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Dead & Company Mold Las Vegas Sphere In Their Image at Novel & Nostalgic Opening Night: 5 Best Moments

It wasn't all dancing bears at Dead & Company's debut Sphere show (though the bears were there!). Here are our favorite moments from show 1.

Those concert videos were much larger than any jumbotron at a typical arena, given the Sphere’s 240-foot-tall display, but it was an example of Dead & Company sticking to the live strategy that served their parent band for decades, with an extra dose of spectacle that felt like an organic extension, not a stretch. As the third band to break in the Sphere – following a six-month stint from U2 that wrapped in March and a four-concert mini-residency from Phish last month – Dead & Co. molded the striking venue in their image on Thursday night, finding ways to give fans a modern show while embracing where they’re from. It will be open Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., throughout the residency and includes Grateful Dead photography from 1965 until the death of founding member Jerry Garcia in 1995; a Participation Row Pop-Up that gives fans a chance to support various nonprofit groups; a vintage Volkswagen bus alongside the new electric model; the guitars that Weir and Mayer are playing at the Sphere each night on display; and an exhibit of Hart’s “vibrational expressionist” art, which he creates through his drumming.

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