On Thursday evening, Bob Weir's Sweetwater Music Hall hosted a private event for local San Rafael, CA school Marin Academy, and Weir was joined by his Wolf Bros bandmates, bassist Don Was and drummer Jay Lane, for an intimate performance, which also featured a guest appearance from Weir's longtime friend Sammy Hagar.
Weir and his trio kicked off their set with Grateful Dead classic "Friend of the Devil," followed by the traditional "Peggy-O." (On Wednesday night, Weir also played a solo acoustic performance at Sweetwater that honored the music of late Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and Weir quipped that Hunter may have written "Peggy-O"—the one non-Hunter song he played that night—"had he been around oh, 500 years ago.")
Last night at Sweetwater, Weir and company welcomed Hagar for a few tunes, the blues standard "Big Boss Man" and two Dead favorites, "Franklin's Tower" (Weir jokingly noted, "Sammy doesn't know this song") and "Loose Lucy."
Weir will team back up with Dead & Company for some shows this fall and winter, starting with a Halloween run at New York's Madison Square Garden Oct. 31–Nov. 1.
