| Author | Message | ||
| flaxattack
Advanced Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 215 Registered: 4-2004 |
the sound is awesome and the second disc imho is better than the movie. its all concert and some great interviews | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 668 Registered: 9-2003 |
Awesome! Unfortunately, Big Brown informs me that my copy won't be arriving in Joisey until some time on this coming Tuesday. I guess I'll just have to wait. | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 670 Registered: 9-2003 |
Did anybody get the companion Dead Movie Soundtrack? It documents the almost the ENTIRE Winterland '74 run, including all the stuff thats NOT in the two-disc Movie set. I went for my lungs: I bought the movie, the movie soundtrack, the new cd set ("Beyond Description"), and the T-shirt, LOL! It's all coming on Tuesday. They're throwing in the 6"-long film print strip as well as a "thank you" for buying it direct from the Dead. | ||
| flaxattack
Advanced Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 217 Registered: 4-2004 |
i have most of those shows downloaded. you wont be dissapointed. didnt get the strip of film with mine- but i did not get mine direct from the dead. | ||
| hollis
Senior Member Username: hollis Post Number: 500 Registered: 11-2003 |
Mine came yesterday. Very cool. Man, this movie brought back memories from brain cells I thought were long since scorched..... | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 677 Registered: 9-2003 |
Got mine on Tues. but didn't have time to ck it out until yesterday. It brought back a lot of memories of Friday night Midnight Matinees at the Dunellen Theatre all highed-up back in the day. BTW, My film clip souvenir is a piece of sh*t: some guy in a Skull and Roses shirt. It was a nice gesture, but worth nothing in my opinion. I guess I'm just a sucker for GD's merchandising efforts. I don't feel too bad, though, about providing the "pension" for the Dead and all their heirs considering what they've given to all of us. Ck out the soundtrack release...well worth it as that was the 'farewelll run' so they pulled-out all the stops. | ||
| lbpesq
Intermediate Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 150 Registered: 7-2004 |
Kevin: That "guy in a Skull and Roses shirt" might have been me! I mean I was there. And there couldn't have been too many guys wearing S&R shirts, right? (LOL) Bill, tgo | ||
| flaxattack
Advanced Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 245 Registered: 4-2004 |
soory to hear that kev... i lucked out and bought mine on ebay for 20$ with shipping- no strip though and i could care less... but i loves disc 2!- i thinks it better than disc 1 | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 678 Registered: 9-2003 |
Bill: I didn't mean to insinuate that you or anyone else that might be depicted in my film strip is worthless, just the collector value of the film specimen itself. I guess everyone wasn't gonna get a shot of Jerry or the band so it's my misfortune to get what I got. No insult or sour grapes intended, just me venting. I'll have to look at it more closely..the guy has dark curly hair and a moustache and his S&R shirt is lightly colored...light blue, gray, beige, something like that. | ||
| lbpesq
Intermediate Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 152 Registered: 7-2004 |
Kevin: I was trying to make a joke. I really was there, though, for several of the shows that stand. I may have been wearing a S&R shirt, along with about a thousand guys each night that would fit that description. However, I'll bet pictures of me at a dead show are MUCH RARER than pictures of Jerry at a show! Want my autograph? Bill, tgo | ||
| flaxattack
Advanced Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 252 Registered: 4-2004 |
rarer than jerry remembering the words? | ||
| lbpesq
Intermediate Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 153 Registered: 7-2004 |
Hey, give credit where it is due: lots of guys can forget words, but Jerry had the rare talent to blow the lyrics while using a teleprompter! And I loved every minute of it! Bill, tgo (Message edited by lbpesq on November 15, 2004) | ||
| hollis
Senior Member Username: hollis Post Number: 514 Registered: 11-2003 |
True, but then again, he probably forgot more lyrics than I've ever remembered in my entire repertoire..... | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 679 Registered: 9-2003 |
Bill TGO: I realize you were joking, I just didn't want to insult anybody about my comments regarding the collectibility of my film shard. | ||
