On the Raod Again Annotaded Dead
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
Project begun: January, 1995.
Last updated: June 16, 2007
Suspended: June 26, 2007. No further updating to this site will be washed, barring unforeseen circumstances. Thanks very much! --DD
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Contents
Introduction to the Project
What follows is the introduction I wrote a long fourth dimension ago when I started this project. I am now laying it to rest, and will not be updating the site further. This volition include no longer updating broken links, or correcting errors of fact. So the website, equally information technology stands, volition become more and more of an artifact, and less and less of a living thing. Thank you to all who participated! I have enjoyed doing the work, and I continue to dear the music and the words. --David DoddThis site provides footnotes for Grateful Dead lyrics. The standard procedure volition be to provide links for words or phrases which might benefit from some elucidation, without attempting to give definitive "interpretations," since that'due south a very personal endeavor.
The standard text for Robert Hunter's lyrics will be his A Box of Rain (2nd ed., 1993). He has kindly agreed to allow me to use full text for all lyrics equally of April 24, 1996! Hunter has besides posted his lyrics on the web! For John Perry Barlow'southward lyrics, the standard text will exist his own library of lyrics, on the Earth Broad Spider web. Lyrics by others, such as Robert Petersen, Robert Weir, and Jerry Garcia, will exist from legitimate song books, whenever possible.
As appropriate, some lyrics will include an analysis department, which volition provide technical information on the lyric's structure, and some potential avenues for interpretation. I actively encourage anyone with differing interpretations to transport them to me via the links provided in each song'southward pages.
Within each lyric's pages, some links will be to footnotes inside that folio, and some to sites outside of this web site. That'southward the fun of information technology, I think. Some of the links are to commercial databases; this is not meant as an endorsement.
At that place are ii main metaphors for this project that I try to continue in heed: 1) I've always wondered what would happen if, every fourth dimension you ran into whatsoever kind of reference to a volume or a person or a work of fine art you weren't familiar with, you had to become find out about that thing before you connected with what you were doing: would you ever cease annihilation?; and two) The mirror ball in Winterland, which would merely sort of scatter all over, shedding shards of lite without really claiming to illuminate anything. Always a high betoken of a Winterland bear witness.
The scope of the project will be limited to lyrics of original songs performed by the Expressionless. The covers have been more than than adequately covered by Blair Jackson in his columns on "Roots" in The Golden Road, which accept been collected into a chapter of his book: Goin' Down the Route: a Grateful Expressionless Travelling Companion.. For a spider web site on the covers, come across Randy Jackson's excellent Roots of the Grateful Dead. Additionally, Mike Carver is making an endeavor to collect annotations for songs which appeared in rec.music.gdead at his site.
I would peculiarly like to acknowledge the support of the Kraemer Family Library of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs during the inception of this projection, and of the Grateful Dead, and in particular, Alan Trist of Ice Ix Publishing. The support of Dr. Fred Lieberman of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been invaluable.
Enjoy the ride!
Songs:
Thematic essays and other apparatus:
(by David Dodd unless otherwise noted)
- Biblical Symbolics and the Grateful Expressionless, past Bryan Miller.
- The Criminal offence, And Its Victims, by Gerrit Graham.
- Black, Muddy River--Line Past Line, by Andrew Stiller.
- "Nighttime Star" as an Case of Transcendental Aesthetics, by Steven Skaggs.
- Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead, past Christopher Chase.
- Home, by Wally Bubelis
- Walking in the Fields of Time and Organized religion, past Sven Bachmann
- Cyclopedia to the Lyrics of the Grateful Expressionless, by Sven Bachmann
- For a wonderful and completely searchable concordance of Grateful Expressionless songs, originals and covers, see Alex Allan's Grateful Dead Lyric and Vocal Finder. It's a piece of work of art.
- Allusions in Grateful Expressionless Lyrics, by Dave Kopel
- Carlisle, past Dave Kopel
- Standing in the Soul: An Interview with Robert Hunter, past Steve Silberman
- Leonardo Words From Out a Silk Trombone: Nonsense and Whimsy in the Lyrics of Robert Hunter
- Low-cal and Dark in the Lyrics of Robert Hunter
- On "Franklin's Tower", by Andrew Shalit.
- The Fractals of Familiarity and Innovation: Robert Hunter and the Grateful Dead Concert Feel, by Jurgen Fauth
- Fractures of Unfamiliarity & Circumvention in Pursuit of a Overnice Time, past Robert Hunter
- The AOXOMOXOA Vocal Cycle
- Ambiguity in the Lyrics of the Grateful Expressionless
- Robert Petersen: a Biographical Essay
- The Rose
- Grateful Goose: Nursery Rhymes in the Dead's Lyrics.
- Life Bicycle Imagery in the Lyric of Robert Hunter...A Treatise in Aoxomoxoa-Mania, past Lars Schleif
- The Railroad as Metaphor, by Ken Rattenne
- Motif and thematic alphabetize to the lyrics. [In progress]
- "Ripple": A Small Excursus, by William C. Dowling
- Bibliography
updated June 16, 2007--dgd
Source: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gdhome.html
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