The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996)
This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that littered the West during the late '60s and helped launch such super groups as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and The Quicksilver Messenger Service. Music by Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Charlatans is also featured. The Red Dog Saloon had its genesis in 1964 when a group of free-thinking, LSD-enhanced Northern California students and young folks had a party and began thinking about starting up a saloon that would evoke the old West. They decided to build their saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, a once prosperous town that was by then nearly empty. The ambience of the saloon blended Old West sensibilities with modern psychedelia, go-go girls and plenty of illegal drugs. The film is comprised of interviews with surviving founders, actual archival footage, and even a performance of some of the musicians who appeared there.
The movie The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon, released in 1996, features 38 songs from artists like Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, P.H. Phactor Jug band and Final Solution. What is your favorite song from The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon?
Songs from The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon
- Combination of the Two
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Cream Puff War
- The Grateful Dead
- Temptation Rag
- P.H. Phactor Jug band
- Backlash
- Final Solution
- Hall of the Mountain King
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Smokestack Lightning
- P.H. Phactor Jug band
- Alabama Bound
- How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away)
- The Charlatans
- Passion Flower
- Sidetrack
- Wabash Cannonball
- The Charlatans
- Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia
- Dan Hicks and The Red Dog Reunion Band
- I Saw Her
- The Charlatans
- East Virginia Blues
- The Charlatans
- From a Buick Six
- Mark Unobsky and The Charlatans
- When I Go Sailin' By
- The Charlatans
- Light Is Faster Than Sound
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Hesitation Blues
- Peter Albin with The Charlatans and The Boston Wranglers
- Red Dog Boogie
- The Red Dog Reunion Band
- Minglewood Blues
- P.H. Phactor Jug band
- Bearfoot John
- PH Phactor Jug Band
- Dr, Jazz
- Cherry Ball
- Lynne Hughes
- Great Change Since I've Been Born
- Lynne Hughes
- Nightlife
- Nothing to Fear
- Final Solution
- Tell Me Again
- Final Solution
- Just Like Gold
- Final Solution
- Baby Dear
- The Wildflower
- 38 Gun
- Arbitration
- The Great Society
- Oh Sweet Mary
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Gold and Silver
- Quicksilver Messenger Service
- She Has Funny Cars
- Chimes of Freedom
- Michael Wilhelm
- Statesboro Blues
- Alice Stewart and Friends
- Love, Love, Love
- P.H. Factor Jug Band
- Long Comma Viper
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