The 11th installment of the Grateful Dead‘s Meet-Up At The Movies will see theaters worldwide screen the band’s debut concert at Soldier Field in Chicago next Thursday, June 22 — the 32nd anniversary of the show — with encore presentations on Saturday, June 24. GD archivist David Lemieux spoke about the previously unreleased video and other footage in the Grateful Dead Vault with Relix’s Dean Budnick.
“This show in particular has been on our radar for over two decades,” Lemieux revealed of the Grateful Dead’s June 22, 1991 concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field. “We nearly released it back in 2001 when we were working on the second volume of the View from the Vault series.” The performance takes on extra resonance as the venue hosted the band’s last show on July 9, 1995.
The footage coming to cinemas on June 22 and 24 is taken from the original multi-camera video feed displayed on screens set up next to the band at the home of the Chicago Bears. Budnick asked Lemieux about other shows in the vault captured using the same method. The archivist noted “from the summer of 1989 to 95, any time [the Grateful Dead] played a stadium show, they had the screens up.” As far as amphitheaters, there’s just video of the 1989 Alpine Valley run (used for 1997’s Downhill From Here) and shows that took place at Shoreline.
David Lemieux talked specifics regarding Shoreline video, telling Budnick:
Interestingly, Shoreline, more often than not, they would play a weekend there—Friday, Saturday, Sunday—and the shows would generally get a little earlier each day. So the Friday show might be 7:00 PM and then by Sunday it might be 5:00 PM. So oftentimes with Shoreline, there are videos of the Friday and Saturday shows because in order for the screens to work, it had to be somewhat dark out. Then with the Sunday shows, which would generally be a little earlier, they didn’t have the screens running because you couldn’t really see them, it was too light out.
Still, in the case of Shoreline, we have a whole lot of Shoreline multi-camera videos—they had a great crew there. While there are some Sunday shows, for the most part it’s Fridays and Saturdays at Shoreline from October 87, right through 1995. Those are really good videos. I think there was a video production booth—a permanent space at Shoreline—as opposed to most stadiums where the Dead would have to roll up with their own crews, and basically build a studio right there on site.
The stadium shows in the vault were filmed between July 2, 1989 at Foxboro (issued as part of the Coda Collection) and the aforementioned last Grateful Dead show as well as some footage from the Summer ’87 Dylan & The Dead Tour. “It’s well over a hundred shows from that one primary era—89 through 95,” Lemieux added. “Then there are some other things throughout— some 80, a little 83 and 85, along with some 87. There are little bits and pieces but those would usually be related to a project.”
An example Lemieux pointed out were concerts at Radio City Music Hall in October of 1980. “They were doing the pay-per-view in theaters around the country at the Radio City Music Hall,” David noted. “Then they were also pulling tape for what ended up becoming the Dead Ahead home video, the Dead’s first real home video.”
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David Lemieux went on to explain what went into picking the Dead’s Soldier Field debut for this year’s Meet-Up At The Movies, his perspective on openers and more. Head to Relix for the full interview. Meet-Up At The Movies tickets are on sale now via MeetUpAtTheMovies.com.
In other Grateful Dead-related news, The Rock & Roll Playhouse is producing 24 Music of Grateful Dead for Kids shows across the country this weekend to celebrate Father’s Day. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Rex Foundation. Purchase tickets through TheRockAndRollPlayhouse.com and view a list of the participating venues below:
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