This project was done with humor, truth, and sarcasm. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, UCSC, where I went to college, there were many fans of The Grateful Dead. They called themselves Deadheads. I had not heard of the band before attending the school. I listened to the music, and I didn't understand why people felt so passionately about the band. I was intrigued. So in 1986, I decided to try and understand these people and the music they loved, and to create a video of my quest. This documentary project is the result. Enjoy.
Drop out of school to ride with the Merry Pranksters. Form America’s most enduring jam band. Become a family man and father. Never stop chasing the muse. Bob Weir took his own path to and through superstardom as rhythm guitarist for The Grateful Dead. Mike Fleiss re-imagines the whole wild journey in this magnetic rock doc and concert film, with memorable input from bandmates, contemporaries, followers, family, and, of course, the inimitable Bob Weir himself.
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!
The tale of the Grateful Dead is inspiring, complicated, and downright messy. A tribe of contrarians, they made art out of open-ended chaos and inadvertently achieved success on their own terms. Never-before-seen footage and interviews offer this unprecedented and unvarnished look at the life of the Dead.
The Making of "Built to Last" documents a rare behind the scenes look at the Grateful Dead's thirteenth and final studio album, Built to Last. The behind the scenes footage contains members of the band working on three songs for the album: Picasso Moon, Blow Away, & Just a Little Light. The footage was filmed at Club Front Studio in San Rafael, CA on March 1st 1989.
View from the Vault, Volume One, sometimes known simply as View from the Vault, is the first release in a series of DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead known as "View from the Vault". The audio is taken from the soundboard and the video from the video screens at the concerts. The first volume was recorded and filmed at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on July 8, 1990 with bonus material recorded two days earlier at Cardinal Stadium, Louisville. The set was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 2, 2001.
Jerry Garcia, legendary lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead and David Grisman, virtuoso mandolinist and founder of "Dawg" music… Now, for the first time ever, the musical matrimony and extraordinary friendship of Garcia and Grisman is traced in the award-winning documentary Grateful Dawg.
This documentary explores the Deadhead phenomenon. For thirty years, Jerry Garcia played guitar and sang for the Grateful Dead, and by doing so, inspired a modern cultural phenomenon: the legions of nomadic fans that made a communal way of life out of following Jerry and the Dead, the Deadheads. The End of the Road began shooting three months prior to Garcia's death in 1995, on the road with the wandering family of Deadheads- on what would be the final tour with Jerry and the Grateful Dead. Featuring a soundtrack by Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia, the film celebrates this social, political and cultural movement in its twilight.
A short documentary about the Grateful Dead's legendary May 8, 1977 show at Barton Hall at Cornell University.
The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974.
Recorded on Shakedown Street in Albany, NY during Grateful Dead's Summer Tour, 1992.
In 1993, Grateful Dead took the stage at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Hebron, OH. On hand that night was Peter Shapiro, at the time a Northwestern film student spending a month on summer tour alongside cameraman Philip Bruell. The Buckeye Lake show opens and the Heads document the swelling Dead scene.
Set 1: Jam (>) Cassidy (Bob Weir song) (>) Deal (Jerry Garcia cover) Samson and Delilah ([traditional] cover) Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead cover) It Hurts Me Too (Tampa Red cover) Tennessee Jed (Grateful Dead cover) If I Had the World to Give (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ([traditional] cover) Set 2: Althea (Grateful Dead cover) Estimated Prophet (Grateful Dead cover) (>) China Cat Sunflower (Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider ([traditional] cover) (>) Eyes of the World (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums (Grateful Dead cover) (with Oteil Burbridge) (>) Space (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson cover)
Set 1: Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead cover) Cold Rain and Snow (Obray Ramsey cover) Loser (Jerry Garcia cover) Dire Wolf (Grateful Dead cover) Loose Lucy (Grateful Dead cover) The Wheel (Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Bertha (Grateful Dead cover) Let It Grow (Grateful Dead cover) Set 2: Help on the Way (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot! (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Franklin's Tower (Grateful Dead cover) Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Other One (Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) Drums (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space (Grateful Dead cover) (> 'The Other One' verse 2) Black Peter (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead cover) U.S. Blues (Grateful Dead cover)
Grateful Dead show on July 17, 1989 at Alpine Valley.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, the "core four" original members - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir - reunited at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th and 5th for the most anticipated concerts in recent history. Joined by Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead is the original members' last-ever performance together nearly 20 years to the day of the last ever Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia, which took place at the same historic venue.
