Mickey Hart Remembers Bobby Weir as “Little Brother to Me for Almost Sixty Years”
Photo: Susana Millman
On Sunday evening, January 11, Mickey Hart responded to the passing of his longtime friend and bandmate of nearly 60 years, Bobby Weir.
In a post shared on social media and paired with photos from their eclectic past, Hart wrote:
Bob Weir was a little brother to me for almost sixty years. 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.
These photos show the bookends of our lives together. Still cannot believe he’s gone.
I miss you so much already, dear friend.
Hart entered Weir and company’s improvisational fold in 1967 as a member of the Grateful Dead. The two remained fixtures in each other’s live sound following Jerry Garcia’s passing in 1995, continuing their musical kinship in The Other Ones, The Dead, and Dead & Company.
See Hart’s post in memory of Weir below.
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