All The Years Combine: The Grateful Dead DVD Collection / Bundled with the The Grateful Dead Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) – click here for lowest price!
Release Date: 4/17/2012
14-DVD Set Totaling Nearly 38 Hours Of Live Dead
+ The Grateful Dead movie Blu-Ray too!
The definitive visual anthology of one of the most prolific and celebrated live bands of all time.
Includes:
- The Grateful Dead Movie (2-DVD)* (Theatrical film, originally released in 1977)
- The Closing Of Winterland (2-DVD)* (Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, December 31, 1978)
- Dead Ahead* (Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, October 1980)
- So Far (Originally released on VHS and laser disc in 1987 — first time on DVD!)
- Ticket To New Year’s* (Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, December 31, 1987)
- Truckin’ Up To Buffalo (Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY, on July 4, 1989)
- Downhill From Here (Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, July 17, 1989)
- View From The Vault* (Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA, July 8, 1990)
- View From The Vault II* (RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, June 14, 1991)
- View From The Vault III* (Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, June 16, 1990)
- View From The Vault IV (Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA, July 24, 1987, and Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, July 26, 1987)
*includes all bonus features from previous release
Exclusive bonus disc contains:
- Five previously unreleased live performances from the Grateful Dead archive
- Backstage Pass, the 1992 documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann
- Brand-new interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux
Plus get the special bundle that includes The Grateful Dead Movie on blu-ray!
The Grateful Dead Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) — The Grateful Dead Movie sees its first-ever Blu-ray release with a deluxe 2-disc version, the feature film on Blu-ray and a DVD loaded with an extensive slate of bonus features—five hours of content in all! Co-directed by Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead Movie was originally released in 1977, and captures performances from five October 1974 shows at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom.
Disc 1 – Blu-ray
The Grateful Dead Moviein its entirety transferred from the original 35mm film negative in High Definition and presented in:
- 1.78:1 widescreen aspect ratio
- 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio presentation of the original theatrical audio mix
- DTS 5.1 audio mix, mixed from the master multitrack tapes
- PCM 2.0 audio mix, mixed from the master multitrack tapes
- Feature-length commentary with supervising editor Susan Crutcher and film editor John Nutt
- English subtitles option on entire movie
Total running time of Disc 1: Approximately 132 minutes
Disc 2 – DVD
- More than 95 minutes of bonus concert footage, including: Uncle John’s Band • Sugaree • The Other One — Spanish Jam — Mind Left Body Jam — The Other One — Scarlet Begonias • China Cat Sunflower — I Know You Rider • Dark Star • Weather Report Suite
- Bonus songs transferred from the 16mm camera-original film negative
- Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix on all bonus songs, mixed from the master multitrack tapes
- Dolby Digital 2.0 audio mix on all bonus songs, mixed from the master multitrack tapes
- Visible Lyrics Option on all bonus songs
- “A Look Back” documentary film
- “Making of the Animated Sequence” documentary film
- “Making of the DVD” documentary film
- Television commercial for Mars Hotel album from 1974
- Multicamera and multitrack audio demonstration
- Extensive photo gallery of production notes, photos, film stills and other historical items from the Movie’s production
Total running time of Disc 2: Approximately 175 minutes
