- Sunshine Daydream
"Sunshine Daydream" is an unreleased movie shot at the
Grateful Dead 's 1972Veneta, Oregon concert to benefit the Springfield Creamery in nearbySpringfield, Oregon . The film is sometimes shown at smallfilm festival s, andbootleg recording s of it have circulated onVHS andDVD and asdigital download s.The concert, recorded on
August 27 ,1972 , was filmed using four 16 mm cameras, in the woods of the Oregon Coast Range foothills, on the grounds of theOregon Country Fair . Originally even more cameras had been planned, under an ambitious scheme: "The plot was to develop a signature visual style of representing the band: a camera for each of the 16 channels (at least!) emphasizing the visual kinetics of the music making itself as well as the enormous open communication within the band." [Field]Ken Kesey and old cohortKen Babbs emceed the concert.The Dead played all afternoon and into the dark after an opening set by theNew Riders of the Purple Sage .The title of the film is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "
Sugar Magnolia ".Personnel
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Jerry Garcia — guitar, vocals
*Bob Weir — guitar, vocals
*Phil Lesh — bass, vocals
*Bill Kreutzmann — drums
*Keith Godchaux — keyboards
*Donna Godchaux — vocalsongs in the film
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Playing in the Band
*Promised Land
*China Cat Sunflower
*I Know You Rider
*Jack Straw
*Dark Star
*El Paso
*Greatest Story Ever ToldComplete song list for the August 27, 1972 concert
*First set
**Promised Land [2:58]
**Sugaree [7:14]
**Me and My Uncle [3:00]
**Deal [4:39]
**Black-Throated Wind [6:31]
**China Cat Sunflower [7:59]
**I Know You Rider [6:04]
**Mexicali Blues [3:30]
**Bertha [5:40]
*Second set
**Playing in the Band [18:13]
**He's Gone [8:50]
**Jack Straw [4:57]
**Bird Song [12:16]
**Greatest Story Ever Told [5:22]
*Third set
**Dark Star [32:09]
**El Paso [4:24]
**Sing Me Back Home [10:23]
**Sugar Magnolia [8:26]
**Casey Jones [6:07]
**One More Saturday Night [4:33]Notes
References
[http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10090 Field, Sam. Description of the making of "Sunshine Daydream", posted on The Traders' Den]
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