DEADHEADS, a short and entertaining film about the fans of the Grateful Dead 

Just stay Grateful ✌🌍🎵 First show '69 (age 4) 296th and final show '93 (age 28) what a long ,strange and wonderfully beautiful trip it was. Thank you Mom

Best period in history to be young. We thought it would never end.

I haven't been to a dead show in almost thirty years and watching this, I CAN SMELL IT.

Im a young fan (20) and im absolutely in love with the band but I'm sad I can't ever see the full band play on stage ever. Much respect to yall!!!

God I miss this. So many memories. The kindness. The tolerance. The applause for thunder and rain. I carry this with me.

so glad i can say "been there, done that"....before it was over..

As a Canadian who travelled the west coast to see some shows in 83 this video reminds me that America once was truly the Land of the Free. It saddens me to see what it has become.

OH those were the days Right on! I was such a damn kid back then. I was 18 in 1985 first show in 1983. Fucking 52yr old now. What a long strange trip life has been..... Tear in my eye ... LIFE IS AMAZING Thanks for the most part my experiences with The Dead and my heart of gold family "the heads" Thank you all my love and light . Member of the heart of gold band. NOT FADE AWAY!

"The girls are the best and nicest looking and the happiest people you'll meet anywhere" . That's the secret of the scene- it makes women happy too xo

I must say, this was way more fun than what everybody is doing these days.

Dunno why everyone is acting like the "good days" are over. The band itself still plays and tours despite having new members, and let me tell you the scene and deadheads are still vibing strong. Newer generation, but a lot of old fans there to pass the torch and share good times with. Spent a month following the tour in my homie's van, you wouldn't believe how many like-minded free spiriters are still around. Just open your eyes and mind, the scene is still alive and well.

"when you can look around and see thousands of people and they are all hitting the down beat with you" ...said so so perfectly...

Once in a lifetime this will never happen again in this society

i miss the scene. nothing like a grateful dead show.

Hey! That's me! 1:27, 4:00, 8:58, 13:00, 14:35!! I'd love to connect with you others in the film, and the maker.

It sucked when the summer of 95 hit and I had to grow up, find a job and find a permanent place to live. Touring was a little slice of heaven on Earth. Miss you fat man. Edit... PS, thanks for this great documentary that let me relive the magic of the parking lots.

I wonder what happened to landless tipi guy at 4.30? I hope things worked out for him & that he found his little patch of happiness.Seemed like a nice guy just a little down on his luck.We've all been there at some point,eh?

We need this attitude of unity and respect for ourselves, the environment and humanity today more than ever.

I did about 30 shows from '74 to '85 and had some great adventures. I was notorious for getting inside late because the parking lot was such a blast! Thank you for sharing!

Partied with Jerry and Bob on the break between Rochester and Buffalo concerts. Phil disappeared with my date. I didn't care...Jerry was god!

People seemed so much more down to earth back then. Now everyone has this air of indifference about them. Wish I was older back then. I was born in 1984 so I was a little too late but this old footage is really great. Thanks.

bus came by and I got on.....thats where it all began

I came for the drugs, and stayed for the music.

From Brent and his end to Jerry and his, I was there. Now I look at current culture and I am away from people during this PANdemIC and I wondered, "Why don't I miss people?" It's because what I REALLY miss is when people used to be cool. I miss the culture the Dead was creating. Festival/Concerts aren't the same anymore. Social media and a culture where the trending "woke" drugs are pharmaceuticals have changed it all too much. It will never be like it was again and I for one am glad I got to attend the hundreds of shows, coast to coast that I attended and to have met the people I did. It was outstanding and the absolute best times of my life to date.

I love watching pre-show deadhead gatherings...it's like watching home movies of family reunions. We miss you Jerry! 🌹

I loved what the guy with the flowers was saying. So true. What an amazing thing. I’m getting chills just thinking of it.

