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I'm not sure what to make of this...
Listening to weir pluck his guitar reminds of Garcia's comments about their performance at Monterey, between the Who and Hendrix...ding, ding, ding
I just put the following post in the comment section of the song "Franklin's Tower." But I figured I would drop a copy here as well just for the hell of it. Someone might be interested.
Robert Hunter was the lyricist for many of the Dead's big hits, and his lyrics are often considered difficult to understand. I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it here, but Robert Hunter has written about the meaning of the lyrics for "Franklin's Tower." I saw one essay where he said it was about the birth of his son and consists of a message to his new son. For example, the line "In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother's face" equates to "You have your mother's eyes."
He was also writing this in 1975 and included themes about the upcoming bicentennial of the birth of the nation. "Franklin's tower," for example, is a reference to Ben Franklin and Independence Hall, which housed the Liberty Bell. In other words he was associating the birth of his son with the birth of a new nation.
And the line "Roll away the dew" is a reference to an earlier Grateful Dead hit song, one of their bigger hits from 1967 called "Morning Dew." "Morning Dew" was a pessimistic song about life after a nuclear war, when two lovers can't go out and walk in the morning dew because it's radioactive and will kill them. But in "Franklin's Tower" in 1975 the birth of his son has given Hunter new optimism, so in saying "Roll away the dew" he is renouncing the old pessimism about the fate of civilization and celebrating a rebirth of hope and optimism.
I'm providing a link to another essay by Hunter on the same subject, maybe condensed from the one I read. He wrote the essay to refute a music critic who tried to assert that Hunter's lyrics were just free association nonsense and utterly without meaning. Hunter replied that his lyrics had meaning and laid out the meaning of "Franklin's Tower." Then he followed it with some explanation of the lyrics for "Trucking."
Link: I couldn't find the original essay at the original Deadhead website, but I found a copy at an old website dedicated to the rock band Phish: https://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1377759979
Audience video of this event...lots of random walking around...can forward to about 12 min in for tunes.
Sammy's cover of Loose Lucy is kinda fun, and at least he's not wearing a tux
and then its nap time at minute 25 when Mayer comes on to impress himself.
Love that I still find a show that I never heard before...like these high energy shows from 78. And this show has Jerry pulling out his version of the Close Encounter theme, that just came out.
Heard an interview once where Garcia said he was inspired back then by the energy he heard from the punk movement.
Imagine a stadium packed with fans in tie-dyed T-shirts, many of them flashing the peace sign, smiles plastered on their faces, swaying to the music of the Grateful Dead. The serene vibes are momentarily interrupted by the thwack of a Louisville Slugger. No, youâre not at a Dead and Company concert. Youâre at Jerry Garcia Night at a Major League Baseball game. In recent years, while the Grateful Deadâs fan base continues to grow, 29 years after Garciaâs death, a surprising trend is playing out across the United States: More than half of Major League Baseballâs teams have hosted a Jerry Garcia or Grateful Dead Night. The Giants, Aâs, Red Sox, Orioles, Tigers, Yankees, Cubs, Nationals, Cardinals, Royals, Twins, Pirates, Blue Jays, Mariners, Padres, White Sox, Brewers, Reds, and Phillies have all embraced Deadheads for one night of the season. âObviously, hippies and pro sports have not had a lot of things theyâve agreed on in the past,â says Trixie Garcia, Jerryâs daughter. âBut this seems to be one of them.â
