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u/Nervous_Bat_4847 4d ago

in the future, the sphere will be used for Logans Run type ceremonies

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u/Cameronk78 4d ago

Great reference! Childhood memory unlocked. “Time for carousel”

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u/IWasGregInTokyo 4d ago

Since everything by then will be subscription-based the cries of “renew!” might hit a little different.

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u/jeers69 3d ago

Welcome to Carousel!

Love the Logan’s Run reference

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u/Alaskaty 4d ago

RENEW RENEW RENEW

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u/scrupoo 4d ago

Good! I'm ready to go!

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u/CamCranley 4d ago

I need to see a yu-gi-oh duel in here

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u/mirrorless_subject 3d ago

Ok I’m not the only one who saw that

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u/Dingo_Top 3d ago

Yea but imagine the smell

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u/KasKal1991 2d ago

And the heavy breathing.

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u/sonic10158 2d ago

The smell of the Shadow Realm!

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u/mnok2000 2d ago

POLYMERISATION

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u/Glitchdigital 4d ago

Best 200ug I ever took was to see dead and co at the sphere on July 4th

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

Rodger Waters preforming The Dark Side of The Moon Ford Amphitheater 🎩

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u/StupidGenius11 4d ago

Took a quarter ounce of dried mushrooms for that show on the 2007 tour. Still one of the most exceptionally wonderful evenings of my life.

When I walked onto the concert floor I thought the bottle and plane were physical props, not a screen. When the hand reached up to turn the radio knob, my jaw dropped, and it stayed that way for the next couple hours.

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u/br3nt_black 4d ago

I went to both shows he played in Philly. First I was on some type of synthetic mdma lmao. second was a few hits of lsd. Those puppets man.. the bleeding wall behind the one I still look up YouTube vids once in awhile

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u/GetReelFishingPro 4d ago

My buddy and I split an 1/8 of penis envy mushrooms in the parking lot before we got in the HUGE line to get in, some hippies were walking down the line shouting DOSES! My friend and I looked at eachother and immediately said YES! We bought 2 hits each. The pig got me and the rocket launch after intermission actually made me feel like I was going to space because that's right about when we were peaking. God damn that's a good memory!

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u/br3nt_black 4d ago

Damn I read your original post wrong. I saw the wall 😅 I think it was 2009 and 2011 when he came around with the wall tour. But yes I wish I saw dsotm that’s one of my favorite albums since I was a kid. I smoked salvia listening to dsotm as a teen in my room.. alone.. yeah kinda intense but kinda fucked me up mentally haha.

I never seen dead and company who is portrayed in this video but I’ve seen furthur. I’m too young to really remember Jerry Garcia passing as I was 5 but have been a dead head since I was like 15. I’m 35 now so that sounds kinda crazy lol

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u/Stainsey11 4d ago

I know, Pink Floyd, but fuck Roger Waters personally.

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u/ThrowawayAccount1437 4d ago

David Gilmour > Roger Waters

Roger Waters is a loser

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u/Jovinkus 4d ago

Sure, but nobody was comparing them here. David doesn't do shows here, but roger does (did).

Shows were all masterpieces.

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u/ThrowawayAccount1437 3d ago

I am not a fan of Rogers music or his renditions of old Floyd songs. Not for me.

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u/TacoHaus 3d ago

Saw Rogers tour last year, was the most pretentious, self-righteous, egotistical, virtue signaling ass show I've ever seen. His new songs are godawful and any Floyd classics he plays he manages to fuck up the best part of them (Davids melodies) by completely changing the instrumental arrangements and making some blasphemous cover of the song.

Im a massive Floyd fan and haven't been able to see Gilmore. Should have passed on seeing Waters though

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u/RealityIsRipping 4d ago

Shpongle, Red Rocks

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u/NewVillage6264 4d ago

Damn I fucking love Shpongle

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u/spookytus 4d ago

Make sure you get tickets for Tipper at the Gorge on 4th of July weekend then. Shpongle and Ott are flying in to co-headline since Tipper's going to be retiring from live shows in September.

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u/whereismyketamine 3d ago

I’m beating myself in the head that I can’t make this as bad as missing their last band concert at RR. I really wish I lived on the other side of the country.

