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.]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 26 2017, @04:15AM (1 child)
The power surges and transients must be impressive.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 26 2017, @04:46PM
I thought they moved all the transits out of NY in the 90s.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @06:07AM
The LED lights were installed in 2012, here is an overview, https://www.esbnyc.com/explore/tower-lights/ [esbnyc.com]
And this link has the application for special lighting in a web form, https://www.esbnyc.com/pr-pop-culture/tower-lighting-request/ [esbnyc.com]
Looks like anyone can apply.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Grishnakh on Monday June 26 2017, @02:32PM (4 children)
The title is lying: this has nothing to do with the Grateful Dead. This is some stupid band called "Dead & Company"; who the fuck are they anyway?
The SN staff needs to fix this. Just because some crappy little band has the word "Dead" in their name does not mean you can use phrases like "Dead concert" in referring to them; that's reserved for the Grateful Dead.
(Score: 3, Informative) by damnbunni on Monday June 26 2017, @03:54PM (1 child)
'who the fuck they are' is Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, along with some other dudes to fill out the band.
It's every surviving founding member of the Grateful Dead except Phil Lesh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @06:37PM
Not a founding member, but Phil's one time roommate and a very early member (keyboards) is still living too,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Constanten [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Monday June 26 2017, @08:58PM (1 child)
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.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:29AM
> ... 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]