グレイトフルデッド初の海外公演となる1970年5月、英国で行われたハリウッド・フェスティヴァルでのライヴをCD+DVDで収録。デッドファンには興味津々の音源となります。CDには12曲、DVDには9曲を収録されています。DVDの9曲中デッドは5曲のみですが残りも中々美味しい面子でフリーの"ALLRIGHT NOW"やファミリーの"GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS"などが見れます。※DVDは国内プレイヤーで再生可能です
5 Grateful Dead numbers from the show on DVD
12 Grateful Dead numbers from the show on CD
plus on DVD - 1 number from Free,1 number from Screaming Lord Sutch,1 number from Family, glimpses of John Peel, the crowd and Radha Krishna Temple
10 page colour fold out booklet comes with the DVD cd set
7 pages of which contain montages of images of the festival
put together by Burgoyne Film and Audio Services using their archive sound recordings of the event plus their rare film footage and incorporating rare stills of the event what you have is a document of the first time the Grateful Dead came to play in the UK ? fairly wacky disjointed film though it is as someone in the Grateful Dead’s entourage spiked everyone involved in filming the event with LSD!!!
It’s some grainy bits of film (filmed in the main by an acid spiked crew) of one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the English rock counterculture and festivals. The Grateful Dead come to England in 1970 for their first ever concert and it’s in the open air at a festival near Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, North West England. It’s one of the only times in England when Pigpen was on absolutely top form and he takes a lot of the vocal leads stood up behind his organ. There were plans to film and audio record everyone on the bill for the whole festival weekend but someone travelling with the Grateful Dead’s entourage gave acid to most people working on the film and sound recordings. Fortunately the whole of the Grateful Dead’s set was recorded on audio and around five song’s worth of band and crowd footage was filmed during their set by the acid tripping film crew. Also filmed were short sections of Free, Family, Screaming Lord Sutch, John Peel and Radha Krishna Temple
DVD running time 1 hour 11 mins including 5 Grateful Dead numbers /major parts of numbers
CD audio running time 1 hour 14 minutes
including 12 Grateful Dead numbers
the tracks on the CD are different to those on the DVD
