Sunshine Daydream is an unreleased movie shot at the Grateful Dead’s 1972 Veneta, Oregon concert to benefit the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon. The film is sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it have circulated on VHS and DVD and as digital downloads. The concert, recorded on August 27, 1972, was filmed using four 16 mm cameras, in the woods of the Oregon Coast Range foothills, on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair. Originally even more cameras had been planned, under an ambitious scheme: “The plot was to develop a signature visual style of representing the band: a camera for each of the 16 channels (at least!) emphasizing the visual kinetics of the music making itself as well as the enormous open communication within the band.” Ken Kesey and old cohort Ken Babbs emceed the concert. The Dead played all afternoon and into the dark after an opening set by the New Riders of the Purple Sage. The title of the film is taken from the coda section of the Dead song “Sugar Magnolia”.
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“were changing our name to the sun-stroke serenaders”
worlds first pole dancer~:P
wow. who’s the naked dude.
oh my god i love bob weir
@oldsoul247 Music is an energy from within, and there is no right or wrong way to express it. I grew up on the Dead, and loved every minate of it. However, I do love my share of loud crazy metal. I sing, and I find the hard rock/metal to be fun to sing, but i still appreciate singing what I grew up on. It takes alot of singing technique to be able to scream without burning your throat out, and it takes a lot of concentration to be able play those chords so fast.
@hkusp45c Corporate sponsorship came from the greed, thuggery, larceny, and extortion. As for the addiction aspect, some of those “hippies” chose to take away other’s liberties because of their own personal failings. Thank you for agreeing with me. You may have grown up son, but I think your reading comprehension needs to catch up with the rest of your maturity. BTW, there is a Neo-hippy movement out there, so it isn’t “dead” entirely, just weezing badly. Have a God bless day.
@clarese76
When you grow up you’ll suddenly understand why the “hippie” movement died. It wasn’t due to corporate sponsorship or “the man” keeping it down. It was due to the incessant greed, thuggery, extortion, addiction and larceny within the movement.
The hippies signed their own “irrelevant” warrant. Nobody had the “assassinated.
@brotherbuttcrack – diff knobs control which sections of wall of sound phil’s “sound” would come out of
@maccabee36 – world’s best kept secret — Mickey sucked ass
Right on! Sheait…. do you feel weird?! Thelema!
can somebody shed some light on Phil’s fucking tone machine? That thing has more knobs than my house
one of the best songs ever written.
just dug up this video the whole thing is just so intense but the first part of it where they are erecting the stage was damaged and that part freezes and crashed the computer so I had to jump over that part where they film the mixing of the trips with ken there and such dark star is just intense when they go into the lyrics as the sun sets and such,,, entropy will solve all problems right?
i wish i coulda seen jerry. as for now winter 2009 ithaca, buffalo, atlantic city, chicagox2 have done just fine.
fully agreed.
Nice. this was around the first time I heard/ saw the DEAD, Roosevelt Stadium summer ’73. I think this era was such a high point for the Dead
All due respect to Mickey, I feel like the Dead were a tighter and more comfortable band with one drummer
he is currently a member of the House of Representatives
I wonder where that guy is today, the guy shaking up on the pole above Jerry, where is he today. These people look like they are feeling No Pain! A freaky trip out dance party, and oh yea, the Grateful Dead.
Back in those days usually a “crystal synched” Wallensak reel to reel was used to record sound then matched to the film in post production. It was called crystal synch because there was actually a crystal inside the recorder…
cool
i really like the sound with just Bill on drums…this is a really nice vid
It’s funny and touching the way it plays out.
Damn-near took his hand off!!
I like the video. The favorite part for me is the same part it is for everyone else-the dog eating the candy bar. Man that dog really wanted that candy bar. Actually it’s unhealthy to feed dogs chocolate. It’s no good for them. But the scene was hysterical.
And I’m trying to figure out how they did the sound for the film. I don’t know much about 16mm. I get the vibe the sound was done separately and then dubbed in. I just don’t know.
definitely . . positively kreutzman
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