Sunshine Daydream - Promised Land

Sunshine Daydream is an unreleased movie shot at the Grateful Dead's 1972 Veneta, Oregon concert to benefit the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon. The film is sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it have circulated on VHS and DVD and as digital downloads.

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 the Oregon 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."

Ken Kesey and old cohort Ken Babbs emceed the concert. The Dead played all afternoon and into the dark after an opening set by the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

The title of the film is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia".

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• Sunshine
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• Promised
• Land

[boscomorgan]

this really was one of thee highest shows these cat's ever played.ever. period.

[RUDYCUTY]

I was at a concert in Cincinnati Ohio the other night and they would not let you have a cig with your beer outside! That town is ran by communist, the cops yelled at you if you smoked a cigarette with your beer! That was f' up just sad town and I am stuck here in the shit hole!

[wobbly585]

@RUDYCUTY It's disgraceful the way that some people treat smokers. How on earth can smoking al fresco harm anyone? Health workers her in Scarborough , England are not allowed to some in their cars if they are on hospital premise and in the mental health hospitals it's banned everywhere. Who are these people it's frightening. Peace

[MichaelHansenFUN]

there is more to the story, heat wave I HAVE THIS

[kewlbreez77]

@boscomorgan .... you said it, hands down!

[lagunaflyguy]

Just drove past the spot of this concert today, humming the Promised Land, and singing a little Jack Straw on my way to Florence and the Coast!

[pyrotech8285]

@forseanearth not country, a genre of its own

[pyrotech8285]

@RUDYCUTY its fuckin stallins fault man! fuckin its all stalin!

[livninrhythm]

@RUDYCUTY

I feel ya on that!! I'm gettin outta this town in a few months

[spudco06]

"these Oregon hippies are strong fellows...."

[funkengruvenful]

mayday, mayday...we've got hippies in the tree line. If they ask for water...shoot! lol

[forseanearth]

TRUE country music