Dead & Company Debut “Tangled Up In Blue” Cover To Wrap Weekend Four At Sphere [Videos]

Dead & Company closed another weekend at Sphere on Saturday with the band’s first-ever take on Bob Dylan classic “Tangled Up in Blue”. The cover opened the Grateful Dead offshoot’s 12th of 18 shows in Las Vegas, finishing their fourth weekend run of the 2025 Dead Forever residency.

Bob Weir handled lead vocals on the Jerry Garcia Band-favored cover off Dylan’s 1975 Blood on the Tracks. In typical Bobby style, the Grateful Dead’s elder statesman delivered the song in a very conversational style, as if he were telling you a story that just so happened to rhyme. Jerry Garcia ringer John Mayer threw in a tasteful solo or two, but the lyrics were the focus of this latest addition to the Dead & Company songbook.

“Tangled Up in Blue” marks the fourth Dead & Company debut of this year’s Sphere residency. On March 20th, the Grateful Dead offshoot featuring Weir, Mayer, Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti, Oteil Burbridge, and Jay Lane opened their second-annual stay at the groundbreaking Sin City spectacle with their first cover of The Spencer Davis Group‘s “Gimme Some Lovin’”. The following week, the band honored late Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh with the debut of The Band guitarist/lyricist Robbie Robertson‘s “Broken Arrow“—a cover Lesh adopted with the Dead in the mid-’90s. Then last week, Dead & Co added Jimmy Cliff reggae classic “The Harder They Come” to the catalog, featuring Oteil Burbridge on vocals.

Watch Dead & Company debut Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue” and some other fan-shot videos from Saturday at Sphere. The band returns to Las Vegas on Friday, May 9th to kick off another three-night weekend run. Find tickets and a full list of dates here.

Dead & Company — “Tangled Up In Blue” (Bob Dylan) — 4/26/25

[Video: Chicopelli]

Dead & Company — “The Wheel” — 4/26/25

[Video: ajfanchristine]

Dead & Company — “Terrapin Station” — 4/26/25

[Video: ajfanchristine]

Setlist: Dead & Company | Sphere | Las Vegas, NV | 4/26/25

Set One: Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan) [1], Shakedown Street, Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain, The Wheel, One More Saturday Night
Set Two: Here Comes Sunshine, Estimated Prophet, Eyes of the World, Terrapin Station, Drums > Space, Looks Like Rain, Cold Rain and Snow (Traditional), Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan), Not Fade Away (The Crickets)

[1] FTP