Not going to trash it. It had to work for their extended playing style and I thought some of the abstract stuff was good, 1-2 things quite smart and impressive on a phone screen so surely exponentially better in the room. The sound was likely phenomenal too.
At the end of the day, an entirely different experience and presentation. It was doubtful they’d spend a lot of time and money on blowout custom imagery for 4 shows, so I think this approach was the right move. We’ll see what the other 3 nights bring.
I’m very curious to see what Dead & Co do, in terms of leveraging some historical footage/legacy imagery and classic psychedelic visualizer stuff.