The Las Vegas venue Sphere is a technological marvel and a wild spectacle, an attraction unto itself. It’s also apparently a nice place for legacy rock bands to play. U2 famously opened the Sphere and played a long residency there,

Dead & Company was the second band to perform at the state-of-art Sphere venue. The first act to hold a residency at this Las Vegas hotspot was U2, which we also reviewed. Phish and the Eagles are the other two bands to have performed at the venue.

The jam band pairing surviving members of the Grateful Dead with singer-songwriter John Mayer said Wednesday that it will play an 18-show residency at the state-of-the-art dome-shaped venue in Las Vegas next spring, less than a year after the group completed an acclaimed 30-show run there.