by tigerstrat » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:49 pm
I suppose I've met plenty of folks who were ambivalent or hadn't heard it or even of it, but never met anyone who said they disliked it, let alone couldn't stand it! Wasn't it only performed about as many times(3?5?) as World To Give?
Worst thing I heard anyone say- which I think may have been a Relics review of the Alpine 88 4-night run- was that it was derivative of "Gomorrah" and "Lucky Old Sun" ...which is fairly obviously true. But it's still got Jerry's unique english applied to a well-crafted marriage of melodic elements of both songs and words by Robert Hunter... great song imho.
"There, in huge black letters, was 'The Grateful Dead'. It just... cancelled my mind out."-Garcia