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    Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set

    WHAT'S INSIDE:
    6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
    • 6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
    • 6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
    • 6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
    • 5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
    • 5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
    • 5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
    Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
    Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
    Photos by Richie Pechner
    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000

    Includes an immediate digital download of "Eyes Of The World (P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 5/17/74)"

    "We were in the Pacific Northwest...between somewhere in Washington and some other where in Oregon. The road took us to the lip on a ridge, from where we could see around us for many miles in all directions … It was breathtaking to behold, but as we watched, we had a firm realization that we were witnessing something even more beautiful than our eyes could ever take in … Life causes life. Heaven and Earth dance in this way endlessly, and their child is the forest. And so there we were, epiphanously watching that grandest and most glorious dance of life—of which we are just a tiny part—awed by a magnificence without beginning, without end..."

    Bob Weir, “Sell Headwaters—Everyone Wins,” San Francisco Chronicle

    The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful Dead played some of their most inspired shows on these fertile grounds. It does, however, sometimes take a breath for the elements to re-align years later. It seems for us, they finally have and we are able to present not just a glimpse of the band's extraordinary exploratory tour through the region, but a two-tour bounty as the PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS.

    For PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, we've paired two short runs made up of six previously unreleased shows - P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (6/26/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). Each show has been mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.

    PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS comes in an ornate box created by Canada’s preeminent First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers (more on this tremendous artist soon). To complement the music, the set also includes a 64-page book with an in-depth essay by Grateful Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether and photos by Richie Pechner.

    Due September 7th, this release is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from dead.net. You'll want to grab a copy while you can and sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.

    Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day. You can pre-order it now too.

    Get it while you can.

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  • icecrmcnkd
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    My second show. Didn’t know at the time that you were supposed to go to all 3 (Foolish Touch Head). Glad bob t got to see all 3. I did have an awesome time though and knew that I needed to see more. I should have just camped in the large grass lot like bob t. I think we waited until about 1 am to get out because as we all pulled in they parked us bumper to bumper with only a dirt road running down the center of the field. The cars along the dirt road first had to do a 180 and then drive out, and slowly other cars pulled out until there was a labyrinth to drive through to get to the dirt road. If 7-17-89 was ‘downhill from here’, I think everything went off the cliff at Tinley Park.
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    Good China Cat Sunflowers>I Know You Rider's
    I am such a fan of all 1974 so I am too biased to answer. Always have loved 2/9/73 China/Rider with the Wavy Gravy Intro when you can hear them tuning up to play China Cat!! Also listen to the 12/6/73 China/Rider from Cleveland, turn your base down because Phil will blow up your speakers at the end of the I know Your Rider...
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    Deal ~ Miami, Florida ~ October 25, 1989 Deal ~ Dane County Coliseum ~ June 24, 1983 Deal ~ Lake Placid, New York ~ 10.17.83
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    Favorite shows that I saw in 1989. The 17th was nice and sunny and warm. Camped out in the parking lot next to a fence row and never had to move those 3 days. The 1988 run was so hot temperature wise that it looked like it was going to be a repeat. Great first set partially documented by Downhill From Here. The encore is when they broke out We Bid you Goodnight was amazing. Next song revived would be Death Don't Have No Mercy in August, and we all know what happened in October!!!! The rain started on the 18th and kept up the next two days. Dave mentions the Deal to close July 19th first set on the Dave's 27th release!!! It is awesome, if this Deal doesn't make you want to jump out of skin nothing will!!! Also listen to the Desolation Row when Jerry backs up Bob on versus like "Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow"....... makes me melt!!!! We were on the lawn, rained on wet and cold and muddy as can be but will never forget it!!!! be good bob t
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  • daverock
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    China Rider
    A really good one I heard recently was 11/11/73 at The Winterland. That's almost 1974.
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    ....called "The Croatia". It has lots of support, but no cup.
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    A few years back I described seeing Ventura, Greek,and Alpine Valley as a big push to me as it was a lot of ground to cover at the time. The 1988 Greek shows was another one of those pushes. The shows were good and as always a lot of fun. The push went like this. I left work at 5pm on Thursday. Drove to the local airport, changed clothes in the car and hopped on a 7 oclock flight to Atlanta, then jumped a red eye to SFO. Got off the plane and caught a city bus to the heart of San Fran. I got off the bus at the first BART station I saw. I got to Berkeley where my freaky friend had made it from St. Louis earlier that day. Saw the three shows and again they were good but not as good as the year before. There was a lot of activity in San Fran that weekend and the weather was incredible. Leave Berkeley the same way I came, sorta. Took BART tube to San Fran and caught the first cab I could to SFO. Of course the Sunday show was a day show, I think 2 pm. So by the time I got in the cab, the sun was setting but still daylight. I start talking to the driver, turns out he was from the same state as I was. He was from a very small town that was so small he had to be telling the truth. Little town with funky name. He started pressing me to not go home, stay in San Fran. He said he could find me work, etc. He was an older hippy that had moved out there in the late 70's. He kept up to the point he almost had me, but I did have a life back home. Sometimes I wished I had made the move, but oh well. The push goes on as I took a 10 oclock flight back to Atlanta and then a 5am flight back to my hometown. Changed clothes again and drove back to work where I was back at my assigned position by 8am Monday morning. Only took one day off. Ahhh youth, wish I could do it again, but no.
  • stoltzfus
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    well the DaP board has disappeared already
    one place to look tho... China Riders 74 8/5/74
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    Soon to be released 5/19/74 https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-19.sbd.miller.116983.flac16
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Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set

