Unbroken Chain

Lesh had recorded demo versions of his two tracks during sessions for that album. Electronic composer Ned Lagin who frequently sat in during the group's live performances between and played synthesizer on "Unbroken Chain". As previously, the band felt stifled by studio confines. Commenting later about the sessions, drummer Bill Kreutzmann said "The studio felt contrived. While recording the album, the Grateful Dead were testing a massive touring P. A contemporaneous test performance of the sound system was released as Dick's Picks Volume The front depicts an actual San Francisco building, juxtaposed in an extraterrestrial landscape.

The real Mars Hotel was a derelict flophouse , at Fourth Street, that had been the temporary residence of Jack Kerouac [7] and was previously used as a location in David Bowie 's promotional film for " The Jean Genie ".

In competing against existing distribution channels, albums on the Grateful Dead label became subject to counterfeiting. In response, and to help consumers recognize higher-quality, official pressings, the word "authentic" was embossed in a vertical column on the left margin of the cover. The working title for the album was "Ugly Roomers". Kreutzmann said it was "a self-deprecating dig at ourselves, but we changed it to 'rumors' out of respect to the boarders at the hotel.

The rear cover depicts the band as the "ugly roomers", in the guise of cartoon characters lounging in a room in outer space, watching television. Lesh wears a pharaonic nemes , Garcia a space helmet and Kreutzmann a galea. Weir is a space-clown marked with a "Z". Keyboardist Keith Godchaux bears a halo of lightning bolts and backing vocalist Donna Godchaux , who had recently become a mother, is depicted as a madonna.

The image was created from a group photograph taken in the lounge of a hotel in the Tenderloin district.

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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. Martin's Press, New York. Retrieved 14 November — via Google Books. The Musical History Tour: Retrieved 14 November 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.

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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. 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.

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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.

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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. 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. 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. So, you just have love them for who they are, enjoy your time with them, but it's asking for trouble to fall in love with them and expect them to change. It was also the first time I'd heard Foolish Heart, so it was right on topic.

So, I'm listening to Jane go on and on and there is a girl right by her side who's obviously in the 15th dimension, listening intently to every word that Jane said. Finally, I was feeling so much compassion for Jane, knowing that she might go through this again, and so much compassion for all the people who had given their love to someone who is essentially good but unreliable that I said to her "Jane, I'd like to apologize for all the John Doe's in the world. The girl who had been listening to every word turned to him and said "Oh, you're John Doe!

Someone was just talking about you and they said! Of course, Jane went off with John for rest of the night and all was forgiven, but the idea that out of , people hanging outside in the dark, scattered everywhere, John could have found us and stepped up at that very moment and right into the conversation was staggering.

Earlier that night, I was also caught by a moment of synchronicity that was elegant and awesome in how prosaic it was. The sun was going down, it was getting a little bit chillier and darker. I was watching one of the spotlight operators during a jam. He let go of his spotlight, leisurely took off his jacket, picked up a sweater, put it on, picked up his jacket it, put it on, zipped it up and then grabbed his spotlight and swung it around to catch Bobby as he stepped up to sing the final verse. He did everything with absolutely deliberateness, no hurry, and yet it was done at just the perfect moment to swing into action.

These are the moments of synchronicity that happened all the time but that no one really noticed. It wasn't just Jerry that was channeling this stuff, it was all of us. This stuff happens all around us every day, we just need to pay attention.