![]() ![]() Everything is just out of reach, a feeling of mystery rather than resolution, a bigger story–the story of the place called Terrapin–left completely unspoken, a broader universe known perhaps only to its creators. All the signifiers are just that, the whole song pointing at the notion of an epic without actually being one itself. Lady With a Fan, the Soldier, the Sailor, and their adventures at the Lion’sīut in another way, while “Terrapin Station” might be epic, it isn’t actually an epic. Is, too, is the symbol-laden story at the center of the song, concerning the ![]() Horror, there is an orchestra and chorale added by producer Keith Olson. ![]() Scale and structure of the song, with pastoral interludes leading to anĮnormous finale and on the album version, anyway, much to the band’s later Lyric, a brazen invocation to the muses in the most ancient sense there’s the Music has often represented folk ballads there’s Robert Hunter’s opening ![]() That puts the song in the realm of both folk ballads and the way classical Very much signifies itself as an epic every way, with a grand modal opening There are mysterious moods, cryptic lyrics, and places for all kinds of lead Long songwriting partnership, touching on many of the Dead’s strong suits. Out all over, but–to many–it’s a multi-sectioned peak of Garcia and Hunter’s Maybe it’s stoned-as-fuck highfalutin dinosaur rock made as punk was bursting Station,” Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter’s title song of the Grateful Dead’sġ977 album and live showstopper every year thereafter: epic. That Deadheads and music journalists alike often use to describe “Terrapin ![]()
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