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Mickey Hart, percussion, vocals. Mickey is best known for his thirty years as percussionist with the Grateful Dead. He is a trustee at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, the executive producer of the World series of music for Rykodisc, founder of "Planet Drum," author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic, Planet Drum, and Spirit into Sound, and composer of film scores, including the percussion soundtrack to "Apocalypse Now." His latest album is called "Spirit into Sound." He won the first World Music Grammy ever awarded, for his recording, Planet Drum. Bruce Hornsby, vocals and keyboards. In 1987 Hornsby and his then-band "the Range" opened for the Dead near Monterey, and his relationship with the Dead progressed from there. Impressed with his More... (Submit New Grateful Dead Lyrics) (Submit New Grateful Dead Lyrics) Review about Grateful Dead An eternal favorite | Reviewer: Jeff Curry ------ About the song Me and My Uncle performed by Grateful Dead The Skull and Roses album was my first exposure to the Grateful Dead, back in 1983. I was in the Navy, stationed in the Bay Area. I was not a country fan, but had some exposure while I was growing up. Me and My Uncle is a very special song. At first listen, it seems very country, but after a few more times through, and a little thought, it is actually something more. For a new fan of the band, it is one of their many songs that seems like a traditional song at first listen, but becomes something much more in a very short time, a great introductory song for prospective deadheads. Bless my two great friends for feeling that I was worthy to be initiated into the club. ;) ahead | Reviewer: john ------ About the song Casey Jones performed by Grateful Dead Cocaine was legal at the time of Casey's crash additinally it was not unreasonable for its potential to be used by such a class of individuals such as train operators or drivers of long haul operations etc. As a matter of fact if you drank Coca Cola at that time you've consumed cocaine as it was a major ingredient such as caffiene or guarana today! Wharf Rat, another interpretation | Reviewer: Farrell Timlake ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead I read this as a guy who confronts a drunk and listens to his tale and by the end of it begins having his own doubts about his life and his own girl. That last line of the song - the repetition suggests doubt, "I know she's been... I'm sure she's been true to me" The Dead have plenty of songs that are light and cheerful but this is one of their best dark, moody efforts. Favorite | Reviewer: Steven ------ About the song Weather Report Suite performed by Grateful Dead Really, this song is stuck in my head each waking morning. I abosultely love the transcendental imagery that is given here. The best song in my opinion by the Dead...quite possibly the best song, period. one of the best ever | Reviewer: marc nirenberg ------ About the song Dark Star performed by Grateful Dead This is one of the most powerful and majestic pieces of music ever recorded. The lyrics are glorious. Garcia is amazing throughout this, but without Weir who is astonishing the song would be nothing. The 1st five minutes are simply transcendant. I've heard many live versions of this, but this ranks as the best of them. It's a miracle of a song, and we're lucky to have the fact that this group ever existed. Redemption and renewal | Reviewer: Jeff Curry ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead This song is a favorite of one of my best friends. Each of us has a different song that really pulls on us. Mine is Playiing in the Band. I think the appeal to my friend is that, no matter what kind of life someone has led, there is still room for optimism and redemption. "I'm sure she's been true to me" and "I'll get up and fly away" are very optimistic statements about better things to come. Always brings back memories | Reviewer: Mike ------ About the song Standing on the Moon performed by Grateful Dead I remember sitting with my back against the wall 3rd level at the Phila Spectrum enjoying my mescaline state, and watching & hearing the boys play this song, it's a memory that will always stay with me, as I truly thought I was standing on the moon watching the concert down below. Brilliant Little Jewel | Reviewer: Joe Franklin ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead This is a really powerful song. Like all great songs, it mesmerizes. Gentle repetition, hypnosis: "I said to him... I said to him, I'm sure she's been... I said to him I'm sure she's been true to you." A man regrets the way he's lived, but still sees hope that he'll get up and fly away. He's what's commonly known as wino, just about completely outside of society. But his interlocutor, who is one of "us" and who is conveying the story, ends up reflecting on exactly the same thing -- the girl that's been true to him (whether or not she actually has been). Doesn't matter who you are or where you're at: same regrets, same hope, same preoccupations. Jerry really did know how to put it over. deeper still | Reviewer: tasty doubles ------ About the song Black Peter performed by Grateful Dead I actually think it runs even deeper than that. We, envision on our deathbed what it might be like. Even when we are near our deaths, we still don't know what it is to die. The subtle ruminations of life, and remeniscences of our lives pass before our eyes. At the point of our death we imagine what one might think. When I imagine what friends of mine went through during their death, a part of me dies. It is a truly magical experience. Then a part of me feels lifted, as if my freind, who has just died, has been freed from his shackles of this world. But, I can only imagine, that in thier mind, perhaps they might, at the last moment cling to this world, to the simple experiences of a sentient tactile world filled with friends, winds, weather, smells and all of it. The verses for me carry out an otherworldly imagining of the most amazing reality. "I'm