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Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert

posted by martyb on Monday June 26 2017, @04:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the somewhere-it-is-still-1965 dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote:

Open Culture has this story from June 24, 2017 at http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/a-light-show-on-the-empire-state-building-gets-synced-to-the-deads-live-performance-of-touch-of-grey-6242017.html

...Dead & Company played a huge show at Citi Field in New York City. And when they performed "Touch of Grey" during their encore, a light show on the Empire State Building got underway, completely synchronized with the song. According to Jam Band, the lights were "controlled by veteran lighting designer Marc Brickman, who has worked on tour with Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Hans Zimmer and many more."

Feeling a touch of tl;dr during the 6 minute song/video? Skip to the last minute or so when the light show picks up during the finale.

[Ed note: I was more impressed with the amount of work that must have gone into mounting the lights and feeding power to all of them, never mind the challenge of planning and controlling the actual lighting display.]

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  • (Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Monday June 26 2017, @08:58PM (1 child)

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Monday June 26 2017, @08:58PM (#531534) Homepage Journal

    Are you being purposefully dense or just trying to be annoying?

    Yes, the band, such as it is, agreed to stop touring as "The Gratetful Dead" after Jerry Garcia died. They've toured under various banners employing the name "Dead" for over 15? years now.

    As it is, the current line-up with John Mayer is really quite good. John seems to have breathed new life into a nearly fossilized Bob Weir. I saw them last year when they came through Washington, and thoroughly enjoyed the show. My only gripe is that they're not coming through the northwest corner on this year's tour. This Deadhead has no issue with the title of this story.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:29AM (#531667)

    > ... nearly fossilized Bob Weir

    Bet he can still beat you up a mountain on a bicycle!
          http://dirtragmag.com/blast-from-the-past-a-mountain-bike-ride-and-interview-with-bob-weir/ [dirtragmag.com]

    Several nights later, the same group of Bob, Gary Fisher and myself took a more adventurous ride, a full-moon excursion to the same mountain top, starting at 1 a.m. from Bob’s house. Just as on the previous ride, the pace up the hill was brisk, and conversation was sparse and punctuated by heavy breathing. Arriving at the top about 2 a.m., we watched while the lights of the Bay Area were slowly obscured by the fog.

    “This Technology, Servant of Man[the bicycle], this is what it gives us. You were talking about stuff that works right; we made it up here in not much more that an hour.