Twenty-six years ago today, Grateful Dead took the stage at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Hebron, OH. On hand that night was Peter Shapiro, at the time a Northwestern film student spending a month on summer tour alongside cameraman Philip Bruell. The Buckeye Lake show opens And Miles To Go Before I Sleep: On Tour with the Grateful Dead Summer 1993, which documents the swelling Dead scene.

And Miles To Go led to Shapiro’s involvement with the Tie-Died documentary, which screened at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Shapiro returned to Sundance in 1997 to premiere “American Road” a travelogue that he cut to the music of Phish’s “You Enjoy Myself.”

Shapiro’s connection with the Grateful Dead world continue over the years, through performances at Fare Thee Well, the Brooklyn Bowls, LOCKN’ festival and the Capitol Theatre, where tonight, Phil Lesh is performing his 80th show at the venue, since Shapiro renovated and relaunched it in 2012.



Produced & Directed by Peter Shapiro
Cinematography & Editing by Phillip Bruell

Music Performed by: John Harman & Arnold Kim

Acid Test Footage Courtesy of: The Kesey Family

Still Photographers Courtesy of: Gene Anthony, Tom Copy, Greg Gaar, Herb Greene, Jim Marshall

News Footage Courtesy of WAVE-TV Louisville, Kentucky

Remastered by: Will Schwerd

Special Thanks:
Ken Kesey
Timothy Leary
Dr. Rebecca Adams
David Adelson
Cherry Arnold
John Perry Barlow
Rock Scully
Chris Barron
William G. Buckley
Dr. Dre
Ice-T
Joey Covella
Mark Devoss
Bradley Fish
David Gans
Wavy Gravy and Camp Winnarainbow
B. Harder
Professor Rick Maxwell
David Gioiella
Dave Raph

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