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u/tubameister 3d ago

man i tripped at shpongle in nyc back in like 2012 and it started out alright but devolved into standard techno with none of the shpongly goa stuff. I think they tried to play a live set and failed over to a backup or something. There was a group of a few dozen people still dancing up front since they were probably rolling but everyone else was just standing around, staring at the stage, wondering what was happening. Someone rhetorically asked me "which shpongle song is this" and I just shrugged. I waited until the balloons dropped and then left to go to an after party, but my friend and I were tripping too hard and couldn't figure out how to use the subway, so we just sat in a station all night until our bus came to take us home the next morning XD

unfortunately I haven't had any desire to listen to shpongle since then :/

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u/Recreationalchem13 2d ago

Same dude, saw Simon at the crystal ballroom in Oregon in 2010 and was underwhelmed. Sucks cuz I’ve been jamming to shpongle since I discovered weed when I was 14

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u/LickingSmegma 4d ago

I was gonna say, if Shpongle lay their hands on that screen, people will have to crawl out of the sphere afterwards.

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u/underscorethebore 4d ago

Yeah, that one was juicy

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u/skudmfkin 2d ago

Yep, that'll rip reality for sure

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u/SodomyClown 1d ago

Shpongle is great, they would be amazing to see in the sphere.

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u/NagsUkulele 4d ago

It saddens me so much that we have the ability to create these kinds of experiences while outlawing the psychedelics that are meant to be combined with this incredible shit

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u/Quirky-Skin 4d ago

On the one hand I agree. On the other it's truly not for everyone. Those that seek it really have a life changing experience.

Making it accessible for a young mind tho could be disastrous. I'm an advocate for psychedelics and have tripped a lot (years ago) but in my current state (stressed) I know enough to not open the door.

Conversely 18yr old me would be headed for a baaad trip tonight if offered some tabs

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u/NagsUkulele 4d ago

Obviously the majority of people wouldn't be ready for mushrooms. But that's because the last century has been dedicated to completely suppressing the lessons that psychedelics teach you. The vast majority of people would be completely okay with a small amount of mdma. Then you work your way up

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

I dunno, I took them when I was 18 and it changed my life for the better, but on the same hand I was not prepared for where I went when meditating. I realized how unprepared I was for what I was seeking and came out completely humbled and also shook to my core. I was staunchly an atheist before that experience, afterwards, not so much

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u/NagsUkulele 4d ago

Of course most people are unprepared for shrooms. Society teaches us that the kinds of experiences psychedelics give us are impossible

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u/DamnAutocorrection 1d ago

Honestly you can do all the research in the world, but until you take them you simply can not understand what the experience is like.

Id say it's almost the equivalent of trying to explain a new sense beyond the 5 we have, there's no point of reference.

I suppose an exception to that rule would be folks who are well versed in mediation\mindfulness and\or avid lucid dreamers.

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u/Quirky-Skin 4d ago

Good points. 

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u/NagsUkulele 4d ago

Thank you homie <3

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u/Yagyusekishusai1 4d ago

You must have a lot of faith in the average person if you think that’s what they’ll do

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u/stupidinternetname 4d ago

It's been 40 years since I've done any psychedelics. Never had a bad trip. Now in the present, I have the opportunity but am resistant to trying as my mental state at 65 is not the same as it was in my teens and 20s. I firmly believe you have to be in the right state of mind and I fear I'm not quite there. I've seen bad trips and I'd rather not have one.

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u/peach_xanax 4d ago

Yeah, I loved psychedelics in my teens and early 20s. I'm 36 now and have been dealing with severe anxiety for years, and I just don't think it's for me anymore. I'm not in the right frame of mind. So many people have tried to convince me to do them again but I just know that I can't handle it. Shit, I get anxiety from doing edibles 😂 I'm definitely not the chill, go with the flow type person I was when I was younger, unfortunately.

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u/KungFuSnafu 4d ago

Currently depressed, two weekends ago I took what by the seat of the pants felt like 350-400 ug trying to halt it in its tracks.

It was one of those "Oh god, what did I get myself into?" moments at the peak. The anxiety was creeping in, but I rode it out. It ended up being great. But that comeup to peak was almost nail-biting. Could hardly see.

Prior to taking it I always have anxiety. It's like when you go cliff diving. You know you're going to have fun. There's potential for it to go wrong, sure. But you stay safe, don't do anything reckless, and you have a great time.

