Las Vegas Strip Sphere ends legendary rock band residency

Spectacular Sphere Las Vegas has already featured some of the most popular bands in the music business in residencies.

The multi-media venue opened Sept. 29, 2023, with superstar rock band U2’s U2/UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere residency, which ran for 40 shows and closed on March 2, 2024.

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Popular jam band Phish followed U2 for a quick mini-residency with four sold-out shows on April 18-21, 2024.

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Eagles, who launched their residency at the Sphere on Sept. 20, 2024, have added more shows in 4- and 8-date blocks over the last year amounting to 44 shows through Nov. 8, 2025. The band has not revealed when it is ending its residency, and the Sphere’s management has said they can perform in the venue as long as they wish.

Country superstar Kenny Chesney has signed on as the first country performer at Sphere Las Vegas for 15 shows beginning May 22 and ending June 21, 2025.

Legendary superstar 1990s boy band The Backstreet Boys has scheduled its “Into the Millennium” residency consisting of 21 shows at Sphere Las Vegas in July and August 2025.

Dead & Company closes Sphere residency

Finally, Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company closes its “Dead Forever Live at Sphere” residency after 48 shows at Sphere Entertainmant’s Sphere Las Vegas on May 17.

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Dead & Company, which completed its final concert tour at Oracle Park in San Francisco on July 16, 2023, kept performing as it scheduled 30 shows on its Sphere residency from May 16 through Aug. 10, 2024.

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The band still wasn’t finished as it returned to Sphere Las Vegas for 18 more shows, from March 20 to May 17, 2025, overlapping Eagles’ residency at the venue.

Dead & Company’s final run of shows in March, April, and May featured its current band lineup of original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane.

Attendees experienced the world’s highest resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience creating a fully immersive visual environment, according to the Sphere’s website. The Sphere also features the world’s most advanced concert-grade audio system, Sphere Immersive Sound.

Dead & Company set to play 3 San Francisco shows

While Dead & Company does not plan to tour anymore, the band will return to San Francisco to perform a concert engagement at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park, Aug. 1, 2, and 3. San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission on May 15 approved the permit for the concerts that will celebrate Jerry Day and Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary.  

The spin-off band began performing in 2015, completing 10 tours and 235 shows that were attended by over 4 million fans, before scheduling 48 Sphere residency shows. 

Other Grateful Dead spinoffs have included The Dead and The Other Ones, which formed in 1998 after frontman and guitarist Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. Former Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh, who did not perform with Dead & Company, died at age 84 on Oct. 25, 2024.

Las Vegas was a regular stop on Grateful Dead tours, as it performed a total of 18 shows in Las Vegas over the years from 1969 to 1995.

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