Here’s a slightly easier to access version of the new Dead song (!) that FoTotD Jesse Jarnow dug out of the rehearsal tapes that just entered circulation.
Some thoughts:
- The beginning of the tune sounds EXACTLY like Steve Martin’s “Ramblin’ Guy” bit.
- Apparently, the question “How much should Phil be allowed to sing?” has been part of the woof and warp* of the Dead since the beginning.
- I’m a sucker for songs about Jerusalem.
- Can’t figure out all the lyrics, but I guarantee this song was written immediately after reading Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.
- Hey: new Dead song!
*Woof and weft? Warp and shlorp? Worf and Wu-Tang? I know that phrase has something to do with looms and weaving, but that’s as far as my knowledge stretches.
I think there is also a Pig vocal tune in that rehearsal trove. Did they come from the LA sojourn?
Appears to be March 9th and 10th, which were Watts. (I think.)
Yes, for sure, if those dates are right. Certainly sounds like there was pixie dust in the air.
You said…
“Can’t figure out all the lyrics, but I guarantee this song was written immediately after reading Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.”
Crazy Fingers always reminds me of Catcher in the Rye.
The rain? The Carousel, the impending change. Just gives me the same feeling.