Song of the Day - China Doll - 1979

Pistol shot at 5 o'clock

The Bells of Heaven Rang

"Tell me what you've done it for"

"No, I wont, tell you a thing..."

MOST Powerful Quotes about the late, great Jerry Garica <3

“There’s no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic, and subtle. There’s no way to convey the loss.” - BOB DYLAN

“I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold, that date to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I’ll just say I love you, which I never said before, and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore.”- ROBERT HUNTER

“I see him in my dreams all the time. I hear him when I’m on stage. I would say I can’t talk to him, but I can. I don’t miss him. He’s here. He’s with me.” - BOB WEIR

“Jerry had this ineffable sweetness and vulnerability, even when he was playing his wildest up-in-the-spheres stuff. It’s something you don’t really see that often in musicians working in this field. We never really talked about this, because it was so obvious to all of us, but he knew he wasn’t making that music; it was like he was just up there quoting or transcribing what it was that was being given to him or coming through him, as we all were in the best moments. That’s the goal that we strive for, that we still strive for.” - PHIL LESH

“Where do you begin? There’s so much to say about him. He was a benign, lovable guy and he was also a magic man, a shaman. There was a feeling of going out in the world with kindness that Jerry represented. That shines through beyond all the other stuff.” - MICKEY HART

“Jerry was the best musician I ever played with. He was 100 percent music. Every pore, every bit of his body, every molecule, was music, whether he liked it or not. He was like a Mile Davis or a Coltrane or somebody like that – just completely locked into it. I always felt that I could hear in his music him talking about things at a much deeper level than what appeared on the surface. There aren’t many musicians who have that gift – to be really profound.” - BILL KREUTZMANN

“Something that immediately comes to mind when I think of Jerry is his almost total aversion to self-aggrandizement of any kind.”- GARY LAMBERT

Source

Days Between - Bob Weir (2012)

Days Between 

Written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia

This song wasn't meant to be sang by Jerry, it was meant to be sang in remembrance of him <3

"There were days

and there were days

and there were days I know

when all we ever wanted

was to learn and love and grow

Once we grew into our shoes

we told them where to go

walked halfway around the world

on promise of the glow

stood upon a mountain top

walked barefoot in the snow

gave the best we had to give

how much we'll never know we'll never know..."

Jack Straw - Grateful Dead (1972)

Jack Straw

1972

I have been enamored with this song for the passed few days- 

We can share the women

We can share the wine

We can share what we got of yours

'Cause we done shared all of mine

Keep a rolling

Just a mile to go

Keep on rolling, my old buddy

You're moving much too slow

I just jumped the watchman

Right outside the fence

Took his ring, four bucks in change

Now ain't that heaven sent?

Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon

Burns my eyes to see

Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon

Might as well be me

We used to play for silver

Now we play for life

One's for sport and one's for blood

At the point of a knife

Now the die is shaken

Now the die must fall

There ain't a winner in this game

Who don't go home with all

Not with all...

Leaving Texas

Fourth day of July

Sun so hot, clouds so low

The eagles filled the sky

Catch the Detroit Lightning

Out of Santa Fe

Great Northern out of Cheyenne

From sea to shining sea

Gotta get to Tulsa

First train we can ride

Got to settle one old score

And one small point of pride...

Ain't no place a man can hide, Shannon

Keep him from the sun

Ain't no bed will give us rest, man,

You keep us on the run

Jack Straw from Wichita

Cut his buddy down

Dug for him a shallow grave

And layed his body down

Half a mile from Tucson

By the morning light

One man gone and another to go

My old buddy you're moving much too slow

We can share the women 

we can share the wine...

Happy Birthday Robert Hunter!

1941 Born on this day, Robert Hunter, American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead and for collaborating with singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. An early friend of Jerry Garcia, they played together in bluegrass bands (such as the Tub Thumpers).

Song of the Day - Ramble on Rose - Grateful Dead (1972)

Song of the Day - Greatest Story Every Told - Grateful Dead (1972)

Song of the Day - Help on the Way/Slipknot - Dead and Company (2015)

I'm getting SO excited for the Summer tour!

Song of the Day - Must Have Been the Roses - Grateful Dead (1976)

"Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea,

Thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company,

If I tell another what your own lips told to me,

Let me lay 'neath the roses, till my eyes no longer see."

GRATEFUL DEAD 

written by ROBERT HUNTER

Brokedown Palace

"River gonna take me

Sing me sweet and sleepy

Sing me sweet and sleepy

all the way back back home

It's a far gone lullaby

sung many years ago

Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come

since I first left home...

Going home, going home

by the waterside I will rest my bones

Listen to the river sing sweet songs

to rock my soul."

GRATEFUL DEAD

Written by Robert Hunter