25th Anniversary of "Deadheads" Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- A Tye Dye Movie By Brain O'Donnell Starring Actual "Deadheads" "Not The Way The Press Portrays Us"
Covering 10 years, this 60 minute art documentary takes an inside look at the artisans, magicians, musicians, and lunatics that make up this cult of devotees, deadicated to a band that originated in 1965. Why these fans leave their schools, families and jobs to be part of these ritualistic tribal celebrations of dance, drugs and community, is a 20th century American cultural phenomenon captured here in this time capsuled video tape.
Rated | G | Grateful Audiences
This is the best Grateful Head documentary yet! Master editing. It takes us from the street, with a gatekeeper of wisdom, to the Dead Lot, to the show. It's just like being there again. Walking through the perimeter of guitarists and vendors, to then enter the drum circle. Which then leads past more vendors and, finally, to the band itself. Recognizing people from the '89 tour is a heartfelt bonus. Especially the piano player, Johnny, at ~54:00. I would listen to and watch him play hundreds of times at the Pike Street Market, where I was vending apples and almonds for a few years.
I love watching and listening to people play music. Even if the guitar is out of tune, or they aren't great, it's still nice to see. Most of these musicians are playing from the heart and it shows.
Can't believe I made it in this video.
I was watching and then I was like Holy shit that's me. Toured 88-90.
Will never forget those 2 years.
So......if you didn't see yourself in the video you weren't there, right?
I toured from 1984-1989. I was a magical time to me 19 years old. I so wish I could bring those years back.
'83 to '91 for me. 25 when I started.
What a Ride!!
🐒 you stayed nineteen for five years ?
Nah bro
He’s clearly not human.
It says “I was a magical time”
85 to 90 was like my tour years the crowd really changed after like 89 I still went to shows if they were like a few hours away. Still miss it best time of my life
@@checkpointchecky9665 1972 - 1993.
Thanks for taking me back to a time when we were all so beautiful, young and carefree! 💜💚💙
We were all so beautiful, young and carefree! "I need a miracle - in other words a free ticket for the show man. I'll be your best friend man....and after the show I'll also need a ride back to my tent with my old lady and the rest of my best friends too man, yeah and you got any spare change?"
I was blessed to have gone to over 200 shows before Jerry went home with Jesus. Love is real and not fade away!
I love this SO MUCH, it encapsulated so much of the jovial gypsy spirit of the nomadic tribal bohemians that were the cultural phenomenon that is everything that The Grateful Dead symbolized and that which it was born from. I just love the energy that this documentary exhibits, with it's soundtrack consisting pretty much of "music from The Lot". And all it's weird and magical majesty!
Shut the hell up
This is amazing. I never went to a show, but my older brother followed The Dead all over the country for years. Actually, he's the guy singing in the Porta Potty! He ended up being a really good musician and we play in a band together.
Joe?
@@timo-68 Yes! That's Joe. th-cam.com/video/w_Fsl_iJuNc/w-d-xo.html
Just found this! I was at the show in St. Pete and believe I made it into your film. Spotted myself. 😜
What time line are you on the video. That good stuff!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Seen fast Eddy
You follow Ben Shapiro, no one cares.
@@Rountree1985 and Bill Maher but hey, glad nobody cares.
Forever💀⚘⚡❤⚡⚘💀Grateful
thank you for all did to document the scene, the people, the music.
Freak Freely my friends. ❤ you all.
Aww, THANK YOU for capturing this precious, magical moment in time ❤️ I WAS THERE!!!!!! 😊 Miss the good times!
thanks for posting this ..... first saw the Dead out in Sultan in 68 ....never got to scratch that itch enough...there is nothing like a Dead concert......the party out in the lot was fantastic ....my thanks to every traveler on that journey....we had us a real good time....
Nice Documentary ..brings back all sorts of fond memories.
Wife ,Daughter and I toured for 7 straight years selling our art on tour
In 1991 in Soldier Field a girl gave me a sticker that said; FIND WHAT YOU LOVE, LOVE WHAT YOU FIND by these guys in Arizona that called themselves INFAMOUS ILLUSTRIOUS so I wrote them for their catalog a sold their stuff & my stuff on stickers to help support our parking lot & Gr8ful Dead Concert going excursions & had a great pen freind, named Jeff, for a minute & our letters, w/ every order I made were so inspirational I remember Jeff, from INFAMOUS ILLUSTRIOUS designed his catalog cover to celebrate some lryics from a Bob Dylan song we had discussed in one of our letters. So I am not totally unemployed as a part time sticker vendor & I thank God for showing me the subculture w/ in the Gr8ful Dead Parking Lot scenes!!!!
