Angie Martoccio
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Dead & Company performs during the 60th Anniversary celebration of the Grateful Dead on August 3, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Casey Flanigan/imageSPACE/Sipa USA/AP John Mayer commemorated the one-year anniversary of Dead & Company’s shows at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — the last time late guitarist Bob Weir performed onstage.
The three evenings were in celebration of the Grateful Dead‘s 60th anniversary, and featured surprise appearances that included Grahame Lesh (son of the late bassist Phil Lesh), Sturgill Simpson, Trey Anastasio, and more.
“Today marks a year since Dead & Company played our last of three shows in Golden Gate Park helping to celebrate 60 years of Grateful Dead,” Mayer wrote on Instagram. “It would also become Bob Weir’s last appearance onstage. I wanted to take a moment to share with you just how incredible those concerts really were.”
He continued, “Bobby’s insistence on standing on that stage in the midst of a complex health battle to perform nine hours of music over three nights was one of the greatest acts of heroism I will ever see in my lifetime. I watched him sidestep every traditional burden of entertainers — ego, superficial pride, vanity, to name a few — and sing his songs with pure heart and grit. He transcended his physical limitations by ignoring them.”
“Bobby Weir, ever the contrarian, laid down his ultimate act of defiance; he was going to play these shows on his terms,” he added. “He could have explained his situation in one online post, and the crowd would have lifted him like a giant wave up to glory. Fuck that. That wasn’t Bobby. Deal the cards. By the end of Sunday night, we’d created as many musical sparks as we ever had over a three night run. What he had to overcome in order to pull that off won’t ever be fully known to anyone.”
