Watch Oliver Tree’s Full ‘Celebration Of Life’ Memorial Service

Oliver Tree was memorialized Saturday night at the Quarry Amphitheater on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, the same venue where he was scheduled to perform his hometown show next month.

It was part of the seven-continent ‘World’s First World Tour,’ which was canceled after Tree died tragically in mid-June in helicopter collision over Rio de Janeiro that killed all six people aboard. He was 32 years old.

The ‘Celebration of Life’ eclipsed two and a half hours and streamed on his YouTube and Twitch channels, where it has drawn over 2 million views in a single day. Three mannequins dressed in Tree’s windbreakers, sunglasses, cowboy hats and bowl cuts were laid out in coffins at the foot of the stage, one for each of the characters he built his career inside

Speakers included Diplo, Logan Paul, Ethan Klein, Aaron Mercury and Tree’s parents, Jesse and Christine Nickell. “Oliver was everyone’s best friend,” Paul said, before closing on the title of Tree’s biggest hit. His mother recounted their last exchange, a call in which he answered her question about quitting smoking by exhaling into the camera.

Whethan, who produced Tree’s 2016 breakout ‘When I’m Down’ and executive produced much of the catalog that followed, appeared alongside archival montages. He withdrew from a scheduled Shambhala performance to attend. Stunt rider Robbie Maddison, who mentored Tree and became a recurring foil in his motocross videos, also spoke.

Proceeds benefited the new artistic foundation, ‘Dr. Oliver Tree’s Extremely Epic Art Grant for Baby Geniuses,’ fulfilling his wish to distribute his wealth to other musicians through an endowment written into his will.

You can watch the full service below.

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