Grateful Dawg
by Gillian Grisman
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Actor: David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Jim Kerwin, Joe Craven, Rob BleetsteinDirector: Gillian Grisman
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
Producer: David Grisman
Cinematographer: Dave Dennison
Cinematographer: Barney Colangelo
Producer: Gillian Grisman
Producer: Alicia Sams
Producer: Craig Miller
Producer: Justin Kreutzmann
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Grateful Dawg
DVD Review: Great Condition!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband is a HUGE Grateful Dead fan and requested this DVD specifically for Christmas. It arrived in a very timely manner and in great condition.DVD Review: Get it and enjoy!!
Summary: 5 Stars
There is only one thing I will say about this DVD.
There are NOT ENOUGH stars to rate this one!
Peace to all....
DVD Review: Grateful Dawg On-Target
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic piece of history and music that will forever preserve these musical brothers amazing power as a duo. Worth every penny!DVD Review: Excellent Doc About Two Masterful Musicians
Summary: 5 Stars
The early part of the film focuses on Grisman's and Garcia's early days as players in various bluegrass bands during the early 1960's. There is some great archival footage, including pics of both guys with short hair. They met at a Bill Monroe concert in 1964 and from there blossomed a friendship based on a shared love of music.
The doc moves forward with a mix of live performances, rehearsals and interviews with various friends, family members and fellow musicians. The first 45 minutes really flows smoothly and is great for both the music and its insights into the characters and personalities of its two extradordinarily talented men. But by the end it does begin to drag a bit with too much "home movie" type footage.
Some tighter editing could have made this doc even better. But still for fans of Garcia and Grisman, or just about anyone who can appreciate great music, this is a viewing and listening pleasure to be enjoyed.
DVD Review: "Documentary" little more than compiled performance footage
Summary: 1 Stars
The music here is excellent. If that's the focus of your interest, then by all means get yourself the soundtrack recording, which certainly shows a range of Grisman/Garcia collaboration (from the jazz-exotica of Arabia to the children's music of Jenny Jenkins and Freight Train to the bluegrass of Sunny Sunny South, etc.).
But why make a movie of it? Grisman/Garcia, while virtuosic musicians with great blend, are stultifyingly dull to watch. They stand largely stock still while playing or leaning into the mic to sing, and the acoustic performances shown here (even the lame B&W video of the blues classic "The Thrill is Gone") are utterly devoid of pyrotechnic eye-candy, facial close-ups of performer/audience to offer a narrative/emotional frisson, or even the barest focus on finger-technique. This is music to listen to, not to watch, and even the dull concert footage is routinely interrupted by interview material that fails to illuminate the proceedings.
In fact, the interviews represent a staggering loss of opportunity, considering the insiders (members of the band and producers), intimates (family), and experts (influenced and influential musicians like Bela Fleck) presented. We get little information aside from bland, repetitive hype. "These guys were really great musicians and Jerry Garcia was much more famous than Dave Grisman yet still hung out with him in the early 1970s and again throughout the '90s," about covers it. Moviegoers curious about how the music was constructed, the virtuosic technique employed, the lives of these individuals, and visual examples of the meaning and impact they might have had on one another, art, fans, anything will find this documentary to be a frustrating, hollow shell... and boring to boot.
Description of Grateful Dawg
AN INSIDE LOOK AT TWO MUSICAL POWERHOUSES, GRATEFUL DAWGGUITARIST JERRY GARCIA AND MANDOLINIST DAVID GRISMAN, THATSHOWCASES THE DYNAMIC DUO'S MUSICAL MAGIC THROUGH RARE CONCERTFOOTAGE, UNRELEASED AUDIO TRACKS AND LIVING ROOM JAM SESSIONS.Jerry Garcia was famous as the visionary behind the Grateful Dead, but his musical tastes were broad, and he found a rewarding partnership with mandolinist David Grisman, whose distinctive "Dawg" style fused jazz with bluegrass. At its best, Grateful Dawg celebrates the easy friendship and truly inspired musicianship of Garcia and Grisman through grainy home-movie footage with surprisingly crisp sound. As one of the film's commentators says, Grisman made Garcia tighter as a musician, while Garcia made Grisman looser, and where they met they created an infectious, rootsy style they called Grateful Dawg. The film's many highlights include instrumental versions of "Dawg Waltz," "Shady Grove," and "Arabia," as well as splendid footage from Garcia and Grisman's days in Old & in the Way. The talking heads inserted ham-handedly between and over performances, unfortunately, become repetitious and, finally, downright annoying. But Garcia and Grisman fans will still enjoy the glimpse at a rare musical alchemy. --Anne Hurley
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