That was Awesome brought back so many memories....nothing left to do but smile smile smile
I only saw the dead 1x, and it at deercreek, and I will never forget it. Smoked pot and hash up in the lawn, dropped one hit of blotter, then 45 min later, wandered back down towards my friend and his mom. Kind of hard to turn down acid from a really beautiful dead head girl, and she went to Carmel High School! I miss you Michelle!!! We had just finished our Sophmore year in HS..:-)
Watching films like this makes me want to cry for two reasons: firstly because they give me so much faith in humanity that I don't see in my everyday life. second because I wish I could've been there more than anything!
Same. It’s beautiful. At least it’s preserved digitally for us.
thank you Brian. This is so wonderful. not many cameras around 85`-89 I remember in the parking lot at Buffalo ` 87 or `88 someone pulled out a camera and people freaked out. putting their hands in front of their faces - yelling `dont do that man...` some of them probably needed anonymity. there always rumors going around the feds were undercover as deadheads taking pictures. could be true who knows. could you imagine now hahah. so glad there were people like you.
Thank you Brian for even back then seeing the vision to capture this culture and the band that fueled the fire! Forever grateful for this film, a real masterpeace ✌
Thank you, Brian. That was a fun trip down memory lane.
This is both beautiful to see and brings back so many great lot memories but also kinda sad and a little hard to watch since there won't be any concerts this year and I'm esp bummed that I won't be seeing Dead and co on Jerry's birthday at MetLife stadium 💔 hope and pray we're able to gather together, hug and kiss, play, puff and pass, and do all the fun things us Heads love to do next year 🙏✌️💜🎶🎵💃🕺🍄🌹💀
I'm actually scared one of them will pass on b4....
Captured the poetic rough magic of the Dead scene, thanks for posting, Freaks Unite
Miss these days
I just have to watch this before I leave to work in 2020 ina pandemic to get my head right 🥺
I was at a show at Farris state college middle of winter 87 while Uncle Jerry was center stage I saw the man shrink to two foot tall and then pop back to normal height. True story Man!
Some high energy people have that happen to them when their energy gets too intense. It happened to Bukowski and one of his friends witnessed it.
It also happened to soda popinski when he invested to many ass crack oreos! True story !
....must of been pretty good shit!
Good L back then
@@jm-rf7klI have heard bob marley or Peter tosh tell a story about a two foot jah that saved them from a traffic stop hit job
St. Pete 1988 (shown near the beginning) was one of my best GD experiences. The city cleared several blocks for us to camp. The first game of the world series was played over the PA during intermission and they messed with us by mixing in a little "Who's on first" from the Abbott & Costello routine.
Probably commented to death, but..."What a long, strange trip it's been."
Great video, important documentary.
The good ol days before the world went to shit..
The world is fine
With love everything is fine ♥️
@@robpivcevich6793 amen rob
Just wait till 2020. Things will get better then ;)
Daveyboy was a straight prophet 😂
Thank you for taking me back to my teens and 20s. 😊😊😊😊
Very well put together video man! I loved it!
The guy talking at the very beginning at 1:00 is my pal Mikey Law. A great brother who sadly passed just last year with his wife Vicky.
This is incredible. Thank you for documenting the experience
Was on a portion of the 88' Fall tour, Miami, St Pete, New Orleans. Great job putting this together, thanks
Loved that tour, New Orleans with wall to wall deadheads was epic
I have a VHS copy of this sitting 5 feet away from me. I tried to copy it to DVD for the time when there were no more VHS players, but it was encoded with Macrovision copy protection . Glad to see someone has uploaded a nice quality dub!
I still have a ancient VHS video so I can watch the old Kesey tapes.
before we head out on summer tour, let me grab my piano.
it felt like this would last forever but it already sucked by 94..this was so well done I feel like Im dosing again.
I don't think it ever really died though. FTW and DAC proved that. The fact that almost 30 years after what you see here, people still care, is an incredible testament to music.