Only been to a dozen shows. Wonderful vibes. Fantastic music. Always had a great time! Personally, I'm kinda "square", in the sense that I'm a Sober, political Conservative, a former Defense Contractor for the Air Force before changing my career to Environmental Engineering after having an Epiphany during my Vision Quest to the Total Solar Eclipse in Hawaii in 1991. I do call myself a Deadheads, (among many other things) I love Deadheads wherever I meet them. I don't do drugs or drink no more. If others do, that's their choice, but none of my business. When good folks are kind and loving to one another, that's beautiful. "Ain't no time to hate. Barely time to wait". My 100 year old Grandmother "Babi" loved several Dead songs (and Warren Zevon too). I'd sing to her every day for couple months when she was dying. "Ripple" was her favorite. "Morning Dew", Brokedown Palace, Mama Tried, Uncle John's Band, Box of Rain, Terrapin Station, Scarlet Begonias, Franklin's Tower, .... I've only seen them once since Jerry died. I've seen the Rhythm Devils and also Bob Weir and Donna Godchaux at the Gathering of the Vibes, used to be every summer at Seaside Park, here in Bridgeport CT. And Mickey Hart at Toad's Place, New Haven. I've seen Dark Star Orchestra a few times recently. Deadheads are wonderful folks. And by the way, a friend of mine is Bob Weir's 2nd cousin and used to help the Dead set up the stage in Haight Ashbury, before going to Vietnam. Has lots of great stories. "Dark Star" is the most surreal, fantastic and mystical piece of music I've ever heard. Totally mind-altering, even without drugs. Lay down my dear brothers Lay down and take your rest Won't you lay your head upon your saviors breast I love you, but Jesus loves you the best And I bid you good night, good night, good night.

Thank you for this! Oh the memories, flooding back, so rich with goodness. What joy in simply being with others, enjoying the time and space to breathe a lighter tune. Missing Jerry so much, the parking lot scene, always a colorful vision of humanity.

The one young lady in the video explains it perfectly.. She went to see the Grateful Dead when she was an adolescent young 15-year-old kid, and she never grew out of it. That's pretty much what deadheads are... FOR LIFE!

I miss the road,the parking lot scene, calling the hotline, mail ordering tix, and the fresh dose of live Grateful Dead music 15 or 20 times a year

This was fantastic. I think one of the best in-depth Grateful Dead lot scene videos on youtube.

GREAT little flick man! What a way to discover the Deadheads. I wish it could have been 1985 forever! What an amazing time!

Outstanding pal ! My trip started in 83. This lil vid was a nice blast from the past. spectacular time of my life. What a blast ! Never to be repeated. Thanks for sharing buddy. Thats ,it ok great ! See ya ' !

a friend of mine showed me this band almost 2 years ago, i fell in love! i pay for the satellite radio and only listen to the dead station (and maybe a couple blues and rock stations). i love hearing the stories when people call in and share their experiences in the crowds and with the band. i wish i could have experienced this! wish i could have went to the shows! i wish i was alive to see Jerry, i was born in 1995 but these guys really hit me deep. not many other bands out there connect with their fans the way the dead do. its amazing. i love finding these kinds of videos. thanks for the share!!

i’m sure my dad was at some of these shows, he followed them around for a couple years back in the 80’s, he made a living selling grilled cheeses in the parking lot, apparently people loved his grilled cheeses and hunted him down at different shows, i love hearing his stories

Proud that I got to experience it all. My life was changed by the traveling, the concerts and the people I encountered along that strange trip. The vibe, the music and the fellowship will never be matched. God bless ya Jerry, forever in my heart......

Thank you for putting this together. I absolutely loved it. It is so hard to explain to Non Deadheads, about the energy, the love, the smiles. Your life changes as soon as you park at a show. 2000 people + who all get along and you actually feel safe. I can’t thing of a safer place, especially in 2023. Thank you, love the Grateful Dead, and sure been lonely since my horse died ❤

"No one's noticed but the band's all packed and. one. Was it ever here at all ? But they (we) keep on dancing"

I only went to one Dead show in San Diego in 1993. Fucking great show. I honestly found it to be a transcendent experience. The atmosphere created by the Dead Heads was so happy and peaceful. I have been to a LOT of concerts over the years and seen all kinds of violent fuckwits starting trouble because they couldn't handle their meth. But at a Dead show, it was nothing short of peace on Earth. I just wish I was into psychedelics back then. I'd have loved a light dose of mushrooms to really settle into it all more!! Long live Jerry and the rest of the band carrying on the legacy 🙌

This is Buffalo Joe A good friend of mine that some of you may know or know of has ascended and left this brokedown palace. Rick Nespor of 'The Burrito People' fame has moved on to a new adventure on another plane. A kind and loving soul to whom I am eternally grateful. We had the time of our lives for years on many tours, travelling so many roads. It's hard to believe it was so long ago. It seems like yesterday. Your laid back positive attitude, sense of humor and fearless quest for fun and rule breaking adventure will be greatly missed. Thanks for getting me to the shows on time.☺ The first to arrive and the last to leave, much to the chagrin of Barsotti, Big Jim, and the rest of Bill Graham's gang.😁 Fare Thee Well, until we meet again. Love you brother. RIP ❤ Buffalo Joe p.s. Say hi to Jerry for me

