Deadheads Delight: Empire State Building Celebrates Band

If you're "truckin" through Manhattan later this evening, take a look up at the Empire State Building. In honor of a lasting and sweeping population (boomers, hippies-turned-yuppies and their children now away at college), the iconic building will be lit in colors to honor the iconic band the Grateful Dead.

What colors you ask?

Well, tie-dye of course!

Can you stand it?!

The colors represent the iconic status of the band as well as their "psychedelic influence" on the culture at large, according to the press release. (Though what's that joke, if you can remember the '60s, you weren't around for them or something like that? So lighting up the famous building will be a memory-jog, good.)

Founding members, including Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, will appear at a fundraiser on October 21, which you can find tickets for here, as part of the exhibit "The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society" opening in March.