Grateful Dead - A Photofilm by Paul and Linda McCartney

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@jamesroof6150 Ай бұрын

That's the Dead I fell in love with in 1973 when I was 14. That music transcended space & time.

@jgold78 Ай бұрын

And the symbiosis with the audience energy helping direct the journey

@johnm3152 23 күн бұрын

Yes !

@chrisdonegan2566 Ай бұрын

Well if this just isn’t the coolest damn thing I’ve seen all day

@frontdesk9662 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Paul! RIP Pig, Jerry & Phil

@PaulFormentos Ай бұрын

Brent, Keith and Vince as well

@claptonhousecat8092 Ай бұрын

And Linda

@kingdicelille Ай бұрын

Thank you a hundred times for sharing this. Being a rabid Maccafan and a Deadhead too, this photofilm I first heard about 28 or 29 years ago had been on my must-watch list for a long, long while.

@skywoof7 Ай бұрын

Ditto!!!

@PeteCarlton 13 күн бұрын

Somehow,this feels more authentic than contemporary video and a worthy memorial to Linda's skill as a photographer, brilliant job Paul!

@rickfitzgerald4426 Ай бұрын

That was a pleasant treat! Thanks to Linda and Paul for getting it out to be appreciated. A magical time that thankfully didn't fade away.

@katmandew2152 Ай бұрын

Wow. Linda was great. Great work. Brava Linda m. .

@xianshep 17 күн бұрын

Excellent choices of Anthem tracks, Sir Paul!

@BrianRoberson-k7g Ай бұрын

I just found this and I'm at work and I will watch this later under more...ideal conditions.

@kevingreenwood6936 Ай бұрын

Well .. who’d of guessed that Paul and Lynda had an interest in the Dead .. what a lovely surprise 😊😉🥳

@SSags Ай бұрын

They don't. Linda was a professional photographer and in the 60s she was deep into the music scene taking photos of everyone who was anyone back then. Paul has explain over and over that it wasn't his type of music. All of the Beatles have publicly ragged on the SF Bands. Paul did the project because he had the photos lying around and he was super impressed the Dead were still touring in the 90s. Paul finished this film short just before Jerry died.

@StrebbleEducationandArts Ай бұрын

@@SSagsAh.. Thanks for the explanation.

@71kylew Ай бұрын

I think Phil said on his book that he had gone in a date with Linda before she met Paul

@SSags Ай бұрын

@@71kylew 1 date is my understanding and didn't blossom any further than that. Linda has a great book of photos of all the bands in the 60s, she took some nice photos. She was mostly in the NYC area but of course branched out, she used her last name as "door opener" even though she wasn't the heir to Kodak-Eastman, it worked though and people thought she was rich socialite checking out the music scene.

@SSags Ай бұрын

@@StrebbleEducationandArts Linda had some talent, I recommend her book of photos. She was everywhere but mostly in NYC taking photos. She took those Dead photos in 1967 well before she met Paul who I believe they meet in 1969. So, Paul has zero connection to the photos being taken but found them among her stuff after she died. Paul has publicly stated to Rolling Stone mag that he started touring again because he found out Jerry was still touring around at his age and thought if Jer could do it, than he could too. As far as them being friends or meeting each other, it never happened. If you scroll up somewhere on here, we are retelling the story of the time Lennon met Jerry but that's the only Beatle that ever met a member of the Dead until Weir joined McCartney on stage at Fenway Park.

@timothyball419 Ай бұрын

The grateful Dead are so natural that God rested on the seventh day to listen to them I think 😂.

@stefanschleps8758 Ай бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. My only intersection of the Beatles with the Grateful Dead was on the 27th June, 1984 at Merriweather in Columbia, Maryland. When, for the first time, the Dead played "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" As soon as I heard the first note I called the song. It was a remarkable concert! Trippin balls with the other cows as we all crossed the bridge on the way out; "Moo Moo Moo". If you were there you know! Every show the Dead played at Merriweather was Golden! Peace & Prosperity! NFA

@dlisdell Ай бұрын

I was at that show too!

@danjenkins4639 Ай бұрын

My very first Grateful Dead show of many.... was on the bus 🚎 and still am....Symphony Woods - what a sublime venue. Perfect place for the 2017 "Thank You Jerry" celebration

@katmandew2152 Ай бұрын

Me and bros took a bunch of pictures on those steps in 1981.we got back to NYC and discovered the film was loaded wrong . Still a gas for an 18 year old in 1981..thanks fam.. so great Thanx to who made this and released it. God bless....

