I never was a Grateful Dead fan until I heard this on an album-oriented radio station. I got the album and started picking up on other Dead stuff after listening to this. A later song called "Shakedown Street" was pretty funky-rockin'. "Touch of Grey" got them into the MTV generation and ultimately, I guess, became my favorite song by them.

Wow. Great song to be discovering. I'm not a big 'Dead' fan, but I found this song only this year, and it's amazing.

03:22 I'm sure someone else brought it up, but the fact you mentioned Fleetwood Mac is funny because this was produced by Keith Olsen, who also did their 1975 album.

Saw the Grateful Dead about 50 times, and this song, actually suite, was always a favorite when the boys pulled it out. And Candace Brightman, their Lighting Director, made it a spectacular event with her contributions. Jerry really got into his role as The Storyteller. Of course there was no orchestra and choir, just The Dead making it happen.

Its funny youbshould sau that the sound reminds you of fleetwood mac rumours because keith olson produced that album and this one, too. The entire song is called terripen station. The first section is called lady with a fan.

Very cool you began with Mountains Of The Moon, then Terrapin. These are not real typical. They didn't normally sound European. But Mountains had the harpsichord. Normally the GD were more Rootsy. They covered Cash, Berry, Haggard, Willie Dixon, all kinds of 50's stuff

"Like" the comment suggesting Incredible String Band! Very fun and weird self-aware 60's experimental folk group who went on to 2 solo careers and I think they're still kickin. From Scotland

Check out the live version performance at the winter land ballroom new year's eve 1978

Just enjoy it

As all of their songs the live version is completely different

This was produced by Keith Olsen, who produced Fleetwood Mac. Check out a live version to see what it sounds like, very different without all production.

You really need to listen to the lyrics though instead of talking. Oh well.

Boring, uncurious reaction to a truly interesting song

To be fair, 99% of people don't listen to the studio versions of most Grateful Dead songs, especially not stuff like this, we would listen to the live versions, and while they might feature some jamming, Terrapin live would end with the big crescendo stuff around the 8th minute or so, the rest of it is just... stuff. Basically, live is where their music really happened. I saw them 4 o 5 times before Jerry Garcia died, I had some varying tastes, from Depeche Mode, to REM, to The Grateful Dead, to Rush, to Steely Dan. And some other stuff we don't need to talk about, lol. But yeah, a live version would have been better IMHO. But I didn't pay for it, lol. Their music goes all over the place, from folk rock, to stuff like this, to completely psychedelic...

A short while back the door flung wide We all saw good luck on the other side The door blew shut but here's the deal Dreams are lies, it's the dreaming that's real

Check out alive version !

Another weird choice to start at. Great song but it’s more about the studio treatments then the band for most of it. The funky part is brain breaking though.

I think you need to pay a little more attention to the song and less to your message feed.

Now that you've heard this , look up Holly Bowling , KZfaq, self composed the song for classical piano , absolutely incredible! ✌️

Please become enlightened

You are reacting to everything except the music. This is a beautiful piece if you LISTEN TO IT. Stopped, commented, thumb down and bail.

First time listener long time Deadhead. I grew up listening to heavy metal and was lucky enough to go to a lot of concerts when I was in my teens. I saw everyone. Name it. 1000's From Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Metallica, Priest, and hundreds more. Then a buddy of mine said do you want to go to The Dead. I've heard of them but didn't know any of their stuff. I liked their logo but that was about it. When we went to the show it was like nothing I have ever seen before. They are more than just a band and music, and we were more than just a fan or an audience. The amount of first and stats and records achieved by this band will never be topped. The way a live concert is done, tickets are sold, and sounds and lights was all created by the Dead. They were at the crossroad of revolution and the rare moment lsd was being used before it was made illegal. Because of that, they became the masters of another part of reality. The Godfathers. Terrapin Station was written by Robert Hunter and adapted by The Grateful Dead. This album is quite different than their "normal" stuff. That is the purest, most ripping, fire-breathing, smash-and-grind-it-down, run-it-over, hard, pure, beautiful American Rock N Roll music. Period. Do your research, I subscribed.

Let's pick up the pace a little bit, and try this one onkzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNGJab2A3ZqVYZs.html for size if you dare