Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey

Dead Ringers The Making of Touch of Grey is a music documentary film about the American rock group the Grateful Dead. It depicts the production of the bands first music video, for their song Touch of Grey.

Dead Ringers The Making of Touch of Grey begins with a concert performance of the song Touch of Grey. This is from the May 9, 1987 Dead show at the Laguna Seca Recreation Area in Monterey, California. This and subsequent sections of Dead Ringers also include interviews with all the members of the Grateful Dead. At that time the band consisted of Jerry Garcia guitar, vocals, Bob Weir guitar, vocals, Phil Lesh bass, Brent Mydland keyboards, vocals, Bill Kreutzmann drums and percussion, and Mickey Hart drums and percussion. The music for Touch of Grey had been written by Garcia, and the lyrics were by Robert Hunter. Garcia sang lead vocals. The Dead had been performing the song live since September, 1982. It was about to be released as the first track of the Deads first studio album in seven years, In the Dark.The next section of Dead Ringers shows the preparations for the filming of the Touch of Grey video. It was decided that the video would depict the band as skeletons, with features and mannerisms that would allow each one to be easily recognizable. The skeletons would be life size marionette puppets. This part of the film shows the construction of the marionettes and other preproduction activities. The Touch of Grey video was directed by Gary Gutierrez, who had created the animated scenes for The Grateful Dead Movie. Gutierrez is interviewed, along with several of the puppeteers, one of whom is Annabelle Garcia, daughter of Jerry Garcia and Carolyn Mountain Girl Adams. ........

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