CLEVELAND - On Tuesday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum announced additional programs to coincide with the popular exhibit, Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip.
The exhibit opened several days before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in mid-April and features sections devoted to Grateful Dead as a recording group and a touring band, the fans who devotedly followed them, tapers and fellow travelers as well as finished and working manuscripts for classic songs, handwritten notes and artifacts.
The following events/programs have been added to coincide with the exhibit:
WHAT: Film Screening: The Grateful Dead Movie (1977, 132 minutes)was filmed in October of 1974 during a run of five shows at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco as the band was about to go on hiatus from touring. Directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast, The Grateful Dead Movie captures the Dead at one of the peaks of their performing career. Dennis McNally, the band’s biographer, describes it as a “superb concert movie, a mind-bending and adventurous experimental film, and an incredibly perceptive and hip portrait of the Dead Head fan base and their unique relationship to this ‘band beyond description.’” Performances include “U.S. Blues,” “Playing in the Band,” “Casey Jones,” and “Morning Dew
WHEN: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Rock Hall’s Foster Theater
TICKETS: This event is FREE with a ticket reservation online at http://tickets.rockhall.com or in-person at the Rock Hall Box Office. Tickets will become available to Rock Hall Members on Thursday, May 17 at 10 a.m. EST and will become available to the general public on Friday, May 18 at 10 a.m. EST. A limited number of tickets will be available for those without internet access through the Rock Hall’s RSVP phone system by calling (216) 515-8426.
WHAT: Multimedia presentation by Paul Grushkin, author of Dead Letters, and Steven Marcus, longtime ticket manager for the Grateful Dead. At the core of the Grateful Dead experience was the world’s most devoted fan base: Dead Heads. Dead Heads went to extraordinary, often inspiring, lengths to get their hands on concert tickets by mailing the band and its staff. These letters and envelopes featured personalized artwork the likes of which the U.S. Postal Service had never seen. Since the band’s earliest days, Grateful Dead staff saved tens of thousands of decorated ticket-request envelopes sent to them by Dead Heads hoping to capture the ticketing staff’s attention with their designs. These envelopes are inspirational and hugely insightful, not to mention brilliantly illustrated and unique within the world of rock.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Rock Hall’s Foster Theater
TICKETS: This event is FREE with a ticket reservation online at http://tickets.rockhall.com or in-person at the Rock Hall Box Office. Tickets will become available to Rock Hall Members on Thursday, May 17 at 10 a.m. EST and will become available to the general public on Friday, May 18 at 10 a.m. EST. A limited number of tickets will be available for those without internet access through the Rock Hall’s RSVP phone system by calling (216) 515-8426. This event will be streamed on rockhall.com.
WHAT: Film Screening: The Closing of Winterland (2003, 190 minutes)was filmed on December 31, 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom. The band had performed nearly sixty shows at the ven ue, and so Bill Graham considered them the perfect act for a farewell party. The mammoth three-set show features classics like “Sugar Magnolia,” “Fire On the Mountain,” “Dark Star” and “St. Stephen” and a special appearance by Ken Kesey.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rock Hall’s Foster Theater
TICKETS:This event is FREE with a ticket reservation online at http://tickets.rockhall.com or in-person at the Rock Hall Box Office. Tickets will become available to Rock Hall Members on Thursday, May 17 at 10 a.m. EST and will become available to the general public on Friday, May 18 at 10 a.m. EST. A limited number of tickets will be available for those without internet access through the Rock Hall’s RSVP phone system by calling (216) 515-8426.
WHAT: Hall of Fame Series featuring Donna Jean Godchaux. Donna Jean Godchaux sang with the Grateful Dead from 1972 to 1979. By the time she was 15, she was singing back-up vocals on sessions at Rick Hall’s Fame recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. She sang on numerous songs recorded at Fame, including Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” and Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.” She headed to San Francisco in the summer of 1970 where she met keyboardist Keith Godchaux, and they married shortly thereafter. In 1971 Keith joined the Dead, and Donna joined a short while later. She recorded with the band on Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, and Shakedown Street . During their tenure with the Dead, the Godchauxs released the album Keith
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