@Alligator6002 Ай бұрын

Absolutely wonderful! very trippy. Lovely 🌹 Linda. She nailed the vibes . Peace to Paul and thanks for getting this done mate ✌️

@RichardSchaefer-zx9ig Ай бұрын

WoW. Thanks for the trip back to late '60s Linda + Paul.

@johnsilva9139 18 күн бұрын

Never knew about this. Was never into The Dead though I had a soft spot for Jerry Garcia. Linda took all these photos. That's quite an archive. Props to her husband for making a pleasantly enjoyable slide show of his wife's work. Much appreciated by all music fans.

@OutOnTheTiles Ай бұрын

So cool. What a time. I miss the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Such a great vibe.

@GManStritz8 Ай бұрын

90s be like… feeling left out

@claptonhousecat8092 Ай бұрын

Great look back at a great band by 2 great people ❤

@patrickdelaney2299 Ай бұрын

Thanks Paul! She was a gem!

@markbooth140 Ай бұрын

I was supposed to watch this short film on a showing with the Dead Movie in London circa ‘95 but there was a fire? And it didn’t go ahead! Finally got to see nearly 30 years later! Worth the wait ❤

@patrickdelaney2299 Ай бұрын

Lindas work is outstanding In her position created a remarkable portrait of this extordinary time, its scope is certainly remarkable

@loucaruso3971 25 күн бұрын

Great Piece Of Work !!!!

@Simonfrios Ай бұрын

The two greatest bands. Further comment would be superfluous.

@vankupilik5824 Ай бұрын

@donaldgehre5964 Ай бұрын

That was incredible! Few expressions pinpoint the magic and ecstasy of those days. This one did and the fact that Anthem of the Sun provided the background opened doors I haven't seen open for a long time. Yeah. They were there with the rest of us.

@mkp108 Ай бұрын

Anthem of the Sun is highly under-appreciated. This film shows a sliver of its profundity.

@johnm3152 23 күн бұрын

So good --Thanks - in time and in tune ✌️

@rothcam2 Ай бұрын

Very cool. I saw the dead play in Calgary at the festival express concert. Great time.

@gr8fulded Ай бұрын

I remember when this was at film festivals and wished I had gotten a chance to see it. Thank you for releasing it! Brilliant!

@theelevan2 Ай бұрын

I saw this at the Angelika theater in NYC by chance when I went to see Trainspotting and it was one of the best surprises ever. Seeing this on the big screen was an incredible experience.

@georat16 Ай бұрын

@@theelevan2Angelika is cool for sure!

@johnjaques342 Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this and, of course, due credit to the mighty creators of this fine work❤.

@cammieg4381 Ай бұрын

zoned out to the Dead at the age of 17... late 60's was an awesome era to 'come of age' 😉Can't express how honored I was when my adult twin step-sons invited me to a Grateful Dead concert!! Little did any one realize that would be their last tour. Keep on truckin' Mr. Natural! ☮

@acdebiase Ай бұрын

Thanks for letting this out, Paul. Now we know you're one of us. Welcome

@rishikesh1087 Ай бұрын

One of us , One of Us Gibble Gobble One of us......

@stephenfisch Ай бұрын

This film came out in 95.

@burningrabbitacres8330 Ай бұрын

No he's not.

@edm781 Ай бұрын

Read the interview, he is not. Just a cool project of his wife's photos. She was not on the bus either. Just happened to be there.

@katmandew2152 Ай бұрын

Welcome home Paul

@WeirsBeard Ай бұрын

Did not know about this, a great treat.🙏❤️

@susanklein7448 Ай бұрын

In Phil Lesh's autobiography "Searching For the Sound" he writes that he had a brief romance with Linda (then) Eastman during this period, and speaks somewhat wistfully that it never progressed.

@snerdterguson 27 күн бұрын

You're kind of embellishing here. Phil said he went on A date. He didn't have a romance with her.

@susanklein7448 22 күн бұрын

@@snerdterguson Well when he said "date" I believe it was euphemistic. I don't think they went to a movie and then shared a sundae at the ice cream parlor. Jerry himself said "Linda hung out at our scene." Both Phil and Linda were lovely people and since they're both gone, let's send loving thoughts and thanks for their light and love.

@xianshep 17 күн бұрын

Guess she had a thing for bass players.

@susanklein7448 16 күн бұрын

@ Ha yes!

@mimigermanpoetry 25 күн бұрын

Just finding this Fantastic!!

@GratefulSam-et3ve Ай бұрын

Pure gold!

@charlesroberts3650 Ай бұрын

Them, spilling down the stairway, "Falling Down Dead"... : )

@chrisrobertson9264 Ай бұрын

Once in a while Paul does something that’s really right on and he along with everyone else wonders what the boy was thinking when he did it

@solarwave Ай бұрын

I love this! A tribute with a nice trippy vibe.