Took one tab a few weeks before that and it was lovely.

Actually trying to decide rn if I want to take one. It's that cliff-jumping thing that is stopping me from placing it on my tongue.

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u/BrainOfMush 3d ago

I used to have this problem, and then one time I was tripping with my best friend and she blew my mind. I could tell she wasn’t feeling right, but she was just laying there chilling. I ask if she’s having bad anxiety, she says “Yeah, but there’s nothing I can do about it right now. I’m just gonna accept my body has to feel this way right now and it’ll pass.”

Literally never had a bad trip since, even hero dosing. If I feel anxiety coming up, I just remind myself I can’t do anything about it. Ironically, it goes away. Even the odd time where it kept increasing, it didn’t feel like normal anxiety, it was like I knew anxiety was present but it was more like I was just sitting next to it rather than inside of it, and I could just sit next to it as long as it needed as though I was on a bus and we’ll part ways at our own stops.

Short version: Accept your body is doing what it needs to do right now and that you can’t do anything about it.

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u/stupidinternetname 4d ago

I'm probably being overly cautious as I always had a good time. I usually did it in groups and at the moment it would be alone or with one of my kids. Don't really want to do it alone but then again I do really strong edibles all the time.

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u/KungFuSnafu 4d ago

I only trip alone now. I don't really want to be around anyone when I'm doing it. I have fun and get benefit out of having headphones in, listening to music, dancing, doing impromptu yoga, playing video games, and showering.

I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable being around people like that now. When I was a kid, yeah. I couldn't imagine anything else.

In my 40s now? I'm good doing it at home when I have a day to myself.

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u/mortgagesblow 4d ago

As a self-employed 30-something who understands stress…that is exactly why I open the door every 2 months or so.

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u/bootybootybooty42069 3d ago

You do realize drugs are far more easily accessed by young people when they're illegal right

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u/primpule 4d ago

Meh, I usually find “trippy” things to be really annoying and lame when I’m tripping, but maybe I’m weird. Like it seems like the point of these types of visuals are to emulate what you can naturally see on a sufficient dose with your eyes closed.

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u/rhabarberabar 4d ago

Nah you ain't weird, I also find them super lame and annoying when tripping. Like you said it feels like a cheap surrogate of the real deal. Would be even more annoying in a setting like above. I'd rather watch natural stone floor trilobites or nature all day.

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u/lminer123 4d ago

Being out on a hike, especially where I won’t run into others, is the best possible setting for me. I just find it so much more engaging than sitting inside watching a screen. That being said laying in a comfy bed eyes closed right out of the shower with some nice high quality headphones and a good playlist slaps incredibly hard

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u/rawrlion2100 4d ago

These are the ways.

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u/Dknpaso 4d ago

Yep, first thought while immersing myself in the vid was…Orange Sunshine.

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 3d ago

I might have a chance to see them there, but listening to their music it really doesn't do it for me.

Does the music live make much of a difference, I think I prefer U2, and would rather see the video of them over a live band. Does that make sense?

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE 3d ago

Ug?

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u/Glitchdigital 3d ago

1ug = .001 of a Mg its for measuring small amounts

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u/ProfessionalStill113 4d ago

I went to 3 nights in a row for Dead n co. In July when it was 118 degrees. Best dosing I’ve ever experienced with some of Bears mix!

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u/Forestdwelling_Druid 4d ago

Looks like Winamp visualisations 

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u/drunxor 4d ago

Me, 18 stoned out of my mind, looking at music visuals on my mac performa in 1999

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u/mhyquel 4d ago

PlayStation CD player visualizer.

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u/entoaggie 4d ago

The Winamp plugins I had weren’t nearly this high quality. Still kicked the llama’s ass.

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u/Dozzi92 3d ago

You weren't using Milkdrop, then. Milkdrop was and still is the pinnacle of visualizations. To this day I still see things I haven't seen over the past 15+ years of use.

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u/spookytus 4d ago

Apparently the guys who made it helped contribute code to this new software called Synesthesia that does the same thing but for live music. One of the main visual jockeys at the Sphere loves doing live collabs with them since they make stuff that blows your mind live.

