The Grateful Dead's grandkids finally got it right — Mayer shreds, Weir survives, magic happens.
Set One: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Alabama Getaway, Jack Straw, Franklin's Tower, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Terrapin Station, The Other One, Drums, Space, The Wheel, Morning Dew Encore: One More Saturday Night, Brokedown Palace
Direction
Concert film actually lets songs breathe — no rapid-fire cutting.
Sound
Drums/Space sequence will rearrange your molecules.
Acting
Mayer's face when he finally gets it — pure religious conversion.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dead & Company exists in a weird liminal space — not tribute band, not quite the Dead, but somehow the most commercially successful iteration since Jerry died. The Philadelphia show captures peak Mayer comfort, when he'd stopped trying to impress and started serving the song.
This was the first full-capacity Dead show post-pandemic, and the setlist deliberately echoes 8/21/72 — exactly 49 years prior. Weir reportedly insisted on the symmetry.
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