Not Fade Away: A Celebration of the Grateful Dead Legacy | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Almost 30 years since the death of Jerry Garcia and disbandment of the Grateful Dead, the culture they created is bigger | dG1fWjBUZGxxSnQ4OEk

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00:00What is the dead or who are the dead for me?

00:03They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do.

00:07People are not going to stop needing this music.

00:09There's a lot of people that want to hear this music live,

00:12they want to hear it go on, they want to hear it live forever.

00:15There's so many ways that the Grateful Dead paths that the music has pushed people in.

00:22Everybody's got their own little subculture, their own niche.

00:25The songs of Garcia and Hunter, Weir and Barlow, that's the anchor.

00:30It's like the dead created open source music.

00:33Everybody says you can throw a stone, hit a Grateful Dead cover band.

00:36You could swing a stick and hit a Grateful Dead tribute band.

00:39Jerry's friendship with my father had a profound impact and showed me how much fun music could be

00:46and they were such an amazing teaching force.

00:50A lot of people haven't heard the Grateful Dead before,

00:52but now that was really interesting and they're into it.

00:56And that's kind of an amazing thing to be having them torch for a moment

01:00and be able to pass it to people.

01:02Anthony, he's the type of person that he'll call you up and he'll say,

01:06I want to rebuild the wall of sound.

01:08Nine speakers on the bottom, nine on the top, and the same on the other side.

01:12So Phil could use his quad bass and send each string to its own nine speakers if he wanted to.

01:18Shakedown Street has been a wonderful place for the community to gather.

01:23It was this free market thing there.

01:25Everybody was out selling their merchandise, whether it was t-shirts or sandwiches.

01:29They'd stitch up a pair of beaded earrings and walk around and say,

01:33who wants to buy earrings? $10, because the ticket was $9.

01:38And they'd sell one pair of earrings, have enough money to buy a ticket and get into the show.

01:41People were so eclectic and so different and there was so much to see.

01:46It was like, oh, what magical fairy tale is this?

01:49My first Grateful Dead concert I ever attended,

01:52wandered around Shakedown Street the entire night, never went into the show.

01:56Just hung out in Shakedown Street and had the time of my life.

01:59You know, getting to see everybody from show to show, helping each other out.

02:02Shakedown's the last American freedom.

02:05The place where you can set up yourself, do your own thing, be your own person.

02:10The Deadhead is that person, wherever they turn up in society,

02:13that's looking for an adventure in America.

02:15It's a very American thing of the past that I don't feel like we have much anymore.

02:21You had this extended family everywhere you went.

02:24All the friends that we have met at shows, they've become lifelong friends.

02:29The idea of the Grateful Dead is an idea of acceptance.

02:31It doesn't matter whether you are a person selling T-shirts on the lot for a living or you're a bond trader.

02:38Everybody believes in this little bit of magic that the Grateful Dead created.

02:43I think you need that live experience even more.

02:45That real world, like, wow.

02:47More because we're all day like this.

02:50And that probably is even more of a need for that than when the dead were here.

02:54But I think that this community is special because it's carried on for 50 years.

02:58This has just been the grandest adventure that any individual can ask for.

03:04And they will not fade away, you can count on it.

03:13The Grateful Dead

Not Fade Away: A Celebration of the Grateful Dead Legacy | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer

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