The latter tune carries its personal resonance when played here, with no chance to mistake it as self-promotion now two years after it 'hit', but betraying an uncanny resemblance to the show opening "Bertha, in its light stepping gait. Varying camera angles give the viewer the sense of perspective of the various bandmembers, drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann perhaps the most interesting because their view captures the rest of the group as well as the audience and the venue, one of the gargantuan sports sites the band could fill in the aftermath of their mainstream popularity boost of "Touch of Grey. (The music is also available on its own from GDP/Rhino in a two-cd set) Like the packaging itself, a clamshell case with a single color sheet inside containing credits and cover graphics, it is strictly no frills. Written by insiders and bandmembers, factual and observed histories and journals, none capture the essence of this band like their music does and this new DVD recorded on the Fourth of July 1989 in Rich Stadium in Orchard Park NY, just outside of Buffalo, presents the latter-day Dead in concert without extraneous material of any kind. A plethora of books have been published since the death of Grateful Dead founder/ leader Jerry Garcia ten years ago (in August).
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