BREAKING MUSIC NEWS: Dead & Company Just Announced They're Returning To The Las Vegas Sphere This Spring
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones” 🌹💀⚡️
We’re thrilled to announce #DeadForever - Live at @SphereVegas in 2025, celebrating our 10-year anniversary! Advance presale registration is now open. Learn more and register at deadandcompany.com (link in bio).
The rumor mill was swirling HARD last week about another run at the Sphere. Especially coming off Bob Weir's small batch symphony run from the fall and the incredible success over the summer in Vegas. Everyone was saying big news was coming back for 2025.
And now from the horse's mouth himself, we get a crazy solid run for the opening weekends of March Madness deep into Mother's Day festivities.
Masters/Final 4 would be a nice touch but understandably the ticket prices would be too high.
Some quick observations:
- Despite originating from the greatest touring band of all time, it's still funny to think that Dead & Co. somehow found another gear in recognition from all the social media exposure of people melting their faces off this summer
- My buddy contends that Brent Mydland's most significant stand alone achievement was covering Traffic and that will always make me laugh. He fuckin HATES Brent Mydland. You never heard anything like it.
- I know he's old balls but it would be sick to see Billy Kreutzmann make an appearance if we're at the point where Mickey Hart continues to get rap solos on Fire On The Mountain
- Mrs. Carl and I went July 4th and 5th of the past summer and it was an awesome but extremely expensive time. Flights+hotel+tickets+food+booze+posters+recreationals put you at a couple thousand easily. And I would still do it 100/100 times and not really think twice.
- Easily a top 3 concert/performance/venue/music experience of my life. Almost anyone else in attendance from the first run would easily agree. The visuals will change the way your brain functions even if you don't know the first fucking thing about the music.
- Speaking of the music, it's very good. Sometimes I find John Mayer playing too hard or aggressively - particularly early in a first set. But I also think you have to take the good with the bad. If he wants to tear apart a Jack Straw out of the gate, I won't judge. I just prefer to be buttered up a little before you fuck me good and hard with that lead guitar.
- Bobby can still sing at 77 years old and that's encouraging. His Wharf Rat after Bears/Packers was a little patchy but that's to be expected when you've been a road dawg for 60 fuckin years.
- Speaking of which, the March-May run sets up perfectly for a 60th anniversary show this summer. A lot of people pegged Chicago and Wrigley Field but I also heard the dates are already booked with a Lumineers concert and a Brewers series. Or something extremely milky and lame like that. So now they're saying Folsom Field which is actually quite lovely. Either way, that should get announced shortly after the new year if my math is correct.
- Some advice if you do go: Stay at the Venetian because it's a much better experience accessing the Sphere. You go 30-45 minutes after Doors Open because the security line is too long to cut it close. Try to stay within the first 10 rows of the 400 level for the best sound. But also be prepared to be terrified for your safety because it's extremely steep at the top. Otherwise take GA floor tickets but don't expect great visuals because you'll be looking up at the screen the whole time. And if you're rich, ignore everything I just said and get some awesome seats at the 200 level. It's arguably the best club-seating atmosphere I've experienced and I was literally born in the Soldiers Field United Club.
- Last thing - if you're on the outside of this experience, I would encourage you to use this as a reason to at least check out Dead & Company. It's different enough from the original iteration of the Grateful Dead, largely due to John Mayer's influence. He's a great vocalist and musician, and he's got an elite partnership with the piano player Jeff Chimenti. Not to mention the respect and adoration of the beautiful Bobby Weir. So while it's tired and exhausting to hear from millennial dead heads and probably something you could easily live without, I would just like to reiterate that it's very good shit. In fact I think you'd love it.
And that's talking music.
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