Got off five minutes later, but what the hey. Décor, Long My Ft Worth upbringing kicked in and the new but ancient sounding tunes beckoned. Taking the high road, the wildly painted bus brought bewilderment from passers-by as it made its way west to east across America. The Grateful Dead's performance of "Lost Sailor/Saint Of Circumstance" from their Halloween 1980 concert at Radio City Music Hall is this week's 'All The Years Live' video. The Europe tour in 1972 produced what are for me some of the finest ones, the ones in Paris (3 May), London (7 April and 26 May) and Frankfurt (26 April) come to mind. He is married to the former Natascha Muenter, and they have two daughters, Momo and Chloe. Etc. Collection, Dead & Picks, Dead But there was more. Who doesn’t love that? I understand now. In one scene, high on amphetamines, Cassady drives the bus backwards in Phoenix, Arizona. My first Dead album I ever listened to. And Weir came up with a couple of winners, between “The Other One” and “Cassidy.”. More, Recreation & Certainly a terrific song, if not the best, by Grateful Dead. They didn’t care for the hippies back then. Please try again later. I would have to respectfully disagree that the Grateful Dead were "The Bus". Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is don't tread on me." They (whoever "they" are) say your to brush your teeth for as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday." Weir: And at that point, he decided to hell with due process of law, this kid’s goin’ to jail. Got there and was well lit then BOBBY launched "Mama Tried". There are probably as many stories about getting on the bus as there are Deadheads. The Other One>Morning Dew>Other One, sort of, was the riff Jerry and Bonnie were doing (separately) after this 1964 bus ride. They started doing" Cryptical>Drums>The Other One>Wharf Rat. Born Cross Eyed 2. Weir: I got him good. Not only was he one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century, I would argue he was one of the greatest poets. 'The Other One' was always a welcome number for me. "In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, set off on the legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country journey to the World’s Fair in New York. He equipped the pranksters with 16mm cameras hoping to recreate the visions he'd had while in the psychedelic research project at the hospital. Grateful Dead - The Other One - Duration: 18:09. sin1496 245,970 views. Firmly. You will also laugh, I can almost guarantee. I hope to read a few in the comments on this post. Not much for being one long on good-bys, Kesey is reported to have said. And, interestingly, there are lilies native to Marin county - the Tiburon Mariposa Lily, which has only been found growing in the wild in one place in the world. Whoah, that caught my eye too Mary.. here is a partial video: That link makes me so happy. I’ll get around to “Cryptical Envelopment” someday. So it was very much a part of how the Sixties were born. 4/28/71, I believe. It's a match made on the mountainside, a synchronization discovered on the seas: the music of the Grateful Dead, it turns out, is an ideal soundtrack to the world of action sports. Attended my first show in Boulder in September of 72. Strange Trip, Pacific Northwest 1977, 50th It includes versions from October 1967 through February 1968.) $100, Over When my kids were very young, I was always able to get them to laugh by singing “The Other One” in an Elmer Fudd voice. David has known me and my proclivity to sidetracks for years. The police arrest him for having a smile on his face despite the bad weather—clearly, this kid is doing something illegal. Come on. The version on Dick's Picks 35 is great, with 'Me and My Uncle' suddenly bursting out of an atonal jam. $100, http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-other-one-timings-guest-post…, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_9NPm5KY6I, http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/audio-wilco-bob-weir-dark-star…, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxEozHxTKK8. bear14. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))). Rosemary 4 songs Live Dead 1. He grew up on the Peninsula south of San Francisco, and was glued to a guitar from the time he was 14. Weir: ...and he couldn’t tell where it was comin’ from, but then I had to go and go downstairs and walk across the street and just grin at him...and sorta rub it in a little bit. If I can recall I have also heard "crawlin'" through the lily fields and "floating" through the lily fields, but I could have been trippin thru the lily fields at the time. He was just hanging out with his white suit and hat (quite the gay dandy) per usual one day and the next he was gone. American icon: Neal Cassady, immortalized in the book On The Road, drove and painted the Magic Bus 'But they were absolute amateurs and they were high. Straight as an arrow, I was just out of high school, traveling through Europe on a one-month Eurail Pass, and reading Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The class was in a church, and Adam had all the students, in the absence of drums, take a fat hymnal from the back of the pew in front and play a triplet based rhythm on it. A little bit of research tells me that the lilies growing in the creek are unlikely to be natives themselves—pretty sure they are calla lilies run rampant, but it does seem likely that these lily fields may have been in evidence during the Dead’s residency at Olompali. He just jots down whatever comes to mind. It is the same rhythm as is deployed so effectively in The Other One. By David Dodd. Unable to process your request at this time. Company, Stickers & $100, Over “‘Dark Star’ was the first song I wrote with the Grateful Dead,” he said, “We were down in Rio Nido [California] and I heard them playing [the melody of the song] in a hall. High Time 3. However, this has got to be one of the sweetest things EVER. During 1973-74, the band didn't always go back to the second verse and jammed off into other things; I prefer it when they did the second verse. 