WHAT'S INSIDE:
6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
• 6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
• 5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
Photos by Richie Pechner
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000

Includes an immediate digital download of "Eyes Of The World (P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 5/17/74)"

"We were in the Pacific Northwest...between somewhere in Washington and some other where in Oregon. The road took us to the lip on a ridge, from where we could see around us for many miles in all directions … It was breathtaking to behold, but as we watched, we had a firm realization that we were witnessing something even more beautiful than our eyes could ever take in … Life causes life. Heaven and Earth dance in this way endlessly, and their child is the forest. And so there we were, epiphanously watching that grandest and most glorious dance of life—of which we are just a tiny part—awed by a magnificence without beginning, without end..."

Bob Weir, “Sell Headwaters—Everyone Wins,” San Francisco Chronicle

The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful Dead played some of their most inspired shows on these fertile grounds. It does, however, sometimes take a breath for the elements to re-align years later. It seems for us, they finally have and we are able to present not just a glimpse of the band's extraordinary exploratory tour through the region, but a two-tour bounty as the PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS.

For PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, we've paired two short runs made up of six previously unreleased shows - P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (6/26/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). Each show has been mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS comes in an ornate box created by Canada’s preeminent First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers (more on this tremendous artist soon). To complement the music, the set also includes a 64-page book with an in-depth essay by Grateful Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether and photos by Richie Pechner.

Due September 7th, this release is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from dead.net. You'll want to grab a copy while you can and sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.

Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day. You can pre-order it now too.

Get it while you can.