You sucked by 94 maybe
Ah, jeez. "Already sucked by 94"? How can anyone say that? I now regret having passed up going to any of their New Year's performances at the Oakland Coliseum. And I did so two or three times from about '85 to '95, "because I was too tired." And then there was Wednesday, August 9, 1995, and it would never really happen again.
(FWIW, the Oakland Coliseum on New Year's evening was a show where anyone could get a ticket even after they started playing!)
@@derekjennings4889 you blew me
This is a very well put together documentary. 👏👏👏👏👏
ahh yes pre internet pre rap no cell phones handmade crafts when people were real & genuine may jerry shine through all of us
You're dumb
Jerry was the second coming of christ, change my mind 🙏
@@donvargo9624 😈👿😈👿😈👿
so sweet. wish it was still like this... u dont even hear drum circles anymore. scene got grimy. sad..
The thing about most drum circles is they really sucked. Too many people just banging out something. I get the communal part, the participation part, But if 3 guys were standing around playing guitars, 10 people who dont know how to play guitar wont come up and start playing. Sometime the circles could work, others were abysmal. true the scene got grimy. Dead Company scene is good
Omg. Is that true? That can’t be.
@@photoslum couldn't agree more. i grew to loathe drum circles. so much self-indulgement wankery. i can't even tell you how many times i dragged a friend away from one after two or three fucking hours just for them to say something like "man i was leading the circle! they were all following me! did you hear that one part where i...." no you weren't. no, they weren't. yea i'm sure i heard it but IT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME.
it sometimes sucked being the responsible one out of our group of friends. maybe if i took four hits like they did i would have enjoyed the circles more but oh well. people aren't dead because of me, so i guess things worked out.
I was just born the year he died and man I wish I woulda been able to see them live :( this is the kinda of vibe I need
i got on the bus in Philly, 1982, 155 shows up to Tampa 1995, including Vegas and Orlando-Miami 1994. By the 90's the scene was corrupted and there were alot of runaways, and hard drug users. RIP Jerry I love you🙏🙏🙏🙏
Jerry was a heroin addict
I started in 88 as camping was ending and all the way to chicogo in 95, then onward in 97 when phil kicked up again. Onward we go still in some form or another. Till the begining of time its self comes tumbiling from the walls "what a long strange trip".. it is was and will always be... ONWARD WE GO!!! See you there! dead and co, 2021
Some of this was filmed in Philly in September 1988 I was at the September shows for that weekend and we camped in JFK Park across the street. This is great that I get to see it again.
I really, really miss this!
WELCOME HOME!!!
✌️
Thank you for posting!!! Edit: lost count of the Berthas. 4 knights at The Spectrum. Beautiful.
34 minute mark. Guy playing a white Kramer Ferrington, his name is Keith and he became a pretty good pal. Last time I saw him was in Tampa 95. Anybody knows this cat, tell him the guy from Chicago who gave him the Mexican Chess Set, would like to contact him.
That's me sitting next to him in the brown flannel. This was in '88 don't remember where, lol. Haven't see Keith since '90.
Stone mountain Georgia spring 95 was my favorite party after the Atlanta shows. Definitely worth the trouble i got in after I made my way back home. Was only 17, so after 3weeks my parents reported me missing
I grew up in Stone Mountain. Went to Pine Ridge Elementary. The 3/22/93 Omni show was my first; I was 13. Saw 3/26 and 3/27 Omni shows in 95' (Sugaree!) and I have to concur with your comment. There was always so much energy at those Omni shows from 90'-95'. Take care..
I was at the Omni shows , always had a real good time ✌🏽✌🏽🥀🥀⚡️💫💃🏽💃🏽
Six of my friends and I drove down for the Atlanta Omni shows spring tour 94 from Philly. We stayed at Stone Mountain Campground and partied with this guy named Shorty who was running all over the campground.😂🎉
The deadhead scene had a big influence upon me. Guys about 7 to 5 years older than me, were going to every show, occasionally takin their little brothers (my grade 10/11 classmates :). I had to wait till 18 years.
Why?
Remarkable how how there are virtually no tattoos, on guys and especially the women, and absolutely ZERO cell phones. What a time to be alive!
There a tattoo 2 mins into the video bruh
@@TheRealDoodzno face tattoos though
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago...
Those two dudes absolutely killed that Jack Straw! 39:35 - 44:05
Ya & that dude on the piano at the end gave me chills!!!
