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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fan-tastic Documentary,
By Pete MPH "Pete MPH" (Lake Worth, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tie Died [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Tie-Died is an excellent documentary of the "deadicated" fans of the Grateful Dead. The film makers travel with the fans during Summer of 1994 (which as it turns out is the penultimate Summer Tour for the Grateful Dead). It does not discuss the band at all, but rather gives the other experience of being at a show, the lot. This movie relays the experience of traveling with deadheads between shows, the parking lot experience before the show, and the scene after the show. It is sometimes touching, sometimes crazy, sometimes angry in-depth look at those who allowed the Dead to go on it's 30-year long strange trip.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great documentary of an American phenomenon,
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This review is from: Tie Died [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I was pleasantly surprised by this well-rounded documentary that takes the viewer along on the band's final(?) summer tour. Almost no time spent on the band itself. Examines a good cross-section of heads which include a t-shirt vendor, medic, bootlegger, families on tour, young heads, old heads, a VW bus mechanic, and many for which there is no classification. Shows us the warm fuzzy side as well as the ugly side of the scene. If you were there, wish you'd been there, wish you were still there, or just want to know what this scene was all about, check out this video.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent countercultural documentary, with its flaws,
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This review is from: Tie Died [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I just saw this on ...TV and I was really surprised to see something like this on television to begin with. I am not a Deadhead (but do enjoy the lifestyle of many of them), but Tie-Died: Rock's Most Deadicated Fans is, for the most part, an excellent documentary that shows life at a parking lot before a Grateful Dead concert. Plus it plainly shows that the countercultural scene was still alive and well in the grunge and alternative rock dominated culture of the mid 1990s. But just be careful not to believe everything these people being interviewed are saying. On numerous occasions, I found what they were saying a bit insincere, but there were still quite a few people who not only sounded very sincere, but had very valid things to say. They seemed to put a large emphasis on the under 18 crowd, for some reason (although they interview enough people who were old enough to been there in the 1960s, to not be totally biased), perhaps because people are surprised that they'd chose this lifestyle, instead of the grunge/alternative rock lifestlye. The documentary also showed a few people who were becoming disillusioned with the lifestyle, which I don't blame them if they keep getting bad vibes, in fact that's the one thing that brought down the original countercultural movement by 1970 (like the Altamont riots in December 1969, and Kent State in 1970), and you could tell from watching Tie-Died, that that attitude could bring down the current generation of hippies (which it did come 1999 with the disgraceful, greed-driven event known as Woodstock '99). So basically you get a combination of good and bad vibes throughout the documentary. But there were some fundamentalist Christians as well in the film, three guys with beards, if I remember right, who were trying to convert some of the kids to Christianity. They liked to brag on the success they had, but there's no proof. Another disturbing thing was someone mentioned how much jail time you would serve for just a gram of LSD, and that multiplies for each gram you have. Makes you wonder if America is really a democracy, or a police state after you hear what was said on the documentary. Because of the increase of undercover police officers, people advised never to buy and sell LSD at a Dead concert. I have some objections to this film. They tended to make the hippies (particularly the young, under 18 crowd) as completely stoned and unbathed, but liked to show the older hippies (the ones who have been with the Dead since the beginning) as sober and clean. In other words, it would have been much nicer if they showed some of the younger people a little more with it. Basically this documentary won't give outsiders (non-hippies) any better opinions about hippies, although I'm glad to see that the cops you see were rather surprised how little trouble these people at the Dead concert created. Plus I'd like it better if they also included some footage of the Dead playing, and historical footage as well, to compare the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, with the 1990s. This documentary is also a sad reminder that these were some of the last Dead shows before the untimely death of Jerry Garcia. I took a star off just because of some of the flaws (and the occasional stereotyping of hippies), but it's still a great documentary on the counterculture movement, the way it was in the 1990s.
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