We dug the boys when we were young so why not. 🥀🥀

It’s never too late to get on the bus.

That RFK show was the last one I saw and I am glad the last thing I heard Jerry sing in person was Brokedown Palace. It was sad though. Lots of folks, including myself, were crying. It was obvious he wasn’t doing well.

​@randomperson-dy6kj I left that tour feeling weird about Jerry, too. He did not look too good and I hoped he could get help for whatever was screwing up his body and soul. Then, on 8 - 9 - 95 we heard the news.

Yes. And a beautiful guitar solo.

Well that explains two amazing and highly regarded albums in one year. Thank you.

Noooooooo. Stick with live Dead especially on Terrapin. Here's a live version for you: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9OjnJNeuMCtmKM.htmlsi=FDanZtQWMqi5OpaP

@@JB-Deadskins All live versions are excellent, just not the complete suite, like the album. Terrapin is one of my favorite Dead songs, but I like the whole thing, not just the first part. Saw about 10 of them at Dead shows, but never a complete one.

@@bobschenkel7921 the whole orchestral part was done without their knowledge or consent. They really hated it. Robert Hunter wrote several other songs in the Terrapin story that he included in his book Box of Rain. Here are his comments: Terrapin Station INTRODUCTION I wrote Terrapin, Part One, at a single sitting in an unfurnished house with a picture window overlooking San Francisco Bay during a flamboyant lightning storm. I typed the first thing that came into my mind at the top of the page, the title: Terrapin Station Not knowing what it was to be about, I began my writing with an invocation to the muse and kept typing as the story began to unfold. On the same day, driving to the city, Garcia was struck by a singular inspiration. He turned his car around and hurried home to set down some music that popped into his head, demanding immediate attention. When we met the next day, I showed him the words and he said, "I've got the music." They dovetailed perfectly and Terrapin edged into this dimension. Part One was for free. A good deal of Part Two, the essential idea, was contained in the first writing, but was too irregular to be easily set. I went through many approaches and versions over the years, having lost the original typescript, attempting to recapture the initial spark and place it in a lyric context. "Jack O'Roses" and "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track" are examples of subsequent attempts to complete the cycle. They are included here as part of the suite since they do have pieces of the resolution within them, but they did not really satisfy the initial inspiration. I've omitted or changed a few lines from "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Tracks," as I originally recorded it, feeling that they do not serve the rest of the work well. Several years ago, I discovered the original typescript of Terrapin Station in one of the "files" of miscellaneous papers scooped off my desk and stashed away in trunks, at the completion of an album, to make way for new material. It is incorporated into this version, which I offer as reasonably complete. -February 28, 1990 PREFACE TO THE NEW TERRAPIN MATERIAL It is notoriously difficult to return to the peculiar space of a spontaneous vision-but 1 wasn't content with my earlier attempt to complete the Terrapin cycle. Cycle is the key word. The piece seemed to demand a legitimate return to its starting place but just how to accomplish this evaded me. The problem was that I was looking outside the song for clues when the solution, implicit in Lady With a Fan, lay With the following revision, I feel as near as I'm likely to get to the initiating flash. in plain sight the whole time this far removed in time, It's a moot point whether my continuing engagement with the suite is symptomatic of my own attempt to Return to Terrapin, but a feeling of deep relief comes with the sense of finally getting it closer to heart's desire-concluding and adding this annotation just as a good hard storm breaks. -February 15, 1993

Also, DeadBase says they only played the Electric Factory 5 times, the last of which was 2/15/69, 8 years before Terrapin was written.

JB, the exact date was 6/27/03, and it was members of The Dead, NOT the Grateful Dead. I was there. It was really cool, an unannounced show AFTER their big show at the Tweeter Center, with Willie Nelson and Family with Joan Osbourne opening, in Camden, N.J.. Many of us went to The new Electric Factory in Philly, in a not so great part of town, and hung out for an hour or so, and then Bobby, Phil, Billy and Mickey all came out with Rusted Root, who are from Pittsburgh, Pa. and they played for almost an hour, including the full on Terrapin Station Suite. I have two versions of Dead Base, including the X or Tenth Edition, with all of 1995 in it, but it does not go beyond the shows in Chicago in 1995. Trust me, this show happened, and it was special. But overall, I would STILL go with the original LP version, for a first listen.

Composed by Phil, lyrics by Robert Hunter.

​@@brotherbob3569 Surely Hunter wrote a large # of the Dead songs - in collaboration with the band members because he was a master lyricist. That's how it works. This was written "in collaboration" with Phil - for and to his father who was dying...

Wha?

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IMHO, there are only three Grateful Dead songs where the studio versions are the best I’ve heard - Ripple, Brokedown Palace and Terrapin Station. I have heard a full length live version of Terrapin Station, so it does exist (I don’t know if there’s more than one), but it didn’t compare to the studio version. Everything else - better live.

@@stephenfoley1479 for me I prefer studio version for songs that aren't really jam vehicles but more just straight up songs, especial if lyrics are strong because vocals are more clear and better on studio versions. So yeah ripple, Broken Palace I'd also throw in songs like Dire Wolf, Box of Rain, Candyman, New Speedway Boogie, Ship of Fools. But yeah live is always better for Jam tracks or solo intensive tracks.

Coincidentally I was enjoying this band but was wondering to myself "Gee, I wonder if Gene Garrett is much of a deadhead?"

​@@NoahFentz976 lol

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@@NoahFentz976 Glad I was able to answer your question

It would be kind of hard for a twenty-year-old to not be "late to the game" so to speak. One thing most fans will tell you is that they like the music because it seems timeless. It's a big boat. There's plenty of room!

I think it's awesome that the torch is getting passed along to a younger generation!! 💜

As evident by way of encouraging fans to tape their live performances, the GD obviously could care less if others made a profit from their music. It was all about sharing, and that's precisely what Lee is doing. Personally, I love it when I witness music from my generation putting a smile on younger faces.

Grateful Dead music is timeless