Grateful Dead - View From the Vault |  | Director: Len dell'Amico
Actors: The Grateful Dead, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh
Studio: WEA/Rhino
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 52,038
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 215 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
UPC: 012233479225
EAN: 0012233479225
Release Date: October 10, 2000
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Since 1994, Grateful Dead Productions has answered Deadheads' demands for full, live concerts, releasing a series of shows (blemishes and all) on CD entitled Dick's Picks. So it was only a matter of time before the company dug into the video footage archives. Critics may find the idea of releasing Grateful Dead concert videos amusing. After all, the staunchest Deadhead likely would admit that even on their best nights the boys weren't visually all that exciting a bunch to watch. That said, this full-length show from July 8, 1990 (a mere 16 days before keyboardist Brent Mydland died of a speedball overdose) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers an intimate look at the dynamics that few could notice when attending a stadium show. For instance, there's the wonderful interplay between guitarist Jerry Garcia and Mydland--each shooting smiles and knowing winks--at each other during "Greatest Story Ever Told." But, really, let's forget the philosophizing and get to the point: Deadheads really want to know the highlights of a particular show. There are several here, including a beautiful, lilting "Eyes of the World," a head-spinning "Let It Grow," Garcia's poignant delivery of the morbid "Black Peter," and, perhaps best of all, an improvisational, untitled jam that emerges from "He's Gone" (this is bonus material from a show two nights before in Louisville, Kentucky). While the entire show is by no means a peak performance by the Dead (though it features a terrific sound mix), it's still a great start to a series that one hopes will continue to evolve. --Dave McCoy
Description
The first all new video from America's premier in-concert band in over three years. The Grateful Dead - A View from the Vault is over 2-1/2 hours of LIVE concert footage from the historic concert at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA in July of 1990. Jerry, Mickey, Bill, Phil, Brent and Bob thrill a packed stadium with the classic performance style that is uniquely their own. This contains both day and night footage, including the first ever video released version of the huge hit "A Touch of Grey". The DVD version contains over an extra hour of additional footage shot from Cardinal's Stadium during the same tour.
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 Great show, solid video September 8, 2000
Andrew Mercer (California)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This release was greatly welcomed by this household of Deadheads. We'd been hearing that the Grateful Dead's video archive would be opened much as the audio archive has been opened up, and we'd heard that this video series was going to be akin to a Dick's Picks of videos. And, man, oh, man, it is about time. But this video shows that it has been worth the wait. From the first notes, a beaming Jerry sets the tone for night with a lyrically and musically perfect Touch of Grey. The first set includes some favorites like Jack-A-Roe, a wonderful, lilting Row Jimmy, Phil's fun rendition of Dylan's Tom Thumb's Blues, and a set closing Let It grow that sees the band hitting all the marks they should be. Whew. It felt good watching. The second set, however, is where the fireworks are: two hour journey through old and new GD, with nary a break in action for the duration. Sampson and Delilah smokes, but it is the Eyes of the World that explodes. The second jam in the song saw a house full of dropped jaws. The rest of the set is VERY solid, with Estimated Prophet, Wang Dand Doodle, and Black Peter being real standouts. And the "filler", from a show two nights previous...Wow! The two Jerry songs in a row (beautiful renditions of Standing on the Moon and He's Gone) and the jam that follows are out of this world. Real icing on the cake. Nearly four hours of music, and all we could say is "when does the next one arrive..." Keep these coming; they are the next best thing to being there.
A "must" for all Grateful Dead fans! September 7, 2000
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Monterey Media takes full and complete advantage of DVD technology to present two and a half hours of the Grateful Dead concert which took place at the Three rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 8, 1990. Here for the viewer's total enjoyment are rock music icons Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Brent Mydland, and Bob Weir. The first set includes Touch of Grey; Greatest Story Ever Told; Jack-A-Roe; New Minglewood Blues; Row Jimmy; Mama Tried; Mexicali Blues; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues; and Let It Grow. The Second Set included Samson and Delilah; Eyes of the World; Estimated Prophet; Terrapin Station; Jam; Drums; Space; I Need a Miracle; Wang Dang Doodle; Black Peter; Throwing Stones; Turn On Your Lovelight; and Knockin' On Heaven's Door. An extra special addition to the DVD format are Standing on the Moon; He's Gone; and KY Jam from their July 6, 1990 performance at Cardinal Stadium, at Louisville, Kentucky. A "must" for all Greatful Dead fans, it should be noted that this DVD offers the viewer one full hour of extra footage that is not included on the VHS version.
Take it for what it is. May 20, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Okay folks, you need to take this DVD for what it is. The footage is from 1990. You can't expect the band to be in its prime (it's not '72 or '77), you can't expect special effects to be on par with what people are putting out today. You can't expect for them to have accounted for new fangled wide-screen TV's. The footage here is as it was presented on the stadium screens and is, presumably, the only full length video available (especially with a synched audio track), it was also intended to be a supplement to the live show, not replace it. What this DVD is, is an archival record of one moment in the Dead's history. Just like trading tapes and buying Dick's picks won't transport you to the moment this won't either, but it does add another dimension, and it's nice to be able to pop in the disk and see the boys doin what they do. Don't expect a slick purpose made DVD and you won't be dissapointed. That having been said it is a good setlist and, for 1990, a very good show. The second set rocks Samson>Eyes>Estimated (yes Eyes>Estimated)>Terrapin>Jam>Drums>Space>... Yes there is a pink panther walking across the screen in the second set, but if that bothers you haven't properly been fulfilling your second set duties.
This is what it's all about October 17, 2001
Aaron P. Beck (Baltimore, MD United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I see in a few other reviews some complaints about the special effects not relating to the music. I was at this show, and the effects being disjointed from the music occurs on this DVD the same way it occured 12 years ago--with a delay between the video and audio. Seeing this at the show was simply mind-blowing. Though it doesn't translate as well to video (a pan out from the screen would be more appropriate), let it be known that the integrity of the show's discrepencies has be upheld--a must for any Dead recordings. Personally, I couldn't be happier. After all these years, there are only two things I remember from this show: the entire stadium bouncing to Row Jimmy; seeing Bobby scream into his mic with tracers flowing from his head and getting hit with his vocals a full 2 seconds after the vision. Wow! Overall the setlist is nice and fairly unique, the jams are sweet, the video is crisp and the audio, though a bit off, is true to form. Definitely in my top 5 concert DVD's.
Great, and Funny..the real deal April 10, 2001
Doug Pearson
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For those unfortunate enough to have never seen a Dead show..This is about as close as you'll get. The guys trying to remember to stand on those supermarket "open pads" to turn on their mics, Bob fooling around with his rackmount gear, Brent trying to get a sound level corrected..Thats what it was like every night!! The best part for me however was the bonus Louisville section. I was at that show, and the Standing into Hes gone blew me away then, and blew me away again when I got to see it on the dvd.
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