4 hours of Grateful Dead magic with John Mayer shredding and Mickey's 78th birthday jam.
Set I: The Music Never Stopped >Easy Answers > The Music Never Stopped (Reprise)> Tennessee Jed> Here Comes Sunshine> Loose Lucy> Mr. Charlie> Looks Like Rain> Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad. Set II: Happy Birthday (Mickey Hart’s 78th Birthday) > The Other One (verse 1) > Uncle John’s Band > Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower > Drums > Space > Cumberland Blues > The Other One (verse 2) > Stella Blue > One More Saturday Night. Encore: Touch of Grey
Direction
Intimate camerawork captures 78-year-old Mickey's birthday joy.
Sound
The Help > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower sequence is pure alchemy.
Acting
Oteil's bass faces steal every close-up.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Dead & Company's first post-pandemic tour, making Mickey's 78th birthday celebration their return to full-scale live performance after 18 months of silence.
The 'Music Never Stopped' opener with its 'Easy Answers' sandwich was a deliberate nod to the band's own persistence through death, hiatus, and rebirth—Bob Weir has called this arrangement their 'mission statement.'
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