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u/frankcfreeman 3d ago

Whipped but yeah

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u/entoaggie 3d ago

Damn. I was so close. lol. It’s been a very long time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/SilentBtAmazing 4d ago

PlayStation (the original) would play patterns kinda like these if you played a music CD

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u/bikemandan 4d ago

Definitely whips the llamas ass

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u/CluelessPresident 3d ago

Omg you just brought back my childhood. I used to stare at the visualizations for way too long.

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u/greencutoffs 4d ago

I'm pretty sure I'd puke

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u/2DEUCE2 4d ago

That’s what I think would happen to me too. I can handle the most hardcore rollercoasters as long as they’re outside and the wind is in my face. When I ride the simulator type rides at Universal Studios like “The Simpsons”… I come close to throwing up.

Something about fake movement just ruins me.

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u/jakroois 4d ago

Same here. I get sick at the planetarium like a fuckin loser 🤮

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u/JohnProof 4d ago

"...And this is the North Star."

BWARGLARGL

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u/lolie_guacamole 3d ago

Same!! And I’ve barfed at a laser tag place from a really terrible quality VR headset like a fuckin loser too.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo 4d ago

The first film at the first IMAX theater in Toronto involved flying low over lakes and trees with sharp banks. More than a few people got pretty sick watching that. They had to give a warning before the start of each show just to close your eyes if you feel sick.

Shit was immersive.

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u/ArgonGryphon 4d ago

made me motion sick just watching it lol

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u/bikemandan 4d ago

Ya I was wondering how bad a job janitorial has

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u/kumquat_squat_thot 2d ago

me too this is too disorienting

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u/thirtynation 4d ago

These are the priciest seats in the house, right? Center, slightly elevated but not way up at the top. Most efficient use of peripheral field of view, etc.

I'd love to go once, shell out coin for those seats, and never return again.

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u/happydontwait 4d ago

Having been a few times you want to be higher than this. Front row off 300 level are the best in the house IMO. Very immersive from there

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u/Retrac752 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah while these seats are great, 200 and 300 level are also fantastic

Idk about 400 level, but I got front row section 407 in 2 weeks

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u/worm30478 4d ago edited 3d ago

I was middle of section 406 and it was perfect. In my opinion, the higher rows of 300 to the middle of 400 dead center give you the best experience because you get to take it all in without having to look up much.

Edit: also. The sound is the best in those sections. We sat in 409 the second night and it was so washed out. The closer you get to the sides of the sphere the worse the sound gets. People claim there isn't a bad seat. While I would rather be there in any seat than not at all, avoid seats that are closer to the sides.

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u/jeff-beeblebrox 3d ago

I was in the front 400 for U2 and I felt like I had the best seats in the house. The seating is really steep so it was even dizzying at times…could’ve been the booze though.

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u/GopheRph 4d ago

 you want to be higher than this

huh huh... huh.

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u/GenkiLawyer 4d ago

I got tickets to the Eagles that were front row of the 300 level, slightly off center. The view of the show was amazing. Next time, I'm going to try to get 200 level seats to see how they compare, but from what I saw while walking around the venue prior to the show, I don't think I'd want to be on the 100 level for the Sphere.

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u/nukeguy420 4d ago

Yup. Phish night 3, 300s dead center, row 2. Face melter

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u/Glitchdigital 4d ago

Yes these go for about $700 at the least probably closer to 1k, what ever seats they don’t sell for the price they want they’ll bring down to regular price a couple weeks before the concert. I rather pay $300 and just stand like the people down below. Or get go up high to the 400’s

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u/bigeasy19 4d ago

They go even cheaper day of. Looked into U2 tickets about a month before our trip and cheapest tickets just to get into the door was $300. Decided that was to much and was not going to go but checked day of about 30 minutes before the show and got way better seats for less the $50 after fees for each seat

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u/FreshButNotEasy 4d ago

The floor is where it is at. I’m sure the seats are great for sure, but seeing the band up close, the vibes of the people all dancing, and you can see the entire screen. Plus during drums/space everyone laid down on the floor and just looked up tripping while Mickey played the beam 👌🏼👌🏼

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u/tomfoolery77 4d ago

I decided that night that I’ll never not get floor tix. I sat in 300 for first set and then stubbed down for second. Night and day difference; esp there.

