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Dead & Company — Grateful Dead members Bob Weir on rhythm guitar and vocals and Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann on drums; John Mayer on lead guitar and vocals; Oteil Burbridge on bass guitar; and Jeff Chimenti on keyboards — on Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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A Las Vegas residency is in the cards for Dead & Company.
The popular Bay Area jam band — which has featured former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann as well as John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — has announced plans to perform a concert residency at the Sphere.
The group made the announcement in a video posted on its Instagram page on Wednesday morning, following a report about the residency from the New York Post.
The Instagram video did not give any specifics, in terms of when the run would begin or how long it would last. It just showed the giant Sphere building with the fabled Grateful Dead “steal your face” skull logo on it and captions that read, in part, “it’s going to be a ball.” Yet, according to the New York Post story, the residency would begin in May.
It would be the second residency at the newly opened $2.3 billion venue, following a lengthy run by U2 that comes to a close in March. Dead & Co. would be the third overall band to be booked at the venue, which also has Phish for four nights in April.
It would be the next chapter for a band that swore off touring following last year’s blockbuster summer jaunt, which concluded with three sold-out hometown shows at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
And a Vegas residency doesn’t really count as a tour — since fans will be traveling to see the band as opposed to vice-versa.
Of course, Deadheads — the longtime followers of the Grateful Dead and its many offshoots like Dead & Co. — basically invented the concept of traveling to other cities to see rock shows. So, taking a road trip to Vegas to see (multiple) concerts by their favorite band shouldn’t be a problem for these music lovers.