Tim orbit -
That piano dude is legendary Pike Place Market busker Jonny Hahn. He’s been rolling out his 64-key piano at the waterfront Seattle market for nearly 34 years now. As sweet as he is talented.
@@JJStetson Wow thanx. I gotta check the Northwest while it's nice out.
yes! I wonder of they played or play in bands?
It was nice to see INDRA with his silver flute playing.... Life it used to pass me bye like white lines on the road, but now I know it was all so that I could GROW.......
Will there ever be concerts again?? 1977-1995 best years of my life!
84-95 for me! I feel blessed to have been able to experience this but I feel sorry for the youth today...they will never know what they missed!
"someday this aint gonna be here but we will have the videos and the kids will be doin their thing" some accurate forsight there dude lol
I'm 36 I've been a big fan since i was 6(not sure if i can call myself a Deadhead as that era was mostly gone by time i was old enough to attend a show but except for the travel i consider myself a Deadhead) all you guys and girls that experienced this period, i envy u..i think i was born 25 yrs too late
trust me it is romanticized for self serving street cred points. especially by this point. The gatekeeping and pressure to conform to a group think is worse the the punk scene.
@@childrenoftheabzu yeah I've heard similar thoughts from my dad who was apart of that scene
@@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617 But dont get me wrong either, there was beauty and a lot of good times too. The band were def completely anarchist. Its just what people projected onto the band and scene I guess. Just dont feel like you issed this great thing because people need you to feel that way for self validation if that makes sense at all.
@@childrenoftheabzu nah man me feeling that way has nothin to do with how other feel or somethin like me tryna fit in..that would never be me...I'm mainly basing it on a few experiences i had with my pa before Jerry passed away and stories from him about his experiences
Everyone is so free and happy lovely to see 😊
Nice thanks for doing this...
Man the good old days ! I wish things were still like this. Dead and Co last summer tour this next yr 2023😢. NFA 💃🏽🥀⚡️⚡️💫
With our loss of love we lose our bonds with the beauty around us and as long as we stay on this narrow path we will eventually lose all humanity eventually turning back into animals who fight for everything... wake up, look at the happiness of these times then you'll realize you aren't happy at all your just trying to survive in a vile society... Let's go back to when life made sence!!!
My first Dead show ben going strong ever since 168 dead shows later and 46 JGB shows under my belt OG missn the fam!!! But miss Jerry more.
I was a bit young so I didn’t get on the bus until 92 but wow what a ride. I know people say I didn’t get to see the Dead in their prime and I agree but the 26 times I saw them which 20 or those were in 95 but they all meant the world to me and Dayz Between is as good of a song that Hunter and Garcia wrote in my opinion. I love all their music. Blessed to have seen what I saw.
*thank you for doing this youve saved it for future generations yes*
uh the generation there is viewing their generation´s videos
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@@hjillumi880we are viewing them view their generations videos
it's impossible to say which is the best. you are surrounded in sunshine. luv as always
Cool variety of the deadhead culture. Thanks for sharing⚡️🦋🌸✌️
That version of Friend of the Devil Midway through with the fiddle and all that was sick
4:38 love the tie dye version of really have to move
I discovered GD 80s . It’s not a regular show . More like a circus 🎪 in town . But the energy and vibe keeps me going back to see the Dead 💀
Nothing like this will ever be replicated. That certain generation got to reel in all the good years, and we’re left with all the footage. Only thing us young folk have over these original deadheads is time.
Thanks for this, it was awesome. Peace.
Brian, please release this on DVD if possible! My VHS copy from probably 20+ years ago won't last forever!! I think Heads would love to have this in order to reminisce. My 1st show was 7/4/89 in Buffalo. We parked in a neighbor's backyard across from Rich Stadium. Then my life changed!!!
Mine was same place,same date,but 3 years before with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty/Heartbreakers for just another 4th of July...hard to believe it was 31 years ago.I was 17 and on a bus from Toronto,Canada with 14$Can and a half ounce of black hash which I was able to trade for everything I needed.I ended up meeting my first love on the bus ride home...I`m still friends with her...maybe someday she will come out west,but we will always have Buffalo in 1986 when Liberty Saluted the Dead...Seen a few other shows,but that one was my first and favorite show of all time.
Karl Wester fucking sweet story !
