So stoked to be back at one of my all time favorite venues, The Rio Nido Roadhouse, on Sunday June 15th!
What could be better than dancing to Grateful Dead music in the sunshine surrounded by redwoods on the banks of the Russian River? Great food, drinks and a super kind staff at the Roadhouse complete the picture perfectly!
We've got a killer lineup and lots of fun musical surprises in store for you!
The Gang:
Elliott Peck (Phil Lesh, Midnight North)
John-Paul McLean (JGB)
Eric Levy (Night Ranger)
Evan Jones (Xtra Ticket)
Kyle Walsh (Dead Roses)
Turns out Rio Nido is a historic location in the Grateful Dead universe -- Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter wrote Dark Star in Rio Nido in a cabin right across from the venue in 1967!
"Dark Star was born in September 1967, while the Dead were staying at Rio Nido. One of their guests was Robert Hunter, who had recently joined up with the Dead as a lyric-writer. (Bear was also visiting, which is how the 9/3/67 show happened to be recorded.) Hunter had been living in the southwest, mailing some lyrics to the Dead; in June '67 Garcia wrote him to say that the band had set Alligator to music, and asking him to come to San Francisco to work with the band. So in July, Hunter returned, and in September he found himself listening to the Dead's rehearsals for their scheduled second-album sessions later that month.
"I was in my cabin. They were rehearsing in the hall, and you could hear from there. I heard the music and just started writing Dark Star lying on my bed. I wrote the first half of it and I went in and handed what I'd written to Jerry. He said, 'Oh, this will fit in just fine,' and he started singing it... [When] I heard the Grateful Dead playing, those were the words it seemed to be saying.... That did it for the time being. Then, a couple of days or weeks later," Garcia said he wanted another verse, so Hunter wrote the next verse sitting in Golden Gate Park.
"I was very impressed with T.S. Eliot around the time I was writing Dark Star," Hunter said, and one line was clearly influenced by a line in 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' - "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky." "Beyond that, that's just my kind of imagery.... I don't have any idea what the 'transitive nightfall of diamonds' means. It sounded good at the time. It brings up something that you can see." [In some early '68 versions, Garcia sings "the transitional nightfall", which must have come more naturally than singing, "the - e transitive".]
Garcia also said the words and music belonged together. "The reason the music is the way it is, is because those lyrics suggested that to me.... They are saying, 'This universe is truly far out.' That's about it. You could take whatever you will from that suggestion. For me, that suggestion always means, 'Great, let's look around. Let's see how weird it really gets.’""
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