Ending months of speculation and anticipation surrounding the first Fare Thee Well -Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead concert, the “core four” remaining Grateful Dead members -drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, bassist Phil Lesh and guitarist Bob Weir -along with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti slowly eased into “Truckin’” to begin the show. The biographical lyrics to the song proved to be a fitting choice to start the anniversary celebration, with the famed “What a long strange trip it’s been” verse capturing the moment perfectly. Recorded at Levi's Stadium on June 27th and 28th, 2015.
Set 1: Good Times(Sam Cooke cover) Truckin'(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Smokestack Lightning(Howlin’ Wolf cover) (>) Deal(Jerry Garcia cover) Me and My Uncle(John Phillips cover) Dear Mr. Fantasy(Traffic cover) (>) Hey Jude(The Beatles cover) (coda only) (>) Terrapin Station(Grateful Dead cover) Don't Ease Me In(Henry Thomas cover) Set 2: Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) (>) St. Stephen(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Milestones(Miles Davis cover) (>) Days Between(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sugar Magnolia(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sunshine Daydream(Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover)
Set 1: Feel Like a Stranger(Grateful Dead cover) Brown-Eyed Women(Grateful Dead cover) Samson and Delilah([traditional] cover) Friend of the Devil(Grateful Dead cover) It Hurts Me Too(Tampa Red cover) Ramble On Rose(Grateful Dead cover) High Time(Grateful Dead cover) Let It Grow(Grateful Dead cover) Set 2: They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) (1973 version) (>) China Cat Sunflower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider([traditional] cover) Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) (Mickey Hart raps verse 3) (>) The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Eleven(Grateful Dead cover) (>) U.S. Blues(Grateful Dead cover) Morning Dew(Bonnie Dobson cover) Encore: Ripple(Grateful Dead cover)
Set 1: Bertha(Grateful Dead cover) New Speedway Boogie(Grateful Dead cover) Cold Rain and Snow(Obray Ramsey cover) Jack Straw(Grateful Dead cover) Althea(Grateful Dead cover) Playing in the Band(Bob Weir song) (Followed by weather delay) Set 2: Uncle John's Band(Grateful Dead cover) (Preceded by 'Playing in the Band' continuation) Help on the Way(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot!(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Franklin's Tower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) He's Gone(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 2) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Standing on the Moon(Grateful Dead cover) (>) All Along the Watchtower(Bob Dylan cover) (with Dave Matthews) (Dave on acoustic) (>) Not Fade Away(The Crickets cover) (with Dave Matthews) (Dave on acoustic) E: Knockin' on Heaven's Door(Bob Dylan cover) (with Dave Matthews) (Dave on acoustic) The Weight(The Band cover) (with Dave Matthews) (Dave on acoustic)
Set 1 The Music Never Stopped(Grateful Dead cover) Alabama Getaway(Grateful Dead cover) When I Paint My Masterpiece(Bob Dylan cover) Mr. Charlie(Grateful Dead cover) Tennessee Jed(Grateful Dead cover) Dire Wolf(Grateful Dead cover) Bird Song(Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Big Railroad Blues(Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover) Set 2: Sugaree(Jerry Garcia cover) Estimated Prophet(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Viola Lee Blues(Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover) (>) Dark Star(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (with 'New York State of Mind' tease) (>) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Black Peter(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Casey Jones(Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Black Muddy River(Grateful Dead cover)