That was great! Good times. Thanks
I think the audio from the drum circle during the opening credits is from rfk under the bridges
I wish this could be revived. The music, the lifestyle, the adventure of it all. Sure the 21st century electronic scene has been a good run but it never held a candle to this. Can only hope after the virus ends a new wave will hit. Some of us didn't make it in time for the show.
is this a documentary about how many times bertha gets played on lot?
I was thinking the same thing 😆
Haha!
even as a kid on tour i could never get so many people in front of a camera..!
the Force is strong with this one.
Man, there is nothing like this. So thankful I found a scene in Ohio like this. Look up Coyote Grove northwest Ohio. There is so much love and healing to be found. I'll always feed a starving hippie lol.
Those people were experience music beyond they're time
Takes me back to when the wooks were thick as thieves.
Still watch my VHS copy of this.
Such a unique intro thus I knew this video was the shit I needed to be watching Xxx
It's june 2021 it's the first time i am seeing this. Deadhead its in my dna born 67 sf first show Park West Ut 83 last show Las Vegas 95 Jerry passed onward I went for a walk about discovered everything and nothing...until Dead and Co slc ut 2017
Pandemic is almost over if you got a shot. Time to dance the dance of life like only deadheads can!
Awesome film! If anyone knows the date/venue of that Fire on the Mountain at 22:30 I'd love to find out!
14:20 That guy is a good singer.
that girl dancing to him is really hot too!
That's Racoon. He was incredible. RIP
I'm 57, I was there from the early 80s on, super crazy , very intense stuff
I just started going back in time and trying to remember what true freedom was like before life got hectic w wife,kids,business, etc. (Love my wife and kids)I only got to see em around a dozen times. All I can say is how thankful I am to witness that circus.watching the energy flow out of everyone at rfk 93 and called althea down on the field with a dude and his girlfriend from Maryland that smoked me out w some strait out sk1. Hopefully them Maryland folks remember that too. Thanks boys for the one and only experiences that the luckiest humans on earth got to witness. Still a hippie Gipsy at heart. Forever stamped
this is like watching home movies farout man
Got locked up and institutionalized after Albany 95, at least i was able to experience tje real dead, jerry died while I was in a rehab for bad kids during august 95
I was in a Juvie facility with a Deadhead. Roommate. Name was Rob . Artist, tye dyed, tall bearded hippie kid. Had Doobie's in his colored pencils case! Lol. NFI North, Jefferson NH 92 or 93. It was a "shelter" for kids in between court placements. Wouldnt have been so rough if any of us knew what was going on or what was going to happen to us. I smile so I guess it was cool. God bless deadheads with dope hidden in their art supplies!
so nice to see ...no cell phones !!!
Godamn were we ugly back then.
lol way better than now
Peace... @ 27:41, is that Mikio Kennedy?..
- Some of the best tie dye art right there.
I love the smell of a Grateful Dead parking lot .. even better inside the show but either side youre on its all groovy
The best burrito I ever had in my entire life was from a deadhead burrito stand in Buckeye Lake Ohio 1994! Or was it 95? One of them. Whenever I saw them in a big city all you had to do was follow the smell as soon as you came out of the subway!
The piano at the end sure did sound like a Slave to the Traffic Light solo!
Culturally generations change around every seven years or so. That would make most of the young people in this video third generation deadheads.
God, I haven't seen this in over 20 years
I saw a show in park City Utah, good dose, 1st song, super slow version of Friend, 1st thought that came to my tript mind was "cult"!
@@raygunner2437 old ippies never die, do they?...
@@raygunner2437 that would've been '83' for me, Gerry gone '87' non?
33:17 this guitar dude still rules. sounds like Royal Trux for reals. top shelf rock music.
The gentleman at the beginning is wise and speaks so eloquently.
Does anyone know who he is?
I only knew about Truckin and Touch of grey, in those years. But 4 years ago I rediscovered what the Grateful Dead really were through my manager recommending them to me. Which he is 6 years older than me. I love the Grateful dead now, their music is incredible! In 1988 I was a freshman in high school. I don't know why dead heads had a bad rap back then, our high school near Chicago did not really have too many people wearing tidi shirts
Dude did you record at a NYE show around this time? I swear I remember you talking to my husband and I, if not you it was someone else just like you :) My husband is deceased now, I'd love to show my kids a video of him on Dead Lot.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Missy. The kids enjoyed seeing their uncle being goofy as usual. 😁
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