The Grateful Dead

If you go to the wikipedia or search through the internet you'll find a lot of information regarding the Grateful Dead and a lot of concepts related to them: the Wall of Sound, the Dead Heads, Steal Your Face logo and so many.

I really thing there are few bands with their unique multiple dimensions: they created a "community" among their fans -known as the Dead Heads- they created a logo (the Steal Your Face logo you can see on top of this post) known all over the world, they created the Wall of Sound, a huge sound system designed specifically for them...they also made touring their distinctive seal: they could tour for years (in fact they were touring more or less continuously from 1965 to 1995 when their leader Jerry Garcia died) and Dead Heads would follow them for long periods of time.

So if you don't know what I'm talking about, search a little the internet, get their music and listen to them: you'll fell like the 60's are here again, and nothing besides sex, pot and music matter at all.

Personally, I started with "Box of Rain", discovered in the movie American Beauty (thanks Sam Mendes)

Box of Rain (The Grateful Dead, words by Robert Hunter lyrics by Phil Lesh)

Look out of any window //
any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining //
birds are winging or
rain is falling from a heavy sky //
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through? //
this is all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago //
Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way //
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction //
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you //
What do you want me to do,
to watch for you while you're sleeping? //
Well please don't be surprised
when you find me dreaming too

Look into any eyes //
you find by you, you can see
clear through to another day //
I know it's been seen before
through other eyes on other days //
while going home
What do you want me to do, //
to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed //
one afternoon long ago

Walk into splintered sunlight //
Inch your way through dead dreams
to another land //
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted //
with words half spoken
and thoughts unclear //
What do you want me to do
to do for you to see you through //
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through

Just a box of rain  //
wind and water -
Believe it if you need it, //
if you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower //
Wind and rain -
in and out the window //
like a moth before a flame

It's just a box of rain //
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it //
or leave it if you dare
But it's just a box of rain //
or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone //
and a short time to be there


P.D: Amb aquest post acabo la importació de
continguts del meu blog paral·lel Liteworld.
Aquest últim s'havia postejat el 26 d'Abril
de 2007. D'aquesta manera tanco la paradeta a Liteworld.