@darthcheney7447 Ай бұрын

How cool is this.

@neilh9442 Ай бұрын

I love and miss Linda.

@1flat5th Ай бұрын

BRAVO!!!!

@hollygriffin7087 Ай бұрын

Beautiful ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😊

@TomM-wc3eo Ай бұрын

It was always fun when the boys played a Beatles tune back in the day. Lucy in the Sky, Revolution, Hey Jude, Dear Prudence. So thankful my life overlapped with Jerry’s.

@miketayse Ай бұрын

Yow! Nice background music and some great shots of the Dead.

@FatherJacobGolden Ай бұрын

Excellent. Creative.

@Juancilra Ай бұрын

I have a vague memory of hearing Paul McCartney complimenting the Dead in an interview I heard on the radio some time in late '80's, a few years before I actually became a Deadhead. I still found the whole Dead phenomenon puzzling. Didn't get the music when I tried to listen - didn't hate the studio stuff, but couldn't see why some people were so obsessed. Didn't have the patience for live Dead. Back then, I had some mixed impressions about the band and their fans. I knew a few personally who were good people. Also had 1 or 2 encounters with hordes of wooks, which turned me off. But I remember Paul on the radio giving a shout out to Jerry & the Boys, which impressed me. I seem to recall they asked Paul about the trend for him and other artists of the British Invasion generation going back out on tour after long hiatuses (they were already considered old back then!). Paul answered he was partially inspired by the Dead who had never stopped touring.

@robertking7269 Ай бұрын

Without a doubt Linda’s best work to date for me

@gregorysullivan4554 Ай бұрын

Linda published a photo book called the Sixties that's just awesome..the stories she had with each of her subjects are worth the price of admission alone!.. I recommend this book..

@williamwillis2023 Ай бұрын

Thank You Paul. God Bless You Brother. I hope that you have a beautiful day, every day. Peace (:

@Bobdinooc Ай бұрын

WOW!!! Love This,Thank You!!!

@oughtssought1198 29 күн бұрын

can YOU pass the Name Every Instrument You Hear Here test??? great job all around on this treat VERY well chosen music samples

@deadreckoning6288 2 күн бұрын

Very cool little film. Seems Linda was a big Deadhead! Too bad Paul never got to a show. But he did get on stage a couple times with the boys. 💀⚡️

@WillyCLARKE-g8c Ай бұрын

Brilliant.

@bobschenkel7921 Ай бұрын

So, Sir Paul, 's up? You and the late, great Ms. Linda were there for the early days (daze), and it looks like y'all had a great time. Thank you for making this Photofilm, it captures something unique and irreplaceable. A true moment in time, when many things were possible.

@stephenfisch Ай бұрын

Linda was..These pics were from before she met Paul.

@namcat53 Ай бұрын

Do some research; Linda was just taking pictures before she met Paul.

@SSags Ай бұрын

These were taken by Linda not Paul. Paul has mentioned in interviews he never saw the GD because it wasn't his kind of music.

@skywoof7 Ай бұрын

@@SSags Talk about a missed opportunity. Just wonder if Paul had ever met Jerry & the boys prior to making this film, and obvi., before he and Bob performed together a couple of years ago?

@SSags Ай бұрын

@@skywoof7 I am not aware of Jerry ever meeting Paul. The only known meeting between a Beatle and Jerry was a show at the Bottom Line in 74 or 75 and Lennon was in the crowd. As the story goes, Jerry was the first musician to cover a non Beatle Lennon song (Imagine) on a released album. Lennon was partying hard during this time in NYC on his "lost weekend" but apparently he was intrigued by the cover of Imagine and went down to the Bottom Line to check out Jerry. Jerry's peeps found out Lennon was in the crowd and got John to agree to jam with Jerry. Lennon said he was going to go back to his apartment and grab his guitar and come back for the late show. Lennon did not return to the Bottom Line that night and never met Jerry either. That was the closest story that I know of any Dead member meeting a Beatle until that Fenway Park show with Weir and McCartney. The truth is, the Beatles didn't like the SF scene music, they may have respected it in the aftermath but they didn't mesh with it at the time either. Look at some of the quotes by other British rock stars like Clapton and what they thought of the SF music. They just didn't like it or better put...they didn't understand it.Most of the British scene had the same attitude towards SF too except the Stones and Pete Townsend. Clapton has since in his old age said...he would have liked to jam with the JA or Dead but in the 60s he hated the music.

@seanwinkel8890 Ай бұрын

Just 'wow'.

