Dead & Company, Night 2: Still More Visual Content Added to Sphere Residency, in What Fans Herald as a Peak Performance

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Las Vegas is filled with even-better-off Deadheads, now that Dead & Company has played the second night of its second Sphere residency, and captivated multi-night attendees with a show that added plenty of fresh visuals not seen on the opening night, as well as what many on hand were describing as an even more intense performance, and maybe even one of the band’s best.

Anyone who thought that the group was showing off all its new video tricks on night 1 was mistaken. Night 2 had a good number of freshly premiering visual setpieces spread across Friday’s three and a half hours, along with the return of some familiar elements from the initial 2024 Sphere run that were missing from Thursday night’s first show.

What’s clear is that co-creative director John Mayer has been busy overseeing new content for the 2025 show, only a portion of which attendees will see on any given single night during the run.

Two of the video additions in Friday night’s show count as major ones. One accompanied the 13-minute-plus version of “Uncle John’s Band” that started off the second set: a backdrop of hundred-feet-tall dancers getting their groove on behind the group, by themselves or with each other, behind the pint-sized players.