Robert Hunter

[wgscott]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

 

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78

 

One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation

 

 

[wgscott]

The above-pictured album (I had to rip it from vinyl; there is no CD version that I know of), contains the complete Terrapin Station Suite, performed by Robert Hunter.  (The Grateful Dead never performed the whole thing.)

 

Here is a link to the lyrics:  https://www.whitegum.com/introjs.htm?/songfile/TERRSUIT.HTM

 

Give it a listen if you should have the chance...

[wgscott]

On 9/24/2019 at 3:02 PM, Solstice380 said:

Good obit here:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2019/09/24/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-obituary/40198077/

 

The obit says that he never performed with the Dead, but I seem to remember a bootleg tape around with him on a couple songs with Promontory Rider being one of them.  Anybody else come across this?

 

This might be it (although it is the Jerry Garcia band):

 

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B071HGKY4C?ref=dm_sh_3eb3-2b11-f9f8-2e2d-ccce1

 

[wgscott]

He was born Robert Burns, and some sources suggest he was the great-grandson of THE Robert (Rabbie) Burns.

[wgscott]

1 hour ago, Temporal_Dissident said:

I just copy/pasted my review from Amazon. Probably too much for this thread. Sorry.

 

From the limited other reports I have seen, your take is accurate.  Thanks for saving me the trouble!