Dead & Company launched their 2025 Las Vegas Sphere residency last night, carrying over several songs from their 2024 residency while also adding a live debut and new visual tricks to their set.
You can see videos from the performance and the full set list below.
Dead & Company did something new right off the bat, opening their set with a cover of the Spencer Davis Group’s “Gimme Some Lovin’,” which they haven’t played since forming in 2015. It was, however, a semi-regular fixture in the Grateful Dead‘s sets in the ’80s and 1990.
Dead & Company Add New Visuals to Sphere Set
Other major updates to the band’s set came in the visual department, according to Billboard. The band’s signature Dancing Bears during “Bertha” got a digital facelift, transforming into multicolor pixels that combined to show the band playing live. Another new visual during “Don’t Ease Me In” elicited a rapturous crowd response: a stack of old televisions making their way to the Sphere ceiling, only for one giant TV to come tumbling down the mountain.
Additional new visuals included a group of six masked and costumed people who “almost looked like Teletubbies in human form” striking various strange poses and holding a television that featured the band playing live. Uncle Sam returned as well, riding his motorcycle through a Dead-ified version of Las Vegas, featuring the “Terra-Pin Bowl” bowling alley and a sign for “Shakedown Street.”
Dead & Company’s current Sphere residency extends through May. You can see the full list of dates below.
Watch Dead & Company Play ‘Gimme Some Lovin” at the Sphere on 3/20/25
Watch Dead & Company Play ‘Terrapin Station’ at the Sphere on 3/20/25
Watch Dead & Company Play ‘Scarlet Begonias’ at the Sphere on 3/20/25
Watch Dead & Company Play ‘Don’t Ease Me In’ at the Sphere on 3/20/25
Watch Dead & Company Play ‘Bertha’ at the Sphere on 3/20/25
Dead & Company, 3/20/25, Las Vegas Sphere Set List
Set 1
1. “Gimme Some Lovin'”
2. “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo”
3. “Bertha”
4. “New Speedway Boogie”
5. “Brown-Eyed women”
6. “Good Lovin'”
7. “Don’t Ease Me In”
Set 2
8. “Feel Like a Stranger”
9. “Scarlet Begonias”
10. “Fire on the Mountain”
11. “Terrapin Station”
12. “Drums”
13. “Space”
14. “Standing on the Moon”
15. “Althea”
16. “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”
17. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
18. “Touch of Grey”
Dead & Company Remaining 2025 Las Vegas Sphere Dates
Friday, March 21
Saturday, March 22
Thursday, March 27
Friday, March 28
Saturday, March 29
Thursday, April 17
Friday, April 18
Saturday, April 19
Thursday, April 24
Friday, April 25
Saturday, April 26
Friday, May 9
Saturday, May 10
Sunday, May 11
Thursday, May 15
Friday, May 16
Saturday, May 17
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