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\n\tWhen Bob Weir<\/a> gave his final public performance<\/a> last August in Golden Gate Park with Dead & Company, Trey Anastasio<\/a> set the stage. The Phish<\/a> frontman opened the show, one of three gigs commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead<\/a>. Following Weir\u2019s death<\/a> at 78, Anastasio remembered his friend and musical colleague in a lengthy tribute.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis one really hurts. I really loved him. He was a sweet, kind, gentle friend, and I never believed this would happen so soon,\u201d Anastasio wrote on Instagram, going on to reference the Dead\u2019s goodbye shows in 2015, Fare Thee Well<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew Bobby for many years, but it was in the lead-up to Fare Thee Well that we really became close,\u201d Anastasio recalled. \u201cI went out to his beach house, and we spent three nights there alone, just the two of us: playing guitar, cooking scrambled eggs, listening to records, working out, talking, and walking on the beach. We went out to dinner together, and he let me drive his new car.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAt Weir\u2019s house, they talked in depth about the Grateful Dead member\u2019s formative years. \u201cHe told me how he was still in high school when the first acid test happened. When it was over, the sun came out, and he had to do his math homework as he raced back to school on the train. He said after the second or third acid test, he looked down at his homework and said, \u2018Nah.\u2019 And that was it,\u201d Anastasio wrote. \u201cThe rest of his life was on the road, in the Grateful Dead and other bands.\u201d<\/p>\n