dying, and I just want to get a few of my closest friends around..." In thinking about my friends while on my deathbed, I would put myself in thier shoes. Maybe they come around. Maybe not, in this work a day world. But as I am dying, and after I have died, my friends would feel a loss and a wish they had run more quickly to be there, to be there to comfort me. I, dying, would feel them wishing they could be with me, and feel them running to me, and wish they could only run faster. For all I have done to help others. For all I have done to tread on others feet, it all susses up for the big finale. Lord I love this song!! Who Was BP? | Reviewer: Soilsoul ------ About the song Black Peter performed by Grateful Dead Black Peter is St. Nick's assistant who will replace the carrots and hay from your shoes with candy if you've been good. But,the reindeer go hungry at the houses of bad children. He was replaced by elves. Black Pete began to be included in the mythology of Christmas during the 15th century occupation of Norway by Spaniards. So, he was initially depicted as dark complected and sometimes as a pirate. Would love to hear this at LaFitte's tavern in New Orleans!... ' I want to put a tiger in your tank says it all ' | Reviewer: Byron ------ About the song Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl performed by Grateful Dead Yes Pigpen is singing about his desire for an underage girl, not a prepubescent one, but under 18, and we all had that in the Hippie Days, even I had a sexual encounter with a 16 year old after the Newport Rock Festival and man was she sweet and I was gentle. I was 19, so leave us Dead Heads alone please and go back to banging you ancient wife. She was a 'little school girl' too once. to the post below | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead The song isn't about sober Deadheads. Deadheads that have become sober call themselves Wharfrats. The song is about a man who is a drunk. the word Wharf Rat-one who is frequently found on or near wharves, esp. a vagrant or petty criminal who haunts wharves. August West lives near or in one of these places. robert plant hunter | Reviewer: eiko malika ------ About the song Black Peter performed by Grateful Dead the song was written in Port Slovakia, how truth your friends, companions and life experience sometimes vary invariably, one not always in step with the other. wither respect for serio, and Donavan...and Jack Kerouc, King of the place, Robert Pant Hunter is both and in this case, possibly just the name holder from Ukraine because of the tetious fame and delemma of little port Slova. with love....Eiko Malika W.E.M. Wharf Rat | Reviewer: Steal YOUR FaCe ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead This song is amazing....its about sober deadheads who still get a trip just off the music the dead plays....it really relates to me because I am four months sober and I am still moved by the Deads performance BEST SONG EVER | Reviewer: RUPE ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead GD has many GREAT songs, BUT...imho, this is the best ever recorded by them. It is the greatest song for the end of a long night, with the lights out and just slipping into it. It has an ethereal quality to it. It is simultaneously, moving, charging and relaxing (not an easy thing to pull off). Try listening to it in this way and see if you can disagree with what I've said. My bet is you can't. FUN TUNE! | Reviewer: Paul Pulcinello ------ About the song Monkey and the Engineer performed by Grateful Dead this song, although not an oringinal grateful dead song, is a very fun and joyful three minutes. I've heard it countless times, and each time my smile gets wider. Thank you grateful dead for introducing this forgotton gem to my generation and those to come. the locomotive is under control!!!!!!! The birth of psychedelic folk | Reviewer: Mark Baldwin ------ About the song Mountains of the Moon performed by Grateful Dead This is what happens when people into British Folk music start taking psycheldelic drugs - or possibly what happens when people into psychedelic drugs get into British folk music! Either way it is an eerie and unsettling song - best heard in the versions where it segues into Dark Star. "Accidental" genius | Reviewer: Pad Thai ------ About the song Me and My Uncle performed by Grateful Dead The classic cut on the Dead's 1971 "Skull and Roses" album (album artwork from the Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam)was one of many cover recordings, but this is a special one. Embedded perfectly in a series of songs that are at once country-rock-folk-fusion-blues-acid rock with an edge, the deceptively simple "Me and My Uncle" tells the cowboy tale of avarice trumping phileo love. Written by a drunken John Phillips (Mamas and Papas)one night at a party, in the hands of the Dead (or their brains more accurately) the song transcends cowboy philosophy and taps into something bigger, more universal and even eternal. Not bad for a tequila inspired tune. I've listened to it for 37 years and can't get over it (10-25-08 great marty robbins tune | Reviewer: longboard2 ------ About the song El Paso performed by Grateful Dead A great marty robbins tune that the dead covered. Bobby does a nice job on the earlier versions when he still had a voice and could sing.This was at a time when you could see country's influence on the dead. Besides the Robbins tune they were also doing merle haggards Momma tried and Sing me back home. Rhawf What | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead Always listened to the GD since I was able to choose, and this could be my favorite. Very interesting to read other's connections to the song. Esp. August West's girlfriend not wanting to be called Bonnie. Even though we all know she likes it just a little. Imagery is amazing here with "some other fucker's crime" and "stublin' around half drunk...", etc. Hope if you like the lyrics on this one you will try Pride of Cumamunga, Cement Clay and Glass (NRPS) and Dark Hollow... Peace! 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