Description: The groundbreaking late night talk program The Tomorrow Show (boasting 3 Emmy® nominations) brings together some key figures and musical icons of the flower power generation in one amazing DVD: The Tomorrow Show – Tom Snyder’s Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show.
Includes captivating interviews with Tom Snyder and:
• The Grateful Dead • Dr. Timothy Leary • Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest") • Tom Wolfe (author of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test")
Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead - for the first time ever on DVD!
On The Road Again Cassidy Dire Wolf Deep Elem Blues
And interviews with band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman
Great for Deadheads While recorded in the late 70s and early 80s, the theme to this Tom Snyder release is icons of the 1960s. Two words sum up why you should get this DVD: Grateful Dead. Out of the four segments, the May 7, 1981 segment is the money maker. The episode features Ken Kesey and the Dead. Initially, the interview features Kesey and Jerry Garcia. Next, Snyder interviews Jerry and Bob Weir. Eventually Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart join the session. In the middle of it all, the band plays a short set of 'On the Road Again,' 'Dire Wolf,' 'Deep Elm Blues' and an abbreviated 'Cassidy.' The DVD menu is actually set-up so that viewer can jump to the live songs. The video and audio is fantastic, as is the performance. The only drawback to the overall quality is that Brent Mydland is excluded from the video feed with the exception of two glimpses of the back of his head. "The Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show" is one of the few looks at the band during their acoustic phase of the 80s. The deadicated will recall that it was only seven months earlier that the band played their memorable string of acoustically infused Radio City shows. Tom Snyder's questions are as interesting as the Grateful Dead's responses. This is a valuable look at the Dead during an irresistible period that hasn't been well documented on video. The other interviews vary in quality. Merry Prankster Ken Kesey ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") offers an enjoyable look into the Acid Tests. The August 6, 1979 interview with Tom Wolfe ("The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test") is entertaining. While not related to the Grateful Dead or the Acid Tests, his interview is engaging. While the decade is often reduced to a caricature, Wolfe's conversation stands as a rare look at the 1970s from within the 1970s. In contrast, the October 14, 1980 Tom Wolfe segment isn't nearly as compelling. In it, he discusses his book "The Right Stuff" that would eventually be made into a film. While his social observations are less interesting than his first interview, it's a good talk for aviation enthusiasts. The final interview is with Timothy Leary ("The Psychedelic Experience"). Considering the interviewee, it is surprisingly dull. While the Kesey and Wolfe interviews have their moments, it is legitimate to criticize the non-Dead material as filler. While Deadheads will cherish "The Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show," they should purchase this with eyes wide open.
Worth watching. This has been available on the bootleg circuit for years, nice to see a HQ official release. The interviews with Kesey and Garcia are very insightful. Steve Urbauer Stephen Urbauer
Misleading The Dead segment is cool, but if you're expecting this to be an investigation into the whole acid test scene you'd be wrong. You've seen Leary do his thing before. And I'm a huge Tom Wolfe fan, but he has no reason to be taking up half of this disc. Ho hum.
Good Ole Grateful Dead MUISIC ...doesn't meet up to the book's version in any manner.Synerder's dsicussin with Leahry's version is worthy of colletction
mostly filler the segment with kesey, garcia and the dead is great. the music is good, nice performances. the segments with tom wolfe are boring and have nothing to do with the acid tests or any of that. the segment with leary is kind of sad with snyder attacking tim. get this for the grateful dead performances only. the rest is just filler.
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