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Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer songwriter, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California. An early friend of Jerry Garcia, they played together in bluegrass bands (such as the Tub Thumpers) in the early sixties, with Hunter on mandolin and upright bass. They hung out in coffee shops, read poetry, learned about the Beat Movement, and were generally the hip teenagers of Palo Alto. San Luis Obispo, San Luis, or SLO (Spanish for ) is a city in California. ...
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Around 1962, Hunter was an early volunteer test subject (along with Ken Kesey) for psychedelic chemicals at Stanford University's research covertly sponsored by the CIA in their MKULTRA program. [McNally 42] He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline and report on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him: "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane." [McNally 42-43] Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ...
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The first lyrics he wrote for the Grateful Dead were composed on LSD, and mailed to the band from Arizona: a suite that would later become "China Cat Sunflower"/"The Eleven" (these were originally performed together for a short time). China Cat Sunflower would later find a partner in I Know You Rider. After battling moderate drug addiction, he abandoned his Joycean/Western vision quest and joined his old friend's band, the Grateful Dead, on the first weekend in September 1967, at the small Rio Nido, California gigs. The association was at first informal, but began on an auspicious note, as that weekend he wrote the first verse of possibly his best known song, "Dark Star". It is perhaps not a coincidence that some Deadheads argue that the Rio Nido gigs were the first in which the band accessed the full power of their psychedelic improvisation style. Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California. ...
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China Cat Sunflower is a song by the Grateful Dead, often played into I Know You Rider at live performances. ...
The Eleven is a song by American psychedelia-influenced rock band The Grateful Dead. ...
China Cat Sunflower is a song by the Grateful Dead, often played into I Know You Rider at live performances. ...
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...
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Rio Nido, California is a small, unincorporated resort community on the Russian River, 1. ...
Dark Star is a song by the Grateful Dead. ...
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Hunter's relationship with the band grew, until he was officially a non-performing band member. The majority of the Grateful Dead's original songs are Hunter/Garcia collaborations, where Garcia composed the music, and Hunter wrote the lyrics. Garcia once described Hunter as "the band member who doesn't come out on stage with us." Hunter also collaborated as a lyricist with the other voices in the Dead, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, although over time Weir, the other principal songwriter besides Garcia, switched to using John Perry Barlow as a lyricist. Robert Hall Weir (October 16, 1947–) is an American guitar player, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. ...
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. ...
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John Perry Barlow (born Jackson Hole, Wyoming, October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. ...
Hunter called 1970's "Friend of the Devil" the closest he and Garcia came to writing a classic song. Hunter's most-known line is What a long, strange trip it's been, from that year's "Truckin'". Perhaps the apex of Hunter's lyricism came with two suites written in the mid-1970s, "Help on the Way"/"Franklin's Tower" (1975) and "Terrapin Station" (1977). Friend of the Devil is a song recorded by the Grateful Dead. ...
Truckin is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. ...
Terrapin Station is the ninth studio album by the Grateful Dead, and was originally released on July 27, 1977. ...
In 1974 Hunter released the solo album Tales of the Great Rum Runners featuring himself as a singer songwriter. It was followed the next year by Tiger Rose. Neither attracted a large audience. Another of his solo efforts, the extremely rare recording Jack O' Roses, containing the extended version of "Terrapin Station Suite" (sans the non-Hunter "At A Siding") and a solo rendition of "Friend Of The Devil", is available for download direct from his own Robert Hunter Archive.
Discography
- Tales Of The Great Rum Runners (1974)
- Tiger Rose (1975)
- Alligator Moon (recorded but unreleased - 1978)
- Jack O'Roses (1980)
- Promontory Rider: A Retrospective Collection (1982)
- Amagamalin Street (1984)
- Live '85 (1985)
- Flight Of The Marie Helena (1985)
- Rock Columbia (1986)
- Duino Elegies (1988)
- Liberty (1988)
- Box Of Rain (1990)
- Duino Elegies/The Sonnets To Orpheus (1993)
- Sentinel (1993)
References - Hunter, Robert. A Box of Rain. Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-14-013451-4. The complete lyrics of Robert Hunter to date.
- McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. Broadway Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7679-1186-5.
- The Grateful Dead Family Discography (Located at http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_RHPerformer.htm).
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