Blink 182 took a moment to honor fallen friend DJ AM at their concert in Hartford, CT, on Saturday night.The celebrity spinner was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Friday. He was 36.

A choked-up Mark Hoppus broke down in tears as he spoke about AM’s death.

“This night is really hard for the three of us,” he tearfully explained to the crowd. “We lost a dear friend yesterday.”

Blink drummer Travis Barker was with the DJ during a Learjet crush in North Carolina last September; the pair were the lone survivors of the fiery inferno that killed on board.