The Grateful Dead Then and Now Source Materials

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Here are the video selections I play in the presentation  Many are available on YouTube.  Other resources can be borrowed from the SF Public Library and other local libraries.

Videos

  1. “Jerry Garcia/Joe Smith on The Acid Tests”, 1988, Blank on Blank series from PBS Digital Studios.

  2. “The Hippie Temptation”, 1967, CBS News Documentary.

  3. “Bird Song”, 1972, Veneta OR (Old Renaissance Faire).

  4. Bill Graham remarks and “Casey Jones”, 1971, Last Days of the Fillmore documentary.

  5. “Terrapin Station”, 1990, View from the Vault III (Shoreline Amphitheatre).

  6. “U.S. Blues”, 1977, The Grateful Dead Movie.

Books

Browne, David, So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead, De Capo Press, 2015.  
D’Alessandro, Jill and Colleen Terry. Summer of Love: art, fashion and rock and roll, University of California Press and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017.   
McNally, Dennis A Long Strange Trip, Three Rivers Press, 2003.
Selvin, Joe. The Haight: Love, Rock and Revolution, Insight Editions, 2014.
Unterberger, Richie, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, Backbeat Books, 2003. (Learn more about Richie’s books, classes and presentations)
(Multiple Authors), Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip, DK Books, 2003. 

Other resources

Dead & Company – Facebook Group (request membership to join).
Relisten App – Apple iPhone app. Allows streaming of thousands of live GD performances.
Various artists, Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, Rhino Records, 2007. (Beautifully packaged collection with 4 CD discs.)

Films

Long Strange Trip, 2017.
Closing of Winterland, 2013.
Last Days of the Fillmore, 2008.
View from the Vault III, 2002.
View from the Vault IV, 2002.
The Grateful Dead Movie, 1977, Directed by Jerry Garcia (at great personal cost).

Photography

The presentation includes photographs by Herb Greene and Jim Marshall.