Grateful Dead
Jonah Hill Will Play Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese-Directed Grateful Dead Film
Earlier this year, it was announced that Pete Davidson would be playing Joey Ramone in an upcoming biopic for Netflix. On Thursday, SPIN learned that Jonah Hill will be playing Jerry Garcia in an upcoming Grateful Dead biopic. The film will be directed by Martin Scorsese and will be released on Apple. Deadline was the first to report the news of the Grateful Dead biopic. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) will be writing the script. Executive producers include the Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, Garcia’s daughter Trixie, Eric Eisner, and Bernie Cahill. Additionally, Hill will also produce the film through his Strong Baby production company with Matt Dines. Scorsese and Rick Yorn of LBI Entert...
High Rollers: Our 1993 Deadhead Feature
This article originally appeared in the August 1993 issue of SPIN. To a Deadhead, Las Vegas is the other side of the universe. —Bill Graham It’s a match made in heaven. —Sean, a 100-show veteran Deadhead from Burbank For the third year in a row, Deadheads descended on Las Vegas, Nevada, that unlikeliest of hippie hangouts, for a spring weekend of Grateful Dead shows. There had been grumblings the year before—from casino owners and from a local politician (whose ’67 Porsche had been dented when a Deadhead jumped on the hood), but they were shouted down and the Deadheads were invited back. Most agreed with Sean from Burbank. “It’s fun to be here,” said Kelly, a beautiful 21-year-old from Barbados who follows the Dead with her friends Moon and Molly. “It’s, like, here’s a town you’re al...
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