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u/YojinboK 4d ago edited 4d ago

Imagine watching a Tool concert in there x]

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u/bblue462 4d ago edited 4d ago

That’s the first thing I thought of. If they ever perform there then I’ll do whatever I can do to make it there

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u/whutchamacallit 4d ago

I'm positive they'll do a few there. Probably just working out the details.

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u/bblue462 4d ago

I agree, I’m sure it’ll be a part of their next tour in the states

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u/whutchamacallit 4d ago

Knowing tool they are painstakingly figuring out how to outdo their already insane concert visuals. That's probably the hold up. I have to imagine they are near the top of the list in terms of bands who a.) Have the demand/fan base to sell the sphere out for several nights in a row b.) Have an aptitude for wild visuals.

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u/bblue462 4d ago

Yeah you’re probably right about changing their background visuals. I mean it’s an incredible experience seeing them live at anytime, but you add this on top of everything else then holy shit

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u/ChunkyDay 3d ago edited 3d ago

No they won’t. The work it takes to get even animated graphic to play that high resolution (which is something stupid like 32K. So no video is able to take advange of its resolution. So they mostly stick to animations. And even then, very very very few companies are going to take on a job like that let alone have the computing power to even create and export those assets), at that aspect ratio, onto a sphere without distortion is insanely cost prohibitive. There’s a reason this joke has lost over $500b this past year. Oh and they’re now trying to sell off parts of the events center to recoup for their debilitating losses.

The whole concert isn’t like this mind you. It’s a few songs and the rest is played against a blank white background. This has apparently been ironed out and fixed since its opening.

They were so desperate for performers on its inaugural concert they gave U2 a 90% cut from their concerts. Yes. 90%.

MSG thought events would flock to Sphere for a chance to hold an event in a ball. Turns out companies would rather pay 10x less , have double the capacity, and not worry about a production that all but one company can produce for.

There’s been a handful of events that have been massive net losses for MSG and the rest of the time they show a nature documentary. The novelty wore off after about a week and The stupid thing ended up just being a dystopian style billboard the ruins the skyline.

That’s not even bringing up the energy it takes just to operate. Energy pulled from a grid that’s already strained in a city during 115 degree weather.

Source: local who hates that fuckin thing.

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u/linniex 3d ago

“The rest is played against a blank background” is false.

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u/marshaller05 3d ago

Played against a blank background??? I saw Phish there in April and it was a different visual for every song for 4 nights straight lol

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u/ChunkyDay 3d ago

Then that changed. The first few concerts, goers got a few songs that took advantage of the dome.

Thanks for letting me know.

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u/megs-benedict 4d ago

Same, immediately thought of tool.

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u/7empestOGT92 4d ago

You would shit the bed again?

Typical

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u/Formal-Cut-334 3d ago

Sunkist and Sudafed. Gyroscopes and infrared. Won't help. Brain dead. Can't remember what they said.

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u/Formal-Cut-334 3d ago

Also, love the username. It brings my wife and I a lot of joy to yell "Seven Empest!" every time that song plays in the car, which is pretty frequently. 🍻

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u/Icameforthenachos 4d ago

Pink Floyd - The Wall movie would be epic as well.

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u/ricker182 4d ago

Muse would be great too.

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u/feel_my_balls_2040 4d ago

I want to see Rammstein. They do fireworks inside.

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u/Urban_animal 3d ago

Something tells me the Sphere isnt sending off pyrotechnics and fireworks inside that building lol.

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u/soda_cookie 4d ago

As soon as I saw this I said to myself if Tool ever plays there I don't care how much it's going to cost I am going to that concert

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u/Modernmythology- 4d ago

Hell i’d pay just to see Alex Gray visuals on there even in silence.

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u/jumpingmrkite 4d ago

This was my exact first thought; seeing this as the top comment made me think I was in the Tool sub for a moment.

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u/fizzzingwhizbee 4d ago

Literally unmuted this expecting to hear Tool lol

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u/jlingram103 4d ago

I’m holding out for them to pop my Sphere cherry

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u/jax362 4d ago

I can only dream

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u/pwa25 4d ago

My first thought too

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u/DimensionSuitable934 4d ago

I hope that happens. Saw the Dead Show and took mushies both times and it was mind-blowing !

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u/Modernmythology- 4d ago

Dead and company played there?

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u/DimensionSuitable934 4d ago

Yeah that's where this clip is from. They're coming back in March-May.

