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| Jack White – Temporary Ground Lyrics
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One thing I know for sure is that Jack White was inspired to write this song by seeing huge lily pads, 6-feet or even more in diameter, in South America. I think the lyrics represent the fragile state our world is now in - and how fragile (and most probably well on the way to completely destroyed) our world *will* be in the coming years. For the life desperately clinging to it, that is. Hence, we are on temporary ground. This is just a quickie comment, I'll post more ideas I have about this when I have time! |
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| Grateful Dead – China Cat Sunflower Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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When this song was first played live over the earliest months of 1968, it was often sandwiched between "Dark Star" and "The Eleven." In 1968 it was played in the key of E as well; over time they would switch to the key of G for this song and there it would stay until the end of the band's career together. Perhaps most interestingly, on the early live versions (again, 1968), Garcia plays the distinctive lead part we all know and love instead of Bob Weir, who would eventually play it while Garcia played the bit that you hear opening the song behind it. I love the early '68 versions - they had a bite to them, much heavier than you'd expect. Check out the one from Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR 2/3/68. Incredible stuff! |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Funny, all my fellow Dylan freak friends seem to think this song is about homosexuality. But I always thought it was about the media and their cluelessness about what was happening during those times with young people, Bob Dylan himself included among said young people. Then I come on here and see that I'm not alone! |
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| Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Just because it's the Grateful Dead doesn't necessarily mean it's about drugs, folks. It's most definitely about a girl. Bob Weir's lover at the time, Frankie, was certainly of some inspiration to this song ("waits backstage while I sing to you"). I do know this song created some friction bewtween Robert Hunter (the main lsyricist of it) and Bob Weir (who penned the line "Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive", much to Hunter's dismay). It eventually became so tense between the two that when John Perry Barlow - himself a fine, fine lyricist - started writing word for Weir's music, Hunter said, "Take him, he's yours!" Great, great song, both live and in the studio. Live it was a straight-out rocker, the studio version has almost a country-ish lilt which is quite pleasing. |
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| Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia Lyrics
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There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy and Mickey's jazz fusion/world music influences. All this combined to make a unique whole that was all their own. Garcia's guitar playing was not of this earth - it was pure inspiration, as if his playing was driven by some unseen force. There would be moments seeing them live almost nightly when some amazing theme would just pop out and they would just FLOOR you with it. For better or worse, they fathered the whole "jam bands" scene (some bands good, some abysmal). The old bumper sticker was true: there is (was) nothing like a Grateful Dead concert." Saw them 142 times, I should know lol. |
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