The Grateful Dead concert films Dead Ahead and Ticket To New Year’s will be re-released on February 12. Dead Ahead consists of footage from the band’s October 30 and 31, 1980 shows at Radio City Music Hall during their 15th anniversary run. The film is interspersed with comic bits from Saturday Night Live’s Deadhead duo: the late Tom Davis and Senator Al Franken. The audio has been remastered in 5.1 surround sound and all of the bonus material from the original 2005 DVD release will be included in the reissue.

Ticket To New Year’s documents The Grateful Dead’s December 31, 1987 New Year’s Eve performance at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. The concert, which was watched by thousands across the country as part of a national pay-per-view telecast, also included a parody cooking show featuring Jerry Garcia and Tom Davis as well as a sketch in which the band answered ridiculous questions from Deadheads in the audience. The DVD reissue also includes band member bios, a visible lyrics option and a special “Dead Facts” fan quiz. The tracklistings for both DVDs can be viewed below.

Dead Ahead
Uncle John’s Band
Bird Song
On The Road Again
To Lay Me Down
Ripple
Me & My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Ramble On Rose
Little Red Rooster
Don’t Ease Me In
Lost Sailor
Saint Of Circumstance
Franklin’s Tower
Rhythm Devils
Space
Fire On The Mountain
Not Fade Away
Good Lovin’
Program length: 114 minutes
 
Bonus Songs from 10/30/80:

Heaven Help The Fool • Shakedown Street
Samson and Delilah • He’s Gone • Truckin’
Bonus songs: 50 minutes
 
 
Ticket to New Year’s

1st Set
1. Intro
2. Bertha
3. Cold Rain And Snow
4. Little Red Rooster
5. When Push Comes To Shove
6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
7. Bird Song
8. The Music Never Stopped
 
Intermission
9. Jerry’s Kitchen
10. G.D. Q & A
11. Santa Claus Meets Spock
12. More Q & A
 
2nd Set
13. Hell In A Bucket/Happy New Year
14. Uncle John’s Band
15. Lady With A Fan
16. Terrapin Station
17. Drums And . . .
18.  . . . Space
19. The Other One
20. Wharf Rat
21. Throwing Stones
22. Not Fade Away
23. End Credits
 
Encore
24. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door