Playin’ in the Band: The Grateful Dead’s Long Strange Trip

by Ned LannamannLong Strange Trip screens for one night only—this Thursday—at Guild 45th
To put it as charitably as possible: I have, uh, mixed feelings about the Grateful Dead. It turns out Jerry Garcia did, too, and the final stretches of Long Strange Trip—Amazon’s four-hour documentary covering the 30-year career of the starter-yeast of all jam bands—examine the guitarist’s difficulty with his role in the most successful cult band in history.