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Their names and music became legendary: Big Brother & the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, andthe house band - The Charlatans. If the psychedelic sixties were born in the dancehalls of San Francisco,then they were conceived in a saloon in Virginia City, Nevada where themusicians carried Winchesters & the kitchen served French gourmet meals.The psychedelic era fostered cultural growth and artistic expression.The Red Dog Saloon was the incubator for the lightshow and psychedelicposter art, an entire lifestyle that truly defined a remarkable era anddefied classification as it weaved it's tapestry of free love and music,which the Grateful Dead would spread around the world.Filmmaker Mary Works (assistant editor Titanic, Saving Private Ryan) wasentrusted with access to the lives, antics and attics of this uniqueextended rock and roll family that grew out of these wild times.