Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland

December. 31,1978      
Rating:
8.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Closing Of Winterland documents the Grateful Dead's landmark New Year's Eve 1978 concert that marked the end of the famed San Francisco Bay Area venue Winterland Aena. The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party (complete with breakfast with the audience at dawn) and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown.

Jerry Garcia as  Self
Mickey Hart as  Self
Bill Kreutzmann as  Self
Donna Godchaux as  Self
Phil Lesh as  Self
Bob Weir as  Self

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Reviews

Micransix
1978/12/31

Crappy film

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ShangLuda
1979/01/01

Admirable film.

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Fairaher
1979/01/02

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Janae Milner
1979/01/03

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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ccthemovieman-1
1979/01/04

You certainly get a lot of bang for your buck in this nostalgic concert DVD. It's nostalgic now because the footage took place just over 30 years ago on the last concert night on the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.You gets hours and hours of songs from two full discs worth of mostly-mellow Grateful Dead material. You get to see a dark-haired and slimmer Jerry Garcia perform his guitar magic.You also get to see what a lot of Dead fans probably never saw: a female singer doing a bunch of the songs along with the guys That was Donna Godchaux, who did both lead and backup vocals. She and her husband Keith sang with the famous rock group throughout the 1970s. Keith died at the age of 32 after an auto accident in 1980.In addition to the tons of music, there are a lot of extras, from features on the Winterland Ballroom, to the Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, bonus songs, on and on. If you enjoy the Dead, this is the DVD to buy.

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