@kevinpapillon4400 Ай бұрын

That’s what I said wow!

@MrWallybones Ай бұрын

This really gives one the "feeling" of the Grateful Dead with all trippiness and pranksterisms! Thanks. ✌🏽⚡💜

@SuperLocrian 26 күн бұрын

TY! ❤

@tzcomp Ай бұрын

The film is mimicking the trip the dead was on when Linda took these photos.

@robertwilliams533 Ай бұрын

This is from 1995 if you've never seen it before. Still a good piece of work. He is a multi faceted artist. And he and Linda made a great team......❤ And the photos were actually taken by Linda about 1966. Just before she went to London for the first time.

@paulcrop536 Ай бұрын

Thank you blackbird singing in the dead of night!

@alvarhanso6310 Ай бұрын

At least a few photos of Jack Cassady and Jorma Kaukonen from the Human Be-In in there. This is awesome! Good soundtrack choices, too!

@502baking9 Ай бұрын

Spencer Dryden too

@ChristopherWarren-w2e Ай бұрын

Thank you Paul ❤

@RobHollanderMusic Ай бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks to the McCartney's.

@jimkoblick1776 Ай бұрын

So Fun !!

@springing Ай бұрын

Cool!

@subg8858 Ай бұрын

Interesting the music he chose to open film is very similar to Palace of the King of Birds. Confirms in my mind they were in fact going for a Dead type groove with that jam

@benzminibusdoc Ай бұрын

that's a nice treat ! strangely it starts and ends with Tom Constanten's prepared piano, but without credits. Else, it is a new perspective on something incredible happening at a somewhat magical time

@jamescornelius8304 Ай бұрын

Exactly -- why not name Constanten as an integral part of their most mysterious music?

@D97Music Ай бұрын

Very cool! Where did you source this from? I'd love to see The Beatles photofilm he was working on, especially with the Carnival of Light soundtrack!

@kurtfoulke5130 Ай бұрын

Far Out ! I've never seen this before.

@gnewts3155 Ай бұрын

Rad!!❤❤❤

@alanbauch2815 Ай бұрын

Loved the music..... this is the dead at it's finest, in my opinion..... it is to me, true psychedelic music.....

@andrewcowin3815 Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting. Linda Eastman McCartney must have been a very cool woman. And, one great thing about The Dead was they let their fans set up mics on the soundstage. So, no recording rights lawsuits, etc. Also, very cool, IMO. What a terrific collaboration here.

@SSags Ай бұрын

Noooo the Dead were very strict about recording shows in the early days, very strict. They eased up after the hiatus in 1974-5. Before then, it as a nasty if you were caught. There's a very big reason why 6 months of live shows in 1970 is completely missing and we don't have them. Bear Owsley was in jail so no one was recording the shows and the Dead had goon squads in the arenas shutting down tapers. There are a few tapes, with Mickey or Bobby caught on tape pointing out microphones to the stage hands who in turn would chase the tapers and destroy the tape and take the mics. Then there is the infamous live tape of Sam Cutter catching a taper in 1971 and having a huge argument with the taper all caught on the mic until he gave up the tape to him or leave the show immediately ...interestingly enough with the tape. So from 1976 to 1984, while the Dead themselves no longer cared if you recorded, the arenas and venues had strict policies about photos or recordings and the local security would take your tapes and mics. It wasn't until Spring 1984 that a Taper area was set up with a purchase of a Taper Ticket but if you were caught without that ticket and out of the zone...it was taken.

@andrewcowin3815 Ай бұрын

@@SSags Interesting. My first Dead concert was later. 1976. And, I can tell you, absolutely,, throughout the audience, there were mics on long poles (so, not hiding). I'd guess at least 20. And, I believe, within a year or two, some were on the soundstage (ya know that place in front of the stage where the engineers adjust the sound?) Tons of bootlegs emerged. But yes, probably not until after 1975.

@SSags Ай бұрын

@@andrewcowin3815 Read what I wrote, it depended on the venue or arena after 1975. Some cared and others didn't. Read up on the matter, in the 60s and early 70s, the Dead themselves shut down tapers. it's documented.

@andrewcowin3815 Ай бұрын

@@SSags Interesting historical tidbit. I'd heard the roadies were pretty tough guys. Not far removed from Hells Angels types. So, yeah, I can believe it. I probably went to ten Dead concerts from 1976 - 1980. All in the Northeast. All of them had fans with mics, as I described. But, again, I'm sure you're right. Seems like you looked into this! But, the Dead seemed like such mellow guys. And, not particularly aggressive on money issues. I mean, they all shared a townhouse. Not to mention that, eg, Haight Ashbury free concert and another one at Columbia, appear to have been filmed, with sound, by somebody in the audience. Maybe it depended on how much acid the Dead family had dropped that night. And, there definitely were bootlegs starting around 1973 and accelerating in number for years after, correct? Do you think those recordings were done surreptitiously?

