Here’s an article I wrote on the film Festival Express, published in Relix Magazine, April 2004. Drivin’ That Train . . . The Festival Express Rolls Again After 30 Years by Brian Hassett “That was the best time I’ve had in rock and roll,” said Jerry Garcia. “There were no straight people.” In the summer […]
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Festival Express
April 24th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies, Music
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The Boys at the Garden
November 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
I’m just stunned. Speechless. Maybe it was the set-up, cuz i was thinkin early on … this ain’t happening, this is sad, capitalizing on their name and what they’d done. . . . and then . . . . . . . :-0 they were playing Dylan’s “Infidels” as the warm-up music!!!! The whole album, […]
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Brian’s “Hot 300” movie list
October 5th, 2010 · 55 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies
This is an ever-evolving work-in-progress — last updated: August 22nd, 2025. Every blue title is a link to the movie’s IMDb page — the industry-standard Internet Movie Database. If this makes just one person see one great movie, it’ll be worth it. If you want you can click on any of these section titles […]
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