Watch Bob Weir Jam With Sammy Hagar on Led Zeppelin Classic

Back in March 2022, during the Nashville stop of his Crazy Times tour with the Circle, Sammy Hagar assembled one of the most unlikely groups of musicians to ever appear together on the Ryman Auditorium stage: Hagar, Ronnie Dunn, and Bob Weir. That Jason Bonham was on drums and Michael Anthony on bass made it all the more surreal.

Weir, whose death at 78 was announced on Saturday, seemed to relish the ramshackle nature of it all, as the collective teetered their way through “Not Fade Away.” When the song was over, Dunn departed, but the Grateful Dead co-founder stayed behind to jam on Led Zeppelin’s “Rock & Roll” with his longtime friend Hagar.

“Bob and I were born just two days apart,” Hagar, 78, wrote on social media on Sunday in a post that both paid tribute to Weir and laid out their odd-couple bond: the flamboyant Van Halen singer and tequila entrepreneur, and the quiet “Other One” of the Dead. “A couple decades ago we made a deal we were going to live to be 100, then get together and decide if we were gonna take it any further. One of the last things I said to Bob was ‘Hey, I thought we had a deal.’ His lack of response made me realize I was on my own on this one because Bob was already way past 100. He was 100 when I met him. Always the elder, the wise old soul.”