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Robert Hunter
1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unknown hotel (Hunter’s room)
Interview by Denis McNamara for 92.7 WLIR-FM Garden City, New York (M?-FM)
“Sunday At 9:00” radio program -expanded edition- (3 shows/parts)
“A Conversation With Robert Hunter”
Not sure how close in time this was to the 3/12/78 Long Island show with JGB, NRPS, and Comfort (w/ Hunter). He says some interesting things about particular songs. I will just post annotations for the stuff that interests me.
2826 how about working for JG as a solo performer? Does that affect your writing?
2840 Sometimes. The best that can happen is that I’m just being prolific. some discussion
2915 first Garcia solo album related to the American Beauty and Workingmans field of material
3040 Deal is a reflection of what it’s like to be in the rock and roll business
3815ff Bob Weir album
3916 CUTS a tune that I had been working on for years. I started working on it in London. … a subterranean march of cats
4000 then there’s a song which is my Orpheus it’s called Reuben And Cérise which is one that I wrote several years ago for his second album Reflections but it just didn’t around to gettin done until now. It’s an Orpheic epic set in New Orleans … he narrates this tune beautifully he recites it “her hair hung gently down” – “when Garcia sings this thing, it just brings goosebumps up my arm. It shivers up my spine – the full tragedy. I think we got Orpheus.
4213 record company stuff RH denies that it was economics. “I’ll tell ya – I didn’t give ’em the material. Here we were, all set up, ready to go, ready to rip, and if I had written albums like I’ve been writing … it’s just one of those situations where you get this nice snazzy Cadillac and the battery doesn’t work for some reason. My streak ended. I don’t know what it was. But … WOTF I think has some excellent songs on it … didn’t grab [inaudible] exceedingly laid back, for one thing … one of the problems was the choice of tempos on songs like Row Jimmy Row … Stella Blue … 1/2 Step …
4418 first RH album Rum Runners I love the songs my singing is a little short of pathetic 4525
4610ff Blues for Allah 4646 people didn’t take to it
4719 Crazy Fingers is his favorite from BFA
5320 JG wanted to do Tiger Rose!
5445 Tiger Rose
5515 “with Rum Runners, I didn’t know [it would be released], and I don’t think I could have sold that album if I didn’t have my own record company, because it doesn’t meet professional standards for recordings. It’s quite dirty, in some respects.”
5536 “Tiger Rose was produced by Garcia. … I am afraid that the tracks sound more like Garcia music than mine, which may be good or bad. It has that mellowed out sound that he’s into, whereas Rum Runners has this real rough-and-ready, which is my own style. …Cruel White Water / Wild Bill
5652 excuse for TR vocals
5715 Mickey as anti-producer. Mickey Hart is the most wired cat you’ve ever met in your life. He has so many ideas, we had to like put em in a bag and tie it up and put em in the corner….. 5757 unsupressable …
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