''Infrared Sightings'' is a video by the

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, consisting of

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and other imagery set to music from their album '' Infrared Roses''. It was released on

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in 1992, and is 18 minutes long. ''Infrared Roses'' is known to fans as "the all Drums and Space album". Produced by Grateful Dead sound designer Bob Bralove, it contains free form

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music recorded live at a number of different Dead concerts. The visuals for ''Infrared Sightings'' combine computer generated images, many of them abstract, with found footage that has been altered or edited in various ways. The video is therefore somewhat reminiscent of the light shows that were projected on large screens at many Grateful Dead concerts.

Track listing

* intro – FreeQuency Beach * part 1 – Underwatermelons (music: "Riverside Rhapsody") * part 2 – Synchronations (music: "Post-Modern Highrise Table Top Stomp") * part 3 – Yes I Kandinsky (music: "Infrared Roses")

Credits

Musicians

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...

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Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

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Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

– drums, percussion *

Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30 ...

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Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the ...

– keyboards *

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead ...

– guitar

With

* Bob Bralove * Willie Green III

Production

* Len Dell'Amico, Larry Lachman – directors, producers * Fritz Perlberg – executive producer * Bob Bralove – music producer * Maury Rosenfeld — spatio-temporal opto-orchestrator * Fred Raimondi – visual effects and creative entity * Sam Hamann – electronic paintmeister * David Tristram – electropaint graphics programmer/artist * Steve Burr, "Mad" Johnny Modell – intro sound design * Quency – special animated appearance

References

''Infrared Sightings''
at the Grateful Dead Family Database
''Infrared Sightings''
at LaserDisc Database * Scott, John W; Dolgushkin, Mike; Nixon, Stu. ''DeadBase XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists'', 1999, DeadBase, , p. 122

External links

{{Grateful Dead Grateful Dead Concert films 1992 films 1990s English-language films English-language documentary films