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Of course! almost forgot that one. Willie Nelson also does a killer version. I guess we should give "Wabash Cannonball" an honorable mention, although I don't think its quite as great as the tunes mentioned so far. Definitely, the Dead/Jerry's "Smokestack Lightning" and "It takes a lot to Laugh.." are top shelf. I'm not sure what to make of "Click Clack" but need to give it a few more listens. Well, yeah its Beefheart, so you know....
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Unbelievably powerful riff + Neil Peart's insane drumming and Geddy Lee's voice in its prime. I'd be remiss not to mention Terry Brown's mad production skills. I can't beat this for car songs Jimbo. Is anyone else wrestling the urge to listen to the Listening Party tracks? KeithFan! Stay on target....stay on target.... When this baby hits 88, we're going to see some serious shit. "CHINACAT SUNFLOWER>I KNOW YOU RIDER" "SUGAR MAGNOLIA" "PLAYING IN THE BAND" "HERE COMES SUNSHINE" "LOOKS LIKE RAIN" "STELLA BLUE" "BIRD SONG" "HE'S GONE" "TRUCKIN'>JAM>NOT FADE"
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I am not sure about either the Dead or Jerry being granted ownership of "Smokestack Lightning" and "It Takes a Lot To Laugh". The original versions of both songs, by Wolf and Dylan are great, though.
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Anyone know if this show is in the Vault? I have the archive.org version. Would love to know if there is release potential for this one.
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I think they forgot to press Record for this one.
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A *missing* Fillmore East tape!I contend this show was recorded by Bob Matthews (my guess) and somewhere along the line, the GDP master tape went missing - early on.
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“Play A Train Song”Covered by Hard Working Americans. I never heard the original. Also, “Driving that train.....”
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Are those fisher price, plinky plonk keyboard effects I hear? (Couldn't resist..) :D
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Jim, Born X-Eyed, thanks for the feedback on this show. I have an AUD copy. The Dark Star is a 3 parter that has an Attics and Sugar Magnolia. Top shelf. They play around with the Sugar Mag riff a bit in the beginning, and it's just fantastic.
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Maybe not the best, buts it’s good and it’s definetly different....Pat Metheny: Last Train Home Edit: oh yeah, wasn’t Caution written by Bill and Phil emulating the freaqent passing of trains at some early regular gig they had?
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....well Phish has this little dittie called, wait for it, Train Song. "and we drank a little wine". They have another one called Get Back On The Train."When I jumped off, I had a bucket full of thoughts When I first jumped off, I held that bucket in my hand Ideas that would take me all around the world I stood and watched the smoke behind the mountain curl It took me a long time to get back on the train Now I'm gone and I'll never look back again I'm gone and I'll never look back at all You know I'll never look back again I turn my face into the howlin' wind It took me a long time to get back on the train See my face in the town that's flashing by See me standing at the station in the rain See me running there beside the car I left it all behind, again I'll travel far It took me a long time to get back on the train." Yeah. They have some songs with silly lyrics. This is not one of them.
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Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroy A real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop it I don’t care about economy I don’t care about astronomy But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
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Jimi’s: Hear My Train a Coming, and Steps Ahead: Trains
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Yep - definitely "Slow Train Coming"! Add "Mystery Train", and "Orange Blossom Special"(the Johnny Cash one with lyrics!)
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"All Down The Line" by The Stones is a great train song.
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Parapliers the willow dippedRolled roots gnarled like rakers This hollow hole don’t hold no jokers or fakers Don’t fall by no jokers or fakers Puller down to the stirrin’ hay acres Parapliers pinches uh levy ‘n pulled way thru the toe Foothills, locomotives walked ‘n sugar beets rolled Down the tracks Sunburn bounce soot off the black smokestacks Parapliers pinched up slow down the sky Blue ‘o’ poured the engineer’s voice Whstlin’ down low ‘n piped like clacks By the ol’ scarecrow ‘n pots ‘n pans burn the fireman’s hands till the Kettle leaped fire round the belly ‘o’ The bayou boy bums with sunken gums ‘n pits his strength to the 7th sons down Parapliers rumbled like uh straight iron gun Like uh red hot iron thru the egg white ‘o’ Sunnyland drum, horn blow Sun like uh bubble pop yellow, down she go Mah cowcatcher whistled like uh steel flash scream Hose sucked out for water ‘n the wheeldriver Sparkled like an Indian flint ‘n the fireman ‘n the brakeman bent ‘n waved his long red underwear arm All aboard The lantern flared ‘n the caboose waved uh green gone on
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There are plenty of people on here who profess to be fans of The Who, but nobody has mentioned "5:15" from their "Quadrophenia" album: "Where have I been? Out of my brain on the 5:15 Out of my brain on the train Out of my brain on the train"
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Locomotive Breath - Jethro TullTrain left here this morning - Eagles Train Song - Back Street Crawler Milk Train - Jefferson Airplane Gone Dead Train - Crazyhorse Two Trains - Little Feat Lonesome Train - JJ Cale just a few
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Simonrob don't be ridiculous, that song is about a ferry not a train. Feeling "merry" was drug-speak for getting high on Leapers in 60s Mod London. Inside outside, leave me alone. Inside outside, nowhere is home. Inside outside, where have I been? Out feeling merry on the 5:15. Out feeling merry on the ferry... Speaking of 5/15, I've made an important discovery. Dark Star 5/15/70 at 15:15, Jerry goes divine for a few minutes. I wonder if that's still the Gibson SG he used on Live Dead. I love that guitar.
