Unbroken Chain

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The image was created from a group photograph taken in the lounge of a hotel in the Tenderloin district. An edit of "U. Four of the songs from the album remained in live rotation throughout the band's existence. Blues" was a preferred encore. For many years, Deadhead lore maintained that "Unbroken Chain" would only be performed at the band's final concert; it was finally broken out on the band's penultimate tour in March and performed at their final concert on July 9, Only "Pride of Cucamonga" was never played live.

With the collapse of the band's label and the move to Arista Records , the album was out of print for many years. In an audiophile-quality pressing was released by Mobile Fidelity Records , using half-speed mastering. This version was released separately by Rhino Records , in The group was named for the mirror writing on the cover of From the Mars Hotel. It was the first sample ever cleared for use by the Grateful Dead. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Acid rock jazz fusion psychedelic folk. Retrieved September 28, Grateful Dead album reviews at robertchristgau.

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When I first got into the dead back in the 70's I always thought one of those guys must be a horticultralist, due to the many references to plants and trees in their songs, and I thought that was a pretty cool thing being a horticultralist myself. It took a little coercing, but the invitee jumped in his car and took the harrowing jaunt in record time. I believe he was coined the Intrepid Traveler. My current bouts of synchronicity seem to happen when I'm driving and Jack Straw is playing. I'll look up through the sunroof and there it is, another US flag. I've had a love affair with magnolias from the time I was a kid.

Our family had a huge one and it's flowers would bloom and make fragrant the whole house when we had the windows open in late May and June. I planted my own over 20 years ago and he does OK, but not like the beauty we had once ago. Plant that Sugar Mag, Sr. Synchronicity I'm a few over pages into "Searchin' For the Sound" for the third time.

Links The linkage from Unbrokern Chain to bicycles can lead us to Dr Albert Hoffman, and the story of his illuminated bicycle ride from his lab to his home on April 19th, That in turn links to a television current affairs show I watched last week, when an inteviewer asked whether a politician could mount a comeback tilt at the leadership. What if this chain that Bobby Petersen wrote about, was a chain in need of repair. Much like your experience David.

Unbroken Chain by Grateful Dead

I assume you repaired the chain, making it unbroken, allowing you to furthur your studies? WRT the "love your brother" line I think like just about every GD lyric worth its salt, this one has multiple things going on, one of which is the old brotherly love thing and one of which is a snark at the treatment of gay people. I don't know that Bobby Peterson was as good as Hunter at embedding multiple paradoxes in a single verse, but he was perfectly capable of conveying complexities! Hi everyone, and thank you for your extended thoughts on the song, along with tips for where I might possibly find an American Beauty rose!

I definitely have to always agree with each and every potential interpretation--if it's what it means to you, then it's valid. And if that idea rings true for someone else, or if there's a conversation that is engendered as a result, that is just gravy. Thanks for the link! I had the privilege of hearing Mr. He described that bicycle ride.

I want to see that TV commercial!! Enjoying the conversation about religion, multiple meaning in lyrics, and plants! I am looking at the lyrics and something caught my eye Was Peterson a sports fan? Now we know that Bobby and Phil enjoy sports especially baseball and football. The lines that grabbed me were; "They say love your brother but will you catch it when you try" "Roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss" "November and more as I wait for the score" We all know that sports teams have a brotherly comadarie with each other and catch it when you try is the effort made to catch the football.

I am assuming football because of the next line about rolling down the line as in scrimage and dropping for a loss in yardage behind the line of scrimage. Was the narrator watching games in November and fell asleep and now has to wait for the 11 o'clock news, remember that this song was written well before ESPN and 24 hour cable sports channels. I also love the tempo shift in the middle. It sort of reminds me of a King Solomon vibe and perhaps Phil was trying to find the groove for this and it didn't hit him until Blues For Allah.

I was in Philly for the debut While it was extremely blissful, it was also a very real enigma.

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I couldn't stop thinking about why now. Clearly Garcia's playing was suffering Did he just want to have the band give it a go, before it was too late? Was it a tip of the hat towards Garcia, knowing it was written for Phil's father, as he was moving on.

It was all that was left to uncover The secret had been shared With his passing, we would all be searchin' for the sound. While the Grateful Dead never really performed it to its potential live, Phil and Friends from with Warren Haynes and Furthur have really made it a show highlight. Synchronicity A late summer show at Frost Amphitheater on the Stanford campus don't recall the date - '83 or so.

It was an overcast day. I remember a very young boy, completely naked, complaining to his mom that he was cold. The band was playing "Althea" at the time, and when Jerry sang, "this space is getting hot," the clouds instantly parted and the sun broke through brightly. When he repeated the line, "you know this space is getting hot," it actually was, suddenly, rather hot!

And the event was not lost on the crowd: That was a good day. I know because people tell me stories about when That being said, Bolo's story sounds really special and I don't doubt it for a second. Had it just been you and the kid, it'd be different, but the whole crowd erupting shows how GD were really and still are connected to something that just can't be explained.

Now Im going to tell a story that might sound ridiculous compaired to bolo's and others stories but I feel it has some connection. I've said this before and I'll say it again but every time Im on a long road trip and if Im listening to a live album that happens to have Dark Star on it Yes, I know this is dumb compared to other stories, but if you were talking to my ex about how I used to say this all the time and she'd think I was joking but saw what I was talking about when we were driving through the mountains of Tennessee and no one would be around Sorry for this ridiculous story but I cant tell you how many times this has happened on a road trip.

I was just referencing that quote from Repo Man about the "plate o' shrimp" somewhere else.

I think I am warming up to your somewhat stream-of-consciousness prose, David! Heard about it though. Unbroken Chain is a special song. The studio version was always a favorite. My personal story is just that I stopped seeing the band after Brent died, other than a JGB show, partly because of sadness and the loss of 'that' band, and partly because of geography. I was living in Oregon, Alaska, and Germany at times they weren't in those places. But after 5 years I ended up seeing the boys on that final summer tour of ' And they played it Psyched for Capitol Theatre Furthur shows!

I've told this story before, but it bears repeating here as we have drifted into a conversation about weird GD coincidences. I attended a Garcia solo acoustic show in Boston 82? Great experience all around except one bonehead who kept yelling, "Gaaaarcia! I love it in the context of the studio album, and it still makes me smile during a Furthur show these days. I think I'll crank it up on the way to work this morning. Synchronicity, Part 2 I found the Stanford show on archive. I suggest you download it! Loving this conversation Hello everyone.

I think my favorite comment, speaking purely egotistically, is Old School Chuck saying that he may be warming up to my writing style. I know I am kind of stream of consciousness-- that is, I am not particularly oriented towards picking a thesis, explaining the arguments, and wrapping everything up with a bow.

But hey, the world never works that way in my experience. And my brain is basically the attic of my life--I rummage around and find all kinds of cloudy dreams unreal all the time. Which makes me think that all the other comments about synchronicity have to be my favorite kind of Grateful Dead experience to read or hear about.

Driving to Dark Star! Sun breaking through during Althea! I think I was at that one and I remember the roar of acknowledgement! Serendipity, coincidence, luck, or their opposites, are things we pay more attention to when we are fined-tuned to our environment. I think these things are there all the time, and in fact, maybe there's nothing particularly "special" about them.

But finding those things in life, and in art, makes life worth living to me. I'm glad Unbroken Chain is in the Furthur repertoire these days, along with all the other stuff the Dead never seemed to do.

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Picture Spring Tour '88, VW pop-up rollin' to. Atlanta - Hampton and I can't get enough Peggy-O. I've got the same three tapes with it playin' over and over my guy thinks I'm nuts, but I don't care. We arrive at the Hampton Coliseum- someone starts a kerfuffle at the gate. We're still outside as the Music starts!!

Finally we make it in the last strains of NMB fade and I walk right though the parting sea of bodies and stand front row before Jerry. He paused looked directly at me gave a wink and a nod and broke into Peggy-O. I must confess that I'm crying as I write this,I miss him everyday. Needless to say my boyfriend nearly s.. Another story that stands out in my mind. The last shows I attended before we lost Jerry, I was 3mons.

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Memphis 95 after the show, I'm not sure which night,i'm talking to my friend Paul relating that I always think that one day I'll run into our old friend Marta in the lot. Back at the hotel someone turns on the TV , I hear a familiar voice and turn to see Marta on the screen.

A documentary about the Rainbow Family was playing and there she was! We're all connected ALL the time.. We all miss Jerry every day: Synchronicity OK, we all know that our experience with this band is just loaded with synchronicity, but here's one of the more epic ones I experienced. It was after night two at Oxford Plains, and I was hanging around a campfire with a group of people who were all in a pretty psychedelicized stated.

One of them, we'll call her Jane, was missing her supposed boyfriend, let's call him John Doe, who I knew quite well. I knew he was at the shows, but none of us had seen him all weekend, and most of us knew he was with another girl, so we expected him to lay low. She was really pissed that he had blown her off and was basically venting to all who listened about what a horrible person he was was and what she was going to do when she finally saw him again assuming all the while that he was not at the show.

I also knew that he was essentially a good guy, but had little self-control when it came to matters of the heart and that he really did love every woman that he was with, but he also found something compelling to love in every woman he met. So, yeah, he was a dog, but these guys are out there, along with women like that, too. It's part of who some people are.

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