LIVE STREAM: Skull & Roses Festival – Friday: Dark Star Orchestra, Pink Talking Fish, China Cats, Jackie Greene and more… The stream is courtesy of Fans.Live and Skull & Roses Festival
Tickets are still available, including single day tickets
– come to Ventura, the weather is great, and the music is GRATEFUL!
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Grateful Dead Press Conference
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 5th 1967 in San Francisco by Ben Williams, featuring a press conference by The Grateful Dead, who are objecting to marijuana drug laws (after their recent arrest for possession).
Danny Rifkin (the group’s co-manager) states that: “The real danger to society … comes from a law that is so seriously out of touch with reality.”
He goes on to claim that the media’s focus on the ‘hippie’ stereotype is encouraging police to discriminate against people identified as being part of the counter culture movement.
Ends with Rifkin dismissing the ‘hippie’ as: “A lie as well … Afraid of people who are exploring new ways of living freely, the larger society has classified … them into the myth of the hippie. The long haired drop-out who performs his rites for the convenience of visiting cameramen.”
Phil Lesh and Friends
Cris Jacobs, Jason Crosby, John Molo, Nicki Bluhm, Erik Krasno
Beach Road Weekend
Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Sunday August 11, 2019
Help on the Way CJ >
Slipknot >
Franklin’s Tower all
West LA EK
Deal NB
Scarlet Begonias EK/NB
Uncle John’s Band all
Stella Blue CJ
Shakedown Street CJ
Thanks to Jason Crosby for help on the way with the setlist!
Always Grateful!
DHL | (~);}
This poster known as “Trip or Freak”, was the collaboration of three of the Big Five Masters and most talented artists of back in the day – Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse. It is one of the most enduring images of the psychedelic poster era.
The central image is of Lon Chaney from the Phantom of the Opera (1925) and was Kelley’s contribution. The concert information lettering at the bottom was done by Griffin and the “Trip or Freak” lettering in the form of a topless woman was by Mouse.
The “Trip or Freak Fantasmagoraball” was held 50 years ago on Halloween in 1967 at the Winterland Arena. Winterland would later be renovated and used for hundreds of concerts throughout the 70’s, but for this concert it was still a dilapidated, run down place with a definite Halloween-like atmosphere. The popularity of this “Poster From The Past” has helped push the price of a top condition original piece to as much as the $5000 mark… or more. One reason this poster is as rare as it is is because hundreds of these posters were dipped in LSD and each head was one healthy hit, this poster was literally eaten off the planet, just sayin’!
Performing that evening were The Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company. This dance/concert lived up to the awesomeness of the poster. UNFORGETABLE! It was printed two times.
Approved by the Phantom….& Professor Poster
Audio
Track 01)Alligator->drums 11:56
Track 02)Caution//cut, 18:20
Track 03)Cryptical Envelopment->01:41
Track 04)The Other One-> 02:33
Track 05)Cryptical Reprize 10:41
Archive Note:
This is a fake version of this show comprised of material from November 10th and 11th, 1967
https://archive.org/details/gd1967-10-31.sbd.unclebarry-kikola.33933.flac16
Long Strange Trip returning to theaters this fall
October 13th – 19th in Los Angeles at the Fine Arts
November 3rd – 9th in New York at the Village East
(October 12, 2017) Amazon Studios will rerelease Long Strange Trip, Amir Bar-Lev’s critically acclaimed documentary about the Grateful Dead, in theaters on October 13th in Los Angeles and November 3rd in New York. The film has been nominated for two Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Best Director and Best Music Documentary.
The film has been screened at over 20 film festivals around the globe beginning with its premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and continues to be seen by fans worldwide through Amazon Prime.
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story) and executive produced by Martin Scorsese (No Direction Home: Bob Dylan), Long Strange Trip is the first full-length documentary to explore the fiercely independent vision, perpetual innovation, and uncompromising commitment to their audience that made the Bay Area band one of the most influential musical groups of their generation. Artfully assembling candid interviews with the band, road crew, family members and notable Deadheads, Bar-Lev reveals the untold history of The Dead and the freewheeling psychedelic subculture that sprouted up around it. The film also provides poignant insight into the psyche of late lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, whose disdain for authority clashed with his de facto leadership of the sprawling collective that kept the show on the road.
With a soundtrack that captures some of the band’s most dynamic live performances, as well as unguarded offstage moments and never-before-seen interviews, footage and photos, Long Strange Trip explores The Dead’s singular experiment in radically eclectic music making. Much more than the “behind the music” backstory of an exceptionally talented and beloved group of musicians, the film is at once an inspiring tale of unfettered artistic expression, a heartfelt American tragedy and an incisive history of the rise and fall of 20th-century counterculture.
The official soundtrack to Long Strange Trip, featuring rare and unreleased Grateful Dead recordings, was released by Rhino in conjunction with the documentary premiere and is available on Amazon Music.
Long Strange Trip is produced by Eric Eisner (Hamlet 2), Nick Koskoff (Bad Hurt), Justin Kreutzmann (The First Waltz), Ken Dornstein (My Brother’s Bomber) and Alex Blavatnik (For the Love of Spock). Long Strange Trip is executive produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff (The Wolf of Wall Street), Rick Yorn (The Wolf of Wall Street), Thomas J. Mangan IV (The Jack Bull), Alicia Sams (Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay), Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Andy Heller, and Sandy Heller. Long Strange Trip is co-executive produced by Trixie Garcia.
Run Time: 241 minutes
