{"id":10349,"date":"2019-12-16T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:24:21","slug":"grateful-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/16\/grateful-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Shred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/movies\/why-the-music-of-the-grateful-dead-makes-the-perfect-soundtrack-for-action-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from InsideHook (opens in a new tab)\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the Music of the Grateful Dead Makes the Perfect Soundtrack for Action Sports<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fire On The Mountain&#8221; director Chris Benchetler fills us in on his new documentary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/ebleier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">EVAN BLEIER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Trailer: Grateful Dead presents Fire On The Mountain By Chris Benchetler\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egPhTynrLOA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbenchetler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">skier and filmmaker Chris Benchetler<\/a>&nbsp;was brainstorming names for someone to narrate his new action-sports film featuring the music of the Grateful Dead, there was one that kept popping up due to the nature of the movie\u2019s soundtrack: Bill Walton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walton, a confirmed Deadhead, seemed like the perfect person to bring aboard to narrate Benchetler\u2019s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dead.net\/fireonthemountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fire On The Mountain<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;as the 27-minute film is set to seven tracks selected from the Grateful Dead\u2019s massive vault of recordings by official band archivist David Lemieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily for Benchetler, he actually had the retired NBA star\u2019s email address as the two had gone road biking some years ago. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect him to remember me at all but I just hit him up and explained my passion for the Dead and for what we were doing,\u201d Benchetler tells InsideHook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/movies\/why-the-music-of-the-grateful-dead-makes-the-perfect-soundtrack-for-action-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at InsideHook (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook Why the Music of the Grateful Dead Makes the Perfect Soundtrack for Action Sports &#8220;Fire On The Mountain&#8221; 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