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LuckyCharms

(18,965 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2024, 01:10 PM Oct 11

Have you ever found an obscure piece of music that hits you just right?

For me, it's Jerry Garcia's guitar improvisation between about the 4:00 minute mark to the 6:25 mark (it's the second guitar break) in the below video. It's so...pretty, comforting, happy, emotional.

This was Jerry's favorite song to sing and play. This particular part in the video was never played the same way again that I can find, as the Grateful Dead was known for never playing a song the same way twice, and that was part of their appeal. They just played the song as they felt it at the time. Sometimes it sucked, but most of the time, it was poignant and compelling.

People either love that kind of music, or they don't. I do, and that segment never fails to make me feel good. Some will hear what I'm talking about, and some won't.

As Miles Davis said, and I'm paraphrasing: The Grateful Dead is a jazz band that plays rock music.

I've seen this band too many times to count, and met Jerry in 1978. I miss him. He gave me some the the happiest times of my life.

Video followed by lyrics.

Julie catch a rabbit by his hair
Come back step, like to walk on air
Get back home where you belong
and don't you run off no more

Don't hang your head let the two-time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time? Baby I don't know
Come back later, we'll let it show

And I say row, Jimmy row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

Here's my half a dollar if you dare
double twist when you hit the air
Look at Julie down below
the levee doin the do-pas-o

And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

Broken heart don't feel so bad
Ain't got half a what you thought you had
Rock your baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow

And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

That's the way it's been in town
ever since they tore the juke box down
Two-bit piece don't buy no more
not so much as it done before
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I don't know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
row, row

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Have you ever found an obscure piece of music that hits you just right? (Original Post) LuckyCharms Oct 11 OP

Beneath An Evening Sky. NNadir Oct 11 #1

Fun fact: littlemissmartypants Oct 11 #2

Yes, but I don't want to have an ear worm all day long afterwards! Ha ha heh...it takes me days later to finally clear SWBTATTReg Oct 11 #3

Time Is Tight Cartoonist Oct 11 #4

That's a nice piece of music! Elessar Zappa Oct 11 #5

It's a work of pure genius... Pluvious Oct 11 #13

This is beautiful. Goosebumps. LuckyCharms Oct 12 #14

Kick XanaDUer2 Oct 11 #6

Jo Serrpaare - You're Changing Like the Seasons Ptah Oct 11 #7

I don't know if it counts as 'obscure'... OldBaldy1701E Oct 11 #8

Om Sarve LogDog75 Oct 11 #9

Forever Autumn no_hypocrisy Oct 11 #10

In answer to your question, no. Wonder Why Oct 11 #11

Richard Wagner's Kinder Katekismus- The Children's Catechism. Aristus Oct 11 #12

NNadir

(34,662 posts)

1. Beneath An Evening Sky.

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 01:51 PM

Oct 11

littlemissmartypants

(25,483 posts)

2. Fun fact:

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 01:58 PM

Oct 11

Music can assist in pain relief.

Also check out Super Joy by Paul Pearsall.

Book overview
Offers an new path to healing and wellness by activating the "joy response", the key to maintaining a spiritual high, and by building optimism, enthusiasm and the natural desire to feel good

❤️

SWBTATTReg

(24,085 posts)

3. Yes, but I don't want to have an ear worm all day long afterwards! Ha ha heh...it takes me days later to finally clear

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 02:15 PM

Oct 11

the tune out of my head!

Cartoonist

(7,530 posts)

4. Time Is Tight

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 02:29 PM

Oct 11

By Booker T.
I heard it in a film clip long after its release. I had to track it down. To this day, it still has the greatest groove I ever heard.

Elessar Zappa

(15,889 posts)

5. That's a nice piece of music!

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 03:24 PM

Oct 11

I’ve recently re-discovered “Watermelon in Easter Hay” by Frank Zappa, it’s a haunting, brilliant piece.

Pluvious

(4,752 posts)

13. It's a work of pure genius...

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 08:07 PM

Oct 11

In fact the whole double album is a masterpiece
(I even got to see the live play!)

In case you've not yet seen live tribute performance of Easter Hay,
his gifted us with a beautiful performance of it.

Gave me chills - the emotion he pours into this is palpable...

LuckyCharms

(18,965 posts)

14. This is beautiful. Goosebumps.

Reply to Pluvious (Reply #13)

Sat Oct 12, 2024, 07:34 AM

Oct 12

XanaDUer2

(13,850 posts)

6. Kick

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 03:40 PM

Oct 11

Ptah

(33,492 posts)

7. Jo Serrpaare - You're Changing Like the Seasons

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 04:06 PM

Oct 11

OldBaldy1701E

(6,341 posts)

8. I don't know if it counts as 'obscure'...

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 04:08 PM

Oct 11

I consider this one of the most beautiful tunes I have ever heard. I sing it every time I hear it.

LogDog75

(98 posts)

9. Om Sarve

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 05:58 PM

Oct 11

I first heard this song on TV on The Music Channel while I was reading. Every time I hear it I stop what I'm reading and listen to it. The singer, Tina Malia, sings a song from Indian from a sanskrit phrase. the meaning of the words are:

Om May all be happy, may all be free from illness
May all see what is auspicious, may no-one suffer
Om Peace Peace Peace

no_hypocrisy

(48,782 posts)

10. Forever Autumn

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 06:10 PM

Oct 11

I first heard it on WPLJ (NYC) in 1980 and loved it immediately.

Unfortunately, the station didn't announce the song or the artist.

I finally found it in a bazaar on W.4th Street in Greenwich Village, a two-record album of War of the Worlds. And yes, that's Richard Burton narrating.

It's been almost 45 years and I still adore this song.

Wonder Why

(4,589 posts)

11. In answer to your question, no.

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 07:19 PM

Oct 11

Aristus

(68,328 posts)

12. Richard Wagner's Kinder Katekismus- The Children's Catechism.

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 07:49 PM

Oct 11

Last edited Sat Oct 12, 2024, 12:43 PM - Edit history (1)

Just two minutes long. This, from a guy who wrote four-hour-long operas. It’s impossible to convey the impact of this brief boys-choir piece unless you are familiar with Wagner’s Ring Cycle of four interconnected operas.

It took Wagner twenty -four years to complete all four operas of the entire piece. After the third opera, he got so tired of composing it that he stuck it in a drawer for five years. In those five years, he wrote two completely unrelated operas, both of which are considered masterpieces.

On the day he finally finished the last notes of the last opera, the emotional let-down was so overwhelming that he picked a stupid fight with his wife, who burst into tears.

Wagner wrote this little piece as an apology, and had their children sing it to her on Christmas morning. The coda of the piece is the final theme he wrote for the Ring Cycle on the day of the fight, in full. It’s sweet and beautiful even if you’re not familiar with Wagner’s Ring. If you are, it will bring you to tears.

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