When New Yorker staff writer and Deadhead Nick Paumgarten witnessed Dead & Company in concert at The Sphere in Las Vegas, he wrote this about the playlist.
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 structure that would be routine for most bands but which for the Dead is almost unthinkable.
Nick Paumgarten, Dead Reckoning, the New Yorker, July 29, 2024, p. 18.
This is a particular instance of the more general problem of integrating painterly art and live music which was among our design goals for Imager—to create space for jamming visually as your musician friends jam musically.
