The New Yorker: Reckoning with the Dead at the Sphere

[StephenR]

I read this on a different website than the New Yorker and thought it was a great, well-written article. The author is a longtime Deadhead. You may need a subscription to read it on the New Yorker site, the site I read it on also requires membership, it is long with a lot of pictures. This was my favorite line... Hardly a day goes by where I don’t cue up an old show, questing for moments of transcendence amid the swill. (The Dead could be great, as Garcia, the front man, once remarked, “for seconds on end.”)"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/29/reckoning-with-the-dead-at-the-sphere

[lbpesq]

Thanks for posting this, Stephen.  Excellent read.   To me, the most telling quote was:

"Certain numbers go with certain visuals, and so in many ways, unlike anything the Dead have done before, the visuals determine the set, as well as the length of each particular song, a stricture that would be routine for most bands but which for the Dead is almost unthinkable. Still, they hit their marks. It’s all tightly choreographed ..."

IMHO, as technologically amazing as the Sphere seems to be, it can't equal the old days with the triumvirate of the Dead, Winterland, and good acid.

Bill, tgo