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Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun.
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono,
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind.
Crazy cat peekin through a lace bandanna,
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack.
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle,
To a double-e waterfall over my back.
Comic book colors on a violin river cryin leonardo,
Words from out a silk trombone.
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls,
In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee.
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I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.
Laid down last night, lord, I could not take my rest;
Laid down last night, lord, I could not take my rest;
My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the west.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
March winds will blow all my troubles away.
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
Id shine my light through cool colorado rain.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.
The cover art seems horrendously mismatched to the vibe but perhaps I'm missing something.
maybe you get more bouncy
on this song, is phils guitar playing the most profound
mind you...this is a bouncy song
bouncy
Does anyone else remember that palpable excitement as your car filled with friends got closer to a Dead show? You'd driven for hours, you had safely made it across the border (for Canadian Deadheads), and suddenly every other car on the highway had a Dead sticker, and you knew there were good times ahead. I miss that so much.
For me it was going through the gate 'cuz once you were inside, all the stress of getting tickets and crossing the border melted away and you were IN!
Still miss you so much Jerry.
Same
Do wish I'd seen them live as this seems to be a recurring theme for folks trying to explain them. Weirdly, "Uncle John's Band" is a song I always turn up so there's hope for me yet.
There's another RP song that has that "miss me when Im gone" lyric, sung the same way, except a female singer in the 2000s. Now I'm wondering which one it is.
Probably "I Know You Rider" by The Pine Hill Project. Good stuff, that.
Of course, their mining the great American Folk and Country Canon is a big part of things.
Here's the source material
Some of us are still on the '72 tour
With the Allman Bros. and The Band!
Great show
What a party!
All three excellent those 3 days.
I thought I saw you there,,,
Some of us are still on the '72 tour
Take acid, it lasts longer.
Now that's funny! Nothing lasts longer than a GD song. ( Take it any way you choose)
The double GD entendre not withstanding, I agree this band creates an energy that can hypnotize and please.
Actually feel sorry for those who didn't get to experience a dead show - often the sun shining, everyone smiling, dancing and whirling in circles, no one caring what you looked like or danced like, just thousands of people in exactly the same happy place at the same time.
The records don't capture that magic, but once you've experienced it, listening to the records can sometimes remind you of it. Sort of like describing the color blue to someone who lives in a black and white world, unless you've seen blue before, you're probably not going to get it. But if you do...
I saw much more than blue and once in a while I still get shown the light in the strangest of places if I look at it right.
I keep my player on shuffle, and indeed the stars aligned one day and played both in this correct order.
Thanks RP
TOO FUNNY!!!
Take acid, it lasts longer.
Q: What did one Deadhead say to the other Deadhead when their pot ran out?
A: Man--this music sucks!
TOO FUNNY!!!
A: Man--this music sucks!
I saw the Dead at Watkins Glen! .........what a party!!!
I saw Jackie Stewart win the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen...
Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.
The image on ...
Leave the politics out of RP.
this rocks
and ya can't beat the album cover
first show since in 22 months
jam band playing under perfect nite stars
vibes were everywhere
and dancing
thank the good lord for live music in 2011 or 1972
Did not have many albums as a young teen and this one got mega plays.
Love the Grateful Dead...grinning like the Cheshire Cat! Certainly, miss ya Jerry!
'Reckoning' and "Dead Set" and of course all the "Tapers Bootleg"
WTF?
But listening to this particular track I can hear a bit more about why. As most past listens have been on mix cassette tapes in my car or on crackling records, hearing songs I've known for decades on RP using headphones often yields new aural excitement... Wow! This is amazing production! The separation is so interesting! With this track, I feel like the guitar is a mosquito in my right ear and the limp vocals are buried in a muddy fog on the left. As the track drags on, it feels like a competition between the left and right ear. I know people like the looseness of their playing, but when it comes to production, looseness is not groovy. The last minute of the song is just a pure mess.
Does it come with ear plugs? . . . .It's a joke!