| the_mule
Advanced Member Username: the_mule Post Number: 334 Registered: 1-2004 |
Bought myself a copy of the Grateful Dead Movie and the Beyond Description boxset as an early Christmas present to myself on a record fair today! I will certainly be enjoying this almost-overdose of Dead delights until well after Christmas! Wilfred | ||
| jacko
Member Username: jacko Post Number: 52 Registered: 10-2002 |
Slightly off topic - I was at the Scottish HiFi show on Saturday and bought a brand new 180gm pressing of Live Dead. The sound quality is excellent - as you'd expect. Makes up for having to wait until next year for region 2 copies of the dead movie and festival express. I also picked up a mint condition copy of Graceland. Bhagiti Khumalos' fretless playing throughout this is stunning. Got JE Too late the hero on CD aswell graeme (Message edited by jacko on November 22, 2004) | ||
| the_mule
Advanced Member Username: the_mule Post Number: 340 Registered: 1-2004 |
I was watching the Grateful Dead Movie yesterday, and really enjoyed the first half hour in which the Wall of Sound is featured and the part where Phil Lesh's Alembic is opened up at the back, discussed and taken for a testdrive. Very impressive stuff! Wilfred | ||
| lbpesq
Intermediate Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 164 Registered: 7-2004 |
I watched the movie last night. It brought back a lot of memories. I hadn't seen the film in many years. Having been at, if I remember correctly, 4 of the 5 shows during the run, I remember thinking at the time that the Dead were not at their best. (This is essentially the consensus about these shows). I also remember not being very impressed with the film when it first came out. Well, I guess time has softened my impressions as I found the film very enjoyable last night. Of course being able to play along from the comfort of my living room may have had something to do with it. (This was something I was unable to do previously as I neither had a guitar with me at Winterland in '74, nor the necessary chops at the tender age of 19, and had previously seen the film in a theater, again sans guitar). One thing I noticed was that Jerry's Wolf guitar appeared to have a little stain making it a little more yellow/amber/orangish than the natural maple used on Further guitars. Looks very nice. I'm thinking I may want to have something like that done to my forthcoming custom Further. Bill, tgo | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 686 Registered: 9-2003 |
While they may not have been at their absolute best, they have been much worse, LOL! To me personally, the Pig Pen era was their finest hour. At the time of the movie, they were pretty much burned-out from ten years of grueling touring and were at odds with Mickey over financial issues. Keith was a decent (if inconsistent) player , but Donna was mostly caterwalling, LOL! Still, the relatively youthful Dead does a decent job, short-handed or not. Personally, I think the Dead made a good choice in replacing the Godchaux's with Brent Mydland..he sang better than Donna, could do a decent male lead voice and was a decent on the keys. The movie bonus disc stuff is particularly nice...with a promise of more things to come from Dead A/V Archivist David Lemieux. | ||
| flaxattack
Advanced Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 270 Registered: 4-2004 |
brent was awesome...it was straight downhill after he died- although the tours with hornsby were excellent- but i never cared for bozo the clown welnick donna should have shaved her upper lip.... keith- i remember watching him nod out during songs from the heroin | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 687 Registered: 9-2003 |
On the new bonus movie disc, I am particularly enamored with "The Other One" and "Weather Report Suite". With the latter, I can't get Weir's sublime "jazz" chord progression out of my mind (WRS intro). | ||
| jacko
Member Username: jacko Post Number: 60 Registered: 10-2002 |
Can anyone who has the movie confirm the region encoding. i've looked on tower.com and they have a statement saying it's region 1 but further down the page it says it's region 0 which I presume means it's region free. graeme | ||
| the_mule
Advanced Member Username: the_mule Post Number: 346 Registered: 1-2004 |
Mine's region free, and Amazon.com also lists it as 'all regions'. You can safely purchase this perfect set of classic Dead. Enjoy! Wilfred | ||
| jacko
Member Username: jacko Post Number: 61 Registered: 10-2002 |
Thanks wilfred - order going in as we speak. graeme |
