Dead & Company at the Sphere

Dead & Company opened their residency at Las Vegasā€™ Sphere last night with an epic visual feast that drew on 60 years of history.

The band ā€“Ā who are made up of Grateful Deadā€˜s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongsideĀ John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane ā€“Ā announced the run of shows at the venue in February, teasing it with a video of Grateful Deadā€™s ā€˜Steal Your Faceā€™ logo being projected onto the outer sphere of the cutting-edge new arena.

The opening night of the run took place yesterday (May 16), with three shows a week now scheduled up until the residency ends on July 13.

Dead & Company at the Sphere
Dead & Company at the Sphere. CREDIT: Alive Coverage
Dead & Company at the Sphere
Dead & Company at the Sphere. CREDIT: Fly By Chicago
Dead & Company at the Sphere
Dead & Company at the Sphere. CREDIT: Alive Coverage

In a set that ran through 19 tracks and over three hours, the band made use of the state-of-the-art technology in the venue to project familiar imagery and characters from the Grateful Deadā€™s history onto the giant LED screens, including the skull and roses and the dancing bears.

In front of the 240-foot screens, the band rounded out the show with an extended jam of the Deadā€™s ā€˜Hell in a Bucketā€™, followed by covers of Bob Dylanā€™s ā€˜Knockinā€™ on Heavenā€™s Doorā€™ and ā€˜Not Fade Awayā€™, made famous by The Rolling Stones.

Check out fan-captured footage of the showā€™s spectacular visuals below:

Dead & Company played:Ā 

‘Feel Like a Stranger’
‘Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo’
‘Jack Straw’Ā 
‘Bird Song’
‘Me and My Uncle’
‘Brown-Eyed Women’Ā 
‘Cold Rain and Snow’
‘Uncle Johnā€™s Band’
‘Help On the Way’
‘Slipknot!’
‘Franklinā€™s Tower’
‘Heā€™s Gone’
‘Drums’Ā 
‘Space’
‘Standing On the Moon’
‘St. Stephen’
‘Hell In a Bucket’
‘Knockinā€™ On Heavenā€™s Door’
‘Not Fade Away’

Kreutzman has said of the shows: ā€œHistorically, it was always a psychedelic circus when the Grateful Dead pulled into Las Vegas. Thereā€™s a pulsing beneath those neon lights that Mickey and I tapped into while Jerry led us on a wild carpet ride over the Aladdin Theater in the 1980s and down into the bowl of the Sam Boyd Stadium for 14 memorable nights in the 1990s.

ā€œThe Grateful Dead were always about transformative experiences and so now, as our legacy evolves and as we continue to shape-shift into several different forms at once, itā€™s great that that part of the tradition continues, with Dead & Company taking up residence in a transformative venue. To all those who make it there, have a blast, my friends.ā€

The post Watch Dead & Company kick off epic visual feast residency at Las Vegas Sphere appeared first on NME.

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