Documentary, Music
Drop out of school to ride with the Merry Pranksters. Form America’s most enduring jam band. Become a family man and father. Never stop chasing the muse. Bob Weir took his own path to and through superstardom as rhythm guitarist for The Grateful Dead. Mike Fleiss re-imagines the whole wild journey in this magnetic rock doc and concert film, with memorable input from bandmates, contemporaries, followers, family, and, of course, the inimitable Bob Weir himself.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
Mr. Holland's Opus
Snitches Get Stitches
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Still Crazy
Porgy and Bess
Onni pyörii
Moulin Rouge!
Finding Fela
Dead & Company: 2023-05-28 Lakewood, ATL
Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Tuff Gong Studio Rehearsal
Wirklich alles?!
Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybody
Dead & Company: 2023-06-01 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC, USA
Viva Las Vegas
The Shadows - The Final Tour
The Red Elvis
American Pop
A Matter of Time
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden
SIMILAR MOVIES
Mr. Holland's Opus
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1995
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.Snitches Get Stitches
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2020
A group of singing, child-friendly puppets' world is shaken up when they graduate from letters and numbers and are transferred to an inner-city high school filled with drugs, gangs, and violence.The Boys & Girl from County Clare
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2003
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.Still Crazy
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1998
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.Porgy and Bess
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1959
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.Onni pyörii
IMDB 3 | Apr , 1942
Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.Moulin Rouge!
IMDB 7.5 | May , 2001
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.Finding Fela
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2014
Fela Anikulapo Kuti created the musical movement Afrobeat and used it as a political forum to oppose the Nigerian dictatorship and advocate for the rights of oppressed people. This is the story of his life, music, and political importance.Dead & Company: 2023-05-28 Lakewood, ATL
IMDB 9 | May , 2023
Set 1: Jam (>) Cassidy (Bob Weir song) (>) Deal (Jerry Garcia cover) Samson and Delilah ([traditional] cover) Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead cover) It Hurts Me Too (Tampa Red cover) Tennessee Jed (Grateful Dead cover) If I Had the World to Give (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ([traditional] cover) Set 2: Althea (Grateful Dead cover) Estimated Prophet (Grateful Dead cover) (>) China Cat Sunflower (Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider ([traditional] cover) (>) Eyes of the World (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums (Grateful Dead cover) (with Oteil Burbridge) (>) Space (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson cover)Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
IMDB 8.8 | Jan , 2014
In 1987, Billy Joel took his family, his music and his concert show to the former Soviet Union. This feature-length documentary film looks back at the triumphs and difficulties encountered in creating the first fully staged rock 'n' roll show in the USSR. Directed by Emmy(R)-winning documentarian, Jim Brown.Bob Marley & The Wailers - Tuff Gong Studio Rehearsal
IMDB 10 | May , 1980
Bob Marley and the Wailers entered the newly refurbished Tuff Gong Studios on May 1, 1980 to rehearse songs for the upcoming Uprising tour which starts June 1, 1980 in München, Germany. A film crew is at the rehearsal to film footage for a JBC documentary on Bob Marley and Tuff Gong. Much of the rehearsal was captured on film, and it has become legendary footage.Wirklich alles?!
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2002
Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybody
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 2004
Dead & Company: 2023-06-01 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC, USA
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2023
Set 1: New Speedway Boogie (Grateful Dead cover) They Love Each Other (Jerry Garcia cover) Mama Tried (Merle Haggard cover) Easy Wind (Grateful Dead cover) Ramble On Rose (Grateful Dead cover) Dear Mr. Fantasy (Traffic cover) (>) Hey Jude (The Beatles cover) Bird Song (Jerry Garcia cover) Set 2: Sugaree (Jerry Garcia cover) St. Stephen (Grateful Dead cover) (>) William Tell Bridge (Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Eleven (Grateful Dead cover) Iko Iko (Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters cover) (>) Drums (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space (Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Need a Miracle (Grateful Dead cover) (>) Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead cover) Casey Jones (Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Black Muddy River (Grateful Dead cover)Viva Las Vegas
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 1964
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.The Shadows - The Final Tour
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2004
The Shadows long and influential career has spanned 6 decades, with hit singles or albums in every one of them. Hank Marvin's guitar playing has been an inspiration to hordes of guitarists down the years, including the likes of Brian May, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend. Over a decade since their last tour, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian BennettThe Red Elvis
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2007
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.American Pop
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1981
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.A Matter of Time
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2015
Kathryn Calder, one of the vocalists behind the Influential and successful indie band The New Pornographers, puts her life on hold when her mother is diagnosed with ALS. After moving back to her childhood home to care for her mother, she is inspired to record her first solo album, 'Are You My Mother?' there as a gift to her as she fights the disease. Old bandmates, friends, and a new extended family only recently discovered all join Kathryn in her and her mother's journey.Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2009
Winwood and Clapton crossed musical paths in 1969 with the formation of Blind Faith, a group that pioneered the fusion of rock and blues into tremendous studio and stage success. Despite critical and popular acclaim, the band was short-lived with only one album and a brief 1969 tour that debuted July 12 at Madison Square Garden and ended August 24 in Hawaii. Since then, Winwood and Clapton have remained friends but have only performed together a few times over the years for an occasional song at a charity event. The 2008 Madison Square Garden shows were the first full Winwood-Clapton concerts in almost 40 years.