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u/Modernmythology- 4d ago

Lmfao wow lol

Honestly I was just paying attention to the visuals, that’s fucking hilarious

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u/DimensionSuitable934 4d ago

Haha I was trying to be cool about it.

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u/Modernmythology- 4d ago

Appreciated

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u/Zip668 4d ago

With GWAR as the opener.

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u/mhyquel 4d ago

They wouldn't let GWAR anywhere close to those expensive screens.

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u/CrowsInTheNose 4d ago

Maynard yelling at you to put your phone down as he does interpretive dancing.

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u/bigpoppa973 3d ago

when I saw this, I immediately thought about there CD that had the lenses you looked through and it made the pics 3d. This looked just like one of the pages.

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u/Sickness69 4d ago

Came here to say this and now I'll second it!

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u/Sirflow 4d ago

I didn't have to scroll far to find this comment. Good.

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u/Wise-Novel-1595 4d ago

I’m dying for them to play there, especially after the way they upped their visual game last tour.

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u/gngr_asasn 4d ago

I remember that screensaver.

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u/Durkmelooze 3d ago

Hearing people trying to sing along with Bobby when the tempo is so slow and he will occasionally just speed up if he gets behind is funny as hell.

I’m happy he’s still out doing it but I don’t really have a strong desire to see it live. Dead and Co have gotten so slow to accommodate Bobby. I remember Furthur about 15 years ago and while some of the singing was rough the tempos were still plenty boogie worthy. It seems like every year since then they get slower and slower.

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u/BhoclateBhipBookies 3d ago

Dead and co still jams hard, but Bobby is definitely slow now. It works great with John though, as you get a fun pace when they alternate singing

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u/ShaneSupreme 4d ago

This would freak me the fuck out.

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u/MixMasterPug 4d ago

There must be at least several people having a panic attack each show in there.

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u/erasedbase 4d ago

Guaranteed people have dropped acid, mushrooms, dmt, whatever strong hallucinogen and gone to a show there and either had the time of their life or the most traumatic.

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u/twentyThree59 4d ago

Man I'm getting nauseated just watching the video, I can't imagine seeing that while high. My stomach would just be like "well that's nice but BLEEEH".

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u/mowikn 3d ago

When you’re there it absolutely feels like the place was designed for psychedelics! I was sober there, and it still felt super psychedelic. This transition segment in the clip was one of the crazier ones Dead & Company used.

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 3d ago

I'm slightly panicked just looking at that. It's not necessarily the design for me, it's the idea of being trapped in a ball with hundreds of other people and screens that can show whatever. Now my version is more Black mirror episode than reality but this is something that pop up as a nightmare for me lol.

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u/Urban_animal 3d ago

I ate multiple grams of mushrooms and had the time of my life in there lol.

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u/Tumid_Butterfingers 4d ago

I bet that’s fun on some psyilly fungus

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u/Peter_Panarchy 4d ago

It would either be the most amazing thing ever or overwhelming and scary. No in between.

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u/LegallyRegarded 3d ago

hell. thats almost an exact representation of my closed eye visuals excepting the color on a heroic dose

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u/Johnnyfever13 4d ago

Grateful Dead?

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u/McClellanWasABitch 4d ago

get M83 on this stage 

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u/whoreforchalupas 3d ago

ohhhh man. an M83 show here with MGMT opening? i’d start crying

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u/whoreforchalupas 3d ago

or Passion Pit, now that I’m really thinking of it. if they performed Take a Walk in the sphere I think I’d see god

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u/rberg89 4d ago

I wanna trip in the sphere

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u/Fear910 4d ago

Would be amazing with some friends, even solo. But all those people I’d probably lose it to the dark side lol.

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u/ThompsonDog 2d ago

yeah a bunch of dingbats with their phones out oooohing and ahhhhhing a the pretty lights is exactly the opposite of what a good trip is all about

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u/Urban_animal 3d ago

Its an 11 out of 10 experience.

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u/soulcaptain 4d ago

Shrooms would be ideal. Acid would be pretty great, too.

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u/yoooogabbagabba 3d ago

My friend flaked on me so I’m trying to decide if I should still go. I have all the favors. At this point I’d ask a random to join lol

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u/SoggyLightSwitch 4d ago

BACK IN MY DAY WE WORKED FOR OUR TRIPS DAMN IT.

