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Dead & Company Returns to Las Vegas’ Sphere for a Second Residency as Splendid as the First: Concert Review
Dead & Company has returned to Sphere for a second residency. From opening night, here's what's different or the same and why the trip is worth it.
That video backdrop was back, of course, and on this particular night it was in the service of Dead & Company’s version of the traditional standard “Going Down the Road Feeing Bad” (ironically, because their Uncle Sam and his red-haired lady friend seem to be feeling nothing but good vibes in their wild ride). The first all-new visual to appear in the opening-night show came with the third number, “Bertha,” which featured a wall of dancing cartoon bears — part of the Dead’s traditional animated iconography — shrinking and then forming into pixellated images of the band members… i.e., a soloing John Mayer made up of hundreds or thousands of tiny, marching critters. With all due respect to fans who want to stand on the floor, or those who can’t afford the premium seats, there is nothing in the entertainment sphere remotely like experiencing Hart’s adventures in rhythm while feeling each mallet hit through chairs that are equipped to send those sensations through your entire body.
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