Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
1978, English. Directed by Cynthia Sterne & Roi Peers & Haig Mackey & Vincent Casalaina.
Celebrate New Year's Eve at Winterland for One Final Night
The Closing Of Winterland documents the Grateful Dead's landmark New Year's Eve 1978 concert that marked the end of the famed San Francisco Bay Area venue Winterland Aena. The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party (complete with breakfast with the audience at dawn) and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown.
- Runtime
- 4h 16m
- Post-credits
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- English
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- Released
- 31 December 1978
- Country
- United States of America
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Who directed Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland?
Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland (1978) was directed by Cynthia Sterne and Roi Peers and Haig Mackey and Vincent Casalaina and stars Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann.