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    Somewhere in Signpost, I think it is (or some other interview I haven't read for 20 years), Jerry is talking about the days when he and Hunter, newly sprung from the army, were living in derelict cars in Palo Alto (it is left to the reader to contemplate the halcyon days when there were derelict cars in Palo Alto...), mostly on canned pineapple liberated from the armed forces. Many's the time I've thought how different life would be for how many people if not for those days. Anyway, this is the place for fans of Hunter to congregate, pay tribute, fantasize about tours, and otherwise be darn glad we didn't miss this guy.

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    What a fun idea! I can see the turtles dancing and the costumes and crazy activities going on in a dance setting!

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    He has made my life that…

    He has made my life that much better in every way. All his songs/poems remind me of a hot/cool summer night, breezes slightly passing through the night, yet so hot, that you need to cool off so you jump right into the ocean, while steam streams out your pores and you come back to the fire only to notice that Robert already told you that

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    As my Dad would say, "You gotta' have Dreams"Mine is to see Robert Hunter have Terrapin Station made into a Ballet for - on Broadway (or wherever...It could have many options as for the venue) *** Picture it as a Cirque du Soleil Production...along those lines would be flippin' fantastic! I've envisioned this in great detail for many years, since it first came out. I see it when I listen to the music. I see the story as a dance, costumes, backgrounds and all. FASCINATINGLY Beautiful ! I hope I get to see it live one day. It would be just absolutely awesome. I'd LOVE to see Robert Hunter getting some recognition for ALL the amazing lyrics from the many years of making SO VERY many people happy via the path he chose. I hope and dream that Robert will enter into this dimension of 'The DANCE' :) The Dead will live on and always be purely unique. Terrapin Station is very special to me, as I SEE it in addition to hearing it. I wrote to Garcia about it, many years ago, and his secretary at the time (Alice), wrote back and said she loved the idea. She said she'd pass it along to Hunter, as it was his song and his wife is a dancer. She wrote - that I could pursue it, but I didn't have any means of doing so. Any thoughts...?
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    I posted. My runaway pic from 1967 at golden gate park on the Bob. Weir site. Someone then posted my pic that was in the Life magazine 50 years along the road. tThat's cool except they use the wrong name. The name Judy Smith is fictious! I was there June 21 1967, and I did climb up on the flatbed truck where the dead were playing, with Bob Weir helping me up. It was a incredible day, The pic used that was taken that day and used in the Life magazine on the Grateful Dead has been used for 49 years but not using the correct name. Trying to change that. Help please, how do i reach Robert Hunter
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    Bob Hunter's lyrics. True poet. Words that examine the inexamable. Or vice-versie. Thank you, Blue Moon, for your rendition. You more than got it.
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    Strangest of Places award to a longtime friend of mine who it's safe to say is on the short list of Last People I Thought Would Be Into This, who the other day heard a 2-hour interview with Hunter on the outlaw country channel in which he played the beloved records of his youth. Apparently (probably corresponding roughly with the Americana Awards/Ryman appearance) he was a guest on Jim Lauderdale's show on the Outlaw Country channel some time back and they're rebroadcasting it. Sounds pretty awesome. My friend was completely blown away by this. He's all who IS this guy?:-)
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    Thanks for this post!
    My son today told me he heard Robert Hunter had to go on tour to pay for medical expenses and I said that doesn't seem to ring true after reading a recent interview. This repost clears that up!!
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    Hunter posted this on FB last night
    And it seems like a good idea to post it here, the rumor mill being what it is: Robert Hunter 10 hours ago · It’s come to my attention that there is an article circulating from http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/07/22/grateful-dead-lyri… taking a few quotes out of context from last year’s interview I did for a Rolling Stone profile. Thank you all for your concern regarding my health, however I am grateful this is old news taken out of context and has been sensationalized. I am fully recovered, and I am not in need of any financial help or indebted, although I'm deeply touched by the immediate concern and overwhelming response of the community. The reason I have decided to come back to touring is to play the music I love and for the deep connection to my audiences. I am going on stage not because I have to but because I WANT to. Reconnecting with the fans and the music is a powerful experience and not one that I take lightly. Still kicking, Robert.
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    Cool interview! Thanks for sharing!!
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Somewhere in Signpost, I think it is (or some other interview I haven't read for 20 years), Jerry is talking about the days when he and Hunter, newly sprung from the army, were living in derelict cars in Palo Alto (it is left to the reader to contemplate the halcyon days when there were derelict cars in Palo Alto...), mostly on canned pineapple liberated from the armed forces. Many's the time I've thought how different life would be for how many people if not for those days. Anyway, this is the place for fans of Hunter to congregate, pay tribute, fantasize about tours, and otherwise be darn glad we didn't miss this guy.
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Submitted by c_c on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 14:58

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Happry Birthday, rh. many, many more. thank you ever so much for the words and music. love and peace.
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Submitted by paisley on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 20:43

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For Hunter: Your words hit this young 18 year old guy at just the right moment in my life. I cannot express how much the lyrics changed my perspective on life. You really didn't turn out a bad one, And I'm forgettin' about Day Job purposely, 'cause I know that one snuck out just to remind us you were human...Seriously, I hope you can take a moment on your 66th birthday and that you, and all of us can reflect on the great cannon of work you gave to us.ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE! How many songwriters would give thier eyeteeth to have written Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Uncle John's Band,Crazy Fingers, Attics of My Life, just to scratch the surface? Without you, the Grateful Dead was a terrific band. Thanks so much for giving them something to say. Have a great birthday! Peace, Dan
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Submitted by Hal R on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 01:07

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Happy Birthday Robert, Thank you for all the words in all the songs of the Dead and the others and the solo work and the books of poetry and translations and for all the smiles and warmth and thought they have brought me. Thank you for coming to the Gorge in 2004 with the Dead and ABB. You sounded good. May the winds continue to carry your voice. I raise my glass with the Boys in the Barroom to your good health, happiness and creative flow. Hal Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman-Song of Myself
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Submitted by Sunshine-daydr… on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 01:34

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Have a good day and thanks for all you have given us Bob W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Submitted by johnnyg on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 09:40

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when one tried to comprehend the talent of Robert Hunter. He sees a guy playing a harp in Barcelona, Spain and out comes Tenneessee Jed. Writes Terrapin in one fell swoop. Ummm, ok....and thats after all the epic songs on Workingman's and American Beauty. And as SirX states, he is one hell of a nice guy. The most unpretentious dude ever. I highly recommend the book "Box of Rain, the collected works of Robert Hunter". Happy Belated Birthday, Robert. And thank you for EVERYTHING. "Let my inspiration flow...." “The Omnipotent Grateful Dead!”
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Submitted by unkljohn on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 13:02

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....is a genius.........and an amazing poet.
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Submitted by leadbelly27 on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 12:25

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What can I say about Robert Hunter? His lyrics are rooted in the mythology and the deep spaces of American culture. The lyrics are weatherbeaten and yet still shiny. They are mysterious, yet still accessible. They speak, in equal parts, of joy and resigned despair, but the despair always wears a wink and a grin. The characters in Hunter's songs are something akin to Faustian heroes. Sure, there are deals with the devil, hubris, bad choices, but there is (in the songs, music, and us fans) the constant striving and trying for something better, which is inevitably the heroes salvation, as well as our own. The characters are the denizens of Steinbeck's "Palace Flophouse," Kerouac's "one's who are mad, desirous of everything..." They are also the lonely and jaded wanderers along Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." They are the existential heroes seeking authenticity and open to the unbelievable POSSIBILITY of it all. I've always identified most with Robert Hunter. Possibly because I don't play a musical instrument (I'm sure air guitar doesn't count!), but I do play with the words. I discovered the Dead and the words of Robert Hunter around the same time I discovered Whitman, Joyce and Chekhov. At 14 I made no distinction between them all. Perhaps I was naive. But I don't think so. Thank you Robert. BTW, Why isn't Hunter in the songwriter's hall of fame? Yo Soy Boricua!
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Submitted by Hal R on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 13:45

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Counting up the things that counton the fingers of one hand Music, love, and friendship and the rest of it be damned This stanza is from See You Again written for the Rhythm Devils from Hunter's journals, 10/26/06. Kind of says it all. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman-Song of Myself
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Submitted by nemo on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 12:53

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does RH say that poem every year? Just wondering cause i have a copy of him doing the poem right before a new years show from back in the early eighties. I am not sure but i think it was 83into 84.
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Submitted by marye on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 09:24

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Dr. Spasmodious is a yearly ritual, but there are the occasional subtle changes. It even was the subject of one of those Tim Truman comics, as I recall; I'll see if we've got it here.
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Submitted by GRTUD on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 16:09

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Thank you, Robert Hunter. Where the hell you been, by-the-way? "If the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?"
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Submitted by c_c on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 19:40

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DNC usually.there is a link to that site on the community page. bottom 'right hand' (RH) corner. hoping for a Hunter tour one of these days, please! pretty please with sugar on top!
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Submitted by grdaed73 on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 05:18

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Happy B-Day Hunter! wheel keeps turnin'
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Submitted by Hal R on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 12:45

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Thanks for the transportation to transformation If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Submitted by nemo on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 12:56

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AND IT LOOKS LIKE I AM THE FIRST TO SAY SO IN 08. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB.
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Submitted by nemo on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 12:58

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AT LEAST I THOUGHT I WAS.
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Submitted by grdaed73 on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 12:07

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whereis the oracle ! just thought about u bob, have a grate day! hope u r out paddling! peace
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Submitted by jergirl61 on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 19:51

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Grateful to read Billy K. say that Mr.Hunter " is having a writing frenzy. He's sent us twelve songs!" NICE....and i believe i heard Buddy Cage on Sirius32 say that he had been in the studio with Dave Nelson with a bunch of new Hunter tunes....can't wait!!!!! Peace..Jergirl
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 10:18

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that's gotta be good news!
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Submitted by Hollowdweller on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 13:00

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Does Hunter Play Live anymore? I was just listening to Kutztown from 80 "Eagle Mall" with my wife last night and remembering how great he was. Wish one of the satellite radio stations would have him on live sometime.
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Submitted by c_c on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 13:36

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Hunter has mentioned that he has been writing lots of new songs fairly recently, so here is hoping he will hit the road again. I'm hoping for a Hunter, Rhythm Devils, Phil & Friends, Rat Dog, The Dead summer tour. (all together at the same venues onthe same days, for all day fest types of things) peace.
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Submitted by Hollowdweller on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 14:32

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would be nice although his style of playing seems suited to smaller venues. One of my frustrations with a lot of Hunter tapes is they are from bars and it's hard to hear him over the drunks yelling Jereeeee!
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 15:44

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I'd sure love to see him again too.
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Submitted by Max Creek on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 17:38

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I saw him at The Agora Ballroom in Hartford , CT and would love to find a tape of it.
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Submitted by grdaed73 on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 17:56

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i'd sure LOVE to see him in PHX, AZ soon!
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Submitted by c_c on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 21:47

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I thought the venues the Dead played during the 2004 tour were 'just right', I saw Hunter open a few of those shows. during those shows he was really good, lots of anecdotes and off the cuff banter.
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:54

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It was so great I just figured it was the start of getting it all back together. Silly me. Whatever Hunter wants to do, I'm happy with that. But I'd sure like to see him again too!
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Submitted by Hollowdweller on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:27

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For me has always been that Jack O Roses his best album IMO and also that fantastic Eagle Mall have never made it to CD.
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 13:04

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though there are tapes of live performances. Brick by brick...
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Submitted by patdog on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 17:18

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Calico Kaliope come tell me the news! I REALLY miss the journal. I have a serious RH void in my life right now, can anyone point me the way??
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Submitted by starsleeper on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 10:22

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I think it's about time Robert Hunter was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame! Whoa-oh what I want to know How does the song go
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Submitted by rockymeet on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 11:06

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hello sir i m new this site but i like to read thanks and yes happy birthday :)---------- mark Jones ---------- Real Estate Search--Real Estate Search
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Submitted by gratefaldean on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 11:18

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I see Hunter/Garcia listed as 2009 nominees to the songwriters hall of fame, for some reason in the category of "non-performing" songwriters. Don't know what the classification criteria may be...also don't know how to lobby for votes. Vote early and vote often!
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Submitted by da roach on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 19:47

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.....SAW ROBERT HUNTER AT THE ROXY-LA- SOMETIME AROUND 75-76-I THINK--AND LISTIN TO THIS GUY DO WHAT HE WAS DOIN---AFTER HEARIN THE DEAD FOR SOME YEARS PRIOR----WHOA-----THIS GUY I S T H E B R A I N S B E H I N D THE BRAWN.............. WHAT A LONG STRANGE------ WELL ------YA KNOW THE REST!!!! KEEP SMILIN!!!!!!! ALOHA ! DA ROACH
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Submitted by Canyon Critter on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 23:22

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Greatest Poet of all time....how could you put an award up for that? He has made my life that much better in every way. All his songs/poems remind me of a hot/cool summer night, breezes slightly passing through the night, yet so hot, that you need to cool off....so you jump right into the ocean, while steam streams out your pores and you come back to the fire only to notice that Robert already told you that. Cheers to you Mr. Hunter, you don't need an award to always have a place in my heart! Critter _____________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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Submitted by starsleeper on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 12:03

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Thanks for the link gratefaldean. I didn't even know they were nominated! $50 for a membership to vote. Wish I could do it but I'm saving for the Gorge. Hope they're in the Hall soon! Let there be songs to fill the air!
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Submitted by starsleeper on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 10:31

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Looks like the induction ceremony is June, 18th. so probably not much time left to vote. The web site doesn't give a lot of info. I love learnin GD songs and reading Hunter's lyrics for them. Without him there wouldn't have been a Grateful Dead. I hope he knows how much we love him for his contribution to the soundtracks of our lives.
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Submitted by nsams73 on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 07:08

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Just when I'm wondering how we'll hear from Hunter, thinking he should be reading on stage during Space this tour, I find out today that he wrote songs for Dylan's new album...