@SSags 28 күн бұрын

@@andrewcowin3815 There's a fantastic blog about these days and the recordings, if you do a search. Just about everything and anything is documented about the Dead, their friends and the other SF bands on this site. I contribute on occasion. If you listen to some of the early audience tapes, specifically in 1970, the tapers ironically recorded battles between the tapers and Dead roadies. There's a great interaction caught on tape between Sam Cutler and some taper, goes on for like 10 minutes. Cutler basically gives the taper a choice between giving up his mics and tape or leaving the show immediately with the tape, that tape is on Archives but I don't remember the date but it is there. It's also very heated on Cutler's side and him being not so nice. But remember he just came over from the Rolling Stones, he never really fit in either.

@mudnducs Ай бұрын

I miss those days

@bowieeno Ай бұрын

Please, please KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVE… and the vibe

@spritelysprite Ай бұрын

@5:59: {{{"Well, these guys are no Moby Grape, that's for sure, and certainly nowhere near Canned Heat or Butterfield"}}}

@craigwalker7415 Ай бұрын

WoWser‼

@dreamwell2020 Ай бұрын

Someone should convince Paul to put together a second book of Linda's photographs.

@BubbaSimmz Ай бұрын

Badass.

@Salt-in-Wound Ай бұрын

Linda McCartney is a Deadhead legend. These photos are brilliant!! Great work Paul.

@edm781 Ай бұрын

She is NOT a Deadhead legend. She was just a music fan in the '60's with a camera.

@namcat53 Ай бұрын

Do some more research; Linda was just taking pictures before she met Paul. She was not a deadhead.

@edm781 Ай бұрын

@@Salt-in-Wound Sorry, been following the band for 40+ years. Those are fun pics. BUT there are TONS more legendary shots than those. e.g. Rosie McGee alone has hundreds more. Check out her book, Dancing with the Dead. She did date Phil from the earliest days & was a true Deadhead.

@namcat53 Ай бұрын

Those photos were taken by Linda before she met Paul.

@thomasmccullagh1300 Ай бұрын

Cool

@spritelysprite Ай бұрын

@5:02, Yeeaaahhhhhh!!!!

@jamesmoore3694 Ай бұрын

bloody geer.....man

@namcat53 Ай бұрын

@birdflu2k57 Ай бұрын

My wife and I were watching Beatles ‘64 the other night and my wife totally didn’t believe me that this was real. Now I have proof!!

@pscotmo Ай бұрын

Audio GD 2-14-68 Carousel Ballroom LOVE IT

@gtrhoppe Ай бұрын

Not exactly sure if this is true, But I've had two different friend point this out, so maybe. At 3:56 you see Merideth Hunter, the man murdered by Hell Angels at Altamont. He actually shows up a few times in this film. I don't mean to bummer this viewing for anyone, but if true, this is a very interesting fact. He is in sunglasses standing next to the man with his arm up. I tried to compare Hunter and this gentleman while watching 'Gimmie Shelter", and to me, this guy looks exactly like a different individual in that film at the Altamont concert. Anyway, thought I'd share. Speaking of... Thank you for posting this film. This is a very important film to the music historian or anyone. Very cool.

@tommyguns9008 Ай бұрын

Your tripping

@Rastamon1 Ай бұрын

Greetings to the IA Grateful Dead Forum. Fare thee well

@farrelltimlake9732 Ай бұрын

Anthem to amazing.

@AustinCurtis 29 күн бұрын

Would be pretty easy to swap in some higher quality audio

@Jacktors Ай бұрын

What song is this?

@Alligator6002 23 күн бұрын

New potato caboose and Alligator. Listen to Anthem of the Sun

@katfishjohn Ай бұрын

Sweet

@chrisgleis2821 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing paul speak about hiw he thought the Grateful Dead were the best American band.

@robzbuzz Ай бұрын

Alligator 2/14/68 carousel. Road trips 2.2 but most of those shots from central park Bandshell. I think airplane was there too.

@mikeweaver4942 Ай бұрын

I spotted Jack and Jorma just before I read your comment (at about 4:30)

@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc Ай бұрын

I love the old black and white pictures, and the Grateful Dead were great. Some rare shots, from a time long gone. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the way it was made into a slide movie. I think it could have been better. I guess they were limited by the pictures. It wasn’t too bad though.