""Bob Weir wasn't The Other One, he was That Guy," Cohen wrote on Instagram. "He was impossibly beautiful and wildly fiery, intense and passionate." Cohen shared his first memory of seeing Weir live in 1986 - and checking him out. "Bob was just a speck on the stage from where I was, but man was his voice fierce and smooth... it felt like rays of sunshine were coming out of his mouth," he wrote. "And though I was all the way in the back I clocked his jean shorts and tan legs.""
""I knew Bobby for many years, but it was in the lead-up to Fare Thee Well that we really became close. I 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," he wrote. "He 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, 'Nah.' And that was it.""
Bob Weir, co-founder of the Grateful Dead, has died and musicians and public figures issued tributes. Andy Cohen called him "That Guy" and described him as impossibly beautiful, wildly fiery, intense and passionate. Cohen recalled a 1986 show, Weir's fierce, smooth voice and even noticing his jean shorts and tan legs. Cohen remembered Weir referring to Jerry Garcia's passing as "checkin' out," calling that phrasing graceful and testament to life's fluidity, and said Weir's music will live on. Trey Anastasio described close time with Weir before Fare Thee Well, including nights at his beach house, jamming, cooking and an acid-test anecdote. Other musicians, including Sammy Hagar and Maggie Rogers, also paid respects.
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