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John Mayer on the Making of Dead & Company’s Mind-Bending Sphere Residency: ‘I Love That Adults Are Having Childlike, Wondrous Experiences at This Show’ (EXCLUSIVE)
In his first extensive interview about Dead & Company's Sphere show, John Mayer discusses developing the elaborate visuals, and what the future holds.
In his first extensive interview about the 30-show residency, Mayer tells Variety about exactly how long it took to get from the first glimmerings of a Sphere run to May’s opening night; whether this was always in the cards when it wrapped up its farewell tour last summer; and how he acted as point man between the band and the visual team firing up the world’s biggest wrap-around screen. One of the things that was introduced on the second night that was really impresive was a scene that takes place in an indoor space on a college campus the Dead once played, and it realy feels like you are watching the band in this kind of barnlike, old, grungy auditorium. And the first time I ever heard the mention of us playing the Sphere, someone was just dreaming it out loud: “You know, that’ll be great in the year 2025 or something,” and I went, “That’s interesting.” And this band just has this amazing ability to make things happen for itself.
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