Dead & Company at Sphere, Night 2: What Was the Same, What Was Different
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic About 18,000 more faces were stolen Friday night at Sphere in Las Vegas, as Dead & Company played the second of 24 shows scheduled for the technologically ground-breaking venue.
As is customary with any outfit associated with the Grateful Dead, it’s assumed that no two shows will be the same, and many fans have naturally purchased tickets for multiple nights of the residency.
So night 2 was destined to provide at least a partial answer to the question: What will be standardized from night-to-night now through the close of the eight-weekend run, and what will be variable?
Variety already reviewed the opening night of the Dead & Company run — read that here — and was in the house again Friday to make comparisons, and also to check if any of the bits of brain matter we left behind the previous night had been turned into the lost-and-found.
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