'Then too many people started coming so they rented a place and bands started to come and play, (enter the Grateful Dead, house band of the Prankster acid tests). Great, great rhythm. via Grateful Dead/YouTube. It was a way to get on the bus and stay on the bus.' Try it. The bus was running on all cylinders that night. “The Grateful Dead are hard to explain,” he wrote: “just what brings the people out time and time again?” His more experienced colleagues knew. For instance, I got on the bus in what I believe is an odd way. China Cat Sunflower 3. Saint Stephen 2. New Potato Caboose 4. I bought Skeletons in the Closet and was hooked for life. He was joined by The Merry Band of Pranksters, a group of counter-culture characters, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s On The Road, who was also the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus." The only year in which it was not listed as being performed was 1975, the hiatus year. We used to hitch hike into town on a regular basis. Unable to process your request at this time. The song was a fixture in the repertoire from then on, performed at least 586 times that we know of. Find a recording if you don't believe me! 'It was more haphazard than planned. Here's a link to a blog regarding the timings of all "Other Ones": For years, Bob has been pitching this story about writing the second verse, about "Cowboy Neal," up in Oregon right as Neal was dying in Mexico in Feb. '68. I live in the Berkshires so the Wilco Solid Sound Festival is a real blessing here... check out the all-request covers show Wilco played here last Friday (which included Ripple). To quote from a UK Mail-Online article: The bus has even more mind-blowing contexts having to do with the Big Bang and and the GOD particle recently revealed by the Haydron Super-collider in Bern, Switzerland. 'They did it again and it became an Acid Test. He immediately sat down and wrote the opening line, contributing the lyrics and name of the song. It's got the dedication to Owsley and Jerry's playing a Les Paul - big, big fat sound. He believed the drug, which was still legal then, should be widely available. These were the years of grade school drills and bomb shelters and British campaigns for nuclear disarmament. With Cowboy Neal. Interesting taste of vernacular here as I've always taken this line, as a native Southerner, not to mean the speaker prefers to blow away but rather, as can be heard throughout the rural (and not so rural) South, that he nearly or about blew away. Collection, Dead & (And I’d be interested in any speculation linking the two songs thematically.). The song was often performed as part of a suite, and appears that way on Anthem of the Sun, bracketed by Garcia’s “Cryptical Envelopment.” But it stands alone most of the time in performance—“Cryptical” was dropped completely from 1973 through 1984, reappeared for five performances in 1985 (the 20th anniversary period—it was broken out following a lapse of 791 shows at the June 16, 1985 Greek Theater show in Berkeley), then disappeared again for the remainder of the band’s career. Great song, many psychedelic memories with this one. Thanks! Games, Furniture & The bus left with Cowboy Neal at the wheel and me in tow. This song has always been a favorite because for me its imagery tells a huge story without too many words! I was inspired to watch Magic Trip: Ken Kesey searches for a cool place. Lesh: Just happened to have a water balloon, in his hand... Ladies and gentlemen... The jazz keyboard player had, to his surprise, handed him a small drum and taught him the rhythm. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) '73-'74, Cornell Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum Recommended for you. But what I just loved was a)Tweedy gets almost all the way through the song without missing a syllable, and then on the last verse his brains leave the building, he recovers in the sweetest way, and a Wilco crowd picks up just like a Deadhead crowd would and does the chorus. The giveaway verse is the one that begins, "Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like? He wrote the Grateful Dead a letter complaining about their work ethic. Official Site Of The Grateful Dead. Anniversary, Dave's The same interview with Gans has Weir explaining that the song was written over a period of time, but that the current version of the song, the verses we now know, came to him in a flash, and the band played its show, including its first performance of the finalized version of “The Other One” that night on a Pacific Northwest tour, and “when we came home we learned the news that Neal had died that night. When the Dead began to play in 1965, Bob Weir was just 17, so he was naturally treated as "the kid." By submitting my information, I agree to receive personalized updates and marketing messages about Grateful Dead based on my information, interests, activities, website visits and device data and in accordance with the. It's called "The Other One" because that's how they used to refer to it.....Alligator and The Other One....then, over time, the name just stuck. I've always felt that it is incomplete