Robert [Burns] Hunter has died
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/arts/music/robert-hunter-dead.html
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home
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I've always enjoyed the GD. Not a Deadhead by any stretch. I read a couple of news stories about Mr. Hunter today. I was surprised he was part of the CIA's MK-Ultra tests, don't want to call them "experiments" maybe they were. They may have contributed to some of his thoughts and resulting profound lyrics. So because of this, attending the Kesey/Owsley "acid-tests" was natural progression.
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The Dead fit into history in a weird, synchronicitous way not unlike Woody Allen's Zelig or, I suppose, maybe even like Forrest Gump.
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Who?
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We're talkin' bout Dead not Who!
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R.I.P.
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The local morning host of Morning Edition on VT public radio is an unapologetic Deadheat (it is Vermont...); all of the interstitial music tracks he's playin' this morning are Dead or interpretations of Dead tunes (e.g., just heard an orchestral version of St. Stephen).
Hunter had a way with words -- a bit abstruse and pretentious in the early, druggiest years, but I'd opine that he developed into an evocative, poetic and economical lyricist as the years went by.
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High green chilly winds and windy
Vines and loops around the twining
Shafts of lavender, they're crawling to the sun
Wonder who will water all the children of the garden
When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and droop so hungry 'neath the sky...
Underfoot the ground is patched
With climbing arms of ivy wrapped around
The manzanita, dark and shiny in the breeze
William Tell has stretched his bow
Till it won't stretch no furthermore
And/or it may require a change
That hasn't gone before...
See here how everything
Lead up to this day
And it's just like
Any other day
That's ever been
Sun goin up
And then the
Sun it goin down
Shine through my window and
My friends they come around
...All the years combine
They melt into a dream
A broken angel sings
From a guitar
In the end there's just a song
Comes crying like the night (wind)
Through all the broken dreams
And vanished years
Stella Blue
When all the cards are down
There's nothing left to see
There's just the pavement left
And broken dreams
In the end there's still that song
Comes crying like the wind
Down every lonely street
That's ever been
Stella Blue
I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel
Can't win for trying
Dust off those rusty strings just
One more time
Gonna make em shine
It all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free
There's nothing you can hold
For very long
And when you hear that song
Come crying like the wind
It seems like all this life
Was just a dream
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Fare thee well, Robert Hunter. RIP. I love the GD and Hunter's wonderful, trippy (especially in the early years), and evocative lyrics were a perfect match to the music.
