Dead & Company Shuffle Setlist At Sphere Dead Forever 2nd Weekend Finale

Dead & Company capped the second weekend of their 2025 Dead Forever residency at the Las Vegas Sphere on Saturday night. Show six of the 18-date run at the technologically-enhanced venue saw the shuffling of songs into interesting placements in the first and second sets, which has become a trend of this year’s Sphere run.

Dead & Company — Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart with guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and drummer Jay Lane – selected “Man Smart Woman Smarter” for Saturday’s opener, marking its first 2025 Sphere appearance after opening two shows last year.

The visual storytelling achieved liftoff to outer space with “Eyes Of The World” again sliding into the two slot. Vegas-friendly “Deal” pushed the set along before Weir, Mayer, Burbridge and Chimenti took turns singing the verses of “The Weight.”

While “The Weight” has lived in the first set at the Sphere, the subsequent arrival of “Terrapin Station” marked just the eighth time Dead & Company played “Terrapin” in set one out of over 65 performances. The unusually placed “Terrapin” was trailed by the set-closing “Bertha.”

Set two got underway with “Hell In A Bucket,” and the often-paired “China Cat Sunflower” into “I Know You Rider.” Dead & Co. then dialed up another regularly connected two-song sequence of “Help On The Way” into “Slipknot!” but pulled a wild card by transitioning into “Row Jimmy” (“Franklin’s Tower” was played on Thursday). Normally a first set staple, “Row Jimmy” had only appeared in a Dead & Co. second set once prior to Saturday’s unexpected placement.

The show’s “Drums” and “Space” segment was on deck after the atypical set two “Row Jimmy.” Hart, Lane and Burbridge supplied several minutes of rhythmic interplay with captivating visual accompaniment. Hart triggered the heavy done of The Beam to signal the transition into “Space” as the non-drummers returned to the Sphere stage.

“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” which was played just once during last year’s Sphere run, kicked off the post-“Drums/Space” portion of the second set. The rarely played Bob Dylan cover came ahead of “Shakedown Street.” The visual voyage back from outer space to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood and the house the Grateful Dead lived in was soundtracked by “Brokedown Palace.”

The Dead Forever archival Grateful Dead news report was played over the Sphere audio system before the much-anticipated “One More Saturday Night” drew Saturday’s show to an end.

Dead & Company’s Dead Forever 2025 Sphere residency continues on Thursday, April 17. Scroll on to watch videos of Saturday’s concert, listen to full show audio, see the setlist and explore The Skinny.

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Audio (Taped by Hunter S II)