Grateful Dead documentary produced by Scorsese

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  1. Jerry Horne

    Jerry Horne WYWH (1975-2025) Thread Starter

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  2. hbbfam

    hbbfam Forum Resident

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    You know this is going to be well done.
     
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  3. malcolm reynolds

    malcolm reynolds Handsome, Humble, Genius

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    Can't wait. I just recently got in the Dead and while I enjoy the music I know absolutely nothing about them. I don't even know who sings and plays what on the songs.
     
  4. O Don Piano

    O Don Piano Senior Member

    So Far (pun fully intended), the best Dead doc is the Anthem To Beauty DVD.
    I'd like to see an all-career project like that. Beatles Anthology style.
    I'm a little skeptical about any Dead documentary by a non-insider or someone who isn't a Deadhead. It's hard to capture or describe them from an outside viewpoint. I just hope it's not all 'drugs and personal destruction', with little musical and cultural examples of what makes us love them so much.
     
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  5. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    Even though drugs did harm to the band (well, maybe LSD helped, but that's impossible to prove), Grateful Dead was not the typical decadent-and-glamurous-sex-drugs-and-rock-n'-roll-band at all. Furthermore, internal battles were not explosive or public enough to make a documentary about scandals. If you want to talk about the Dead, music should be the main focus. Of course, the "Dead scene" (deadheads, concertgoers folklore, etc.) will ocuppy large chunks of the feature.
     
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  6. O Don Piano

    O Don Piano Senior Member

    I'm totally with you on that. I am a Dead fanatic with 60-70 shows under my belt! I still carry my experiences with them frequently.
    It's just that outside perceptions lean toward drug and lifestyle speculations instead of the music and I hope this doc will steer clear of it. Of course that was part of the experience- it shouldn't be ignored- but let's hope one goes away uplifted by their music and their contribution to culture.
     
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  7. The Panda

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    If they give the Pigpen years short shrift, then it loses all credibility with ,me.
     
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  8. thedudeabidz

    thedudeabidz Stepping sharply from the rank and file

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    They could involve every expert on the band and it would still piss some Deadheads off. There are few bands with fans so critical. And I oughta know because I'm one of them.
     
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  9. Hagstrom

    Hagstrom Please stop calling them vinyls.

    Scorsese really likes to make documentaries about rock bands and rock stars.
     
  10. Claxton

    Claxton I like chicks and cars and partyin’ hard

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  11. Abbey Road

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    I was really disappointed in his George Harrison movie. Way too much time spent on The Beatles which, in addition to being well known, only accounts for 10 years of his life. I would have preferred it to give maybe a 1/2 hour to his time in The Beatles, and focus on the George when he was out of the public spotlight. Also thought his Dylan movie was just okay (and also think it's responsible for the least interesting of The Bootleg Series releases, but that's another story).

    But I love The Last Waltz and Shine a Light. I guess I like him better when filming concerts, than documentaries.
     
  12. Complier

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    Any word if this is still happening?
     
  13. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    I hope it does!
     
  14. Complier

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    I'm starting to think this isn't happening
     
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  15. Dennis0675

    Dennis0675 Hyperactive!

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    I kind of hope it doesn't happen. If the focus is on the musical output and how it came to be, it will be hard to sell. That means the focus will be on dope and dysfunction surrounding the members of the band and the concert goers. That seems to be the main story in the past 20 years and I don't care to hear it again. It's better to just listen to the music than lift the veil on the rest of it.
     
  16. mdphunk

    mdphunk Sharing in the groove

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  17. Kevin55

    Kevin55 Forum Resident

    It's premiering at Sundance Film Festival in January 2017:

    Running from January 19-29 in Park City, Salt Lake City and at the Sundance Mountain Resort, the Robert Redford-founded fest today added the world premieres of American documentaries Bending the Arc and the Grateful Dead-spotlighting Long Strange Trip to its lineup.

    Long Strange Trip / U.S.A. (Director: Amir Bar-Lev) — 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. World Premiere
     
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  18. ceddy10165

    ceddy10165 My life was saved by rock n roll

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    It's going to be a very tough story to get right in the confines of a 2 hour film. My favorite archival oriented Dead videos to date are Backstage Pass and Anthem to Beauty. I'd have to be honest and say I have high hopes and low expectations. That said, I hope it's great - they deserve it.
     
  19. hbbfam

    hbbfam Forum Resident

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    So we have perhaps a 4 hour mini-series, and/or a 2 hr documentary???
     
  20. EProphet

    EProphet Forum Resident

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    If I watch this documentary and find that Joe Pesci cut off Jerry's finger and Robert DeNiro wrapped a phone cord around Brent's neck, we're gonna have a problem
     
  21. Complier

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    So it's now a 2 hour movie. This will provide no new details most Deadheads haven't already known.
     
  22. Ghostworld

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    The Bob Weir documentary on Netflix now "The Other One" was so boring we could use an interesting one.
     
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  23. mdphunk

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  24. Geithals

    Geithals Forum Resident

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    It sorta fits that a definitive documentary on the Grateful Dead would be verging on 4 hours long, though my kind of an engaging Grateful Dead documentary is a video recording of a live concert :)
    Having said that, i'll look forward to this one, Scorcese's No Direction Home imo was an outstanding documentary, an all time great.
     
  25. hbbfam

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    So they expect a big turn out for a 4 hour documentary? Hopefully, this will be available on BR or aired somewhere. I don't have the attention span to sit that long.
     
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