without the second Cryptical. ... smoothly than any other Dead album. Garcia and others formed the Grateful Dead in 1965, and some time later began working with lyrics that Hunter had written. Lesh: A prettier shot you never saw. The Grateful Dead is one of the most polarizing bands in the history of rock and roll. No other mind-altering substances were involved, and I never again achieved quite the experience of that first glimpse of the oneness of everything. During one such occasion a school bus stopped to give us a ride, it was filled with odd looking people and distinct smell. So there is the wider context of the bus as the beginning of the SF Bay Area American counter-cultural scene, the bus that is at the center of the song "The Other One". I brush my teeth for how long it takes me to sing a verse, the chorus and another verse of "The Other One." The Best Show In The History of The Grateful Dead, When The Other One Met Morning Dew, May 26, 1972 This is how the (my) creative process works. Those Road trips liner notes were by me. The bigger shocker was a full-on version of Dark Star > California Stars > Dark Star during Wilco's set. Check out One From The Vault, it's on there, Is that THE blairj? I heard a particularly striking version from 1972, I think it's 9 September but I'm not sure, that has a splendid long, murky jam between the two verses; that's one I'd like to see officially released. “The scene is always the same with the Grateful Dead,” the Oregonian reporter wrote. Anytime I sat down to a kit, The Other One just flowed out of my arms and legs. Bill Walker tanka painting of band members, one picture a thousand words. Wilco does Ripple. ...since the conversation is HUGE, there are no "sidetracks"! I highly recommend taking a look at that. “The bus came by and I got on...that’s when it all began.”. The Grateful Dead are one of the ... really fit with the Grateful Dead, co-wrote and sang almost half the songs on this album. In fact, he wrote down a verse of Dark Star while the band was in rehearsal. This was Kesey and the Pranksters way of humorously approaching it so that it did not eat up the American and world psyche. He's gotten writers like me and Gans and others to repeat the saga, which IS a great story--but unfortunately not true. Here’s the plan—each week, I will blog about a different song, focusing, usually, on the lyrics, but also on some other aspects of the song, including its overall impact—a truly subjective thing. Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics as a tribute to Janis Joplin shortly after her death with music penned by Jerry Garcia. If I were tasked with contributing one song to be paired alongside the poems of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Longfellow and Whitman, I would slip “Crazy Fingers” into the fold. Though not for long. Bill Kreutzmann believes this song first popped up during the band's stay at the Russian River - it was the same trip in which Kreutzman and Bob Weir developed "The Other One" and Jerry Garcia used some of Robert Hunter's lyrics for the first time in a Dead song with "Alligator." when you listen to it again, give particular attention to the music after the first verse. So, … The Dead's manager at this time was named John, and his nickname was 'Uncle John', so Uncle John's Band probably means the Dead themselves. I am a drummer, always tapping on a table or whatever, and this 12/8 rhythm was always reflexively coming out. A “Spanish lady” hands the singer a rose, which then starts swirling around and explodes—kind of like Yosemite Sam left holding a lit firecracker, leaving a smoking crater of his mind. "That's It For The Other One" Words and music by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Bill Kreutzmann ("That's It For the Other One," composed and written by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Bill Kreutzmann. 7" Singles Uncle John's Band 2. I moved to SF after graduating high school in 1975 and i remember being sad that I had missed all the good stuff because the scene had changed by then, of course I was wrong about missing the ALL the good stuff and for me the best was yet to come. The festival is a Mass MoCA, a contemporary art complex in a sprawling bunch of old mill buildings surrounded by the Berkshire mountains, a couple of miles from the Vermont line. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) 1 song Anthem of the Sun 1. Enter Mickey and T.C. Dark Star > California Stars > Dark Star!!!!! The Grateful Dead lyricist died on Sept. 22 at age 78. (I’ll consider requests for particular songs—just private message me!). Acclaimed lyricist Robert Hunter died this week at the age of 78. Luckily in October 1971 they started playing the entire suite again. So I went to look at the above video, which makes me wish I was there. @DD-Isn't this a longish break for the 4th of July - or have you taken the bus someplace else? Company, Stickers & The improvement in the student's timing and fluidity was significant, and immediately apparent. The roiling music, with its tumbling 12/8 beat, can sound like it’s in a fast three or a slower four or even a moderate six, and the drums pound out the 12-beat figure in preparation for Phil’s famous run into the opening chord. Unable to process your request at this time. A handful of months later, Robert Hunter, who would become a longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead, arrived back in California and overheard the band playing around with the track. It wainbow spiwal wound and wound, it twembo and expwode!” And you can go on. 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