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The Empire State Building Synced Its Lights To The Grateful Dead's 'Touch Of Grey'

A partnership between the building's realty trust, reunion outfit Dead & Company and Citi Field had the Empire State Building's lights dancing along with the crowd of thousands.
The Empire State Building's lights were synced to the encore performance of "I Will Get By" by Dead & Company at nearby Citi Field.

When the started out in 1966 in San Francisco, they and all other bands of the Fillmore era were aided by elaborate . Think: clear pie plates, filled with water, with colored mineral oil and other additives dropped in and swished and swirled around, projected through a grade-school overhead onto screens — or just plain old bed sheets draped behind the band.

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