04-08-2013, 09:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2013, 03:15 AM by Keith Millea.)
Just a brief review:
A nice daydream....My ex-wife (she was actually at the concert),youngest son,and I made it to the show.I still had one extra ticket and like any dedicated deadhead,gave it away to someone.I need all the good Karma I can get.
The remastered movie is not the same as the bootleg version.There is new footage added,which all seems to come from Ken Kesey's Documentary " Magic Trip..Ken Kesey looks for a Kool place".This is just added filler because I think they just didn't have enough good quality film to work with.The movie has been remastered in Hi Definition and it looks much better than the old bootleg,but there is still a lot of graininess in some of the film.I think there was too much deterioration of the film stock.The sound was excellent.
This is a great concert film and it ranks up there with the best from the Grateful Dead.Most Grateful Dead concert Videos come from the late eighties-early nineties,and while technically superior,they lack that early "magical" feeling that was evident in the 60's and 70's.
If I had a choice of watching just one Grateful Dead concert video,that one would no doubt be "The Grateful Dead Movie".This is an October 1974 concert in San Francisco at Winterland.Check it out sometime:
http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-Movi...Dead+movie
Oh,and my wife recognized the woman dancing at 4:15 in the trailer as one of her friends that went with her to the concert.Hey Now.....
A nice daydream....My ex-wife (she was actually at the concert),youngest son,and I made it to the show.I still had one extra ticket and like any dedicated deadhead,gave it away to someone.I need all the good Karma I can get.
The remastered movie is not the same as the bootleg version.There is new footage added,which all seems to come from Ken Kesey's Documentary " Magic Trip..Ken Kesey looks for a Kool place".This is just added filler because I think they just didn't have enough good quality film to work with.The movie has been remastered in Hi Definition and it looks much better than the old bootleg,but there is still a lot of graininess in some of the film.I think there was too much deterioration of the film stock.The sound was excellent.
This is a great concert film and it ranks up there with the best from the Grateful Dead.Most Grateful Dead concert Videos come from the late eighties-early nineties,and while technically superior,they lack that early "magical" feeling that was evident in the 60's and 70's.
If I had a choice of watching just one Grateful Dead concert video,that one would no doubt be "The Grateful Dead Movie".This is an October 1974 concert in San Francisco at Winterland.Check it out sometime:
http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-Movi...Dead+movie
Oh,and my wife recognized the woman dancing at 4:15 in the trailer as one of her friends that went with her to the concert.Hey Now.....
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