Grateful Dead: View from the Vault III

Drop out of school to ride with the Merry Pranksters. Form America’s most enduring jam band. Become a family man and father. Never stop chasing the muse. Bob Weir took his own path to and through superstardom as rhythm guitarist for The Grateful Dead. Mike Fleiss re-imagines the whole wild journey in this magnetic rock doc and concert film, with memorable input from bandmates, contemporaries, followers, family, and, of course, the inimitable Bob Weir himself.

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.

This documentary explores the Deadhead phenomenon. For thirty years, Jerry Garcia played guitar and sang for the Grateful Dead, and by doing so, inspired a modern cultural phenomenon: the legions of nomadic fans that made a communal way of life out of following Jerry and the Dead, the Deadheads. The End of the Road began shooting three months prior to Garcia's death in 1995, on the road with the wandering family of Deadheads- on what would be the final tour with Jerry and the Grateful Dead. Featuring a soundtrack by Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia, the film celebrates this social, political and cultural movement in its twilight.

Jerry Garcia, legendary lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead and David Grisman, virtuoso mandolinist and founder of "Dawg" music… Now, for the first time ever, the musical matrimony and extraordinary friendship of Garcia and Grisman is traced in the award-winning documentary Grateful Dawg.

The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974.

Grateful Dead show on July 17, 1989 at Alpine Valley.

The Closing Of Winterland documents the Grateful Dead's landmark New Year's Eve 1978 concert that marked the end of the famed San Francisco Bay Area venue Winterland Aena. The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party (complete with breakfast with the audience at dawn) and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown.

Grateful Dead live concert footage from July 4, 1989. Set list includes: Set 1: Bertha-> The Greatest Story Ever Told Cold Rain And Snow Walkin' Blues Row Jimmy When I Paint My Masterpiece Stagger Lee Looks Like Rain-> Deal Set 2: Touch Of Grey-> Man Smart Woman Smarter Ship Of Fools-> Playin' In The Band Reprise-> Terrapin Station-> Drums-> I Will Take You Home-> All Along The Watchtower-> Morning Dew-> Not Fade Away Encore: U.S. Blues The Band: Jerry Garcia Mickey Hart Bill Kreutzmann Phil Lesh Brent Mydland Bob Weir

Ending months of speculation and anticipation surrounding the first Fare Thee Well -Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead concert, the “core four” remaining Grateful Dead members -drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, bassist Phil Lesh and guitarist Bob Weir -along with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti slowly eased into “Truckin’” to begin the show. The biographical lyrics to the song proved to be a fitting choice to start the anniversary celebration, with the famed “What a long strange trip it’s been” verse capturing the moment perfectly. Recorded at Levi's Stadium on June 27th and 28th, 2015.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, the "core four" original members - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir - reunited at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th and 5th for the most anticipated concerts in recent history. Joined by Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead is the original members' last-ever performance together nearly 20 years to the day of the last ever Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia, which took place at the same historic venue.

This project was done with humor, truth, and sarcasm. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, UCSC, where I went to college, there were many fans of The Grateful Dead. They called themselves Deadheads. I had not heard of the band before attending the school. I listened to the music, and I didn't understand why people felt so passionately about the band. I was intrigued. So in 1986, I decided to try and understand these people and the music they loved, and to create a video of my quest. This documentary project is the result. Enjoy.

Set 1: Good Times(Sam Cooke cover) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Deal(Jerry Garcia cover) Black-Throated Wind(Bob Weir song) Dire Wolf(Grateful Dead cover) Bird Song(Jerry Garcia cover) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover) Set 2: They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Terrapin Station(Grateful Dead cover) (>) He's Gone(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (> 'The Other One' verse 2 >) Days Between(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Turn On Your Love Light(Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) Encore: One More Saturday Night(Bob Weir song)

Set 1: Not Fade Away(The Crickets cover) (>) Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) Cold Rain and Snow(Obray Ramsey cover) Ramble On Rose(Grateful Dead cover) Brown-Eyed Women(Grateful Dead cover) New Speedway Boogie(Grateful Dead cover) Wharf Rat(Grateful Dead cover) Don't Ease Me In(Henry Thomas cover) Set 2: China Cat Sunflower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider([traditional] cover) (>) He's Gone(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (with a tease of the theme… more ) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (> “Dark Star on the Big… more ) Standing on the Moon(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Casey Jones(Grateful Dead cover) U.S. Blues(Grateful Dead cover) Knockin' on Heaven's Door(Bob Dylan cover)

Set 1: Bertha(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Good Lovin'(The Rascals cover) (>) Loser(Jerry Garcia cover) High Time(Grateful Dead cover) (Oteil vocals) Samson and Delilah([traditional] cover) Althea(Grateful Dead cover) Dear Mr. Fantasy(Traffic cover) (>) Hey Jude(The Beatles cover) (coda only) (>) Bird Song(Jerry Garcia cover) Set 2: Help on the Way(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot!(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Franklin's Tower(Grateful Dead cover) Estimated Prophet(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (with Oteil on banjo bass and… more ) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Days Between(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sugar Magnolia(Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Truckin'(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Brokedown Palace(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Not Fade Away(The Crickets cover) (Reprise from 7/14)

Set 1: Good Times(Sam Cooke cover) Truckin'(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Smokestack Lightning(Howlin’ Wolf cover) (>) Deal(Jerry Garcia cover) Me and My Uncle(John Phillips cover) Dear Mr. Fantasy(Traffic cover) (>) Hey Jude(The Beatles cover) (coda only) (>) Terrapin Station(Grateful Dead cover) Don't Ease Me In(Henry Thomas cover) Set 2: Eyes of the World(Grateful Dead cover) Shakedown Street(Grateful Dead cover) (>) St. Stephen(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Cumberland Blues(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Milestones(Miles Davis cover) (>) Days Between(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sugar Magnolia(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Sunshine Daydream(Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover)