Terrapin Station (Dig)

Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station (Dig)

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Artist: Grateful Dead
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Music Label: Grateful Dead / Rhino
Soundtracks:
  1. Estimated Prophet
  2. Dancin' in the Streets
  3. Passenger
  4. Samson & Delilah
  5. Sunrise
  6. Terrapin Station
  7. Peggy-O [Instrumental Studio Outtake][*][Take]
  8. Ascent [Instrumental Studio Outtake][*][Take]
  9. Catfish John [Studio Outtake][*]
  10. Equinox [Studio Outtake][*]
  11. Fire on the Mountain [Studio Outtake][*]
  12. Dancin' in the Streets [Live][*]

Free Music Notes for Terrapin Station (Dig)

Free Music Review: SIGNPOST TO TERRAPIN
Hit: 5 Stars

This may not be my ABSOLUTE favorite studio Dead album, but it IS a very strong and satisfying one for me and I have always loved it. It is worth pointing out that I started going to Dead concerts around this time (my teen years), and this material was highlighted of course, so for me this was a signpost to the trippy world of the Grateful Dead. Once you've heard Terrapin anthem live, in that special state of mind, with the beautiful lights blending, you're a Grateful goner trust me!

Weir's punchy Estimated Prophet begins it with a BANG as Garcia's signature slick (envelope filter) waahhhlll of joyful guitar bliss weaves between Weir's sharp chordal harmonic permutations and Lesh's tight ventricle vibrating bass thumpings. Kreutzmann & Hart are "on" here, laying down very interesting beats as if from a single four-armed monster. This was the new "hit" back then and is possibly Weir's biggest one ... "firewheel burnin' in the air". Tom Scott provides lyricon and saxophones for soft landing toward the end.

Dancing in the Streets is a fun little cover song, and the band are clearly grooving here. Lesh is especially noticeable with jazz-fusiony butter runs, spreading a tasty overlay to the what might have been a less than tasty disco-beat foundation (Mickey's interesting world beat is a shade of things to come for him). Smile big as Garcia and Weir wink at eachother parodying the times with their "brand new beat" jangly pop guitar musings - FUNNY! Horns are provided to rescue the somewhat pretty melodies getting lost in this hyper SNfever dance. God bless 'em, they tried valiantly to bring the Dead dance hall into the platform shoe era.

"Firefly, Can you see me, Shine on GLOWING, Brief and brightly ... PASSENGER, DON'T YOU HEAR ME?" - This song (Passenger, by Lesh) kicks your[...] in a happy, sweet and innocent way, but yes, IT ROCKS (at least briefly - short song at 2:48 min)! Garcia switches between bouncy melodic talkative storylines and slide-guitar exclamations as Weir holds down a pure rock 'n' roll structure with Lesh and the high-hat bashing rhythm section - very catchy and fun song that sticks with you, permanently.

Samson & Delilah (arranged by Weir) starts out with great drums and Garcia having fun tweaking the intense chord progressions with walking blues finally wailing out with a patented (amongst deadheads) twangy guitar lead. Strangely intense & mellow.Samson, tell me where your strength lies???

.. As a lead in to the incredibly beautiful melodic song by Donna "Sunrise" that I believe was created for the funeral of a friend. It is sung so tenderly, even thinking about this siren song can be emotional, as you get lost in the hymnal beauty. It's darn close to her crowning achievement with the Grateful Dead (although her work on Cat's Under the Stars is on par and equally gracious). Yes, this sweety did add a few precious things to the Dead continuum, despite the ambivalence of some fans to her live work.

And now we come to it, with thumbs up high ... Please may we get to Terrapin? THIS SONG IS JERRY'S MASTERPIECE if you want to know one fans opinion. With all else thrown out, the albums worth is paid back right here: "Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, in hopes he will come back ... but he cannot be bought or sold" (Lady With A Fan). The way I look at it, with Jerry gone now, this will have to do.

His most ambitious musical musings are stretched out and played with in this elaborate song. Pretty cerebral! Can you hear the myriad influences played out in this 16:10 minute opus? Since I have been a big progressive rock fan simultaneously with my Dead years it isn't hard seeing where ideas may have been found; English prog - Canterbury style rock/folk, Tull, Yes, Gentle Giant, Caravan, King Crimson and many others seem to be somewhat represented. And I do know Jerry had a bit of an American orchestra fetish (that he tried to explore solo) that is layered in. Even some classical aspects get a little attention compositionally. The Grateful Dead members were voracious consumers of ALL world music and it shows here more than most.

What a piece of work! Jerry (and the band) cooks all over this multi-layered diamond, and not just him, but the writing with Hunter is wonderful: "Inspiration, move me brightly, Light the song with sense and color, hold away despair. More than this I will not ask. Faced with mysteries dark and vast." All members put it all out for this song - it is just too much to get into the details - just turn it up, lay back and dream your way to Terrapin (it is a delightful state of mind while you're there). It is a melodic/harmonic paradise to my ears. Enjoy!

P.S. The extras on this Rhino remastered version are great generally: an excellent playful Peggy-o; a nice LONG and much improved jam on Dancin', a fun Ascent into Jerry jam land; Fire on the Mountain getting ready for the next album; A strange little song called Equinox (by Lesh) that is promising in an unfinished outtake; and last but certainly not least a GREAT Catfish John pulled from Garcia solo material that should make you want to go out and get all of the five newly remastered Garcia solo albums, filled to the brim with extras that are a true delight. Go get 'em while your still young!
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