Dead & Company Close Out 30-Night Sphere Run: What a Short, Stunning Trip It’s Been. Will They Be Back?

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic By all rights, the residency by Dead & Company at Sphere shouldn’t have seemed that historic.

After all, they were the third band into the venue, following U2’s opening 40-show run, followed by Phish’s brief but sweet four-concert stop in Las Vegas, both of which received the appellation of “mind-blowing.” Creative ground had been broken, new bars had been set, and it’d been sufficiently established that no one would ever be tempted to call the venue “Dolan’s folly” again (if anyone had been brave enough to do so in the first place).

A 30-night stand by the semi-retired offshoot of the Grateful Dead could well have seemed anticlimactic, given how quickly something that seems massively innovative at the start can come to just feel like the new normal.

So, when Dead & Co wrapped up that run Saturday night after two months, why did it seem like they had come to own the place?