Dead and Company Pay Tribute to Phil Lesh With 'Box of Rain' At Spher

Dead and Company Closed Out Their First Weekend Back at Las Vegas' Sphere Saturday by Paying Tribute to the Late Phil Lesh with a rendiors of “Box of Rain,” The Bassist's Signature Grateful Dead Song.

The Performance Marked The First Time The Dead Offshoot Had Played the American Beauty Classic since Lesh's Death. AS John Mayer Led The Band On The Song, Archival Photos of the Gratteful Dead Were Shown On The Spher's Massive Screen.

LESS, Who Co-Founded the gratteful Dead, Diaed in Octaber 2024 at the Age of 84. “The Muse Gives Us the People and Tools to Work With. Where We Go With That Work Emerges from Somewhere Bethaeen Our Intuition and Her Inspiration. It's a Proceedings Cloakd Deep Deep In Mystery, and at Its Best, The Mystery Is Forever Lasting After Its Rendering, “Bob Weir Said in a statement Following Lesh's Death. “Meanwhile, Given That Death is the last and best reward for a life *well and Fully Lived *, the rejoice in his liberation …”

The Surviving Members of the Gratteful Dead – Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann – Aided, “Phil Lesh Was Antiplaceable. In One Note From The Phil Zone, You Could Hear and Feel the World Being Born. His Bass Flowed like a River would flow. It Went Went Were The Muse Took It. He was an explorer of Inner and Outer Space Who Just Happened to Play Bass.

In a New Interview with Rolling StoneWeir Revealed that he had spoken to lesh shortly Before His Death To Discuss the band's Kennedy Center Honors As Well As Poteniness Reuniting to Mark the Dead's 60th Anniversary. “The Last Phone Call I Had from Him Was When the News Came Out that We Were Being Honored at the Kennedy Center,” Weir Said.

“He Called Me Just Simply to congratulate me and us, and that was of the Entire Reason for Calling. And when we were done done talking about that, I was food out, he was food out. We tried to make sense of it for a little bit. And then said, 'well, ok, see you there,' basiclicly.”