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Lyricist Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics for the first part of the "Terrapin Station" suite in a single sitting, during a rare Bay Area lightning storm. On the same day, driving across the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge, lead guitarist Jerry Garcia was struck by the idea for a singular melodic line. He turned his car around and hurried home to set ...
III. "Terrapin" (Garcia, Hunter) "Terrapin" is an instrumental section which is heavily orchestrated in its studio form. Live performances of "Terrapin Part 1" will most commonly conclude with this section, segueing into the "Drums" > "Space" portion of the show in most cases. The segment revolves around repeating guitar motifs and a stop-start ...
Robert C. Christie Hunter (born Robert Burns; June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born near San Luis Obispo, California , Hunter spent some time during his childhood in foster homes as a result of his father abandoning ...
From the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album (eleventh overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead.It was mainly recorded in April 1974, and released on June 27, 1974. It was the second album by the band on their own Grateful Dead Records label.
After the Grateful Dead had completed their contract with Warner Bros. and begun self-releasing their recordings, the label released Skeletons from the Closet.The compilation of tracks from their back catalog was successful, and when the band moved onto Arista Records in 1977 to record Terrapin Station, Warner Bros. released a second, larger compilation of tracks from the 1967–1972 period.
Terrapin Station (Limited Edition) is a triple CD live album by the Grateful Dead released in 1997. [3] It was recorded on March 15, 1990—bassist Phil Lesh's 50th birthday—at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, and contained a rare Beatles cover, "Revolution". "Revolution" was a favorite song of Lesh's and had previously been played ...
Steal Your Face is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976.It is the band's fifth live album and thirteenth overall. The album was recorded October 17–20, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, during a "farewell run" that preceded a then-indefinite hiatus.
American Beauty is the fifth studio album (and sixth overall) by American rock band the Grateful Dead.Released in November 1970, by Warner Bros. Records, the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album Workingman's Dead, released earlier in the year.