Sunshine Daydream
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Sunshine Daydream is a semi-official movie based on the Grateful Dead's 1972 Veneta, Oregon concert to benefit the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon. The film has never seen official release, but is sometimes shown in small film festivals.
The concert, recorded on August 27, 1972, was filmed by four 16mm film cameras, in the woods of the Oregon Coast Range foothills, what is the home of the Oregon Renaissance Faire Grounds. 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." [1]
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 film is a chronicle and record of the Sixties as much as any true life documentary can be. The day itself was magical and free, as the film begins to express.
The title of the film is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia".
[edit] Songs perhaps contained in film
Promised Land [2:58]
Sugaree [7:14]
Me and My Uncle [3:00]
Deal [4:39]
Black-Throated Wind [6:31]
China Cat Sunflower [7:59]
I Know You Rider [6:04]
Mexicali Blues [3:30]
Bertha [5:40]
Playing in the Band [18:13]
He's Gone [8:50]
Jack Straw [4:57]
Bird Song [12:16]
Greatest Story Ever Told [5:22]
Dark Star [32:09]
El Paso [4:24]
Sing Me Back Home [10:23]
Sugar Magnolia [8:26]
Casey Jones [6:07]
One More Saturday Night [4:33]