No Joke. I always wore earplugs when nearby the Wall Of Sound. Ahh! The Good ol Grateful Dead Show Days!
dance music for today, march 21
spring equinox
But listening to this particular track I can hear a bit more about why. As most past listens have been on mix cassette tapes in my car or on crackling records, hearing songs I've known for decades on RP using headphones often yields new aural excitement... Wow! This is amazing production! The separation is so interesting! With this track, I feel like the guitar is a mosquito in my right ear and the limp vocals are buried in a muddy fog on the left. As the track drags on, it feels like a competition between the left and right ear. I know people like the looseness of their playing, but when it comes to production, looseness is not groovy. The last minute of the song is just a pure mess.
Keep listening to various things. I understand what you mean but when you realize they can completely change it up (usually live stuff) in a way you've never heard or thought possible that's when you have that AHA moment!
I always have to stop when I hear this. Just beautiful.
Does it come with ear plugs? . . . .It's a joke!
But listening to this particular track I can hear a bit more about why. As most past listens have been on mix cassette tapes in my car or on crackling records, hearing songs I've known for decades on RP using headphones often yields new aural excitement... Wow! This is amazing production! The separation is so interesting! With this track, I feel like the guitar is a mosquito in my right ear and the limp vocals are buried in a muddy fog on the left. As the track drags on, it feels like a competition between the left and right ear. I know people like the looseness of their playing, but when it comes to production, looseness is not groovy. The last minute of the song is just a pure mess.
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
I’d shine my light through cool Colorado rain.”
I’m wondering if these Dead lyrics inspired these amazing Waterboys "Fisherman's Blues"lyrics:
“I wish I was the brakeman
On a hurtlin' fevered train
Crashing a-headlong into the heartland
Like a cannon in the rain
With the beating of the sweepers
And the burnin' of the coal
Counting the towns flashing by
In a night that's full of soul
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woo!”
With the Allman Bros. and The Band!
Actually feel sorry for those who didn't get to experience a dead show - often the sun shining, everyone smiling, dancing and whirling in circles, no one caring what you looked like or danced like, just thousands of people in exactly the same happy place at the same time.
The records don't capture that magic, but once you've experienced it, listening to the records can sometimes remind you of it. Sort of like describing the color blue to someone who lives in a black and white world, unless you've seen blue before, you're probably not going to get it. But if you do...
Didn't think we could expand our minds out further (farther) but we did one hell of a job trying!
[EDIT] GOD bless all you survivors
this is hard to beat
to many '72 was the GD high water mark....i love all the years....but 72 is pure magic
We sure do.
Wow!
RP will give you a GREAT musical knowledge if you listen long enough.
Bless Bill & Rebecca
Wow!
I think he just did.
They could rattle your heart at 500 feet on only a #2 volume. Damn! A mountain of speakers beside them, including two tie-dyed boxes; and the album sound pumping through the crowd.
Status to me is only 7 - Quite Likeable but just barely so I Skip
Said Chumbawamba.
Sometimes it's a mess, but more often it's brilliant.
If you read Phil L. book, "In search of the sound", you get a good insight into how much the band was influenced by 1950-60s jazz.
You can kind of here how they continue the "improvisation in a groove" style that Coltrane and Davis perfected.
Sometimes it's a mess, but more often it's brilliant.
Christmas music for the Chineses, dickweed! Don't let the door slam you on the asshole fuckface.
Kinda ill-tempered for a Deadhead, aintcha?!
Christmas music for the Chineses, dickweed! Don't let the door slam you on the asshole fuckface.
I wish I was a headlight on a north bound train, I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain...
You saw my Dead Sled?
Was ist with Richie Finestra by any chance?
You sound like my brother, who's convinced that Apple's success (undeserved!) is due to a mass hysteria/hypnosis effect. (Even though he owns a Mac notebook and an iPhone).
Just pointless. If I never hear someone whine on and on about a song on RP, when they can easily hit the PSD, it will be too soon.
And one vibe connects everything at once. And then it's gone.
Always great to hear the Dead................