{"id":402953,"date":"2026-01-12T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:52:07","slug":"thanks-for-letting-me-ride-alongside-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402953\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Thanks for Letting Me Ride Alongside You’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I\u2019ll meet you in the music,” the guitarist wrote on social media to his Dead & Company bandmate<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Mayer<\/a> shared a short but poignant tribute to his late bandmate<\/a> Bob Weir<\/a> on Sunday. The musician, who performed with<\/a> Weir in Dead & Company for several years, honored their collaboration. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOkay Bob. I\u2019ll do it your way,\u201d Mayer wrote on Instagram. \u201cFkn\u2019 A\u2026 Thanks for letting me ride alongside you. It sure was a pleasure. If you say it\u2019s not the end, then I\u2019ll believe you. I\u2019ll meet you in the music. Come find me anytime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMayer joined forces with Weir in 2015. While guest hosting The Late Late Show that February, Mayer invited Weir to join him for a studio performance. A collaboration evolved from there. Dead & Company embarked on numerous tours in the years that followed. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe group wrapped up a farewell tour in July 2023, but they continued to play residencies at Sphere in Las Vegas throughout 2024 and 2025. They came together one last time in August 2025 for three shows in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park to celebrate the Grateful Dead<\/a>\u2019s 60th anniversary. Throughout the three evenings, they were joined by Billy Strings, Trey Anastasio, Grahame Lesh, and Sturgill Simpson.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWeir once said he hoped to see the band outlive him. \u201cI had a little flash while we were playing one night,\u201d\u00a0Weir told\u00a0Rolling Stone\u2018s David Fricke in 2016.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt was toward the end of the tour. I don\u2019t remember what city it was in. We were getting into the second set, setting up a tune. We were all playing, but the tune hadn\u2019t begun yet. We were all feeling out the groove, just playing with it. Suddenly I was 20 feet behind my own head, looking at this and kind of happy with the way the song was shaping up. I started looking around, and it was 20 years later. John\u2019s hair had turned gray. Oteil\u2019s had turned white. I looked back at the drummers, and it was a couple of new guys. I looked back at myself, the back of my head, and it was a new guy. It changed my entire perception of what it is we\u2019re up to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWeir\u2019s family announced his death at 78 on Jan. 10 in a statement. A date of death was not immediately available. \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir,\u201d his family wrote. \u201cHe transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I\u2019ll meet you in the music,” the guitarist wrote on social media to his Dead & Company bandmate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[40853,194367,194368,88,40240,110190,216],"class_list":["post-402953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bob-weir","tag-dead-co","tag-dead-company","tag-entertainment","tag-grateful-dead","tag-john-mayer","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}