Watch Lifeless & Firm kick off epic visible feast residency at Las Vegas Sphere
Lifeless & Firm opened their residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere final evening with an epic visible feast that drew on 60 years of historical past.
The band – who’re made up of Grateful Lifeless‘s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane – introduced the run of reveals on the venue in February, teasing it with a video of Grateful Lifeless’s ‘Steal Your Face’ emblem being projected onto the outer sphere of the cutting-edge new enviornment.
The opening evening of the run passed off yesterday (Could 16), with three reveals per week now scheduled up till the residency ends on July 13.
In a set that ran by way of 19 tracks and over three hours, the band made use of the state-of-the-art expertise within the venue to mission acquainted imagery and characters from the Grateful Lifeless’s historical past onto the enormous LED screens, together with the cranium and roses and the dancing bears.
In entrance of the 240-foot screens, the band rounded out the present with an prolonged jam of the Lifeless’s ‘Hell in a Bucket’, adopted by covers of Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ and ‘Not Fade Away’, made well-known by The Rolling Stones.
Take a look at fan-captured footage of the present’s spectacular visuals under:
Lifeless & Firm performed:
‘Really feel Like a Stranger’
‘Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo’
‘Jack Straw’
‘Hen Track’
‘Me and My Uncle’
‘Brown-Eyed Girls’
‘Chilly Rain and Snow’
‘Uncle John’s Band’
‘Assist On the Approach’
‘Slipknot!’
‘Franklin’s Tower’
‘He’s Gone’
‘Drums’
‘Area’
‘Standing On the Moon’
‘St. Stephen’
‘Hell In a Bucket’
‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’
‘Not Fade Away’
Kreutzman has stated of the reveals: “Traditionally, it was at all times a psychedelic circus when the Grateful Lifeless pulled into Las Vegas. There’s a pulsing beneath these neon lights that Mickey and I tapped into whereas Jerry led us on a wild carpet trip over the Aladdin Theater within the Nineteen Eighties and down into the bowl of the Sam Boyd Stadium for 14 memorable nights within the Nineteen Nineties.
“The Grateful Lifeless had been at all times about transformative experiences and so now, as our legacy evolves and as we proceed to shape-shift into a number of completely different types without delay, it’s nice that that a part of the custom continues, with Lifeless & Firm taking on residence in a transformative venue. To all those that make it there, have a blast, my associates.”