker &#8220;changed my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Bob took a chance on me, he staked his entire reputation on my joining a band with him. He gave me musical community, he gave me this community,&#8221; Mayer said. &#8220;He invited me into the worlds he&#8217;d constructed, and he taught me what the songs meant and what it meant to perform them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayer added, &#8220;In return, I gave him everything I had night after night, year after year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The celebration also included recorded messages from musicians including Weir&#8217;s Grateful Dead bandmate\u00a0Bill Kreutzmann, as well as\u00a0Dave Matthews, Gov\u2019t Mule&#8217;s Warren Haynes, Willie Nelson, Phish&#8217;s Trey Anastasio, Sammy Hagar\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a0celebration ended with Mayer on guitar and vocals leading the fans in the Grateful Dead classic &#8220;Ripple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. 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