Melody Monday

The Allman Brothers

MIDNIGHT RIDER &  SOULSHINE

Live at the Beacon

 

 Happy Holidays everyone!

JG

Weir Here

Bob Weir and Jackie Greene 

TRI Studios 12-5-2012

(~);}

JG

Joy

Phish: Joy

2011-12-30

MSG, New York, NY

 It takes as much effort to be miserable as it does to be happy.  Life is not a bed of roses and nobody ever promised us that it would be.  Choose love and a smile people.  Even in the midst of a horrible day, I still have so much to be grateful phor.

 JG

Melody Monday

Grateful Dead

Terrapin Station

12-31-78

"...till things we've never seen will seem familiar"

First performance: February 26, 1977, at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California. "Terrapin" opened the show, which also included the first "Estimated Prophet."  It has occupied a stable place in the repertoire ever since, though only on two other occasions has it appeared in the first set.

There are some interesting aspects to this song. Most notably, the fact that the Grateful Dead's realization of the piece is, in Hunter's view, lamentably incomplete, leaving out as it does the lyric resolution. Garcia intentionally uses only a fragment of Hunter's lyric. In Box of Rain, Hunter writes more about "Terrapin" than about any other single piece, with the exception of "Amagamalin Street." Hunter's own recording of "Terrapin," on Jack O' Roses is complete, and attempts to incorporate a plethora of imagery and iconography from all over the Grateful Dead map, especially in the "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track" portion of the song. Ultimately, Garcia's decision to treat the piece as a fragment is far more satisfying. 

Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

"Faces in the Fire"

Lewis Carrol

"The night creeps onward, sad and slow:
In these red embers' dying glow
The forms of Fancy come and go.

"The picture fadeth in its place:
Amid the glow I seem to trace
The shifting semblance of a face." 

T.S. Eliot's oft-quoted lines from the 

"Four Quartets: Little Gidding" 

"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

JG

Moments

Six of them are not mine (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13).  The first picture was taken by Jackie Green from stage at the Roseland, Fall 2012.  A picture narrates a thousand stories. 
" The storyteller makes no choice
soon you will not hear his voice
his job is to shed light
and not to master..."

"Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
Heard some say better run away
Others say you better stand still..."

JG

The Darkside of Alice's Wonderland

JG

Phish 11-28-11

PHiSH 

12.28.11 

Madison  Square Garden

Set 1: 

Free
Glide
Possum
Cities
The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Stash
Contact
Sample in a Jar
Kill Devil Falls
Bathtub Gin

Set 2: 

Birds of a Feather
Carini
Tweezer
My Friend, My Friend
Rock and Roll
NICU
Bouncing Around the Room

Harry Hood
Bug

Encore: Tube
Rocky Top
Tweezer Reprise

 See you on the 28th!

JG

A Long December

Circumstances took us to a path not traveled well.  Alas...time stops for nobody and it's getting late; I must push forward.  I will walk alone by the black muddy river...sing me a song of my own.

All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

(>3);}  

JG

Melody Monday

Grateful Dead

 Looks Like Rain 1987

First performance: Probably March 21, 1972 at the Academy of Music, in New York City, following "Mr. Charlie" and preceding "Chinatown Shuffle." It remained in the repertoire from then on.

JG

Melody Monday

Brokedown Palace

Phil Lesh and Jackie Greene Acoustic

JG