Grateful Dead - 1970 CC Rider-Don't Ease Me In-New Speedway

[skullndroses]

so much was cut in festival express! imagine how many beautiful moments were cut by the movie makers forever hidden in obscurity?

[kissmusiclover]

This looks like orginal production timecoded MASTER that venues used to use to document there shows. This is listed as FE-8 which would be Festival Version reel 8...if I am correct. Seen other footage watermarked this way and it was always used by the venues to document the shows for inhouse production. This is ususually that they used to edit the film for production. I am still looking for information on what the 'FE", 'ME', and others code mean. Anybody know?

[LSommer]

Isn't pigpen in there?

[TheElissaS]

Priceless footage, man. Now this is the stuff good things are made of. This is the music I grew up on and I'm 53 now. At that time my older sister was going to college in Oneonta, NY and I got turned on to all of this. She's about 12 yrs. older than me. But THIS is where I was at!

[grandbbq]

Fucking AMAZING!!!!

[LSDpeasantry]

Incredible

[willruddock]

Is that Pig sitting in on Organ?

[tyedyebob]

the tele jerry is playing, what i suspect, is delaney bramlet's. george harrison's rosewood tele from the get back sessions, that he gave i to delaney. also, a future new rider's pedal steel player buddy cage. i would love to see more footage released, if there is any. the train footage alone is priceless!

[BansheeJam]

Sylvia Tyson of Ian and Sylvia... Festival Express is one of my favorite documentaries of all time. My own personal "feel good" movie. I have it on VHS, but I've never seen this raw footage.

[folkrockm14]

who ia the girl singer again.

[Altoonasuks]

I was hangin out with my friends,and my girl got pissed off...I love her ...I just wanted to chiiiiiiiiiillllllll!!!!!.....­.anyway, I told her ...."I been out all night, i'm not comin home so don't ease me in."

[pauletaloca]

AWESOME!

YEAH MAN, I LOVE JERRY AND THE DEAD!

FOREVER HIPPIES!

This is from the Festival Express, I got this Film is Awesome!

[BluesDuke]

Whoa, Jerry playing a Telecaster? That's something I've never seen. Bravo. I was wondering how he was getting that fat twang.

[54spiritedwill54]

This is wicked. I can even recognize some of the band members.

[ChicoEscuela]

Bill Kreutzmann on tamborine!

[frantic291]

just watched Festival Express on IFC much better sound quality.

[sugareeworkndajubale]

ground score!

[davidlenander]

You should add "Ian & Sylvia Tyson" and "Great Speckled Bird" and "Festival Express" to your tags so people can find this. This is great! I'd wanted to see this since I read about it in '71 or so, and the Festival Express movie didn't show this much. Thanks for posting!

[angibabi]

AWSOME!

what a train trip!

[dynamoehummm]

oh god. part 1 of 3?

Why you do this to me? Had to hook ma foot under the desk at 5:03. Things are gonna get stranger methinks.

[Nahkampfnils]

unbelievable!

I love this!

[orlaej]

Wow - Jack Casady!

[SteerforthBinoculars]

never mind!

[SteerforthBinoculars]

Someone's playing Ricks Danko's bass and it's not Rick Danko! (well, maybe he just had the same one)

Great stuff, though! I love all these folks.

[agstwsthds]

Correct! This is Ian and Sylvia's band on the "Festival Express". The only members of the Dead visible are Jerry (of course) and Kreutzman (on tamborine). That's not "...Cassidy on bongos" but Buddy Cage on Pedal Steel guitar(he would later replace Jerry on it in the NPRS). Bonnie Bramlett makes a brief appearance towards the end. That's about as much as I can identify.

[DrIck2]

Is it possible that the guitarist who appears at 5:50 and thereafter is Delaney Bramlett?

[davidlenander]

Someone confirmed (?) on an excerpt of this elsewhere that the drummer is N.D. Smart III, the GSB drummer on the record and also with Mountain and Gram Parsons Fallen Angels, I think that's Delaney Bramlet on guitar at about 5:55, and maybe that's GSB lead guitarist Amos Garret (later with Maria Muldaur) behind him? Ken Kalmuskey was the basist on the GSB record, but I don't think that's him on bass, so maybe he'd left by then....

[davidlenander]

I guess that the bassist is probably Jim Colegrove, per the Coolgroove web site.

[jojojosmart]

@davidlenander - that's N.D. Smart II on drums. He's mt cousin. I found this video by accident.He played drums with a 60's band called the remains and then with the Hello People produced by Todd Rundgren in the 70's. If you know of any more youtube videos where he's drumming let me know.

[bpbatlaw]

@jojojosmart Didn't he also play with Gram Parsons? (I don't know of any video, but I think I recall his name from at least one live album from GP post Flying Burrito Brothers.) This footage is certainly interesting, if not stellar.

[jojojosmart]

@bpbatlaw -yes he did play with Gram Parsons. And later recorded with Jesse Winchester.

[willruddock]

Have you seen the movie Festival Express? Because Bob Weir sneaks in behind Buddy Cage. It's hard to see him in this footage but you can see him okay in the film.

[jojojosmart]

@agstwsthds - my cousin N>D> Smart II on drums. He also played with Mountain, the Remains, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Todd Rundgren, Jesse Winchester, and the Hello People.

[suereed]

more. 10/10

[sentdata]

I think it's Jack Cassady on bongos! Great Stuff!

[ELTIETCHA]

It´s really worthwhile to look/hear this video halfway thru, guitars are freakin´ beyond imagination. Guys, give it a shot.

[suninthefall]

oh, god!

[bluenote335]

Killer footage! Thanks for this classic post :)

[Chinpokoman1]

Transcendent performance.

[ELTIETCHA]

This is wicked. I can even recognize some of the band members. The sound is far out, though.

[Mr1d8]

This looks to be original (time coded) full length footage of the above "Festival Express" performance.

[Satipetunia]

I wasn't there. This might be from a film of a trans-Canadian trip called something like "The Festival Express." Ian and Sylvia, Jerry Garcia, members of The Band, members of the NRPS and others. WOW! Thanks for posting!

[willruddock]

Go to your local video store and rent Festival Express.