Going Down the Road. And Dark Star, of course
It is acid rock at it's absolute best.
As well as the best musical description of LSD ever conceived.
Not to mention some of the finest guitar playing this side of Heaven.
What did they say the goal of the Grateful Dead was? "Describing the indescribable"">
That's It For The Other One Meanings & Lyrics Discussion | SongMeanings
Going Down the Road. And Dark Star, of course
It is acid rock at it's absolute best.
As well as the best musical description of LSD ever conceived.
Not to mention some of the finest guitar playing this side of Heaven.
What did they say the goal of the Grateful Dead was? "Describing the indescribable"" />
I see this song as an almost perfect representation of an LSD trip, musically explained.
The imagery is clearly acid induced.
Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this rose.
It rainbow spirals round and round it trembles and explodes.
It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away.
If that isn't a description of being on LSD nothing ever was.
But even more importantly was the music behind the lyrics.
It starts out structured with plenty of energy, but as the "trip" proceeds things start to break down. Connections become confused. Your senses are mixed up. You can see sounds, or taste colors.
Eventually during the "peak" of the trip all order and all connections are severed and there is only the chaos of the peak.
Then, eventually you start to come down. LSD does not last forever. And the most intense periods are relatively short. And after the peak the rhythm and lyrics start to reappear.
And order is restored to your mind.
I see this as the basis of all the Grateful Dead jams and Jerry's most excellent guitar playing. But I see it best on the Skull and Roses album in both The Other and Not Fade Away>Going Down the Road. And Dark Star, of course
It is acid rock at it's absolute best.
As well as the best musical description of LSD ever conceived.
Not to mention some of the finest guitar playing this side of Heaven.
What did they say the goal of the Grateful Dead was? "Describing the indescribable"
I see this song as an almost perfect representation of an LSD trip, musically explained.
The imagery is clearly acid induced.
Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this rose. It rainbow spirals round and round it trembles and explodes. It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away.
If that isn't a description of being on LSD nothing ever was.
But even more importantly was the music behind the lyrics.
It starts out structured with plenty of energy, but as the "trip" proceeds things start to break down. Connections become confused. Your senses are mixed up. You can see sounds, or taste colors.
Eventually during the "peak" of the trip all order and all connections are severed and there is only the chaos of the peak.
Then, eventually you start to come down. LSD does not last forever. And the most intense periods are relatively short. And after the peak the rhythm and lyrics start to reappear.
And order is restored to your mind.
I see this as the basis of all the Grateful Dead jams and Jerry's most excellent guitar playing. But I see it best on the Skull and Roses album in both The Other and Not Fade Away>Going Down the Road. And Dark Star, of course
It is acid rock at it's absolute best.
As well as the best musical description of LSD ever conceived.
Not to mention some of the finest guitar playing this side of Heaven.
What did they say the goal of the Grateful Dead was? "Describing the indescribable"