Weir was 16 in 1963 when he ran into Jerry Garcia at a music store in Palo Alto. They decided to start a band, which evolved into the Grateful Dead. Weir died Jan. 10. Originally broadcast in 2016.

"I last saw Bob when we went to the Sphere in Las Vegas to watch Dead and Co," McCartney wrote. "He was very welcoming and during the interval in the show he invited us into his trailer, and it was a special moment to meet his family and friends.

The Grateful Dead guitarist had the nature of a well-meaning cowboy, and a lasting capacity to access wonder and deep engagement.

Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead co-founder who died last week at 78, spent the short, strange summer of 2023 in Stinson Beach doing something very un-rock-star-like. He rolled up his sleeves and helped lead a ragtag crew trying to free a stranded sailboat that sat high on the sand for weeks.