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Dead & Company Close Out 30-Night Sphere Run: What a Short, Stunning Trip It’s Been. Will They Be Back?
Dead & Company did the last of 30 shows in a spectacular Sphere residency, leaving open whether this might be it or they'll return to Vegas next year.
As conceived by Mayer, the show’s creative director, with Treatment, the producer of the visuals, and executed by Industrial Light & Magic, these twin moments surely marked peak experiences in a lifetime of entertainment for most of the fans on-hand. Friday’s show had more spacier moments, like an assemblage of planets and suns passing by one another — very cosmologically incorrect, to the audience’s delight — and some Roger Dean-like psychedelic landscapes with trees growing out of floating rocks or dirtballs. As always, just one segment of musical content remained the same, as it had for all 30 nights of the residency: Mickey Hart, joined by fellow drummer Jay Lane and bassist-turned-percussionist Oteil Burbridge, executing the instrumental, atonal “Drums” for more than nine minutes, followed by the equally trippy “Space” for eight.
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