{"id":13377,"date":"2024-07-10T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:44:20","slug":"dead-alive-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/10\/dead-alive-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Alive Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2024-07-10\/dead-and-company-sphere-residency-las-vegas-john-mayer-bob-weir-interview?sfmc_id=6532a08625b3640666b29cfa&amp;utm_id=36014544&amp;skey_id=af7a2d6197b69cce0068d4377c21187721d5ffb4208db61901dbb768eae9f69f&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=ALERT-Email-List-Dead%20%26%20Company%20found%20new%20life%20in%20Las%20Vegas-20240710&amp;utm_term=Alert%20-%20Entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Dead &amp; Company found new life at the Las Vegas Sphere<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mikael-wood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mikael Wood<\/a>, Pop Music Critic\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b3OjLm7Fi38\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LAS VEGAS&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four hours or so before they\u2019re due beneath the massive wraparound video screen at Sphere, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer amble into a backstage production office like three guys showing up \u2014 again \u2014 for the work of blowing 17,000 minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNice to meet you,\u201d Mayer says, grinning as he extends a hand. \u201cJohn Mayer, Mayer Industries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As original members of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Weir, 76, and percussionist Hart, 80, are jam-band royalty; Mayer, 46, is the singer and guitarist known for pop hits like \u201cGravity\u201d and \u201cYour Body Is a Wonderland.\u201d Together they represent the nucleus of Dead &amp; Company, which on this recent afternoon has just passed the halfway mark of a 30-date summer residency at Sphere, the state-of-the-art\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2023-09-13\/las-vegas-sphere-can-be-bizarre-and-sublime-or-just-an-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dome-shaped venue<\/a>\u00a0behind the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2024-07-10\/dead-and-company-sphere-residency-las-vegas-john-mayer-bob-weir-interview?sfmc_id=6532a08625b3640666b29cfa&amp;utm_id=36014544&amp;skey_id=af7a2d6197b69cce0068d4377c21187721d5ffb4208db61901dbb768eae9f69f&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=ALERT-Email-List-Dead%20%26%20Company%20found%20new%20life%20in%20Las%20Vegas-20240710&amp;utm_term=Alert%20-%20Entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times How Dead &amp; Company found new life at the Las Vegas Sphere By\u00a0Mikael Wood, Pop Music Critic\u00a0 LAS VEGAS&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp; Four hours or so before they\u2019re due beneath the massive wraparound video screen at Sphere, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer amble into a backstage production office like three guys showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}