Netflix has scooped up a new documentary on Grateful Deadco-founder Bob Weir, The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir, which willpremiere on the streaming service on Friday, May 22nd, Varietyreports.
Directed by Mike Fleiss a producer for The Bachelor and numerous other shows, as well as the director of the 2011 documentary, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne The Other One offers an in-depth look at Weirs life, from his childhood in Palo Alto, California to his success with the Dead and beyond.
The movie also pays close attention to Weirs partnership with Jerry Garcia and features interviews with Weirs Grateful Dead bandmates, other musical colleagues, family and the musician himself. The Other One also boasts plenty of performance and archival footage, and, in a statement, Fleiss teased, We certainly unearthed a lot of buried treasure from the Grateful Dead archive while making this film.
In other Grateful Dead news, drummer Bill Kreutzmanns band Billy & the Kids will headline an exclusive show alongside a handful of surprise guests at Washington D.C.s 9:30 club on May 13th. Tickets are currently on sale via Ticketfly. The gig takes place the night before Kreutzmann joins the surviving Grateful Dead members and a slew of all-star musicians including Bruce Hornsby, Eric Church, Moe. and Los Lobos topay tribute to Garcia witha specialDear Jerryconcertat Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
All this comes ahead of the Grateful Deads string of highly anticipated Fare Thee Well shows. The band willplay two Bay Area gigsat Santa Clara, Californias Levis Stadium on June 27th and 28th, followed by a three-night stand at Soldier Fieldin Chicago, July 3rd through 5th.
Those Chicago showswill be broadcast live in select movie theatersvia Fathom Events. Tickets for the nightly five-hour screenings will go on sale May 4th; and the screenings themselves will begineach nightat 8 p.m. ET.