Lifeless & Firm pay tribute to Phil Lesh with ‘Field Of Rain’ efficiency

Lifeless & Firm have paid tribute to late Grateful Lifeless bassist and co-founder Phil Lesh on the Las Vegas Sphere – watch fan-shot footage of the efficiency beneath.

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Lesh died in October on the age of 84. An announcement shared on social media on the time mentioned that he “handed peacefully” and was “surrounded by his household and full of affection”.

This previous weekend (March 20-22), Lifeless & Firm – who’re made up of Grateful Lifeless‘s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane – returned to the venue after a wildly profitable residency this yr, which noticed the band carry out in entrance of the Sphere’s 240-foot screens from Might to July 2024.

For his or her residency, the band are taking part in a completely new setlist each evening, and to shut out their first weekend of the 2025 residency, Lifeless & Firm carried out ‘Field Of Rain’ – which was Lesh’s signature monitor with Grateful Lifeless – as their closing track on March 22. It marked the primary time the band have carried out the track since his passing.

Archival footage of Grateful Lifeless and Lesh have been proven on the large screens as Lifeless & Firm carried out – try fan-shot footage of the second beneath.

Lifeless & Firm are on account of carry out 15 extra dates between now and Might 17 – tickets at the moment are on sale here, with resort packages and VIP bundles obtainable.

This yr, Grateful Lifeless will have a good time their sixtieth anniversary. Again in November, the band revealed that that they had plans for a reunion that includes its 4 core members to have a good time the milestone, although that was abruptly placed on ice as a result of passing of Lesh in October.

Shortly after Lesh’s passing, remaining Grateful Lifeless members Bobby Weir, Invoice Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart opened up about how they have been contemplating a reunion to have a good time the band’s sixtieth anniversary this yr with Lesh and had scheduled time to rehearse.

Final week, Weir opened up on the probabilities of the Grateful Lifeless reuniting with out Lesh: “I believe when Phil checked out, so did that notion, as a result of we don’t have a bass participant who’s been taking part in with us for 60 years now. And that was the intriguing prospect.… I believe you want any person holding down the underside. Phil had all types of concepts that have been just about distinctive to him. I grew up with Phil holding down the underside in his distinctive means.”

Nonetheless, there should be hope for a Grateful Lifeless reunion, as Weir hasn’t closed the door on their return totally: “I suppose I may return out. I wouldn’t put anyone in his place, so it will be a trio at this level. It’d be me and two drummers. I’d have to consider that. I haven’t thought of it — it’s simply now occurring to me that it’s a risk that we may try this, because you requested.… I assume we’ll simply see what the three of us can pull collectively.”