Just found this video. I miss seeing the dead play. I'm 17 and my parents have raised me on the Dead and I've loved this band for as long as can remember. My parents took me to the Fare Thee Well Further concert in 2016 and I wasn't into the music as much as they were, but once the band played US Blues, I jumped up from my seat and danced my heart out with hippies and other kids in the isle. That was when I got on the bus ⚡🌹💀

Love and Light. I wondered what the other consensus was , for this film project maker, besides "this project was done with humor, truth and sarcasm"? I was there too. "Dead to the core". Still GRATEFUL , today.

working on the car while getting interviewed guy is a total badass

I work at festivals in the summer in California and it’s crazy how people are still trying to relive these times till this day. Must have been such a rad experience being there for good times

It Not Only Kept People Down To 🌎 Earth, It Overflowed As We Moved On !!! It's Somethin That Was A Grate Display How Things Can Be Beautiful For Years !!! Bad Thing It Will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN & I Was Very Lucky To Be Part Of It For So Many Years !!!! B.Safe.....Peace

That piano playing was just lovely

I was working in Manhattan and went for a run in Central Park one morning and bumped into Bob Weir who was also out for a run the week the Grateful Dead were playing Radio City Music Hall. Coolest six miles I ever ran with someone!!!

This was so well done and enjoyable. Thanks so much for making it and sharing it here.

Thanks it was so cool to see myself 30 years ago. One of the guys in it named Kurt passed away in red rocks that year. Thanks for the flashback.

Being at a Dead Show can be a religious experience. People really care about one another, the Band cares about US, and the music is exquisite and touches your soul. It is a healing place. Since 1977, I've been on and off the bus. "Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand..." Sums it up pretty good.

being born in 2000, i wish i had a chance to see Jerry live but at least theres hundreds of hours of recordings of shows to peruse

Snuck up the back stairs of Holy Ghost Hall in Walnut Creek, California in 1966 to see the Dead.

Imagine the smells of patchouli incense and weed, and 10's of thousands of these people tripping on acid piroueting, spinning and dancing in the darkened halls auditoriums and stadiums of a Grateful Dead concert. No other gathering will draw people from across the country and world in tricked out vw's and school buses. California license plates in the parking lots of Pennsylvania.

Changed my life!! Long live the Grateful Dead!!

one of my first shows, just graduated high school, caught em in Charlotte in 89... oh what fun, if you get confused listen to the music play...

The Dead changed my life in the most profound ways. I was looking for something and it was bigger than I could imagine. Glad I made it before Jerry left.

Nicest thing about Deadheads was showing up to the show and meeting new people. But there was this one guy in the 80's who had a blow-up guitar. Saw him at West Coast shows. He'd pop in, do a little air-guitar on his blow up and say hello. I wonder if he still has the blow-up.

2:49 Love that girl on the right, her smile and optimism are infectious.

I am so happy that I was part of the energy for a bit.

Wow thanks.I see a few people from 1980s shows.My first show was Hampton Virginia 1987 Jerry came back from Comma,and alot of people came out for the shows.

Good Video. Brings back memories. That's around the time when I started going to Dead Shows

might be the best band name ever. The Grateful Dead. Its just a wonderful name n thusly attracted loadsa fabulous art which became an intrinsic part of the whole thing. Very cool indeed. God bless The Grateful Dead.

I saw my first show when I was 17 at UCSB in 1973 and had such a time I kept coming back. Nice vid.

I miss this so much!!! I wish I could go back in time!!

Not bad. I was in that crowd at the Kaiser but I didn't see myself. I did see Kurt and Little Wing, whom I knew for a few years. This was the calm before the storm. Seven months later, the Dead were allover MTV, had their only Top Ten record, and too many new fans.

Went to all the shows I could from 9/2/78 to 6/19/95. No doubt some of the best, most amazing experiences of my life. Miss those days, and that energy that was there. Love the dead and the heads forever...

Proud to be a deadhead !

