dancin on a pin Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 I registered on FB through the DSO page to be in a movie that has a Grateful Dead scene in it. Stephen and I were one of the 300 extras who will be in the filming of this movie. We will be part of the audience. I am so excited and can't wait to see what it is like to be on a movie set. The shoot is all day this coming Thursday in Manhattan. We will be dancing off and on all day long to actual GD music. I had a wardrobe consultation this past Friday night at JGB with Lauren, so I will let you know how it all goes down. Looks like Palm Sunday......today Namaste Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted March 28, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 That's gonna be a lot of dancing! In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you - and hound you for your autograph! You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonomajon Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 That's gonna be a lot of dancing! In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you - and hound you for your autograph! You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain Bizarre that you posted those lyrics as I was listening to The Kinks all afternoon yesterday and thinking that celluloid heroes was one of the best songs penned...Apeman ain't bad either...still current after all these years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadheadmike Posted March 28, 2010 Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Very cool , have a fun time !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted March 28, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Bizarre that you posted those lyrics as I was listening to The Kinks all afternoon yesterday and thinking that celluloid heroes was one of the best songs penned...Apeman ain't bad either...still current after all these years... Synchronicity? (Not a bad sone either.) Or just plain coincidence? Now this thread is in danger of being relocated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancin on a pin Posted April 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 So I was asked to provide a brief review of the day. For those of you who don't want the details I will just say very cool and very Dead, for the rest of you here goes: On Wednesday evening Stephen and I planned on taking the train into Manhattan considering the traffic we might encounter on a Thursday morning. Being the country bumkins we are this is no easy task. So we decide to park in Wayne to get on the train to Penn Station. The Manhattan Center aka The Hammerstein Ballroom is literrally around the corner. We leave our house at 6:30 am drive to Wayne and park. The train came by and we got on. We witnessed some of the flooding in Little Falls and was told by the conductor that we needed to change trains at Montclair University. We were able to pull this off with out a problem. The ride was painfully long, how one does this everyday I'll never figure out. So we arrive in Manhattan with very full bladders. Thankfully we find a diner a few steps from the venue and use their facilities and put something in our bellies. 10 am we venture towards the venue to encounter a long line of hippie looking individuals. We go to the back of the line and wait in the beautiful sunshine. I meet a woman who I have seen on my journey through DSO Land and we strike up a conversation. Eventually the line progresses and we enter the venue. Hand in our releases, (we have been sworn to secrecy to not reveal any significant information about what goes down inside). Sorry this is the price of fame. We are given raffle tickets for lunch and giveaways at the end of the day. We enter the ballroom and there are chairs that are pretty much filled up. There is a drum circle which I gravitate towards. There we find some more friends we have known through our ventures of Grateful Dead related music scenes. After and hour or so of this we are moved 12 at a time to the seventh floor of the venue through very small old elevators. Up on the seventh floor is another stage, who would have figured. A beautiful space, Masonic in nature. Chairs are along the sides, the floor is open and the balcony is seated with people. We take a seat and wait, we wait some more, meet some other friends we know and wait some more. Then they (the movie people) ask us to hang by the sound board, which is also the taping section. the equipment is all fake, Honestly they couldn't even get a real board. So we hang and they start to film the first scene. They would play clips of a sone, none dead, cut the music and ask us to continue as if the music was still going on. Stephen gets pulled by one of the movie people to hang where the actors will be entering the set. I am happy for him but saddened that they didn't notice me, must be his long flowing gray locks. I did a little twirl and was pulled by one the movie people over to the area where the actors would be entering the show. This is my big chance, glad to meet you I say to Stephen. So we do this entrance scene over and over and over. They keep saying were going to do it again just a little bit different. Reminds me of something.... If we are in any shots thie might be the place. The movie people keep yelling JK over here. I think, JK, is he here, I haven't seen him, wow wouldn't it be something if JK was here to only realize they mean JK Simmons who is the lead in the movie. The next several hours consist