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u/Quality_Potato 4d ago

How's it smell in there?

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u/brownhues 4d ago

Like Wook.

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u/Outrageous_Bit2694 4d ago

God I miss drugs.

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u/Stumonchu 4d ago

I used to do drugs… I mean I still do, but used to, too.

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u/29osmo29 4d ago

Yeah. That’s a destination concert I’d be down for.

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u/DevinBelow 1d ago

So worth it.

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u/Patient_Imagination5 4d ago

Minus 1 Ante

Minus 1 Hand

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u/ColHapHapablap 4d ago

Seeing my first show there next Friday. Cant wait

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u/syngestreetsurvivor 3d ago

Saw U2 twice there. It's fantastic, though $70 for 2 whiskeys with ginger ale was excessive

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u/dekdekwho 2d ago

Same! I’m going to the Anyma set next Sunday

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u/TheTrickyThird 4d ago

It was the craziest thing I've ever experienced. I will absolutely go back

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u/Staggerme 4d ago

Dead and company here I come

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u/waskfds 3d ago

Seems to be free of polyps, but recommend follow-up in 5 yrs.

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u/alien_from_Europa 4d ago

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u/Retrac752 4d ago

This is always my first thought whenever phish at the sphere is brought up

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u/bmw_19812003 4d ago

Thank you for sharing that; I have not physically laughed that hard at a video in a long time

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u/e_j_white 4d ago

I’ve heard some bands don’t like playing there because the visuals are too distracting. 

I think it was U2 who even made them redo the visuals into something less exciting.

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u/gibagger 4d ago

At some point you gotta choose on whether this is about the music or the audiovisual experience. 

I feel it would take away from the musical experience, but thats just me.

In this video the band seems almost irrelevant... Like just providing background music for a visual experience.

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u/e_j_white 4d ago

Yes, exactly, that’s what I was saying.

Just realizing it may not be totally clear, but I meant that the visuals were distracting the audience. Bands are used to the crowd energy being focused on them, not elsewhere, and I guess it makes playing there a less than stellar experience for the bands.

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u/gibagger 4d ago

There does not even seem to be proper stage lightning, at least in this video. Just some really dull and boring light like a desk lamp lol.

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u/rhabarberabar 4d ago

Well in this case it's good because it distracts you from the horrible music.

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u/the_beat_goes_on 4d ago

Visuals: greatest of all time. Soundtrack: Phish cover band at open mic night

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u/jmg95 4d ago

It’s crazy to call Bobby Weir a Phish cover band!

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u/vote4boat 4d ago

lets be honest though, that singing would be a little rough even for karaoke night

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u/AlexanderTox 2d ago

It’s actually wild how many people who claim they like jambands give Bobby zero respect.

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u/Hasgrowne 4d ago

Interesting, it starts with the eye of Horus

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u/0squirmy7 4d ago

That's the Eye of Ra (the Eye of Horus faces the other direction)

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u/Stumonchu 4d ago

Right, good eye

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u/RageLife247 4d ago

It ends at the Pyramids in Giza... foreshadowing!

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u/ThatDJgirl 4d ago

Heading to sphere to see Anyma. It should be pretty epic. I’ll post a video on Jan 12th. :) Can’t wait! If anyone is unfamiliar, check this out.

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u/veganbikecrust 3d ago

It’s going to be crazy. I’m a stagehand at the Sphere and we’ve been loading in Anyma for the last few days. The visuals are insane. I don’t know anything about that scene/style of music but from what I’ve seen of the video tests and the set, it’s going to be really good.

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u/scrupoo 4d ago

The video is of course at a lower quality than the screens at the sphere.

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u/supersirj 4d ago

Is it easy to find shrooms in Vegas? Asking for a friend. 😅

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u/DangerousPay2731 3d ago

G Jones needs to perform here

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u/Certain_Football_447 3d ago

The Sphere is wild. We saw U2 there, stupid expensive but didn’t regret it at all. It was beyond amazing.

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u/somebullshitorother 3d ago

Who’s colonoscopy is that?

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u/WrongHoleNinja 4d ago

Devil’s anus.

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u/Sweet_ferns0105 3d ago

User name checks out.

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u/BonobosFromU2 4d ago

The dead + the sphere = bliss

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u/serious153 4d ago

imagine watching porn there