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Why should I care?Why should I care? Girls of fifteen Sexually knowing The ushers are sniffing Eau-de-cologning The seats are seductive Celibate sitting Pretty girls digging Prettier women Magically bored On a quiet street corner Free frustration In our minds and our toes Quiet storm water M-m-my generation Uppers and downers Either way blood flows Inside outside, leave me alone Inside outside, nowhere is home Inside outside, where have I been? Out of my brain on the 5:15 Out of my brain on the train Out of my brain on the train A raft in the quarry Slowly sinking Back of a lorry Holy hitching Dreadfully sorry Apple scrumping Born in a war Birthday punching He man drag In the glittering ballroom Gravely outrageous In my high heel shoes Tightly undone Know what they're showing Sadly ecstatic That their heroes are news Inside outside, leave me alone Inside outside, nowhere is home Inside outside, where have I been? Out of my brain on the 5:15 Out of my brain on the train Out of my brain on the train, on the train I'm out of my brain Out of my brain on the train Here it comes Out of my brain, on the train, on the train Out of my brain on the train Why should I care? Why should I care? @ KeithFan, possibly the lyrics lost something in the translation from English to American. Never seen a reference to merry or ferry in the song. Where did you find those lyrics? Indeed leapers was slang for amphetamines, but not a word I have ever heard used in that context, but mods (who loved amphetamines - and scooters) were a bit before my time.
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Agree with daverock, this is a great vintage Stones tune. I first heard it on the “Garden State 78” double bootleg album. Another great train track from the Stones is Love in Vain, which I believe has already been mentioned.
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Love in Vain is a Robert Johnson tuneTrain Leaves here This Morning is from Gene Clark & Bernie Leadon A few more random rootsy train songs: The Train Kept A Rollin' Tiny Bradshaw Mistery Train Junior Parker Streamlined Cannonball Roy Acuff Last Train Arlo Guthrie El Tren Lechero Felix Perez Cardozo Hey Porter Johnny Cash Southbound Line Tracy Pendarvis Night Train to Memphis Roy Acuff Blue Railroad Train Delmore Brothers
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By Guns N Roses Crazy Train - Ozzy w/ Randy Rhodes I think these "trains" are metaphorical but they still count. Blue Train - Coltrane Take the A Train - Ellington Downtown Train - Tom Waits There's some old timey song about hitching a ride in a box car that I can't remember.
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Not metaphorical, real The title refers to the then-new A subway service that runs through New York City, going at that time from eastern Brooklyn, on the Fulton Street Line opened in 1936, up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan opened in 1932.
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Having listened to as much MC5 (hi Zally) as I can recently, I think I should reappear to plug their excellent "Thunder Express". Its about a car, not a train. But it moves like a train.
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Night Train and Crazy Train were the ones I meant as metaphorical. I probably put that sentence in the wrong spot, after the things it was referring to. Should have led with that. Tom Waits Downtown Train is really about stalking someone at a subway stop too. King of the Road is the old timey song I was trying to think of. Lots of train references.
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We can't leave out Jimmie. "Waiting on a Train" "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" among others. Dang, there's lots of great songs about trains.
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..can't forget Flatt & Scruggs when it comes to train songs. I'm sure I forgot a few.. Big Black Train Last Train to Clarksville Bummin' an Old Freight Train Petticoat Junction Mule Train ?? The Train that Carried My Girl From Town Train Number 1262 East Bound Train Train 45 Train of Love Blue Train Night Train to Memphis Adding New Potato Caboose to the list too.
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Moving on to books, "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson is worth reading. As is the same author's "Jesus' Son". A great writer.
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.... From Poor Valley. A rarely played gem from the JGB.
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It was an awful awful joke. Vguy I am not. I am, however, familiar with Pete, The Who, and protagonist Jimmy's story, and I did get quite a chuckle out of it once I'd read what I'd written. I guess that either makes me a narcissist or the funniest guy in the room. fourwinds - I will give you the Magic Bus (turned train) for the low low price of - you guessed it, 100 English pounds! But wait.... Isn't it the Magic Ferry?
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Didn't the Monkeys have a song about a train?
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Festival Express!!!!!! Janis: “next time you throw a train, invite me!”
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Ha.. classic. I became exactly that happy the day my number quit appearing in the phone book. Now it appears only the really poor volunteer fire departments, cancer charities, disabled cops & vets (apparently without insurance) and credit card companies with much better rates than I currently have can access my phone records. Joy. Edit: A preemptive comment on disabled civil servants, hats off.. you have my support. I just don't trust telemarketers that somehow get my phone number can call me fifteen times a year. Most times very little money trickles down to the folks that need it and executives and shell companies gobble what they can first. No attempt on my part to be unkind.. I feel my $50 to archive.org each year is well spent.
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Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown
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funny game...downtown train -T waits marrakesh express -Crosby steals the cash big railroad blues Spike Driver Blues Last train to Hicksville -Dan Hicks Monkey & the engineer Hear my train a comin -Jimi Hendrix would it be easier with car Baby you can drive...
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Have these been mentioned? Texas eagle - Steve Earle Another journey by train - The Cure Train Song - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Whistlin' past the graveyard - Tom Waits From Mrs. loudmouth: Peace Train - Cat Stevens Isn't John Henry about building train tracks?
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Savoy Brown- Hellbound TrainWarren Zevon- Nightime in the switching Yard Chris Stapleton- Midnight Train To Memphis Saxon- Princess of the Night
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