Poet and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter died Monday night at age 78. Rest in peace.
Poet and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter died Monday night at age 78. Rest in peace.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Listened to a couple of GD and Garcia records lately. He was a great lyricist !
R.I.P.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
RIP Robert. Early Dead music and lyrics were excellent.
Twenty degrees of solitude
Twenty degrees in all
All the dancing kings & wives
Assembled in the hall
Lost is a long & lonely time
Fairy Sybil flying
All along the all along
The mountains of the Moon
Oh, thanks for all those immaculate words.
Hunter would listen to the moods and colours of a tune and then adapt his imagery, be they surreal or pedestrian, proletarian or honkytonk. Extremely few rock lyricists could touch him.
I'm hearing "Ripple" in my head.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I saw the Grateful Dead in concert half a dozen times between 1974 and 1987, and Hunter only once, in 1976.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
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