of the shooting of scene two. We are definetely not in this scene. They seemed to hand pick the people to be inclose proximity to the actors. So we hung, we talked, we danced, we sat and laid around. Lunch was served, which was an assembly line of people to pick up box lunches of roast beef or turkey sandwiches on white. Not exactly my favorite but we made the best of it. After lunch they had us all dancing to two GD songs don't want to give away any signifcant information over and over and over and over and over. The room got hot and the energy peaked, I have to admit it was fun. The band members were on the stage and they got an awesome look alike for Jerry, oops was I suppose to share that. Afterwards they pulled the raffle tickets. I so wanted to win the album with all of the GD's signatures on it but to no avail someone else made off with it. We did win a little plasma tV which was pretty exciting. After that we diecided to leave it was 6:30 and they still had one more scene to shoot. So out into the streets of Manhattan carrying a TV. Down to Penn Station to figure out how to get back on the train to Montclair change trains to get our car in Wayne. Purchased the tixa, so far so good. Wheres the train I kept note that we entered gate 3 and 4 so we went down the steps and there was a train with Montclair written on it but no one was on it and the doors were closed. We hung a bit and then walked back upstairs. Stephen befriended a very attractive woman who helped him manipulate the scene. We needed to wait 20 minutes or so for the train to Montclair. Once on the train the ocnductor took our tickets and informed us that once we get to MSU the next train to Wayne did not leave for an hour. Now we are exhausted famished and still lugging a TV with us. The ocnductor, (I would like to put out a hooray for the NJ transit workers awesome job) tells us a new restaurant opened this week at the Upper Montclair station. jwe could get off there eat get back on the train at 9:15 head to the University and only have to wait 12 minutes for the train to wayne. Great save. so off the train we go with TV in tow to this lovely little bistro on the tracks. No tables room at the bar. Order two drinks and two entres, sea scallops and black cod. After 40 minutes or so they bring out our entres but give them to the couple next to us. We ask if they have the right meals and they say they did. They smell heavenly and I am feeling faint from lack of substinence. We explain to the waitress that we need to catch the train in 15 minutes and don't have time to eat. She goes into the kitchen and regretfully says that the chef, (damn cooks) got two identical orders and thought it was a mistake, So grab the TV cross the tracks and onto the train. Pleasant ride witht he conductor really nice helpful people. Off at the Wayne station, dinner at a diner and snoring next to Stephen before we are home. Please excuse any typos or misspellings I am done and don't even want to reread this again I apologize for any mistakes. Hope you can figure it out. See you all soon but not soon enough for me. Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just a dream Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Thanks. Really fun story! [Did you notice that the 2 of you are in seemingly 80% of the pictures on top of the topics]? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadheadmike Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Glad you guys had fun , and won a plasma tv also , very nice ... any idea when this movie is scheduled to be released ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP August West Posted April 2, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Kris.....thank you for taking the time and effort to share with us.My sister and 17 year old niece were there also.My niece was part of a scene with one of ther actor's.Sounds like you guys had some adventure.See ya on the playground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP August West Posted April 2, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 . After lunch they had us all dancing to two GD songs don't want to give away any signifcant information over and over and over and over and over. Kris I'll give it away....Truckin' and Touch Of Grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted April 2, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 There is a drum circle which I gravitate towards. Drum circle and plasma TV - a grate day! Thanks for the share...see you all soon but not soon enough on this end either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadheadmike Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 I'll give it away....Truckin' and Touch Of Grey. Had to be one of the songs that got the most radio air play ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted April 2, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Funny - I would have thought it'd be the extended dance mix of St. Stephen>William Tell>Eleven we used to hear all the damn time on Casey Kasem's Top 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancin on a pin Posted April 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Thanks. Really fun story! [Did you notice that the 2 of you are in seemingly 80% of the pictures on top of the topics]? Those are last years Grateful Fest Shots, one of our crew took mucho pictures and posted them. Hope to see you soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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