Dead & Company take the ball for a spin

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE: Dead & Company utilize a new canvas in wonderfully psychedelic ways. (VN Staff/James Zoltak) Vegas Residency Offers ‘Expanded’ Opportunities It’s a new phase for Dead & Company, the Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead’s most commercially successful successor, as the Bob Weir and John Mayer-led sextet begins its first post-tour gig : a psychedelic 24-day residency at the Sphere, the signature Las Vegas marvel once again put to remarkable use. The event’s opening night on May 16 drew a full house to the 18,600-capacity Sphere, a highly touted venue that wowed Deadheads and newcomers alike with ultra-realistic images of the Haight-Ashbury District home where the up-and-coming Grateful Dead lived in San Francisco . From there the recording continues and gives a view of the entire bay: Aquatic Park, Golden Gate, Pt. Reyes, the entire West Coast. As the clouds recede below, the visibility becomes wider and wider, and until a satellite in Earth orbit zooms in… Read on Dead & Company test Sphere