“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. “Bobby Weir, ever the contrarian, laid down his ultimate act of defiance; he was going to play these shows on his terms,” he added. In March 2025, Weir sat down withRolling Stone in what would be his last major interview; he died in January 2026 at 78. “The man you loved, whose music has given a more expansive inner life to us all, never backed down,” he wrote. “In his final shows, after 60 years, he lived up to every measure of a person he’d ever stood for.