Oh the days before the touch heads *sigh• started my journey in 1982 Syracuse and was tourhead by 84' racking up over a hundred shows...not sure how many with all the JGB, Hunter, Bobby, kreutzman. All stars and associated fun! Miss it more than words can tell😓 I knew the scene was disturbed when (after in the dark) I saw a guy rolling in broken glass at Alpine...no one wanted to help clean up the lot and oh man...never mind all that static...best time of life.

Thank you for the film. That was fun.

Some of the greatest days of my life.

Look at all those glorious and wonderful hippies!! Enjoy the ride!

I went to 2 shows, 1985 at the Greek Theater in LA, and at Anaheim Stadium in 1987. I was in HS 1982-1986, and unlike most So CA yuppi new wave kids at my school I wore my hair long, and not because I liked the hair groups at the time (I didn't), it was because my group of friends and I were fascinated with the late 60s-the 70s music. We would watch Zep "The Song Remains" at the midnight movies and just trip on the 1973 crowd, (and this was 81-82'), and in 85' when I saw the Dead and the parking lot spectacle, it was like a time trip back to 1969 Literally! Awesome and glad I experienced it!

Mid- to late-80s video technology, reminds me of my college TV production projects, hauling that massive 3/4" U-Matic recorder on a golf cart with a 6 foot cable connected to a camera that weighed like a cinder block. You did a really good job on the sound mix, which is a key difference between a professional-quality production and an amateur one, and not easy to do with 2-track straight-cut audio editing capabilities.

My people! Kind, compassionate, chilled out.

Dead shows once were the pinnacle of my life. We didnt have cell phones ,or GPS, or alot money but we created a cool space in time.

I love seeing this same energy reignited in the youth of today at our music Festivals like bonnaroo, Lost lands, burning man etc

That piano at 15:30 was my favorite part. beautiful

"... and then the second set they stood up, and from there on out, I've been a deadhead." Ya never know what's gonna make the difference...

started in 1986 still go in strong today see you all this summer Dead and company tour

Fantastic documentary. Thanks.

I lost count after about show 105. That's A lot for living in Utah and New Mexico. I would have never left the desert if it wasn't for them. It was good to roll back into to sort it all out afterward. Everyone had someone that they took for the first time, and we owe someone for taking us. Big shout out to Bill Graham. He had incredible patients with us. Thanks for hiring me the New Year's Eve show I couldn't get a ticket. Remember the giant cake that almost crushed us at a New Year's show. I pulled people onto the soundboard as fast as I could!! No one died because we cared about our neighbors. SEE YOU AT THE NEXT SHOW.

I've been to a Phish concerts the last 6 years and I love the vibe from shake down st it feels like I'm home!!!!

This sends chills down my spine and a smile on my face.

1:42, yeah, that guy is THERE.

Thankyou for all of the fond memories

I always have been facinated by the hippie / dead head culture. Living as free as possible and open to the experience of life and not afraid to just be. I wish I had the ability to live that way, I had responsibilities of a family that I had to work for and wasn't able to live for just only myself. But hey just like the military, it's not for everyone.

I love every single one of you people

Miss the good times and the dancing! 😀

I was never a huge fasn of their music. I understand and respect what they did and what they were about. I was lucky enough to find myself at some historic Philly shows in the late 80's early 90's. As I look back now 30 years later I realize how lucky I really was. There was something so magical about being 17 years old and being at a Dead show parking lot and being into psychedelics like I was. The Dead show parking lot scene was something that could only ever happen at that time and at that moment. There will never be another time and moment like it was back then, just like there will never be another time and moment like right now...it's just back then seemed so much better than right now.

Cool project. When you are back in Santa Cruz come to Michael’s on Main in Soquel on Sunday evenings for Grateful Sundays. Interesting to see the scene almost 35 years after this footage was taken.

There's still a large festival community and a huge love for the Dead. I've been to lots of festivals and it definitely saved my life and helped me to become who I am today

Been on the bus since 1970 and it's been a great trip!

my bus is in it a few times

Amazing love the Dead even more now

Oh how I wish I could've been part of that craziness just once 🦋

I went to breakfast with the dead at us fest 1882 kinks and Santana also played that day .Great show.🤓👌

This is great! A video taken right before In The Dark came out and essentially tarnished the Grateful Dead fan base. Shortly after this video is when people came more for "the scene" rather than for the great music that was being played. Keep on truckin!

Sure don't know what I'm going for but I'm going to go for it for sure.

Oh my! It surely was a hoot!

Little Wing!!!! LOVE you😍