Filming the music video of the MTV era of Grateful Dead for “Hell in a Bucket” was a long and strange trip.
Len Dell’amamo, “Film and Video Guy” of the band, has written a new memory, “Friend of the devil: My Wild Ride with Jerry García and Grateful Dead”. The detailed of how “love, chaos and marijuana, a lot of pot” from 1980 until the leader Garcia died in 1995.
The filmmaker directed the 1987 music video. He affirmed Fox News Digital that the duck presented in the video with a leather necklace had drunk gothics in the filming of the champagne duration.
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Len Dell’amamo (right) was a friend of Jerry García from 1980 to the death of the star in 1995. (Len dell’amamo)
“Believe [founding member] Bob Weir was responsible, “Dell’amamo laid.” He had just gone on vacation. . . . Hey, we were making a video. I knew how important it was. I remember the mountain girl, Garcia’s wife [at the time]He saw it and said: “Bobby, now he’s a god.” It was so attractive, in such a good way and playing very well. “
“We all knew we were shooting in a bar,” Dell’amamo shared. “When you make a session in a bar, hire someone entering and puts false bottles. You don’t want free alcohol on a set. And your voice had run, there is no evil.
Bob Weir (left) and Jerry García of The Grateful Dead act in Alpine Valley Amphitheatre on June 26, 1987 in East Troy, Wisconsin. (Tim mosenfelder/getty images)
“But then I saw in real time that the duck was drinking,” he said. “I said:” Oh, that’s fantastic! It seems that we had a trained duck. “And then how he progressively stayed out of that.
Len Dell’amamo directed the 1987 music video “Hell in a Bucket”. (Anne Milman)
According to the book of Dell’amamo, it was Weir who came up with the idea of having the duck in the video, for everyone’s delight. He also requested a tiger. A 400 lb of nine feet, 400 lb. Bengala Tiger was brought.
Jerry García is seen here for a MTV interview on Teletronic Studios in New York City. (Gary Gershoff/Getty images)
Dell’amamo described that time in filming, the duck had felt curious about what was in Weir’s glass. He said he kept going and coming for sips. Potaly, put all his invoice and had “a good pull.” At one point, the duck was “collapsed, outside it.” For Dell’amamo it was “good fortune” to obtain a credible performance.
But then, the next day, he received a “furious” phone call from the duck coach.
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Bob Weir acting with the Grateful Dead at the Oakland Coliseum in California on December 31, 1987. (Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“I was very annoying,” Dell’amamo recalled Fox News Digital. “Hey, he kept saying:” It gets drunk! “I was very emotional.
“I made some phone calls,” Dell’amamo said. “I discovered that Weir had given someone 50 dollars to get a real champagne. I remember that he had a bottle of champagne in his hand in the set. I thought it was an accessory! So I had to apologize to the coach profusely. That’s why he drives crazy for Champagne.”
From the left: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Jerry García of The Grateful Dead acting at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, California, on July 15, 1984. (Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“Well, the duck recovered,” Dell’amamo said. “And the coach said he was going to train her in other things for a while. Then, he had a happy ending.”
Len Dell’amamo’s book, “Devil’s friend: my wild trip with Jerry García and Grateful Dead”, is already out. (Weldon Owen)
According to Dell’amamo’s book, the duck was repelled by white grapes.
“We discovered that the subtram of duck in the car, where Bob and [a] Domatrix drives while the duck shows Bob’s glass, which ends in the collapsed duck, fainted, is subtle, but works spectacularly, hilarious, once you notice, “he used.
Len Dell’amamo was behind the scene for “Hell in a Bucket” and “Throwing Stones” to promote the band’s successful album, “in the Dark”. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital contacted a 77 -year -old Weir spokesman to comment.
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Bob Weir attends the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 2, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Filmmagic/Getty Images)
Dell’amamo admitted that he had a less stressful moment, García’s friend. He described him as soft and comical voice. His surprisingly modest home was “like a university bedroom” with a handful of shirts and flannel pants in his closet and overflowing ashtrays nearby. Garcia would do or comment: “I prefer to do things to have things.”
“I was surprised by the depth of his humility and insistence on being treated as a normal person,” Dell’amamo said.
The Grateful Dead (in a schedule: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Mickey Hart and Jerry García) Pose for a photograph in 1970. (Chris Walter/Wireimage/Getty Images)
“You might think it’s easy, but it’s not when you’re so famous. This is some that could be hidden. Sidewalk.
Jerry García at the Montain Aire Music Festival on August 23, 1987 in Calavaras, California. (Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images)
“We went out for dinner and the restaurant manager would come and said:” The food happens to us, “he shared.” Garcia always said: “No, thank you. We can pay for this. We have money. Why don’t you give a free meal to people who do not have money?” The manager is pounced by this, but he was.
Dell’amamo said that “no one could be in bad terms with Garcia.”
Len Dell’amamo said that “no one could be in bad terms with Garcia.” (Photo by Malcolm Lubliner/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“You couldn’t help loving the boy despite his defects,” he explained. “And he had many defects. He was an itinerant musician who tried to bed a family. That is not easy.”
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Jerry García, singer of The Grateful Dead, and Christine McVie or Fleetwood Mac hugging. (LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG through Getty Images)
“I remember that I come with the phrase” charm machine, “Dell’amamo reflected.” That was Garcia. Knowing him was to know him. And knowing him was loving him.
Dell’amamo said he spoke for the last time with Garcia a few weeks before his death. They remembered the past and good times. Looking back, Dell’amamo Wondher García knew he wouldn’t be for much longer.
Jerry García touches the pedal steel guitar with the Grateful Dead in 1987. Len Dell’amamo suspended that Garcia knew that his time was a letter. (Photo by Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“He knew heart disease,” Dell’amamo explained. “I don’t know how long, Bee never talked about it. Why?
Jerry García lived very modestly despite his fame and fortune, Len Dell’amamo said. (Clayton Call/Redferns/Getty Images)
“These are some who used to live in a car. He had hit the fat prize in his life. It was fame and athense that brought a possible unhappiness. He just wanted to be himself. Ever?
Len Dell’amamo said he and Jerry García had talked about the past that were together. (Clayton Call/Redferns/Getty Images)
“I remember sitting there, remembering for an hour and a half about his first days,” Dell’amamo said in a low voice. “I was hysterical. We laughed until we cried. But then I thought:” Why was I talking about his early life on that particular day? “I was in denial.
The singer Bob Dylan wearing sunglasses and wearing anguished on his way to the funeral of Jerry García. (Kim Komenich/Getty Images)
Garcia died while sleeping at a residential drug treatment center in California, the New York Times reported. He was 53 years old. A band spokesman said the cause was a heart attack. According to the exit, Garcia had tried to quit smoking and lose weight.
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Len Dell’amamo said Jerry García was not a tragic figure. (Barry Chin/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
Dell’amamo emphasized that despite Garcia’s life, the artist was a tragic figure.
“Calling it broken would be crazy,” he said. “Hello more than most people in 53 years. Yes, he heard a constant pressure. I had to make difficult decisions. I had substance problems, definitely. But I can tell you from all my time in the exhibition business, that was not uncommon. And yet die …………….. An overdose, which is not true at all.
Jerry García in Las Vegas a year before his death. (Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
“We share a common belief that there is life after life: nature is something that happens forever,” he reflected. “Humans are the only creatures that care about dying.