Robert [Burns] Hunter has died

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mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,030
edited September 2019 in Music & Movies
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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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,096
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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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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,030
    edited September 2019
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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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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,559
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    Who?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,030
    edited September 2019
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    We're talkin' bout Dead not Who!

    ;)

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Who?

    LOL. That was my reaction. Always sad when someone passes. RIP.
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  • F1nut
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    Just a box of rain.....RIP
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • rburgess714
    rburgess714 Posts: 616
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    He’s gone 🌹
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,139
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    RIP
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,559
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    R.I.P.
    :'(
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,030
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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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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,030
    edited September 2019
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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
    Stella Blue
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  • pglbook
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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.
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