Garcia who had recently seen Saturday Night Fever with Hart decided to remind people of that history and update it as well with this disco-boogie anthem. It was such a tricky song to recreate that the Dead stopped playing it onstage between and Late in life, Garcia loved nothing better than an epic melancholy ballad that spoke to his difficult journey.
I can lean back and have fun with it. I kept writing and writing versions of it. By the early Eighties, Garcia was grappling with his escalating and ultimately life-threatening drug addiction, as well as malaise within the Dead itself.
Perhaps some of his feelings spilled out on the title track and high point of his solo album. Trading jaunty licks with fiddle player Vassar Clements, he delivered a wry, buoyant performance that achieves the timelessness he was looking for. Garcia and the Dead were always extremely critical of their recorded output; they always felt more comfortable onstage, where songs truly blossomed, than in a studio. In that regard, Garcia was never more unhappy with a studio performance than he was with this country-blues breakup song.
Garcia always put down that performance, too. One of the last and most poignant songs Garcia and Hunter wrote together was this steadfastly contemplative ballad, which gradually built in tension over its 11 minutes.
I almost feel in certain respects we were just getting started. More so than any other single song. It seemed to get my feeling about those times and our place in it. Black Pete is a traditional Dutch bogeyman, but Hunter turned him into an ailing, sympathetic figure — and Garcia merrily took on the role.
The song started as a shuffle when the Dead began playing it live in early , but Garcia toughened it up for his first solo album, with a slide-guitar riff and a rarely heard growl in his vocal. Just the feel. Though never recorded in a studio, it was performed live more than times. The result is one of his most gripping vocal performances.
Guitarist Jerry Garcia, right, and drummer Mickey Hart play music spanning two decades to an enthusiastic crowd of rock and roll fans. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say scarlet begonias in sign language? Numerology Chaldean Numerology The numerical value of scarlet begonias in Chaldean Numerology is: 3 Pythagorean Numerology The numerical value of scarlet begonias in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6.
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Discuss these scarlet begonias definitions with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE. Super Storm Sandy Sandy kicked our asses here on the Jersey shore. A good portion of the audience were quite possibly still homeless. I used the opportunity to bring up the house lights for "Strangers stopping strangers" line around 5 min in and have everyone meet the neighbor they helped or meet the neighbor that helped them.
It was a magical moment in the show. People were hugging each other. Heck of a song, indeed. Random audience vid posted on youtube. Always brings a smile I think Dave hit it right on with the comic teaching part Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right If more people listened to music, really listened and especially listened to the Dead the world would be a better place Too pat to open.
Wonderful elucidation of a great song full of pregnant lines and charming imagery. Scarlet Begonias This is clearly a potential sexual encounter with an otherwise coupled man and an extremely attractive woman.
Me and My Scarlet I'm approaching the 32nd anniversary of meeting my Scarlet. She walked into the record store in Glasgow, Scotland, and I knew right away she was into the blues. She also purchased "Anthem of the Sun" among other. I still love my Scarlet though I usually have to call her Sheila. And this is still "our song". Having experienced certain consciousness shifting emotions involving a "cosmic" girl that led me to recollecting what a trans-formative role the Dead played for me from to , I paid homage by taking a walk to Grosvenor Square and then to nearby Berkeley Square.
I was struck with how Hunter was riffing off the later and giving us a much more complex and ultimately fulfilling set of emotions. Correction On The Recording Date Given Hey, this is a wonderful blog with great comments about one of my all-time fave songs, and I agree with the woman who proclaimed the studio version to be special.
I just wanted to humbly correct Mr. I believe the album was mostly recorded in Feb. I had turned seventeen a month earlier. We'd seen the band just nine months prior, on September 15th at the same venue, up close on the floor for "A Swell Dance Concert. Blues" that night, we were hearing tunes we'd be able to get the record of and spin the next day!
I couldn't believe how much sweeter those seats were than how I'd even remembered them. The place was crackling with high energy that night and we really had some killer seats for it. By coincidence, the three people I attended the game with that evening two years ago were all there with me on that night in Nothing is the same thereafter. Shake the hand Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand.
Reminds me of Crocodile Dundee walking down the sidewalk in N. It has an energy of the old days similar to the feeling of China Cat and Crazy Fingers. Some of us continued to carry some kind of innocence into the future long past "back in the day".
A heart of gold will protect a person in many ways. I loved hearing Scarlet Begonias live in as a stand alone work. Music lives. Instant I think I loved this song the very first time I heard it and ever since. It was certainly the studio version with its very unusually articulated guitar and keyboard parts, then later on some of the very first live tapes I received from kind schoolmates. Remember when those were like gold? The anticipation of hearing each one was electric.
This many years later, I have to agree with several other posters that the stand-alone versions are the ones I crave most. Something about that one just takes me there. That one is no slouch, either. The aud tape I have isn't terrible at least by that point in the show but I would kill for a great matrix. But you know, Jerry never struck me as much of a ladies man and this song has him inhabiting the character of a sexually curious dude. I wonder if he was comfortable singing it.
It certainly seems like he was. I just don't think of him that way. He was always this oddly asexual mega-hippie figure to me. So Sweet As you can tell from my username Scarlet is one of my all time favorites. I have to admit that I am partial to its pairing with Fire. My friends and I have always called it the "Never Ending Jam".
This moniker is due to an early evening road trip through the Northern Adirondack Mountains. The Boys ripped into Scarlet and as Jerry began the solo we approached a lengthy curve in the road. The combination of the curve, Jerry's extended blazing solo and a certain chemical made this experience unforgettable!! Man he just went on and on and on!! And so did we!!! We certainly "got shone the light" that night! Scarlet Begonias in one for the ages!! I always feel better after helping others. This good feeling often happens in the strangest places if I look at it right.
So have a grateful day, spread the love, peace. Transition The magic DD refers to - the sudden transcending of our daily dilemma s , disappointments, missed connections, bitter wisdom and ever-repeating loops into a yellow sky world with the heart of gold band - is the essence of the Dead for me. The way the song is structured is no accident. Jerry's solo always mediates the transition, which is of course exactly as it should be.
Of all the incredible music out there - containing the soul of man you might say - Mozart, Coltrane, et al. It doesn't happen all that often, but it's why I joined up. To be specific, It happened for a time during the St. In Dick's Picks 29, in the Fox Theater show, and elsewhere you find 'em! Magic, as the man says. Scarlet Begonias I fell in love with the Dead in and loved them all the way through, but I think the song that most affected me over time is this one.
The lyrics - as beautiful and mystifying as they are I really don't care whether the two people did it or not - I think it might be about a prostitute, which also deepens the question about human connection only make sense in the context of the music. Jerry's solo before the last verse is meant to open the door to an altered and much friendlier world. I can't imagine Hunter having written it without taking account of tha. And in many cases the band does it perfectly. Here is what I wrote about May 21, 's version - one of the best in my opinion - "A chunky emphatic Scarlet with Jerry finding the space between the beats early, then he swings into form without losing any power.
Phil does the early pyrotechnics - sets the song on its up and down and up journey of the soul, then Jerry's solo - powerful, soaring, searing, he carves the meaning of the words in the sky, with all of the loss - "let her pass by"- transformed into joy - "strangers stopping strangers The crowd heard it, too - they love it.
And the transition is similarly perfect, gently insistent and perfectly laid down. It's a new world alright. I used to play this for my 5 year old girl on the way to school. She's 17 now and she has developed astonishingly good musical taste and a deep interest in the disasters and redemptions that humanity is prone to!
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