Non GD Music Videos

Grateful Dead on Video
The Grateful Dead have a DVD series called View from the Vault and have other releases too. Soundtracks are sometimes available. 

Top three recommendations

Closing of Winterland - Live 1978

The Grateful Dead Movie - 1974

Dead Ahead Expanded - Acoustic and Electric 1980 (Nov. '05)

Other films of interest
Jerry Garcia DVD 
The Last Great Traffic Jam Live 1994 features Garcia on "Dear Mr. Fantasy."

Festival films featuring the Grateful Dead w/ Pigpen
Festival Express | A Night at the Family Dog

Our Grateful Dead video list is categorized by date of performance.  
Hornsby ...
Mydland
Keith Godchaux
Pig Pen
Miscellaneous
Garcia

Grateful Dead video notes:
A quote from a David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist, interview from Crutchfield Advisor discussing The Closing Of Winterland DVD: "... the April 17, 1972, show at the Tivoli Concert hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is commonly referred to as "TV From the Tivoli". We have a great video and multi-track audio for that show."

Grateful Dead Flash # 22
"Question: How were the bonus songs on The Grateful Dead Movie DVD selected for inclusion on the DVD?

Answer: There was a several-pronged criteria for the selection of these bonus songs on the DVD. The first, and most obvious consideration, was that they be excellent performances. We knew from the beginning that we were limited to about 90 minutes of bonus songs on Disc Two of the DVD (we ended up including 100 minutes), so we focused on several key factors: were they songs considered for possible inclusion in the original Grateful Dead Movie by Jerry ("Uncle John's Band," which was originally slated to open to The Grateful Dead Movie, "Sugaree," "The Other One" and its attendant jams)? Did we have usable audio and film elements from which we could do a proper audio mix and a proper film edit on the song? Also key was a conscious effort to include songs that the Grateful Dead were performing particularly well in 1974 ("China>Rider," "Scarlet Begonias," "Weather Report Suite," "Dark Star"). With the wealth of excellent material to draw upon, it bodes well for a future release of more Grateful Dead from October, 1974 on DVD."David Lemieux
Audiovisual Archivist
Grateful Dead Productions

Grateful Dead Flash #23
Question: In the View From The Vault series, some of the DVDs have graphics and animation that cover parts of the music that we want to watch. Can anything be done to eliminate these graphics ? ? 

Answer: For good or ill, the graphics and animation on the Views from the Vault DVDs are embedded in the video masters, and there is no alternate footage with which to cover these graphics. As much as we'd like to replace these graphics with shots of the band, we can't simply create footage that never existed in the first place. We are pleased to say, though, that the upcoming Truckin' Up To Buffalo DVD is void of graphics and animation, and you are left seeing some of the most impressive band interaction and joyfulness that we have on video in the entire vault. Summer tour 1989 featured completely clean video feeds being recorded to tape, so the concerts we have from that tour feature the whole band, and nothing but the band. 

David Lemieux
Audiovisual Archivist
Grateful Dead Productions 

Coming sometime?, Sunshine Daydream, The Grateful Dead at Veneta, OR on 8/27/72, known as the "The Field Trip." The web-site nugs.net put up a good page for more info.

Three video concerts of the Grateful Dead sold at a discount.  

The End of the Road review

Dead Ahead Expanded review 

While not the Grateful Dead, you may be interested in Dark Star Orchestra's DVD, Live At The Fillmore. They're Live At the Fillmore is Dark Star Orchestra's recreation of the May 5, 1977, show. I am not aware of any Grateful Dead 1977 concert videos so this is next best thing, and it is definitely worthwhile. 

Dark Star Orchestra is excellent and this DVD will silence any doubters. This recreation was recorded on May 8, 2004, at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and features-- flashback, the Grateful Dead's own Donna Jean Godchaux, who performs on select songs. There are more Grateful Dead connections as the art on the packaging was created by Stanley "Mouse" Miller and an original Dead sound crew member Bob Matthews is the executive producer, and more (you'll have to read the liner notes to find out). 

So far I have watched the first set. The highlights include "Sugaree," Supplication," and "The Music Never Stopped."

Original Movie
Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
Don't Ease Me In - Grateful Dead
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
Slippin' and Slidin' - The Band
Goin' Down the Road - Delaney & Bonnie and others
Traditional Country Song - Buddy Cage and others
Baby Here I Come - Buddy Guy & Rick Danko
Better Take Jesus' Hand (1st version)  Jerry Garcia & Sylvia Tyson
Comin' Home Baby - Mashmakan
Money - Buddy Guy
Lazy Day - Flying Burrito Bros
The Weight - The Band
Cry Baby - Janis Joplin
I Can't Do It Baby - Buddy Guy & Jerry Garcia
Ain't No More Cane - Rick Danko & Janis and others
Soul Jam - Buddy Guy & Rick Danko
Sunshine of Your Love - Ensemble
Rock & Roll is Here to Stay - Sha Na Na
CC Rider - Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird
New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead
I Shall Be Released - The Band
Tell Mama - Janis Joplin
Me & Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Better Take Jesus' Hand (2nd version) - New Riders of the Purple Sage

Live at the Warfield Theater

On May 18th and 19th 2006, Phil Lesh and Friends electrified The Warfield Theater in San Francisco, CA with two nights of music that never failed to satisfy. The venerable theater had been visited many times by Phil Lesh and Friends, but never by this exact group. This group of assembled Friends combines a strong jazz background with a touch of blues, a pinch of soul, a good helping of groove, and just the right amount of jamming to keep the faithful dancing well into the early morning. 

Phil Lesh: Electric Bass, Vocals 
Joan Osborne: Vocals
John Scofield: Guitar
Larry Campbell: Guitar, Pedal Steel, Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals 
Greg Osby: Saxophone 
Rob Barraco: Keyboards, Vocals 
John Molo: Drums 

DVD Track Listing: 
Uncle John's Band
Eyes of the World 
St. Stephen 
The Eleven 
Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 
All Along the Watchtower 
New Speedway Boogie 
Unbroken Chain 
Help On the Way >
Slipknot! > 
Franklin's Tower 

CD Disc One
Shakedown Street > 
Mr. Charlie 
Pride of Cucamonga 
Cosmic Charlie 
Scarlet Begonias > 
They Love Each Other > 
Turn On Your Lovelight
Donor Rap

Disc Two
The Wheel > 
Dark Star > 
Morning Dew > 
I Know You Rider 
The Other One > 
Dark Star > 
The Other One > 
Box of Rain 

In concert, in the studio, interviews.   
 1. Intro
 2. Grateful Dawg (Garcia / Grisman)
 3. Wayfaring Stranger (Traditional) *
 4. Sweet Sunny South (Traditional)
 5. Old and in the Way Intro *
 6. Pig in a Pen (Traditional) *
 7. Dawg's Waltz (Grisman)
 8. Sitting Here in Limbo (Bright / Chambers)
 9.  Off to Sea Once More (Traditional)*
10. Off to Sea Once More (Traditional)
11. Jenny Jenkins (Traditional)
12. Arabia (Grisman)
13. The Thrill is Gone (Darnell / Hawkins)
14. Friend of the Devil (Dawson / Garcia / Hunter)
15. Grateful Dawg (Studio) (Garcia / Grisman)

Grateful Dawg review

For fans of Garcia Grisman, of interest is Classic Dawg.

Classic 1983 David Grisman Quartet concert when group consisted of Grisman, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall and Rob Wasserman. Shot at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.