The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – Dead Meet-up @ The Tower!
Written by SacZAP2 on October 31, 2022
The K-ZAP Short Tail (A Blog) – Dead Meet-up @ The Tower!
As Carol Anne, the little girl in one of my favorite spooky movies, “Poltergeist” announced, “They’re baaack.” And, so is K-ZAP’s Short Tail.
One night way back in the springy nighttime clime of 1987, I was walking down the Magnificent Mile, aka Michigan Ave. just near the towering (100 stories) John Hancock Building. It was lit up with a million klieg lights….and there she was –Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke). Turns out it was what became “Poltergeist III”, and sadly her last film. She passed away at age 12 a few months later. MGM back then had more scruples than they do now, and so struggled with appropriate marketing, (as well as a questionable script)…
These days it’s hard to avoid violent grisly movies, especially at Halloween and so “escaping” violent grisly reality by way of the movies becomes harder. And that’s my grateful segue to the Grateful Dead, who ARE everlasting and uplifting in so many ways (beyond the local and touring bands who build a repertoire and a steady following from them.) This week, for example, for two nights, Nov. 1 and Nov. 5, the Grateful Dead rise up and return to cinemas WORLDWIDE for their “2022 Meet Up at the Movies.” Here in Sacramento, the meet-up is at our classic, beloved Tower Theatre in Land Park.
TIX & INFO: https://k-zap.org/event/grateful-dead-meet-up-2022-movie-nov-1-nov-5/
I quote..
“This year we’re celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Europe ‘72 Album, by bringing the previously unreleased Tivoli Concert Hall, 4/17/72 performance to the big screen. The sixth show on the Grateful Dead’s famous Europe ’72 tour was a return engagement to the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 17, 1972. This ground-breaking concert broadcast event was the Dead’s first major live concert broadcast, and a first in Danish television history. Now, fully restored and color corrected in High Definition with audio mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman and mastered by David Glasser, Tivoli 4/17/72 features nearly an hour and a half of the Grateful Dead at a peak of their performing career. The show’s many highlights include an overview of the Dead’s 1972 touring repertoire, including magnificent versions of “China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider”, “Big Railroad Blues”, “Truckin’”, and many more of the Dead’s classics, as well as the first live performance of “He’s Gone”, and other new songs including “Ramble on Rose”, “Jack Straw”, and “One More Saturday Night”. Ron “Pigpen” McKernan is well-represented by three songs, including the broadcast’s opening number, “Hurts Me Too.”.
It’s Pigpen’s last concert go -around with the band. He is one of the tragic “27 Club,” and left this earth in 1973.
Should be a rad couple of nights of music and community. You can go as Jerry Garcia, Donna Jean Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan or Bob Weir.
Or we can just dress normally and no one will know the difference. See ya there!
— Mindy Giles
